Jamil Rashdi
Senior Cloud Architect
Auckland,AUK
Summary
Dedicated Technical Consultant adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with lucrative clients. Knowledgeable in server hardware and components configurations. Successful career history comprising more than 20 years. Rational Cloud Architect with 15 years of experience enhancing operations for organizations through information systems solutions. Proven track record of transforming specific business goals related to growth and efficiency improvements into new system designs. Knowledgeable innovator known for recommending new technologies to enhance existing systems and introduce new systems. Astute professional highly skilled in large-scale IT installation and upgrade projects. Talented individual offering dynamic skill set in network infrastructure, global connectivity and pre-sales assistance. Over 15 years consulting experience within instrcuture technology sector.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
23
23
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Technical Consultant
Spark New Zealand
Hamilton, WKO
05.2022 - Current
- Providing strategic technical advice and consultancy to assist clients in identifying new and innovative ICT solutions
- Analyzed client business processes to propose optimal software applications for unique requirements.
- Identifying, designing, and pricing infrastructure solutions that are aligned with local and regional architectural standards and guidelines and building supporting statements of work
- Presented business leaders with ROI estimations to drive project planning.
- Contributing to the build of quotations and RFP responses which outline our technology solutions and services
- Technical or Professional Services Group team or project members as required or when opportunity arises in area of expertise
- Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products.
- Leading projects to implement innovative solutions in accordance with solution architectures and detailed designs
- Contributing to fault analysis, troubleshooting and problem resolution for complex incidents and problems that have been escalated
- Organized system operating procedures to strengthen controls.
- Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
Solutions Architect
Cloud Comrade PTE
Singapore, Singapore
09.2021 - 05.2022
- Supporting Projects by fulfilling Architect positions
- Providing Sales and Pre-Sales pursuits with Technology Consultancy
- Providing guidance through the complexity of solution architecture options and the long-term roadmap for the solution
- Finding the right balance between innovation, technical feasibility, long term sustainability
- Creating and presenting Proof-of-Concepts whenever required
- Creating and presenting Architecture proposals
- Relates and refines Client AS-IS and TO-BE business initiatives and needs and respective technical requirements
- Prepare Proposal and Address Customer Needs by Provide best solutions
- Provides technical support/advice on the development of proposals, bids and solution selling
- Provides technical advice to Sales and gives technical direction, guidance, and higher-level technical support
- Supports Professional Services and Project Management teams and contracts in developing project plans, negotiating, and drafting scope of work and contract documents
- Engage in product design, support meetings with internal teams and customers.
Senior Infrastructure Development Manager
Dubai Real Estate Corporation
Dubai
09.2008 - 09.2021
- Provide leadership across Architecture, Technology, Strategy, IT Organizational Change Management
- Conducting end-to-end technical plan design and alignment to Enterprise Architecture principles
- Experience designing applications and technology solution leveraging native Cloud services (e.g
- AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to make certain network capacity
- Meets existing and future requirements
- Prepare RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports, and other documentation for IT projects and associated efforts
- Negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure network products and services
- Participation in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy
- Lead Enterprise Architect Board to Maintain As-IS Architecture, Identify Gap and Develop to Be Architecture
- Design and implement complex cloud solutions
- Mapping with IT infrastructure design and its implications and impact to customers business and organization.
Senior Systems Engineer
Dubai Airports
Dubai
09.2000 - 09.2008
- Propose and create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams.
- Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services
- Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems
- Design and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records
- Create, plan and implement detailed deployment designs
- Perform Daily, weekly and Monthly Checklist to ensure Systems Availability and Capacity
- Apply software/infrastructure upgrade packages in the production environment
- Ownership of server deployment procedure and maintain OS Deployment imaging system and imaged.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Mehran University of Engineering And Technology
Jamshoro , Pakistan 01.1993 - 04.1997
Skills
Expert & Hands on Levelsundefined
Accomplishments
- Create HLD and LLD design architectures
- Hands on with public cloud platform and control panel (Preferably Azure and AWS)
- Very at VMWare or Hyper-V, Azure Stack or Open stack
- Experience in designing and implementing – cloud platform
- Hybrid platforms in conjunction with Azure Stack / VMware / Openstack
- I like to go fishing at the weekend
- I enjoy being physically active, and spend a lot of time playing sports and team games such Cricket And swimming
- Travelling and explore new places give me new knowledge about different culture and history
- Hobbies
- Achievements
- Centralized Account Management
- Provide IT service Desk Portal where they can Provision Account, Re-Provision and De-Provision to ensure Security Compliance
- New Datacentre Design & Build
- New Datacentre for Dubai Airport Design to align with Uptime tier 3 standards and Provision for Future Capacity up to 5 years.
Certification
ITIL standard for implementation.
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
- Association of Information Technology Professionals
- Rotary International
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
PMP
I have done more than 25000 hors of Project Management focus around Infrastructure and Security with outstanding Results and value creations
Timeline
Technical Consultant
Spark New Zealand
05.2022 - Current
Solutions Architect
Cloud Comrade PTE
09.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Infrastructure Development Manager
Dubai Real Estate Corporation
09.2008 - 09.2021
Senior Systems Engineer
Dubai Airports
09.2000 - 09.2008
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
Mehran University of Engineering And Technology
01.1993 - 04.1997
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