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A senior IT management leader offering 33 years of career success developing, executing operational strategies to promote organizational growth & optimal utilization of emerging technologies. Extensive experience leading operations for technology, professional services & business development and solution designing. Recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments & resolving mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success.Adnan Ikram is an experienced passionate trainer conducting education and training services both locally and internationally. Adnan has worked for local and international technology leading organizations from technology hands-on to mid-level to C-level management positions. These organizations include IBM, Fujitsu, ICL, Si3 and TLC. During his career, he has served different job portfolios like Advisory IT Specialist, Country Systems Product Manager, Enterprise Business Development Manager, Client Technical Architect, VP IT Infrastructure, Director Technology Delivery Services and Chief Operating Officer. Apart from various industry professional certifications, Adnan is one of a few Pakistani who co-authored and contributed in 10 IBM Redbooks, a member of a team who developed IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 courseware's, developed 7 times IBM AIX Certification Exam Papers. Adnan has designed and developed 70 plus technology courses on Storage technologies, Digital Transformation, Blockchain technologies, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Essential Corporate Soft Skills, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Zero Trust Security, Industry 4.0, Network Security, Decision Making and Business Analytics, Data Protection Best Practices, Open Banking, and IBM AIX Operating System. Visit www.tlcpak.com to view the list of popular and new courses offered by TLC.Adnan is TOGAF 9 Certified, IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect, Certified Blockchain Expert - Blockchain Council, and SNIA Certified Architect.Education: B.E. Electronics - NED University, Pakistan and IBM Global Sales School, England.
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Director Technology Delivery ServicesTechlink Communications May 2016 - PresentKarachi, PakistanAdnan is responsible for taking care of IT Professional Services comprises of IT Consulting, Education & Training, and Application Consulting Services portfolios. Job role includes designing and recommendations to clients for applying broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. Role includes leveraging multi-vendor server and storage technologies, architectures, integrated solutions, building technology roadmaps, building client RFP and offerings to solve client’s… Show more Adnan is responsible for taking care of IT Professional Services comprises of IT Consulting, Education & Training, and Application Consulting Services portfolios. Job role includes designing and recommendations to clients for applying broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. Role includes leveraging multi-vendor server and storage technologies, architectures, integrated solutions, building technology roadmaps, building client RFP and offerings to solve client’s business problems and deliver value to the client. Show less -
Client Technical ArchitectIbm May 2014 - Apr 2016PakistanAs Client Technical Architect, Adnan is responsible for creating and maintaining strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the clients business. Job role includes designing and recommendations for his clients applying broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. His role is to leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to solve client’s business challenges and deliver value. As CTA, following are the… Show more As Client Technical Architect, Adnan is responsible for creating and maintaining strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the clients business. Job role includes designing and recommendations for his clients applying broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. His role is to leverage IBM technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to solve client’s business challenges and deliver value. As CTA, following are the Enterprise Architecture tools and methodologies that Adnan has used in different projects and clients engagements.- IBM Technical Health Assessment Tool - Component Infrastructure Roadmap- Cloud Computing Reference Architecture- IBM Cloud Adoption Advisor & Assessment Tool- CUPE Profiling/Assessment- IBM Client Value Method- Team Solution Design- Project ManagementThe CTA role also includes the responsibility for identifying and prioritizing opportunities and developing client-valued solutions that involve multiple brands and elements. Show less -
Enterprise Business Development Manager, PakistanFujitsu Jan 2013 - Apr 2014PakistanAt Fujitsu, Adnan is responsible for taking care of Fujitsu sales and presales operations in Pakistan. His role includes the expansion of Fujitsu enterprise technologies across the territory by strengthening channel partners portfolio, maintaining and developing new business opportunities, managing country-wide enterprise business partners and mid-to-large sized customer accounts, expansion of Fujitsu enterprise installed base customers with a special focus in designing solutions based on… Show more At Fujitsu, Adnan is responsible for taking care of Fujitsu sales and presales operations in Pakistan. His role includes the expansion of Fujitsu enterprise technologies across the territory by strengthening channel partners portfolio, maintaining and developing new business opportunities, managing country-wide enterprise business partners and mid-to-large sized customer accounts, expansion of Fujitsu enterprise installed base customers with a special focus in designing solutions based on Fujitsu ETERNUS entry-to-enterprise storage and Storage Deduplication technologies, and infrastructure products ideal for Big Data. His role includes solution designing, configuration and sizing of medium to enterprise scale server and storage technologies. Manage and maintain tailored documentation in response to client RFI & RFP. Technical emphasis is on storage hardware capabilities and full range of ERERNUS DX storage family, Deduplication Appliances CS800, FC and FCoE Brocade switches and Tape Libraries.Runs high-level to in-depth analysis of customer requirements based on identified needs and solution design, makes feasibility studies and demonstrates the value of Fujitsu solutions and services offering. Develop relationships with the account team, partners and customers, aggressively works in meeting annual targets assigned by the regional head office by engaging and leveraging corporate sales and presales resources, maintaining quarterly based Fujitsu sales pipeline and delivering technical presentation to customers and in collaboration with partners.Job role also includes managing and uploading new sales orders by using Siebel CRM applications, price escalation process, using System Architect tool for making server and storage configurations. Show less -
Director Professional ServicesTechlink Communications Aug 2010 - Jan 2013KarachiAt TLC, Adnan is responsible for taking care IT Consulting, Application Consulting and Education and Training Services functions. He has brought with him an extensive and diverse set of experience on enterprise infrastructure technologies offered by IBM, Fujitsu, VMware and NetApp. The core objective of his role is to provide consulting services and assist IT organizations who do not have experienced human resource(s) on-board in selecting a right infrastructure vendor for building… Show more At TLC, Adnan is responsible for taking care IT Consulting, Application Consulting and Education and Training Services functions. He has brought with him an extensive and diverse set of experience on enterprise infrastructure technologies offered by IBM, Fujitsu, VMware and NetApp. The core objective of his role is to provide consulting services and assist IT organizations who do not have experienced human resource(s) on-board in selecting a right infrastructure vendor for building their new or upgrading their server, storage and application environment because of vendor specific product knowledge, life cycle management, latest software trends and techniques for selecting appropriate tools for systems backup and recovery, data protection, and meeting appropriate SLA for their mission critical applications, and above all reducing overall CAPEX required for their new project. His role includes solution designing, configuration and sizing of medium to enterprise scale server and storage technologies. Manage and maintain tailored documentation in response to client RFI & RFP. Runs high-level to in-depth analysis of customer requirements based on identified needs and solution design, makes feasibility studies and demonstrates the value of solutions and services offering. Server and storage consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, data protection, data center, and IT professional services are some of the areas where he can help his customers under the umbrella of services offered by TLC.Adnan is involved in brand management of different international vendors and their products. Involved in imparting IBM AIX Education and Training Services and IT consulting services for IBM customers locally and internationally. He has also designed and developed new courses on IBM AIX 7.1, Virtualization (PowerVM), Storage (SAN/NAS) and IT Infrastructure technologies. Show less -
Chief Operating Officer / Vp It Infrastructure / Director ItSi3 - System Innovations (Pvt) Ltd Apr 2004 - Aug 2010Karachi, PakistanAdnan has associated with Si3 since its inception in 2004.- As COO, reporting into Chairman of the company. Presenting functional business cases to the Executive Management & BOD's. - Managing a team of 120 plus employees. - Consistent in achieving annual targets & objectives, involved in strategic planning for the growth of an organization.- Solution design expertise in the area of Business Resilience technologies & DR solutions.- Vendor management at Tier 1 level – IBM… Show more Adnan has associated with Si3 since its inception in 2004.- As COO, reporting into Chairman of the company. Presenting functional business cases to the Executive Management & BOD's. - Managing a team of 120 plus employees. - Consistent in achieving annual targets & objectives, involved in strategic planning for the growth of an organization.- Solution design expertise in the area of Business Resilience technologies & DR solutions.- Vendor management at Tier 1 level – IBM, HP, Symantec, Microsoft, NetApp & Oracle. - As a lead architect, involved in designing IT projects, consulting & SI services to countrywide customers. These services were provided in the area of Enterprise Server & Storage technologies, AIX OS, Server consolidation & virtualization (PowerVM & VMware), Backup Recovery & Securities, M/W applications (Tivoli, MQ Series), email applications (Domino and Exchange), solutions based on Information Infrastructure and Data Replication technologies, Capacity Planning, Application benchmarking & sizing, Data Center & Energy Efficient technologies, & proposal development. - Designed IT policies & strategies including development of SOP’s for various corporate and government institutions.- Optimizing CAPEX for new projects & have played important role in reducing companies overall OPEX & budgets.- Managing a team of verticals (200 plus employees) – Sales, Enterprise Application Services, Application Development, eCommerce, Network Services, IT Infrastructure, Data Center Hosting Services & HR.- Developed a team of finest IT Infra.human resources in the area of enterprise server, storage & M/W technologies.- Setting up individual employee JD's & performing annual appraisals. - In partnership with Citibank, increase Si3 eCommerce ePayment Gateway Services (SaaS) client portfolio by 50%.Key Projects: MCB Bank, DP World, NCCPL, Faysal Bank, Central Depository Company, Citibank (Virtual Acquiring)Turn Key Projects: Mybank Limited, PTCL, UBL, NLC Show less -
It Specialist / Systems Product ManagerIbm Aug 1995 - Apr 2004PakistanAdnan has joined IBM in 1995 as AIX Systems Engineer and was successful in winning the confidence of large enterprise accounts in early stages across the country. He has been transfered and promoted to Systems Product Manager in Product & Communications department where he has been profoundly engaged in promoting IBM POWER server brand portfolio and storage technologies (sales and solutions), middleware and business resilience applications, making technical configurations and validation by… Show more Adnan has joined IBM in 1995 as AIX Systems Engineer and was successful in winning the confidence of large enterprise accounts in early stages across the country. He has been transfered and promoted to Systems Product Manager in Product & Communications department where he has been profoundly engaged in promoting IBM POWER server brand portfolio and storage technologies (sales and solutions), middleware and business resilience applications, making technical configurations and validation by using IBM effective set of tools and managing IBM Business Partners. He is a passionate presenter and have imparted various AIX courses for local and international IBM customers with 100% student acceptance. He also co-authored and contributed in 10 IBM Redbooks that he consider as a great value add to his professional career. He has provided consulting services to various accounts in the area of Disaster Recovery, Systems High Availability and backup recovery services, implemented numerous professional IBM SmoothStart Services specially IBM PowerHA, AIX installation and migration including storage planning, installatoin and migration services. To view his IBM Redbooks titles, please visit: http://www.tlcpak.com/instructor.html#redbooksKey Projects: Unilever, Orix Leasing, MCB Bank, NADRA, SNGPL.Turn Key Projects: Karachi Stock Exchange, Central Depository Company. Show less -
Systems Support EngineerPakistan Icl Feb 1990 - Jan 1995Karachi, PakistanAfter completing his Bachelor's degree in Electronics engineering, he has started his career with one of the top 10 IT companies in the world. He has joined as Trainee Customer Engineer and initially worked in the workshop for repairing mainframes power supplies, terminals and other logic boards. Since, the beginning of his career he was more inclined and focused in the area of UNIX operating systems support. The last four years at ICL, he was responsible for providing implementation… Show more After completing his Bachelor's degree in Electronics engineering, he has started his career with one of the top 10 IT companies in the world. He has joined as Trainee Customer Engineer and initially worked in the workshop for repairing mainframes power supplies, terminals and other logic boards. Since, the beginning of his career he was more inclined and focused in the area of UNIX operating systems support. The last four years at ICL, he was responsible for providing implementation and systems support services based on AT&T SVR4 UNIX that runs on ICL DRS6000 SUN RISC SPARC architecture, SCO UNIX and SCO Xenix. He has also worked on other operating systems like TME10, CCPM and CDOS that runs on ICL ME29 and DRS proprietary server technologies. He has successfully implemented ICL's first DRS6000 AT&T SVR4 UNIX based complex project at PTCL by connecting local and remote sites by using X.25 over TCP/IP protocol.As an instructor, he has been regularily involved in imparting onsite training for ICL customers and was a part of a sales team in providing presales technical support services.Key Projects: PTCL, KESC, SSGC, EOBI, Treet Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, PNSC. Show less
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Adnan Ikram works for Techlink Communications
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Adnan Ikram's current role is Director Technology Delivery Services at Techlink Communications.
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Adnan Ikram attended Ibm Global Sales School, England., Ned University Of Engineering And Technology, Little Folk's School, Ned University Of Engineering And Technology.
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