Ahmed Ansar Email and Phone Number

- APJ SP - Cisco Customer Experience (CX CTO) Office.- Technology lead to drive innovation in selected Service Provider Customers in APJ (SP Technologies, Full Stack Observability, Automation and Assurance)- Manage a team of high-profile architects and responsible for talent acquisition, retention, and development of a high achieving team of architects- Responsible for crafting a bold vision and a comprehensive strategy aimed at transforming PSO business

- As a strategic leader, I am responsible for bold vision and comprehensive strategy to transform Cisco's Data, Multi Cloud, and Cloud Native Business, with the goal of driving growth, innovation, and customer success.- I am responsible to lead and drive customer success by developing and executing POV and POC initiatives, while serving as the critical interface between the customer, product technical presales and sales teams.- As a strategic leader, I built and led a team of professional services experts, focused on delivering exceptional value to Cisco's customers by helping them adopt and operationalize Cisco's Data Center, Cloud Cybersecurity, and Kubernetes technologies.- As a leader in professional services, I was responsible for attracting, retaining, and growing a high-performing team of engineers, while building a culture that values innovation, collaboration, and customer success.- I develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress, identifying areas for improvement, and offering strategic insights into the direction of the organization

- As part of a team effort, I contributed to the design of cloud-native application architecture in AWS, with the goal of driving customer success. Leveraging my expertise in cloud technologies and best practices, I helped to develop an architecture that was resilient, scalable, and secure.- Through strategic account management and a customer-focused approach, I successfully grew the AWS billing of an elite customer into a multimillion-dollar recurring revenue stream- As a subject matter expert in AWS, I have had the opportunity to share my knowledge and insights by presenting at various AWS forums- Lead for VMware on AWS- Lead for AWS hybrid networking

Global Service Provider (GSP) Data Center Practice Lead DC Opportunities with ACI, BGP EVPN, Segment Routing & Network AnalyticsConsult Cisco DC solution (Presales, Competition, Design, Pilots and Support Escalations)Cisco Cloud Solutions Consulting – (UCSD, Cisco Cloud Center and Openstack)

NSX (SDN) lead Lead NSX Sales, Pilots and Training NSX Filed and Partner Enablement.Network Virtualization Evangelist

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the Customers IT organization/CIO on matters concerning Data Center technology architecture covering networking, computing and virtualization • Provide Data Center technology architecture expertise to the Global Account teams and help them to understand and articulate the customer’s architecture vision that is required to solve the customers’ business needs • Work with customers’ technical teams to influence their overall Data Center technology architecture• Develop and articulate Cisco’s value propositions, identifying key architectural control points that expose Cisco’s product features• Technical lead to drive SDN POC using Cisco XNC/OpenDaylight, ONEPK , Nexus 1000v (VXLAN) • Experience in developing and demonstrating physical to virtual (P2V)/cloud application migration • Experience in Unix to Intel Migration and TCO analysis • In depth code level and scripting knowledge and experience - using Phython and Perl. XML and REST API knowledge to integrate different stack elements• Lead and orchestrate required resource for identified opportunity• Design, plan and deliver customer Proof of Concept labs involving Cisco DC technologies including Nexus, UCS, SAN and partner technologies such as VMware, Microsoft , Citrix ,EMC and NetApp• Help customers develop reference architecture • Lead and build competitive positioning• Business pipeline planning and possible revenue projection

Cisco Solutions and products presales and support.

Presales and Post Sales support

Cisco Presales Dubai Internet City Networking project Execution.

Presales and Consultancy support (Cisco and Foundry)

Novell Netware presales and postsales support