Ammar Rasheed Email & Phone Number

Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Working as Solution & Integration Architect for in-country and regional (UAE, KSA, Middle East, APAC) pre-sales opportunities• Map business requirements to customer budget-friendly technologies to achieve customer goals.• Innovative Solutioning for complex cross-competencies RFP/RFI/Customer requirement that drive business value.• Technical & Commercial proposals, effective effort estimation calculations, Project Financials for bidding.• Advisory & Consultancy to Customers’ Digital Transformation & Modernization journey via roadmaps.• Leading architecture discovery and requirement gathering workshops, modeling ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ business & technology architecture. Identifying dependencies, risks, issues, and gaps. Conducting impact analysis and recommending changes with transition plans.• Collaborating with cross-functional IT development and operations teams to analyze and understand the business operational impacts and opportunities to deliver business value with technology changes.• Providing technical leadership to product SMEs, account managers, and project leaders on the delivery of complex PoCs and IT transformation projects.• Public Speaking for company’s various events.• Project documentation (Technical & Commercial Proposals, Scope of Work, Design Doc, RTMs etc.) for pre-sales opportunities and compliances.

Ibm - Pakistan

Tech acumen & Pre-sales various core domains by solving their tech probProvide tech input to Sol Architects & Services Business Leaders in pre-sales stage of an opportunity by providing accurate effort estBroad understanding of:- SDDC & Cloud sol design/implement- VMware Cloud on AWS- Containers Stack: Docker, PCF & Kubernetes- Phy & Virtual DC Ops, end-user computing, Public, Private & Hybrid clouds, business critical & cloud-native apps & storage sysAbility to speak & present to business & tech audiencesCollaborates with Delivery & Sales teams for winning tech sol which meet client req & grow Services businessCap Planning, Performance Mgt, Infra Sizing & AssessmentExp in customer-facing position & Customer Relationship building skills. Act as a Trusted advisorUnderstand Customer’s High-level business challenges & match vendor sol to customer’s business & tech reqStrong Interpersonal, Analytical & Prob-Solving skillsTech liaison b/w customers, sales, services teams & other consultantsExcellent doc skills. Prepared high/low-level Design Doc. Quality responses to RFPs/RFIs by gap analysisDemonstrated tech benefits & successful PoCs with potential customers to clarify their business needsDesign, Validate & develop deployment strategies of complex solStrong supervisory capability. Self-driven, Self-motivated & Highly Organized Team cont.Hands-on exp incl: Plan, Design, Deploy, Build/Config & Deliver the following core infra sol:Cloud Mgt Tech:IaaS: VMware vCD, vRA, Usage Meter OnApp vDC/VPC & VPSDR / DRaaS / BaaS: VMware vSphere Rep, SRM, vDP MS Hyper-V Replica / Broker, DPM Veeam VCC, VBR, Ent Mgr, Avail Con.STaaS: CentreStackSDDC: VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vROM MS Hyper-V, SCVMM, SCAPSDN/NFV: VMware NSX Veeam ONEMigrations: P2V, V2V & C2CSDC/FC/NAS Storage: VMware vSAN EMC Unity/UniSphere & Data Domain etc FreeNAS, Win for iSCSI, NFS & SMB/CIFS sharesHyperconverged Infra (HCI): vxRailWin: AD/DNS

Achievements:===========· Achieved Cisco Select Certification for organization.· Achieved Cisco SMB Specialization for organization. Major Projects (Summary):===================· P2P RF Data Connectivity (for Meezan Bank, Habib Metropolitan Bank, Qmart Corporation, NLC and Pharmevo (Pvt) Ltd, etc.): Planning, Survey, Deployment, Link Analysis and Integration of Point to Point Data connectivity over wireless radio bridges among various branches all over the Pakistan.· Cisco/Linksys based Technical/Hardware Support & Maintenance (for Meezan Bank, Habib Metropolitan Bank, National Bank of Pakistan, Pak Libya and Pak Kuwait, etc): Cisco Equipment Hardware maintenance, Cisco/Linksys based Technical support and Network optimization as per customer’s demand.

Major Projects (Summary):====================· Network Design/connectivity (For Allied Bank) – Complete Network design of most branches and their connectivity with Head office etc. via Cisco/Quantum based Routing/Switching Solutions.· Network Design/connectivity (For Hilal Confectionery (Pvt) Ltd) – Network Design, Connectivity and Maintenance b/w Head office and Factory.

B.S., Computer Engineering

FINAL YEAR PROJECT: "MOBILE BASED WIRELESS ADMINISTRATION OF LAN". This project was an attempt to give geographic independence.

M.S., Telecommunication & Networks

MS Thesis: "OPTIMIZATION OF NETWORK PERFORMANCE BASED ON SECURED POLICY ENGINEERING". An attempt to optimize the network performance.