Farhad Sayeed Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, Us

Support Infrastructure engineering and operations service organization for McKesson technology organization.

Irving, Texas, Us

Leading compute, storage and IT operation at McKesson

Santa Barbara, California, Us

Supporting Infrastructure and Cloud vertical for leading research company GigaOm.Contributions below:

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

As a Sr. Manager, I plan and execute IT transformation strategies, allocate resources, and manage budgets. With leadership skills, I develop and support high performance team of 70+ engineers, architects, and managers in Agile environment, instilling customer satisfaction and IT service optimization as top priorities. Additionally, I steer efforts to balance responsibilities between mentoring and coaching, project management, vendor relations, strategic planning, process improvement and other aspects of day-to-day operations. At American Airlines, my current initiatives, include Horizon VDI, NSX-T & vSAN across self-managed data centers.Some of my key contributions are as follow:☛ Progressed through a series of positions with increasing responsibilities such as strategic planning, team leadership, and customer facing project execution during largest industry merger/acquisition.☛ Guaranteed success of enterprise shared services including Enterprise Tool Chain, Enterprise SOA (IBM Data Power to apigee SaaS migration), Container, virtual platforms, storage, load balancing etc. across five data centers. Supporting 2000+ instances in Azure, AWS and IBM public cloud implementation.☛ Established and maintained cross-functional, productive relationships that aided in providing expert technical guidance regarding new technologies such as Helion OpenStack in support of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and infrastructure automation.☛ Successfully integrated external customer-facing applications with minimal operations and customer impact and inspired employee engagement during culture shift as AA became largest airline globally through US Air acquisition.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

During this tenure, I rendered expert services in two separate senior management-level roles with diverse responsibilities. As a Senior Manager, I supported infrastructure and architecture for multiple customer technology departments as well as headed a team of 50+ employees supporting human resources and employee technology services.Some of my key contributions are as follow:☛ Oversaw and managed end-to-end midrange platform architecture, implementation, and data migration to cutover Oracle SuperCluster with Siebel mainframe database operation to transform loyalty platform.☛ Migrated AA.com to tcServer in vBlock virtual platform, requiring layer 2 extension and cold VM migration to lower operational impact.☛ Successfully managed and coordinated internal application with engineering and remote MSP teams to transition operational support.☛ Provided proof of concept of multiple vendors to select new platform offering location tracking and booking functionality for AAcargo.com and negotiated third-party data liability as a SaaS solution; managed multiple swim lanes of development, infrastructure build, and third-party vendor integration merges into successful minimum viable product through iterative approach to deliver early value

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

During my employment at American Airlines, I rendered excellent performance, which resulted in promoted to operations technology infrastructure manager position. Leading a team of 30+ employees through coaching, mentoring, and performance reviewing.Some of my key contributions are as follow:☛ liaised with various enterprise services, developed set blueprints for future applications, and trained/mentored key employees to provide proof of concept of first VM migration to Amazon cloud including security integration.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Utilizing broad scope of industry knowledge, I adeptly managed financials for all cargo infrastructure initiatives to ensure projects were adequately funded. During this period, I planned and developed project budgets, and timelines and delivered milestones in a timely, economical manner. I contributed to infrastructure architecture to facilitate SOA project success during cross-functional meetings.Some of my key contributions are as follow:☛ Established a team of 10+ employees and contractors to design, integrate, and implement SOA for cargo department.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

As a Sr. Architect, I significantly enhanced architecture and supported enterprise service BUS integration for enterprise shared MQ farm with disaster recovery capability across four data centers following hub-and-spoke paradigm. I collaborated with project managers and other stakeholders to define solutions and deliverables, manage expectations, and complete activities as per project plans. Leveraging my key expertise, I gathered requirements from key stakeholders, analyzed needs, and devised scalable solutions by developing functional and technical specifications.Some of my key contributions are as follow:☛ Created architecture and steered implementation of Tivoli Runtime monitoring for Cargo Everest environment.☛ Established shared WebSphere farm by migrating WebLogic/ATG Dynamo Server to WebSphere.☛ Deployed American Airlines’ first UNIX-based virtualization using SPARC container and led architecture for firstHP Blade/VMware implementation.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Major Accomplishment – First VMWare based Virtual platform architecture and introduction to AA, enhance and extend Solaris SPARC based LDOMs and sparse containers.• Established Self-Managed Colo Data Center in Savvis to provide a cost competitive self-managed hosting option.

Hartford, Ct, Us

Managed a team of engineers to support migration to an external Service Provider. Experienced in operational management and processes; assisted in defining new procedures during vendor migration phase. Responsibilities also included support for 40+ Enterprise Applications including first SOA implementation at Hartford Insurance. Architecture and project delivery of Disaster Recovery solutions for various middleware systems (Regional <150 miles) post 9/11.

Hartford, Ct, Us

Team lead for Java & Cold Fusion development at The Hartford. Development and architecture of new business processes as well as integrated service implementation as part of HTSC Service team. Project estimation, resource forecast, development timeframes etc. were part of the initial phases of each project. Rational Unified Process (RUP) implementation across Service Organization was one of the major accomplishments.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Sr. Software developer for Speech to Text conversion software for healthcare industry. Lead developer for PowerBuilder, C & Sybase DB. Train and mentor SW Quality assurance team members (certified QA).

Cheshire, Connecticut, Us

EDI engineer for Sterling Software Gentran Director on SCO UNIX.EDI network engineer: Implementation of Sterling Gentran Director software on SCO Unix to establish B2B with Home Depot.