Business-driven consultant with an edge for finding increasing topline. Negotiate contracts, conclude sales, and relationship building. Identify new markets and generate incremental new business. Employ growth strategies to improve baseline and profitability. Manage the full sales cycle, including understanding customer needs, presenting relevant solutions and services, negotiations, and contract closure. Develop robust business plans and design technology solutions for clients in accordance with the program management cycle. Identify value addition opportunities to the customer to win additional business. Established relationships with businesses and customers, reviewed client I.T. policies and procedures, interpreted and applied standards, policies, best practices, analyzed threats and vulnerabilities and designed system security strategy and architecture.

MBA with a focus on Strategic management, Financial management, and Project management

 Responsible for the end to end Sales Cycle. Starting with target market identification, solution presentations until contract negotiations and deal closure. Responsible for driving new business, primarily across the MENA region.  Develop additional revenue streams by up-and cross-selling to the current client base.  Develop business models, pricing, and process improvement strategies in line with the market. Consult on I.S. Governance framework, practices, and controls to fulfill short and long-term organization goals based on ISO 27001 guidelines. Developed effective fraud prevention and accountability mechanisms per PCI-DSS. Prepare project feasibility, budgeting & risk reports.  Conduct workshop and training.

 Design and implement business development strategy to attain Sales targets and corporate goals. Lead the sales team to achieve 30% growth on YoY sales.  Increased sales by finding new markets, cross-selling, and engaging with customers for additional short and long-term selling opportunities. Collaborate with various stakeholders to implement new products, services, or standards. Product management for mobile wallet/N.F.C. enabled mobile payment app. Conduct training and seminars to develop product awareness.

 Led multiple teams to design robust, scalable, and secure E-commerce payment solutions. Responsible for converting business goals to technology using various business analysis tools for requirement gathering and tracking, modeling, and collaboration. Implement I.S. Audit standards and controls. Developed and implemented service level agreements/N.D.A. and problem escalation matrix. Design and implement Disaster Recovery.

 Designing, commissioning, and management of in-house and off-site data centers. Responsible for management of Oracle and MS SQL databases and application servers.  Responsible for configuration and management of Cisco firewalls and routers.  Implement enterprise-wide network and system security.

 Datacenter management, the configuration of S.U.N. and Unix based Enterprise Servers. Configuration & management of Oracle Databases, MS SQL Servers, and application servers. Manage projects, software, and hardware rollouts.  Managed and supported hardware and software operations at on-site and remote Datacenters. Responsible for patch management, user data access log, data backup, migration plans, procedures for Datacenter, and mission-critical applications.