Muhammad R. Email & Phone Number

Successful Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Professional with 21+ years’ experience in Solutions Architecture, Network Infrastructure Engineering and Technology Consultancy. Expert in planning, designing & implementation of large scale service providers, enterprise network & data centers.• Industry Vertical experience in Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Energy & Utility, and Telecommunication.• Helped customers by reducing CAPEx & OPEx and increased ROI with adoption of SDN technologies to overcome WAN challenges due to increase of cloud based applications and IoT.• Digital Transformation - public clouds (AWS & MS Azure) and private cloud with deployment of SDN, NFV, VNS and SD-WAN Technologies. Helping customers with Network Assessment, analysis and implementation for SDN adoption. Provided strategic roadmap, end to end migration plan, POC & Pilot in the field, project management and technology vendor selection to transform network.• Provided vendor capability comparison of SD WAN, VNS and NFV vendors to provide a vendor neutral recommendation to implement Cisco IWAN versus Viptela solutions.• Self-starter, team & relationship building, problem solving & negotiating skills.• Customer facing roles experience and cross functionality collaboration.• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF) & ITIL. • IT Strategic Planning, IT Architecture, IT Governance & IT Operations Management.• Head count & Staff / HR and Quality Management, change Management Systems & Process Improvement.• Excellent knowledge and experience of Agile & waterfall methodologies in Project & Program Management.* Excellent knowledge and experience in Enterprise Networking, Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF) and F5 LTM Load Balancers.