Role: Enterprise Architect for the following domains: Infrastructure (Data Center, Remote Office, End User), Container Orchestration Platforms, and IT Operations (Observability, IT Service Management, IT Automation, and Collaboration).Responsibilities:• Architecture leadership in LTP, BID/BCD, RFI/RFP• Setting out principles, guardrails, patterns, and building blocks for use of solution architects and delivery teams.• Architecture leadership in large enterprise-wide programs and projects.Achievements:• Designed EA architecture development process and meta-model to gradually translate strategic goals, drivers and principles into actionable roadmap covering gaps, plateaus and work packages• Brought consistency into inherited "Infrastructure" EA domain (80+ top-level capabilities) split it into "Infrastructure & Container Orchestration Platform" (4 top-level and 28 second-level capabilities) and "IT Operations & Collaboration" (4 top-level and 24 second-level capabilities) EA domains with clearly defined boundaries to ensure roadmaps consistency across domains• Enterprise Architecture leadership for the following projects:◦ cross-region UK→Spain DC migration (Cisco ACI, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware vSphere, IBM PowerVM, Red Hat OpenShift, Oracle FMW, Rubrik, Citrix DaaS, Active Directory, M365, Azure Entra ID / Arc / ExpressRoute)◦ Cisco ACI automation using Ansible◦ Azure cloud migrations:▪ Windows Server (SMB shares) → M365 (SharePoint and OneDrive)▪ Citrix Profile Management → Microsoft FSLogix◦ End-to-end service-centric observability solution using Elastic Observability and Azure Monitor as SPOGs and 12 area-specific monitoring tools◦ ServiceNow ITSM Service Catalogue (both Technical and Application) and CMDB auto-population in accordance with CSDM 4.0

Role: Domain Architect for Systems Management & Common Tools (SMT)Domain scope includes: IT Service Management, Observability (Real-Time Monitoring, Logging, Application Tracing), Events/Alerts Management, IT Workflows Automation (CI/CD), and Infrastructure & Application Provisioning and Configuration Management (IaC).Achievements:• Developed domain target architecture (TOGAF/ArchiMate) that clearly articulates strategic direction, capabilities, processes, functions and components, gaps (their magnitude and inter-dependencies), work packages and roadmaps. Brought SMT Domain Target Architecture from "Evolving" (maturity assessment level 2/5) to "Optimal" (maturity assessment level 5/5). • Introduced universal enterprise IT layering approach for both end-to-end automation and observability• Architecture leadership for the following projects:o End-to-end Observability (Elastic Observability, Cisco AppDynamics, Zabbix)o ITSM CMDB auto-population (ServiceNow)o ITSM Incident Management process automation and integration with external ITSM platforms using ServiceNow Integration Hub and Google Apigeeo End-to-end Automation (Atlassian Stack, Azure DevOps).

Technology Architect involved (pre-sales, up-sales, and delivery) in various projects related to:- Migrations (lift & shift, re-platform)- Infrastructure (Cloud Landing Zone) Automation using Terraform and Ansible- Robotic Process Automation (Blue Prism, UiPath)- Intelligent Monitoring & Orchestration (ELK, Splunk)DC LAN/WAN migration: Cisco FabricPath -> Cisco ACIRole: Team Lead & Automation ArchitectTechnologies: Cisco ACI, Ansible, GitLabSecrets Management Product AutomationRole: Product Team Lead & ArchitectTechnologies: HashiCorp Vault/Consul/Terraform, Ansible, Concourse CI, Atlassian stack, AWS.RPA deployment projectsRole: Platform Owner / ArchitectTechnologies: UiPath, BluePrism, ABBYY FlexiCapture, Windows Server AD, ELK, Splunk, PowerShell, Terraform, Azure, AWS.AI chatbots and Core Automation MVP implementation projectsRole: DevOps / Infrastructure ArchitectTechnologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker Compose, Azure, AWS, ELK, MongoDB, Jenkins, GitLab

Seabak is an IT Management Service Provider to Small and Medium Enterprises.Delivered various projects with a focus on automation management of network infrastructure, cloud transitions/migrations, penetration/vulnerability tests.

Previous name: Capital Resources Advisors (Group of Companies)Group includes LTE/UMTS mobile network operators (Bakcell and Azerfon), a shared radio access network operator (Azerconnect), a country-wide Internet wholesale operator (AzerTelecom), FTTH Internet retail operator (CityNet), a cement production company (Norm) and EPCI (Nobel Energy).Role:- Group-level director responsible for close interactions with Group senior IT & Information Security (IS) personnel in all companies to implement Group-wide policies and procedures.- Group-level IT and IS projects coordination.- Chair of the Group-level EIT Committee.- Adviser to the Shareholder and Boards regarding new technology opportunities and business transformation.Achievements:- Designed COBIT/ITIL/ISO-compliant Group-level enterprise IT technology guidelines.- Acted as liaison between Bakcell and Azerfon during launch of Azerconnect. Project did include enterprise IT and ERP systems setup.- Supervised B/OSS projects design and implementation at Azerconnect.- Established and managed IS teams within Bakcell and Azerfon and setup centralized IS reporting up to the Group CISO.- Initiated, secured board commitment, and orchestrated a DDoS mitigation solution. Project scope covered all Group Companies, potential external customers and turned into a new revenue stream for AzerTelecom.- Managed data center consolidation and ERP system implementation project at Nobel Energy. Project brought holding with automated financial operations, end-to-end procurement and logistics, and improved corporate governance.- Provided valuable support to Norm on its business continuity planning, disaster recovery site expansion and SCADA system design.- Initiated, secured board commitment, and orchestrated a unified communications solution for the Group Companies. Project improved Group-inside decision making processes.

Achievements:- Managed all IT Operations for 7 business units across the country.- Supervised team of IT professionals with annual operating budget of USD 4,000k for customer base of 500+ employees.- Built an enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure including 300+ nodes in the main office, 3 remote onshore and 2 offshore locations- Built a server infrastructure: Active Directory 2008 forest/domain, Windows Server 2008R2 using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering (2 nodes), ISA 2006 server (persistent VPN site-to-site and users dial-in connections), LAMP stack (RHEL, Apache, MySQL, PHP)- Performed MTA transition (Postfix > Exchange 2007)- Managed deployment and post implementation support of enterprise business applications (LOGO Tiger Plus, Infor SunSystems, HRB).- Designed an internal SOX-compliant enterprise policies and procedures- Supervised team of network/system and end-user support engineers- Managed to get 95% of staff requests resolved within 2 business days

Achievements:- Built an enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure including 500+ nodes in 4 offices, 20 x Cisco Catalyst 3750G and 2960 switches, Cisco PIX 515 firewalls, Cisco routers 2600.- Built a server infrastructure using including VMware ESX on a clustered Sun Fire platform, Active Directory 2003 forest/domain, Exchange 2003 organization, ISA 2006 (placed in DMZ)- Performed a wide range of corporate software deployment via SMS for different remote sites- Trained and supervised team of network/system engineers.

Projects: AIOC Azeri Chirag Guneshli Pipelines, Central Azeri / Western Azeri / Eastern Azeri Topsides.Achievements:- Built an enterprise network (LAN/WAN) infrastructure including 1500+ nodes in 4 offices: Baku Deep Water Jackets Factory, MCCI Caspian House, Landmark II 3d floor, Sangachal and 2 offshore locations: Pipe Lay Barge Gusseynov and Dive Support Vessel Ismaylov, Cisco transparent VTP domain including 60 Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Aironet 1200 and Cisco router 2600 using such WAN technologies as PPP with multilink and Frame Relay with VoIP.- Setup a VPN tunnel between Baku and Aktau using Cisco PIX 501/515- Built a server infrastructure farm including Active Directory 2k3, Exchange 2k3 (clustered platform for a back-end server and placed a front-end server in DMZ), ISA 2004 (placed in DMZ), Citrix MetaFrame XP and Sybase.- Performed a transition from NT4/Exchange5.5 to Active Directory/Exchange2k3

Projects: exploration and development of the Mishovdag and Kamaladdin oil fieldsAchievements: LAN/WAN expansion to cover 200+ nodes in Baku and Ali Bayramli