Rahsaan Akbar Email & Phone Number

United States

* Create and disseminate Market specific content Go-To-Market to Cisco Partners and Client’s regarding the Digitization and Transformation of client enterprises.* Conduct Client Workshops with Senior level executives focused on identifying strategic goals fortransformation and developing the necessary roadmap to attain it.* Conduct Partner workshops regarding the technical and business use cases that particular technologysolutions address.

Greater New York City Area

* Develop, manage and execute the “Go to Market” plan for the Enterprise Network portfolio of client facing solutions to ensure cross-functional internal alignment and readiness.* Lead the creation and maintenance of value proposition materials, such as product demonstration scripts, customer facing product presentations and content for marketing collateral.* Actively engage in the win/loss program for the specific focus area including activities such as leading client meetings and incorporating findings into NTT service value propositions.

Greater New York City Area

As Regional Consulting Director I was responsible for the profitability and growth of the Consulting practice in the North East region of the Americas. In this role I had the responsibility for providing leadership to Principal and Technical consultants while engaging clients in efforts to transform their technology environments to attain specific business outcomes.

North East, United States

* Developed relationships with current and new vendors to provide clients with critical technical solutions* Developed and implemented a new go-to-market strategy leveraging SD-WAN technologies to increase clients’ use and establishing our thought leadership with more than 40% of our existing client base• Pioneered efforts to establish managed services for advanced network technologies within client environments

As a Solutions Manager for Dimension Data's America's Network assessment practice. I had the ability to assist customers in better understanding their enterprise network environments. Helping them gain insight into the critical application conumption patterns and the health of their overall network estates gave me the opportunity to become uniquely positioned to assist clients in creating technology road maps that not only address their current technical challenges but helped them meet their specific future business goals and objectives. It would be my distinct pleasure to help your organization in the same manner. Feel free to ask me about Dimension Data's Network Healthcheck offering and how it can make a difference in your organization's use of its network infrastructure.

Greater New York City Area

* Assessed client needs and high-level requirements to develop an architecture or design* Conducted technology design workshops, focused on aspects of a client’s Data Network* Conducted network assessments, focused on various aspects of a customer network* Provided management support to post-sale engineers, as an SME knowledgeable of different technologies

* Designed Cisco LAN, WAN, IPT, security network architecture per best practices and client requirements* Managed staging, configuration build, implementation, and migration of network devices* Created end-of-project documentation and deliverables of network implementation and solution to clients

* Validated the Data Center network infrastructure: it lacked resiliency and multiple redundant components* Designed and presented proposed future state to upper-management and receive budget to deploy andmanaged the overall project for the Data center migration to the new architecture* Redesigned the WAN environment to connect the global hub sites via an MPLS backbone and connectregional sites to their respective hubs via IPsec VPN tunnels; resulting in an 80% increase in reliability for corporate applications