• 28 years in IT IndustryAreas of Expertise:25 years’ experience in development of IT Strategy/ IT Architecture and Future Roadmaps across various enterprise customers- CXO interaction and relationship and technical advisory role• Multiple years of International engagements in the Middle-East, Pakistan, Africa, Turkey, Greece and Russia• Verticals – Telcos, Financial Institutions, Transport • Have been Principal and Technical Lead Consultant for the past 15 years• Experienced in TCO studies, IT and Data Centre Optimisation Studies, Operational Maturity Assessments and IT Strategy and Roadmap Development• Management Experience –Sales Consulting Snr. Manager Hardware pre-sales South Africa management of team of Solution Architects, Lead Architect of multiple project teams, Lead Technical Solution Manager of virtual team across various countries• CxO relationships and interactions• Mentoring• Key industry: Financial, Telecommunication, Government• Enterprise IT Transformation, IT Strategy, Cloud Architecture and Solution Architecture Development- Lead conversations relating to cloud migrations, hybrid cloud, AWS, Azure, Oracle and IBM Cloud• Extensive experience in various architecture roles:• data architecture• process architecture• business architecture• applications architecture• solution architecture• infrastructure architecture inc date centre optimisation (Sun Microsystems, Oracle and IBM)• cloud architecture• Hybrid IT architecture• Enterprise ArchitectureTechnical Leadership and Architectural Thinking  Business Resilience Risk Management and Technical Design Authority Fundamentals in Service solution design Business Continuity Resiliency Services Analytics and Big Data The Cloud Enabled Data Center: IT Infrastructure Readiness Infrastructure Strategy and Planning for Cloud Computing IT Strategy Assessment IBM Team Solution Design Hybrid Cloud Advisor Training Hybrid IT Architecture Agile Enterprise IT Transformation