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Irshad Ahmed Mohammed

Plano,TX

Summary

Senior Infrastructure Architect with over 16+ years of professional experience and international work history in the Information and Communication Technology industry with knowledge areas diversified with a mix of Information and Communication Technology, Systems & Network Deployment, and Project Management. Professional experience in Digital Transformation, DC Infrastructure Design & build, Systems Engineering, Cloud Solutions, and Deployment of Service Support in Information Technology, IoT, and DevOps. Industry experience includes working with versatile domains in Information / Telecommunications industry from OEM, Principal, and System Integrator perspectives. Collaborative in managing cross-cultural teams and target oriented with proven ability to perform well under pressure with excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

IT Principal Consultant / Infrastructure Project Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2022 - 09.2023
  • Leading the Digital Transformation Project for Daimler Trucks and Daimler Trucks Financial Services to migrate the workloads to a centralized Data Center and to the cloud
  • Heavily involved in migration planning and right cloud placement
  • Additionally, to that the program involves overseeing the multi-vendor hardware for networking and computing
  • The scope of the project is much broader but not limited to setup and hosting solutions and new systems
  • It also involves setting up Network Infrastructure, Backup, and DR Setup using HPE.

Technical Architect / Delivery Lead

ASML, San Diego
04.2021 - 07.2022
  • Infrastructure Architect for data center Infrastructure Transformation, migrations, and expansion projects relative to computing and Storage of legacy infrastructure
  • The scope involves Life Cycle Management (LCM) 0f storage infrastructure and deployment of new hardware to enhance the capacity for over 1 PB of NetApp storage
  • Additionally, to that, the program involves overseeing the multi-vendor hardware for networking and computing.

Technical Architect /Project Leader

Consolidated Edison of New York, NY
02.2016 - 03.2021
  • Technical Architect for design and deployment of Metering Infrastructure project
  • Part of the Infrastructure Planning Team for the Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project
  • Played a key role in Data Center design and planning which corresponds to capacity planning, resource forecasting, project planning, and compliance management of the Data Center
  • Lead the technical operations and support functions for data center Infrastructure which comprises large-scale network elements from Nutanix, EMC, VMWare, and Cisco.

Engineering Manager / Product Specialist

CommScope SA
02.2013 - 04.2014
  • Served as Product Specialist and SME to support CommScope’s products including data centers, and holistic data center infrastructure management (DCIM)
  • Specially trained by CommScope in South Africa for Data Center Management Program.

Project Manager / Implementation Manager

FAL Telecommunications, Doha Qatar
07.2010 - 06.2012
  • Served as Project Manager by providing services delivery for project implementation and execution of Next Generation Networks (NGN), In-Building Solutions (IBS), and Enterprise WAN projects
  • Guided several departments in infrastructure, development, and testing projects by defining the scope and identifying stakeholders and maintaining the change management plan.

Project Engineer- Service Delivery

Nokia Siemens Networks, Middle East
03.2006 - 07.2010
  • Reporting to the Implementation Manager/Quality Manager, with the responsibility of Network Roll-out, Expansions, and Software upgrades of the 3G Network element like ATM Switch and RAN.

Engineering Supervisor/ Technical Lead

Huawei Technologies, Middle East
03.2005 - 03.2006
  • Implementation and roll out for turnkey projects in Telecommunications and Oil & Gas Industries
  • Services delivery for CDMA WLL Project.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Northwestern Polytechnic University
Fremont, CA
04-2016

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Project Management
  • Configuration Management
  • Business Planning
  • Processes and procedures
  • Subject Matter Expert

Training

  • Data Analytics and Machine Learning, (USA)
  • Smart Meters Deployment and Systems Performance Testing- Omnetric (USA)
  • Service Support Specialist- CommScope South Africa, Johannesburg, SA
  • Workshop on Service Level Agreements & KPI- CommScope South Africa, Johannesburg, SA
  • Project Implementation and Service Delivery- Huawei Technologies, Doha, Qatar.
  • E-project Management- Nokia Siemens Networks, Middle East.
  • WCDMA and GSM Advanced Training – Nokia Siemens Networks, Middle East
  • Global Technical Support (GCRMS) - Huawei Technologies, Middle East.

Timeline

IT Principal Consultant / Infrastructure Project Manager

Infosys Limited
08.2022 - 09.2023

Technical Architect / Delivery Lead

ASML, San Diego
04.2021 - 07.2022

Technical Architect /Project Leader

Consolidated Edison of New York, NY
02.2016 - 03.2021

Engineering Manager / Product Specialist

CommScope SA
02.2013 - 04.2014

Project Manager / Implementation Manager

FAL Telecommunications, Doha Qatar
07.2010 - 06.2012

Project Engineer- Service Delivery

Nokia Siemens Networks, Middle East
03.2006 - 07.2010

Engineering Supervisor/ Technical Lead

Huawei Technologies, Middle East
03.2005 - 03.2006

Master of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Northwestern Polytechnic University
Irshad Ahmed Mohammed