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Certification
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Muhammad Shamim

Muhammad Shamim

Doha, Qatar

Summary

Skilled Technical Lead successful at marrying technology and business needs in order to meet changing demands and solve diverse problems. Prepared to leverage 16 years of IT Infrastructure & Services experience to take on new role with long-term potential and room for professional growth.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Customer Delivery Technical Leader

Cisco
Doha
07.2020 - Current
  • Lead Solution Design, Implementation & Validation of DC Compute, Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud & Migration projects covering Cisco Data Center portfolio.
  • Conduct Technical design workshop, gather customer requirements to create solution design, develop High Level & Low Level Design Documents, Test Plans & Migration Plans.
  • Capacity Planning, Sizing, Technical Project & Program Management
  • Coached, mentored, and trained partner & customer team members on technical topics.
  • Support the sales team by providing technical expertise in pre-sales activities such as product demonstrations or proposal writing.
  • VMware Virtualization, End User Computing, Cisco UCS, UCS-X, HyperFlex, Intersight, MS Hyper-V, Nutanix HCI, Hybrid Cloud, Azure, Windows & Linux OS Specialization and Application consciousness.

Enterprise Architect

Dell EMC
Dubai
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • Enterprise design of Etisalat 'One Cloud', the hosted platform for delivering compute & application requirements for Etisalat's customers.
  • Solution design & deployment on Etisalat One Cloud that assisted EXPO2020 in achieving their business goals and outcomes.
  • Planning & execution of BCDR practices.
  • VMware vSphere, vCloud Director, NSX, vROPs, Cisco UCS, Site Recovery Manager & Rubrik.

Senior Consultant

Mannai Corporation
Doha
12.2013 - 05.2019
  • Drive End to End Technical engagement with customer by building virtual data-center road-map by understanding customer current & future IT strategy.
  • Experience in building new Data Center, DC migration & DC Consolidation projects with focus on Compute, Virtualization, Storage, and Backup & Disaster Recovery in both Green & Brown Field including Active – Active DC.
  • VMware vSphere, VSAN, Horizon View, Converter, SRM, vROPs, VRA, Cisco UCS Blade & Rack, Dell EMC Storage, Recover Point, Cisco MDS & Brocade SAN Switches and Lifecycle Manager.

Technical Solutions Consultant

HPE
Bangalore
11.2008 - 11.2013
  • L2 Virtualization support engineer, primarily on VMware & Citrix virtualization products, include ESX/ ESXi, vCenter, SRM, vCloud Director, Update Manager, Converter, VDP & Xen Server.
  • Handling critical customers and resolving complex technical issues over a remote web session, phone or email with help of log analysis and repro in lab, if needed.
  • Advise customers on gaps in design and implementation of VMware solutions.

Education

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing -

CALTECH
11-2022

BCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Sikkim Manipal University
05-2013

Diploma in Computer Engineering -

NTTF
08-2003

Skills

  • Consulting
  • Strategic Planning
  • Requirements Gathering & Analysis
  • Capacity Planning & Sizing
  • Design Development
  • Project Documentation
  • Project Scoping
  • Customer Relationship
  • Technical Presentations and POC/V
  • Technical Project Management
  • Infrastructure Planning
  • Effective Communication
  • Technical Support
  • Virtual and Cloud Technologies
  • Server Management
  • Operating Systems
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Risk Assessment
  • Compliance and Regulations

Certification

VMware VCAP- DCD

VMware VCAP- DCA

VMware VCP - DCV

VMware VCP - EUC

Nutanix NCA

Cisco Hyperflex HCI for SE

MS Azure Fundamentals

Google GCP Asscoate

Accomplishments

Cisco FY2023 Q3 Qatar - Extra Mile Award

Mannai FY2019 - Best Engineer, Cloud Computing BU

Affiliations

Government Institutions | Banks | Healthcare

Travel & Logistics | Telecom & ISP | Sports, Events & Expo

Additional Contact

UAE +971 505 343347

India +91 88486 75396

https://linkedin.com/in/muhshami/

Timeline

Customer Delivery Technical Leader

Cisco
07.2020 - Current

Enterprise Architect

Dell EMC
06.2019 - 06.2020

Senior Consultant

Mannai Corporation
12.2013 - 05.2019

Technical Solutions Consultant

HPE
11.2008 - 11.2013

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing -

CALTECH

BCA - Computer And Information Sciences

Sikkim Manipal University

Diploma in Computer Engineering -

NTTF
Muhammad Shamim