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Over 11 years’ combined experience with IBM technology development (Arizona U.S.A.), quality assurance (IBM Japan) and technical consultation (Texas, U.S.A.) which includes over 15,000 hours of project management engagement, successful achievement of schedule containment, budget and exceeding client expectation. My strong intrapersonal, problem solving, leadership, negotiation and communication skills have contributed success to my 5+ years of IBM Storage technology specialist winning more than $23 million in revenue to IBM. Own and operate a private consulting company in Karachi, Pakistan. Key Clients: JC Penney, Texas Instruments, Fidelity Investments, Northrop Grumman, Texas Health Resource, Dallas Police Department and State of Texas (Revenue department), Dallas Independent School District, General Business (GB), IBM Business Partners. Department of Irrigation, Govt. of Sindh (2014) Education / Training • Bachelor in Electrical Engineering – University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 1999 • IBM Leadership Development Training 2004 • IBM Project Management training 2005 / 2006 • IBM Certified Storage Specialist 2009 / 2010 • On-going education of competitive products and technology updates • IBM Cloud Computing Top Gun training 2010 • Pursuing PMP® Certification – December 2017 Professional Experience Owner / Project Manager (R&J Enterprises, Karachi) – Project Manager and consultant ▪ January, 2012 – present • Small and medium project management ranging from technology consultant to facility renovation. • Consult clients to transition from paper record to digital data. Planning phase to data life cycle management. • Consult clients in office renovation and technology upgrade with allowed budget. • Consult various aspects of IT such as disaster recovery, internet security risks and data protection. • Focus on improvement and implementation of processes, quality and cost reduction. Storage Specialist (IBM, Texas) – Technical Consultative selling ▪ Sept., 2006 – November 2011 • Responsible for supporting Americas STG West region specifically North Texas accounts. I supported various industries, enterprise accounts, general business (GB), competitive accounts and business partners from time to time. My contributions helped to win key opportunities and exceeded revenue targets for my region. • Skilled in planning and implementation of IBM Storage infrastructure, Storage Virtualization, backup recovering and archiving, Data De-duplication, Data Encryption, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions between data centers and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for IBM medium to large clients. • Specialize in understanding client requirements and aligning IBM strategy and solutions offered to address client’s business needs. • Skilled in client facing and developing relationships between client and IBM teams. • Actively work with cross functional teams and manage communication during different phases of the project. • Responsible for on-time completion of project and achieving client satisfaction measurements. Program Manager (IBM, Worldwide / Japan) – Field Quality and Warranty ▪ March, 2005 – September, 2006 • Planning and executing field quality projects with IBM OEM partners (Quantum, BDT and Hitachi, Japan) • Managed all aspects of project management from initiating to closing • Met with stakeholders, project teams, and vendors to facilitate projects • Created work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, budgets, and status reports • Focus on improvement and implementation of processes, quality and cost reduction Test Project Leader (IBM, Arizona) – IBM LTO™ mid-range automation ▪ March, 2003 – March, 2005 • Responsible for planning and executing LTO™ automation product test project for IBM Total Storage LTO™ product line (3580, 3581, 3582, 3583 and 3581-2U all generations). • Responsible for tracking test plan schedule and monitoring firmware revisions • Responsible for tracking and reporting status to project executives and stakeholders • Responsible for verification testing of firmware fixes and tracking hardware revisions. • Managed effective communication within teams to identify and mitigate risk and avoid schedule impact. FC Protocol Lead Engineer (IBM, Arizona) – IBM LTO™ Ultrium2 ▪ 2000 to 2002 • Planning and executing development and test of IBM new tape technology. • Key Projects as IT Consultant • State of Texas – Dallas School district (DISD), implementing IBM backup and recovery solution for student centralized record system. • Dallas Police department – IBM disk storage system to backup police car video to safe storage and easy access for court records. • Healthcare – various multi-site replication of critical data for hospitals connected on healthcare network (Texas Health Resource, Northwest Hospital, Parkland Hospital, Children hospital etc). • Retail and private sector – JC Penny departmental store, critical data backup for Teir1 and Tier2 data in three different data centers. Stryker medical equipment, local imaging storage for network clinics bundled with IBM storage units and xSeries servers. Key Projects as Project Manager • TPL Holdings Karachi – Consulting on new projects and cost savings on existing projects. • Department of Irrigation, Govt. of Sindh – Renovation of World bank conference room and implementing video conferencing, audio / video and multimedia capabilities for multi participant meetings. • IBM clients in North America – Successfully .planned and executed technology upgrades in data centers through planned outages. Consulted resource allocation of old equipment for cost savings. . References • Available upon request