IMTEYAZ AHMAD

Plot 105, sanga Nagar, Ring Road, Nagpur- 440013

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PROFILE SUMMARY:
Strategic Technology champion who brings 22 years of deep technical expertise, business vision and a
motivational leadership style to the challenges of reducing cost, streamlining efficiency and growing
operational competency, clear communication bridge among senior executive leadership, non-technical
stakeholders, and “in-the-trenches” technical team. Metrics-driven leader who directs complex,
multifunctional teams of up to 70+ professionals in the delivery of industry-leading infrastructure uptime.
Tenacious negotiator who consistently reduces vendor cost. Bottom line focused professional who
successfully manages budgets of up to $12 Million. Technical agnostic thinker who spearheads major
initiatives across multiple disciplines including infrastructure, ERP System, Database Administration,
Disaster recovery, Help Desk, Solutions Architecture, and Integration engineering. Motivational Coach and
mentor who forges top-performing teams with industry leading levels of retention.
Having 20 years of Hand On experience & expertise in implementations, upgradation and support of
SAP/Oracle EBS ERP; Electronic Filing system(Digitization of Business process and business
documents/contents), Business Continuity Planning/ Disaster Recovery , Cyber Security(Defense In
Depth Strategy ) Planning, Data Leakage Prevention, Risk & Vulnerability Assessment and
Management, Data Center Setup and Operational Capabilities Assessment, Data Center Migration,
Data Center Virtualization(HyperV/Vmware), Consolidation, optimization, SUN/VERITAS/MS
Clustering, Unix/MS Windows 2008,ADFS/AD, Office 365/Google apps/G-suite, Airwatch/ MaaS360
Mobile Device Management, MS Exchange, Lotus Domino,, SAN, NAS, VOIP, VPN, IPS, Firewall,
RIMS, Cloud Computing deployment and ITIL/ITSM, ISO/Six Sigma/TQM Best Practices
enforcement and management.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
 Developing strategic information technology (IT)  Outsourcing and Cloud computing (IaaS, ITaaS,
vision and execution plan based on business Daas, PaaS, SaaS, RIMS,MSS, VDC etc).
strategies and objectives.
 E-commerce based automated CRM
 Enterprise system architecture & deployment implementation.
(JDEdwards Oracle Ebs, SAP).
 Project management methodologies.
 Enterprise IT infrastructure design and
 Budget development and management.
implementation.
 Vendor & Contract negotiations and
 Evaluation, optimization and automation of work
management.
processes and flow.
 Cost/time/change management,
 Business / competitor Alliances& capacity
building.  Mentoring& Team building.

TECHNICAL SKILL:
ERP SOLUTIONS:
 Oracle ERP E-business Suite,
 SAP
 MS Dynamics
 Oracle JDEdwards
 SHCI/ empower
 EVEREST/MOYB/SAGE
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
 MS PROJECT
OPERATING SYSTEM:
 Windows xx, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux.
PROGRAMMING & DATABASE:
 VB6, C, COBOL, Oracle, MS SQL, FoxPro, Dbase, Filemaker pro.
NEXT GEN FIREWALL:
 Cisco ASA, MS Forefront TMG Server, Checkpoint NG, Fortinet, Sonicwall, Netscreen,Tofino
Xenon, Paloalto, Cybroam.
HIGH AVAILABILITY TOOLS:
 Cisco, Barracuda, Citrix, Radware, F5, VMWare,
DRP/BCP/BACKUP TOOLS:
 PlateSpin Forge, Symantec VERITAS Netbackup/Backup Executive, Acronis, Doubletake.
NETWORK MONITORING & MANAGEMENT:
 HP OpenView, Cisco works, Cisco QPM, CISCO NAM, Dell OpenManage, Solarwinds, OP
Manager, GFI LAN Guard, NETPRO Change Auditor
ANTIVIRUS:
 Macafee, Sophos, Symantec Norton Anti Virus, Trend Micro , AVG, Avast, Panda Software etc.
ROUTERS & SWITCHES:
 CISCO ROUTER 1800, 2600, 2800, 7200, 7600 ETC. CISCO CATALYST CE500, 2900, 3500,
3700, 4500, 6500 ETC
SERVERS & STORAGE SOLUTIONS:
1. Dell , HP, IBM, Super Micro, SUN, Netapps
SECURITY AUDITING TOOLS:
 Backtrack, Ecora Enterprise, Netpro Change Auditor, Encase, Retina, Nessus, nMap, ISS Scanner,
AppDetective, LANalyzer, SAINT, kismet, GFI LanGuard, Paros Proxy, Dsniff etc.

LEADERSHIP CAREER HISTORY:

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, QATARGAS LTD, MAR 2018 –Nov 20202 (ON ABATS PAYROLL)
Establishing architectural vision & roadmap –working with the architecture team, business stakeholders,
analysts and technical staff to craft a shared vision of the infrastructure future state, while employing stan-
dards and practices to provide a secure, innovative and cost-effective environment.
Also responsible for guiding the development of reference architectures and technology roadmaps and help-
ing migrate from legacy to modern technologies with an eye on reducing technical debt using solid lifecycle
management principles.

New Technology introduction: understand the needs of QG’s customers and internal business stakeholders
and guiding the evaluation of new strategic technologies and emerging standards, from an enterprise infra-
structure perspective, that fit QG’s future needs as well as establishing processes that govern selection, pro-
totyping and adoption of different technologies.
Architecture Guidance & Consulting – guiding the technical, solution and system architects that are part
of the Technology & Operations organization. Providing guidance and direction to the various development,
contractor, and business groups on infrastructure and security technology standards while ensuring that ap-
plications, infrastructure and security needs are architected for total scalability and performance.

HEAD -ICT SERVICES, APR 2014-FEB 2018, ICS PVT LTD,

Company profile:
This is APAC Leading Managed ICT Services Group , specialized in IT Outsourcing/Consulting to India,
ASEAN, Middle East Australia & African countries.
Role Objective: Responsible to plan, execute, and finalize IT projects according to strict deadlines and
within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-
party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. Measuring Performance and
auditing each project, each individual in the team and over all department performance against annual and
long-term company objective. Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.

HEAD-IT INFRASTRUCTURE, SEP2010- MAR 2014, KENANA SUGAR COMPANY, SUDAN,

AFRICA:
Company profile:
This is world largest Sugar Manufacturing Group in African region
Role Objective : development of strategic initiatives concerning information technology, implementation
and support of IT systems, architecture, systems reliability, application development, and hardware acquisi-
tions; ensuring integrity of corporate data, proprietary information, and system security; act and interface
with non-technical business users in determining overall information technology approach and provide
leadership to the IT department in the day-to-day operational support of the information technology infra-
structure, including hardware, software, application, and network support.

DGM-ICT SERVICES, SEPT 2008- APR2010 BHARTI AIRTEL LTD,:

Company profile:
This is world 5th largest Telecom Group and India’s largest Enterprise Telecom Service provider.
Role Objective : Responsible for driving IDC& MS Business Unit, developing, architecting and launching
the IDC and Managed Services products, solutions and services, developing business offering models, Busi-
ness strategy, Building partnership with global leaders in IDC, managed IT services, managed IT security
services, overseeing sales performance and Conducting market research and devising effective sales strate-
gies to identify and maximize opportunities for increased efficiency and profitability. Organizing, adminis-
tering, reviewing & evaluating the work of subordinates, Measuring Performance and auditing each project,
each individual in the team and over all company performance against annual and long-term quality com-
pany objective, Conducting training for Presales and Sales team on DC/DR, managed services and other
critical challenges of enterprise customers.

SR. IT CONSULTANT, MHD LLC, SULTANATE OF OMAN AUG 2006-AUG2008.

Role Objective:  
End to end ERP& IT Infrastructure setup and Management, Planning, designing and implementation of se-
cure, reliable, scalable and efficient IT infrastructure, Providing the best-fit (built to suit) IT solutions that is
aligned with the current and future needs of the Company at affordable price, Infrastructure and application
architecture assessment, design and implementation for high availability, scalability, performance and secu-
rity, Data centre capacity planning, architecture, implementation, Consolidation, optimization Virtualization
and migration, Data centre setup and Operational Capabilities Assessment, Network, Storage and Server
consolidation feasibility study, application suitability assessment, planning and implementation, Costing all
phases of projects and Preparing BOM/BOQ

ICT EXECUTIVE, SKJ GROUP, -BRUNEI DARUSSALAM AUG2000-AUG2006

Company profile:
This is ASEAN largest Manufacturing, Exporter, Retails , EPC Contracting Group in ASEAN region

Responsibility includes Keeping up-to-date of changes in technology and implementing new software
/Hardware/networking products into company, Infrastructure and application architecture assessment, design
and implementation for high availability, scalability, performance and security, Planning and costing all
phases of projects, then coordinating all associated activities and resources from feasibility to
implementation, Discussing the business needs and developing and implementing MRP& ERP, Trouble
shooting and solving hardware, software and Network problems, Maintaining the access rules to data and
other IT resources, Maintaining the security and confidentiality over the issuance and maintenance of
authorized user IDs and passwords, Monitoring the information security violations and taking corrective
action to ensure security provided, Preparing and monitoring the information security awareness program for
all employees, reviewing and evaluating the information security policy and suggesting necessary changes to
management, Testing the security architecture to evaluate the security strengths and to detect possible
threats.
SYSTEMS ENGINEER, NETTECH SOLUTIONS JUL1996-AUG2000
Troubleshooting Hardware/Software& networking Issues.
Installing, configuring, testing, upgrading and administering Servers.
Build Servers and Workstations including complete machines from empty boxes.

EDUCATION:
 MASTER OF SCIENCE- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
CERTIFICATION
 TOGAF 9.2 Enterprise Architect.

 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

 Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert ( CCIE)

 Sun Solaris System Administration 8(I & II)

 Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE 2000)

 Certified Information System Auditor(CISA)

 Certified Information System Security Manager(CISSM)

 Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH)

 Certified Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

 Advanced Training in Sun Soalris & Symantec Veritas High Availability(Cluster) Management

 Advanced Training in Symantec Veritas Disaster Recovery Management

 ISO 9000:2000 Certified Internal Quality Auditor/ Training in Total Quality Management (TQM).

 Advanced Training in Strategy& Performance Management/ Balanced Score Card Solutions Deployment.