ROBERT SAFADI

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Chief Executive and Technology Officer

Distinguished career known as a driving force that delivers sound guidance within complex settings that demand keen technology and business acumen. Recognized as a visionary leader with a diverse background that streamlines business operations to increase efficiencies, improve productivity and optimize cost. Extensive experience in delivering extraordinary results, exploiting Emerging technologies to build Digital, social and mobile marketing solutions. Offering dynamic background with combined strength in technology innovation, marketing solutions and business acumen. Highly successful in fast-paced business environments that require swift responses to evolving economic, market and industry conditions.

Recognized as a leader who applies high-impact technical solutions to major business objectives with capabilities that transcend it operational boundaries.

STRATEGIC AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGEST / SAAS-IAAS PRODUCT ARCHITECT / LEGACY TRANSOFRMATION ARCHITECT/ GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY TEAM LEADER / EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ADVOCATE / NEW MARKET EXPLORER / INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT / CLIENT RELATIONS LEADER / CLOUD ARCHITECT / INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGEST

EXPERIENCE

6/05/2017 – 09/04/2018

CEO AND ACTING CTO, NuGen Enterprises, LLC

Recruited to restructure company Technology division and improve operations. Empower to apply agile methodology to improve bottom line.

Developed agile IT division reducing cost of $1.9M reducing cost of storage of EMC, UNC fabric, data center foot print applying cloud solutions

Restructured IT to become a revenue model applying new service catalog fueled by advanced applications, intelligent networks, adaptive solutions running Cisco, Juniper, HP, IBM, DELL, Microsoft, oracle, and custom enterprises solutions

Developed business, engineering, and technology strategies to an aggressive competitive advantage, ensured Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) which resulted in increase of revenue by over 35%.

Applied advanced technology to enhance competitive advantages while monitoring sales and marketing adding new product and enhancing existing products increasing revenue by 110%.

Developed technical road-maps and applied short and long term strategy to sustain and present competitive advantage, including managing CI/CD, DevOps and infrastructure

Managed product development life cycle and aligned products to company strategy

3/2014 – 6/2017

SR. ICT DIRECTOR, Msheireb Properties

Brought in to begin the development of an Iconic smart city and enable engineering to implement technological advanced to accomplish a true smart city architecture and infrastructure to be the best globally.

Developed state-of-art design and build plans of smart city using and MSI and reducing capex by more than 34% while redefining a new Iconic smart city infrastructure

Senior Executive Project Manager instrumental in creating intelligent infrastructure with automation, smart platform, BI/AI and analytics of more than 1.8M IoT’s.

Re-engineering HLD and LLD using alternative solutions and technologies saving more than $64M in CAPEX and OPEX

Implemented engineering process of design revenue and approval process reducing time, cost and efficiency reducing cost by more than 48%

Master architect constructing two data centers, 1 CCC, 1 NOC, 24 FM hubs and a DR site.

Managed data centers design, security and engineering using Cisco 7700 Nexus, EMC with 16 P-byte storage, a 9000 CCTV advanced security system and a 300 Miles of fiber

Established Enterprise Project Management office with 5 Sr PM’s and as a portfolio director I introduced agile methodology to ensure delivery of services

Managed 39 Engineers and ICT specialist of different domains from network, infrastructure, Broadcasting, ICT, ELV, FM, Contract Management, finance, engineering, Security and HR.

Developed most advanced platform for service catalog applying business process within hours for enablement and transformation

1/2011 – 3/2014

GROUP IT SR. MANAGER AND CIO, Barwa Group.

Recruited to enable company and subsidiaries to tap into the next generation of technology strategy building a new central data center and introduce agile IT operations for the group.

Centralized 24 IT division into one data center and implemented a cloud solution for all subsidiaries.

Re-engineered central data center with Cisco 77XX Nexus, EMC Clarion, UCS servers, VM’s, and Sun server for Oracle ERP and EBS. CRM, Unifier, and Linux

Implemented cloud solutions including SaaS, IaaS, ITaaS, ERPaaS, MSaaS, and hosting services generating revenue of 2.8M of annual bases

Design director for three Mega Project of smart city and Smart Park deploying state-of-the-art technology applying intelligent infrastructure and application analytics of OSS/BSS/NMS.

Developed security platform to counter measure cyber security threats using Vera code, PaltoAlto, Fortinet and PIX

Implemented total data center automation and fault management system in real time and implemented the first hybrid cloud in the region.

Applied security platform for development division and conducted code review to ensure compliance to PCI, NIST and ISO standards

Reduced total IT operations by more than $11M reducing IT footprint and creating first Hybrid cloud for the company reducing license fees, introduced shared model of IT for the entire group.

4/2008 – 12/2010

HEAD OF ICT AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, Energy City.

Implemented new structured IT platform using IBM servers, Cisco routers, firewalls, application platform and Microsoft 2012 AD and applied GPO to secure network

Developed engineering design or oil and gas companies as hosted within tier III data centers

Managed of all ICT designs, HV, MV, LV and ELV designs

2/2006 – 4/2008

CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER, Vionx communications.

Developed short and long term technical road map for the company to ensure sustainable futures applying best practices and agile methods

Implemented agile SDLC and application development strategy

Designed and developed billing and mediation web enabled system saving company 60% revenue losses.

Senior advisor to board and CEO relate to company technical direction

Managed IT infrastructure of server farms, switches, routers, security, applications and platform while optimizing operations meeting client objectives

2/2004 – 1/2006

SENIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER, AT&T.

oss/bss/nms testing engineer and project manager

2/2000 – 2/2004

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Nexus Telecom.

implemented SLS’s and division KPI’s to meeting client expectations within IT division and engineering managing Application development life cycle as Sr. PM

Built Dev-OPS and application development division both on and off-shore and moved development efforts to South America vs Asia.

Implemented LAB for POC and development to ensure compliance and acceptance process.

3/1998 – 4/2000

SENIOR SE, Coca-Cola. (Contractor)

Implemented Syrup plant migration nation wide

3/1996– 2/1998

RESEARCH SE, CDC. (Contractor)

Infrastructure Transformation engineer migrating from Token ring to Ethernet and A-Talk

Co-developed applications for General Sanders and Dr. Coop

EDUCATION

6/1996

BS COMPUTER SCIENCE, Bellevue University

3.6 GPA

5/2017

MBA PROJECT MANAGEMENT, Florida Institute of Technology

3.5 GPA

6/1996

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY COMPUTER ENGINEERING, University of San Jose

3.4 GPA

SKILLS

Portfolio. Program and Project management

Property and facility development

Cloud and data center operations

Microsoft active directory, SQL,

Networking and SDLC

Risk Management

Cyber Security Expert

Product Development

Strategy Development

Agile Data Center design

ERP/CRM/SAP Architect

AI/BI and Analytics

Smart City Architect

Enterprise application Architect

MEMBERSHIP AND CERTIFICATION

Novell Master CNE, MS MCSE training, Banyan certified Engineer, ITEL v2 and V3, ORACLE training classes, CCNA training. Attended TQM Training, Certified PME, RICS certified real estate development, PM, CM, Finance, facility management. ISO 9001. Member of IETF, IEEE, PMP certification, and SSTPDN for Lucent. Member of the Gulf Council of Project Management Experts

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