NAEEM GHANI

MBA, MSC/EE-DIGITAL

adjfkc@r.postjobfree.com 630-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/naeem-ghani-60799112/ Aurora, IL 60503 Information Technology Consulting Executive

A results oriented and innovative senior leader experienced in directing and leading large enterprise systems implementations; specialized in cloud architects, data center technologies, migrations, consolidations, operations and digital transformations. A thought leader, who excels at collaboration and teamwork with a flair for identifying and adopting emerging trends to analyze and streamline processes, systems, increase productivity, quality and efficiency in deadline driven agile environments with blended consulting and industry experiences spanning over 25 years. With 10 years of systems and cloud architectural experience including infrastructure, engineering, enterprise resource planning applications, performance architectures and over 8 years of experience in services management and delivering converged infrastructure, private cloud and 7 years of large data centers cloud migrations and transformations. A self starter with a proven track record of managing and building culturally diverse and remote teams using proven managerial and leadership skills while attaining high-performance and gaining trusted advisor status with key stakeholders. Situational leadership skills, appropriate verbal and written communication; developing, delivering IT and 6 Sigma education. Experiences include:

Cloud Migrations, Assessments, Transformations Business IT Strategy Execution, Financial Governance Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Architectures Development Private, Public, Hybrid SAP Offerings Development Data Center Operations Management IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Cost Reduction, Optimization Six Sigma LEAN Continuous Process Improvement IT Process Automation, Innovation and Optimization Leadership, Succession Planning and Team Building

Strategic Projects, Program, Portfolio, People Management Organizational Change Management TCO, ROI, SLA, OLA Management ITSM, ITIL, Incident, Change, Problem Management Cloud BCP, BRP, DRP Cloud Compute, UNIX, Linux, Windows Systems Admin

NAS, SAN Cloud Storage and Data Security Management Large Scale Cloud Enterprise Infrastructure and Applications Management High Availability Servers and Applications Accenture – Chicago, IL March 2010 – June 2020

IT Executive/Leadership – Cloud Migrations, Assessments and Transformations –

$500k–$60m

Data Center Transformation, Migration Planning, Execution, accomplishments

● Led global 5 to 100 direct and cross functional team members performing cloud planning, migrations and transformations: 10 to 15 migration packages, 40 to 50 workloads per wave, across 3 to 5 concurrent waves comprising storage, server, network, applications and interfaces. Engagements ranging from 800 to 20000 workloads, 6 months to 3 years.

● Performed quality assurance on data center migration plans, created a core set of plans to drive consistency for data center migration and execution. Developing and optimizing cutover plans, 25 to 50 process and automation templates, attaining +1k migration rate,

● Championed Accenture migration methodology while incorporating best practices. Identified and resolved problems during the design phase, and through the cloud build out of detailed step-by-step instruction using migration pattern templates.

● Designed and executed Cloud DRP and BCP cutover plan, devising end-to-end data center divestiture plan. Resolved issues, bottlenecks and roadblocks from design to migrate in client facing leadership roles.

● Created technology components and rationalized infrastructure interdependencies across execution documents within and across migration packages, created repeatable set of migration patterns. Revised staffing estimated from planning through execution. Solutions Architect, Data Center Assessment, Remediation, accomplishments Naeem Ghani - 2

● Conducted assessments and remediations for converged technology stacks: Cisco UCS, Storage: NetApp, EMC, Network and VMware, supporting applications such as SAP, Oracle, MS Exchange, Sharepoint, BizTalk for large clients. Capacity and operations.

● Gained cloud product insights, defined roadmap for migrations from AIX and Solaris to Linux architecture. Developed technical solutions, implementations roadmaps, and led the team through design and development for migrations.

● Managed delivery center resources, working with VMware experts, NetApp storage and Cisco UCS private cloud leads. Identifying technical interdependencies across private cloud infra-stacks. Identify patterns and create models for systems deployments.

● Adapting to client specific project management methodology, actively managing 3 projects and migrations streams, with 3 in the pipeline, provided weekly project update(s), created project charters, proposals, including closing projects and harvesting deliverables. Product, Solution Development and Deployment Management, accomplishments

● Led and produced 24 strategic go-to-market SAP Cloud use case offerings, managed client proof of concept executions and sales teams as a pre-sales solution architect.

● Reviewed 25 cloud system design, architecture, build and operational deliverables for private cloud, provided critical technical feedback, created work packages: high-level design, work plan, reference material and delivery methods.

● Evaluated Private Cloud FlexPod and Vblock systems management tools for monitoring and provisioning. Facilitated sessions with technical design solutions architects improving delivery time from 10 days to 4 hours via automation and error reduction.

● Reviewed and provided feedback on deliverables related to Service Level Offering for NetApp Storage as a Service (SaaS). Created training plan for private cloud systems administration inline with workforce transformation and digital strategy. People Leadership, Strategic and Tactical Business Development, accomplishments

● Participated in written Request for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) initiatives, performing quantitative analysis, mapping out the key client business-drivers with cloud product offerings from client perspective with 100% success, $12m to $100m.

● Developing and executing SOWs, meeting and exceeding SLA/OLA obligations through data analysis and resolving complex business issues. Shared technical feedback on Service Level Offerings: VMware, Private Cloud and Accenture Migration Methods.

● Establish vital connections between local offices and other business units, participating in people development initiatives, hiring and performance management as career coach.

● Exceeded personal and technical training goals attaining broad technical knowledge completing hands-on exercises thereby resolving real time complex issues and problems. Caterpillar Inc. Chicago/Peoria, IL January 1996 – January 2010 IT Leadership – Project/Program/Infrastructure and Operations Management –

$100k–$10m

Tactical and Strategic Director and Leadership, accomplishments

● Provided 360 degrees leadership and directorship for 5 IT and IS groups, direct reports 8 to 25, 8 to 50 project team members and overfall 110 departmental resources

● Improved engagement through active and visionary leadership engagement improvement from low 60 to high 90, while attaining 99.98% systems availability

● Improved Six Sigma, leadership, learning, development and communication indices by 20%. Empowered teams, cross functional experts and leveraged resources, maintaining work life balance with 225K savings

● Conducted internal and external recruiting, hiring, improved onboarding processes to 2 weeks, attaining 100% improvement

Operations Supervision and Management, accomplishments

● Supervised, managed and directed 25 projects and 10 core processes, 3 project managers, 3 team leads, 8 analysts and 20 systems administrators

● Managed budget, tracked expenses, resolved budget issues in a timely manner, with budget responsibility of $2m to $5

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● Led IT and IS incident, change and problem management, collaborated with virtual teams in 24x7 operations, attaining 20% issues reduction through global resource engagement.

● Conducted project report out sessions, provided hands on leadership, communicated updates, attaining 95% project velocity

● Sponsored and provided hands on leadership for infrastructure improvement projects entailing 30 SAP and DBSi upgrades

● Provided project leadership through active engagement, guiding and coaching 3 Master Black Belts, 8 Project 6 Sigma Black Belts

Process, Project and Program Management, accomplishments

● Improved asset management processes, using home grown tools and techniques, reconciling differences, attaining 30K Savings and led department wide Green Dow Sustainability index improvement initiative $75k savings

● Identified and documented project savings through process improvements and new implementations with $1.5m savings in efficiencies

● Led cross-functional project teams, coached and mentored team members, team size 6 to 12, 70 team members. Taught DMAIC, LEAN, KAIZEN and DMEDI quality improvement methodologies, while leading 6 to 8 projects simultaneously

● Conducted remote and local training sessions, taught 6 Sigma methodologies, 20 Green Belts certified engineers, analysts and managers

Information Technology Systems Administration, accomplishments

● Updated IT infrastructure associated processes documentations related to 200 Servers, 20 Storage Devices, 5000 End-Device for engineering and manufacturing facility

● Performed trend analysis, remediations and deployed TeamCenter for 150 design and manufacturing engineers, attaining $100k savings

● Supported TeamCenter, SAP and MAMM interfaces for users located in India and Singapore, overall $2m Savings

● Wrote software applications, created scripts and implanted hands-off and lights-off process managements, with $500k Savings

● Completed windows server consolidation to network attached storage, $300k Savings.

● Implemented high-availability clusters (NAS, Oracle, UNIX, LInux, Windows, LAN failover) attaining 99.98% Availability.

● Managed system growth and made recommendations for upgrades based capacity utilization for 4 full-scale migrations

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

Masters’ of Business Administration, (M.B.A.), Leadership and Human Resource Management - Aurora University, IL.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc/M.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Science - Southern IL University, IL

Certifications

Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt – Caterpillar School of Leadership, NetApp Storage Engineer AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Solution Architect – Associate Training

VMware VMC on AWS, VMware vRealize Automation, Microsoft Azure Foundation (MCSA MCSE), Google GCP Foundation, GCP Associate Engineer, AWS SysOPS Engineer Architects: 3 Tier Client Server Distributed, Serverless, Kubernetes Languages:PERL, C, Assembler, Python, JavaScript

Learning: MCSA MCSE,

ASSOCIATION AND ACTIVITIES

Associations: Toastmasters, SIU Alumni, AU Alumni

Activities: Golf, Reading, Volunteering

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