SYED AMIR HASNAIN
Houston, Texas advd2u@r.postjobfree.com +1-281-***-****
Career Summary
A successful leader of over 21 years, holding strong business acumen while possessing a blend of technology strategy competencies. Experience in the Financial Industry, energy, and various verticals concerning Technology Consulting.
IT Strategy Skills & Technical Skills
IT Strategy & Transformation - Cloud Strategy (Private, Hybrid, Public) DevOps, IoT. AI - DC Migration Strategy – CSP’s (AWS, Azure, GCP) - (VMWare, Hyper-V) - AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS) - MS Azure (Virtual Machine, Data Lake, SQL) - High-Performance Computing - Security Audit - Citrix XenDesktop/Workspace - Converged & HyperConverged Architecture – Win/Linux Install - Modbus, DNP3, PROFIBUS, OPC Professional Experience
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Senior Manager Advisory (Cloud) July 2021 – Present
• Leading the M&A cloud strategy projects by executing the Separation, Integration, and implementation of several application and networking platforms
• Strategizing, planning, and designing the migration approach for the platforms on the public cloud as well as migrating to on-prem data centers
• Responsible for client engagements related to cloud foundation, design, strategy, and creating a roadmap.
• Accountable for client relationships for the deliverables of the projects
• Providing technical insight, strategic direction & peripheral vision for Cloud Migration/Strategy
• Communicates to a variety of stakeholders, both technical and business
• Managed customer expectations on deliverables and project timeline
• Performed risk identification and mitigation planning and implementation
• Interacted with project teams to set direction, efficiently capture, and report progress and status
• Worked effectively with customers, including our services teams, region leadership, Sales, and other business units
• Effectively achieved project goals within declared deadlines; proactively communicated status and escalates issues as needed.
Deloitte US Sr Manager Consulting, (Cloud) - Feb 2019 – Aug 2020
• Successfully help build Cloud Migration/Strategy (Azure, AWS & GCP) practice pipeline of over $100 million with a closing rate of over 45%
• Led the overall practice improvement program for Cloud Strategy/Migration & partnering with CSPs for Cloud Managed Services, creating playbooks, building accelerators, etc.
• Responsible for multiple client engagements related to cloud foundation, design, strategy, and creating a roadmap.
• Led overall strategy, execution, and service delivery of Digital Workplace program including infrastructure and application modernization.
• Closely worked with C-Suite execs & various leaders to achieve their vision by executing their tech strategy
• Provide technical insight, strategic direction & peripheral vision for Cloud Migration/Strategy, serverless services (containers, Kubernetes) DevOps tools (Git, Maven), Compile code, Jenkins, Puppet & Chef
• Served as the Data Center and Cloud engagement lead for a fortune 100 customer in various verticals to perform a cloud suitability assessment and TCO analysis for their global operations.
• Served as the delivery lead to help migrate legacy applications platforms to a stateful AWS Cloud solution. Logicalis US Sr Director Consulting, Cloud - Jan 2018 – Dec 2018
• Drove the technical and business strategy for private, Hybrid & Public Cloud where I was responsible for developing, marketing, sales, and product management teams.
• Responsible for multiple client engagements related to cloud foundation, design, strategy, Migration Validation, and creating a roadmap.
• Successfully implemented several private/public cloud solutions in the Middle East and Asia Pacific region by executing project life cycle from pre-sales proposals to production deployment Halliburton Global Consulting Sr. Manager - Aug 2007 – Oct 2017
• Ownership of Sales Support for private and Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) closing $4M of $8M pursuits
• Led the evaluation and PoC of a machine-learning/AI contract analysis software for an upstream E&P operator
• Led on opportunities including vendor selections, implementations, and technology strategy for cloud computing
• Drove the technical and business strategy for the private cloud, where I was responsible for interfacing with development, marketing, sales, and product management teams Stewart Title Technology Architect - Aug 2003 – Aug 2007
• Integrated applications into existing client systems through business analysis, solution design, and deployment methodologies on multi-million-dollar projects across America and Europe
• Work closely with clients and vendors both remotely and on-site as part of the ongoing integration process to the procedure on-time project deliverables, provide product walkthroughs and deliver training Schlumberger Consulting Global Managing Consultant - Nov 1998 – Jun 2003
• Overall responsibilities included evaluating, designing, testing, and implementing tools to be integrated into various projects
• Monitoring computing resources for evidence of compromise and reporting security incidents.
• Analyzing, security design, and policy compliance to assist in improving new threat profiles. Education/Training/Certifications
• University of Karachi – Business Administration - Karachi, Pakistan
• AWS Cloud Practitioners (Completed)
• AWS Solution Architect Associate (Expected Completion Dec - 2022)
• AWS Solution Architect Professional, (Expected Completion Jan - 2023)
• Introduction to Project Management - Project Management Institute (PMI)