Omar Amin

Profile

Over 20 years of success in architecting and selling professional services in a solution-led organisation, working as an enterprise architect and trusted advisor with a variety of clients across EMEA to understand their business challenges and solve them through technology based solutions.
A leader with a focus on building trust that has collaborated at the CxO level with a variety of enterprise verticals including Financial, Telco, Oil & Gas, Government and Manufacturing.
A central point of excellence, developing high performance teams and owning large programs of work. Mentoring team members and colleagues has become a true passion of mine.

Experience

Dell Technologies

Dubai, UAE

Enterprise Architect

2020 - Present

  • Leading large and complex transformation programs for Dell’s enterprise customers across EMEA
  • Responsible for the technical strategy, governance and stakeholder communications for digital transformation initiatives as well as managing teams of solution architects
  • Requirements analysis and success criteria analysis across different customer business functions
  • Implementation of program governance to ensure success
  • Technical ownership of complex solutions encompassing Dell, customer and partner solutions
  • Management of organisational change - people, process & technology optimisation
  • Mentoring and development of Dell solution architects
  • Portfolio owner / thought leader for the Resiliency and the Hybrid Cloud domains
  • EMEA SME for Generative AI and lead for use case development programs with Dell's EMEA customers
  • GenAI
  • Resiliency
  • Automation
  • Transformation
  • DevOps
  • Agile
  • Sustainability
  • Governance

Dell EMC

Dubai, UAE

Datacenter Solution Lead

2016 - 2020

  • Working with sales and marketing teams to build a portfolio of consulting products to best meet customer demands
  • Developing and supporting a partner network to enhance Dell's delivery capability
  • Lead architect on large, complex projects tasked with ensuring the highest quality delivery for our strategic customers
  • Introduce customers to new product offerings evangelise the benefits of cloud and big data for their needs
  • Own customer solution proposals end-to-end for the most strategic customers. Taking concepts discussed with stakeholders, through a solution design phase and into a successful sales cycle
  • Work with the delivery teams to carry out project quality assurance reviews to ensure the highest standard of delivery is met
  • Trusted advisor to customer leadership ensuring their needs are being met by the project delivery teams
  • Leading the EMEA Datacenter community and providing a bridge to the global portfolio team to ensure that best practice is constantly being met across sales and delivery
  • Big Data
  • Pre-Sales
  • Cloud
  • BCDR
  • DC Consolidation / Migrations

EMC Consulting

Dubai, UAE

Advisory Solutions Principle

2011 - 2016

  • Promoted to manage a team of 8 solutions principles, covering Turkey, Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Russia
  • Extensive people development to ensure my team was able to respond and adapt to a quickly changing portfolio of offerings
  • Managing local and international partners in the sales cycle to cover scope and pricing constraints
  • Generating 8-figure bookings
  • Collaboration with account teams, regional VP and directors to exceed bookings targets by more than 60% year on year to date
  • Fostering of collaborative relationships with our consulting teams in EMEA and the US for knowledge-sharing and service catalogue development
  • Sales
  • Smart Cities
  • SAP Replatforming
  • Cloud Product Design

EMC Consulting

Dubai, UAE

Program Manager

2008 - 2011

    • Prince2
    • Program Management
    • Microsoft Project / Visio
    • Root Cause Analysis

    Accenture

    London, UK

    Senior Consultant

    2005 - 2008

      • Data Gathering / Analysis
      • Datacenter Optimization
      • Microsoft Excel / Powerpoint
      • Solution Design

      IBM

      Hursley, UK

      Software Engineer

      2002 - 2005

        • Reliability, Accessability, Serviceability
        • Software Development
        • C / C++

        Recent Projects

        Large Australian Bank

        Sydney

        Automation Architect

        Jan 2024 - March 2024

        • Analysis of existing DevSecOps and CICD processes to determine automation strategy and prioritisation of use cases
        • Lead the development of a service broker architecture to encompass on-premise and public cloud use cases for developers and infrastructure consumers
        • Technical governance of the initial pilot project for an automation MVP

          Global Engineering Company

          London / Remote

          GenAI Strategist

          Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

          • Advisory workshops with company executives and business to determine IT strategy requirements and value add use cases
          • Developed roadmap and key milestones to implementing GenAI within the organisation to generate value around $10MM over 3 years
          • Lead the architecture team for a organisation data fabric and GenAI strategy
          • Created implementation plan for initial MVP to deliver Retrieval Augmented Generation use case

            Dell Technologies

            Global Team

            Generative AI Services Specialist

            May 2023 - Sept 2023

            • Development of strategy and approach to develop Generative AI use cases for enterprises using value stream mapping
            • Worked on the services required to deliver tuned models for enterprises from pre-trained large language models
            • Build an end-to-end generative ai transformation roadmap for enterprises

              Swedish Bank

              Stockholm/Remote

              Enterprise Architect

              Sept 2020 - March 2022

              • Owned the technical architecture for a complete refresh and migration to a new data infrastructure (block, file, backup).
              • Owned the technical architecture for the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capability to automate operational tasks
              • Chaired the technical governance board
              • Responsible for diagnosing, reporting and creating mitigations for program risks and issues
              • Developed operational efficiencies utilising the new IaC capabilities
              • Developed a program communications plan to support data gathering to all business units affected by the transformation

                Education

                MPhil Information Management Methodologies

                University of Manchester

                2001 - 2002

                Masters degree where I developed a structured methodology to design information centric applications

                BSc in Software Engineering

                University of Manchester

                1998 - 2001

                photo of me
                • +971 554 965 176
                • me@omaramin.me
                • Dubai, UAE
                • UK Nationality
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                Skills

                  • Frameworks
                  • Togaf
                  • Value Stream Mapping
                  • ITIL V3
                    Generative AI
                  • Use Case Development and Prioritisation
                  • End-To-End Architecture Development
                  • Data Management (cleansing, tagging labelling)
                  • Model Training Strategy
                  • AI Operations Enablement
                    Datacenter
                  • IT Transformation
                  • Migrations/Consolidation
                  • Cloud Architecture
                  • Virtualisation
                  • Containerisation
                  • IaC/Devops
                    Resilience
                  • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Strategy
                  • Architecting for Resilience
                  • DR Planning & Testing

                Languages

                • English
                  Native
                • Arabic
                  Conversational
                • French
                  Basic

                Interests

                • Boxing
                • Electronics
                • Drums
                • Skiing