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
- +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
- EnglishNative
- ArabicConversational
- FrenchBasic
Interests
- Boxing
- Electronics
- Drums
- Skiing