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
  • Cloud
  • Resiliency
  • Automation
  • Transformation
  • DevOps
  • BCDR
  • 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

London, UK

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

        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 efficiences 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
              Datacenter
            • IT Transformation
            • Migrations / Consolidation
            • Cloud Architecture
            • BCDR
            • Virtualisation / Containerisation
            • IaC / Devops
            • Big Data

          Languages

          • English
            Native
          • Arabic
            Conversational
          • French
            Basic

          Interests

          • Boxing
          • Electronics
          • Drums
          • Skiing