Description

Diligent and meticulous technology professional with a passion for business and infrastructure and a strong history of success in IT management. Extensive expertise in architecture and operations of complex information technology systems, Enterprise Management, and Broadcast Systems. Outstanding analytical abilities and a wide variety of technical proficiencies with a passion for acquiring new technical skills and a dedication to professional development. Possess exceptional communication skills and customer service capabilities.

• Data Analytics

• Cloud Infrastructure

• Application/Database Management

• Process Improvement

• Cybersecurity / Information Security

• Contract Negotiation

• Strategic Planning

• Research & Development

• Integration/Systems Automation

Languages

English
Fluent
Malayalam
Native or bilingual
Hindi
Fluent
Tamil
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Dubai City (up to 50km)

Appen Limited
Independent Consultant
RESEARCH
March 2020 - Today (6 years and 3 months)
Dubai City, United Arab Emirates
(Appen was ranked #1 in 2020 by FlexJobs as a Top 100 Company with Remote Jobs.)

Data annotation, multimedia, sentiment analysis, and search engine result
evaluation to build and continuously improve innovative artificial
intelli gence/machine learning systems.
OSN - (Gulf DTH FZ LLC)
IT Manager ( Application/ Database)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
April 2001 - January 2020 (18 years and 9 months)
Dubai City, United Arab Emirates
(OSN is the ultimate destination for the widest choice of brand new premium Western, Arabic,
Asian and Filipino entertainment in the Middle East and North Africa.)

 Developing and executing effective negotiation strategies and contracts for the
procurement of technology solutions in collaboration with the Procure ment
department
 Providing technical procurement consulting support to project oriented, cross
functional teams
 Identify, evaluate , develop & manage vendors, suppliers, sub contractors to
provide technology products and services
 Conduct RFQs/ RFPs, vendor research and identification, qualification and
competitive analysis of required technology products and services
 Identify, design and automate the integration between disparate systems,
defining standards and templates
 Core member of implementing/ migrating business critical systems
 Windows NT to Windows 2016 ( with Microsoft Consulting Services)
 Subscriber Management System from character based to GUI
 MS Dynamics GP 6 to 2016
 Implement and integrate Spend Management System (Fraxion)
 Business Intelligence platform from SQL Server to IBM Pure Data Analytics
and to Azure Analytics platform (Azure Data warehouse, Integration
Services/ Azure Data Factory, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Bricks,
Reporting Services and Power BI)
 Crystal Enterprise to Cognos
 Oracle Databases from 8i to 12c from HP Servers to Oracle Database
Appliance (ODA) Real Application Clusters
 SQL Server 2000 to 2016 architecting, developing and deployment of
highly available mission critical transactional databases with geographically
distributed HA/DR solutions (Always on AG Multi Site), Azure SQLDB (IaaS
& PaaS)
 Infrastructure virtualization VMWare, NetApp, UCS Pl atform
 Actively involved in PCI DSS certification program
 Infrastructure Cloud migration Azure (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS), AWS (IaaS & PaaS)
& Oracle Cloud (IaaS, PaaS (Autonomous Transaction Processing &
Autonomous Data Warehouse & SaaS)
Intermec Middle East
Pre Sales Consultant / Project Leader
DIGITAL AND IT
June 1996 - March 2001 (4 years and 9 months)
Dubai City, United Arab Emirates
(Regional distributor for Intermec Technologies Corporation, USA a turnkey solution provider
for auto mated data collection technologies using Bar coding and Radio Frequency Spectrum
(Wireless Networks)

 Technical consultancy and middle ware development for Intermec Bar coding
equipments
 Analysis, Design, Coding and implementation of automated data collection
applications mainly for huge Warehouses, Fixed Asset Tracking and Time &
Attendance for large organizations
 Responsible for implementing automated processing of Certificate of Origin for
Dubai Chamber of Commerce.
 Was an active team member for complete automation of ware houses using
Radio Frequency Spectrum UAE Armed Forces
 Was a member of Dubai Municipality Y2K re engineering and Fixed Asset
Tracking automation project

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Master of Science in Computing & Information Security
University of Liverpool
2018
Elective modules in Cloud Computing & Big Data  Research project in Cloud Adoption by SMEs in MENA Region: A Critical Analysis of Availability, Security and Privacy issues.
Associate Computing Professional (ACP)
ICCP-USA
1990
Professional body for internationally recognized certification program in IT Management, Busines s, Data & Computer Professional

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