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Waleed Baroum

Business Development

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Work Experience

  • Business Development ManagerFull Time

    Top Net Company

    Jan 2023 - Present -2 yrs, 5 months

    Saudi Arabia , Riyadh

    • Job Details:Job responsibilities: • Own the executive relationship with the customer and serve as a trusted advisor, advocate and the main contact to the senior level of customer leadership for the professional services delivery. • Drive account growth by identifying and developing new opportunities to extend the program where Top Net can add customer value. • Provide executive communication internally and externally on services activity. • Ensure quality of delivered services. • Ensure services plans are tied into the overall account success and consumption plan. • Work hand in hand with the account team to provide strategic direction for the account. • Focus on all Customer Experience and Success (CXS) lines of business and seek new business opportunities. • Evaluate and qualify opportunities to determine win-win capabilities for Top Net and customer. • In conjunction with the services sales team, establish account services strategy, consumption and develop current, and future growth plans. • Act as a customer advocate for feature enhancements, product roadmap, and product issue resolution, engaging internal Top Net teams to increase visibility, collaboration, and alignment with the customer needs.
  • Senior Cloud Solutions ArchitectFull Time

    Intigral - Saudi Telecom Company (stc)

    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 -1 yr

    Saudi Arabia , Riyadh

    • Job Details:Job responsibilities: • Work directly with Enterprise customers to accelerate their challenging projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes. • Deliver technical demos and presentations to C-level executives/CXOs and top management about STC cloud solutions and services. • Lead the end-to-end design, architecture, and implementation of cloud solutions that meet business objectives while considering factors such as scalability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness. • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand technical and business requirements, translating them into well-architected cloud solutions. • Evaluate existing systems and infrastructure to identify opportunities for cloud adoption, migration, and optimization. • Develop and maintain cloud architecture documentation, including diagrams, design patterns, and guidelines for development teams. • Select and recommend appropriate cloud services, technologies, and tools based on project requirements and industry best practices. • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud architecture, sharing knowledge within the organization. • Implement security measures to ensure data protection, compliance, and privacy within the cloud environment. • Lead and mentor junior members of the cloud architecture team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Projects at STC: • Cloud Computing and Data Analysis project with Riyadh Municipality. • Cloud Computing project with KARRDA (King Abdulaziz Royal Reserve Development Authority). • Cloud Computing migration project with NCWMSA (National Center for Waste Management).
  • Cloud Solutions ArchitectFull Time

    Vodafone UK

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 -1 yr

    United Kingdom , London

    • Job Details:Job responsibilities: • Deliver technical demos and presentations to C-level executives/CXOs and top management about Vodafone cloud solutions and services. • Develop and implement comprehensive security architectures for Cloud-based solutions, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of client data. • Lead security assessments and risk analysis of Azure environments, identifying vulnerabilities, threats, and potential security breaches. • Working with various risk and information security teams in presenting recommendations for improvement to technology subject matter experts and management. • Provide technical expertise on considerations for moving systems to the cloud, potential security risk, required security controls. • Perform security design reviews to assess security implications for the introduction of new or differing technologies within the environment. • Developing and improving the efficiency of information security processes and advance the effectiveness of the information security controls of the cloud model. • Identifying opportunities for long term growth and building execution plans, collaborating with business groups, local and virtual teams in each subsidiary across the globe. • Administering cloud security utilizing tools including "Qualys" for (vulnerability management, assets management, assets tagging, search lists, scanning, analysis, reporting, validation, and remediation) • Running authenticated and non-authenticated vulnerabilities scans. • Generating periodic reports (high severity reports, selective vulnerability reports, and scheduled reporting) • Filtering vulnerabilities based on their severity, criticality, and rate. • Creating remediation plans including the remediation steps. • Working with the operations team on vulnerabilities remediation. • Managing users accounts on Qualys. • Working on Microsoft Azure AD connect to migrate on-premises users to Azure AD. • Management of Azure Information Protection (AIP). • Management of Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel.
  • Presales Technical ConsultantFull Time

    Blue Cloud Technologies

    Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 -11 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Job responsibilities: • Presenting technical demos and presentations to the client (C-level). • Building trust and a strong relationship with customers. • Ensure to stabilize developed solutions utilizing firm’s procedures in complex client environments. • Design & prepare integrated solutions utilizing newest Microsoft products plus technologies. • Interpret relevant application development, operations, and infrastructure implications of developed solution. • Utilize architect solutions to map client’s business issues to an end-to-end solution. • Analyze and ensure to correct performance issues. • Ensure to customize every consulting engagement to serve customer unique needs. • Present Microsoft technology solutions by evaluation, suggest development and execution of software tasks driven by client requirements. • Convey and report project status to all C-level executives plus IT management inclusive of budget, risks, and issues. • Respond to customer requests for immediate issues during driving projects to completion. • Drive to develop Infrastructure Practice and approach to customer delivery. • Perform with varied consultants and participate actively to conduct expectation process. • Ensure to contribute to business development cycle as an infrastructure consultant. • Prepare work plans, price forecasts and risk evaluation for prospects. Projects at Blue Cloud Technologies: • Ministry of Higher Education – MoHE (The biggest digital transformation project in Egypt, Africa, and Middle East) • Vodafone – CIS (Infrastructure hardening based on Center of Internet Security) • CIB Bank _ SharePoint Implementation. • UGDC Oil & Gas Company _ SharePoint Implementation.
  • Education

    • BSc in Computer Science in Cloud Computing

      Helwan University

      Jan 2012 - Jan 2012 - 0 Month

    Achievements

    I'm the supervisor of producing the first CCNA Routing and Switching book in the Arab world in Cisco Networking field in Arabic language , This book was categorized as the first and the best book. all over the Arab world that facilitates the Network concepts ,expressions,and easy understandable demonstration for junior Arabs. http://www.mediafire.com/file/p72k741ue76akxw/CCNA+R&S.pdf

    Skills

    • Cyber Security
    • Microsoft
    • Storage
    • Linux
    • Cloud
    • Virtualization
    • Leadership
    • Cisco
    • Marketing
    • Sales
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    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • Microsoft Azure Security

      2019
    • ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

      ISC2·2019
    • Implementing Microsoft AZURE Infrastructure Solutions

      Microsoft·2018
    • IBM Cloud

      2018
    • VMware (Virtual SAN Hyper Converged Infrastructure ”SDS”)

      2018
    • IBM (Data Science and Analytics Intro)

      2018
    • VCP-DCV

      VMware·2017
    • EMCCIS (Cloud Infrastructure and Services)

      Dell-EMC·2017
    • Cisco (CCNA Security)

      2017
    • EMCISA (Information Storage and management)

      Dell-EMC·2016
    • CCNA Security

      Cisco·2016
    • VCA-DCV

      VMware·2016
    • MCSE

      Microsoft·2016
    • MCSA

      Microsoft·2015
    • CCNA Routing and Switching

      Cisco·2015
    • Network

      IBM·2014
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