
Waleed Baroum
Business Development
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaWork 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
- 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 UniversityJan 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
Languages
English
FluentArabic
Fluent
Training & Certifications
Microsoft Azure Security
2019ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
ISC2·2019Implementing Microsoft AZURE Infrastructure Solutions
Microsoft·2018IBM Cloud
2018VMware (Virtual SAN Hyper Converged Infrastructure ”SDS”)
2018IBM (Data Science and Analytics Intro)
2018VCP-DCV
VMware·2017EMCCIS (Cloud Infrastructure and Services)
Dell-EMC·2017Cisco (CCNA Security)
2017EMCISA (Information Storage and management)
Dell-EMC·2016CCNA Security
Cisco·2016VCA-DCV
VMware·2016MCSE
Microsoft·2016MCSA
Microsoft·2015CCNA Routing and Switching
Cisco·2015Network
IBM·2014