Sayed Ashraf Husaini Kazi

An experienced senior level IT consultant with significant design, support, administration and implementation experience of network projects.  Over 16 years of IT experience with full life cycle ICT project experience.  Thrives in a customer focused, multi-site environment. Always meets client demands and develops good long-term customer relationships. 

Highlights

• Preparing Cloud Assessment, Cloud Adaption Framework, Landing Zone.
• Preparing solution with IAAS, PAAS, SAAS and Cloud native and Hybrid Cloud.
• Actively participating in Pre-Sales Network and Security activities as Solution ArchitectØ in preparation of RFI/RFP responses and    solution designs for Telecom/Datacom Accounts/Enterprise /SMB Accounts
•  Experience in requirement analysis and proposal, Solution design, preparation for the sales team using Cisco CCW, Huawei SCT and through other resources, Creating TAC and RMA, Exposure on Cisco Ordering tool 
• Experience in Product Engineering/New Product Analysis.
• Experience and knowledge in different passive and Active products.
• Hands on experience on products like Cisco, Fortinet, Huawei, Juniper, HP, Aruba, Ruckus, SonicWall and Various other OEM's
• Developed successful business and technical opportunities for customers through the creative application of Cisco's products and services. Customers include all over Oman, Oil and Gas, Ministries, Private and Government Enterprise accounts, Industrial Sector Banking, insurance, and Hospitality sector.
• Grew products and services sales of Cisco’s, Huawei, HP, Aruba and Structured Cabling, overall position within 5 -10 enterprise accounts averaging over 0.800K in annual sales over 6 years and 100% of total goal the fiscal year.
• Developed and lead account strategies and initiative with a cross functional team of specialist and made strategic decision closing the opportunities with various customers.
• Penetrated new, competitively held categories within strategic initiative categories - data center, collaboration, mobility, and enterprise networking portfolios. 
• Providing Pre-Sales, Post-Sales technical consulting and setting upØ demo and POC (Proof of Concept)/Prototypes for the customers.
• Preparation of Scope of Work, Technical Proposal, Technical Write-up documents and Network Diagrams.
• Experience in Product Engineering/New Product Analysis.
• Provided Support for various technologies and PoC based on Customer requirements.
• Experience includes design of Cisco solutions, Fortinet, and other vendor solutions.
• Ensuring provision of technical consultancy to clients for various IT related operations with maximum uptime.
• Designing, implementing and supporting networks including Cisco, HP, Juniper, 3Com, Linksys, Sonicwall and D-Link products.
• Experience in implementing and troubleshooting Cisco Security,Ø Routing, and Switching, Wireless, Cisco IP Telephony, Application Accelerators, Bandwidth optimizers and Fortinet UTM solutions, Cisco UCS Servers.
• Maintaining the network infrastructure, installation, migration and configuration of SD-WAN, Azure vWAN, Cloud native applications.
• Experience in Project Management and project life cycle.

• Bachelors in computer application (BCA) from Karnataka University Dharwad with 66%.