ABOUT ME

Hammad is a self-driven technology strategist with a proven track record of delivering technology transformation for large enterprises to enable cost and resource efficiencies, agility and improved user experience. Championing innovation leveraging next generation technology, driving architecture and roadmaps to align with client requirements.
Hammad is an experienced leader who catalyzes cloud adoption at an accelerated rate. Placing customer first values whilst establishing a robust collaborative partnership to deliver exceptional all round customer experience.

Areas of Expertise:
• Presentation, communication & documentation skills catering from executives to practitioner
• Private & Public Cloud Adoption - Resilient, Secure, Automated and Dynamic
• Software Defined Infrastructure Architecture, Design, Deploy
• Enterprise System Engineering & Architecture
• Developing robust partnerships and building high performing teams
• Coordinate success by facilitating adoption across people, process and technology
• Build working relationship with CSPs & Systems Integrators to create strong partnerships
• Quickly understand new ideas and simplify it for executive consumption
• Creation of industry standard public cloud programs, and training to bridge skills gaps

Recent Technology Areas of Interest:
• Public Clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform- GCP, Oracle Cloud - OCI)
• Private Cloud (VMware stack)
• Infrastructure for Kubernetes, ServiceMesh, Serverless etc.
• Automation (Terraform, RestAPI)

Key Highlights:
• Ideate, Incubate and Execute new business functions including hiring, training & scaling
• Experience increasing revenues from $80m to $1.6B; $6m to $100m
• Patent pending: Systems and Methods for Implementing a Repeatable Network Architecture
• ONUG Multi-Cloud Network Working Group Contributor
• Speaker at many public speaking events like VMworld, AWS Re:Invent, ONUG, CIO Forums etc.
• Contributing Author:
o Operationalizing VMware NSX – Across People, Process and Technology
o VMware NSX® Micro-segmentation
• Founder of ACE Multi-Cloud Training/Certification program including technical contributor, trainer, exam creator
• Founder of VMware NSX-PowerOps tool and associated operations training and playbook

Hammad holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NED University, and a Master of Information Studies from the University of Toronto.