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ID&E Ambassador MENA Chapter Founding Member

Startup Solution Architects work hand in hand with technical co-founders, engineers and developers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with organizations at all stages of cloud adoption. Solution Architects also take a leading role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.

We own the overall technical relationship between customers & AWS and make recommendations on the pillars of the well-architected framework. We work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology and the lowest AWS bill. To do this we collaborate with other teams such as account management, professional services, support, product teams and the AWS partner ecosystem.

Senior Startup Solutions Architect, META, WWCS

The Cloud Innovation Centers (CIC) Program provides an opportunity for nonprofits, education institutions, and government agencies to collaborate with other public sector organizations on their most pressing challenges, test new ideas with Amazon’s innovation process, and access the technology expertise of AWS.

Any nonprofit, education, or government organization can apply to work on a challenge with our global network of public sector-led innovation centers. Organizations bring their expertise and work through a challenge engagement, uncover new ways to solve complex problems, and publish their lessons learned to further drive public sector innovation.

Senior Consultant, Digital Innovation, MEA, WWPS

Consultant, Digital Innovation, MEA, WWPS

· Engaging with C-level executives to define Enterprise cloud strategies.
· Identifying motivators for cloud adoption and unlocking Enterprise challenges.
· Analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility.
· Architecting hybrid AWS and on-premise solutions for technology clusters and patterns.
· Establishing shared IT service centers for Cloud operations.
· Cost/Benefit modeling and creating compelling business cases for migration.
· Generating AWS migration roadmaps and driving buy-in across complex organization structures.
· Collaborating with consulting and managed services partners to build and execute migration plans.
· Getting feedback from common Enterprise requirements into AWS service development teams.

Professional Services Consultant MEA, WWPS

AWS offers Training and Certification programs to help you develop skills to design, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. Whether you are just getting started or looking to deepen your technical expertise, we have a variety of resources to meet your needs. Discover on-demand tools, technical classes, and certifications to help you on your journey with AWS.

While delivering a broad range of sessions from introductory level (AWSome Days, AWS Technical Essentials, AWS Business Essentials), to advanced courses (Architecting/Advanced Architecting Concepts on AWS, System Operations on AWS, Security Operations on AWS, DevOps Engineering on AWS, Big Data on AWS); AWS Technical Trainers contribute to Presentations, Hands-on Labs and the material used in and around the sessions, like events, meetups and talks.

Additional contributions and challenges taken on by AWS Technical Trainers include content localization, live demos, training and mentoring of new hires and use of multiple programming languages and paradigms to teach best practices to audience.

More details: http://aws.amazon.com/training/

Technical Trainer EMEA

Brinc MENA

Accelerator Mentor

Bahrain Polytechnic

ICT Curriculum Advisory Committee

OpenLAB

• Startup technical advisory & consulting

Founder

Y Soft

Adding Technical Advisory to my previous position's responsibilities.

EMEA Principal Technical Consultant

Team Management
• Team members Training/Management.
• Training & Certification of Partners.
• Meeting/Event Organization/Lead.
Partner Management
• YSoft SafeQ Training (all levels)
• Support workflow definition
Problem & Incident Management
• Incident resolution, action plans definition and SLA rollout.
Transition Management
• Delivery planning and application.
• Demand workflow definition (Partner/End Customer relationship management).
Technical Deployment
• Complex environment solution deployment.
• Disaster Recovery Plan definition/validation/rollout.
• Solution customization around Magnetic Cards, SmartCard, PKI, PIV-Card, CAC-Card technologies.
• Solution customization around YSoft SafeQ (MPS Migration to YSoft SafeQ, Paperless Solutions, IP Fax, Google Apps/Cloud Integration).
Technical Management
• Support team virtualized environment (vmware 5.5 cluster/136vcpu+1.87tb ram/4.7tb storage - Dell Hardware) administration.
International Project Management
• French product/documentation localization.
• Multi-site deployments with complex infrastructure.
• Global Major Accounts (GMA, GMA t1, GMA t2) architecture/deployments/support.

Senior Principal Consultant France

anamorph

Envision & Deploy business critical solutions around OpenBSD, OpenSource/Commercial software and greener IT solutions.

• OpenBSD wifi(+dhcpd)/mail(+antispam+webmail)/web gateway deployment.
• Conception, Deployment & maintenance of High Availability environments.
• Cloud hosted mail solutions.
• Symantec Endpoint Protection Server/Client Infrastructure deployment.
• International Project Management.
• Information Systems Auditing.
• Business Provider.
• Government & Public institutions key markets IT Infrastructure using Green IT solutions.
• VMWare VSphere cloud Infrastructure.
• Technical Recruiting.

Founder & Open Source advocate

Allianz Global Investors

•	ITIL 2011 Certification in progress.
•	Application deployment and integration, with on call support management.
•	KPI (key performance indicator) development with Production and UAT metrics integration
•	Visual Tom (VTOM) interfacing for Production follow-up

Business Applications Manager

Natixis

CIB Global storage rationalization - Budget: 2.4 M€
o	Procedures establishment, key exchange and Microsoft SharePoint spaces.
o	Tools optimization and standardization to enhance communication between Production and Infrastructure teams.
o	Front/Middle/Back Office Project Management & Validation Comity
o	Set up weekly follow up meetings with Production & Infrastructure teams (27 ETP PARIS, FRANCE).
o	Project validation on both technical & financial aspects.
CIB Global Server Pool Technological Refresh - Budget: 5.2 M€
o	Evaluation and consolidation of the servers to be replaced (Applicative pre-reqs, criticality, etc..) and of the Operating Systems to migrate according to application compatibility (OS, SP level, etc.) .
o	Planning servers replacement operations by batches.

CIB Transversal Project Manager

BNP Paribas Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives

Problem & Incident Management
	•	Incident resolution, action plans definition and SLA rollout.
	•	Disaster Recovery Plan mobilization.
Team Management
	•	Industrialization processes integration (ITIL) & KPI.
	•	Team members Training/Management (2 ETP MUMBAI & 2 ETP NEW YORK).
Transition Management
	•	Delivery planning and application.
	•	Demand workflow definition (Atlassian Jira).
	•	Applicative & Batch servers virtualization (60 servers)
Design Management
	•	Technical specifications definition alongside with MOA/MOE for applicative evolutions.
	•	Monitoring & batch chains recovery mechanism definition and application (Perl, Shell, Sysload, Tetracall, $Universe).
	•	Batch chains Conception & Refresh (3000 chains/day on 20 $Universe servers).
Production Support
	•	Worldwide Market Data Service Applicative Support level 2-3 (PARIS, HKG, TOKYO & NYK) & Oncall applicative support (Very High Availability: 24/7/365  – Multilevel SLA/Short MTTR).
	•	Tools development: Perl, Shell, PHP, Groovy, Batch.
	•	Dedicated to Warrants clients support.
	•	Daily used/managed technologies/tools:
		o	$Universe (Dollar Universe), Weblogic, Versant, Orbix, Tangosol, Clustering Veritas, CFT, Sysload, Tetracall, Introscope Wily, Corba, Beta testing of Orsyp solutions within GECD environment.

GECD Production Engineer - Central Applications - Business Services

sanofi-aventis

•	Administration, applicative and OS maintenance of the client’s UNIX pool :
o	SunOS Solaris 8, 9 & 10, Tru64, Aix 5.2, 5.3, HPUX and Linux (mainly RedHat et SUSE) with production constraints (H24/7 ; 365D availability).
•	Software on call (Critical & Production applications)
•	Hardware on call (Sun, Sun 15k, IBM, HP, Digital, Compaq, EMC, NetAPP, etc …) for the entire UNIX pool.
•	OS and Applicative maintenance on HPUX clusters 
•	Planned/Unplanned interventions on the UNIX pool (OS and Applicative).
•	« Disaster Recovery Plans » setup, installation and rollback procedures creation, conforming to client’s (SLA) development plans.
•	Incident and Alerts management via HPSD 4.5 (HP OpenView).
•	Introduction to Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), EVA & EMC technologies.

UNIX / Windows Administrator

For over twenty years in the information technology industry within major Industry defining players in PLM & Security Software Solutions, Banking and Insurance, Nicolas gained his experience in USA, Europe and the Middle East. His professional commitment through innovation led him to manage the Digital Innovation technical team for AWS Cloud Innovation Centers in the Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahrain Polytechnic & the University of Bahrain). After pivoting early 2022, Nicolas now focuses on Engaged Startups in the Middle East.

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