Iftikhar A.
Account Technical Leader (Sales Engineer) @IBM
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WORK HISTORY
Account Technical Leader (Sales Engineer) @IBM
Toronto, ON, CA
Part of IBM leadership managing $20+ Million IBM portfolio (software & services) with financial services and cross industry accounts; includes managing relationships, working closely with C-level executives in utilizing IBM\'s technology to achieve enterprise\'s objectives. Acting as trusted advisor to organization\'s CTO, CIO and CSO in mission critical solutions throughout procurement, development, implementation and finally ensuring that IBM delivers on its value propositions to drive overall client satisfaction.
EDUCATION
IBM Global Sales School
GSS Sales, Sales Strategy
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
McGill University
Grad Diploma, Business Administration and Management, General
SKILLS
ABOUT IFTIKHAR A.
In my role as technical leader and Cloud Solution Architect, I help enterprise adopt cloud- rehost, rearchitect, replatform and relocate (Hypervisor, level & lift). Expert in System Design, DevOps, SRE and ITOps. Specializes in legacy systems and solutions with Banking and Financial services clients. Elected IBM Manager\'s Choice Award of the year 2022. Global invited speaker at IBM TechXchange conference (Las Vegas, NV) out of over submissions 3 technical papers selected. Focusing on consultative approach in sales, becoming technical advisor to our esteemed customers. Collaboration on industry-specific and cross-industry use cases, I bring business & technical expertise and competitive in-sights from financial and banking industry globally to our Canadian clients that give them competitive advantage in their business- I led IBM team on TD bank find new ways to implement Generative AI into their customer care- Sun Life Financials in modernizing existing enterprise content management (ECM) on container OpenShift platform- CIBC bank in leveraging IBM’s Mainframe modernization solutions with Code Assist features- Led Data Orchestration DataOps ETL pipeline project to implement enterprise level dynamic pricing for major Canadian airline ticketing system.Citizenship: CanadianCanadian Government Security Clearance: Reliability & Secret Level IIMember: Chartered Managers Canada (CMI), Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) IBM Cloud, OpenShift, Azure Cloud, ITOM Level 1 & 2, TOGAF Solution Architect Expert Level 2
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