Umar Iftikhar

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About Umar Iftikhar

Senior IT/IS professional with extensive experience in positioning, architecture and delivering technology solutions for today’s most complex business issues for SMB and Large organizations. Proven track record leading cross-functional and cross-regions teams in developing, implementing industry-aligned innovative solutions. • Certified PMP with 10+ years of experience in managing multi-million dollars global projects. Managed globally dispersed IT teams in Functional & Matrix organizational model. Establish BCP/DRP guidelines. • Developed IT strategies, infrastructure capacity & demand management, budgets/forecasting, personnel management and leadership, team performance measurements. • Customers and vendors management, negotiations, SOW, RFI/RFP/RFQ & SLA etc. • Developed policies, methodologies, framework and strategies to meet business objectives as part of PMO. • 5+ years Pre / Post-Sales support for 50+ global Healthcare customers, MUMPS Programmer / DBA. • Certified CISSP & CISA 10+ years’ experience in various Info-Security domains and Compliance Audit. • Established / Enforced security baselines/controls for various Hardware/OS/Apps/DB & Physical Sec Controls to meet with industry & regulatory requirements (PCI, HIPPA, ISO27001, NIST800-x etc). • 15+ years leading design & deployment of multiple Data Centers (virtual & physical), storage (SAN/NAS). • 2+ years of experience in AWS Cloud and DevOps (YAML, Orchestration). • 6 + years of SAS programming/Data Analytics/Web Reporting, SAS/ITRM, SAS/EG etc. • 10+ years of Identity & Access Management (IAM) design & deployment. • Several years of Midrange Infrastructure Engineering & Architect and trainer. Certified AIX 5L, RedHat 4. Specialties: PMP; CISSP; CISA; Identity and Access Management Solution Architect; VTSP; RHCT RedHat Enterprise Linux 4; Certified IBM AIX 5L Admin; Certified Engineer in ATM LAN / WAN Switches (Marconi Communications); InterSystem Open M Certified Administration.