I’m that Critical Catalyst your business needs to crack into complex technology deals, that unique package, a result of 15 years of blending in technology, presales & business roles. My experience ranges from sizing & selling infrastructure/cloud solutions to evangelizing digital transformation. I have the confidence and the strong willingness to engage every function at every level of an organizational hierarchy into meaningful technology discussions to ensure wins against all odds.

1. SUMMARY
I’m that Critical Catalyst your business needs to crack into complex technology deals, that unique
package, a result of 15 years of blending in technology, presales & business roles. My experience ranges
from sizing & selling infrastructure/cloud solutions to evangelizing digital transformation. I have the
confidence and the strong willingness to engage every function at every level of an organizational
hierarchy into meaningful technology discussions to ensure wins against all odds.
EXPERTISE
▪ Supervising Sales Team
▪ Key Account Management
▪ Relationship building
▪ Territory Management
▪ Lead qualification
▪ Complex negotiations
▪ Presentation & Proposals
▪ Sales Training
▪ Pre-sales
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business Head (UAE) – Automation & Cybersecurity
ICD Technologies, Dubai, UAE.
May 2018 - Present
Tasked with developing the UAE market for Automation & Cybersecurity portfolio, I’m the 1st hire in the
company & inchrage of positioning LOBs to relevant industry verticals, managing a tele-sales team, customer
profiling, tele-calling/prospecting with an aim to build a pipeline 3x in proportion to the assigned quota. I also
evaluate and onboard technology partners that meet ICD’s vision of becoming a leader in Digital
Transformation solutions.
Account Manager – Qatar
Oracle, Dubai, UAE.
Oct 2015 – Sep 2017
In this role I was assigned Qatar as my territory to grow Oracle’s cloud apps business in the named accounts
space, I closed the first ever Sales Cloud deal in Qatar with one of the largest, highly profitable Qatari
insurance companies and the success story led me to winning more deals with high profiled Qatari companies
amidst tough competition from Salesforce, SAP & Microsoft.
Technology Solutions Specialist - MEA
Microsoft Gulf, Dubai, UAE.
Mar 2011 – Aug 2015
I was the first hire for this pilot project, In this role I supported Account Managers in cross selling/up selling
Windows datacenter & cloud solutions, I started with GCC countries as my initial territory gradually increasing
my coverage across MEA. I was awarded by top management for successfully growing the Windows
Server business beyond 150% within 2 quarters of my joining, also increased customer adoption to
Virtualization and cloud computing.
SYED NADEEM AHMED
Solution Sales Specialist
+971 52 884 7696
nadtin@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/nadtin
Al Barsha, Dubai, UAE.

2. Account Manager – UAE & Saudi
Solutions Middle East, Dubai, UAE.
Dec 2008 – Feb 2011
Coming from a technical background, this role fully leveraged my understanding of VDI, App & Server
virtualization. I was easily able to engage Customer IT teams, qualify and mature deals faster. My advisory
approach earned me the reputation of a trusted advisor with my customers.
System Consultant – Servers & Storage
Dell, Bangalore, India.
Sep 2007 – Nov 2008
My previous technical experiences set me off on a head start in this pre-sales role. My engagements with
customers here typically ranged from server/storge sizing for application, database & virtualization workloads
to architecting high availability & disaster recovery solutions.
Network Engineer
Sony Gulf FZE, Dubai, UAE.
Jun 2004 – Aug 2007
As a Network Engineer I was responsible for the maintenance & uptime of Application Servers, IBM AS/400
mainframe system and the corporate network itself. I had additional duties like scheduling & managing data
backups, end user support and IT assets life cycle management.
Systems Engineer
Firstsource, Bangalore, India.
Jun 2002 – Jan 2004
As a fresh hire the activities I performed here were desktop & application installations, network monitoring,
troubleshooting IT issues & end user support for a diverse group of call center agents working on a multitude of
projects.
EDUCATION
PERSONAL DOSSIER
Date of Birth: 28th Aug 1979 (39 years)
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
UAE Driving license: Yes
Secondary School
Florence High School
GPA 72%
Senior Secondary School
NIOS
GPA 68%
Bachelor of Commerce
Bundelkhand University
GPA 62%
1995 1997 2000