Kingsley Chibundu

• Pre-Sales client engagement and workshops.
• Technical design, cloud readiness assessments, and scoping for cloud migrations.
• Deployment of solutions based on pre-determined architecture design.
• Distributed application architecture, including containers and orchestration,
• Azure, or other public cloud-specific designs and deployments,
• Solid understanding of public cloud, IaaS and PaaS models
• Maintained a current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs, and objectives.
• Worked with developers and engineers to realise technological solutions.
• Break down technical ideas and issues into non-technical terms for business executives.

• Collaborated with clients to provide strategic and technical consultancy for cloud infrastructure, applications, data, and solution architecture.
• Lead presales and post-sales consulting, ensuring seamless migration, adoption, and innovation using cloud services.
• Translated project goals into technical solutions, offering both professional and commercial insights to achieve customer satisfaction,
• I worked independently on smaller assignments, representing the company and ensuring high-quality work and client care.
• Collaborated within multi-skilled teams on complex engagements, providing strong communication and collaboration skills,
• Act As a Subject Matter Expert on Public Cloud and related technologies, effectively communicating solutions to non-specialist stakeholders,
• Defined designs, scope, and effort for customer engagements, producing technical presales and post-sales documents,
• Contributed to the qualification of new opportunities, providing technical input and insights,
• Conducted customer workshops based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework.

• Managing two of the largest financial services Customers in our region with a total annual License value of about $15,000,000 and the biggest manufacturing company in sub-Saharan Africa with an annual license value of $3,000.000.
• Sale and Fulfilment of a combined total of $4,000,000.00 Support contract obligations by driving quality planning and delivery of Support services to realise customer business outcomes and overall experience with Microsoft solutions with a proposed support renewal of $7,500,000
• Fulfill support contract obligations by driving quality planning and delivery of support services to realise customer business outcomes and an overall experience with Microsoft solutions.
• Partner with customers and the account team to prioritise and plan customer engagements and programmes across cloud and on-premise workloads.
• Define outcomes to improve the health, performance, and business capabilities of the prioritised workloads to drive customer value realisation.
• Orchestration, customer sponsor management, and stakeholder communication of prioritised engagements and programmes.
• Track, escalate, and plan for the remediation of technical blockers and provide engineering feedback to further enhance products and solutions as appropriate.

• As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), I serve as a trusted business advisor to Microsoft's Premier Support customers, providing Premier Support Services aligned with the customer's priorities in order to maximise the business value of their Microsoft investment.
• For Customers: Creates a trusted advisor relationship with key stakeholders within the customer organisation, including the IT Directors, CTO, CIO, and LOB leaders, as well as technology professionals.
• For the Business: I was responsible for sustainable growth through routinely partnering with Services Sales and other Services personnel to strategize on ways to create new opportunities within the accounts they service.
• For deliveries: I am proficient in understanding the entire support services portfolio and can articulate the value of these services to our customers.
• In Leadership: My role requires strong communication skills and imaginative, bold thinking in all situations I lead teams composed of Microsoft, partner, and customer resources engaged in the delivery of complex solutions that result in a One Microsoft approach.

• Expand customer relationships by understanding and evangelising Microsoft Azure Apps and Infrastructure workloads and related offerings and recommending solutions that meet their requirements and drive Azure consumption.
• Identify and track opportunities and plan deployment of solutions that deliver value and help customers achieve their objectives, outcomes, and success, creating lighthouse examples of digital transformation through seminars, workshops, webinars, and direct engagement.
• Partner with other roles to ensure customer success in the acquisition, implementation, and consumption of Microsoft's cloud services and solutions.
• Providing insight and feedback from customers and partners to the Microsoft Worldwide Industry Teams to help learning and improvement in industry solutions and digital transformation offerings.
• Continuously nurture and expand Azure sales, industry, technology, and competitive knowledge and capabilities.

• Implementation and Sales of VMware and NetApp professional services,
• Engaging Customers in Solutions Sales and enterprise Architecture,
• Ensuring the Services team meets and surpasses our yearly budget and stated revenue target while remaining profitable
• Coordinate projects and ensure project delivery is to budget.
• Proffer best-fit solutions to clients based on customers' needs and wants while ensuring value is derived from products and solutions purchased.
• Ensuring our service delivery contract requirements with vendors are met while negotiating new opportunities to further increase our margins.

A few completed projects:

• implementing massive data centre storage optimisation and consolidation to ensure productivity and help save on operational costs for various customers in Nigeria using various NetApp storage solutions.
• TotalEnergies Plc (Consolidation of 1 Petabyte of NetApp FAS storage across sites)
• Chevron (Consolidation of 1.2 Petabyte of storage, Migration and upgrades)
• Exxon Mobil
• Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG)
• MTN: Nationwide storage optimisation
• Department of State Security (DSS) and the Nigeria Police Force.

• Zambia: Systems Integration and data centre optimisation while ensuring repeat business Storage Implementation, Optimisation, and Consolidation for the following customers;
• Zambia National Commercial Bank (Zanaco)
• Bank of Zambia,
• Electoral Commission of Zambia.

• Angola Projects: Delivering the value of solutions purchased by enterprise storage systems for various customers in Angola while ensuring we become trusted advisers to our valued customers in all sectors of the economy, from the financial sector, oil and gas, to government.
• British Petroleum Angola,
• Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA),
• SIAC Angola,
• ExxonMobil,
• Schlumberger,
• Sonangol Oil and Gas, (a state-owned Oil and gas Company)

• Exxon Mobil: Chad and Equatorial Guinea Projects
• Vodafone Projects: Storage Optimisation and Consolidation

I was a technical consultant and DSP for Dell, managing and implementing Dell services across West Africa and providing technical guidance on the designs and configuration of enterprise infrastructure in the implementation of Dell solutions.

Completed Project:

• Ecobank Transnational (e-process International S.A.) Private Cloud Initiative: Successful transitioning to a consolidated virtualized data centre spanning across 36 countries and London with a business continuity site in London using VMware technology for Dell West Africa to save the business operational cost while PCI-DSS standards and regulations are met.

• Ensure we meet and exceed the organisational objectives and sales targets in Ghana.
• Drive the expansion of the business acquisition of new customers and business
• Ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Lead all pre-sales work as it relates to Microsoft solutions in the country.
• Mentoring and developing the technical capacity of all technical delivery personnel in Ghana.

G4V is a Microsoft-certified gold partner and a Cisco Premier Partner, delivering valued solutions to clients of all sectors.

• Designing IT solutions to improve business efficiency and productivity.
• Analysing clients' existing systems and Translating client requirements into highly specified project briefs;
• Identifying options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability;
• Drawing up concrete proposals for new implementations, modifications, or replacements of solutions for customers.

Completed Projects:

• Microsoft Consulting Services: Successful collaboration on various customer presales and post-sales engagements for Microsoft.
• Dangote Industries Limited: Successful delivery of the first Microsoft Virtualization cluster in a production environment in Western Africa using Hyper-V.
• Office of the President, Ghana: Implementation of OCS 2007.