Khaled Smaili
IT Executive, Enterprise Architect | IT Strategy, Cloud, Digital, Consulting, Outsourcing, Infrastructure Services
VP of Marketing at L2 Drive, Inc,
Contact- Account Management
- Business Acumen
- Business Development
- C-Suite
- cloud
- Consulting
- Customer Service
- digital transformation
- Enterprise Architecture
- IaaS
- Infrastructure services
- IT Governance
- IT Leadership
- IT Operating Model
- IT Strategy
- ITIL
- Negotiations
- outsourcing
- PaaS
- pre-sales
- Program Management
- SaaS
- Sales Engineering
- Service Management
- Technology Architecture
- Vendor Management
Background
• IT and business leader with 18+ years architecting large-scale transformational outsourcing and technology solutions for F500 clients, generating $500M+ in revenue. • Demonstrated leadership architecting complex infrastructure solutions transforming clients’ operating models leveraging cloud, automation, and managed services achieving IT governance/operational excellence. • Experienced in leading deals across all sales stages including qualification, value drivers workshops, commercials, due diligence, and negotiations. • Proven leader as overall Enterprise Architect leading large multi-disciplinary teams and integrating products and services by bundling infrastructure, applications, and transformational services. • Cloud Lead enabling clients’ Cloud journey, leading large digital transformation and outsourcing programs. • Left previous employer to pursue entrepreneurship opportunity at R&D start-up specializing in next generation storage technologies, serving as VP of Marketing and Board Member.
Job experience
- October 2016 - presentVP of Marketing
L2 Drive, Inc,Irvine, CA, USA• Member of the Board and Angel Investor.
• Lead BD and Product Management and Marketing, strategic, channel, and technical marketing.
• Successfully led fund raising presentations to VC's and investors that led to additional funding of $1.5M+.
• Devised partnership strategy targeting Tier1/Tier2 OEMs and channel partners establishing successful partnerships and joint ventures. - March 1998 - October 2016OU Lead Solution Architect - Infrastructure Services, North America
AccentureIrvine, CA, USA• North America Lead for Financial Services and Health & Public Service practices, managing portfolio of 400+ clients, responsible for pre-sales, BD, staffing, and solution strategy, design, and QA.
• Defined architecture blueprints and managed teams of domain architects to develop multi-tower solutions in large outsourcing programs, driving record sales and exceeding delivery profitability targets.
• Led proposals for large complex multi-tower deals including Cloud, Storage, Network, Security, Service Desk, EUC, OEM selection, Transition, Vendor Mgmt., People/Asset Transfer and Service Mgmt.
Education
- University of Michigan, Ross School of Business - Ann Arbor, MI
MBA2006 - 2008with Honors - The University of Toledo - Toledo, OH
BS Computer Science and Engineering1989 - 1993
Certifications
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ITIL v3 Foundation
PEOPLECERT
GR750046474KS
January 2013 - February 2013 -
Technology Solution Architect - Lead
Accenture
August 2012 - September 2012
