hi, i'm Ali Syed
An Agile practitioner with Technical Prowess that acts as a Catalyst to overcome challenges from technical and non-technical teams within an enterprise. Skilled in building and growing high performing teams that deliver on time and with quality.
I have a proven track record in scaling startups, tech leadership, rapid growth environments, acquisition growth, company mergers, holistic technology consulting, digital transformation, and building quick profitability with scale. I have worked with organizations to help transition into a more value-driven agile culture. I have served clients and companies from startup to global with teams around the block to around the world. I am a Coach and Mentor; experienced in Complex IT Program Management, Agile Coaching, Operations, DevSecOps, and SOC2 & ISO27001 Compliance. My purview has included barebone startups, new ventures, and private equity to Fortune 1000 companies.
For Angel Investments or Sending Startup Decks please contact me at my email below.
a little about me
I AM currently consulting in DEVSECOPS, COmpliance, and digital transformation
AS an angel investor, i Invest in early stage startups focused on Cloud technology, AI, and Bio-Med technology
HANDS-ON CONSULTING HELP:
PRODUCT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | STARTUP CONSULTING
DEVOPS | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | INFOSEC COMPLIANCE | INFORMATION SECURITY
CERTIFIED IN:
agile coach (icp-ACC), SCrum master (SMC), IT Project management (AMA), Team Kanban Practitioner, safe 4 agilist
ITIL foundation level, giac information security professional (gisp), certified information systems security professional (cissp)
Compliance:
HIPPA, SOC2, ISO27001, CSA STAR, GDPR, CCPA, NIST, FISMA, & FedRAMP
Cloud:
AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, & Data Centers
AGILE & SAAS TOOLS:
Jira, Confluence, StatusPage, BitBucket, SalesForce, ServiceNow, Nagios, Zendesk
Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, PowerBI, Power Apps, Sharepoint, Pendo
DATA TOOLS:
Oracle, Exasol, MySQL, Vectorwise, SQL Server, Memcached, Access, Mongo, Redis, Snowflake
ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, GrayLogs, Splunk, Jenkins, Ansible, Bamboo, TerraForm, GIT, Docker
SeCURITY TOOLS:
SNORT, NESSUS, BURP SUITE, SIEMONSTER, VPN, OSSEC, BARRACUDA, CISCO, PALERRA, WATCHGUARD, FORTINET, FORTIFY
Long-Term Vision Creation
Team Building, People Development & Mentoring
Implementation of Roadmap Development
Business Process Reengineering
Client Relationship Management
AGILE, SCRUM, Waterfall Methodologies
IT Policies, Processes & Procedure
Business Case Development
Capital Expenditure Project Leadership
Budget Forecasting, Planning & Management
