Rafat Y Shaheen

Enterprise Strategist, Cloud Solutions

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Position:

Enterprise Cloud Architect and Strategist at Rackspace Hosting

Location:

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry:

Information Technology and Services

Work:

Rackspace Hosting - Western Areas since 2012
Enterprise Cloud Architect and Strategist
Hewlett-Packard 2010 - Mar 2012
Lead Solutions Architect (Cloud Computing & Virtualization) - Americas CloudStrike
HealthRIM 2009 - 2010
CTO and Co-Founder
JHI Consulting 2004 - 2008
CTO and Co-Founder
Sun Microsystems - Worldwide Global Sales 1997 - 2004
Chief Solutions Architect & Financial Services Industry CTO

Education:

Old Dominion University 1988 - 1991
MS, Computer Science Cairo University 1982 - 1987
BS, Computer Engineering

Honor & Awards:

- Author of several provisional patents in cloud computing platform and web services infrastructure - VTSP 5, VSP Certified - 10-Year Technical Accomplishment Award, Sun Microsystems 2004 - President’s Nomination Award, Sun Microsystems 2000 - SunRise Club and Achievement Award, Sun Microsystems 1996, 1997, 1998 - Technical Leadership Award, Sun Microsystems 1996 - Annual Leadership Award for Technical Innovation, CDSI Inc. 1994 - Leadership Award, CDSI Inc. 1993 - Smithsonian Institute Award Nominated for Open Systems, DOD/1993 - Published an IEEE whitepaper for the synchronous collaboration over the internet. The Collaborative Environment was the first open source software of its kind and was contributed to MIT (X11R5 Project), ODU 1991.

Chief Technologist, And Senior Cloud Technology Strategist

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Location:

Burlingame, CA

Industry:

Information Technology And Services

Work:

Microsoft
Chief Technologist, and Senior Cloud Technology Strategist
Dxc Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Global Solutions Executive - Enterprise Architecture and Industry Solutions - Global Chief Technology Officer Office
Innovation Capital Venture Group Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Cto, Chief Architect
Cloud Ventures Group Mar 2014 - Jun 2015
Chief Technology Officer and Partner
Rackspace, the #1 Managed Cloud Company Mar 2012 - Feb 2014
Director, Enterprise Cloud Solutions

Education:

Old Dominion University 1988 - 1991
Masters, Master of Arts, Computer Science Cairo University 1982 - 1987
Bachelors, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

Skills:

Virtualization
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Architecture
Saas
Enterprise Software
Data Center
Solution Architecture
Architecture
Distributed Systems
High Availability
It Strategy
Storage
System Architecture
Disaster Recovery
Storage Area Networks
Vmware
Unix
Pre Sales
Cluster
Solaris
Professional Services
Scalability
Storage Virtualization
Big Data
Itil
San
Software As A Service

Certifications:

Aws Technical Professional
Aws Business Professional
Aws Tco and Cloud Economics
Vtsp
Vsp
Amazon Web Services
Vmware

Rafat Shaheen

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