
Aram Ghannadzadeh
Chief Technology Officer
Salaire / Taux journalier
Tours, France
Mobilité : Dubaï - Émirats arabes uni...
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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Introduction
Throughout my career, I have merged technical expertise with a deep understanding of sustainability and business process optimization to drive operational efficiency and commercial success. With experience across diverse industries including banking and hospitality. I have played a key role in delivering innovative solutions that optimize operations, reduce energy consumption, and create long-term value. I thrive on developing innovative, tailored technological solutions that not only streamline processes but also foster strong partnerships and deliver measurable outcomes. My passion lies in bridging the gap between technology and business needs, ensuring sustainable growth and operational excellence. Beyond technical execution, my ability to navigate both technical and business landscapes has been instrumental in supporting sales. I excel in engaging with stakeholders at all levels, from engineers and technicians to C-suite executives, ensuring seamless communication and alignment between technical solutions and business objectives. This unique skill set has enabled me to build strong relationships, translate complex solutions into business value, and drive successful project outcomes.
Expérience de travail
Chief Technology Officer
Asia Link Flooring
mars 2025 - Présent
1 an 8 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
– Digital Transformation Leadership: Directed the audit, upgrade, and implementation of a full scale company digitalization strategy, including IT infrastructure improvements, cybersecurity, NAS storage, global administration management of users and migration to Azure Cloud and Microsoft 365 Office Suite. – Platform & Custom Development Management: Oversaw a team of developers delivering custom code solutions for the Odoo ERP platform, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with business objectives. Development and implementation of ALX.global platform digitalizing current process with AI and automation. – Mailbox Migration Project: Successfully managed the migration of mailboxes via IMAP to Microsoft Exchange, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity. – Strategic Planning & Decision Support: Led planning, scope definition, RFQ processes, and vendor selection for new platform development projects, providing clear roadmaps and actionable insights for C-Level decision making. – Executive Reporting: Conducted roadmap analysis, budgeting and delivered detailed reports to C-Level executives, enabling data driven strategic decisions and alignment with organizational goals. – Cloud Architecture Expertise: Designed and implemented scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure, optimizing performance, security, and cost efficiency. – Stakeholders Collaboration: Worked closely with cross functional teams, including IT, operations, and executive leadership, to ensure alignment of technology initiatives with business priorities.
Lead Consultant Solutions Architect Connected Building Middle East
Honeywell
juil. 2022 - févr. 2025
2 ans 8 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
– Led projects utilizing cloud analytics systems to drive new values and achieve sustainability in the Banking and Hospitality domains with ENBD and Four Seasons clients. – Built amazing experiences and relationships with clients at Honeywell in the Middle East, focusing on connected building solutions. – Collaborated with Hikma Jordan team to understand the Pharma domain and drive long-term success through innovative solutions.
Solutions Architect Connected Buildings
Honeywell
juin 2019 - juin 2022
3 ans 1 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
Solution Architect supporting the Sales team for META Region to provide digital transformation solution for building portfolios with added values named Honeywell Forge. – Implementation of the new Digital Solution platform of Honeywell using Machine Learning modeling and Artificial Intelligence. – Providing latest solution and technology to the clients to optimize their building maintenance and reduce energy consumption driving high Return On Investment to prioritize future investments of their portfolio. – Executing business consulting with sales account manager for the full sale cycle and Customers' relationships management. – Creating value proposition presentations aligning on customer pain points and long-term objectives. – Supporting sales for technical solution, financial proposition and Return On Investments calculation. – Coordinating software evolution with worldwide Product Managers for responding to Customer requests on software functionalities enhancement. – Managing migration and updates of software version with Operational team. – Participation to workshops for requirements collection and technical consultancy adapted to the Honeywell Forge solution. – Positioning Strategic technical solution on Customer's approach in coordination with sale account manager. – Performing RFP reviews, inputs and preparation of costing of the solution to prepare the bids. – Collecting VOCs for products incubation functionalities and additional values generation for the end users' personas. – Implementing partnerships with third parties for ecosystem integration to add values from data exchange.
Project Manager Smart Energy
Smart Energy
janv. 2017 - mai 2019
2 ans 5 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
Project Manager for MENA Region handling all Smart Energy Solutions (Electricity, Water & Gas) Projects. – Coordinating with Program and Product Managers in Europe and local contractor for negotiating deployment time and scope with the clients. – Managing the local Service & Delivery engineering team for achieving successfully the project milestones and targets and provide optimized onsite support and improve performance results for the clients. – Keeping high satisfaction of my clients with regular meetings and agreement on scope, changes and variations. – Managing efficiently the project time and the upgrades of the solution to maintain quality of products. – Designing End 2 End Solution Architecture for tenders including New Product Introduction and internal product portfolio growth associated with full tasks estimation for integration and project resource allocation. – Analysis and optimization of Internal PMO processes incorporating PRINCE2 Framework. – Data analytics on meter data collection reading percentage for site behavior identification and noises under Power Line Carrier technology for 100,000 meters. – Technical Solution review and coordination with the Engineering team on actual MDC system integration to a 3rd party MDM using web services. – Deployment of successfully Smart Energy Solutions including: o Meters (Residential, Commercial & Industrial) o Communication devices (PLC, RF, GPRS) o Head End System (Ei Server & CONNEXO) o Integration to third party systems like SAP, Oracle...
Program Manager IT and Telecom Systems Middle East
3W Networks
déc. 2014 - août 2016
1 an 9 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
Lead Program Manager for the Energy/Power project sectors delivering complex IT solutions to tier one customers. – Successfully delivering multiple systems integration projects and achievement of project milestones by identifying risks, maximizing Teamwork effectiveness and profitability of projects within the sector, achieving a 12% improvement in GP. – Proactive Change management of project deviations and time critical activities, controlling projects financials and negotiating variation orders as a result of scope change. – Supervising a team of Engineers & Technicians (15 people) to deliver solutions at site, submitting timely technical drawings and documents to the client using a proven Project Management Methodology framework to achieve repeatable execution, using established PMO standards and practices. – Reporting to the Director of Projects, authoring monthly reports for the executive management team demonstrating achievement of performance in KPI's and identifying emerging project risks. – Managing internal and external stakeholders, creating an environment of collaborative team working. – Approving and defining SOW, T&C's in support of the Legal and Commercial team and assist in the negotiation of payment terms and contract delivery schedules to reduce the company's exposure and risk profile. – Define the procurement schedule and validate the purchase requisition and purchase orders, maximizing cash flow and predictability of budget achievement. – Manage and liaise with in-house and client Logistic teams to achieve on-time and effective movement of project assets.
Project Manager & Technical Consultant
Itron
sept. 2012 - nov. 2014
2 ans 3 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
– Creating Work Breakdown Structures to quantify and assign tasks to achieve milestones successfully. – Maintaining a trusted relationship and a regular communication with clients to enable our teams to sell additional services, software features to satisfy the final requirements and optimize the solution. – Subject Mater Expert (SME) performing functional, technical and acceptance tests, deploying solutions to clients, successfully generating savings and product & system awareness to end users. – Trainer for field customer maintenance staff, preparing and delivering structured courses, transferring system knowledge to reduce support requests resulting in improved system "up-time” and cost savings. – Produced engineering document deliverables improving the site efficiency and quality of installation and procedures.
System & Technical Support Manager
Itron
mars 2011 - août 2012
1 an 6 mois
Dubaï - Émirats arabes unis
– Deployed, installed, integrated, validated and supported the following systems: o Prepayment and electronic banking / Self-service kiosk payment o Advance metering Infrastructure (AMI) / Advance Meter Reading (AMR) o Meter Data Collection (MDC) / Meter Data Management (MDM) o Walk by and Fixed Wireless Network – Providing management of the technical support team, driving design validation initiatives to ensure that managed services and delivered solutions are fully compliant with specifications and contract requirements. – Lead a team in the creation of two private Access Point Network (APN) with the telecom Operator “du” providing the management of GPRS sim cards for test and implementation purposes which improved the percentage reading rates of the mobile devices. – IT coordinator for regional users, acting as first line support with IT central management to support and troubleshoot the internal requests and supervise the regional Servers/Routers & Network to increase the productivity of the employees. (Products, Network, Active Directory, Software, Database...)
Prepayment Project Manager - Electronic banking system
CARTES CADEAUX DISTRIBUTION SERVICE
juil. 2010 - janv. 2011
7 mois
CCDS is a Join Venture of SODEXO and CREDIT AGRICOLE CONSUMER FINANCE deploying complete electronic banking cards programs solutions in France. Leading the B2B card programme project using web services and electronic banking applications to maintain the relationship and contracts with customers. (Canal+, San Marina) – Defining specifications and operational costs and potential revenues based on forecasted client usage. – Establishing project schedules and resources to meet client demand profiles. – Executing functional and technical tests to validate solutions prior to operational deployment. – Setting up an incident management tool to automate and accelerate the provision of support services.
Oil & Gas Consultant QHSE
Primagaz
oct. 2007 - avr. 2008
7 mois
Fréjus, France
Primagaz is one of the leader of bottle Gas distribution in France. Analyse operational plant and creating safety models and assessment to measure compliance to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 by creating visual diagrams of the functional safety systems. Defined the SIL (Safety Integrity Level) and provided reports and detailed analysis to the management with safety evaluations and scoring. – Carried out plant audits resulting in the preparation of tailored training presentations which address the critical findings of the audit to improve safety working practices.
Formation
Alyra, l'école blockchain
Postgraduate Degree, Blockchain Consultant
2022 - 2022
3 mois
ESIEA - Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique
Bachelor degree level equivalent, Management and Engineering Council
2009 - 2010
1 an 1 mois
Ecole supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique
Masters Degree equivalent, Engineering, Information Systems and Renewable Energy
2003 - 2010
7 ans 1 mois
Lycée Choiseul
Scientific baccalaureate, Specialising in mathematics
2000 - 2003
3 ans 1 mois
Licences et certifications
Blockchain Consultant
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Technical Certification in AMI/AMR systems - RF/Fixed Network Lvl 1 & 2
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Technical Certification in Prepayment systems
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Technical Certification in AMR System - MDC Lvl 1,2 and 3
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