Imran Raoof
Founder & Managing Partner at ByteStor Information Technology Services- Claim this Profile
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VJ Sathyaa
Imran is tech savvy person. His knowledge of products and customer requirements helped me a lot in giving the right solutions in a short time. He is very dedicated and committed to his job. His interests to learn more and keep upto date with technology is an asset to his Company.
Sheryl Jaber
I worked with Imran for a short - but productive - period of time while I was at PROTECHnology Company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Imran is one of the most skilled and dedicated Division Manager in the company, as I recall he and his team shares an amazing impact on the performance and financial turn-around of the company. He also has a skill of drumming up business under the hardest of conditions that I admire. He's very goal oriented and never loses sight of the big picture. He understands the different challenges encountered by each group in a sales situation and manages them all professionally. I would highly recommend Imran in his future endeavour.
Oussama Kawas
As a product sales specialist, Imran did manage the joint business professionally Imran showed dedication not only for his daily tasks but with the people who are involved in the business cycle.
VJ Sathyaa
Imran is tech savvy person. His knowledge of products and customer requirements helped me a lot in giving the right solutions in a short time. He is very dedicated and committed to his job. His interests to learn more and keep upto date with technology is an asset to his Company.
Sheryl Jaber
I worked with Imran for a short - but productive - period of time while I was at PROTECHnology Company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Imran is one of the most skilled and dedicated Division Manager in the company, as I recall he and his team shares an amazing impact on the performance and financial turn-around of the company. He also has a skill of drumming up business under the hardest of conditions that I admire. He's very goal oriented and never loses sight of the big picture. He understands the different challenges encountered by each group in a sales situation and manages them all professionally. I would highly recommend Imran in his future endeavour.
Oussama Kawas
As a product sales specialist, Imran did manage the joint business professionally Imran showed dedication not only for his daily tasks but with the people who are involved in the business cycle.
VJ Sathyaa
Imran is tech savvy person. His knowledge of products and customer requirements helped me a lot in giving the right solutions in a short time. He is very dedicated and committed to his job. His interests to learn more and keep upto date with technology is an asset to his Company.
Sheryl Jaber
I worked with Imran for a short - but productive - period of time while I was at PROTECHnology Company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Imran is one of the most skilled and dedicated Division Manager in the company, as I recall he and his team shares an amazing impact on the performance and financial turn-around of the company. He also has a skill of drumming up business under the hardest of conditions that I admire. He's very goal oriented and never loses sight of the big picture. He understands the different challenges encountered by each group in a sales situation and manages them all professionally. I would highly recommend Imran in his future endeavour.
Oussama Kawas
As a product sales specialist, Imran did manage the joint business professionally Imran showed dedication not only for his daily tasks but with the people who are involved in the business cycle.
VJ Sathyaa
Imran is tech savvy person. His knowledge of products and customer requirements helped me a lot in giving the right solutions in a short time. He is very dedicated and committed to his job. His interests to learn more and keep upto date with technology is an asset to his Company.
Sheryl Jaber
I worked with Imran for a short - but productive - period of time while I was at PROTECHnology Company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Imran is one of the most skilled and dedicated Division Manager in the company, as I recall he and his team shares an amazing impact on the performance and financial turn-around of the company. He also has a skill of drumming up business under the hardest of conditions that I admire. He's very goal oriented and never loses sight of the big picture. He understands the different challenges encountered by each group in a sales situation and manages them all professionally. I would highly recommend Imran in his future endeavour.
Oussama Kawas
As a product sales specialist, Imran did manage the joint business professionally Imran showed dedication not only for his daily tasks but with the people who are involved in the business cycle.
Credentials
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Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure 5
NutanixJul, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Nutanix Certified Professional 5 - Multicloud Infrastructure
NutanixJul, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Nutanix Certified Associate
NutanixFeb, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Cohesity Certified Associate
Cohesity
Experience
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ByteStor Information Technology Services
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India
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founder & Managing Partner
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Oct 2015 - Present
ByteStor IT Services LLP (BITS) is an IT Services company based in Hyderabad, India. Our Services Include: - Consultancy Services on Information Storage & Management, Disaster Recovery and Cloud. - Managed eCommerce for SMBs - Consultancy services on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (Nutanix, Dell XC Series & NetApp HCI) - Training in Information Technology domain specializing in NetApp, CommVault, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Cluster Server, Dell EMC, Cloud Computing, Nutanix and Cohesity Data Platform. - Remote Support Services - Professional Services for Deployment of SAN, SDS, Backup Software, High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions. Vendor Neutral Consultancy services to meet client business requirements. • Storage Assessment & Design Unified Storage Architecture. (Audits) • Disaster Recovery Architecture and Fire Drill. • Business Continuity Planning. • IT / Cloud Assessments. Show less
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vTECH Solutions
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United Arab Emirates
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Division Manager
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Jun 2010 - Feb 2014
Key Responsibilities: - Lead Pre sales / Technical Team in Designing Enterprise Solution Architecture in line with client business needs. - Maintain knowledge of company products & services in focused domain such as Storage, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Digital Asset Management, Virtualization and Professional Services. - Communicate with vendors / suppliers for timely delivery of projects. Some of the Vendors are CommVault, NetApp, Double Take and Symantec. - Develop roadmap for Team enablement in line with vendor offerings and provide insight for the improvement of team’s performance, conduct appraisals and performance review. - Establish and maintain customer relations by evaluating customer satisfaction, assuring that service levels meet customers’ expectations, addressing billing issues, reviewing and approving cost estimates, and responding to issues and concerns. - Ensure effective utilization of team members, provide budgeting data, participate in strategic planning process and perform related administrative duties. - Develop and maintain organizational, procedural, and workflow plans for optimum outcome, provide expertise and consultation to ensure optimization of functional area of technology and staff resources. - Assist the Sales team in preparation of proposals. Visit clients on regular basis to identify or resolve issues to ensure efficiency and client satisfaction. - Update Team Members / Senior Management on business performance, new initiatives and other relevant topic. - Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team. Show less
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Manager Enterprise Solutions Division
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May 2005 - Feb 2010
Key Responsibilities: - Manage and lead the division to achieve team performance and customer satisfaction. - Provide Senior Management with recommendations on prospective technology partners and exploring areas for the company continued growth. - Conducts regular coaching and counseling with the team to build motivation and skills. - Plan and execute marketing strategy for Exhibitions and Seminars such as GITEX, CABSAT and roadshow. - Planning effective strategies to enable the sales and technical team to stay abreast on latest technology updates helping them eventually to sell enterprise solutions. - Setting up strong ties and influencing key opinion leaders in the assigned account. - Performing as Key Account Manager with a responsibility of dealing with principals and business partners. - Leading project management for large-scale complex disaster recovery, e-mail archiving and data protection projects. - Monitoring the performance and development of the team. - Managing and motivating the team to increase sales and profitability and ensure efficiency. - Domain expertise included Storage (SAN & NAS), Symantec Security/ Availability Solutions, Digital Asset Management Solutions and Consultancy Services. - Communicate with vendors / suppliers for timely delivery of projects. Some of the Vendors are NetApp, NeverFail, Symantec, Nexsan, Storageflex and Qstar. - Updating colleagues on business performance, new initiatives and other pertinent issues. Show less
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Computer World W.L.L
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Bahrain
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project / Service Manager
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Sep 2002 - Apr 2005
Key Responsibilities: - Well developed expertise in project management and technical coordination. - Provided leadership and guidance to the Service and Sales team about pre-sales including design and implementation of Symantec Availability Solutions. - Provided consultancy services to enterprise clients for their SAN and disaster recovery based on Symantec, Dell | EMC, QualStar and Foundry products such as Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Replicator, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Global Cluster Manager, EMC CLARiiON Series, Brocade SAN Switches and SAN Management Products. Show less
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Istanbul Bilgi University
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Türkiye
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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System Engineer / Project Leader
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Sep 2000 - May 2002
Key Responsibilities: - Set up and kept Portals, Chat Servers, Database Server, DNS Server running on Windows 2000 and Linux Red Hat 7.0 platform. - Managed installation and administration of Sun Solaris Servers besides configuring networking services on Sun Solaris 7 Operating System. Key Responsibilities: - Set up and kept Portals, Chat Servers, Database Server, DNS Server running on Windows 2000 and Linux Red Hat 7.0 platform. - Managed installation and administration of Sun Solaris Servers besides configuring networking services on Sun Solaris 7 Operating System.
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Optical & Electronic Information Systems Co
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Saudi Arabia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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System Engineer / Project Leader
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Jul 1998 - May 2000
- Provided an expandable 1000 users Dial-In Internet service which include WWW Access and E-mail, and gradually developed it to encompass an expanding range of Internet Services including Web Hosting. - Managed the team and set-up, implemented and configured the Proxy Server, E-mail Servers, Internet Protocols and User Support. - Handled Y2K Complaints and made the Project Y2K ready using various hardware and software from IT Industry leaders. - Provided an expandable 1000 users Dial-In Internet service which include WWW Access and E-mail, and gradually developed it to encompass an expanding range of Internet Services including Web Hosting. - Managed the team and set-up, implemented and configured the Proxy Server, E-mail Servers, Internet Protocols and User Support. - Handled Y2K Complaints and made the Project Y2K ready using various hardware and software from IT Industry leaders.
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System Engineer
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Jan 1997 - Dec 1998
- Working with Authorised Compaq Support Center - Provide Installation of Compaq Servers, setting up LAN - Offer On-site Support services to Troubleshoot Compaq Servers - Working with Authorised Compaq Support Center - Provide Installation of Compaq Servers, setting up LAN - Offer On-site Support services to Troubleshoot Compaq Servers
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Education
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2009 - 2012
University of Wales
Post Graduate Certificate in Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General -
1993 - 1996
Osmania University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics
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