Samina Hossain

Experience

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  Mercer

  May 2006 - Nov 2009

  • Benefits Analyst

    Jan 2008 - Nov 2009

  • Actuarial Analyst

    May 2006 - Jan 2008
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  NQ College

  Jan 2010 - Aug 2011

  Functional Analyst
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  IBM

  Aug 2011 - now

  * Lead global team of highly skilled solutions architects, senior technical staff members, influence Z/LinuxOne ISV partner, client ecosystem, assess market needs, drive success.* Implement and lead AI Strategy for partner ecosystem.* Upline senior manager for globally disbursed Red Hat Partner Engineer and Open Source teams.* Navigate complex cross-functional organizational, stakeholder environment to drive success. * Drive team towards technical enablement, adoption, scalability and self-sustainability.* Strategy execution on team of ecosystem product owners/managers, alignment across various IBM ecosystem teams, vendors and business partners on technical product roadmap, Show less * Manage a global cross-functional team of talented OpenShift engineers, front and back developers across multiple geos on high visibility, high impact collaboration project between IBM and Red Hat, shortly after IBM's acquisition of Red Hat.* Responsible for squad deliveries & aligning squad priorities with IBM's strategic direction, market performance and organizational goals. * Drive business results for client satisfaction, productivity, financial, and other KPIs. * Foster inclusion across organizations, cultures and geographies and promote IBM's diversity and inclusive leadership and IBM Values. Show less * Lead a team of Cloud Engineers across 4 geographies on multimillion dollar contract.* Bridge communication/understanding gap between technical & business/non technical stakeholders * First point of contact for escalations. Identify blockers, manage incident through to resolution with quick turnaround time. * Application microservices - Jenkins, Urban Code Deploy, Linux based and custom tools (high availability orchestration tool, others).* Gateway & identity services (DataPower, IBM Security Access Manager – ISAM), data deidentification, consent management, analytics, data lake, FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), audit trail, disaster recovery, customer onboarding, asset reporting functions/deployments across CIs. Show less

  • Program Director, IBM Z Ecosystem, ISV Technical Acceleration Team

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Engineering Manager, Red Hat Marketplace - Operated by IBM

    Jul 2021 - Jul 2022

  • SRE / Ops Team Lead, Red Hat Marketplace

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Team Leader - Watson Health Cloud

    Feb 2016 - Aug 2019

  • IT Specialist

    Aug 2011 - Feb 2016