Adnan Ikram, lead
          instructor at TLC
Faculty

Adnan Ikram - Director Technology Delivery Services

A professional engineer with 30+ years in enterprise IT — trained at IBM's own technical labs in Austin, Texas, and teaching Enterprise Professional Courses and UNIX & AIX in Pakistan and abroad since 1995.

B.E. Electronic Engineering, NED University, Karachi · TOGAF® 9 Certified · IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect . Certified Blockchain Expert  . IBM Certified Business Resilience Expert
70+
Enterprise courses developed
10
IBM Redbooks co-authored
40+
Professional certifications
1991
Teaching since
Profile

Built on the floor, not the brochure — Born out of passion for success

Before joining TLC, Adnan worked with IBM Pakistan as Client Technical Architect for Financial Services, and prior to that as Enterprise Business Development Manager at Fujitsu. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Si3, one of Pakistan's largest systems integrators, and spent eleven years at IBM Pakistan as a Country Systems Product Manager and a further five at ICL (International Computers Limited) as a  Systems Support Engineer.

His core expertise sits in IBM POWER architecture and the AIX operating system, Fujitsu PRIMERGY server and ETERNUS storage platforms, and data replication technologies — with a particular focus on High Availability and Site Disaster Recovery. He has consulted for organizations across Pakistan on disaster backup recovery, systems security hardening, AIX health checks and performance optimization, IT strategy and policy, and cross-brand solution design under IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure framework.

His contribution to IT research and development includes eight weeks in residencies at IBM's International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) in Austin, Texas, where he contributed to ten IBM Redbooks on AIX and POWER systems — technical references still used to certify IBM's own engineers.

ADNAN IKRAM Career

A path through enterprise IT

1990 – 1995

ICL Pakistan — Systems Support Engineer

Systems Support Engineer, working across UNIX systems including AT&T SVR4 and SCO UNIX.

1998 - 2004

IBM ITSO, Austin, Texas

Eight-week residency assignments contributing to IBM Redbooks on AIX and POWER architecture.

1995–2004

IBM Pakistan — Country Systems Product Manager

Nine years across technical and client-facing roles, deepening expertise in POWER systems and AIX.

2004 - 2012

Si3 — Chief Operating Officer

Led operations at one of Pakistan's largest systems integrator's.

2012 - 2014

Fujitsu — Enterprise Business Development Manager Pakistan

Storage and infrastructure presales leadership across the Fujitsu PRIMERGY and ETERNUS storage portfolio.

2014 - 2016

IBM Pakistan — Client Technical Architect, Banking and Financial Services Industry

Solution designing and building technology architecture roadmaps for banking and financial-services sector clients for country-wide large five enterprise banks and stock exchange in Pakistan.

2016 – 2026

TLC — Director IT Consulting Services

Lead consultant and instructor imparting enterprise professional courses in the space of enterprise architecture, storage technologies, cybersecurity, and digital transformation programs to enterprise teams across Pakistan and abroad.

2016 – Present

TLC — Director Technology Delivery Services

Business development, lead consultant developing enterprise technology roadmaps, lead instructor imparting IBM AIX, enterprise architecture, storage, cybersecurity, and digital transformation workshops to country-wide broad portfolio of customers across all business industry sectors.

Credentials

Certifications & Accreditation

ARCHITECTURE
  • TOGAF® 9 Certified
  • IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect
  • SNIA Architect — Assessment, Planning and Design
  • IBM Certified Solution Architect — Cloud Computing and Business Resilience
SECURITY & GOVERNANCE
  • Information Security Foundation — ISO/IEC 27002
  • ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
  • BCS Foundation Certificate in Green IT
PLATFORM & VENDOR
  • IBM Certified System Administrator — AIX 7.1 & 6.1
  • VMware Technical Sales Professional 5
  • Blockchain Expert - Blockchain Council
  • IBM Certified Specialist — XIV, Storwize, High-End DS/80000 Storage Subsystem
View the complete certification list (40+) →
  • IBM Certified Specialist — PureFlex Technical Support V1
  • IBM Certified Specialist — PureFlex Systems Sales V1
  • IBM Certified Solution Specialist — Systems Management
  • IBM Certified Systems Expert — Infrastructure Technical Design
  • IBM Certified Specialist — High End Disk for Open Systems V2
  • Power Systems with POWER7 & AIX Technical Sales Skills V1
  • IBM Certified Solution Advisor — Cloud Computing Architecture V1
  • IBM Certified Solution Expert — Dynamic Infrastructure Team Leader
  • IBM Certified Specialist — Dynamic Infra. Virtualization & Consolidation
  • IBM Certified Specialist — Dynamic Infrastructure Business Resilience
  • IBM Certified Specialist — Dynamic Infrastructure Energy Efficiency
  • IBM Certified Specialist — System p5 Sales V5.3
  • VMware Sales Professional 5 & Competitive Accreditation (vCA)
  • VMware Business Continuity Sales & Technical Accreditation 5
  • VMware Infrastructure & Desktop Virtualization Accreditation 5
  • Fujitsu CS800 Technical Sales — Data Protection & Deduplication
  • Fujitsu Dynamic Infrastructure Sales Professional
  • MCP — Internetworking with Microsoft Windows NT4.0 TCP/IP

Plus international training, assignments, and technical conferences attended from 1989 to date — including IBM Global Sales School (England), IBM EMEA International Technical Conference (Istanbul), and NetApp's Annual Sales & Technical Conference (Bangkok).



Mairaj Zeb, lead instructor at TLC
Faculty

Mairaj Zeb - Director Business Development

A professional software development leader with 20+ years in enterprise IT — known for taking change as a challenge by transforming crises into an opportunities.

M.Sc. Physics and M.Sc Computer Science, Karachi University · IBM WebSphere Certified Expert . Advanced Learning Algorithms and Machine Learning, Supervised Machine Learning - Regression and Classification from Standford University
10+
Enterprise courses developed
10+
Technology papers
10+
Professional certifications
2000
Career started
Profile

Known for transforming complex spaghetti code into scalable, elegant architecture

Before joining TLC, Mairaj was a part of 1Link Private Limited taking care of two business units; as Head of Solution Architects and Head of Project Management Office. Prior to 1LINK, she worked for two years for a USA-based organization Razor Hedgeas as Financial Services Software Engineer. Before that she worked for six years at MCB Bank Limited as eBusiness Manager. Engineer. Prior to MCB Bank, she worked for five years for another USA-based organization Halcyon Software as Senior Software Engineer.

His core expertise sits in Application Design and Development. Extensive, hands-on expertise with the desktop, multi-tiered application architecture, database development, object oriented programming/analysis/design, data modeling, client/server applications. Worked exclusively with Java/J2EE development tools, .NET platform, Web Services,  A proactive, result oriented, dedicated team player with analytical and problem solving skills.

Moreover, taking care of Switch Software, On-line Billing, Inter bank fund transfer services(IBFT), IBAN implementation across 1LINK's member bank, Inter Switch Fund Transfer Services(across 1LINK to MNET banks), China Union Pay Issuing and Acquiring, Master Card Issuing and Acquiring, EMV Implementation across banks, POS (Point of Sale) Transactions across Pakistan local banks, VISA VMT Services, Inter Bank Fund transfer/Corporate Payments/AML Compliance, Direct Debit Services. Research on Contact Less ATM Transactions, NFC(Near Field Communication) Transactions, QR Code in Billing/ATM Transactions, Branch Less Banking, Payment Gate Way Solutions Evaluations, Fraud Monitoring Solutions Evaluations.  Worked on many projects development like Mobile Payment System, Online Payment System,  revamping of MCB e Banking Services.

mairaj zeb Career

A path through enterprise IT

2000 – 2005

Halcyon Software, USA — Senior Systems Engineer

Developed several products including iHUB, an innovative high-performance middleware solution that enables seamless cross-integration and cross-development between Microsoft .NET, J2EE and XML based applications, rJAX (Remote Java ActiveX Oracle client) serves as a Java-COM bridging middleware that links Microsoft Active X, DLLs, and COM to Java applications running on a Java enabled platform.

2005 - 2011

MCB Bank Limited

Responsible for handling product evaluation, implementing SOA strategies for MCB IT large turn-key projects, development of Mobile Payment Systems and Online Payment System including smart phone projects development, revamping of MCB Bank Virtual Banking Services in order to minimize the risk of fraud and taking care of security aspects by redesigning Virtual Banking enrollment and registration process. Specialized in ISO 8085/8583 message formats.

2011–2012

Razor Hedgeas, USA — Financial Services Software Engineer

Developing solution with a focus on trading stock software application, software integration, development and design of new and existing projects.

2012 - 2014

1Link Private Limited — Head of Solution Architects and Head of PMO

Heading two major business functions with the core responsibilities in terms of taking care of payment system operations, new application sizing and performance benchmarking, maintaining primary digital payment switch and gateway services, and end-to-end project management of large turn key projects.

2016 - 2025

TLC — Principal Solution Architect

Heading Application Development Management Services function. Responsible for bridging the gap between client acquisition. Core responsibilities includes leading a team of application developers, bid and proposal management, cross-functional leadership, and client relationship management.

2016 - Present

TLC — Director Business Development

A senior executive responsible for driving strategic growth, expanding market share, and securing high-value partnerships and broadening the clientele portfolio across the country especially in banking and financial-services sector. Responsible for spearhead revenue growth, identify new market opportunities, and align the strategic direction of custom software, mobile applications, and enterprise solutions. Core responsibilities includes strategic growth and go-to-market, sales and revenue generation and client relationship management.


Challenge, innovation and professionalism — Our people and culture are our greatest assets. It is though them we successfully maintain a broad spectrum of analytical and problem-solving expertise. It is our significant investment in human resources which has enabled us to provide solutions to complex technology challenges posed by our customers.

On-site or in-house — Karachi, Lahore, or Islamabad.

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