Waheed Sujjad
Summary
I am the Director of AI Strategy and Development at Deep IT Vision, where I help enterprises unlock the full potential of Artificial Intelligence. With expertise in AI strategy, enterprise adoption frameworks, automation, and product development, I bridge the gap between business needs and cutting-edge AI solutions. My background spans healthcare, finance, energy, and manufacturing, where I have designed and delivered AI products that drive efficiency, compliance, and growth. I specialize in enterprise AI roadmaps, RAG-based systems, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation using platforms like OpenAI, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Azure Foundry, n8n, and AWS.
Strategic IT Leader and Technical Program Manager with deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, cloud modernization, AI-driven automation, and large-scale digital transformation. Adept at building and executing multi-million-dollar programs that strengthen business continuity, improve operational efficiency, and enhance security across global organizations. Proven record of leading end-to-end datacenter migrations, developing AI governance and delivery frameworks, and driving cross-functional alignment between executives, engineering, security, and business stakeholders. Recognized for turning ambiguity into structure, simplifying complex technology decisions, and delivering outcomes with measurable business impact.
Experience
Deep IT Vision
- AI Regulatory Document Assistant — Automates compliance checks, summarization, and FDA-related document processing.
- AI Medical Lab Workflow Assistant — Automates order intake, scheduling, and result delivery for diagnostic labs.
- Enterprise AI Strategy Consulting — Tailored AI adoption frameworks, automation roadmaps, and executive advisory services.
Nissan Motor Corporation
Power Platform Team Lead, Power Platform Toolkit, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, User Training.
Infrastructure delivery lead with experience in developing Infra Strategies, Planning and Business Cases for new initiatives. Led globally located cross-functional teams for infra modernization and standardization, and rolled out the Zero Trust Security framework including SDWAN and SASE solutions. Developed functional and financial analysis to evaluate projects and service providers, and led vendor onboarding from RFP through legal contracts.
Led the development of Standard Infra Delivery processes and reference architecture across all Americas markets, with daily interaction with global teams on fast-paced initiatives. Built and hired teams to achieve business objectives, directed internal and managed-services resources, and led the rollout of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse) across the Americas region.
- Managed Digital Product Demand (AWS cloud development and migrations) requests from the business — infra, DevOps, and operations.
- Managed Application Design reviews (Enterprise Architecture, Compliance, Database, Security) for IS products.
- Followed up with product development teams on project status, and enabled business functions with their IT needs.
- Focused on digital transformation, cloud implementation, and integrating DevOps tools across the build and deployment lifecycle.
- Coordinated Alliance projects between Nissan business units globally, and application planning, design, and architecture discussions.
- Negotiated between technical and business teams, and arranged Professional Learning events for IS employees.
- Managed outsourced services delivered by several IT vendors.
- Responsible for 24/7 operations of 1,100 Wintel servers.
- Developed strategy to reduce application outages via trending and forecasting reports.
- Planned Wintel server consolidation and OS upgrades, and evaluated financial and productivity loss from IT system failures.
- Ensured DevOps, ITIL, and Agile service management methodologies were followed, and coordinated Root Cause Analysis discussions.
Managed DevOps tasks for the source code of more than 200 business applications. Streamlined and standardized application build and deployment processes, working with global Nissan sites (USA, Mexico, and Brazil) to secure and manage source code using CA Software Change Manager (CA-Harvest).
- Consolidated application source code into a supported Source Code Management repository.
- Developed standards for source code versioning, build, and deployment processes.
- Developed training videos for hundreds of developers on the standard processes.
- Helped design and implement a federated CMDB.
- Led project management for the Advantis-to-PGP conversion.
IBM
Managed configuration and integration of application development, source code, and change tracking tools. Developed standards for build and deployment processes, and managed user access to required environments and tools.