Syed Muhammad Zaki

Syed Muhammad Zaki

Presales & Customer Enablement Leader | Scaling AI & Data POCs for Fortune 500s

Based in: Islamabad, PakistanCurrently: Presales & Customer Enablement Manager, DvSum (Emumba Pvt Ltd)Experience: 10 years

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Strategic Presales and Customer Enablement Manager with a track record of driving multi-million dollar opportunities at the intersection of AI and data engineering. Expert in leading complex enterprise POCs for global brands like Mazda and Coca-Cola, converting technical discovery into high-impact deployments. Skilled in Python, SQL, and LLM orchestration to bridge the gap between business requirements and scalable technical solutions.

Experience

Presales & Customer Enablement Manager

DvSum (Emumba Pvt Ltd)Islamabad, PakistanworkNov 2022 – Present

Summary

Enterprise data and AI platform. Owned the full arc from technical discovery and POC through onboarding, adoption, and expansion for strategic accounts across North America, EMEA, and Asia.

What I did

  • Owned the customer lifecycle from first technical discovery through post-sale adoption: scoped and ran 30+ enterprise proof-of-concepts, converted 30% into paid deployments, and influenced multi-million-dollar opportunities with FEMSA Coca-Cola, Mazda USA, IAT Insurance and Ameritas Insurance.
  • Closed the presales-to-customer-success gap by carrying POC context directly into onboarding, so committed use cases, success criteria, and stakeholder maps transferred intact instead of being rediscovered after signature.
  • Built bespoke enablement plans, onboarding guides, and operating playbooks for 15+ client organizations, giving every account a documented path from kickoff to first measured value and cutting their dependency on manual, one-off support.
  • Designed and delivered live and scalable training for 50+ customer and internal stakeholders, tailored to each team's maturity, so new AI and data-quality capabilities were actually adopted rather than shelved after handover.
  • Ran discovery workshops with business and technical stakeholders to uncover net-new use cases inside existing accounts, then redesigned the surrounding workflows to lift operational efficiency 25% and per-employee productivity 20%.
  • Partnered with Account Executives and technical stakeholders on account reviews, expansion motions, and renewal risk, contributing to 25% revenue growth and a 15% increase in account expansion across the portfolio.
  • Stood up KPI and usage-based measurement for every improvement initiative, using product data to trigger proactive outreach to stalling accounts before renewal conversations became risk conversations.
  • Translated customer goals into requirements and solution designs with engineering and sales, reducing recurring workflow errors 35% and eliminating the top drivers of repeat support escalations.

Results

  • Ran 30+ enterprise proof-of-concepts with a 30% conversion rate.
  • Lifted operational efficiency 25% and per-employee productivity 20% through workflow redesign.
  • Contributed to 25% revenue growth and a 15% increase in account expansion.
  • Reduced recurring workflow errors by 35%.
PythonREST APIsSQLSnowflakeDatabricksPostgreSQLAWSAzurePower BISalesforce CRMLLM toolingGPT-4ClaudeGemini

Solution Sales Manager, Middle East

Nexus TelecomIslamabad, PakistanworkSep 2019 – Nov 2022

Summary

Post-sale adoption, enablement, and growth for a portfolio of enterprise telecom accounts.

What I did

  • Owned adoption and post-sale success for a portfolio of 20+ strategic enterprise accounts, lifting customer satisfaction 25% and retention 30% through structured, proactive engagement rather than reactive support.
  • Generated USD 400K+ in incremental revenue by designing and delivering 10+ technical training and enablement programs that opened new use cases inside accounts the business had already considered fully penetrated.
  • Built the escalation and support operating model between commercial and technical teams, cutting issue resolution time 35% and removing the friction that had been driving executive escalations.
  • Led CRM rollout and workflow adoption across regional markets, driving 20% revenue growth and a 25% improvement in operational efficiency.

Results

  • Lifted customer satisfaction 25% and retention 30%.
  • Cut issue resolution time 35%.
  • Drove 20% revenue growth and 25% improvement in operational efficiency.
CRMTelecom Enterprise Solutions

Customer Project Manager, Middle East

Nexus TelecomIslamabad, PakistanworkDec 2016 – Sep 2019
Key Responsibilities: • Drove CRM adoption and workflow standardization across five cross-functional regional teams, improving operational performance 25%. • Launched data-backed go-to-market initiatives for new product introductions, increasing launch revenue 15%. Achievements: • Improved operational performance 25%. • Increased launch revenue 15%.
CRM

Skills

Technical

Adoption Strategy
Workflow Automation
Use-case Discovery
Prompt Design
PythonPython
REST APIs
SQLSQL
AWSAWS
Salesforce CRM
Product Usage Analytics
LLM Tooling (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini)
Azure
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
Databricks
Snowflake
Power BI

Areas of expertise

Customer Enablement
Onboarding
Renewal Risk Mitigation

Languages

Pashto
Urdu
English
Punjabi
Turkish

Projects

Mazda USA Enterprise POC

Presales & Customer Enablement Managerpersonal
Led a high-stakes 30-day proof-of-concept for Mazda USA, overcoming a critical 'show-stopper' by integrating a previously unsupported data source. Worked directly with engineering to scope and deploy the connection under tight deadlines.
PythonSQLSnowflakeDatabricksLLM Tooling

Enterprise Proof-of-Concepts (30+)

Presales & POC Ownerprofessional
Scoped and ran 30+ enterprise proof-of-concepts for an enterprise data and AI platform, converting 30% into paid deployments with customers including FEMSA Coca-Cola, Mazda USA, IAT Insurance, and Ameritas Insurance.
PythonSQLSnowflakeDatabricksLLM Tooling

Education

MBA

Dogus UniversityInternational Business & Strategic Management2019 – 2021

BS

COMSATS University IslamabadComputer Systems Networking & Telecommunications2012 – 2016

Recognition

Certifications

Building a Generative AI Ready Organization

AWS2025

Planning a Generative AI Project

AWS2025

API Testing in Python

Test Automation University2024

Introduction to Large Language Models

Google Cloud2024

Generative AI Fundamentals Accreditation

DatabricksExpires 20262024
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