About me

First and foremost I am a mother of 3 young children. They are my pride and joy and every decision I make now has them on the forefront of my mind. This newfound career change has greatly been impacted by them in a positive way. I admire a career which is innovative, flexible and a place where I feel immense passion to learn. After all we are kept away from our children whilst working so it has to be worth it every step of the way.

I have spent 13 years building my career as an Optometrist to senior level. My career so far has led me to excel in: communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, which are elementary for a role in the Cloud Computing. I am adaptable to changing demographics and stakeholders, I am progressive minded, empathetic and in tune with new developments in my current and new field.

After excelling in my current career, I felt I needed and new challenge, this is where I started my new journey and found a new passion In Cloud Computing. During my extended maternity break, I joined an AWS Academy program to study AWS.

During the AWS Academy program, I attended regular remote classes and studied sometimes for hours daily. I also took part in hands on projects and worked alongside and lead teams of students with varied abilities to successfully architect and build projects for make-shift costumers. It was challenging but also felt exhilarating learning a completely new concept and being part of this newfound wonderful journey. I am confident this will be my new chosen career.

I studied and obtained my 'AWS Cloud Practitioner' and 'AWS Solutions Architect associate' Certificate and am now confident in Architecture and troubleshooting to design fault tolerant infrastructure based on AWS well-Architected framework. I have experience with CI/CD and an understanding of Terraform and Linux.

I and have spent the past year and half obtaining my: AWS Certificates, gaining hands on experience of the AWS cloud and understanding a variety of technology fundamentals, for example: Python, terraform and the importance of sustainability.

I am passionate and look forward to landing my first job role in a career in Cloud Computing.

Education

BSC in Optometry

2006-2009

University of Manchester

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

June 2021

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

March 2022

Currently working towards: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and AWS Developer Associate Certificate.

Employment

· Hands on building experience with multiple AWS services including: EC2, ECS,Lambda, S3, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, SageMaker, Event Bridge, Code pipeline.

· Developed security and encryption strategies following AWS best practices involving IAM policies and Certificate Manager.

· Lead a team of 10 students, from various technical backgrounds, to architect a plan for a company with limited technical knowledge to deploy a global website and create an email domain for their staff.

· Keep up to date with the latest industry knowledge and news.

· Designed a plan for AWS SageMaker to predict a formula for customer retention for an enterprise company using Machine Learning.

· Worked with Terraform to - 1: deploy a WebServer on a Docker container. 2: Deploy edit and terminate EC2 instances

· Coordinated, and supervised up to 6 clinics a day to ensure they ran efficiently, which enhanced my time-management and leading skills.

· Consulted on patient management and referrals for my colleagues through my well-developed inter-personal skills and in-depth knowledge.

· kept a customer obsession approach.

· Gained a high level of experience communicating with customers, patients, vendors, ophthalmologists, senior management, subordinates and peers.

· Accredited to manage pre and post cataract surgery assessment clinics

· Supervised and mentored pre-registration optometry students, which developed my empathy and knowledge.

· Spearheaded regular staff training to reduce waiting times by 50%.

· Accredited to diagnose and treat minor eye conditions, which proves my effective decision-making skills and confidence in my knowledge.

Lead Optometrist

2012-2015

Specsavers

Jan 2021-Current

2016-2021

Multi chain and independant Opticians

Locum Optometrist

AWS Student

May 2022-present

AWS Academy/ Optima IT

Qualified Optometrist

2010-2012

Specsavers

Firdaus Home Scents

Between 2019-2021 whilst working part time and caring for my children I opened up a personal business at home. Firdaus Home Scents.

I created home scents such as room sprays and reed diffusers, packaged and advertised them to potential customers and grew my business from my kitchen. By year 2 I had broke even but due to family commitments I had to close the business.

I solely set up a small business on instagram, took care of the social media and marketing and assisted with the accounts.

https://www.instagram.com/firdaus_home_scents/?hl=en