Microsoft Business Applications · AI · Enterprise Transformation

F Forward-thinker

>_I build. I hold myself accountable. I deliver. I support. I mentor. I learn. I work across Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Business Central, Power Platform, Azure and AI—turning technology into practical outcomes.

Practice & delivery leadershipSolution architecture & engineeringData migration & integrationAI agents & MCP
Faisal Fareed speaking at a community event
Community. Technology. Execution. Melbourne, Australia · Global Microsoft community
What I do

I lead the outcome and stay close to the build.

Almost two decades across enterprise ERP and Microsoft Business Applications have taken me from product development and hands-on engineering to solution architecture, delivery leadership, practice building and AI.

01End-to-end accountability

From strategy and governance to the hard technical decisions.

I work across the full lifecycle of enterprise business applications: shaping scope and target architecture, setting delivery and engineering standards, leading teams, planning migration and integration, governing risk and release, guiding cutover and hypercare, and staying accountable for the result. I am equally comfortable in an executive design conversation or getting into the technical detail when a decision needs proving.

Practice LeadershipDelivery LeadershipSolution ArchitectureDelivery GovernanceMentorshipCommunity BuilderData MigrationD365 F&OBusiness CentralPower PlatformAzure IntegrationAI & CopilotDevOps & ALMExecutive Advisory
02A builder at heart

Architecture is better when you can still prove it.

I started in ERP and .NET product development, spent years inside AX 4.0, AX 2009, AX 2012 and D365 F&O, and then moved through technical lead, solution architect and delivery/practice leadership roles. The role grew, but I never wanted architecture to become a diagram-only job.

I still prototype, troubleshoot and review code; shape SAP, Oracle and AX migrations into D365; design banking, HR, EDI and Azure integrations; build Power Platform and Power Pages solutions; and use proof-of-concepts to remove risk before a team scales the solution.

Leadpractice strategy · delivery governance · people · client outcomes
ArchitectF&O · Business Central · Power Platform · enterprise integration
BuildX++ · C#/.NET · Dataverse · Power Apps · Power Pages · automation
Move dataSAP · Oracle · AX · DMF/DIXF · SQL/ETL · reconciliation · cutover
OperateAzure DevOps · CI/CD · environments · release · go-live · hypercare
Enablementoring · capability development · community · technical writing
ElsewhereFollow the work, not just the résumé.

I share delivery lessons, architecture thinking and community work on LinkedIn. I’m also preparing a public code portfolio for reusable Dynamics, Power Platform, migration and agent patterns.

From the blog

Recent thinking, without the fluff.

Architecture, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure and the practical shift from conversational AI to enterprise agents.

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Recognition & credentials

Microsoft ecosystem, one connected stack.

Recognition at one end; the platforms I design, build, integrate and govern across at the other.

Microsoft MVP mark
Recognition
Microsoft MVP Business Applications · technical depth · community contribution
Business applications
Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations · Business Central · Customer Engagement
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Low-code & data
Power Platform Power Apps · Power Automate · Power Pages · Dataverse · Copilot Studio
Cloud & integration
Azure Integration Services · DevOps · data & analytics · AI

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