James Anderton Email & Phone Number

Peoria, Il, Us

United States

Top accomplishments:- Spearheaded groundbreaking Generative AI initiatives, revolutionizing customer engagements and internal processes: - Led development of AI-powered chat interface using custom GPT and RAG, reducing assessment time from one week to one day - Built and managed AI incubation team, navigating organizational challenges to secure executive buy-in - Rolled out AI solution to 450+ field sales professionals, significantly enhancing operational efficiency- Drove company-wide GenAI strategy and innovation: - Selected to join GenAI steering committee based on recognized expertise and thought leadership - Led initiative to centralize and industrialize GenAI efforts across the organization, eliminating siloed projects - Advocated for adoption of AI Project in incubation as the backbone of a centralized AI Platform for all product teams- Championed adoption of emerging products through strategic leadership, winning first Lighthouse Account- Achieved 104% quota attainment while managing Secure Product Line SA team- Developed Well Architected Review Framework, driving organizational transformation- Americas Solutions Architect of the year chosen from my team 2 years runningI lead a high-performance team of Solutions Architecture Specialists to guide customers large and small to success on their journey by delivering outstanding technical mentorship and thought leadership during both the pre- and post-sales stages.

United States

- Orchestrated a $40M+ book of business, crafting and delivering best-in-class solutions for enterprise clients- Spearheaded critical workstreams in a comprehensive organizational redesign: - Architected new functional roles and responsibilities across pre- and post-sales technical departments - Developed mission statements aligning team objectives with company strategy - Created detailed RACI matrices to clarify decision-making and accountability - Designed a comprehensive career matrix defining progression paths and performance criteria- Collaborated to build innovative KPIs and OKRs for managing the combined operating model, enhancing overall team performance and client satisfaction

United States

- Mentored and coached team members on technical intricacies and communication strategies, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture- Managed team dynamics through consistent 1:1s and community advocacy, ensuring a positive and productive work environment- Collaborated with management to review team strategies and metrics, driving continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals- Delivered best in class solutions for our largest enterprise clients, helping to provide strategy and vision to improve all aspects of application delivery, including security and privilege automation, datacenter and cloud provisioning, service discovery and connectivity, and application runtime automation.

United States

- Provided strategic vision for revolutionizing application lifecycle management across Fortune 500 clients- Conducted solution design workshops and architectural health checks, delivering transformative insights and recommendations- Collaborated with Product and Engineering teams to solve complex problems and accelerate customer adoption of cutting-edge technologies

United States

Providing a single point of contact for our largest Enterprise Clients, delivering best in class solutions, and helping to provide strategy and vision to improve all aspects of application delivery, including security and privilege automation, datacenter and cloud provisioning, service discovery and connectivity, and application runtime automation.

Peoria Heights, Illinois

- Bootstrapped Cloud and DevOps consulting practice- Presales consultative selling of Cloud and DevOps solutions- Thought leadership centered around creating the culture for all things IT Automation related.

- Proactive collaborative customer engagement with strategic EMC customers- One stop shop for focus, execution, and escalation when problems arose

Technical Lead and Component owner for VMware and Linux Servers, Linux Global Support Onboarding Lead. - Capstone project: vRealize Automation Suite rollout supporting the internal private cloud.Responsibilities included:- Server build process ownership and automation- Security patching process ownership and automation- Software bundle creation- Performance analysis/tuning- Proof of concept roll out

Peoria, Illinois Area

Primary job responsibilities:•Serve as the customer's advocate within Red Hat •Perform technical reviews and share knowledge to proactively identify and prevent issues•Understand your customers' technical infrastructure, hardware, and products•Investigate and respond to online and phone support requests•Provide advice and guidance to customers about their current and future Red Hat products•Manage customer cases and maintain clear and concise case documentation

East Peoria, Il

Level 3 server support, as well as server build process ownership and automation, security patching process ownership and automation, software bundle creation, performance analysis/tuning and proof of concept roll out.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Managed IT Department strategic planning and budget.Managed staff that ranged from 1 - 4 direct reports.Level 3 support of SAN, VMware, Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco systems.

I worked on the windows server remote support team managing 21000 servers globally. My specialty was Microsoft Active Directory Support. I was also on the team to integrate Microsoft Operations Manager with HP OpenView. My day was 1/3 meetings. I left this position to return to Peoria Christian School as the Head of IT.

I was in charge of day to day troubleshooting, computer installs, software support and network infrastructure. I also managed the file, database, and web servers. I left to move to state farm because a change in family life required a change in salary.

I was a student intern in IT placed in the engineering department and tasked with desktop maintenance and software support

Associates, Microcomputer Networking Specialist

I have continued to take classes at ICC and have 108 credit hours in my file. I am 3 classes short of a Unix Administration degree.

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