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The IT industry seems to have one constant: change. IT departments juggle the challenges of limited resources, tight budgets and big business goals. A trusted partner like SHI can support and drive IT's efforts with our value-adding strategies and resources. I coordinate with SHI's specialists on behalf of customers to find solutions fitting their needs. Despite the ever-changing marketplace, our teams stay trained on best-in-breed vendors along with emerging technologies. This vendor-agnostic approach means you get feedback on the best-fit option. Whether in the data center, with commodity hardware, for software procurement and/or dealing with Microsoft agreements, I ensure we prioritize your needs, meet criteria and procure hardware & software in the most cost effective way. My customers appreciate the SHI approach and work with me because I'm proactive, responsive, accountable, and bring a positive personality to the partnership. Areas of focus: - Project management for IT initiatives (action timeline to ensure success, proposal preparation, ROI/TCO analysis, etc) - Industry-leading Microsoft agreement management (EA, MPSA, Select/Select Plus, Open) - Data center solution finding (cloud, servers, storage, virtualization, networking, backup, etc) - Proactive and strategic software/hardware practice (leveraging vendor EOY/EOQ, single & bulk purchasing, volume pricing, sourcing, renewal management) - Cisco SMARTnet management (cost minimization, contract consolidation, maintenance cotermination) - Lifecycle and professional services (migrations, implementations & deployments, hardware warehousing, imaging / asset tagging / etching, asset disposal, etc)

Listed skills include Data Analysis, Outlook, Sales, Microsoft Excel, and 11 others.