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Worldwide, Oo

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

 Engaged with more than 50 customers in SMB space and drove solution led selling focused on Cloud.  Designed Hybrid IT solutions that spanned multiple Microsoft technologies with a strong focus on Azure, Enterprise Mobility and Security and Office 365. Worked with customer SLT’s to determine business and technical requirements, drove solution led strategy, wrote proposals and Statements of Work, managed budgets and strategized on future roadmap for adoption and consumption. Led Proof of Concept (POC) and Demo sessions with customers to showcase the technical functionality. Worked with internal leadership on forecasting, account planning and strategic account growth  Developed and maintained relationships with more than 50 vendor partners and clients. Acted as a primary contact for marketing and training events. Regularly engaged the local teams for assistance, support and opportunity mapping as necessary. Mentored the Sales teams on technology driven selling and account-technology mapping to boost pipeline and sales.  Drove new Microsoft solutions opportunities to grow the professional services business and meet targets. Worked with account managers to develop and manage deals, build trust and retain clients. Organized and led sales training sessions and customer boot camps around various Microsoft technologies. Elevated the level of knowledge within the sales team around Microsoft technologies and win strategies for the assigned sales territory. Achieved and grew Microsoft sales numbers MoM in partnership with Sales team in the assigned region. Worked with the Project Management and Engineering teams to ensure the services are implemented and delivered as scoped. Acted as an evangelist for Managed Services offerings and sold Managed Service Offerings.

Hanover, Md, Us

Worked as a Solutions Architect helping MoneyGram (client) accelerate their cloud journey in O365 and Azure.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Engaged with 350+ Microsoft’s customers on AD, Exchange, Lync, O365, Azure, Intune, ADFS, EMS. • Worked in highly complex environments including Fortune 50 organizations with more than 300K users.• Vast experience in Enterprise IT Strategy Planning, Risk Identification/Assessment/Management and Disaster Recovery.• Led deep & complex architecture design, planning, troubleshooting and remediation discussions.• Solved complex integration problems based on strong knowledge of a broad range of technologies.• Managed numerous projects through the entire project lifecycle from inception to post support.• Frequently recognized for being an SME, Program Management and excellent customer service.• Achieved 100% satisfaction rate every single time with 350+ customers over 4 years. • Frequently led teams with up to 15-20 members and worked with multiple teams at the same time.• Drove proactive management of the environment and establishment of IT processes. • Collaborated with teams from various domains internally and externally to drive sales, issue resolution, customer success and growth.• Helped accelerate adoption of Microsoft technologies and partnered in over $3 Million in sales.• Mentored peers over several years in technical and procedural aspects as a SME. • Led several forums internally to grow the internal IP and collaboration in the community.

New York, Ny, Us

•Architected the corporate Exchange 2010 environment within strict budgetary guidelines•Subject Matter expert in Exchange and mobility.•Analysis and presentation of design options based on SLA’s, RTO’s and RPO’s and help make decisions•Analysis of the current storage profile and designing the storage profile for the new messaging system•Designing a 99.9% High Available (HA) environment with Disaster Recovery (DR) •Assisting in migration of 10000 users from various legacy versions to the new Exchange 2010 platform •Provide expert level insight, opinions and options to the management for intelligent decision making •Develop procedures and processes for the new environment.•Providing Level 4 technical support to VIPs and pilot users.•Assistance in consolidating several organizations’ email infrastructure into a single email domain•Working with client’s teams to plan the project phases and implement the solutions

Washington, Dc, Us

Configuring administering and managing Exchange 2007, Blackberry Server environment hosting 10000+ mailboxes, 1000+ Blackberry user base. Supporting Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure in Windows 2008 environment of more than 10000 users Supporting Vmware VSphere and Citrix XenDesktop/Xenserver/XenApp environment Data center management On Call 24/7 Level 4 technical support and VIP support

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Las Cruces, Nm, Us

Las Cruces, Nm, Us

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science

High School