Microsoft Partner Champion, Azure Marketplace, and Azure Infrastructure Solutions ProviderFrametype Solutions is a Microsoft Partner startup specializing in the 'productization of professional services for cloud-based solutions, specifically Azure and the Microsoft ecosystem of technologies.This is done by creating standardized transactable offers delivered through a marketplace experience as 'products' for traditional consultative type services. Unique client-specific ‘customizations’ are incorporated into our product DevOps cycles and delivered through an Agile sprint methodology to ensure a timely and requirement driven outcome.Company goals include making these solutions available to the Microsoft Partner community for ISV program related co-selling opportunities as a path to increased exposure to the SMC and enterprise markets not easily accessible to SMB partners

As the CTO and Chief Architect, I lead and manage a highly skilled team of Azure Infrastructure and DevOps architects to deliver comprehensive cloud based and hybrid solutions to clients. My core responsibilities include the following:- Team Leadership: Oversee a cross-functional team of architects and engineers, driving collaboration and innovation to provide dynamic solutions to meet client needs.-Solutions Delivery: Develop and refine processes for the seamless delivery of cloud-based solutions, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and client satisfaction by leveraging Agile, DevOps, and Infrastructure as Code.- Azure Marketplace: Spearhead the creation, management, and optimization of Co-Sell Enabled offers within the Azure marketplace, enabling business growth and enhancing client engagement.- Microsoft Taxonomy & Solution Plays Alignment: Design of product offerings with Microsoft's Taxonomy and solution plays to maintain relevance and maximize our strategic positioning within the Microsoft ecosystem.- Partner Skilling & Certifications: Drive the skilling and certification efforts necessary to achieve and maintain Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations, ensuring our team remains at the forefront of cloud expertise.- Advanced Specializations Audits: Oversee skilling and business practice verification audits required for obtaining advanced specializations, ensuring compliance and performance excellence.- Strategic Partner Development: Lead the strategy development for enhancing our partnership with Microsoft, focusing on continuous growth, competitive advantage, and leveraging new opportunities.

As an Azure Solutions Architect with extensive experience in cloud and network architecture, I specialized in designing, implementing, and managing Azure-based solutions that drove business transformation. My role involved collaborating with stakeholders to understand their unique requirements and translating them into scalable, secure, and reliable cloud architectures with a focus on security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

- Developed and implemented a technology strategy that increased company revenues and allowed for dynamic scaling at high velocity to match the flow of acquisitions.- Led a team of engineers and IT professionals, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.- Oversaw the design and implementation of a new VoIP and communications platform, resulting in an increase in efficiency, productivity while lowering overall costs.-Created a comprehensive security strategy that incorporated solutions for endpoint, messaging, communications, and networks.- Centralized transactional and lead generation databases for enhanced reporting and visualization of key company metrics around performance, profitability, quantity, and quality. This also provided better demographics for Marketing and Sales to tailor their strategic initiatives.

Started private business centered around providing enterprise level technology solutions for small businesses in the greater northern California and northern Nevada regions. Included offerings such as:- Centralized hosted email and messaging plans- Domain registration and establishment of basic Internet presence.- Secure and cost effective Internet connectivity

Deigned solutions and led implementation teams for migration and networking related projects for enterprise customers that included:- EMI Music- Nissan, North America- Toyota Motor Corporation- Mandalay Bay Resorts Group- Hughes Space and Communications

Participated as a key member of a technology .com startup venture creating, launching, and iterating a live online P2P video communications product, which supported millions of subscribers. This innovative architecture provided communications, IP presence detection as well as IP peer-to-peer communications over the Internet and preliminary live-scaling concepts that are now foundational in today's communication solutions.