Brian Cook Email & Phone Number

United States

• Lead the design of the complex Managed Service offering to meet client requirements, interfacing with the platform delivery team and other multiple towers within NTT to ensure supportability.
• Develop and execute a consulting approach that results in a consolidated statement of requirements, scope, transition documents and costing based need for change, role of IT, definition of the AS-IS versus desired.
• Lead the validation processes by obtaining sign-off from technical, service and costing stakeholders.
• Lead the service design of solutions for the client that will be commercially competitive whilst mitigating risk.
• Map the client's requirements against proposed set of service elements and architectures and lead the end-to-end solution development (Cloud Services, Technology Architectures, SIAM, SLA, ITSM leading practices).
• Lead the pre-sales technical engagement with prospective and existing clients to understand their business needs and propose optimal cloud networking (Azure, AWS, Google), SD-WAN (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Silverpeak.

Louisville, Kentucky

• Responsibilities:
• Provides pre-sale technical input on IT, Communications, and Security designs to best match customer requirements with Verizon capabilities. Continuously seeking the Trusted Partner status with all of my customers.
• Highly motivated to help bring in and close deals to meet quota requirements using consultative selling.
• Assist sales team with Global Enterprise customers on telecommunications solutions which include:o SDWAN, Internet, Cloud Connectivity, IoT, Strategic IP (IDE and MPLS), Fixed Wireless Access, Various Security, VOIP.
• Maintains an understanding of the IT and business applications and continually strives to develop a solution that supports present and future requirements.
• Collaborates with customer and the account team to translate customer business issues and opportunities into technical requirements and technology solutions. Keeping an eye toward generating bookings and sales.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Reporting to the CFO, the Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure provides the vision and leadership for designing, developing and implementing IT initiatives across 8 US and 2 European locations. Additional responsibilities include influencing and directing the IT infrastructure and applications evolution to ensure key business strategies and processes are.