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 state (Future Mode of operation defined), gap analysis and roadmap, highlighted impacts, consequences and benefits of the intended transformation (people, process, technology).• 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, Viptela) and Edge (Celona P5G) solutions using NTT's NaaS portfolio.• Support the sales teams in presenting an architecture solution to clients with a focus on uncovering other client growth opportunities. • Share client outcomes and market conditions with other stakeholders so that the global offering leads, and Managed Services community can evolve strategies and develop innovative solutions for the future• Coach, mentor, lead and act as advisor and decision maker in service design situations• Identify all service costs in model related to the delivery of the service over the contract term• Create Statement of Work (SOW)• Responsible for vendor management

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 (SIP Trunking), Managed Network Services, SASE, RingCentral• 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.• Identifies and proposes specific strategies, initiatives and remedies necessary to align customer technology infrastructures with customer business objectives.• Coordinates Verizon engineering resources to capture detailed technical requirements and develop a solution consistent with customer objectives.• Builds deep relationships and communicates the value proposition of end-to-end solutions and managed network services.• Embracing change and ensuring corporate objectives move forward.Router/Switch CPE Expertise:Cisco, Meraki, Juniper, Adtran, Dell, LannerSDN Solutions:Cisco, Palo Alto, VeloCloud, Versa, Fortinet, SilverpeakFirewall Solutions:Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, FortinetWAN and LAN:MPLS, SONET, 4G/5G Fixed Wireless Access, Ethernet – Layer 1 through Layer 3, Wireless LAN, Dedicated Internet, Broadband

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 driven by systems that enable change, growth and flexibility. The Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure must ensure the IT infrastructure is reliable, secure, cost efficient, and strategically sound, reflecting business needs and best practices.