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Odessa, Fl, Us

United States

Lead a team of solutions architects who work with Fortune 50 - 1000 clients on complex technical solutions in the Azure ecosystem that engage all of our delivery practices. Experience working with modern technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps practices and integration, AKS Azure Kubernetes, M365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform as well as Azure AI Studio and the Azure modern data platform. This involves doing workshops, technical discovery, building business cases, creating executive solution briefs and statements of work as well as anything else required to help win the confidence of our clients to help advise how to best adopt Microsoft Azure technologies to further their business goals. I am in a lead technical sales support role with a heavy emphasis on in person opportunities to present, meet and deep dive into ways to bring technology to bear to solve business problems. I work directly with our delivery and sales leadership to bridge the gap between technical practices and a holistic GTM strategy for digital transformation for our Fortune 50-1000 clients. Skills: · Infrastructure and DevOps · Data Architecture · Partner Management · Executive Presentations · Relationship Building · Management Consulting · Digital Transformation · Account Planning · Defining Requirements · Technology Implementation · Business Transformation · Containerization and Microservices architecture · Business Requirements · Presales · Technical Leadership · Business Development · Microsoft GTM ·

Tampa, Florida, United States

Lead technical presales discussions with our Fortune 1000 customers around the art of the possible within Azure. Create new go to market and business roadmaps and technical enablement plans to assist in the digital transformation journey for our customer segment and try to align with Microsoft’s partner roadmap, specifically around Azure VMware Solutions, AVD as well as AKS and the Azure modern data platform. Act as a trusted advisor to key decision makers within our customer segment by learning about their organization, advising on solutions, and positioning Stratascale professional services. Drive execution of technology adoption and digital transformation strategy to achieve desired business outcomes and ensure client satisfaction with Stratascale solution delivery. Hire, train and manage the presales team to bring new solutions to market that drive both professional service growth and orchestrate projects across multiple internal centers of excellence.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Senior Technical Azure specialist dealing with Enterprise accounts. Helping our customers select, deploy and manage their technology needs. Presales solution selling in an architectural role helping our customers achieve digital agility utilizing the cloud and best practices.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Cloud generalist dealing with Enterprise accounts supporting their needs across all of the major cloud providers. Architecting solutions and helping our customers select, deploy and manage their technology needs in a presales solution's architectural role supporting our account executives dealing with large enterprise and public sector accounts under the SHI umbrella.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Managed vendor relationships and roadmaps. Evaluation of new technologies and solutions for the platform. Detailed design/architecture and implementation of network, compute storage virtualization platforms using open-source software and commodity hardware to enable the virtualization of key network functions and applications within the Verizon network. Primary technologies included Openstack, VMWare, RHEL, KVM, Dell and NetApp. Performance and interoperability testing. Proof of concept and technical evaluation and comparison of hypervisors (including KVM and ESXi), PAAS solutions (RHEL OSP, Canonical Openstack, VMWare VIO). Developed deployment procedures for OpenShift and K8S DevOps pipelines and technical documentation. Implemented version control and configuration management processes. Worked with VARs to build and maintain current standards catalog. Evaluated new hardware and roadmaps from vendors

Tampa, Florida, United States

Applications Support Manager in charge of a global team which utilized a "follow the sun" support model with teams in India the U.K., and Tampa, FL. The team needed to be completely rehired so was heavily involved in the requirements, vetting and interviewing process to hire on new staff. Worked closely with HR to bring in the right talent. Was sent to remote locations where the firm was represented and took part in recruiting efforts with other lines of business to attract qualified and experienced professionals to the firm thru the recruitment program as well as attending locally held technology hack-a-thon workshops in addition to the yearly SACC (Service Academy Career Conference) where we can talk to experienced military officers coming into the private sector with top notch leadership skills as well as technical skill sets . Held internal resume writing and interviewing best practices workshop internally within the firm to assist employees with updating their resumes and practicing their interview skills with hiring managers. Worked closely with GTI/GSO to ensure any impactful outages have a root cause and fix identified as soon as possible and escalate the issue when necessary depending on the amount involved and the time of day. The team serviced a multitude of applications under CIB and they were all mission critical to the operation of the bank. Team handled day to day application monitoring and made enhancements to the monitoring alerting proactively as well as reactively in case we had an incident and improper alerting was found to be at fault for not getting ahead of the incident. Incident management, working with other technology teams to get to the root cause was critical. As the manager, responsibilities included proper coaching, skills training and career path development as well as setting short and long term goals to be met for performance criteria.

Temple Terrace, Fl

In a team lead role working directly with internal technology teams as well as IBM Professional Services to create a video transcoding platform using fourteen different WebSphere cells and multiple other vendor technologies to move content in a workflow-based system and deliver it to a variety of customers, both internal and external via Wireless and over the top cable technologies. Deployed the platform in Production and was the lead in charge of the application support for the entire platform which meant intimate familiarity with every aspect of the platform, from Aspera asset ingest delivery to Rhozet transcoding and then to the different jumps it would have to take within the IBM Business Process Manager to get through the workflow and end up successfully transcoded in a different format for customers like Viacom and Associated Press and our Verizon Wireless user base. Operationally was in charge of a team which analyzed heap dumps whenever there were fatal faults within the system and was on call 24/7/365 as the subject matter expert for all of the IBM products. Setup the ESXi and vCenter infrastructure with NetApp ONTAP in Cluster mode and was also in charge of managing the professional services vendors during upgrades to the ONTAP storage versions and to test the storage arrays to make sure there were no bottlenecks there due to I/O restrictions. Worked directly with the lab to ensure all change management procedures were properly captured and documented before being promoted to Production and would regularly test the deployment process in a PLE (Production Like Environment) to make sure everything was in order. Communicated regularly with executive management about the deliverables and showstoppers that were caught during patch deployments for new bug fixes.