Rick Cates is a Navy Veteran, IT Visionary, Data Storage Legend, and full time Woodworker at Catesy & Co,. He possess expertise in enterprise architecture, storage area networks, virtualization, san, storage architecture and 26 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "The depth and breadth of Rick’s technical knowledge is unsurpassed. More so, he understands the impact of technology to operations and corporate initiatives, beyond just the feature/functionality piece. Rick’s objective approach to technology enables him to see the bigger picture and help drive projects strategic to the organization. Rick was a pleasure to work with and his feedback was always appreciated.", "Rick is one of the most knowledgeable and professional people that I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. Our careers go back many years including our years at IBM where we worked in the same organizations. Rick's reputation throughout the geography was outstanding and he has continued to be held in high regard at Liberty Mutual where I continued working with Rick in various capacities as a vendor at a few different companies. He is consistently well known as a professional across the industry.", and "Rick and I worked together on several projects - he was a key contributor to the success of each one. Rick has outstanding technical knowledge coupled with great communication skills. I recommend him highly."