My career with Solution providers, channel partners and specific vendors has developed Data center and cloud architect skills which enable me to be a valuable team member, providing guidance to customers for integrating new technologies with existing technologies , and best practices for well architected framework (AWS term but relevant everywhere), as they grow their cloud infrastructure across multiple private and public clouds and SaaS offerings. Best practices for migrations, security, disaster recovery, database deployment, backup/recovery, network connectivity, end user computing, automation, compliance and governance.Provide pre-sales technical leadership to sales teams, customers and partners.- Develop and deliver custom presentations and whiteboard sessions tailored to business and technology objectives of each customer.- Lead product demonstrations and feature/benefit discussions.- Assist in product evaluation, development of success criteria and successful proof-of-concepts.- Assist in developing custom solutions that are specific to customer business and technology requirements.- Analyze customer business and technology objectives in order to present and position the most appropriate solution.- Evangelize cloud technologies and solutions at industry events through presentation and product demonstrations.

Multi-cloud solutions for customers looking to move to the cloud. Guiding discussions around business value, technology trends, reducing costs, improving SLA's, improving application performance, migrating to Infrastructure as a service, modern applications, disaster recover, business continuity, cloud/datacenter security, Networking, SDWAN, End user computing, application provisioning, using VMware and AWS Native Cloud.Provide pre-sales technical leadership to sales teams, customers and partners.- Develop and deliver custom presentations and whiteboard sessions tailored to business and technology objectives of each customer.- Lead product demonstrations and feature/benefit discussions.- Assist in product evaluation, development of success criteria and successful pilots/proof-of-concepts.- develop custom solutions that are specific to customer business and technology requirements.- Analyze customer business and technology objectives in order to present and position the most appropriate solution.- Evangelize cloud technologies and solutions at industry events through presentation and product demonstrations.-Install Whiteglove installations of cloud solutions including AWS and VMC on AWS, integrating with customers data center environment.

Cloud management and operations. AWS VPC design and hybrid connectivity to Amazon services. DRaaS, SaaS, PaaS. Hybrid/multicloud solutions using VPN, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, transit VPC/Gateway design and configuration. Integration for EC2,ECS,S3, EFS, database services, load balancing, DNS, Content delivery, monitoring, compliance and governance. VMware solutions integration to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS. Migration of applications and data into cloud.

Solution Architect leading Cloud, DRaaS and backup discussions to Public cloud and Service providers. Covering the entire US.

Cloud Infrastructure design for VMware Hybrid workloads. DRaaS, and Data Center extension. I specialize in SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) products NSX, vSAN, vRealize Cloud Management suite, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Vblock, VxRack, Cloud Foundation, and VMware Cloud on AWS. Horizon View and Workspace One. Company was sold to Cloud provider for the last 5 months I was with them.

Presales support for Hybrid Cloud solutions. Catalog based designs for automating Application, hardware and operating systems deployments, IT automation and configuration using tools and frameworks from HP and other vendors. Helion Solution includes design, provisioning, operations, management, performance and security monitoring. OpenStack based IaaS and Cloud Foundry on OpenStack (DBaaS). Cloud Service offering creation using Public cloud from Amazon, VMware vCloud Air , Microsoft Azure and others.

Technical Presales Engineer for Storage and Virtualization solutions.

Storage, Virtualization and Data Center Solutions to address customers business needs.

Data, Storage and VMware solution presales, architecting and implementations. Key projects include Primary/DR SAN and VMware recovery solution for Bank in Delaware. NetApp vSeries replacing EMC Clarion Storage for health services company and local College in PA. Compliance/Archiving/eDiscovery solution for a large construction company and a airplane parts manufacturer. Maintain relationships with partners and vendors. Currently pursuing Exchange 2010, Cisco UCS and Nexus proficiency.

Duties include Presales and Post sales implementations. Specializing in SAN/NAS technologies, Virtualization, Citrix, Server and Storage Consolidation, DR/BC, Archiving/Backup, Network upgrades, installations and maintenance. Supporting sales force for SOW development and product knowledge development. Working with partners to improve process and relationships.

Systems Engineer Specializing in W2K3, Exchange 2K3, and Citrix installs and upgrades in medium environments.

Communications flight member specializing in Phone Systems and Computer Network solutions. Rank of TSgt. Top Secret Security clearance.