Chris Sator Email & Phone Number

Richmond Hill, On, Ca

Toronto

Helping clients achieve higher business performance by unleashing the power of "cloud" across their people, processes and technology with solid, practical advice and an experienced transition team to execute the plan.Benefits include: - improving business and IT processes and workflows - raising employee productivity and collaborative teamwork - streamlining voice/web/video communications - enabling secure user mobility without complexity - achieving "limitless" IT infrastructure with easier ongoing management - safe guarding data from ransomware, human error loss and disasters - advising on managed services, service levels and cost modelsAdditionally, the managed provider space is crowded and can be challenging to compare specific service levels. We have the expertise to ensure you meet or exceed your business requirements in your search as it pertains to consistent service levels, automation, certifications, security, customer service and references or alternatively, can shorten your selection efforts with our vetted IT managed service providers and managed security providers to speed your time to results and value. Experience in this space means understanding service costs and what delivery experience should be expected while taking the guess work out of achieving good value at proper price.

Thornhill

Developed OnX's cloud business by building and selling hybrid cloud services with strategic cloud partners. My key focus was on hybrid models that included identity management, cloud-based disaster recovery and backup, cloud workload migrations and workflow automation. Ensured that designs addressed enterprise requirements to realize cost efficiency, performance, compliance and security as well as support for legacy applications. Lead the Canadian CTO team as principle cloud consultants for clients across financial, insurance, manufacturing, government agency and services industries, supporting both sales efforts and technical-level consulting.Acted as both a leader of the Canadian CTO team and as a key cloud consulting resource for public and private-sector clients across many industries. Provided sales and technical-level training to various OnX teams.

Toronto

Led the transformation of cloud services to an integrated enterprise solution set with hybrid Disaster Recovery options while guiding engineering teams on developing desired features and establishing service catalog pricing.Established key channel sales partnerships to both the vendor community and VAR community that enabled joint compensation and go to market activities.Created market messaging and trained sales teams that lead to an increase in sales volume, ultimately adding value to the final RackForce sale price to Terago.

Toronto, Canada Area

Led OnX's evolution from isolated managed colo to a secure multi-tenant enterprise cloud service provider while evolving their managed services to obtained 3.5 times higher sales growth, tripled revenues per floor tile with higher margins and 30% lower capital costs. This leadership role included contributing to brand development and go to market strategy, Cloud and Managed Services pricing and packaging of a complete service catalog, architecture of cloud services for IaaS and managed infrastructure that enabled leading fortune 500 organizations in Finance, Retail and Transportation to come on board, formed and led the cloud engineering team to advance offerings on an ongoing basis, and re-engineered pre-sales, onboarding and management service workflows for greater efficiency and scale.Leadership role in the OnX Federated Cloud solution suite:- Key brand development and go to market strategy contributor- Cloud and Managed Services pricing and packaging of a complete service catalog- Architecture of cloud services for IaaS and managed infrastructure that enabled leading fortune 500 organizations in Finance, Retail and Transportation to come on board- Created and led the cloud engineering team to advance offerings on an ongoing basis- Re-engineered pre-sales, onboarding and management services for greater efficiency and scale

Thornhill

Established virtualization, data management and cloud strategies as multi-year roadmaps for key clients that enabled strategic business initiatives, generating both operational and capex cost savingsChanged the way OnX approached Professional Services increasing revenues by 45% in one yearEnabled marketing of services and contributed to the OnX corporate messageEvent speaker and briefing key note for both client and vendor conferencesBusiness alliance development, bringing technologies and services together as client solutions

Richmod Hill

From start up mode and zero customers, built up the Data Center practice to be over 40% of total revenues from across 3 divisions, that included pre-sales, CTO, PM and integrator consultant roles Established an initial client reference base from scratch using virtualization and storage strategies to beak into new accounts to great success while establishing key vendor partnerships.Created business processes for SoW's, levels of effort estimation, sales presentations and pricing methodologies as well as managed the sales funnel with workflow automation in SharePoint.Established the PMO delivery methodology and processes including automated change control, pricing approvals and time tracking of resources. Led the organization into it's first managed "cloud" solution including virtualization, storage and backup solutions hosted at Q9

Toronto, Canada Area

Senior pre-sales and consulting roles - including hosting local executive briefings.Developed an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) storage strategy engagement methodology that enabled clients to achieve lower storage costs with improved SLA's to improve IT processes around backup, disaster recovery, data retention and application availability, scalability and performance.Help many clients created effective ILM business cases to achieve quicker business outcomes.

Mississauga

Managed the Unix team across 3 data centers covering Toronto and StellertonHelped transition the merger between Agora and Sobeys teams in a smooth manner gaining valuable merger experience.

Mississauga

Wrote the strategy and business case for systems management, HA and DRInterfaced with various teams including DBA, Operations and developer teams to instruct on established standards and processes for the new Agora application suite being prepared for rollout.Managed the systems management team that supported the above tools and processes

Brampton

Lead the evolution from mainframe to client server applications on both AIX and HPUX systems for ERP and Logistics that included interfacing to development teams to establish integration pointsEstablished standards, architecture and methods for all client server applications that still existed in 2007 across DNS naming, NIS, disk layouts (VG/LV etc) and development scripting standardsLead an automation team that included over 100+ systems running Oracle, Sybase, Manugistics and MQseries as well as Tivoli, Best/1, TSM and NetView.Transitioned the operations staff into understanding and managing distributed systems and associated applications with automation

Oshawa

My time here at North America's largest 6.5 million square feet car plant was truly enjoyable --- helping to build a better car at a time when GM needed higher productivity, better quality and increased profits - Chevrolet Lumina and Buick Regal at that time. This is where I honed my skills on how to solve business problems with appropriate technologies. I was involved in plant floor automation learning PLC ladder logic to help design beyond the systems I was responsible for, to ensure a better outcome.Managed a million dollar budget to replace front end systems to enable better communications to more robotics and devices across the plant to improve logistics and manufacturing quality.Negotiated new contracts with GM on behalf of EDS that lead to establishing an automation team in addition to EDS' existing outsource contracts. This was unusual considering it was NOT based on desktop standards or mainframe support, rather on improving plant floor business processes.Automated the car manufacturing process between central scheduling systems and robotics that saved GM multiple millions in wasted paint efforts, just in time parts delivery, proper sequencing of manufacturing integration points, lowered inventory requirements, improved quality and reliability of the cars assembled.Developed a just in time material handling system to 3rd party suppliers that saved millions in capital costs on plant re-engineering and support, that ended up being used across many GM plants across North America.