Christopher Appell Email & Phone Number

As an accomplished consultant specializing in Enterprise Architecture Solutions with a focus on VMware technologies, I bring a wealth of expertise in guiding and supporting clients through the intricacies of solution design, implementation, and optimization. My core passion lies in meticulously evaluating clients' business needs and skillfully aligning.

• Provide consultation services that involve the architectural design and implementation of the customer's solution.
• Experienced working with customers to understand their overall goals and objectives to solve strategic business challenges.
• Provide guidance, mentoring and education on network and security concepts, theories and practical real-world deployments.
• Design and implement solutions using VMware's NSX-v and NSX-T.
• Skilled at requirement gathering and documenting simple and complex environments to provide the context of business use cases, business challenges and achievable outcomes.
• Provide thought leadership to my customers to help them transform the way they do business.Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Experience:VMware Validated Design (VVD)VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

• Provide consultation services that involve the design and implementation of VMware solutions.
• Experienced working with customers to understand their overall goals and objectives.
• Provide guidance on network virtualization and micro segmentation concepts.
• Design and implement solutions using VMware's NSX.
• Provide support on customer escalations to ensure services are delivered in a timely fashion.
• Skilled at documentation both for underlay/overlay networks and literature to ensure the technologies and implementation concepts are well understood.

Massachusetts

• A specialist in Cisco ASAs.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the remote access VPN technologies, which services over sixty thousand employees with SSL VPN.
• One of the lead engineers in the global Internet Gateway environments, which support internet access, customer connectivity, VPN connectivity for corporate and third party connections, as well as business and mission.
• Expertise with Security hardening of network devices per best practices.
• Works frequently to provide secure connectivity to cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, Terremark, and vCloudAir to allow complex testing with POC’s and customers. This leads to revenue generation for the.
• An escalation support resource for complex networking and security issues.

Westborough, MA

• Was responsible for monitoring production work station scheduled batch jobs.
• Was responsible for production data backups and restores through EDM and Legato for mission critical servers.
• Have a working knowledge of Remedy, Target, Peregrine, Various Microsoft Office applications, and Microsoft Operating Systems.

Computer Science

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