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 solutions to achieve their strategic outcomes.

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 (PCF)Networking and Security Experience:CiscoAristaNSX-vNSX-T

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.• Provide regular status on goals accomplished for the customer to demonstrate work in progress, issues that are fixed, and overall value added for solution delivery.• Operate and assist colleagues with customer break/fix issues and networking expertise.• Mentoring the team practice to attain technical certifications.VMware product experience:• vCenter• vSphere• ESXi• NSX• vRealize Log Insight• vRealize Network Insight

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 critical applications.• 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 business, which has made EMC millions of dollars.• An escalation support resource for complex networking and security issues.• Experience with network path assessments to deploy voice and video collaboration equipment.• Well versed working with various service providers to deploy new circuits and to troubleshoot down and degraded circuit conditions.• Experienced in evaluating capacity planning for current and future growth.• Responsible for adds, moves, and changes within the EMC global network.• Experienced in turning up new facilities servicing hundreds of users. • Experienced in deploying and documenting network equipment for site builds which included: Firewalls, WAN optimization, Wireless LAN Controllers, switches, and routers.• Designed, implemented, and supported over one hundred global locations in the Americas, EMEA, and ASIAPAC with numerous technologies including WAN, VOIP, Wireless, and LAN.• Experienced in working the EMC World marketing show for three years which had an attendance of over ten thousand people every year.• Monitoring experience for global network assets for all EMC Americas, APAC, and EMEA locations.• Knowledgeable in triaging and troubleshooting issues with many global ISP carriers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Orange, and BT.

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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