Chris Wess Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Tn, Us

Lakeland, Tennessee, Us

As the CEO and Chief AI Innovation Officer at Wintellisys, my job involves overseeing and leading the company's operations, while also driving innovation and progress in the field of artificial intelligence. With over 3 decades of experience in the industry, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to the role.On a day-to-day basis, I work closely with our team of engineers and data scientists to develop cutting-edge AI solutions that help our clients improve their business processes and outcomes. I also collaborate with other leaders across the organization to ensure that we are meeting our strategic goals and delivering value to our stakeholders.One of my primary responsibilities is to stay on top of emerging trends and technologies in the AI space, and to ensure that we are constantly evolving and adapting in response to changing market conditions. This means keeping up-to-date with the latest research and developments, as well as networking with peers and attending industry conferences and events.Overall, my role as CEO and Chief AI Innovation Officer at Wintellisys is both challenging and rewarding. It requires a lot of hard work, dedication, and creativity, but it also offers the opportunity to make a real difference in the world through the power of artificial intelligence.

Lakeland, Tennessee, Us

Responsible for defining and delivering solutions to companies looking to move to the cloud, migrate to new messaging platform, or need assistance in completing projects as a result of a merger acquisition, divestiture or datacenter migration.Significant depth of experience with Azure, Office365, Exchange, Active Directory, Intune, Priasoft, BitTitan, Quest, FIM, PKI.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for the Global Divestiture of 15,000 employee organization in 120+ locations from DuPont to Carlyle Group (Axalta)

Exton, Pa, Us

• Utilized Quest Migration Manager to merge IKON and RICOH into new 40,000 employees AD.• Leveraged Quest Active Roles, and PowerShell to script significant discovery and migration activities.• Complex GPO analysis to merge and filter based upon conflict and duplication.• Document entire process to integrate with Identity management Solution including Active Directory Federated Services and Virtual Directory• Utilized Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 to manage Password resets between Active Directory for multiple forests, Home grown applications, and an Oracle Database.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

Completed a global domain consolidation project collapsing 8 domains into one. Delivered successfully against all business, technology and logistics requirements.

• Exchange 2003 to 2010 Migration and Domain consolidation (15,000 mailboxes utilized the Priasoft Migration Suite).• Active Directory Domain consolidation for 3 disparate organizations and 2 datacenter moves (Utilized Quest and Native Tools)• Designed consolidation and migration strategy to move 2000 users using Quest Migration Manager Suite from Exchange 2003 to 2010. • Leveraged ADMT, Quest Migration Suite, Custom Scripting, and detailed technical procedures.• Significant work to remediate DNS, WINS (Resolution) along with authentication methodologies employed for disparate domains in legacy environment.• Created management tools for proactive reporting in large Exchange environment for service health and log file data analysis.• Project to deploy SCCM to deploy standardized packages and manage enterprise assets for 2500 workstations.• Deep technical acumen Designing, Deploying and supporting highly available Exchange and Infrastructure systems especially with Exchange 2010.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Providing consultative services focusing primarily on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active directory migration, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007.• Server Virtualization leveraging VMWare ESX product line.• Migrated 6000 Users from disparate NT 4.0 Domains to 2003 Active Directory for 6+ Regional Hospital environments.• Remediate mission critical clinical applications to ensure proper functioning and HIPAA compliance.• Assessed, designed and deployed all technologies associated with projects.• Designed Active Directory architecture for Staples Inc eCommerce environment to include migration strategy for legacy Exchange infrastructure.• Deployed several Cisco ASA Firewalls along with deploying and integrating Security into 6509 for large Services Organization.• Designed and Deployed several Exchange 2007 solutions.• Deployed Sharepoint Server 2007 in 9000 seat environment.• Integrated financial services IM and Web Conferencing leveraging Office Communications Server.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Designed and Deployed Hosted Exchange for 225,000 users. Architected Storage subsystem that saved company well into 7 figures while keeping IOPs at a level enabling growth.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

• Enterprise Architect and Engineering Manager for a $2 Billion Microsoft Infrastructure, LAN/WAN and Managed Services project that provided services to 65,000 users at 400 sites.• Managed a group of 100+ MCSE, CISSP, CCNP, CCIE consultants and engineers responsible for designing and implementing the entire secured infrastructure for the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration.• Spearheaded a transition group to lead the Unisys managed services group as ATF transitioned from the Department of Transportation to Department of Justice including Active Directory and Exchange migration.• Architected solution for a 65,000 user Active Directory, MS Exchange environment.• Designed the Cisco Internetworking architecture for security and routing/switching/Voip for 400 airports.• Responsible for all hiring, firing, training, financials, customer interaction, and delivery.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Produced $2 million profit and attained record margins managing 36 consultants in 16-state region.Captured $15 million new business and managed large accounts such as International Paper and Duke Energy.Part of the executive management team for GNS in the Southern region accounting for 350 Million dollars in revenue for Unisys.Responsible for the Enterprise Network Systems consulting arm focusing on: Microsoft Solutions, Enterprise Security, and Advanced Internetworking offerings.Grew the Southern region from 4.45 Million Dollars in previous year to 7.66 Million in FY '00.Created lifecycle process for sales force and consultants to Qualify, Scope, Resource, Implement, and Close engagements.Implemented stringent engagement methodologies for consultants in each core subject matter.Assisted in producing new and emergent services into repeatable methodologies to market inside our customer base.

Us

Managed field service engineering department for the southern region. Responsibilities included the support of wireless networking and handheld devices in companies such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Federated Stores Group, etc.

Irving, Tx, Us

Supervised 29 MIS managers in multinational locations.Converted antiquated legacy systems to best-of-breed architecture, traveling 75% to 30+ countries.Developed robust security architecture to include Policies, Checkpoint FW-1 at the edge, log analysis, application security and Internet Security Systems IDS.One of the first global fortune 500 to leverage a VPN strategy using a mix of vendor productsSpearheaded Microsoft Exchange deployment for 10,000+ users in 60+ locations.

Education record

Bachelor Of Science, Information Systems Management

Bs, Computer Science