Michael Gurley Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

Alpharetta, Ga

I work with Enterprise customers on both innovative solutions and traditional IT problems such as limited capacity for growth and expansion, the need for more fluid collaboration and communication tools, and a growing mobile workforce. Gaining fresh insight into my customers business needs and corporate objectives allows me to identify which services and solutions will best enable "business" while reducing time to market. As a Productivity Solutions Specialist, I work closely with Account Teams to ensure that customers achieve the highest value from their investment in Microsoft solutions and apply business insights and industry-specific knowledge to tailor our approach for successful program implementation.

Built a team of highly skilled professional services consultants focused on supporting the company's sales organization and improving Service delivery capabilities. My subject matter expertise was instrumental in creating our Enterprise Mobility Strategy and allowed me to work with customers on developing their corporate strategies through custom workshops, public speaking engagements, and traditional consulting. My background in application virtualization and end-user computing enhanced the solutions I was able to share with my customers around mobile devices, flexible work-styles, and adopting new initiatives such as BYOD and Choice Programs.

Required to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies in a consulting role that involved constantly changing client landscapes and network infrastructures. Many of my Customers were looking for better ways to collaborate with their highly distributed workforce while reducing the costs related to expensive on-premises deployments. I helped our company provide friendly Unified Communications solutions that avoided the pitfalls of complex and expensive IP Telephony or traditional PBX systems. I also worked closely with many of these same customers on reoccurring issues related to the deployment and adoption of new technologies as a result of acquisitions and corporate expansion.

Responsible for complete IT project life-cycle management from proposals to implementation and delivery. Virtualization has been top of mind for most of my customers as they look for ways to drive down long-term IT costs while providing flexible work styles and access to LOB and business critical applications from any platform and device. As a Solutions Architect I worked with various business and IT Leaders to leverage Application and Desktop Virtualization solutions to provide consistent user experiences across devices, reduce employee on-boarding costs and ramp-up time, and allow for rapid application deployment and upgrade cycles.

Provided pre-sales consulting and network design services for a wide variety of client environments across a varying number of vertical markets. I was responsible for comprehensive network security consulting, vulnerability assessments, and managing a nationally distributed Hosted Firewall Solution. Speaking with my customers about Security and Access Management solutions required me to deliver board-room presentations, on-site training, and product overviews to audiences ranging from CxO's to IT Support personnel.

Ba, Telecommunication Arts

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Student Government Association, All Campus Homecoming Committee, Student Finance.

Master’S Degree, Biblical And Theological Studies

MBTS