Craig Watson Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Responsible for North America IIoT technology solutions, integrations, marketing, and business development, as well as technical lead for all network and security designs for critical infrastructure lines of business.

Mahwah, Nj

West Monroe Partner’s Energy and Utilities practice is an industry specific consulting team focused on helping energy and utility clients transform and adapt to new business models. Within this team is a small group of industry veterans with deep telecommunications expertise who work with our clients to develop integrated, converged wired and wireless communication solutions. The work that this team is involved in starts with the development of long term strategies and roadmaps and continues through to the technical expertise required to implement these large and complex networks. Through these engagements, the team is also heavily focused on the ensuring the client has the right people in the right places, and that they are supported by the right processes to successfully operate and maintain their communication networks.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Focused on providing world-class, cloud based architectures through technical thought leadership and strategic consulting to assist customers and clients migrate data workloads into Microsoft Azure. Responsible for envisioning and showcasing what is possible with modern infrastructure, security, and various connectivity models in order to transform business goals and objectives into agile, cloud enabled solutions.Key focus areas include:• Identify client business and technology requirements that can leverage our services and solutions around Microsoft Azure • Lead analysis engagements that help clients review their existing portfolio of applications, determine cloud compatibility, perform cost / benefit analysis, and build application migration and modernization roadmaps.• Translate business and technical requirements into a solution design while balancing integration into existing environment and enabling agility to meet future demands• Develop road maps describing the evolution and transformation of infrastructure solutions from current to future state• Research and design new infrastructure technologies, architectures and processes• Define Network, Security, and Cloud architectural standards and policies; identify application architecture patterns and map network services and capabilities to support the implementation and operation of application sets

Overland Park, Ks

Built and managed Network Services group, focused on providing Network and Security Communication Master Planning and Technology Road Maps for Utility organizations across North America.

Recruited to perform regional pre and post sales design support focused on high-end Local and Wide Area Networks, Wireless Infrastructures , Cisco VoIP Implementations, Security and Video Surveillance strategies, and overall Product Knowledge Expert on all Cisco network solutions for Enterprise, Commercial, Education, and Public Sector accounts.• Primary Point of Contact for all Design and Assessment Pre & Post-sales opportunities, project management and consulting activities with team members and sales staff; engineering advanced network solutions to exceed customer needs and goals. • Increased Cisco VoIP sales and implementations by 200% and further developed Cisco Physical Security practice by 100%. • Consistently complimented for excellent communication and strong analytical skills with the ability to draw conclusions, make decisions and present recommendations to advance customer's business

Provided full IT support and Airport roll out implementation under the new TSA program for all airports in Arkansas. Directly supported Federal Security Director and staff for all IT initiatives, communcations, and training.