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Houston, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Houston, Texas

Developed solutions using Microsoft Cloud Technologies to solve customers’ business problems while reducing costs and increasing revenue.• Managed architectural design sessions, driving proof of value / proof of concept and helped to move opportunities to close.• Worked closely with customers to identify cloud appropriate & move applications and workloads to Azure or Office 365. This allowed the customers to reduce or avoid costly capital expenditures and move to an operational expense budget models.• Worked directly with ISV and Microsoft Partners to move on premises workloads to Microsoft Azure.

Houston, Texas

Worked with $1.7 Million book of Premier Services Business. • Built strong relationships with enterprise sized customers to earn Trusted Advisor status by proactively understanding their goals and leading teams comprised of Microsoft, partner and customer resources to deliver complex solutions. • Ensured timely resolution of all support issues through effective problem resolution & escalation management. • Worked directly with customer leadership to formulate and execute Service Delivery Plans to achieve agreed upon conditions of satisfaction.• Provided regular progress reports to track the status of ongoing projects and service consumption.• Facilitated timely workload risk assessments to identify and remediate issues before they impacted production.• Lead customers in their Digital Transformation to the Microsoft Cloud. o Assisted in moving workloads such as Exchange, Skype & SharePoint utilizing SaaS in Microsoft Office 365. o Identified opportunities in the customers’ environment that would reduce and or operationalize costs of the workloads by shifting to IaaS utilizing Microsoft Azure.o These opportunities included but were not limited to: Azure Site Recovery, Citrix in Azure, Schlumberger Eclipse utilizing HPC in Azure, SQL in Azure (PaaS), Azure Stack, Azure Blob Storage, Visual Studio Team Services and customer specific internal applications.

Houston, Texas