Geoffrey Chollar Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

Irvine, Ca

Professional Services Architect providing guidance and leadership for Softchoice’s largest and most complex engagements, which often span multiple technologies and business outcomes. I lead the initial delivery of new service offerings, as well as train, coach, and mentor System Engineers throughout the delivery process. I represent Professional Services and assist sales and pre-sales with the scoping of large and/or complex opportunities. Work with Solutions Architects to provide accurate and detailed Statements of Work, as well as complete Peer Review on behalf of Professional Services Management. Lead and participate in practice initiatives and special projects, as well as represent Professional Services in interactions and projects with the Innovation team. Work with sales, pre-sales, innovation, and delivery teams to develop new solutions, cross-practice offerings and delivery standards.

Irvine, Ca

Solutions Architect specializing in Microsoft Technologies. Current job duties include working with sales to grow the services business by leading customer technical sessions, writing and delivering Statements of Works and RFP responses, working with Sales, Management, Project Management, and Engineering teams to ensure services are implemented and delivered as scoped, and developing and maintaining customer and partner relationships. Actively track and forecast services opportunities and maintain Microsoft CRM. Collaborate with other Solutions Architects, Practice Leads, and Softchoice Leadership to grow the services business. Organize and lead sales training sessions to build knowledge and increase sales numbers.Key Accomplishments • 2015 Orange Cape award recipient, Softchoice’s top award for Professional Services• 2015 President’s Club award recipient• Consistently a top Gross Profit producer, and have exceeded annual plan every year since becoming a Solutions Architect • Created Statement of Work templates for Microsoft System Center technologies that were adopted company wide• In conjunction with Softchoice Marketing, delivered several customer facing Windows 10 webinars, which resulted in increased customer meetings and services engagements

Irvine, Ca

Senior Consultant specializing in the System Center suite as well as general Microsoft Technologies. Job duties included technical consulting, presales assistance (Statement of Work creation/review, etc.), and working with the services team to build process and procedures to grow the business. I acted as the technical project lead on numerous Active Directory, Desktop Deployment (DDPS), SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, SCOM 2007, SCOM 2012, SCVMM 2012 and general System Center suite engagements.Key Accomplishments• Consistently the consultant with the highest utilization in North America• Up-sold and extended several engagements, all while improving customer satisfaction

Principal Consultant and Microsoft Practice Lead for a Microsoft Worldwide Gold Partner. Job duties included technical consulting, technical presales (including working with customers to properly scope an engagement, creating Statement of Work’s, working with sales to identify proper resources, etc.), and business development/strategy. As the Western Region Microsoft Practice Lead, assisted with the development and execution of Microsoft strategies, as well as created several standard SOW and delivery templates. I lead and mentored several Microsoft Consultants throughout the Western United States. Acted as the technical project lead on numerous mid to large enterprise Active Directory, Desktop Deployment, System Center, and general Microsoft engagements; as well as completed many non-Microsoft engagements (such as QMM, ESSO, and Identity Management.). Key Accomplishments • Recipient of the BT Americas President’s Award and the Microsoft AGM’s award for Project Execution Excellence for a large hardware and software refresh project at a Credit Bureau. • Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist (V-TSP) for Microsoft, and as such I lead architectural design sessions, technical pre-sales, technical boot camps, proof of concepts, training, and technical engagements on behalf of Microsoft.• Spent several days a month working at the Irvine Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) delivering presentations, boot camps, and “lunch and learns” on behalf of Microsoft and British Telecom. These activities resulted in strong relationships with Microsoft counterparts and several Professional Services customers and engagements• Created several Statement of Work templates for Microsoft technologies that were adopted across all of North America

Team lead for the Windows Core Technologies group, which handled all aspects of Active Directory, Cluster Management, DHCP, DNS, File\Print Services, IIS, SMS 2003, MOM 2005, VMWare Technologies, and various other 3rd party solutions. My key responsibilities included Active Directory administration; including design and group policy management, patch management (which consisted of roughly 800 servers, 10,000 desktops, and 2500 laptops), server and desktop management using SMS 2003, server monitoring using MOM 2005, and server consolidation using VMWare ESX server. Actively provided leadership and direction for 5 Systems Engineers and 4 Systems Administrators. Evaluated business needs to determine or modify technological roadmap. Completed assessment and integration recommendations for all acquisitions and mergers.Key Accomplishments• Migrated the environment from NT 4.0 and Novell to Windows Active Directory native mode• Implemented SMS 2003, providing the business with automated tools for desktop and server management• Implemented MOM 2005, providing the business with monitoring/management tools for the servers• Migrated/integrated numerous acquired companies into the New Century Active Directory structure

Senior level network engineer for a company of 350+ employees.

Senior level network/desktop support for 2000+ users.