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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.