Greg Carleton Email & Phone Number

Coppell, Texas, US

Focused on Network engineering, firewalls and anything else on the network stack. Azure networking.(AZ-700)

San Francisco, CA, US

• Design and build Azure network structure and integrate with Data Ceter.. Collaborate with team to design strategies to utilize state-of-the-art technology to transform business processes and workflow. Serve as Acting.
• Manage IT department projects, including: direction, budgets, growth, and staffing requirements.
• Build confidence in reliable use of information systems via effective communication, expectation setting, and delivery to goals. Handle projects and provide solutions to business requirements.
• Work with partners/vendors to maximize business revenues by developing plans for information resource management. Lead in realizing significant cost reductions by increasing efficiency and improving customer service..
• Function with stakeholders to solve complex business inefficiencies by architecting, designing, formulating, and developing comprehensive hardware, software, operations, and staffing solutions.
• Apply a thorough understanding of the big-picture impact and value of technology on operations and organizations and strategies required to adapt to a changing cloud-computing marketplace.

• As a consultant to several companies, served as their CIO. Understood each customer's high-level business challenges, and matched technical solutions to their business and technical requirements.
• Led community discussions and facilitated knowledge dissemination regarding cloud computing solutions with both AWS and Azure. Provided expertise with VMware and HyperV products in conjunction with cloud solutions and.
• Developed/expanded knowledge of customer's business. Took the initiative in disaster recovery solutions that addressed business/mission needs by using the VMware portfolio along with third-party solutions. Built.
• Built long-term relationships with clients – becoming a trusted technical adviser for customers.
• Managed IT projects in mission-critical environments, which included project design, development, implementation, compliance, IT infrastructure security, and telecom projects.
• Developed strategies, identified priorities, and implemented hardware as well as software solutions for computer operations. Created consensus for system-wide standards on IT security.

San Jose, CA, US

• Recruited for high-profile, high-pressure crisis management role: Brought in lead teams in rapid resolution of highly complex technical issues costing thousands of dollars per minute or more.
• At Technical Architect level, manage technical conferences coordinating multiple teams in diagnostic / restoration initiatives with immediate deadlines and critical resolution requirements until website is restored.
• Manage cross-organizational teams in website crises, including IT operations, website development, DBA, and multiple other technical teams as needed to resolve issues.
• Interact daily with Executive staff and advise on critical website performance and stability issues.
• Oversee site changes: assess impact and approve / overrule changes as necessary to sustain site stability.
• Handle vendor relations with numerous ISPs and software / hardware vendors Cisco, Netapp, Hitachi, etc.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Promoted through three roles in less than five years to manage $30 million Global Lab Operations area.
• Hired, trained, and managed geographically dispersed team of 24: 10 corporate lab engineers, lab manager and staff of 9 in India, and supervisor and staff of 3 in San Diego.
• Was personally tasked with managing global remote access project and served as project manager organizing multiple teams throughout EMC for seamless transition to a global / virtual lab operation.
• Served as key member of leadership team to create GLO (Global Lab Operations), which centralized previously fragmented and costly global lab environments under single control structure.
• Led conversion of small startup division built on shoestring budget to scalable enterprise-level operation.
• Managed lab build out, hardware acquisition, and resources needed for timely and on budget completion.