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 CIO for companies supported by Cobaltix.• 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. Provide solution design that aligns goals with business requirements.• 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. • Lead in implementing leadership/mentoring program. Direct technical documentation, diagramming, SLA, OLA, and customer training. Oversee sales, hardware, software, and services.• Responsible for development and implementation of technology innovations to move ideas to market and projects to closure. Expertise at leading technical architecture and application design discussions with senior customer executives to drive client solutions that fulfill their business case.

• 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 architectures – documenting cloud design best practices.• 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 high-level architecture drawings for customers to understand solutions.• 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.• Demonstrated ability in designing disaster recovery plans and goals to ensure maximum uptime.

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. • Selected to serve as mentor to system admins, DBAs, and other technical staff in NOC. • Utilize excellent grasp of networking, load balancers, UNIX, Windows, Firewalls, SAN, and all other involved technologies to understand synergies and drive accelerated diagnostics and resolution of problems.

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. • Built and managed emccontrolcenter.net, MSOP model performance monitoring service for EMC customers. Designed and built all aspect of NOC operations, from policies and procedures to disaster recovery.• Managed and approved contracts with vendors for hosted services. • Tracked operations and costs and provided executive status reports and metrics reporting.