Greg Summers Email & Phone Number

Florence, Al, Us

United States

Cloud Architect and Server/Storage Architect. Server & Storage Virtualization, Cloud Storage and System Administration for small and medium sized businesses.

Greater Atlanta Area

Certified Pre-Sales Engineer and Global Enterprise Architect with a proven record of success in the design of business solutions in the public and private sector. I lead cross-functional teams to achieve ambitious, sustainable and financial goals. Articulate, persuasive presenter with in-depth knowledge of infrastructure, applications,networks and data center moves and consolidations in advanced and emerging technologies. Relationship manager, skilled in cultivating long-term partnerships, building on initial engagements, resulting in substantial revenue growth. Successful at leading multi-disciplined teams to ensure projects are deliverable to customer requirements with minimal risk. Excels at strategic thinking, articulating alternatives and delivering optimal results on time. Sr. Cloud Architect with experience in migrating Infrastructure, Applications and Data Storage to the Cloud. Developed IT Services Management (ITSM) solutions based on ITIL best practices. Have ITSM & ITIL Certifications from IBM.Develop detailed presentations and white papers used to educate global sales and engagement teams encouraging “out of the box” solutions, leveraging latest technologies and costing efficiencies, increasing creativity, reducing costs and ultimately improving customer satisfaction. Design, propose and oversee all facets of complete data center migrations-relocation including: structured cabling, infrastructure configurations, and environmental requirements. Global Outsourcing Engagement support on multiple service lines and competencies. Cost modeling, financial modeling and Intellectual capital development.Specialties: Server architecture, Government Experience, RFP proposal writing experience, intelligence community.

Greater St. Louis Area

Server Consolidation, Architecture (VMS, Unix, Windows)Virtualization & Optimization of ServersStorage Architect & Server ArchitectCloud Architect. Data Center Migrations (Merging and closure of Data Centers)

• Build technical and personal rapport with clients and assist them to deliver on their needs. • Coordinate and deliver all POC activities with the customer. • Provide technical Pre-Sales Support to HP Sales by formulating strategies, & delivering technical presentations and demos. • Research, compose and deliver responses to RFP's. • Wrote technical whitepapers that describe our solution and its use cases. • Main point of contact to prospects/end users to the technical proposal and implementation of the HP solution. • Gather, document, and maintain customer information within the sales and contact management systems. • Assist the sales team to regular reporting into management on the status of customer accounts and activities.

Global and Federal Outsourcing

- Design small to complex infrastructure and server architecture in outsourcing solutions- Develop financial base cases for outsourcing customers using complex models and customer financial information- Sr. Architect Lead providing technical leadership to team in the installation, configuration and implementation of high-quality technical solutions for customers- Pre-Sales support with client team during outsourcing engagements- Prepare risk assessments, disaster recovery solutions, budget preparations and project management- Architect new solutions for clients using new technologies to reduce costs- “Stacking” of applications within a defined LPAR (Logical Partition)- IBM’s “micro-partitioning” to create multiple servers within one physical server (virtualization)- VMware solutions for Intel servers virtualization

Infrastructure and Mid-range Server Architect for Outsourcing deals for US Public Sector.

I was an Infrastructure and Mid-range Server architect for Outsourcing deals.

Senior consultant in the Digital Vax computer systems for GP. Technical support and moving all computers to IBM data center floor space.

Managed approx 150 Dec/Vax servers.

System Management and Data Center Management for two data centers. Had 2 staff to supervise and mentor.Responsible for all Systems management, Apple/Mac Management, Network Management and Telephony Management for all of Fermenta Animal Health. Responsible for are offices in Belgium and Canada for computer services.

Kansas City, Missouri

System Administrator / Networks / Help Desk / Lan administration. Support 300 users 24x7x365

Data Center Manager, System Administration, Manager of 2 employees

Business Administration

Worked on my MBA.

Ba, Graphic Arts & Photography

Activities and Societies: Delta Chi, Blue Key Honor Society, Graphic Arts & Photography Club