Darren House Email & Phone Number

Bel Air, Md, Us

NXT1 is a direct result of John Sobczak - CEO & Founder of RockItek - and Darren’s experiences at RockITek. Working closely with emerging software vendors, they felt the impact of their challenges with devops, enterprise security, compliance, multi-tenancy, and cloud deployment. With the opportunity to build their own SaaS product to fill a partner gap, it was clear a more cohesive, modern approach was needed. Darren designed and managed the development of a 100% cloud native, fully automated, FedRAMP audit ready architecture. Darren designed and led the development of NXT1’s cloud-native LaunchIT platform.The LaunchIT platform aggregates high-value features across many markets represented in Gartner Hype Cycles like Agile and DevOps, Security Operations, Data Security, Digital Identities, and Workload and Network Security. LaunchIT delivers a highly available, multi-region architecture that instills the heart of zero-trust design with FedRAMP controls, intelligent automation, and threat-informed defense services implemented in a cloud-native approach using all the best practices offered by AWS.

Bel Air, Md, Us

Bel Air, Md, Us

Responsible for managing RockITek's cyber portfolio of innovative technologies, assisting in developing technology strategies and roadmaps, and providing technical guidance for adoption in the Federal market. Developed and led RockITek’s technical strategy for building a cloud solution LOB that would simplify business and compliance blockers for emerging technology companies in federal markets.Designed, developed, and implemented RockITek's first product development effort, TheKeyosk. TheKeyosk is an AWS native serverless solution that enables simplified YubiKey distribution and management.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Support global public sector GTM for AWS security services. Work with service teams to develop roadmaps, internal\external security enablement, global evangelism of AWS security services, public speaking engagements, blogs and solution development. Developed many customer focused proof of concepts and solutions, for example, cloud native deception solution, centralized SOC architectures, Automated host detections with Systems Manager and Cloud Watch Logs, CIO\CISO\FISMA\CDM dashboards on AWS.Presented AWS security topics and market/opportunity-focused custom solutions at various events, including AWS Re: Inforce, Public Sector Summits GWU CSPRI, TNCC Community College Cyber Symposium, Bucknell University CIO forum, and others. Developed customer-focused solutions, including FISMA CIO Dashboard and centralized SOC operations (using MITRE ATT&CK).Provided strategic and technical guidance to public sector customers like FINRA, SEC, World Bank, IMF, and IADB to help modernize, secure, and migrate their on-premises architectures to AWS. Led and supported enterprise customer briefings for companies like CapitalOne, Liberty Mutual, and Bloomberg on AWS networking and security designs and best practices.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Brought in to establish and execute technical strategy and roadmap for CACI contract within DHS and Components. Develop and evangelize technical vision, strategy and leadership within Sub Component organizations. • Support strategic efforts to centralize Component technology portfolio and grow services to Sub Components.• Created multi-phased technical strategy and implementation plan for DHS Sub Component to modernize enterprise architecture. • Provided technical and strategic leadership to Component OCIO organization for consolidation of support services.

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

Developed technical strategy to revitalize existing solution assets, build new partnerships and target specific strategic opportunities in cloud and hyperconverged technologies. Developed a Focus, Research and Build model unique to environment, assets and customer base. The objective was to transition to a leading solution development company focused on creating next generation, cloud integrated, hyperscale technology solutions and services. To achieve this we targeted strategic staffing, new partnering relationships for core technology integration and support services, optimizing existing resources based on investment levels and incentivizing partners to buy into a shared technical vision and shared risk model.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Developed and managed technical and solutions development strategy in a very complex distribution, VAR, SI environment. Strategy was a top down approach driven by the overall Avnet TS Strategy, where we developed the AGS Solution Vision and strategy to align with Avnet, but focus on government market nuances.Developed the AGS Solutions Management Vision, identifying that the distribution model is evolving to become the aggregator and innovation partner of large-scale multi-vendor technology solutions that drive supplier value and government customer engagement through the channel.With this vision, developed a strategy and execution plan to grow revenues that focused on:1. Leveraging the strongest capabilities Avnet had that were relevant to public sector markets, grew those capabilities within applicable markets while strategically building out a market focused solutions portfolio. Focus was on converged and cloud technologies.2. Drove specific markets with programmatic approach to developing comprehensive, modular solution frameworks that enabled governments to achieve their stated objectives. Focus was Dept. of State, First Responder (Fed & State/Local) and K-12 markets. 3. Evolved or disrupted markets with business value focused solutions that integrated existing Avnet and supplier capabilities with newer 3rd platform technologies, Avnet EM capabilities and Avnet Services that allowed channel to re-define how government customers got work done. Focus was Cyber and IOT technology integration into cloud and converged models.

Chantilly, Va, Us

Responsible for setting long term technical strategy and developing execution plans. Responsible for evaluating and evangelizing current and emerging technologies, leading solution design and development efforts, identifying Federal trends and developing technical solutions that capture trends in Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud verticals. Responsible for developing and maintaining technology migration roadmaps for featured solutions.Developed and delivered internal, customer and partner training sessions on technology and market trends, technical capabilities and mapping technology to business value. Led technology teams in solution development and RFP responses.

Developed, maintained, and communicated strategic and tactical technology solutions, platforms, standards and roadmaps that ensure technology alignment with identified business objectives. Lead Architect on Request for Proposals (RFP) responsible for management of entire IT solution from conception to implementation, including infrastructure solutions (PC, Server, Database, Virtualization, Network, SAN, Security, overall Data Center design/impacts) and software development and estimation of software solutions for .NET and J2EE SOA platforms. Researched new technologies and developed business case whitepapers identifying strategic and tactical technology solutions that described how technologies could provide cost effective differentiators. Implemented secure and highly converged Data Center solutions that included Network (secure, scalable LAN and WAN designs that included Enterprise Quality of Service (QoS) and multi-vendor WAN Optimization solutions), Server (blade and rack mounted), Virtualization (VMware 3.X & 4.X), SAN (NetApp and IBM) and APC Power infrastructure systems designed to support highly available multi-tier SOA solutions. Had responsibility for providing input and determining proper pricing strategy for technology solution based on solution scope, competitive analysis and price-to-win information. Was significant contributor to writing technical proposal detailing our solution in a clear and effective manner, ensuring customer understanding of PSI’s solution differentiators and delivery capabilities.

Washington, Dc, Us

Designed, implemented, documented, and managed the USMC MCCS Enterprise IT network infrastructure. Developed detailed technical documentation) of implemented technology solutions (implementation guides, configurations, diagrams and troubleshooting methodologies) that aligned with the DoDAF Enterprise Architecture model. Conducted regular site visits to communicate Enterprise IT plans and their impacts in order to generate pre-implementation support for proposed projects.• Designed and implemented primary and secondary data center solution using a collapsed core design with 6509’s using NSF & SSO technologies and 3650 switches configured with routed interfaces. Used EIGRP, BGP, routing policy and effective summarization to maintain availability in the event of a primary data center or circuit failure.• Project lead in designing and implementing Cisco 1240 AP’s integrating 802.11g wireless services into existing wired infrastructure. Designed a solution that provided an isolated data path for wireless handheld traffic in a retail (Marine Corps Exchange) environment, producing significant increase in efficiencies, control, and information relevant to supply chain processes.• Developed and implemented network security solutions for compliance with PCI standards in retail operations. Implemented minor design changes and used existing Cisco IOS capabilities to achieve PCI compliance at the network layer.• Project lead in implementing Hughes satellite services for business critical credit card transactions in the event of a land line failure, allowing consistent 99.99% uptime (an increase from the previous 99% uptime) of our credit card systems, increasing revenues in support of Marines and their families.