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Kelowna, Bc, Ca

Managed IT Services, Cloud and Infrastructure (MCI) advisory consulting leader in Canada. Representing the broad range of services that RSM brings to mid-market business across multiple industry verticals.

Canada

Leading CDW’s comprehensive portfolio of products services and solutions for Hybrid IT business success, for applications and data that are on-premises, in the cloud or both.Customer engagement including pre-sales discovery calls, speaking engagements, executive briefings, website content, sales enablement.

North America

Chief Architect for the Managed Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions business at Long View Systems. Long View is one of the most powerful IT solutions and services companies in North America with offices across the continent. With a clear focus on combining business and technology through our Hybrid IT solutions including cloud, IT infrastructure, managed services, and end user support, Long View is able to define and customize what the future of IT looks like for our clients. Innovative, flexible, cost-effective, and business focused…that’s Long View.James leads product development, architecture & strategies of Long View's cloud services and platforms through our OneCloud and OnDemand products. Evangelist and supporter of our sales teams enabling clients' adoption of cloud integration and hybrid cloud solutions. Manager for Service Development and advanced operation teams for OnDemand and OneCloud products.

Calgary, Canada Area

Principal Architect for Long View Systems, a Hybrid-IT professional services organization. James works with clients to identify and achieve business outcomes by changing how they adopt technology and deliver service to their clients.Architecture Transformation Services enables clients to determine a road map and define technology programs to meet business goals; whether that is changing the cost model of delivery of services, enabling scale up and scale down of services, adopting new approaches and capabilities or all of the above.- Trusted advisor to client management teams and client leaders- Leadership and development of client transformation programs- Development of large client account opportunities- Growth and development of solution and technical architects

Calgary, Canada Area

Principal Architect for Long View Systems, a Hybrid-IT professional services organization. This role is focused on the creation and development of products and services for Data Center Virtualization within the Long View Infrastructure Practice in North America. James builds relationships with clients through identifying opportunities, educating on the business value, and solving business challenges. Engagement with clients spans pre-sales, governance and implementation and post sales.

Calgary, Canada Area

Technology leader responsible for setting direction across Long View for Virtualization solutions, products, partners and service delivery teams in Canada and the United States.This award winning team achieved rapid sustained growth, and innovative solution delivery across 9 branch geographies.

Calgary, Ab, Canada

Infrastructure architect and senior delivery consultant responsible for design and implementation including pre-sales and post-sales support. Leadership of an award winning team of 20 Calgary based Virtualization and Data Center specialists (VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Converged Infrastructure).Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure, Storage and Windows Infrastructure project deliveryVMware: VCDX, VCAP, and VCP consultant for Virtualization engagement and services. Delivery of Datacenter Virtualized Solutions.• VMware solution delivery – architectural design and needs analysis, implementation/infrastructure integration and automation, and environment life cycle management.• VMware upgrade projects – Design, Implementation and project coordination of multiple large (multi-site, multi-product) environment upgrades.• Virtualization Assessment delivery in enterprise environments including remediation recommendations and delivery of best practices to operational teams.• Virtualization environment performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis.• Large Virtualization environment operational support for version upgrades, server consolidation migrations, and procedural development. • Delivery of customized training for Virtualization Operational Teams. • Management and delivery of Server Consolidation projects including resource coordination and infrastructure change methodology for physical server and application (P2V) migrations.• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist• HP, Cisco, and IBM solution (Server, Storage, Blades) solutions• VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod, HP Matrix, HP VirtualSystem architect solutions

A core member of the Information Technology team as the company grew from North American based to International operations and a 3 fold increase in revenue in six years.• Supervision of a team responsible for IT Infrastructure support and solution delivery across multiple geographic sites in Canada and USA. • VMware virtualization support and implementation, including SAN attached storage and networking. Management of Virtual Machine lifecycle including physical to virtual migration, new creation, configuration, and management. • Configuration and support of EMC CLARiiON CX300 Storage, fabric management using McData Sphereon Switches.• Configuration and support of Windows Active Directory including upgrades.• Microsoft Dynamics AX infrastructure implementation and support of Production and Development Environments.• Microsoft SQL server implementation and support , including security, support for application migrations, and upgrades.