Jeff Russell Email & Phone Number

Akron, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Client Engagement Manager assisting with the success of delivering Professional Services to Advizex Customers.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Lead the building of Advizex's Global VMware & Infrastructure Platform Services Practice. Involved in developing strategies and solutions in Automation, EUC, and Hyper Converged, Virtualization & Cloud Technology Solutions. As well as data center technologies around Hyper Converged and Storage solutions. Managing technical, business, and/or personnel aspects of consulting practice. Delivering Automation, SDN, Mobility and Hybrid Cloud VMware solutions to all business industries including Healthcare and Financial. Assist in the deployment of the practice services catalog and strategies. Responsible for the strategy, P&L, operations, resource hiring of the services practice.

Akron\Cleveland

Lead the building of Advizex's Hyper Converged Regional services practice involving Compute, Network and Storage consulting services. Developed strategies and solutions in Network, Virtualization and HyperConverge technologies including Automation, EUC & Cloud Technology Solutions. Managing technical, business, and/or personnel aspects of consulting practice. Delivering network, server and storage virtualization solutions to business around Dell/EMC, HP and VMware to all industries including Healthcare and Financial. Deployment of strategies around SDDC, Hybrid Cloud, DR and Mobility. Experience with designing SDDC, Hybrid Cloud, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions in data center environments. Focused the growth of deployment consulting services around the Software Defined Datacenter, Hybrid Cloud, Mobility and networking.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Awarded Information Weeks Top 500 Innovative users of Technology for 2012. Strategic Management of Technology and Creative Innovation Strategies including: Team Building, Project Management, Budgeting, Business Process Improvement, Vendor Negotiations, Equipment Procurement, Product/Project Management, Product Road Mapping, Server/Database, Network Infrastructure and Application Development (Web/Mobile).

Developed and managed the company's Information Technology needs in regards to Diagnostic Imaging. Lead deployment of RIS/PACS system across remote locations greatly improving patient workflow and diagnostic report turn around time.Included development of BI tools using MS SQL and implementation of centralized data storage for images from over 12 free standing Imaging Centers. Lead and oversaw the implementation of Company HIPAA compliance processes and procedures regarding security and patient privacy.

Technology Consultant, Cunningham & Associates, Broadview Hts., OH 1996 – 1998•Responsible for building the Technology consulting business. Built the organizational resources and development of the IT consulting group. Involved in building the customer base and revenue stream for the IT consulting group. Worked as systems network engineer consultant for small/medium size businesses building and implementing company computer network systems and implementation of SAGE products. Managed C&A IT systems including tax and financial software applications.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Managed operations and P&L for 20+ training center locations. Involved in determining training schedules and bookings. Met with current and potential customers regarding sales opportunities. Reviewed and certified site trainers and courses. Worked with site managers on business development opportunities, site management procedures and service level performance.

Recording Engineer also Guitar Player/Studio Musician, wrote and produced radio and TV music spots.

Ba, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Participated as an assistant in Campus Computer Lab Honors Student

Associates, Economics, Computers, General Education

Activities and Societies: Participated in IBM Collegiate Computer Group Honors Student

Music Theory Certification, Guitar

Study music theory and improvisation in relationship with playing guitar.