James Beane Email & Phone Number

I am currently managing the Cloud Consulting division of Yardi’s Cloud Services department. The Cloud Consultants are focused on Cloud technical projects as well as organizational communications regarding these projects. The Cloud Consultant position is a technical role requiring experience on complex enterprise systems. The position also calls for strong project management skills, seasoned client management and client communication skills, and demonstrated knowledge of enterprise-wide software installations.

Santa Barbara, California Area

I am currently managing a team of highly trained Cloud Consultants who are responsible for providing focused systems administration and support to Yardi Systems Tier 1 customers while fostering strong relationships with the client as well as internal support teams. The Cloud Consultant is a technical role requiring experience on complex enterprise systems. The position also calls for strong project management skills, seasoned client management and client communication skills, and demonstrated knowledge of enterprise-wide software installations.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Santa Barbara, California Area

Provide project management to Yardi Cloud ClientsCoordinating client moves into the Yardi Cloud environments Assisting in maintaining client hosted environments and support Yardi environmental escalationsEngage in Disaster Recovery strategies with Yardi clients

Santa Barbara, California Area

Managing a team of trained application and environmental support techniciansProvide project management to clients migrating from a self hosted platform to the Yardi Software As A Service solutionCoordinating client moves from the Yardi ASP environment to the Private Cloud hosting model Provide ADFS support for hosted SaaS-Select and Private Cloud clientsSupporting Yardi Private Cloud client escalationsWork with Sales to provide environmental information to high level potential clientsAssist with client specific audit requirements

Santa Barbara, California Area

Handled client communications of tier 1 clients and the Yardi ASP groupOrganized Yardi’s Disaster Recovery platform for hosted ASP ClientsInitiated a Disaster Recovery solution for Self Hosted Yardi clientsTaught Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity classes at the Yardi Advanced Solutions ConferencesCoordinated client specific audits of the Yardi ASP environmentAssisted the Yardi Sales team with escalated environmental information for potential clients

Santa Barbara, California Area

Acted as an escalation point for the ASP help deskImplemented third party applications in the Yardi ASP environmentAssisted self hosted clients with environmental configurations of the Voyager 50/60 platformWorked with the Client Services group with troubleshooting supportOne of the initial members of the CSI group that later became known as the ASP Systems Analysts

Santa Barbara, California Area

Managed the corporate team of server administrators and desktop support techniciansSupported all servers in the Yardi corporate networkOversaw environmental move to new corporate officeMaintained the corporate Exchange and BlackBerry serversPlanned and executed two Active Directory Upgrades of Yardi corporate networkOversaw maintenance of the Yardi ASP demo environment Taught new hire training classes on Yardi IT communications

Santa Barbara, California Area

Hardware/Software installationsDesktop supportPrinter supportActive Directory management

Goleta, Ca

Goleta, Ca

Network And System Administration/Administrator

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