Jon Blackledge Email & Phone Number

Gulfport, Mississippi, United States

Gulfport, Ms

• VP Manager of IT Enterprise Storage and Backup, responsible for infrastructure architecture, strategy, and operations of data placement and protection, including mainframe and distributed systems. • Work at both management and technical levels with track record for applying technology solutions to business requirements.• Responsible for evaluating, managing and developing IT professional staff, and end to end multimillion dollar storage investments.• Use Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy leveraging various tiers of storage solutions in server virtual VMWare environment.• Tiered storage platforms include multiple Dell PowerMax, Unity, Isilon, Data Domain, Pure, Cohesity, Brocade switches. Backup solutions include Dell Avamar, Power Protect, and mainframe DLMs, and Cyber Recovery Vault.

Greater Atlanta Area

 Primary objective to improve and manage staff team building and processes.  Leadership and Project Management strengths in delivering multiple, complex, cross-departmental IT projects for Storage and Backup implementations, consolidations, migrations, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuance solutions. Track status of project progress and facilitate to completion. Build and manage a multimillion annual budget for capital and maintenance expenditures.  Maintain vendor relationships to evaluate, select and implement latest technology innovations. Negotiate and process hardware, software, and service purchases. Manage vendor escalation and support.  Responsible for environment of 1PB of data in multi array platform storage, and 2PB of virtual and physical tape solutions. Include EMC VMAX arrays, HDS USPV, IBM, NetApp, Symantec Netbackup, NEC and EMC data Deduplication.

Greater Atlanta Area

 Provided business development for IT infrastructure solution sales as channel partner and national services provider. # Built, managed, and sold consultant skills for quality IT optimization, consolidation, and data protection offerings. Project Managed the delivery of billable consulting services. Created service contracts, implementation plans, articulating the delivery roles of designed solutions. # Acted as primary project interface coordinating activities with the customer and delivery personnel associated with the engagements.

 Open Software Practice Manager for Professional Services billable implementation specialists. Aligned service offerings, scoped project statements of work efforts, coordinated delivery resources, and facilitated crisis management escalations.  Provided post-sales configurations and managed implementations from architectural design through customer turnover. Project liaison to Sales, Product Management, Engineering, technical support, customer services, and customers to ensure quality engagement experience.  Extensive experience in problem solving, planning, developing, team building, and implementing state of the art technology solutions.

Greater Atlanta Area

 Senior consultant specialized in tape/disk storage automation, utilization, optimization, consolidations, and migration projects. Technical expert in storage technical support and consultant services to sales teams and customers. Lead projects on data management, and data availability solutions Managed all facets of data disaster recovery design, strategies, planning, and implementations. Lead and conducted virtual tape evaluations and implementations.

Greater Atlanta Area

 Leading consultant with extensive experience in data disaster backup and recovery methodologies Lead Data Availability and Project Management for numerous enterprise level client environments.  Provided product usage seminars, strategy training courses. Planned, and executed data recovery in disaster scenarios. Conducted tape virtualization evaluations and implementations.