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Maintaining your cloud security & health is a shared responsibility. EZ Cloud Consulting provides turnkey solutions and services tailored to address all the security requirements, concerns, and constraints of your cloud infrastructure.Your cloud security and health are safeguarded with our 1100+ checks. Meet the required industry and regulatory standards with our compliance checks for PCI, CIS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-53.We help you build a secure, stable, and compliant cloud environment from the inside out. Services include:Security AuditYou cannot protect what you cannot see! So, we do the overall audit of your cloud and help you identify all your publicly accessible resources, open ports, exposed keys, and protocols.Get a comprehensive set of security checks, best practices and recommendations for your entire cloud ecosystem.Performance OptimizationHigh-end performance is one of the key factors why you might have chosen to be on cloud.Boost up the speed and responsiveness of your mission-critical workloads with our recommended actions. Keep running your cloud with effective performance.Checks that examine the usage limits of your service(s), ensures your applications make the most out of provisioned throughput and monitors for overutilized instances.Fault Tolerance EvaluationAre you resilient enough to keep your system running if a single resource fails?All our useful recommendations on backup and recovery from failures help you proactively manage your cloud disorders and instabilities.Service LimitsPublic cloud providers define a limit to each service which you can further increase depending on whether that is a soft limit or hard limit.But breaching the limits can cause mismanagement of resources or failure of required actions. Now avoid this by our actionable insights and warnings about service usage and limits. You can take proactive actions for effective resource management.

Herndon, Va

Engaged in contract/consulting role (B2B consulting). As a member of the client’s CCOE I collaborated with Cloud Services teams from client business units to develop and implement information security architecture and technology solutions to address the current and emerging information security and compliance requirements of the organization. Worked with business units to continually assess and improve their security posture of their corporate infrastructure in a proactive manner. Possess an understanding of the impact of emerging business and end-user technologies have on information security requirements and architecture. Achieved an understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business. Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one- Demonstrated technical expertise in existing security and IT systems and an ability to keep pace with changing security and IT technologies- Reviewed existing security architecture, identified design gaps, and recommended security enhancements- Stayed abreast of current and emerging security threats and designed security architecture to mitigate them- Stayed abreast of emerging security technologies and integrates them into security architecture as needed- Ensured alignment between security architecture frameworks and standards and overall business strategy- Served as an information security expert and trusted advisor to partners in IT and the business- A team-focused mentality with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders- An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily-understood, authoritative, and actionable manner- Strong interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on the ability to effectively influence other

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Senior Manager and Principal Cloud Architect for Sogeti (a division of CapGemini - 190K employees, $14B in annual consulting sales)I work with our clients to develop cloud, Big Data and DevOps solutions based on a variety of platforms including AWS and Azure. I am a trusted adviser that leads companies through the highly competitive and opinionated cloud offerings to find solution sets that best meet their current and future needs. In addition I help our clients by:* Providing strategic and technical leadership for cloud technology transformations, DevOps implementations and the the deployment of the Hortonworks Big Data stack* Turning complex business problems into more simple cultural and technological solutions. "Eat the pie one piece at a time." I like to say.* Working with key IT stakeholders and business owners to deliver IT systems that meet or exceed business requirements for functionality, performance and availability* Sharing my ability to design and implement long-term strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining corporate technology and software* Ensuring that proposed and existing solution architectures are aligned with organizational goals and objectives. * Providing architectural expertise, direction, and direction to Business Analysts, Business System Analysts, Systems Engineers, Architects, and software development teams. * Leading companies in their migration from legacy IT to the cloud-based IT leveraging DevOps, micro-services, and container-based delivery for CI/CD* Conducting research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommends technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility* Providing oversight to the systems capacity plan and establishment of technology standards* Proviing thought leadership and independent perspective without bias for technology or platform

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

We provide long-term and short-term cloud consulting services to help you design and deploy cost efficient Virtual Private Clouds. Whether it be in your own data center or on AWS, we can insure you are deploying an efficient and cost effective solution.Take advantage of our free Cloud Architecture Analysis Engagement. You will be shocked at how much a correctly architected deployment can reduce your monthly costs. You have nothing to lose! Send a not to freeconsulting@prxtechnologies.com

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

WHAT DO WE DO: We help companies use our all-inclusive turnkey private cloud OpenStack based appliance to dramatically lower IT infrastructure costs, eliminate expensive software ELA’s and introduce automated provisioning. We enable a universal data analytics and BI platform that can eliminate legacy architectures and solutions while increasing performance. Many of our clients reduce overall infrastructure costs by as much as 90% versus legacy architectures and public cloud.WHO WE SERVE: We make on-premise private cloud easy for IT and business units that want to deploy software faster with fewer defects at the lowest possible cost. We enable companies to deploy web-scale applications and scale-out Big Data workloads all at the lowest possible cost. We help our clients quickly deploy open source private cloud technologies used at Walmart, AMEX, PayPal, FICO, AT&T, Verizon, USDA, Volkswagen and hundreds of other notable organizations.WHO WE WORK WITH: We work directly with companies BI and analytics teams, IT departments, company application departments, company business units seeking more value in their IT spend as well as partner with resellers and consultants.WHY IT WORKS: We use proven patterns that allow for slight variation to meet your application requirements. Our appliance based architecture insures 100% compatibility and rapid deployment that will be successful the first time.WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT: We leverage our own reference architecture and factory built rack based appliances to insure a successful and quick deployment of your OpenStack private cloud and Big Data solutions. All solutions are factory tested and certified.READY TO TALK? Reach out to me here on LinkedIn – I accept all link requests. You can also email me at ken@openrackready.com, visit our website at http://www.openrackready.com or call my direct extension at 612-225-9691.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In the role of Director of Compute I created a new compute business practice for this data center design-build company for the resale of network, security, server, storage and software solutions. Responsibilities included:o Developing and executing the practice business plano Selecting solution setso Training sales staffo Training technical staffo Managing technical staffo Developing and implemented marketing plano Managing the practice budgeto Managing vendor and client relationships

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Ken is an evangelist and expert for Enterprise Storage, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, System Virtualization, and IT Infrastructure Design that drives down IT costs and reduces risks.In his role as a Business Development Specialist he enabled enterprise account sales growth by more than 400% by developing strategies with clients to increase asset utilization, lower operational costs and run IT more efficiently.He is an expert in many data center solutions including system virtualization, IT consolidation, asset and data rationalization, data center storage solutions, field office consolidation, disaster recovery design, virtual desktop and implementation, data protection and data archiving solutions.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Ken brought leadership, process, and technical experience to this dynamic Large Cap enterprise storage environment. During his tenure the company tripled in size to annual sales of over $80 billion. The storage environment grew even more dramatically in the same period. He managed a $50+ MM annual budget.His broad business and technical vision drove continuously lower run rates and improved operational efficiencies. Storage and Data Protection technology acquisition costs were reduced by 85% and operational costs slashed by more that 60% in his first 18 months in this role. He built a highly motivated technical storage team of engineers and architects while delivering high levels of customer service. This was accomplished by driving enhanced operational performance, engaging with technology product innovators, eliminating and mitigating risk through sound design and communication/feedback with the customer.In addition to his personnel management responsibilities, Ken was a direct contributor to architectural design and direction for the company. He enabled fiscally conscientious procurement while deploying sophisticated technologies that met the company's astronomical growth.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a Senior Solutions Architect Ken was a thought leader in the design and deployment of the company's Managed Services offering (centralized IT). He designed and deployed the company's first virtualized environments on VMware and IBM LPAR technology.He designed and deployed over 400 discreet application environments using a wide variety of technologies and tools. He is fluent in data center infrastructure design, application functionality and application sizing. He has extensive expertise in systems, network, applications and storage.He participated in three major data source insourcing projects and provided technology leadership in the design and deployment of four new data centers (100,000 sq ft+ of DC space total).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Ken worked as a consulting Architect working with a large variety of technologies.

Roles while consutling at UnitedHealth Group:Year 2000 Technical Architect -Distributed Applications Testing & Certification (February 1998 to January 2000)Corporate Test Lab Architect - Design and Implementation (March 1997 to April 1998)Architecture Lead - Metrahealth Desktop/Server Integration Project (April 1996 to February 1998)Corporate Frame-Relay Conversion - Technical Advisor (April 1996 to May 1997)Server/NDS Tree Architect(April 1996 to March 1997)Netware 3.1X to 4.1X Conversion Architect(April 1996 to March 1997)

Rochester, Minnesota Area

Ken lead twenty independent consultants in providing various network and technology enablement services across a wide variety of business sizes and types. Clients included FBI, General Foods and the State of Minnesota.

Rochester, Minnesota Area

Top technical salesperson.

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Activities and Societies: Golf Public and Private Cloud expert. Ask me about my free AWS architecture review that can lower your monthly.

Bs, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Football Computer Science Minor

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