Lead and mentor a team of solution architects, providing guidance, support, and coaching to ensure their professional growth and development.Set clear goals and objectives for the solution architecture team, aligning them with the company's strategic priorities and business objectives.Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within the solution architecture team, promoting knowledge sharing, best practices, and continuous learning.Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, product managers, and development teams, to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient technology solutions.Define and maintain the overall solution architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with the company's technology and business objectives.Lead the design and architecture of complex solutions, including system integration, data architecture, application design, and infrastructure design.Provide technical leadership and expertise across a wide range of technologies, platforms, and domains, including cloud computing, microservices architecture, DevOps, security, and emerging technologies.Stay abreast of payer industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to leverage new tools and methodologies to enhance the company's technical capabilities.Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and guidelines to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across projects.

Technical Presentations / Evangelize: I would be relied on to create and deliver compelling presentations to potential clients, showcasing how the company's high-end technical solutions can address their specific needs and challenges. I am to get the customer excited about the solution and the possibilities it entails.Solutions are customized and designed for each use case: Collaborating with the sales team to understand client requirements and tailoring technical solutions to meet those needs, often involving customization and integration of products or services.Easy Button DemonstrationsA demonstration fails if it appears complicated or too tricky. I always aim to make our solution complete and require the least amount of admin effort to maintain. should not ever appear complicated. Conducting live demonstrations of complex technical products or software solutions to highlight their features, functionalities, and value proposition to prospective clients.Be the Trusted Adviser Engaging in in-depth discussions with clients to understand their technical pain points, requirements, and objectives and then providing expert guidance on how the company's offerings can address those issues effectively. Over the years, I have had many repeat customers who look to me for my technical experience.

I ensure our customers can Cloud Confidently® through the implementation of clear, concise, modern management policies and security best practices.I provide intelligence around your cloud utilization with simple, transparent, and actionable analytics that enable accountable cloud governance and control of your cloud spend.

sr. Solutions ArchitectLead Solutions Architect for State of CA Provide mentoring and support for all SA/SE for the west coast.Designed CAL Cloud storage solution with IBM global services.Build and submit RFP/RFQ for schools & local government. Help customers understand ROI/TCO with NetApp solutions.Translating the complexities of storage, networking & servers in to understandable terms.Provide detailed documentation on enterprise hardware solutions for storage.Comprehensive follow up with clients on any technical questions or concerns.Provide Software and Hardware design recommendations to NetApp Engineering and customer feed back to the Software side of NetApp. Design Cloud ready and Data Fabric presentations for new and current customers. White Bord technical details about products and solutions.

Lead technical resource for three high volume sales consultants. Build and submit RFP/RFQ for schools & local government.Help customers understand ROI/TCO documentation.Translating the complexities of storage, networking & servers in to understandable terms.Provide detailed documentation on enterprise hardware solutions such as storage, networking, and serversBuild solutions that enable clients to fulfill their service level agreements (SLA).Comprehensive follow up with clients on any technical questions or concerns.

• Create documentation and specifications of enterprise hardware and software solutions.• Mapping and implementing storage area networks supporting terabytes of storage• Implementing server consolidation with VMware, Virtual Iron & Red Hat Xen server on HP C Class Blade systems.• Provide detailed Visio design of proposed data center solution.• Provide detail scope of work (SOW) documentation.• Comprehensive follow up with clients on any technical questions or concerns.

Create documentation and specifications of enterprise hardware and software solutions.Mapping and implementing storage area networks supporting terabytes of storageImplementing server consolidation with VMware, Virtual Iron & Red Hat Xen server on HP C Class Blade systems.Provide detailed Visio design of proposed data center solution.Comprehensive follow up with clients on any technical questions or concerns.

Provide support and expertise to both internal and external customers.Documentation of enterprise hardware and software solutions.Help customers understand ROI/TCO documentation.Administrator of HP Demonstration Center.Blade Server deployments.HP Fiber storage deployments.