Neal K. Davis Email & Phone Number

Valetta, Mt

As the founder of Digital Cloud Training, I'm passionate about providing high-quality training resources to help students thrive in the cloud computing industry. With over 750,000 students enrolled in our courses, our mission is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their next cloud roles. Our range of course offerings includes on-demand videos, practice exams, and hands-on challenge labs. Our Cloud Mastery Bootcamp is a comprehensive 12-month program that covers essential cloud technologies, such as AWS, Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more - unlocking lucrative opportunities in the fastest-growing sector of the tech industry. We believe that the cloud computing industry offers endless opportunities, and are dedicated to supporting our students in achieving their cloud career goals!

Houston, Texas, Us

• Delivered strategic advisory and professional consulting services to enterprise customers• Cloud computing strategy, planning and design• Roadmap and future state architecture development• Data centre transformation including relocation, optimisation and modernisation

London, United Kingdom , Gb

This was a senior level pre-sales solution architecture role defining and selling public and private cloud solutions for Enterprise customers and included:• Designing hybrid cloud solutions to bespoke requirements• Commercial modelling to provide services based consumption• Private cloud solutions for hosting applications such as SAP HANA and Oracle DB• Hybrid cloud models with connectivity to public clouds such as AWS and Azure• Cloud service management with CloudForms and Cloud Management Portal (CMP)• Designing to mandated security requirements including ISM, PSPF and ISO27001• VMware vSphere with NSX and Oracle Virtual Machine with OEM platforms• Designing the infrastructure for emerging tech such as OpenStack, Apache Cassandra and OpenShift• Scoping cloud platforms with infrastructure including: HPE, Dell, Nimble, Pure Storage, Juniper, Arista• Scoping managed services for operational management of infrastructure platforms

Studying for Amazon Web Services and Azure certifications. Certifications achieved:• Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect – Associate• Amazon Web Services Certified Developer – Associate• Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate• Microsoft Specialist: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions• Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Houston, Texas, Us

This was a senior level pre-sales Solution Architect role within HP Technology Consulting's Data Centre Consulting and Cloud practice. Within this role I worked alongside the HP account management team to provide consulting services and technology solutions to enterprise customers.The work involved developing relationships with business and technical stakeholders in key accounts and assisting these customers with developing their business cases for strategic technology solutions and identifying opportunities for additional business.This role also required taking lead responsibility for the creation of the solution scopes including SoW / RFP response documentation, developing the solution designs, pricing and deal governance. In many instances I would be the lead architect for large solutions that involved several business units and third party vendors.

Houston, Texas, Us

During my previous tenure with HP I was the lead solution for a project to fully migrate the contents of a Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) data centre and to subsequently decommission the source data centre. This project involved delivering that solution and I took on the role of lead virtualisation architect. This involved the physical to virtual (P2V) migration of a large number of legacy x86 servers between data centres.This role included responsibility for the design and build of a VMware vSphere platform based on HP Converged Infrastructure and Storage, and integration into the VHA production environment. I also performed the migration analysis, planning and testing using VMware Capacity Planner, and led a team of Technical Consultants in performing the P2V/V2V conversions/migrations over a series of migration events.I also created the detailed design and migration strategy for the migration of a business critical BRM application made up of Oracle, SUN, HP-UX and NetApp components.

Houston, Texas, Us

Working within Hewlett-Packard Technology Consulting's Data Centre Transformation and Cloud Consulting business in Australia as a senior level pre-sales solution architect in the pursuit team. This role involved developing solutions for HP customers based on the latest data centre best practices and technologies, including virtualisation and cloud computing. This role included designing and scoping solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure and CloudSystem, HP Storage and Networking, VMware vSphere and vCloud, and data centre consolidation and relocation activities.An example of a major bid I for which I was the lead solution architect is the response to an RFP issued by a major mobile telecommunications company to propose a solution for a large data centre consolidation and transformation project across seven data centres. The solution included an extremely diverse set of requirements across people, process and technology.

Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Au

In this role I worked in the pursuit team focused on scoping solutions around Microsoft infrastructure services, applications, and virtualisation technologies. This included pre-sales consulting, architectural development, and project delivery.A major project that I worked on in both pre-sales and delivery was a full data centre consolidation exercise of over 200 servers onto a converged infrastructure platform based on Cisco UCS and Nexus hardware, and Microsoft Hyper-V / Systems Center for a government organisation.

Gb

For the duration of this position I was seconded to work for Microsoft Consultancy Services (MCS) at the Microsoft head office in Reading, England in the capacity of a security expert focusing on Microsoft WSUS and SMS software update management.The goal of the project I joined was to deliver technical guidance documentation and tools to the UK National Health Service (NHS) to enable them to design and deploy Microsoft infrastructure solutions more easily, consistently and securely.

Gb

Technical consultancy services around Microsoft infrastructure solutions including pre-sales, proposal development, project initiation, delivery, support and training for corporate customers. The technologies I worked with included Windows Server 2000 and 2003, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Microsoft ISA Server 2000 and 2003, and Microsoft SMS Server 2003.

Walsall, Gb

This role involved the technical support of all Microsoft infrastructure and application services across all companies in the group. During this tenure I led the design and implementation of the upgrade of four Windows NT 4.0 domains into a single Windows 2000 Active Directory forest.

This role involved the technical support of all internal Microsoft infrastructure and application services.

This role involved technical helpdesk support to over 40,000 users over 6 manufacturing sites across the country. The technologies supported by the help-desk included Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and various UNIX platforms.

Homebush West, New South Wales, Au

This role involved help-desk and desktop support for internal users. The technologies I supported include Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes.