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Co-Founded a boutique consulting practice geared towards providing Cloud Consulting to enterprise and government customers in North America. Focused on CloudOps and DevOps across Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud modalities.Some of the key projects and achievements of the consulting practice include:- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud solution for a large federal agency, using AWS, VMware, and GCP. The solution enabled the agency to migrate its legacy applications to the cloud and reduce operational costs by 40%.- Developed a cloud-native application platform for a leading financial services company, using Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. The platform enabled the company to deploy and manage microservices applications across multiple clouds and regions and improve scalability and resilience.- Conducted a cloud readiness assessment and roadmap for a global manufacturing company, using the Cloud Adoption Framework and the Well-Architected Framework. The assessment identified the gaps and risks in the company's cloud strategy and provided recommendations for best practices and governance.- Provided cloud training and certification for over 100 consultants and engineers, covering topics such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Jenkins, and Docker. The training helped the consultants and engineers enhance their skills and knowledge and deliver value to the clients.

Executive Advisor to the CEO and board for M&A, Strategy and Sales.About Eyeson GmbH: Eyeson is about empowering Critical Decisions with Trusted Omnimedia Communications. Eyeson is partnering with leading Solutions Vendors to deploy Virtual Situation Rooms and AI powered Virtual C2 software systems. Deployed and trusted globally, Eyeson is a recognized partner to build solutions for the most complex environments in the Public Safety, Defense, Critical Infrastructures, Healthcare and Business sectors.

Leading Global Strategic Alliances for the Noevntiq focused on the Cloud, Cyber Security, and Modern Workplace. This includes strategic, GTM, and operational aspects of alliances business>$1 billion.

I joined the AskNet Solutions Team as a strategic advisor to the CEO and the board to help them transform and break new ground in the European market. Areas of focus included Cybersecurity, Cloud Transformation EDU Tech Solutions for K-12, and HigherEd.

Leading a startup group focused on delivering modern workplace and digital transformation to customers in the enterprise, SLED, FED, commercial, and SMB segments. This includes Solution Sales, Channel & Strategic Alliances.https://www.avaya.com/en/products/ucaas/spaces/

Lead the commercial cloud services with 20 Strategic Telco and Managed Service Provider (MSP). Including AT&T, Verizon, China Mobile, British Telcom, Orange, Rackspace, etc.Negotiated multi-million-dollar deals starting from the business case, value proposition, term-sheet, MOU to final agreement. Covering Azure Cloud Computing, Office 365 and SPLA offers. Exceeded $170M+ with the international launch of Microsoft Cloud solution for MSPs.Developed sales and channel for the Microsoft Surface hardware business. Owned end-to-end, sales and partnerships. Including distribution and 70 resellers in 24 countries for the launch. Managed $11.7M budget P&L and 21 sellers in 24 countries.

Led solution sales for the strategic and enterprise accounts segment for VMware cloud, and Open Source business in the PNW region. Including Cloud Foundry (Pivotal) IaaS, PaaS and Big Data. Key strategic customers included Starbucks, Nordstrom, Expedia, Costco, Nike, Columbia Sports, and T-Mobile etc. Attained 140% sales target by cultivated deep relationships with the C-Suite executives at the customers and service providers.

Led Specialist Sales team for Core Infrastructure (SSP, TSP). Focused on complex Datacenter and application deals, involving private cloud and interoperability with the open source platforms.Piloted and later scaled a “Select Preferred Partner” (SPP) Program comprising of key System Integrators, ISVs, and OEMs. Delivered 200+ Cloud Customers wins in North America with SPP, exceeding $100M+ total revenue or $5M+ average per deal. Key partners included HP, Dell, Accenture, Capgemini, Citrix, NetApp, and Wipro.

Bank of America Investment Division:Served as a trusted advisor to Investment Banking CIO, managing high-profile, multi-million-dollar IT projects. Collaborated closely with various lines of business serving over 200,000 users across the company and millions of customers.Led several high-profile data center transformation projects to consolidate thousands of servers running on a legacy platform to virtualized servers. Saved well over $2M per year in OPEX and $30M in CAPEX.