Patrick Stasko Email & Phone Number

Independence, Ohio, Us

In preparation for growth, regional lines we’re constructed to support a regional resource alignment model to better service our customers by aligning technical presales engineers more closely with our account executives. On a daily basis:• Transition of Interim General Manager duties and provide regular regional strategic guidance• Technical liaison between Advizex and various strategic regional OEM partners• Aligned the team's skillset with the regional account executive and customer needs• Responsible for the team's compliance of certifications to fulfill partner requirements• Worked on joint marketing campaigns with subject matter expertise• Engaged with customers with complex needs that crossed multiple organizational lines of business

Independence, Ohio, Us

I was asked to lead our account executive staff in the North Coast region of Advizex. As Interim General Manager & Vice President, I was able to:• Hire additional account executives• Setup and executed a plan to transition over 50 purchasing accounts (account executive retirement)• Met regularly with our customers on priority items• Align our regional partners and resources with our account executive team• Responsible for the regional financial ledger and weekly sales forecasting• Developed regional marketing events to drive customer attendance and engagement

Independence, Ohio, Us

I lead our Adaptive Infrastructure (compute, storage, data protection) presales engineering team at the national level.• Technical liaison between Advizex and various strategic OEM partners• Aligned the team's skillset with the regional account executive and customer needs• Responsible for the team's compliance of certifications to fulfill partner requirements• Worked on joint marketing campaigns with subject matter expertise• Engaged with customers with complex needs that crossed multiple organizational lines of business

Independence, Ohio, Us

As a Solutions Architect, I provided directional leadership and IT architectural expertise to customers across all market sizes.• Collaborated with customers in the education, healthcare, manufacturing and finance sectors• Directed customers through the presales process to assist them with architectural configuration, costs and benefits of proposed solutions• Ensured optimal solutions by remaining vendor agnostic while working within customer constraints• Earned the inherent trust of the customers to build repeat business• Balanced configurations, budgets, benefits, vendor relations and project managers to establish my position as a trusted point of contact for the customer

Cleveland, Oh, Us

• Server hardware, software procurement and vendor relationship management• Responsible for various Proof of Concept projects including Dell VRTX (beta) evaluation• Clustered SQL on VMware deployment and administration for high availability• EMC Symmetrix storage life cycle migration management and migration of workloads• InfoBlox and Zabbix JSON API development• Provided formal mentorship for intern employees seeking a technical focused career at Sherwin-Williams

Cleveland, Oh, Us

• VMware administration of vCenter, ESXi, SRM and View• Oracle Application Express (APEX) application development• VMware View VDI provisioning and administration• Implementation of EMC Avamar from a Netbackup infrastructure• Comprehensive PowerCLI scripting with integration into VMware, Active Directory, SQL and Oracle Databases• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) expansion and maintenance• Infrastructure support for Siemen’s OpenScape Call Center (Sherwin-William’s 800 numbers).• Microsoft C# application development

Overland Park, Ks, Us

• Conducted VMware vCenter 5, VMware ESXi 5 and VMware SRM implementation• Oversaw (2) EMC Symmetrix VMAX design ans implementations• Handled (2) EMC RecoverPoint clusters, architecture and implementations• Shepherded the EMC DataDomain backup network plan and implementation• Organized the EMC Isilon implementation• Lead project management that encompassed resources from internal teams and external professional services• Supervised new datacenter planning, operations and management for the cloud business unit• Managed over a half of petabyte of storage on a daily basis

Overland Park, Ks, Us

• Directed 2x EMC VMAX & VNX 5500 storage array implementations• Ran VMware vSphere 4 installation, performance monitoring and troubleshooting• Optimized Up.time Software implementation for centralized system monitoring and alerting• Responsible for Softerra Adaxes self-service Active Directory portal implementation• Presided over IP Switch WS_FTP Enterprise implementation for SFTP access• Managed Infoblox Appliance deployment for IPAM, DNS and NTP• Lead APC Netbotz HID security card implementation on server racks• Sole administrator of our Cleveland disaster recovery data center• Acted as subjected mater expert for Cisco Catalyst duties (L2/VLAN, upgrades)• Intersystems Cache Database basic administration

Cleveland, Oh, Us

• Propriety application development in .NET C# with Microsoft SQL that supports the manufacturing of aircraft wheels & brakes to produce quality documents for internal & external auditing.• Microsoft SharePoint & InfoPath document and workflow development. Nintex Workflow 2007 development.