Phil Koster Email & Phone Number

Phil Koster is a Solutions Architect at Vista IT Group. He possess expertise in vmware, windows server, active directory, servers, virtualization and 42 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Phil is a knowledgeable and competent engineer. His "can do" attitude and helpfulness set him apart from others in this field. I worked with him as a colleague at Advanticom and as a client for whom he provided services. Personally, I really like working with Phil and professionally, I trust him to get the job done right." and "While working with Phil for over the past year he exhibited leading qualities as a Systems Engineer and proved to be true assest by exhibiting expertise and knowledge for all projects and as a astute professional with all customers."

Listed skills include Vmware, Windows Server, Active Directory, Servers, and 43 others.

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  Solutions Architect

  Vista It Group

  Feb 2023 - Present - Kentwood, Michigan, United States

  At Vista IT Group, our motto is "Technology that works delivered by people who care." We make every effort to provide our clients with true solutions (combinations of products and services) that meet the business needs of each of our hundreds of unique clients. I help with that mission by:- Educating customers on matters of IT efficiency, supportability, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security.- Assisting 12 Account Managers and 2 vCIOs with determining client requirements, solution development, providing solution specifications, determining proper licensing, creating labor estimates, assisting in creation of Bill of Materials, and presenting proposals.- Maintaining the presales engineering process by: document template updates, identifying areas for process improvement, monitoring ticket statuses and SLA's for the presales engineer service queue.- Using tools like: Dell Live Optics, Microsoft Azure Migrate, RVTools, Rapidfire Tools, custom scripts, and Microsoft MAPS Toolkit.- Architecting solutions on products and platforms such as: Microsoft 365 and related services, Microsoft Azure Infrastructure services, Dell PowerEdge/PowerVault/PowerStore, Fortinet Fortigate/FortiSwitch/FortiAP, Cisco Meraki, HPE ProLiant/MSA/Allerra, HPE Aruba CX-switches/wireless, VMware, Microsoft Windows Server and related products/features, Cisco Duo, DNS Filter, SentinelOne, NetApp, ProofPoint, Veeam, custom Vista services