Randy Arthur Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Ashburn, Virginia, US

• ▣ OVERVIEWLed product engineering for internal Azure Managed Services startup, championing Microsoft cloud platform adoption and developing comprehensive support for Azure-based IaaS and PaaS services. ▣ KEY.
• Internal startup, positioned and grew Azure cloud offerings into $100M+ services portfolio in <4 years.
• Foresaw and captured explosive growth opportunity in the relatively untapped Azure cloud services space.
• Scaled Azure product development team to 50+ engineers keeping pace with rapidly growing business demand.➤ Enhanced services offering’s FinOps capabilities by developing in-house Invoicing/FinOps data analytics system.
• Leveraged Azure Synapse and Power BI to replace legacy CloudCheckr solution; built data lake and solution for Azure financial reporting.
• Assembled centralized team to provide advanced FinOps analysis to managed Azure accounts.➤ Leveraged DevOps and FinOps operational models to simplify, optimize, and reduce technology operations costs.

Global, US

In 2017, I was recognized as a Distinguished Technologist. There were fewer than 20 of us worldwide across CSC. A Distinguished Technologist is an industry-recognized leader in our technical community who has significant impact on CSC's business. A Distinguished Technologist uses his/her deep understanding of architecture methodology and design patterns.

Global, US

• ▣ OVERVIEWPromoted to help launch and lead internal cloud business unit startup. ▣ KEY ROLESDrove efforts to develop and execute technical and product market strategies, led design and development of cloud offerings.
• Architected and implemented delivery capabilities for innovative BizCloud product – the first enterprise private cloud with public cloud commercial attributes.
• Reset foundation for all CSC private cloud services by standardizing virtualization and cloud infrastructure on the Vblock platform.
• CSC recognized by Gartner in 2013 as a leader in the Managed Cloud IaaS Services market.➤ Undertook a market assessment and recommended, captured buy-in for acquiring ServiceMesh as the backbone for CSC’s cloud.
• Integrated the ServiceMesh acquisition into the BixCloud product portfolio and positioned ServiceMesh as an advanced, market differentiating hybrid cloud management platform for CSC.➤ Drove development of CSC’s 3rd.
• Led engineering, cost modeling, and sales guidance promoting Gen 3 offerings on hyper-converged hardware while minimizing impact on Gen 2 BizCloud pipeline.

Global, US

• ▣ OVERVIEWServed as Managed Infrastructure Services Product Manager, assisting in the development and execution of pre-sales solution strategies within both commercial and Federal government verticals. ▣ KEY.
• Played key role in securing $400M SUN Microsystems RFP after stepping in as midrange compute pre-sales domain expert 1 week before initial response was due.
• Orchestrated technical pre-sales efforts on successful $625M Chrysler Managed Compute deal; led midrange pre-sales team on Singapore Stock Exchange proposal to down-select.➤ Developed the first generation of.
• Resulted in a remarkably low cost-per-VM relative to other competing architectures employing higher-density blade servers and SAN-based storage.➤ Earned Chairman’s Award for Excellence (2009) for co-creating OASIS.
• Led to $10s of millions in accelerated contract transformation revenue and procurement deferrals.➤ Developed ROSS analysis methodology for branch office infrastructure solution design, transforming a difficult and.

Global, US

▣ OVERVIEWLed the global team supporting all Nortel North American UNIX server operations (2200+ servers, 4000+ desktops) for CSC. ▣ KEY ROLESServed as the Nortel account's leading crisis management expert overseeing critical programs, upgrading and expanding backup infrastructure, handling all major Unix and Storage incident responses, and steering.

CA

I relocated from Ottawa to Nortel Networks’ Research Triangle Park location, where I served as the team lead for UNIX system administration. My responsibilities included managing 800 Solaris and HP-UX systems (300 servers and 500 desktops). Over a six-month period from June to November, I significantly improved the success rate of our monthly UNIX patching.

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As a manager, I oversaw Informix DBAs and HP-UX system administrators responsible for Nortel Networks’ mission-critical Global Supply Management web-based purchasing system. This system processed $3.8 billion in transactions in 1998. I improved system performance, disaster recovery readiness, and availability through various initiatives. Additionally, I.

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As an IS Advisor reporting to the Senior Manager, Central Operations, I developed a mainframe consolidation strategy at Nortel. This initiative, which began in 1997, reduced the total cost of ownership by streamlining from three mainframe data centers to one. Additionally, we consolidated seven small VM systems into a single large mainframe by 2000.As a.

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As a team lead, led a 4-person development team that re-architected the mainframe based SQL resource tracking database that managed all IS managed resources associated with an employee (telephone numbers, email accounts, userids etc.) and implemented it as a distributed three tier client/server architecture under UNIX. Designed the mechanism that.

CA

As a system programmer, I developed unique enhancements to the RSCS mainframe communication program in IBM 370 assembler. These enhancements allowed BNR to route mainframe communication traffic over its shared TCP/IP network, eliminating the need for dedicated ‘mainframe only’ VTAM and bisynch communication circuits. Additionally, I installed and supported.