Ryno Coetzee Email & Phone Number

Round Rock, Texas, Us

In my capacity as an Advisory Solution Architect, I play a key role in designing and implementing specialized technical solutions to meet the unique requirements of our Enterprise Customers. My role includes:• Orchestrating pre-sales events and processes.• Engaging intensively with customers to understand precise demands.• Forming alliances with sales leadership to envision technical strategies that accentuate sales productivity.• Establishing myself as a reliable consultant and technical specialist on Enterprise Solutions.• Maximizing the collective expertise across different Business Units to expedite business development and meet our customer's comprehensive requirements.My technical responsibilities primarily revolve around understanding our customer's unique needs and aligning them with appropriate solutions:• Liaising with business and technical leaders to understand their enterprise objectives and design tailored infrastructure strategies to meet their technical and commercial KPIs.• Recognizing key drivers for infrastructure changes and addressing enterprise challenges as they move towards next-gen data centers and modern applications.• Evaluating application portfolios, identifying interdependencies, and proposing solutions that account for shared infrastructure components and meet the viability of migrations.• Designing unique infrastructure solutions that are not just fit for purpose but also cost-effective, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and applications.• Conducting cost-benefit analyses and creating persuasive business cases for infrastructure enhancements, balancing technical requirements with commercial realities.• Crafting comprehensive migration roadmaps and securing consensus within complex organizational structures.• Partnering with consulting and deployment teams to implement meticulously planned migration strategies with minimal disruption to existing business processes.

Midrand, Gauteng, Za

• Architect standards-based technology solutions for a large bank.• Senior stakeholder engagement across 10 African countries to secure in-country technology buy-in and support.• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to customers.• Present architected solutions to multiple boards within the bank for approval and implementation.• Technology lead on migrations from existing legacy datacenter, to new tier 4 datacenter.• Strategic remediation of services to new datacenter.• Business and application owner engagement to ensure successful migrations.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Architect custom IT solutions for customers based on the HP Enterprise Group portfolio, which includes servers, storage, networking and cloud solutions.• Converged Infrastructure Ambassador for South Africa.• Evangelising latest HP technologies.• Do customer presentations on latest HP technologies.• Attend and present at multiple public events (Microsoft TechEd, HP World, Tarsus Tech Days, etc ) on the latest HP technologies.• Develop custom proposals based on customer requirements.• Respond to tenders.• Establishment of Trusted Advisor role in assigned accounts.• Bill of material creation.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Architect custom IT solutions for clients aligned to the specific consulting portfolio offering.• Development of compelling and innovative proposals.• Assess business impact of multiple technology strategies.• Understand customer situation and develop future state IT architecture.• Establishment of Trusted Advisor role in the assigned accounts.• Drive the bid development process and ensure SOAR guidelines.• Drive Consulting pipeline together with TS Consulting Sales Force in the assigned accounts.• Understand Market landscape.• Leverage technology partners to drive innovative IT solutions.• Active contribution to and collaboration with the Consulting Team (Portfolio and Delivery)• Leverage and up-sell full TC portfolio in the proposal development.• Develop and leverage best practices and share within Global Consulting community.• Develop and maintain leading edge competence and maintain inventiveness.• Share best practices proposals and approaches.

• Ensure operational efficiencies in day to day operations.• Managed Exchange, OCS (Lync), SQL, Sharepoint, Dynamic CRM, Blackberry Enterprise Services, Web sites, Domain services, etc, infrastructure.• Upgraded existing infrastructure to the latest versions at the time, Exchange 2007 to 2010, OCS 2007 R2 to Lync 2010, Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.• Implemented the first Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 in the public cloud.• Implementation of Infrastructure-as-a-Service on Hyper-V.• Changed and automated the on-boarding process for all customers, through a web portal.• Solution design and architecture of all systems.• Second- and third-level support to customer escalations.• Data center management.

• Team leader, managing 12x highly skilled Microsoft engineers• Consulting with customers on a regular basis, with respect to Microsoft and infrastructure requirements, as well as best practice recommendations• Numerous proposals written, solicited and unsolicited• Standardize documentation standards throughout all customers• Achieve financial budgets• Management of customer SLA's• Management of employee timesheets for billing purposes• Responsible for all HR activities with regards to Resource Allocation, Staff Communication, Training / Career Planning, Performance Reviews, Increases, Leave Planning & Approval, Standby Scheduling & Approval for Payment, Approval of Overtime, Attendance, Disciplinary Action, Travelling Arrangements• Project Management

Frankfurt Am Main, De

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