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Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

Pre-Sales Engineer focused on modern data center and cloud technologies.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Cloud, Storage and Virtualization focused Pre-Sales and Post Sales Delivery Professional Services Engineer.Working with enterprise customers to assist in the architecture of their cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure with a focus on Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, Pure Storage, NetApp, HyperFlex and VMWare.

Virginia Beach, Va

SLAIT Consulting was acquired by ePlus, Inc. in January 2019. Cloud, Storage and Virtualization focused Pre-Sales and Post Sales Delivery Professional Services Engineer.Work with enterprise customers to assist in the architecture of their cloud and hybrid-cloud infrastructure with a focus on Microsoft Azure, Nutanix, Pure Storage, NetApp, and VMWare.

Chesapeake, Va

Define priorities, develop action plans, and implement projects and programs to meet short and long-range technology development and execution goals to keep pace with corporate requirements and industry standards. Create and administer IT budget for department and special projects. Conceptualize and present IT vision and direction to senior managers and company ownership. Create and implement standard operating procedures, policies, and processes for IT department. Train and mentor staff members. Manage vendor relations, evaluation, selection, and contract administration. Negotiated with clients (internal, external) on SLAs; coordinate with service providers and monitor deliverables to meet targets. Perform reviews of data and develop business use cases; assess concept, hardware/software plans, and feasibility for projects. Additional Highlights & Contributions: • Optimize results by leveraging best-practices in crafting corporate Information Technology policies and documentation to increase effectiveness of internal systems.• Serve as key subject matter expert supporting staff to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve technical problems.• Control costs with special projects by rigorously evaluating and reviewing contract proposals.• Effectively negotiate SLAs with internal and external clients and service providers; track, monitor, and report on service delivery align goals with targets, standards, and budgets. • Led rapid transition of Information Technology department from a managed support system to on-premise support within three months for a team of 300+ employees.Served as Project Lead for numerous Information Technology projects including: o Replacing corporate network infrastructure to align with DFARS compliance.o On-premise Email and SharePoint migration to Office 365. o Nutanix Hyper-Converged infrastructure installation.o Server virtualization and migration from Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV.

Chesapeake, Va

Provided vital direction to teams and operations of internal Information Technology Department including hiring, training, mentoring, and evaluating performance of IT team members to meet corporate goals; devised staffing plans and allocated workflow. Developed Corporate Information Technology policies. Defined corporate IT strategy, developed and managed budgets and resources for overall department and special projects. Managed project estimates and budget requests; managed proposals, SOWs/scope of work reports, and project documentation; evaluated vendor / contractor proposals. Liaised with clients, stakeholders, vendors, and contractors to manage projects and programs. Additional Highlights & Contributions: • Compiled and reviewed data for business case analysis; developed studies and reports to support ROI on hardware and software implementation plans. • Leveraged strategic mindset when identifying, creating, and implementing best-practice based policies and procedures that enhanced internal systems. • Coordinated and oversaw teams responsible for revising and rebuilding corporate network to meet changing strategic priorities. • Met all corporate goals for formulating system software, network systems, programming and data center operations strategy; coordinated project to align with schedules, resource and labor plans, and cost controls.• Directed, assigned, coordinated, reviewed and evaluated the work of staff for maximum productivity. Developed effective relationships with clients, stakeholders, vendors, and contractors.• Key visionary in determining IT strategy, creating and delivering presentations to company owners and stakeholders.

Promoted through positions of increasing scope and responsibility to hold senior-level accountability for overseeing all priorities of large-scale Information Technology Department. Recruited, hired, trained, and supervised team of IT staff in all daily operations. Developed and administered budget for department and projects. Supervised web and SQL developers in designing corporate internet and intranet websites. Compiled, assessed, and reported performance metrics to Board of Directors, decision-makers, and senior managers; presented long- and short-range recommendations, forecasts, and plans. Created standard operating procedures for data archiving to comply with federal e-discovery laws.Additional Highlights & Contributions: • Initially hired as a Network Administrator (97-00) supporting all site- and office-based computer networks and equipment; collaborated with Trainer to design courses on in-house applications. • Spearheaded management of multiple successful projects including requirements definition, vendor relations, contract management, and roadmaps. Projects included: o Datacenter and Desktop Virtualization.o Project Management software customization and implementation.o Accounting and Property Management software customization and implementation. o EMC storage hardware and software implementation.o EMC EmailXtender email archive software implementation. o EMC Document Management software implementation.o EMC Network Backup software implementation.o Video Teleconference System for corporate and branch offices. Corporate telephone system refresh.o Three (3) Datacenter relocations.