Chris White Email & Phone Number

Staunton, Virginia, United States

Pre-sales solutions architect helping customers achieve their RPO and RTO goals in the native public cloud. Beginning with technical enablement and discovery, I help customers define their DR business objectives, outline testable and achievable DR outcomes, prove out the solution and finally, implement into their day-to-day production.

Home Office, Virginia

As a Staff VMware Cloud Solutions Architect, I drive pre-sales technical guidance for enterprise higher-education and state and local government customers. Responsibilities include managing multi-million-dollar deals and leading collaborative efforts with product management, global support, and stakeholders to ensure customer success. I actively support customers in optimizing deployments, adopting new features, and collaborate with product management to shape service direction. Additionally, I assist teammates in multi-cloud networking discussions and facilitate discussions with third-party vendors to simplify adoption.• Presented at VMware Explore 2022 and multiple global webinars, showcasing expertise.• Led cross-team technical enablement sessions for public sector solutions architects, enhancing knowledge and expertise.• Developed and maintained two VMware Fling projects, benefiting hundreds of VMware Cloud customers and simplifying automation adoption.

Home Office, Staunton, Virginia

As a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, I served as a Solutions Architect specializing in VMware Cloud on AWS for public sector clients in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US. I guided clients through initial meetings, provided education on technical concepts, designed tailored cloud solutions, and executed architecture deployments. I authored blogs and technical narratives to enhance customer education and played a pivotal role in business growth. My responsibilities included supporting existing customers in issue resolution and implementing new solutions, contributing to overall customer satisfaction. I influenced product development through presentations to product management leadership, addressing customer pain points, and simplifying customer processes from months to hours.• Provided end-to-end solutions to public sector customers, ensuring seamless adoption of VMware Cloud on AWS.• Created informative blogs and technical content, advancing customer understanding and driving business growth.• Assisted customers in resolving issues and implementing new solutions, contributing to overall customer satisfaction.

Home Office, Staunton, Virginia

As a Senior Datacenter Engineer at Advanced Logic, I played a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and overseeing regional public IaaS and DRaaS cloud solutions under the VMware Cloud Provider Program. I was responsible for creating and managing regional public Backup-as-a-Service and DRaaS offerings using Veeam Cloud Connect. My duties included conducting discovery sessions to identify customer pain points and growth areas and collaborating closely with pre-sales teams. Additionally, I architected and managed customer data centre systems, aligning solutions with customer preferences and budgetary constraints.• Orchestrated the deployment of Backup-as-a-Service and DRaaS solutions using Veeam Cloud Connect, enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities for regional clients.• Contributed to sales calls by presenting pain points and delivering options and solutions, thereby assisting in customer engagement and business growth.

Waynesboro, Virginia

As a Senior Network Engineer at Lumos Fiber, I played a crucial role in designing, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting the corporate SAN infrastructure. This infrastructure featured Cisco MDS SAN fabric switches and HP 3PAR storage arrays. Additionally, I oversaw corporate server hardware management, including HP C7000 blade chassis and Cisco UCSM. My responsibilities extended to leading the design, implementation, management, and troubleshooting of the corporate virtualization infrastructure. I also managed and troubleshooted the corporate virtual desktop infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations.• Optimized the corporate SAN infrastructure, enhancing data storage and retrieval efficiency.• Contributed to the effective design and management of the corporate virtualization infrastructure, facilitating agile IT operations and resource allocation.

Bridgewater, Va

Chantilly, Va