CHRIS SKALING
Rancho Mission Viejo,CA
Summary
Azure Certified Solutions Architect with 14 years of hands on Datacenter and Cloud experience. I work closely with enterprise businesses to navigate the path to digital transformation that bring data driven business impacting results.
Overview
4
4
Certifications
4
4
years of post-secondary education
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Cloud Solutions EPAM
Irvine, CA
11.2020 - Current
- Focused teams on developing innovative and cutting-edge approaches at all levels with effective resource allocation and strategic planning.
- Work closely with Fortune 100 executives to craft their Cloud-native strategic initiatives and develop a services plan to execute that vision.
- Work with client executive leadership to understand their current state and analyze TCO and develop business plans that enable clients to execute on a transformative Cloud strategy.
- Build and expand relationships with top 3 Cloud providers to align business goals and go-to-market strategy.
- Design and prototype Cloud-native, client impacting business solutions.
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Microsoft
Irvine, CA
06.2017 - 11.2020
- Dedicated Lead Cloud Architect for one of Microsoft’s largest financial services customers.
- Regularly interfaced with top executive management, providing thought leadership that tangibly solved real-world business problems through Azure Cloud platform.
- Worked with Executives and technical teams on the client-side and product owners on the Microsoft side to build an entirely new level of scale offered by Azure Search. This was needed to handle the client’s workload, as Azure Search's scale could not meet the requirements. After months of working with leadership from both Microsoft and the client, we formally introduced a new service tier for Azure Search and migrated the client’s workload comprising of Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Functions and Azure Search. This is being worked on as a public case study as it is the largest Azure Search instance in all of Azure and a top 10 Cosmos DB workload.
- Presented deep technical enablement sessions around all things Cloud.
- Designed cloud native architecture and develop migration plans for complex on-premises financial services business applications.
- Built proof of concept demonstrations to show capability and “art of the possible”.
- Showcased agile methodology and culture to fully enable Cloud transformation.
- Trained and coached teams using Azure Devops and Agile methods to deploy and manage Cloud at scale.
Advisory Cloud Architect
Dell EMC
Irvine, CA
06.2016 - 12.2017
- Principal Consultant for Fortune 100 Dell EMC Customers, I led Executive’s through Cloud transformation their journey using Azure Cloud and Hybrid Cloud technologies.
- Worked with business unit leadership to understand business and financial drivers around Cloud and understand current blockers to adoption.
- Developed transformative plans to address blockers, optimize cost and architect highly scalable Cloud environments enabling a highly agile Cloud first culture.
- Subject Matter Expert and Speaker at Dell EMC Executive Briefing Center, engaging C-Level executives on Cloud technologies in 3-day executive briefings diving deep into the Art of The Possible.
- Speaker at various conferences on VMware/Dell EMC Cloud Technologies.
- Defined enterprise processes and best practices around hybrid and cloud native migration.
Practice Manager
Fusionstorm
Irvine, CA
04.2010 - 06.2016
- Established foundational capabilities and developed Azure cloud services roadmaps.
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets
- Streamlined and optimized delivery engineer processes driving up billable utilization increasing regional profitability.
- Advised enterprise Fortune 100 and 50 companies on Cloud methodologies and strategies.
- Built strong relationships with vendors to further develop our go to market offerings.
- Evaluated key future technologies and provide regional technical direction with strategic vision.
- Trained, hired, and developed technical delivery team delivering best in class technology solutions.
- Translated business problems to technical solutions using a Azure cloud first approach and Hybrid cloud using Azure Stack.
- Designed and implemented complex on-premises datacenter technology from network (NSX, Cisco), storage (NetApp, EMC), compute (Cisco, Dell) and Virtualization with VMware vSphere.
- Conducted deep dive hands-on education and training sessions.
- Coded Infrastructure automation projects with Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell, and Python.
- Implemented highly scalable multi-tiered enterprise application environments such as SAP with Oracle RAC.
Senior Systems Engineer
Allscripts
Whitter, CA
01.2007 - 04.2010
- Presented technical solution planning to C level executives.
- Participated in design of new Datacenter build.
- Assisted in all phases from conceptual, logical and physical design.
- Designed and Implemented highly resilient vSphere environment emphasizing redundancy as it ran all mission critical hospital applications.
- Designed and implemented highly resilient storage architecture with NetApp and EMC storage systems.
- Technical lead for data center consolidation from hospital acquisitions into existing corporate infrastructure.
- Responsible for complex datacenter integration and optimization.
- Responsible for extensive technical assessments and documentation for all integration projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Colorado Technical University
01.2012 - 01.2016
Skills
Microsoft Certified Cloud Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Azure
Devops
Agile
Cloud Native Architecture
Automation
Leadership
Certification
5/2019, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Accomplishments
- Selected to speak at FusionStorm's company-wide national sales meeting as "FusionStorm’s Best Engineers” Panel
- Selected for FusionStorm President’s Club years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
- Featured on VMware "Virtual Blocks" Blog, and panel member for "The Cube" VMworld 2015 (https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2015/11/03/from-a-users-point-of-view-virtual-san-fast-easy- agile/).
Timeline
Director
Cloud Solutions EPAM
11.2020 - Current
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Microsoft
06.2017 - 11.2020
Advisory Cloud Architect
Dell EMC
06.2016 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Colorado Technical University
01.2012 - 01.2016
Practice Manager
Fusionstorm
04.2010 - 06.2016
Senior Systems Engineer
Allscripts
01.2007 - 04.2010