Jack McLeod
Oak Ridge,NC
Summary
Senior executive leader with over 25 years of technical experience responsible for implementing and supporting complex infrastructures for modernizing organizations IT environments for multiple Fortune 500 companies. Skilled in strategic planning, project management, technology architecture, team leadership, and data management. Proven track record of optimizing operational efficiencies, enhancing profitability, and fostering strong cross-functional teams.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Director of Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Trace3
2019.01 - Current
- Built Hybrid Cloud Architecture practice responsible for $800 million in product and services sales with charter to serve as senior level architects and engineers for all regions with Trace3.
- Managed a cross-functional team of 50+ engineers and technology professionals, managing their performance, development and collaboration across projects.
- Spearheaded strategic technology initiatives, driving innovation and delivery transformative solutions that align with customers business objectives.
- Championed hybrid cloud capabilities and developed a cloud-smart approach for customers ensuring they could take advantage of current on-premises solutions while transitioning fully vetted workloads to cloud.
- Developed strategy sub-practice and worked closely with customers to develop functional strategies, then translate those strategies into operational plans and priorities following one year, three year, and five year timelines.
- Cultivated and maintained key partner relationships for six largest partners of Trace3 in order to build go to market strategies, training engagements, and enablement for sales regions success with those partners.
- Developed customer products and deliverables using product development lifecycle and married those products to customer business outcomes and objectives.
- Lead digital transformation for customers, serving as virtual CTO (vCTO) for customers during transitions of senior leadership providing continuity, guidance, and direction for organizations as well as streamlining operations to cust costs by as much as 20%.
Director of Converged Core Infrastructure
Trace3
2017.04 - 2019.01
- Coached cross-functional team of 20+ architects and engineers to modernize customers IT infrastructure, moving them from outdated environments to cost-effective hybrid-cloud infrastructure capable of meeting their business objectives.
- Managed customer technical relationships and ensured favorable outcomes for projects by ensuring customer intimacy and understanding of the customers’ overall business objectives.
- Developed relationships with our six largest vendor partners and developed programs with them to enhance support, training, and integration design.
- Lead development for platform engineering and automation for cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures, developing a proven and repeatable methodology for deployment and integration into customer environments.
- Technical champion for design of hybrid cloud strategy and implementation methodology which created a roadmap for integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure and AWS for a seamless, single pane of glass experience.
Infrastructure and Cloud Manager
Biogen
2015.06 - 2017.04
- Managed cross-functional team of 20+ architects, engineers, and developers for design, implementation, and code development for Hybrid Cloud.
- Championed and designed three-year strategy for selecting and moving vetted critical on-premise workloads to Cloud and ensuring those workloads were performant and completely functional.
- Managed $7 million budget for implementation, training, hardware and software purchases, and hiring of resources.
- Developed relationships with vendors and managed outside consultants for the implementation of hybrid cloud environment stretching across on-premises environment, Azure, AWS, and Google clouds.
- Lead the creation of guidance and strategies to develop against requirements for business units needing to move workloads into cloud quickly.
- Mentored and trained colleagues on cloud computing concepts as well as provided coaching, mentoring, and training for resources within infrastructure and operations on virtualization, storage, and security.
- Responsible for implementation of automation and observability solutions.
- Presented on-premises cloud, storage, observability, resiliency, and virtualization strategies, technologies, and solutions to C-suite for continued future on-premises workload success.
Product Manager for VMware Private Cloud
NetApp
2008.03 - 2015.06
- Product Manager for VMware private cloud integrations responsible for driving all integration points between NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and VMware vRealize Suite.
- Lead cross-functional product teams, MRD review and development participation, and roadmap development for product development and evaluation.
- Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
- Developed automation and orchestration workflows for NetApp software-defined storage solutions based off customer and field requests.
- Lead the design and implementation of VMware and NetApp cloud solutions for automation, observability, and resiliency.
- · Lead the and development of NetApp storage automation plugin for VMware vCenter Orchestrator to enable a seamless experience between NetApp automation and VMware.
- Designed converged and hyper-converged systems for customers to be used at both headquarters and remote field offices for cloud initiatives.
- Developed future strategies related to virtualization and Cloud by working closely with Technical Alliance teams and Development Engineering.
- Developed virtualization solutions technical collateral such as best practices guides, solutions guides, field presentation and white papers.
- Responsible for driving Cloud Computing initiatives and working with Cloud vendors for product integration.
- Created and maintained multiple cross vendor relationships with partners (VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, Wyse) and worked with partners to create reference architectures and detailed designs for environments.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management And Information Systems
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC06.1997
Skills
- Strategic Plannin
- Project Management
- Technology Evaluation
- Stakeholder Relations
- Budgets
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Vendor Relations
- Training
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Team Building
- Data Management
Technologies
- Virtualization
- Storage
- Cloud Computing
- Data Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Software Development
- Kubernetes
- Automation
- DevOps
- Compute
- Security
- Resiliency
- Observability
Job Related Coursework
- Power Speaking
- Management for Today
- Employee Management and Development
- Project Management (PMI)
- Information Management
- AI/ML for Business Leaders
- Budget Management
- Customer Support Success for Business Leaders
- Leadership Training
- Team Building for Executives
Authored Documents
- TR-4308: Software-Defined Storage with NetApp and VMware
- TR-4306: Building Automation and Orchestration for Software-Defined Storage with NetApp and VMware
- NVA-0007: VMware vCloud Director on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
- TR-4217: Automating and Orchestrating the Software Defined Datacenter with NetApp and VMware
- TR-4203: VMware vCloud Director on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Deployment Guide
- Automating and Orchestrating Software Defined Data Center with NetApp and VMware
- TR-3948: VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management on NetApp
- TR-3770: VMware View on NetApp Deployment Guide
- TR-3808: VMware vSphere and ESX 3.5 Multiprotocol Performance Comparison Using FC, iSCSI, and NFS
- TR-3704: NetApp SAN Solutions for VMware
Timeline
Sr. Director of Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Trace3
2019.01 - Current
Director of Converged Core Infrastructure
Trace3
2017.04 - 2019.01
Infrastructure and Cloud Manager
Biogen
2015.06 - 2017.04
Product Manager for VMware Private Cloud
NetApp
2008.03 - 2015.06
Bachelor of Science - Management And Information Systems
University of South Carolina
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