Highly motivated, results oriented Solutions Architect, pre- and post-sales, architect with valuable mix of broad systems and security knowledge acquired in small- and large-scale environments. Extensive experience designing and securely implementing solutions that solve real world business challenges in commercial, enterprise systems and security architectures. Proven ability to work independently or as a key team leader/member to accomplish ambitious goals within aggressive time constraints. Excellent communicator and problem solver skilled at architecting effective, secure solutions, while maximizing system availability and efficiency, with experience mentoring and educating team members and customers. Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Work History
Consulting Solutions Engineer
World Wide Technology
, AZ
03.2023 - Current
Independently gather and translate client business requirements into solutions
Perform necessary pre-sales functions to create solution designs
Assess the suitability of a customer’s current infrastructure products, recommending appropriate solutions for current business needs.
Enterprise Sales Engineer
HPE
, AZ
01.2023 - 03.2023
Independently gather and translate client business requirements into solutions
Perform necessary pre-sales functions to create solution designs
Assess the suitability of a customer’s current infrastructure products, recommending appropriate solutions for current business needs
Accurately and effectively communicate risk posed to the customer’s business by design choices and infrastructure issues
Evaluate customer disaster recovery and business continuity plans to assess the appropriateness of a current or proposed solution
Effective whiteboard storytelling, facilitating the communication of designs and strategies with a client and team members
Build Bill of Materials (BoM), create illustrations, diagrams, and write and provide Statements of Work (SoW)
Create justifications of solution designs, assisting the customer in becoming well informed of their options.
Solutions Architect
CompuNet Inc
, AZ
12.2018 - 01.2022
Independently gather and translate client business requirements into solutions
Perform necessary pre-sales functions to create solution designs
Assess the suitability of a customer’s current infrastructure products, recommending appropriate solutions for current business needs
Accurately and effectively communicate risk posed to the customer’s business by design choices and infrastructure issues
Evaluate customer disaster recovery and business continuity plans to assess the appropriateness of a current or proposed solution
Effective whiteboard storytelling, facilitating the communication of designs and strategies with a client and team members
Build Bill of Materials (BoM), create illustrations, diagrams, and write and provide Statements of Work (SoW)
Create justifications of solution designs, assisting the customer in becoming well informed of their options
Engage and assist engineers with key strategic accounts and drive new opportunities
Partner with CompuNet Infrastructure Group engineering teams, account managers, engineering managers, innovation team, and business development managers
Assist in the development and maintenance of business solution frameworks that can be standardized, delivered on, and evolve the Infrastructure Practice and technologies
Build the Infrastructure Group engineering teams knowledge and skills through mentoring of your specific areas of expertise
Development of long-term technology vision and roadmap creating the solution sets for CompuNet’s diverse Customer base and verticals
Drive the technology strategy within CompuNet in partnership with all CompuNet markets
Peer with the engineers in efforts to shadow and mentor in the pre-sales, architecting and implementation efforts
Partner with the Business Development and Innovation teams to build a winning technical strategy for our clients
Partner with the Business Development and Innovation Teams to provide technical representation for CompuNet when meeting vendors and attending conferences
Partner with the Business Development and Innovation Teams to understand and articulate CompuNet’s business strategy and how it relates to the technology landscape
Pair with Engineering Managers to review project scopes for validation
Partner with Sales and local market engineers to assist in opening new accounts and schedule introductory meetings
Interface with Engineering Managers to assist in identifying service opportunities and needs
Coordinating Lab resources and standardization efforts across GEO’s.
Systems Architect
Concord Servicing Corporation
, AZ
10.2017 - 12.2018
Lead ITOps team for Architectures and Design for all systems
Manage vendor relationships and contracts (DELL, Level3, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft)
Administer 3 datacenter P2P dark fiber connections with L2 over L3 connections to Mexico call centers
Architect and Administer Cisco to Paloalto migration
Architect and Administer Veeam with AWS storage gateway (VTL and File)
Architect, Migrate, Administer Nexus 9K across multiple datacenters
Architect, Migrate, Administer multiple sets UCS FIs and Chassis
Architect, Migrate, Administer Storage platforms (Nimble and NETAPP)
Architect and Administer VMware Horizon 7.6 using linked clones
Work with DevOPs team to establish fully automated environments with Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, and Octopus
Migrated on prem exchange to O365 (hybrid deployment)
Established PCI standards for multiple systems (Firewall segregation, Centralized logging (Alien Vault), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Incapsula WAF)
Manage and help maintain budgets and run rates for senior leadership and ownership
Sr IT Consultant
Infinity Solutions
, AZ
10.2016 - 10.2017
Design and Create all SOW for all projects (Infrastructure related, Office365, VMware Storage ect..)
Manage engineering staff and schedules
Manage 120+ customer base
Design, Setup and Maintain MSP systems for 10000+ endpoints
Work with multiple vendors to create relationships for new and existing clients
Design and develop marketing materials for the MSP practices.
Solutions Architect
Brown
Caldwell, AZ
03.2012 - 10.2016
Lead engineering team for all Architectures and Designs
Manage vendor relationships and contracts (DELL, AT&T, Cisco, Citrix, Autodesk)
Architect and Administer 50+ MPLS sites with 4 backhaul gateways and P2P dark fiber connections
Architect and Administer CommVault (Enterprise Backup, Archive, Search, and Indexing)
Architect and Administer Storage platforms
(Nimble, NETAPP, NEXSAN, EMC)
Architect and Administer Citrix XenApp/Desktop platform (5.6 - 7.9 with NetScaler 10.0 - 11.0) (Virtual Graphics for VDI vGPU K1/K2/M60)
Administration and Analysis of VMware environments (98% Virtual)
Enterprise-Wide Analysis of capacity, performance, and scalability (MPLS ISPs VMware Switching Routing Storage)
Manage Enterprise budgets and run rates for Senior Leadership and Board of Directors
Sr Network/Sr Systems Engineer
InterTech Computer Products
, AZ
06.2011 - 02.2012
Pre/Post Sales Engineering
Project Management
Architect Complete Hosted Environments ( Phx NAP and I/O Datacenters)
Architect Metro Ethernet and global L2/L3 systems
Architect Full Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Environments
Implementation and Administration VMware 4.1/5.0 Environments
Implementation and Administration Hyper-V Environments
Implementation and Administration of SonicWALL, Citrix, F5 product lines
Maintain VMware/Hyper-V Hosted Environment (100s of Clusters)
Break Fix for 150+ clients ranging from 10 users to 10,000