Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Senior IT Professional looking to build upon over a decade of experience in aligning information technology operations with organizational objectives into a challenging role with a dynamic, forward-thinking organization. Offers a deep technical knowledge base cultivated through progressive roles in solution architecture, management, system administration, enterprise architecture, network infrastructure, disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Complements technical prowess with exceptional interpersonal and leadership capabilities, striving to empower employees with the tools and processes they need to help facilitate success. A fluent, bilingual communicator who demonstrates a talent for developing business transformation solutions and articulating their value to key decision makers to drive organizational progress and change. Technology Overview: • Cloud Computing & DevOps. HP SA, HP OO, HP NA, HP CODAR, HP CSA, BMC CLM, BMC BladeLogic, BMC AO, Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, OpenStack, Jenkins, Nexus, VMware, HP SM.. • Virtualization on VMware, OpenStack. • High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning implementation resulting in process creation, improvement and documentation. • Monitoring, Performance & Dashboarding Tools: HP Operation Manager (HP OV suite), EMC Smarts, MS SCOM, CA eHealth, NetQoS suite, CA Wily, Netuitive, Solidcore, F5 Node Manager, Pure Share Active Metrics, Keynote, SiteScope. • Unix/Linux Operating Systems Administrator (Solaris, RedHat Linux, HP-UX, Ubuntu) • Windows System Administrator: Windows Servers and Windows Clients • Programming: Perl, Unix shells scripting, C/C++, Java • Project Management tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel • Sustainment of large data centers (5000+ systems)
As Partnership Manager at PureLogic IT, my focus is on leading a proactive partnership strategy that opens doors to new opportunities. I work to deepen trust with our current partners while also identifying new paths for growth and collaboration. I actively contribute to marketing initiatives that highlight the value of our partnerships and strengthen our industry presence. At the heart of it all, I’m proud to represent our incredible team—bringing our values to life in every relationship and across the wider industry.
HPE Cloud & DevOps Solutions enable customers to transform their traditional IT environment into a digital enterprise with automation, orchestration and ultimately, transformation solutions. These solutions help organizations automate tasks to drive efficiency across the virtualized data center, orchestrate processes with speed and agility to evolve to a “cloud inspired” IT service model, and transform the support & delivery of services to modernize the customer experience, leveraging the full power of the hybrid cloud. In my role I work closely with customers, internal staff, implementation teams and product management to ensure HPE customers meet their desired business outcomes using our solutions & services. I am responsible for a large portfolio of enterprise accounts across Eastern Canada, supporting the needs of the sale executives. Activities associated with my role include: • Gathering and assessing customer needs for Cloud or DevOps, both business and technical • Identifying customer-wide IT parameters and constraints that may impact our solutions and services • Architect solutions to meet customer requirements • Building strong professional relationships with key IT and LOB executives • Understanding and addressing CxO issues • Acting as an escalation point if required to ensure our solutions are meeting the customers objectives • Performing technical validations (PoC/Pilots, etc) on various HPE Software products & solutions • Providing regular customer presentations on the latest developments with our solutions • Facilitating a smooth transition from sales to implementation by orienting the appropriate teams to the solution design • Leading solution workshops with customers • Actively participating in account and opportunity planning with the account team • Act as an official Mentor for new Presales Solution Architects. In this capacity, I provided coaching, training and shadow their initial customer calls. • Answering RFI/RFP and creating BoM’s