SUMMARY

• Confidential is an experienced enterprise architect and business leader with over 20 years of experience analyzing, designing and implementing enterprise solutions.
• Proven ability to increase profitability through effectively identifying business challenges and the technology solutions that meet those needs.
• A strong reputation for working with integrity, dedication, mentorship, initiative and exceeding expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Innovation Through Technology: Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture: IT Roadmap Development

Team Leadership: Security and Compliance

Business Relationship Management: Public Speaking / Presenting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

Senior Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve.
• Communicate and present to Senior Leadership.
• Propose and establish framework for necessary contributions from various departments.
• Work closely with project management teams to successfully monitor progress of initiatives.
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions, creating Solution Design documentation and recommendation.
• Lead the architecture and strategy process, defining requirements, supporting all project phases, and creating designs during the project execution.
• Create detailed architectural diagrams, covering Azure and AWS concepts and services.
• Provide Enterprise architecture guidance to improving and upgrading enterprise services, software and hardware.
• Leading compliance and security requirements, for industry and regulatory alignment.
• Facilitate the application of business architecture for business and IT value.
• Lead architect on multiple projects, vendor evaluations and recommendations.
• Create TOGAF documentation for major program initiatives.

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

Manager, Technical Architecture

Responsibilities:

• The Enterprise Architecture group within the Office of the CIO is responsible for providing ATCO with architectural principles and standards and working with the business leaders and other stakeholders to apply those standards.
• The team is also responsible for application and infrastructure architecture, alignment of initiatives to our long - term strategy, and project management working with our service provider.
• Lead Architect for the following key enterprise projects:
• Windows 10
• Cross Forest AD migration
• Enterprise Mobility + Security
• Office 365 platform
• Azure platform

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

National Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Sales Solutions Architect for Microsoft Cloud Solutions including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite and Microsoft Office 365, as well as Windows 7/8/10 solutions.
• Partner with the Sales team and Practice Directors to drive services sales within the practices and build a pipeline.
• Drive process improvement, delivery efficiency, and project profitability.
• Assist customers with understanding of technical capabilities and business advantages of adopting cloud technologies.
• Perform assessments for customers to identify workloads that can move to the cloud as well as the cost and approach of a migration project.
• Lead demonstrations and proof of concepts for Microsoft cloud solutions.
• Speaking at industry and customer events about Microsoft cloud solutions.
• Act as a mentor, coach and escalation point for all project resources.

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

Responsibilities:

• Partner co-engagement selling specialist working with Microsoft account managers, technical resources and solution specialists on sales opportunities in order to position, demonstrate, design and implement Microsoft solutions.
• Provide subject matter expertise for key technology areas, helping drive and accelerate pipeline velocity and customer deployment.
• Provide deliverables which include sales & positioning presentations, technology & strategy briefings, product demos and technical follow up.

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

National Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development of the Enterprise Systems Management service offerings.
• Development of a national services model for professional services related to systems management projects.
• Provide strategic leadership on solutions for proposals.
• Management of a growing team of consultants.
• Solutions architecture and oversight for projects relating to System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Windows 7 / 8, and all version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite.
• Pre-sales support for internal sales teams and customers.
• Project management and oversight from kickoff, change management (ITIL v3), escalations and project closure.
• Assist customers in establishing policies and procedures related to the management of end user devices to adopt best practices in the use of Microsoft products and technologies.
• Work with technical subject matter experts to provide internal and external training or presentations on Enterprise Systems Management.
• Provide thought leadership contributing to the development of the Enterprise Systems Management practice.
• Provide architectural guidance to organizations with application portfolio management, compatibility testing, and development of a Windows 7 / 8 migration roadmap.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, and software vendors.
• Establish a set of best practices related to System Center projects and Windows client migration projects.

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

Practice Lead, Managed Desktop

Responsibilities:

• Work with business units and client managers to develop new business, drive opportunities, and advance the profile of the practice.
• Work with clients and use structured and proven techniques and tools to help them achieve their business goals by prioritizing opportunities and presenting structured roadmaps for success.
• Lead engagements and workshops that involve Managed Desktop business strategy, assessments, visioning workshops and strategy development.
• Provide strategic leadership on solutions for proposals.
• Development of the Managed Desktop service offerings.
• Lead team of deployment specialists
• Application Compatibility
• Application Portfolio Management
• Image Engineering
• Operating System and Application Distribution
• System Center suite of products
• Solutions architecture for projects relating to System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Windows 7, and the Microsoft Office productivity suite.
• Work with technical subject matter experts to provide internal and external training or presentations on Desktop Management.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, and software vendors.
• Management of a growing team of deployment and management specialists.

Confidential Edmonton, Alberta

Senior Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architectural design and implementation of Microsoft technologies including Exchange Server / 2010, Windows Server, System Center Configuration Manager, and Forefront Client Security.
• Large scale Windows 7 Deployments
• Application Compatibility
• Application Portfolio Management
• Image Engineering
• Operating System and Application Distribution
• Network discovery/ audit / documentation.
• Delivering Microsoft’s Desktop Deployment Planning Services.
• Application Portfolio Management.
• Application Packaging.