John Thomas Davis

7501 Burr Ferry Drive

McKinney, TX 75071

+1(214) 620-9545

jdavis96@msn.com

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Operating Systems:Windows 10, 8, 7, XP; Windows Server 2012, 2008, Solaris, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, IOS.

Software:Microsoft Active Directory/ SharePoint Server/System Center Suite /Open Stack /Xen Suite Microsoft Hyper-V/ VMware ESX/vSphere, NetApp On Command Suite.

Operations Languages:AWS, Azure, OpenStack, HTML, Python, XML, Power Shell, VBScript, T-SQL, UNIX shell script

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

NetApp

Hybrid Cloud Solution Architect � Pre-Sales

July 2012- Present

McKinney, TX

-Provide Enterprise solutions for sales team in Central and Canada region supporting $24 million in annual revenue and $10 million in new 2015 sales revenue.

-Evangelized internal roadmap to the field while providing strategic advisory for consultative technical sales, and drove hybrid cloud services consumption across multiple industries.

-Presented at AWS re:Invent and NetApp Insight in Vegas on the hybrid cloud and how to deliver in minutes with NetApp products and remain agnostic with Hyper-scale cloud service providers.

-Directed cloud migration and partner system integrator delivery team on adoption of Hybrid Cloud initiatives leveraging NetApp Emerging market products.

-Developed and delivered technical educational material on Hybrid Cloud to the field to accelerate cloud adoption in strategic Fortune 500 companies.

-Present deep detailed knowledge of NetApp emerging product solutions, to internal engineers as well as external business and technical owners on integration with AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Google and Softlayer Cloud Service Providers.

-Develop and grow relationships with go to market partners like Equinix, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM as well as various integration partners.

 

Internap

Solution Architect � Pre-Sales

June 2012-  July 2015

McKinney, TX

-Provide Enterprise solution technical knowledge for sales team in Central region on strategic accounts supporting $30 million in annual revenue and $3 million in new 2013 sales revenue and $3.4 million in new 2014 sales revenue.

-Lead and size large-scale technical projects, working with internal staff and vendors to define requirements, scope technical efforts, determine solutions, qualify project tasks, and then implement those solutions.

-Act as Primary Technical evangelist with Map Reduce, Hadoop, NoSQL and other Public cloud technologies as well as IP circuit Design for long haul and metro area networks.

-Develop deep detailed knowledge of relevant solutions sets, various vendor product line specifications, performance reports, and application support.

-Educate �C� level executives on the business decisions involving OPEX to CAPEX in the Data Center focused on public and private cloud designs to IP connectivity and colocation.

-Provided technical leadership for central sales executives around design assurance teams to plan sales strategies, RFP responses, deliver presentations and demos, and close the business.

 

Hewlett Packard

Solution Architect - Technology Services

January 2011 -  June 2012

McKinney, TX

-Technical sales lead that identifies client requirements and business drivers. Responsibilities include definition of scope, time management forecast and budget estimates.

-Primary subject matter expert with Enterprise client virtualization solutions design leveraging Citrix, Microsoft and VMware supporting North America sales teams.

-Provide Technology Services and Enterprise Storage Server and Network team with technical resource to engage customers and build newly created team for the West half of the US.

-Provide statements of work for Technology services and Hardware teams based on customer needs and design focused on Microsoft System Center Suite and Hyper-V, Windows 7 client and VDI deployments and SQL server and knowing the competition in strategic accounts.

-Core member of team responsible for service revenue over 65 Million dollars for Technology services as a stated goal and help build up the Technology Services group moving forward.

 

Hewlett Packard

Redmond, WA

Lead Technologist � Enterprise Services

January 2006 -  December 2011

-Provide Architecture expertise to Top Gun candidates on solutions directly affecting portfolio offerings and virtualize proof of concepts on Microsoft and VMware platforms.

-Pre-sales engineer working with ES sales team to define technical deliverables and answer customer�s questions. Specifically focused on internal work at Microsoft Corporation.

-Provide Leadership and mentoring to over three hundred senior architects; discovered millions of dollars in savings.  2006/$75Mil, 2007/$105Mil, 2008/$135Mil, 2009/$7Mil and 2010/$93Mil

-Work with Top Gun consultants on project environments working directly with Sun, Oracle, Fujitsu, and CISCO affecting HP Enterprise Services offerings.

-Managed and Lead a team putting in place a dog food environment for Live Communication Server and Team Foundation Server and work with product teams on break/fix issues.

 

Ciber

Senior Managing Consultant

March 2005 -  December 2005

Redmond, WA

-Pre-sales Technical engineer working with sales team to define deliverables and answer customer�s technical questions. Specifically focused on Microsoft technologies.

-Provided Technical leadership to Microsoft SharePoint support teams dealing with the escalation path of support for SharePoint Team, Portal and Project Server sites worldwide.

-Managed relationship between support and engineering teams. Hosted team meetings with all teams dealing with the design and implementation of all services supported.

-Created new relationships with the product groups for the SharePoint team so there was awareness of new changes and issues that would affect the SharePoint service internally.

 

Planet Technologies

Senior Consultant

September 2002 � March 2005

Redmond, WA

-Directed and Lead technical presentations to Microsoft Customers and Partners on Hosted Exchange 2003 with architectural design sessions and proof of concept implementations.

-Managed field readiness and coordinated field-engineering teams to specific customer needs.

-Managed partner relationships developing solutions around Microsoft�s go to market strategy.

-Architected and developed a service continuity solution on Windows and Exchange, leveraging multiple partners� assets and expertise inside the Microsoft Partner Solution Center.

-Authored and designed a prescriptive guidance solution to integrate with the Microsoft Systems Architecture Internet Data Center solution on behalf of Avocent Corp.

 

Microsoft Corp.   

Lead Program Manager

April 2001 � July 2002

Redmond, WA

-Core development architect responsible for the technical aspects of the Microsoft�s Solution for Windows Web Hosting designed for specific Service Providers sales verticals.

-Developed and delivered worldwide technical training to hundreds of potential customers.

-Designed and architected the Prescriptive Architecture Guide for Microsoft�s Solution for Windows Web Hosting to provide easily understood practices to implement the solution.

-Directed a consulting team on multiple projects resulting in Microsoft solution certification.

 

Intel Online Services 

Senior Systems Engineer

January 2000 � April 2001

Chantilly, VA

-Manager customer relationship to integrate servers and their software into the data center.

-Shift team lead and manager; ensured that Service Level Agreements were attained for customer issues and proactively monitored customers for other potential issues.

-Disaster recovery manager/engineer for the data center, created procedures and education for site operations Teams around Windows and Solaris platforms using Tivoli Storage Manager.

-Managed the customer storage allocation of EMC Symmetric and Celera product offerings.

 

Vanguard Research

Fairfax, VA

Senior Systems Engineer

May 1998 - January 2000

 

EIS International

Herndon, VA

Senior Systems Engineer

March 1995 � May 1998

 

CACI  Federal INC.

Arlington, VA

Systems Engineer

August 1994 - March 1995

 

Hand Held Products

Richmond, VA

Design Engineer

January 1993 - August 1994

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science, Industrial Technology, December 1992 Minor Computer Science

Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina