WILLIAM J. TORELLI JR., MS | VCP | VSP | CLOUD ARCHITECT
SUMMARY
Senior level Information Technology professional with progressively responsible and highly
diversified experience. Proven track record of successful project implementations related to
systems management and IT governance.
Accomplished in managing and delivering IT professional and management consulting
services with over twenty plus years of experience serving clients in both the private and
public sector.
Professional and Management consulting services traverse a wide of array of business
sectors which includes:
✔ Technology
✔ Telecommunications
✔ Transportation
✔ Pharmaceutical
✔ Insurance
✔ Healthcare
✔ Manufacturing
✔ Natural Resources
✔ Energy
✔ Retail
✔ Government (State & Local)
✔ Finance
✔ Conglomerates
✔ Education
Possess a strong technical and management background in both Large Scale Enterprise and
Open System architectures with a heavy emphasis on server virtualization and cloud
computing.
Technical Core Competencies:
★ Virtualization (VMware vCenter Cloud Suite and IBM zOS)
★ vCloud Computing Architecture, Planning, Design, Implementation and Deployment
(VMware/CSC)
★ vCompute
★ vStorage
★ vNetworking
★ Virtual Infrastructure Plan and Design Reviews (vSphere)
★ Virtual Infrastructure Upgrades and Migrations (vSphere)
★ Virtual Infrastructure Jumpstarts and Training (vSphere)
★ vCloud Architectural Design Reviews (vCD, vCAC & vRealize)
★ vCloud Plan and Design Reviews (vCD, vCAC & vRealize)
★ vCloud Upgrades and Migrations (vCD, vCAC & vRealize)
★ vCloud Jumpstarts and Training (vCD, vCAC & vRealize)
★ Datacenter Facility and Infrastructure Management
★ Systems and Applications Management
★ System Security
★ Disaster Recovery Planning, Design, and Implementation
★ Automation
Management Core Competencies:
★ Strategic Planning
★ Project Planning and Management
★Tactical Planning
★ Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services
★ Business Impact Assessment
★ Organizational Planning
★ Technical Leadership
★ Staff Management
EXPERIENCE
TRANSITION SYSTEMS, LLC
03 / 2013 - Present
Managing Principal | Cloud Architect
Serve as Managing Principal and Cloud Architect in Transition Systems LLC Cloud
Infrastructure Practice. Serve customers primarily in the Mid-Atlantic Region but also provide
national coverage as required.
Responsibilities:
∇ Independently conduct small to large professional services consulting engagements
∇ Conduct prepackaged, standard, and custom professional consulting services, which
include VMware vSphere Virtualization, and vSphere Cloud Suite service engagements:
✔ VMware Virtualization Assessments
✔ VMware P2V Accelerator Services
✔ vSphere Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vSphere Implementations
✔ vSphere Upgrades
✔ vSphere Migrations (small to large scale)
✔ vSphere Health Check Analysis
✔ vSphere Jumpstarts (optionally with P2V)
✔ vCloud Director Architectural Design Reviews
✔ vCloud Director Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vCloud Director Implementations
✔ vCloud Director Migrations
✔ vCloud Director Jumpstarts
✔ vCloud Automation Center Architectural Design Reviews
✔ vCloud Automation Center Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vCloud Automation Center Implementations
✔ vRealize Automation Center Architectural Design Reviews
✔ vRealize Automation Center Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vRealize Automation Center Implementations
∇ Develop product demonstrations and workshops to further qualify potential prospects of
VMware Products and Services
∇ Partner with Sales Executives to assist with pre-sales service meetings and presentations
∇ Maintain current knowledge of the entire VMware vSphere and vCloud software product
sets
∇ Develop standard reusable VMware "productized" consulting service offerings, including
definition of project plans, tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates (Field Knowledge
Material)
∇ Document best practices for developing and deploying VMware solutions
∇ Develop and review both pre-statements and statements of work
∇ Conduct Senior Executive Management workshops to promote company products and
services
VMWARE, INC.
06 / 2006 - 01 / 2013
Sr. Consultant | Cloud Architect | Cloud Specialist
Served as a Cloud
Architect
Cloud Specialist in VMware's National Cloud Infrastructure
Practice.
Provided professional services to customers primarily in the East Area / Mid-Atlantic Region
but also provided national coverage as required.
Responsibilities:
∇ Independently conducted small to large professional services consulting engagements
∇ Conducted prepackaged, standard, and custom VMware professional consulting services,
which included both VMware vSphere and vCloud service engagements:
✔ VMware Virtualization Assessments
✔VMware P2V Accelerator Services
✔ vSphere Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vSphere Implementations
✔ vSphere Upgrades
✔ vSphere Migrations (small to large scale)
✔ vSphere Health Check Analysis
✔ vSphere Jumpstarts (optionally with P2V)
✔ vCloud Director Plan and Design Reviews
✔ vCloud Director Implementations
✔ vCloud Director Migrations
✔ vCloud Director Jumpstarts
∇ Developed product demonstrations and workshops to further qualify potential prospects of
VMware Products and Services
∇ Partnered with Sales Executives to assist with pre-sales service meetings and
presentations
∇ Maintained current knowledge of the entire VMware vSphere and vCloud software product
sets
∇ Developed standard reusable VMware "productized" consulting service offerings, including
definition of project plans, tasks, deliverables, and standard estimates (Field Knowledge
Material)
∇ Documented best practices for developing and deploying VMware solutions
∇ Developed and reviewed both pre-statements and statements of work
∇ Conducted Senior Executive Management workshops to promote company products and
services
DIVERSIFIED SOFTWARE SERVICES, INC.
05 / 2002 - 06 / 2006
Professional Services Consultant
Served as a senior level professional services consultant with responsibility for both
managing and delivering professional services to key clients
Responsibilities:
∇ Independently conducted small to large professional services engagements with customers
∇ Conducted pre-packaged, standard, and custom DSSI professional consulting services
engagements:
✔ ProJCL Planning, Design, and Implementation
✔ ProJCL Custom Interface Development
✔ ProJCL Training
✔ Large Scale JCL upgrades and migrations
∇ Developed product demonstrations and workshops to further qualify potential prospects of
DSSI Products and Services
∇ Partnered with Sales Executives to assist with pre-sales service meetings and
presentations
∇ Maintained current knowledge of the entire DSSI software product set
∇ Developed standard reusable DSSI "productized" consulting service offerings, including
definition of project plans, tasks, deliverables and standard estimates (Field Knowledge
Material)
∇ Documented best practices for developing and deploying DSSI solutions
∇ Contributed to developing the portfolio of services provided by the professional services
organization
∇ Authored marketing collateral required to promote the Professional Services Practice
∇ Wrote articles for various trade journals to further expose potential clients to company
products and services
∇ Developed and reviewed both pre-statements and statements of work
∇ Conducted Senior Executive Management workshops to promote company products and
services
TRANSITION SYSTEMS CORPORATION
09 / 1994 - 05 / 2002
Managing Principal
Founding Principal and President/CEO of a Philadelphia based Information Technology and
Professional Services Consulting with the responsibility of both managing the business as
well as providing professional services
Responsibilities:
∇ Built the company to a high water mark of $1M per year in sales with no capital funding
∇ Managed a staff of 12 IT professionals
∇ Performed all management and operational aspects of the firm
∇ Forged agreements with several larger IT services firms to provide IT professional and
management consulting services
∇ Conducted IT professional and management consulting services to key Customers
∇ Developed portfolio of professional services which included:
✔ Datacenter Management Consulting Services (Interim management co-ordination)
✔ Y2K analysis and migration services for both Operating Systems and Subsystem
migrations
✔ IBM Operating System Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance &
Troubleshooting services
✔ IBM Subsystem Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance &
Troubleshooting Services
✔ IBM Network Control Program Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance, &
Troubleshooting Services
✔ IBM and Third Party Security System Custom Migration Services (included migration
analysis, planning, design and development of automated migration solutions)
✔ Third party software Installation, configuration and implementation services
✔ Custom level Assembler programming and REXX scripting services
∇ Developed product demonstrations and workshops to qualify potential prospects for
professional services
∇ Partnered with Sales Executives to assist with pre-sales service meetings and
presentations
∇ Developed standard reusable TSC "productized" consulting service offerings, including
definition of project plans, tasks, deliverables and standard estimates
∇ Conducted Senior Executive Management workshops to promote company products and
services
SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
09 / 1985 - 09 / 1994
Senior Project Manager
Served as a Senior Project Manager as well as a Senior Technical Consultant on various
SSE strategic accounts
Responsibilities:
∇ Provided IT professional and management consulting services to key Customers
∇ SSE professional consulting services engagements included:
✔ IBM Operating System Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance and
Troubleshooting services
✔ IBM Subsystem Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance and
Troubleshooting Services
✔ IBM Network Control Program Installation, Implementation, Configuration, Maintenance,
and Troubleshooting Services
✔ IBM and Third Party Security System Custom Migration Services (included migration
analysis, planning, design and development of automated migration solutions).
✔ Third party software Installation, configuration and implementation services
✔ Custom level Assembler programming and REXX scripting services
∇ Worked on SSE's internal product development team to develop enterprise and distributed
system software solutions for a number of key customers
UNISYS
09 / 1984 - 09 / 1985
Data Center Facility Manager
Management and supervision of the UNISYS IBM Interface Research and Development
Facility
Responsibilities:
∇ Responsible for renovation and redesign of the existing Unisys IBM R&D Interface facility
(facility required extensive infrastructure, hardware, and software changes to be utilized as
the corporate IBM Interface System by various development organizations throughout the
Unisys Corporation).
∇ Management of a $1.1 million dollar budget.
∇ Managed and supervised all software implementations and upgrades on an IBM Mainframe
system which included mainframe operating system and subsystem support, third party
products, and Unisys Interface software.
∇ Supervised a technical staff of ten personnel comprised of both technical services and
operations staff
∇ Responsible for vendor contract management for the entire facility.
∇ Responsible for personnel performance evaluations and reviews.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
09 / 1976 - 09 / 1984
Manager, Data Communications
Management and supervision of McNeil Pharmaceutical (Division of Johnson & Johnson)
data communication network
Responsibilities:
∇ Responsible for design, planning and implementation of McNeil's distribution center
network as well as all network connections to vendors and business partners
∇ Management of a $1 million dollar hardware and software budget
∇ Management and supervision of software implementations on all IBM Network Front End
Processing and peripheral systems
∇ Supervision of a technical staff
∇ Responsible for contract management with hardware and software vendors
∇ Responsible for personnel performance evaluations and reviews
∇ Responsible for contract management with hardware and software vendors
∇ Responsible for personnel performance evaluations and reviews
EDUCATION
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
1979 - 1982
MS, Information Technology
MAXWELL INSTITUE
1976 - 1977
Computer Programming Certificate, Computer Science
MOUNT ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY
1969 - 1973
BA, History/Pre-Law
History National Honor Society Cultural Events Committee Legal Society Historical Society
INTERESTS
Golf, Reading, Computing, Football, Baseball, Dining, Dancing, Theatre, Art, Music, Cooking,
Wine Tasting, Movies
ASSOCIATIONS
VMware Alumni Network
CERTIFICATIONS
VMWARE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL 3
02 / 2007
VMware, Inc. · License: Certification #: VCP #6887
VMWARE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL 2
09 / 2006
VMware, Inc. · License: Certification #: VCP #6887
ITILV2 FOUNDATIONS
06 / 2007
ITIL Certification Management Board
LANGUAGES
• English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
• Spanish (Elementary proficiency)