Jul 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greeneville, Tennessee, United States · On-site

Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greeneville, Tennessee, United States

Jul 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greeneville, Tennessee, United States

May 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greeneville, TN

• I was responsible for driving revenue through the field by presenting vision, roadmap, and technology solutions to customers. Lead the creation of an internal technical council to provide feedback to engineering from customers. Recently built both hands on labs for customers and SE's with a cross-functional team as well as internal production labs. I also Manage multiple public blogger and trade briefings as well as event specific presentations at VMUG, VMworld, Microsoft Ignite and other industry events. Overall thought leader for the field as well as helping to provide direction and vision on product directly with engineering to align with customer needs and use cases.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · Greeneville, Tennessee

• STK Promotions is the rebranded promotional products arm of StitchTek Services, LLC. Its focus is providing solutions for corporate customers around employee and customer appreciation. It does everything from pens and cups to customized gifts that are screen printed or embroidered.
• I maintain the back end automation, tools, applications and systems. As a small business the need to be agile and automate as much as possible is required. We've established processes and systems to help with that including business automations for orders, accounting, and shipping.

Sep 2014 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• As a Principal Architect in the Global Services Advanced Architecture Support team I am responsible for helping build and manage sub-programs within our team. I work on process improvement, coaching, mentoring, and other aspects to help the team get more engaged in product development throughout the lifecycle.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

• I've taken on a new role with the vCloud Infrastructure Services Business Unit. As a member of the Technical Marketing Team, I will be focussed on field facing content for customers, partners, and employees around the new vCloud Hybrid Service offering. I will also be responsible for helping ensure community outward facing events like VMware User Groups and VMworld have good coverage on the topic. I plan on continuing to do more public speaking on the topics, along with co-authoring more blogs and white papers. I will also be involved in some level of competitive analysis as we move forward.
• So far the role has proved to be extremely fun and I truly enjoy working more closely with the Product Managers, Product marketing Managers, Architects, and the engineering folks. My goal is to provide quality content and feedback so that more people will consume the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• As a member of the vCloud Center of Excellence at VMware I am responsible for helping develop and deliver VMware vCloud solutions. My time is spent both with customers architecting vCloud solutions as well as capturing information about the designs themselves. More recently I have begun working on targeted solutions for the field to solve challenges in more creative ways. I have been a participant in the VMware Certified Design Expert program, as well as an active blogger about virtualization and vCloud solutions. Additionally I try to present and participate in company events like Partner Exchange and the local VMware User Groups talking about vCloud and VMware cloud solutions

Aug 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 9 mos · Greeneville, Tennessee

• StitchTek Services, LLC is a holding company majority owned by Julie Colotti and myself. I maintain the IT services/applications to run the business but it also serves as a technical consulting company.
• Much of the technology for the business is built on IaaS and SaaS solutions to make it easy for a small business. We utilize providers like GMail, CloudWays, Phone.com, Zapier, and Quickbooks Online Edition to help reduce our need for physical technology to run the business.

Jan 2009 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked as part of VMware's Professional Services delivery team in the northeast region covering New England to Upstate New York. As a Consulting Architect half of my time is spent delivering on solutions and the other half as a technical leader for the team. I am given time to help with both pre-sales, as well as post sales activities. I also work with other areas of the organization to develop updated or new Intellectual property that can be used by the company or our partners.
• Recently updated VCP Certification to 4.0 and attained the VMware Certified Design Expert certification.

Oct 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Worked as part of VMware's Professional Services delivery team in the northeast region covering New England to Upstate New York. I deliver various types of engagements from VMware Virtual Assesments, to full Virtual Infrastructure design blueprints and deploments. Other engagements like Disaster Recovery, Virtual Desktop, and Infrastructure Optimization are also on my radar

Sep 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Strategic Computer Solutions was aquired as of September 1st by Sirius Computer Solutions. However, my primary duties have not yet changed
• Currently I am responsible for the Technical Solutions delivered by SCS around the IBM System x practice. That also includes VMWare. Microsoft, Citrix, IBM Director, as well as some levels of storage design. I work with all of our sales reps from Ohio to New England developing and delivering these solutions to our customers.
• I am extremely well versed in the System x product line as well as the Blade Center products from IBM. Most of my conversations stem round Virtualization with VMWare for server consolidation and DataCenter management. I am certified to rn the VMWare Capacity Planner consolidation studies for SCS, which is a valuable tool when looking at virtualization.
• I also touch on some level of storage subsystem and storage fabric design as it relates to the server systems I am building.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2006 · 2 yrs

Mar 2003 – Sep 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jan 2000 – Mar 2002 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs