
CTO at Choice Solutions LLC
Greater St. Louis Area

CTO at Choice Solutions LLC
Greater St. Louis Area
21 Years IT Experience
Enterprise Architecture
Project Leadership
Enterprise Resource Planning
Customer Relationship Management
Business Management & Ownership
Business Process re-engineering
Business Continuance
Project Planning, budgeting and scheduling
Systems & Network Design, Analysis & Auditing
IT Security Planning and management
Storage Administration
Business Intelligence
Data Warehousing & Mining
Storage Architectures - Pillar Axiom, HDS, NetApp, HP, Brocade, Emulex, QLogic
Cisco® MDS 9000 Series switches and directors
SAN, Backups, Replication, D-R, ILM, SRM, NAS, CIFS, NFS, DeDup, CDP, Mirroring, QoS
Databases - Oracle, SQL, MySQL
VMWare ESX, Vi, Motion
Veritas Clustering, Netbackup
Microsoft Clustering, AD, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint
FalconStor VTL, SIR and IPStor
InMage DR-Scout
Citrix XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Choice Solutions specializes in developing long term technology strategies for organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to increase our clients' efficiency through innovative technology and we do it by understanding where technology is today, where its going to be in the future, and how it can be applied to support an organization's vision and long term goals. As a management consultancy and systems integrator, we combine both areas of expertise to educate your organization on best-in-class solutions that deliver bottom-line results, and help you implement them as part of your IT masterplan strategy.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
Randley is a private investment company, focusing primarily on real estate, financial and technology investments and acquisitions.
(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)
October 2005 — July 2009 (3 years 10 months)
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops midrange and enterprise network storage systems. The company's Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BUD; Food Production industry)
1997 — 2005 (8 years )
Plan, design, and analyze the organizations storage infrastructure, while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability. Also responsible for capacity planning, backup and restore process design, performance analysis, and developing data disaster recovery plans. Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning and uptime.
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
1997 — 1997 (less than a year)
Staff Chairperson 1997
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
Develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical IT architecture. Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. Organizational commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans, and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
We strived to ensure our clients invest in technology that aligns with their business objectives and makes sense from a practical and financial perspective.
The company provided Technical Services and Internet Hosting.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years )
Internet Service Provider serving 24,000 clients in midwest.
Sold client base to National Service Provider.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1988 — 1992 (4 years )
As Director of Sales and Service I was responsible for the overall coordination, the functional management and leadership of all of the sales and service activities of the business. The position reported directly to the President.
Responsibilities:
Establishment of both annual and monthly sales objectives in coordination with the Company's business plan. Providing an annual Sales Plan and providing quarterly updates, revisions and modifications to the Plan. Coordinating the specific objectives of the Sales Plan with all of the functional departments of the company and, most specifically with Manufacturing and Finance. Successful management of the needs of the Company's customers in order to meet the objectives of the company's overall business plans and strategies. Managed all of the field and in house sales/service functions of The Company's facilities.
New Technology, golf, professional networking, reading