Christopher Kusek

Current

Technology Evangelist at EMC
Vice-Chairman and Founding Member at Chicago Windows User Group

Past

Technology Evangelist, Consultant at NetApp
Technology Evangelist, Consultant at Network Appliance
Technology Evangelist at PKGuild (Self-employed)

Systems Architect - Solutions Specialist at Peters & Associates
Technology Advisor at Ethical Technologies, L.L.C

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Education

Microsoft
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Information Technology and Services

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Christopher Kusek’s Summary

My name is Christopher Kusek. I am an evangelist and consultant by nature. I’ve been consulting and evangelizing technology, innovation, solutions and doing the ‘right’ thing going back to the early days of the internet.

After 15 years doing security research, consulting and any number of other things focused entirely on customers I left the partner and consulting world to join the vendor community with NetApp in 2007. After spending two years working with numerous large enterprise customers and a slew of technologies and innovations I accepted a position with EMC in September 2009, to start the next chapter of my life on my birthday of all days!

I stay heavily connected to my customers, peers, competitors, partners and others in the internetosphere through Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, conferences and more. This level of immediate interaction provides a vehicle for us to keep each other current, honest and on the level about all things in technology so we all grow together.

I invest in not only my own educational development but also the development of my peers and the community. I take this education as directly to the community as I can, through training, presentations, direct mentoring (technical, career, presentation, etc)

I have a number of projects in the works in written, spoken, presentation and other to deliver which I’ll unveil as appropriate. I’m always interested in delivering presentations and content to Conferences, Events, and Training.

Above all, I keep things honest, on the forefront and to keep things simple, understandable and most importantly applicable :)

Christopher Kusek’s Specialties:

CISSP, MCT, NSA IAM, MCP, MCSA, MCSE and MCITP for Messaging and Security, Technology, Troubleshooting, Problem Solving, Best Practices, Wireless, Mobility, Messaging, Security, Unified solutions, VOIP, Infrastrucutre, SW/HW Virtualization, (VMWare, VirtualServer, XEN), Storage, Auditing, Mentoring, Leadership, Migration, Architecture, Advanced Solutions, Documentation, Community Service. MCSE* (NT4.0, 2003, 2008), Training, Education, Evangelism

Christopher Kusek’s Experience

Technology Evangelist

EMC

(Public Company; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Living the rock star life of a Technology Evangelist at EMC, continuing my trend of raising awareness, education, doing the right thing, evangelizing and informing the Enterprise IT community.
Vice-Chairman and Founding Member

Chicago Windows User Group

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — Present (7 years )

Vice-Chairman, setting leadership and guidance for the direction of the organization.
Founding member of the Chicago Windows Users Group.

CWUG is a community of individuals dedicated to making the users and administrators of Windows products successful in their work, home and leisure environments through the sharing of ideas, best practices, information and research and development.
Technology Evangelist, Consultant

NetApp

(Public Company; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 3 months)

Storage Consultant responsible for working with customers and engagements surrounding NetApp solutions. Focused on engagements with specific application toward use of our products with WinApplications, with specific focus towards Messaging and Collaboration (Exchange, Notes, Sharepoint/MOSS, SQL, Windows) as well as other general purpose applications used in storage environments. Also applying a special focus upon the security applications and secure environments and their conjunctive use with the NetApp Datafort - A data at rest encryption product. A distinct focus has been placed upon Virtualization technologies as well, including VMWare, Hyper-V and Xen products.
Technology Evangelist, Consultant

Network Appliance

(Public Company; NTAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 3 months)

Please refer to NetApp entry
Technology Evangelist
PKGuild (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1999 — December 2007 (8 years 1 month)

As a Technology Evangelist, I have held myself to the highest standards of quality in my engagements of Speaking, Leading or Mentoring. Acting as a mentor for many members of the IT community, I've helped set precedent to enable and exhibit the possibilities available. I actively challenge my mentee's to fulfill their full potential in their abilities both within IT and throughout the business and social culture available to them.

So it does not overshadow my other entries, I have this entry inactive.

I speak actively on a wide range of topics, covering very detailed and high level breakdowns of technology and how it may apply to business as a whole. I perform one-on-one and multi-group sessions training in the workforce in order to maximize the skills and technology being utilized.

I am always seeking to help others who would realize real benefit from a mentor/mentee situation, and helping to fulfill the full potential of an individual to help them shine.
Systems Architect - Solutions Specialist

Peters & Associates

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1996 — June 2007 (10 years 10 months)

As a Systems Architect at Peters & Associates, Christopher Kusek is responsible for high level architecture design, review of complex networking solutions, staff mentoring, and trouble shooting guidance. Specializations include messaging and collaboration, infrastructure and migration, security practices and best practice guidance and establishment.

Peters & Associates was founded in 1981 and is dedicated to the design, integration and support of technology infrastructure solutions. We have vast experience in project management, directory solutions, security, mobile computing and messaging systems. Our consultants deliver scalable infrastructure solutions in a predictable manner with an emphasis on security and reliability, allowing our clients to leverage their business investments in technology. Peters & Associates has been recognized as an industry leader by VARBusiness in its VARBusiness 500, and as a top 10 integrator by Smart Reseller.
Technology Advisor

Ethical Technologies, L.L.C

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )

Acted as a Technology liaison and adviser on technical matters interfacing directly with the board. Worked closely with the development and application staff to ensure technical matters were resolved in a timely fashion, providing simplification and breakdown of problems in order to design effective solutions.

Christopher Kusek’s Education

Microsoft

Microsoft 2007 — 2007

MCT
MCSE 2008
MCITP: Exchange 2007
MCTS: Exchange 2007
MCITP: SQL 2005 Design
Microsoft

MCSE , 2003 , 2005 — 2005

MCSE/MCSA Security
MCSE/MCSA Messaging (Certified in 5.0, 5.5, 2000, 2003, and 2007)
ISC2

CISSP , Certified Information Systems Security Practitioner , 2002 — 2002
Microsoft

MCSE , NT 4.0 , 1998 — 1998

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Christopher Kusek’s Interests:

Problem solving, innovation, reading, learning, teaching and educating, efficiency, mentoring, speaking, leading, business networking, solving business issues, Community, Baltimization.

Christopher Kusek’s Groups:

Vice-Chair of Chicago Windows Users Group (2007-Present),
Founding and Steering - Chicago Windows Users Group (2003-Present),
President of the Woodridge Toastmasters Club #983 in Woodridge IL. (2007-2008),
VP Membership for the SOS Toastmasters in Wheaton IL. (2006-2008),
VP Membership for the Woodridge Toastmasters Club #983 in Woodridge IL. (2006-2007),

Founding and steering committee member of the Chicago Windows Users Group, Toastmasters International, LION Request