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IT professional with significant delivery experience consulting in enterprise environments, including manufacturing, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, energy and utilities, media, state government, and financial industries. Range of experience from web application development, to systems administration, to architecture development, process design, and consulting. Foundation education in computer science and economics. Outstanding ability to connect people, process, and technology to advance competitiveness of IT operations. Strong experience in consulting, especially development of IT strategy, IT Service Management, and virtual infrastructure design. Demonstrated success in selling, scoping, delivering, and managing consulting engagements.Principal Consultant @ From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Greater Detroit AreaMIS Committee Member @ Act as technical subject matter expert to assist the MIS Committee in planning projects and allocating investments in information technology. From October 2005 to Present (10 years 3 months) Greater Detroit AreaConsulting Architect @ From March 2012 to April 2015 (3 years 2 months) Greater Boston AreaDirector, Cloud Services @ From March 2012 to April 2015 (3 years 2 months) Greater Boston AreaSr. Services Architect @ Led development of several client-facing Cloud Strategy services products that help clients identify opportunities to leverage Cloud Computing concepts to help allocate investments in IT and to improve the efficiency of existing IT investments Delivered ITSM maturity assessments to Fortune 500 clients to help improve the measurability of IT operations in advance of Cloud Computing adoption Key ITSM and virtualization resource for Cloud Computing, ITSM, and virtualization for pre-sales engagements across North America From October 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 6 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Consultant @ From February 2010 to October 2010 (9 months) Greater Detroit AreaSenior Consultant @ Member of Strategy and Operations practice in the VMware Professional Services Organization, delivering process improvement plans for large-scale implementations, as well as assessing and designing new infrastructure to support cost-savings targets. Support Professional Services presales efforts. Delivered consulting services for large companies including: - Assessments of IT environments and processes - Technical design of virtualization architcture to address business issues and enable solutions such as disaster recovery, business continuity - Plan new deployments of VMware technology - Build proof-of-concept VMware environments From May 2007 to January 2010 (2 years 9 months) Windows and Linux System Administrator/Intel Virtualization Architect @ Level 3 support for several of DaimlerChrysler’s most critical Windows and Linux systems, including mission-critical plant systems. Low-level troubleshooting to disaster response to long-term corrective measures and strategy for Chrysler's Intel systems. Chair, Open-Source Domain Team. Led global projects to evaluate new technologies: Linux, x86 Virtualization, Blade servers, Solaris 10 x86, Blackberry Enterprise Infrastructure. Led cross-functional team to develop guidelines for usage of Open-Source software in the enterprise. Evaluate issues in the context of legal risk, proper solutions & relation to existing standards, and operational support. Produced risk-evaluation and license classification frameworks. Advise the preeminent NAFTA Technology Council on open-source issues. Established standards for Linux in the NAFTA region. From January 2004 to May 2007 (3 years 5 months) Greater Detroit AreaWeb Developer @ Lead Web Developer for one of the largest non-profit organizations in Michigan. http://www.judsoncenter.org From June 2000 to June 2003 (3 years 1 month) Greater Detroit AreaB.A., Economics, Computer Science @ University of Michigan-Dearborn From 2001 to 2006 International Computer Science Study, Computer Science @ Högskolan i Jönköping / Jönköping University From 2003 to 2004 John Dixon is skilled in: VMware Infrastructure, Linux Server Administration, C++, Java, Bash, ITIL, Technical Documentation, SQL, Web Development (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.), Process Consulting, Software Consulting, Pre-sales, Process Automation, CA Service Catalog, Virtualization