Managing Director @ UK Managing Director responsible for marketing, sales, service delivery, solutions architecture and technical support for Logicworks EMEA. Logicworks is an enterprise cloud automation and managed service provider that combines highly advanced automation and DevOps capabilities with 22+ years of legacy IT experience. As an AWS Premier Partner, our team of certified engineers build, migrate, manage, and automate enterprise workloads on customized AWS infrastructures. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) London, United Kingdom☁ Chief AWS Cloud Guru ☁ @ Cloud Computing is increasing the rate of innovation exponentially and providing huge value to those organisations using it, but there aren't enough skills out there to fully leverage the power of Cloud Computing ..
We aim to fill that gap by providing Cloud Skills for the Future of Work.. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) London, United KingdomAWS Architect @ As an AWS Architect at Smart421 I am infrastructure focused (IAAS) with a broad set of skills across both application and infrastructure technologies.
I do the following activities:
• Lead the design and implementation of AWS solutions
• Lead client-facing technical activities to ensure required business value is delivered
• Provide technical oversight, review and quality control of AWS services throughout the project
• Oversee the transition of projects from Delivery into the Service Management function
• Contribute to the development of AWS standards, best practices and organisational capability
• Act as an escalation point for AWS technical issues and decisions From June 2015 to September 2015 (4 months) Twickenham, United KingdomSolutions Architect @ Position Summary
As a Pre-Sales Engineer at Sungard I provide Pre-Sales support with technical skills across a number of areas including Virtualisation, High Availability Hosting, Managed Services, Advanced Continuity Solutions, Workplace, Distributed Systems and Communications. I am responsible for preparing technical quotations and proposals and presenting these to customers to support the sales targets.
My Responsibilities include
• To be the customers trusted advisor while taking the lead in the presentations of technical and commercial solutions.
• Provision of day-to-day support for the sales organisation, producing technical solutions across a range of products and services including pricing quotations, preparing and writing proposals, Answering ITT/RFI/RFP responses and presenting to customers to influence their buying decision through the professionalism and excellence of response
• Using the various tools (Microsoft products, Visio etc.) to create a detailed and accurate solution and pricing documentation, within strict timescales whilst meeting the client’s technical and business requirements
• To maintain a comprehensive knowledge of technology and market trends within the IT industry. Specialise in different technology fields to advise and educate other Pre-Sales personnel and other departments within the organisation From June 2013 to June 2015 (2 years 1 month) London, United KingdomSolutions Architect @ I am an experienced enterprise solutions architect working with both new business and existing customers. I design solutions specific to maintaining business continuity in the event of a major disaster and to minimize any down time. Specialising in fault tolerant solutions, I have strong knowledge on Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server 2012, Lync 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics. I am an accredited NetApp storage architect and have experience in designing cloud platforms that are either dedicated, public or hybrid. I have worked on a variety of solutions utilizing NetApp, HP & Dell Servers, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Brocade F5 and Cisco Catalyst Load Balancers etc. I have experience with Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Vmware Site Recovery Manager etc. I have designed self healing WAN's using OSPF/BGP and have experience in designing multiple site solutions utilizing MPLS/VPLS circuits. From May 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 1 month) Twickenham, United KingdomSolutions Architect @ As a Solutions Architect at Rackspace, my responsibility is to architect hosted solutions for larger, more complex, and more strategic hosting opportunities within by the SMB and Enterprise Sales Segments within Rackspace. I architect solutions to meet defined uptime, scalability, security and budgetary requirements. I help drive monthly revenues for Rackspace by working with Sales Executives and Account Managers, and interface directly with customers and prospects via a mixture of conference calls, site visits, and email correspondence. In addition to supporting the UK office, I regularly support staff in the Benelux, US, and Hong Kong offices. The majority of my solutions incorporate eCommerce platforms and the associated PCI compliant requirements surrounding that. I specialise in Exchange, Sharepoint and Magento solutions. From February 2010 to May 2011 (1 year 4 months) Windows System Administrator @ From April 2010 to April 2011 (1 year 1 month) Director @ From January 2005 to December 2008 (4 years)
Business, Accounting & Finance @ Curtin University of Technology From 2000 to 2003 Ryan Kroonenburg is skilled in: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, VMware, Data Center, Managed Services, Citrix, Enterprise Software, Security, SaaS, High Availability, Solution Architecture, Microsoft Technologies, Windows Server, Pre-sales
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