Brad Holloway
Georgetown,ON
Summary
Passionate technology leader looking to help inspire customers to turn their ideas into reality, delivering the best customer experience and challenging myself and others of whats possible when you combine people and technology. Strategic thinker, visionary with broad experience across multiple technologies. Ready to bring 24 years of related experience to a challenging new role.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Enterprise Architect
Lumen Technologies
Toronto
04.2014 - Current
- Collaborated with customer executive and technology teams to design and deliver complex next-gen solutions that deliver customer value.
- Technology leader working with customers in all verticals to advise, teach, and recommend technology trends to support their business transformation.
- Lead design team through solution development and implementation activities for specific customer projects and support collaboration with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Put together strategic plan to keep solutions in line with company and industry standards.
- Worked with partners to provide complete end-to-end solutions for customers.
- Trained internal teams on solution management and implementation of ITSM strategies.
Solutions Architect
Centrilogic
Mississauga
03.2011 - 04.2014
- Responsible for technical architecture and design of Cloud, Compute, and VDI customer solutions.
- Design and architected Vmware Private Cloud solutions
- Pre-sales technical consulting working with executive and technical teams, creating SOWs and implementation of customer solutions.
- Responsible for the architecture of Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL solutions.
- Architecture of SAN/NAS storage fabrics, both fiber-channel and ISCSI.
- Built highly diverse, highly available system designs to meet customer SLO/SLA requirements.
- Managed team of 4 network and systems administrators, day-to-day project activities and team budget.
Senior Microsoft Engineer
CenturyLink
Mississauga, ON
11.2009 - 03.2011
- Responsible for the architecture and design of highly available virtual clusters to support Microsoft solutions.
- Designed and deployed SAN fabrics both fiber-channel and ISCSI.
- Team technology leader, learning and designing solutions based on next-gen technology and training all teams on latest technology trends.
Manager of Platform Architecture
Network Solutions
Toronto, ON
01.2001 - 11.2009
- Responsible for the design and architecture of all technology solutions.
- Managed team of 8 administrators/engineers to architect hosting and email platforms.
Education
Graduate - Computer Science
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Oakville, ONHigh School Diploma -
Meadowvale Secondary School
Mississauga, ONSkills
- Solution Development and Implementation
- Project Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Customer First Approach
- Requirements Gathering/Discovery
Certification
- ITIL Foundations
- Vmware Certified Professional 4,5,6,6.5
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer NT 4.0, 2000
- Microsoft Certified Professional
Timeline
Enterprise Architect
Lumen Technologies
04.2014 - Current
Solutions Architect
Centrilogic
03.2011 - 04.2014
Senior Microsoft Engineer
CenturyLink
11.2009 - 03.2011
Manager of Platform Architecture
Network Solutions
01.2001 - 11.2009
Graduate - Computer Science
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
High School Diploma -
Meadowvale Secondary School
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