Christopher Beach
Technical Manager Network and Security Services @PureLogic IT Solutions
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WORK HISTORY
Technical Manager Network and Security Services @PureLogic IT Solutions
Ottawa, ON, CA
Work on product and service development in line with Purelogic business goals.• Keep informed on industry news and trends, products, services, existing, and emerging technologies, and the latest product-lines.• Consult with marketing to develop new products and branding• Assist the sales team with products POC\'s requiring extensive technical expertise and support for installation and use.• Recommend hardware, software and services to stakeholders, documenting how such changes will lower costs or increase production.• Collaborate with sales teams to understand market requirements and promote the sale of company products and services.• Aid in preparing and deliver technical presentations and proposals to customers and prospective customers.• Architect solutions and work closely with the sales team and pre-sales team.• Estimate cost bill of materials and hours for various technology implementations.• Consult with internal business groups on IT needs and support the delivery of internal IT projects• Attend and develop company training seminars to become familiar with product lines and relay knowledge to customer base.• Ensure team members are tasked and supported on internal and customer facing projects while managing project milestones and timelines• Manage the service delivery team projects and technical resource assignment.• Serve as escalation for internal staff on business and technology challenges• Lead technical resources in project and service delivery.• Install and maintain various storage, networking and compute solutions as well as converged solutions and maintaining industry certifications• Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs.
EDUCATION
Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
3 year, Computer Systems Technology
Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
2 Year, Computer Systems Technician
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER BEACH
A results-driven leader and architect with over 20 years of experience in analysis, design, implementation and support of large scale network environments with a proven ability to take a leading role in both problem resolution and project leadership in a professional services or support environment.SUMMARY OF SOFT SKILLS• Capable of working well in a team setting as well as independently with the ability to take a leading role in order to help achieve goals.• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to present technological solutions.• Ability to learn and understand new technologies quickly and then apply knowledge to real world scenarios.• Capacity to work well in a fast paced multi task environment while insuring project deadlines are met on time.• Strong analytical and problem management skills.• Ability to visualize new concepts and engineer solutions that are outside the box while integrating new and old technologies.SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLSSystems:Windows Server, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Vmware (ESXi, Vcenter NSX-T) Soft Layer Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Open Stack, Citrix Cloud Stack Hardware:PC\'s, Servers (HP, DELL, IBM and SUN), Hubs Routers Firewalls, Fiber Switches, Wireless Access points/Bridges, application delivery, and Switches (Cisco, Fortigate, HP, Juniper, Checkpoint, Sophos, F5),NAS (EMC), Structured cabling, Cable testers.Software:MS Office/Visio, MSSQL, MySQL, Wireshark, Backup exec, EMC, VMware, Remedy, Cisco Call Manager, IIS, Active Directory, Snort, Kiwi, Bullet Proof FTP, HP Open View, Asterisk, Solarwinds, Netiq, Zenoss, Otrs Ticket Management, Manage Engine.Networking:TCP/IP, DNS,SIP, DHCP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, RDP, SNMP, SSH, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, RIP, ISIS, Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, Wireless(a/b/g/n), VoIP, ACL/Route Map, 802.1x, Radius, VPN, GRE, STP, VLAN, HSRP, MPLS, DMVPN, IPSEC, SSL, QOS, VPLS, DMVPN, SSL,EEM Scripting, SDN, SDwan, Fabric, IAM, SIEM, NAC, EPP, ZTNA,
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