Christopher Melendez

About Christopher Melendez

I have been working in IT for over 20 years. I\'m currently working as a Solutions…

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Solution Architect

   Microsoft

   May 2021 — Present

   Understand customers\' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding • Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies (e.g. Windows and Linux IaaS, Security, Networking, etc.), and Application Development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate • Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment • Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates · Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove key blockers • Assess the Customers\' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners · Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform • Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community · Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

Education

• Central Catholic High School

  Diploma, General

  1991 — 1994

• Northern Essex Community College

  A.S., Computer Science

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Windows Server
• Storage
• Switches
• Disaster Recovery
• Integration
• Vdi
• Data Center
• Vmware
• Information Technology
• Firewalls
• Cisco Technologies
• Telecommunications
• Itil
• Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Vsphere
• Servers
• System Administration
• Network Administration
• Microsoft Exchange
• San
• Vpn
• Active Directory
• Operating Systems
• Troubleshooting
• Citrix
• Virtualization
• Network Architecture
• Vmware Esx
• Networking
• Cloud Computing
• Storage Area Networks
• Citrix Metaframe
• IT Operations
• Security