Chris Soechting

About Chris Soechting

An accomplished Senior Solutions Architect with 15+ years’ experience serving as a subject matter expert supporting sales teams with an expert understanding of collaboration technologies. A motivated, self-driven and creative technical leader who can clearly articulate complex technology and serve as a trusted advisor to peers, customers and partners. Possessing both an extensive technical knowledge and business insight, enables the delivering of feature-rich technology solutions that aligns technology to business objectives.Christopher’s background spans an array of technical disciplines including Network Infrastructure, Security, major protocols, Virtualization/Data Center, and Unified Communications/Collaboration spanning more than two decade of experience working with Cisco solutions designing, implementing, supporting and troubleshooting these technologies.In his current role as a Senior Solutions Architect at WWT, Christopher currently supports the United States Air Force as a subject matter expert in Collaboration technologies architecting solutions for the government that align with their core business drivers and war-fighting missions.Christopher possesses an extensive technical knowledge and business insight, which enables the delivery of feature-rich innovative technology solutions that aligns technology to business outcomes.Active Secret Clearance holder / Top Secret Adjudicated

Experience

1. Principal Solutions Architect

   World Wide Technology

   Jan 2021 — Present

   A customer-focused collaboration architect and strategist responsible for transformation and infrastructure modernization in the U.S. Department of Defense market, developing collaboration and unified capability strategies and architectures for U.S. Department of Defense customers. Provides an expert and in-depth level of subject matter expertise, acting in a highly effective and consultative fashion as a trusted advisor to sales teams, partners (OEMs) and customers. Develops and delivers innovative technical solutions aligning to U.S. Department of Defense operational requirements and mission success.Effectively coaches and mentors team members to develop highly productive team.

Education

• Angelo State University

  BA, Psychology

  1990 — 1997

Skills

• Virtualization
• Routers
• Voip
• Data Center
• Cisco Technologies
• Wan
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Switches
• Networking
• Unified Communications
• Vpn