Kenneth Walsh

About Kenneth Walsh

Innovative technology professional with 20 years of experience and a unique blend of technical and managerial expertise. Relates well to individuals on all levels, sees the big picture, and knows how to get things done. Proven problem solver with strong work ethic and do-the-right-thing attitude. Proven ability to build relationships with senior management to determine business value, as well as, with engineering teams for technical validation. Great track record for consistently exceeding multi-million dollar sales quotas. Excellent leadership, presentation and writing skills round out a deep technical background. Fast learner with passion for new technology and the ability to master new product portfolios and processes quickly. Areas of expertise include:• Containerization automation experience with Docker, UCP, Mesosphere.• Experience in distributed applications architecture, cloud resources provisioning and infrastructure management, security and network specifications on Microsoft Azure and AWS Platform (Amazon S3, EC2, RDS, EBS, SES and Auto Scaling) for high performance, scalability and availability. • Application and web development tools and methodologies, including.NET, JavaScript, vbscript, MySQL, Oracle, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, etc. • Big Data: Hortonworks, Cloudera, Hadoop Files System, MapReduce and Pig.• UNIX / Linux and Windows system administration, OS provisioning, configuration, patching, application and middleware configuration, compliance audit and remediation, performance analysis and stress testing.• Virtualization automation with VMware, Hyper-V and OpenStack.• Hybrid Cloud automation with Azure, AWS CloudFormation, OpenStack Heat, Puppet, Chef and Ansible. • ITSM automation and integration expertise with SaaS-based ServiceNow and Service Anywhere as well as Remedy, Service Center and Service Manager. • Run Book Automation with experience in cloud service management, process integration and disaster recovery automation.

Experience

1. Senior Solutions Architect

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Sep 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Provide architectural and technical guidance to help partners and customers understand the cloud, and make best use of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace solutions and AWS platform services to build salable, robust, and secure applications. Maintain a deep technical understanding of the AWS platform and other cloud and virtualization technologies. Communicate cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Establish technical credibility with Fortune 500 customers. Working directly with AWS service teams to ensure services align with the needs of customers

Education

• Baruch College

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems

Skills

• Cloud Computing
• Pre-Sales
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Professional Services
• Storage Area Networks
• Itil
• IT Service Management
• Systems Management
• Saas
• Data Centre Architecture
• Storage
• Integration
• Data Center
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Solution Selling
• Virtualization
• Solution Architecture