Laura Richardson
Chief Technology Officer, VP of Engineering at Virtual Service Operations
- Role
- Chief Technology Officer at Virtual Service Operations
- Location
- Tampa, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Laura Richardson
I invent and implement systems that turn companies into cost-efficient machines, literally. I have been chosen to lead every aspect of a hardware and systems implementation, including when the concept was just an idea on a napkin. I\'ve helped IBM and our clients reduce storage costs by 33 percent. I currently have 3 patents being used by many fortune 500 companies. I built a 15 person team to implement the most optimized storage ever - even as we orchestrated a multi billion dollar conglomerate split into 5 distinct companies I built a revolutionary storage request system into IBM service management tooling; a patent from this was purchased by a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company I enjoy inventing systems that have real impact for a company\'s bottom line. I\'m a \"pie-in-the-sky\" thinker, but I\'m grounded into reality when it comes to what large enterprise clients can implement. This is why I enjoy implementation as much as invention. Today, I am transforming storage offerings and capabilities, via an Agile / Design Thinking methodology, into consumable services, making these available via the IBM Marketplace “as a Service”. I have more than 18 years of experience building, troubleshooting and refreshing enterprise-class servers, storage and storage networks in mission critical environments. SPECIAL SKILLSThis includes architecture, design, implementation, integration and administration of EMC, IBM, and HP disk arrays, Cisco, McData, and Brocade switches, and HP-UX, Windows, AIX and Solaris servers in highly available, clustered and disaster recovery configurations. I am highly proficient in data migration methodologies, high availability, and automation of data replication and disaster recovery.
Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Jan 2018 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Education
University of Arizona
Astrophysics
DeVry University
Associates Degree of Applied Sciences - Electronics
1995 — 1997
Skills
- Storage
- Enterprise Storage
- Troubleshooting
- IT Service Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Solaris
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Virtualization
- Ibm Aix
- Storage Area Networks
- Saas
- San
- Integration
- High Availability
- Unix
- Cloud Computing
- Solution Architecture
- Brocade
- Aix
- Storage Management
- Storage Optimization
- Data Center
- Storage Architecture
- Pre-Sales
- Storage Virtualization
- Technical Leadership
- IT Strategy
- Servers
- Nas
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