David Touster

Background

About David Touster

Extensive knowledge and experience in Enterprise Architecture and selling the value of architecting enterprise infrastructure that is properly aligned to the customer's business goals, initiatives, and technical requirements. Most recent experience with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS cloud solutions in addition to traditional enterprise infrastructure. My efforts significantly contribute to satisfied customers, revenue, and pipeline.Focused and driven to help customers succeed. My customers have included both Public Sector and commercial such as US Government (ie: USDA, VA, SSA, Department of Commerce, NASA, DHS, USPS, DoD, etc.), State & Local customers, Public Sector partners, telecom, etc.Strong advocate for cross-functional teams both internal and with customer's teams. I'm known to be effective in creating/facilitating cross-functional teaming especially for customer discovery sessions to gather their business goals and initiatives as well as their business and technical requirements.I'm acknowledged as an authority in designing Highly Reliable, Available, Scalable, Serviceable, High Performing Solutions to meet customer's business and technical requirements such as Budget Constraints, Service Level Agreements (SLA's), Business Continuity (COOP/Disaster Recovery)- up to and including geographically distributed active-active solutions. Solutions have included- Oracle Database 7 to 12c with and without Oracle RAC and other clustering technologies - Oracle Engineered Systems- Oracle Cloud- Oracle servers and storage - Intel x86 and SPARC based systems including their internals, history, and roadmaps- Software-based Hard Partitions approved by Oracle for limiting Oracle licenses (Oracle VM Server, Solaris Zones, etc.)- Oracle and 3rd-party applicationsKnowledgeable in Value Selling & Solution SellingI volunteer as a BSA Scout Troop Committee Member, Merit Badge Counselor, and Patrol Advisor for a local troop. I'm also an approved Nova Counselor and Supernova Mentor for the Boy Scouts of America STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) initiative.