Heath Barkley

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About Heath Barkley

I have over 25 years of experience designing and implementing innovative technology solutions that have driven business success. I have played a pivotal role in driving revenue growth for several companies, leading to their acquisition by three Fortune 500 companies. My proficiency in public cloud computing, team-building, and go-to-market strategy formulation has boosted revenue growth to over $450K/MRR. As an ardent advocate for education and self-improvement, I have designed training and certification programs for groups of more than 150 engineers and 70 sales professionals, conducted customer workshops, and delivered presentations on cutting-edge technologies at industry events. Furthermore, I deeply understand the importance of automation. I have implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to reduce manual deployment processes by 80%. I focus on innovation, collaboration, and strategic thinking to drive the success of any organization I am a part of. I love the outdoors and connecting with nature. In my spare time, you might catch me gardening, watching a meteor shower with my daughter, or planting trees on family land. I'm always looking to grow my personal and professional network. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn or contact me directly at heath.barkley@att.net. Skills: IT Strategy, Management & Operations Business Analysis & Technology Roadmaps Governance, Risk & Compliance Data Center Design & Migration Software Development Life Cycle & Modernization Digital Transformation & Integration Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Cloud: Public (AWS, Azure, GCP) Hybrid (VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure Stack) Private (VCF, vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen) Automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible, Chef, JFrog, Jenkins) Infrastructure: Compute (Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro) Storage (Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Hitachi, Pure) Network (Cisco, Arista, Dell, Broadcom, Juniper) Hyper-converged (VxRail, HyperFlex, SimpliVity, Nutanix, vSAN Ready Nodes) Security: NGFW (Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet, Sophos, Check Point) GRC (Varonis, Proofpoint, Barracuda) SIEM:(AlienVault, Elastic Stack, ManageEngine) IAM (Ping Identity, Okta, RSA, Azure AD, AWS IAM) Observability, Optimization & Availability: Monitoring (Alert Logic, SolarWinds, NetIQ, vROPS, vRNI) ADC (Radware, F5, NetScaler, Kemp, AWS ELB) Backup and Recovery (Veeam, Dell DPS, VPLEX, Data Domain, Rubrik, Veritas, Zerto, SRM) WAN Opt / SD-WAN (Riverbed, SilverPeak, Citrix SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, VeloCloud)