Jeff Grappone

Background

About Jeff Grappone

Established Leader and Mentor with the Ability to Positively Influence and Inspire Others • History of Designing and Delivering Standardized, Highly Reliable Networking and Security Solutions • Capable of Communicating with People at All Levels of an Organization • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Technical Skills: • Extensive experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and data replication architectures, both cloud based and internally hosted • Proficient in creating, documenting, and evangelizing architectural standards, best practices, and design patterns with IT leaders, influencers, and engineers • Adept at engaging with business leaders to understand business problems, translating those problems into technical requirements, and then delivering technology solutions to meet the needs of the business • Demonstrated depth and breadth of expertise across multiple IT disciplines, including Windows and POSIX operating systems, network, security, compute, storage, database, virtualization, and cloud-computing technologies • Competent in managing network and security hardware and software for many major network manufacturers, including Palo Alto, CloudGenix, Meraki, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, F5, Amazon Web Services and Azure Public Cloud • Able to keep current with industry technologies and trends while maintaining an understanding for the appropriateness and timeliness of utilizing such technologies and trends