Steven Reed

Background

About Steven Reed

Senior Solution Architect with 20+ years of experience and an extensive skill-set with regard to Hybrid Cloud and On-Premises Virtualization Architecture and Implementation in the Amazon and Azure environments. Primary expertise is in the areas of Virtualization technologies, Datacenter migration, Microsoft Server and Linux Design & Support, and Storage Architecture & Management. • Design of software-defined storage and networking for use on-premises and the Cloud for Wintel/Linux servers based on their I/O footprint and cost. • Lead architect on several consolidation projects including SAN, Network, and Server evaluations to provide virtualization expertise in areas of Server and Cloud Migrations. • Consult with clients about hybrid datacenter migrations while considering customer’s immediate and long-term architectural and project needs. • Manage and maintain client infrastructures from servers and users using hybrid and on-premises infrastructure. • Migrated over 25 client-server datacenters from one location to cloud or remote location with no major system or user outages using virtual infrastructure to minimize complexity. • Development of automation process using Chief and puppet to allow for the automation of common tasks and for deployments of infrastructure, Applications and VM’s