SCOTT VOSS

Professional Summary

I am a highly resourceful and dynamic IT professional having an impressive broad array of technical and business expertise accompanied with architecture and project management skills. I am seeking a senior position that renders a challenge and makes good use of my creativity and innovative skills. I possess the capacity for making important contributions of mutual interest and benefit.

30 years IT Experience Professional image and attitude with a keen focus to obtain proven results

23 years Architecture Accomplished technical proficiency with forensic detail and financial acumen

14 years Managerial Effectively managing employees with an enthusiasm to meet business objectives

14 years Biz Dev Acute process driven acumen with proven business growth and lasting relationships

16 years Consulting Senior level experience with innovative presentational skills and pre-sales techniques

16 years Projects Results driven and objective oriented

8 years Administration Legacy systems administration in AIX, SUN, LINUX, MS Windows, NDS and AD

6 years Development Legacy Scripting experience in KSH, CSH, BSH, Perl, PHP, HTML, and Basic

4 years Telco Legacy telecommunications expertise consisting of design and administration

Architectural: Solution architectural design, review, governance, and budgetary skills for pre-sales ITO services encompassing a broad range of distributed systems platforms and heterogeneous multi-tiered storage. Cloud development, staging and conceptual design for offerings in private, public and hybrid cloud designs. N-tier applications with proven datacenter solution design skills for multiple domestic and global strategies. Enterprise architecture design experience with OSI, TOGAF and reference architecture frameworks and methodologies.

Oratory : Support sales support solutions (400+) for new and existing business. Presented and published internal solution materials for cost modeling, training, and orientation, providing foundational improvements in business process control and increased productivity.

Software: Experience in Legacy Operating Systems and software such as SUN Solaris, UNIX, LINUX, VERITAS VxVM & VxFS, AIX (Certified-CSSA), HACMP, OS400, HP-UX, ADSM, TSM, TMR, TEC, TWS, Apache, MS Project, MS Front Page, Exchange, Perl, IIS, SNA, NWSAA, NOS (Certified-CNA), MS Windows, VMware

Hardware: Working knowledge of IBM Power and legacy P/e/iSeries hardware, SMP Compute and storage systems, conceptual design and working knowledge of switches, routers, console concentrators and telecommunications equipment.

Professional Experience

NTT Data Inc. (Formerly Dell Services) Title: Technical Solutions Architect Sr. Specialist Advisor

Date: September 2013 – Present

Sr. Solution Architect: Wolters Kluwer September 2013 - January 2018

Delivery Services Architect: Deal Governance January 2018 - Present

Provide professional and responsive pre-sales opportunity lifecycle governance and formerly post-sales architectural support for new services within a large and successful account for NTT Data global IT services.

Ensure creative solutions and financial modeling for new services used throughout the post sales life cycle process.

Demonstrate comprehensive technical understanding for IT infrastructure and application services.

Oversee multiple global business development projects that span specific account services initiatives including server, storage, service delivery management, datacenter, storage, service desk, end-user compute, security, and network.

Architect and support competitive global sales solutions including creation of proposals and budgets for staffing needs and expenses while collaborating directly with the customer in a shared service model.

Craft and manage proposal responses including New Service Proposals (NSP), Statement of Work (SOW) and vendor on-boarding, resulting in partnered solutions for the benefit of the customer’s business needs.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Title: Associate Director/Solutions Architect

Date: May 2012 - September 2013

Professional and responsive pre-sales architectural support for a successful global IT services company.

Enhanced architectural support for competitive global sales solutions ranging from 3 million to 100 million dollars through creative proposals and productive global budgeting of staffing needs and expenses.

Solutions orchestration of cloud computing VPDC and VDCS white label offerings resulting in sold utility-based engagements within the Cognizant Communications vertical.

Oversaw multiple global engagements for full ITO opportunities, including service management, datacenter, storage, service desk, desktop, security, network, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Creation of comprehensive technical response documentation for IT infrastructure, solutions, and services.

Fujitsu Title: Senior Enterprise Architect

Date: December 2011 - May 2012

Successful support of enterprise architectural delivery and designs for newly acquired business within a successful global IT services and manufacturing company.

Architected an enterprise cloud pod framework for multitenant datacenter needs.

Supported an enterprise architecture process for multiple outsourced businesses.

Provided subject matter expertise for the ITO global solutions pre-sales and integration project management teams.

Capgemini Title: Business Solutions Architect/Senior Manager

Date: September 2006 - December 2011

Creative and professional pre-sales architectural support for large engagements within a global IT services company.

Architect and support competitive global sales solutions ranging from 3 million to 2+ billion-dollar engagements, including creation of proposals and budgets for staffing needs and expenses within global ITO engagements.

Oversaw multiple global projects for implementation of models and tools that span full ITO initiatives, including cloud architecture, datacenter, storage, service desk, desktop, security, network, business continuity, disaster recovery, and service management.

Created, implemented, and managed global financial tools and models with varying use throughout the sales process. These initiatives enhanced throughput, creativity, productivity and helped win deliverable business.

Created comprehensive technical processes and documentation for IT infrastructure, solutions, and services.

Provided subject matter expertise for the global solutions forum and created worldwide costing tools and models.

Effectively mentored and trained solution team hires and global coworkers in solution architectural processes, techniques, and costing.

Support and managed proposal responses to RFP (Requests for Proposal), RFI (Requests for Information), SOW (Statements of Work), and various similar responses to outsourcing requests.

ACS (Affiliated Computer Services) Title: Solutions Design Architect

Date: September 2004 - September 2006

Exemplary pre-sales architectural design and technical leadership for pursuits in a successful fortune 500 company.

Competitive architectural design and proposed solutions within domestic and international settings for sales engagements ranging from .5 million to 105 million dollars.

Provided budgetary requirements for IT outsourcing of infrastructure and facilities within complex heterogeneous datacenter environments.

Effectively budgeted FTE and proposed architectural solutions for HA geographically dispersed datacenters including storage, distributed systems, system management tools, datacenter facilities, and system management software.

Managed proposal responses to RFP (Requests for Proposal), RFI (Requests for Information), SOW (Statements of Work), and various similar responses to outsourcing requests.

Paranet Title: Senior Consultant/Architect

Date: April 2004 - July 2004

Assignment: Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Title: Technical Architect/Project Manager

Professional leadership and design of IT projects for a successful subsidiary of Cadbury Schweppes.

Unbeaten architectural design of an enterprise EDI platform utilizing HA and replication technology.

Successful rollout of new technology creating cost savings for the customer and internal clients.

Technical Resource Group (TRG) Title: Senior Consultant/Technical Architect/PM

Date: April 2003 - April 2004

Assignment: Blockbuster Inc. Title: Project Manager/Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Effectively managed the infrastructure project teams and implementation of a large-scale warehouse management system within a heterogeneous SAN environment for the distribution center which supports a leading worldwide provider of DVDs, videos, and video games.

Efficiently managed a Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse national initiative focused on trading DVDs and games utilizing resources within a matrix environment with completion on time and under budget.

Successful project management role within the I (Infrastructure, Implementation, and Integration) project team. This role structured newly defined processes and procedures for cross-departmental resources consolidating implementations, integrations and strategies to reduce costs, efforts, and risks.

Buchanan and Associates Title: Managing Consultant/Architect/PM/Manager

Date: May 2000 - March 2003

Assignment: Trinity Industries Title: Account Manager/Communications Manager/Project Manager

Fulfilled the outsourced role of communications manager overseeing the WAN and telecommunications departments for a worldwide railcar manufacturer, reporting directly to the CTO.

Successful project management of a global infrastructure project, comprising of WAN, LAN, Email and datacenter redesign, and implementations within a 109-branch enterprise, which was delivered on time and within budget.

Assignment: TXU Title: Account Manager/Project Management/UNIX Administration

Managed 72 on-site consultants spanning end-user services, network services, and E-Commerce practices. The result increased Buchanan Associates’ profits and improved business relations within the energy vertical market.

Fulfilled the billable role of architect and HACMP UNIX systems engineer in a worldwide energy utilities corporation.

Successfully managed several mid-to-large scale projects involving development, desktop, and networking projects.

EDUCATION

Associates of Applied Science in Electronics, DeVry Institute of Technology, 1994

Coursework in pre-sales concepts, project management methodologies, Data Modeling, Microsoft Access, UNIX scripting and Windows scripting, Windows Platforms, HP-UX, SUN Solaris, AIX, IntraNetware

Licensed private pilot (PPL), 1991

MILITARY EXPERIENCE Title: Petty Officer 3rd Class/Inventory Control Specialist

Date: September 1984 - September 1992

U.S. Navy, Honorable Discharge

USS David R. Ray DD-971, two major Pacific Fleet deployments

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Hickory Creek, Texas 75065

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