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From New Orleans. Also lived in Arfrica and 20 yrs in London, England. Now reside in Scottsdale * I enjoy world travel, experiencing different countries, food and cultures.  * An Infrastructure and Cloud Security Architect, a part-time Photographer and eBook author  *  Love spending time with my wife and 5 poodles * Other interests are soccer (futball), music, literature, gardening, cooking and of course international travel. * I am an Open Networker *

  • William (Bill) Hooper
  • Scottsdale, AZ
  • cloud.net.sec @ pm . me
  • info @ wmhooper . com
  • netguru10

Cloud Security

IT Infrastructure and Cloud Security Architect * On-premise, Private, Public and Hybrid cloud * Engage customers for business requirements to architect and implement secure on-permise / cloud solutions * Follow current best practices, security frameworks & compliance standards. Azure, Hyper-V, vSphere, Widows & Linux.

Consulting

Consult small / medium businesses to align current and future technology with business plan, goals and objectives * To modernize current their current web / Internet presence to increase customer engagement * To collabortively develop stratagies for implementing eCommerce and participating in the global market place.

Coaching / Facilitating

Coaching individual business owners one-on-one to take their personal business performance to the next level.

Facilitating worskhops and small groups on relavent business issues from SWAT analysis to improving employee moral and retention.

Web Services & SEO

Create web sites for small business and sports clubs * Webmaster for several large websites * Improve existing web sites for better serach rankings * Incorporate social media into existing websites for customer engagement * Convert existing websites to more modern features and funcationality.

Media Production

Visual and sound production using video, music, sound track, editing, mixing and subtitles * Projects have included short demos for contests, visual job resumes, streaming media for Youtube and web, projected background for stage productions, and 90 minute DVD for international sports group.

eBook Publishing

Writing several technical ebooks for system and network administrators * My wife and I are working on a series of children's animal character ebooks for home schooled chidlren to learn spelling, reading and vocabulary. Targeted for grades 1 - 3.

Work Experience

  • Brock Supply Co

    Infrastructure Architect / ERP Developer

    2012 - Now

    Project management and software development at multisite international online wholesale company.

    Implementing disaster recovery, network and server upgrades, virtualization, wireless warehousing.

  • Ensemble Enterprises, LLC

    owner / Principal Consultant

    2002 - 2013

    SMB/SME Consulting on data and VoIP networks, network security consulting and training, virtualization, cloud computing, SAN / NAS storage technology.

  • Lucent Technologies, Stratus Technologies

    Consulting Systems Engineer / Technical Consultant

    2000 - 2010

    Projects & Professional Services : multi-national VoIP : Customer migration from legacy OS to VMWare ESX. Managed world wide 24x7 technical support for data and telecom customers following ITIL v2 framework.

  • European Employment

    London, England

    - 2000

    * EMEA SW Engineering Manager * apps & profesisonal service for EMEA & APAC
    * Consulting Systems Engineer * Project support for EMEA and APAC customers
    * Senior Systems Engineer * Pre and post sales technical support for European customers

Technical Skills

  • Infrastructure / Cloud Architect
  • Security Best Practices
  • Windows, Linux, MAC
  • Hyper-V and vSphere
  • Databases, VoIP & Wireless
  • Globalization
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Intellegence
  • Video & Music Production

Contact info

  • Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.
  • info [at] wmhooper [dot] com
  • netguru10
  • wmhooper.com

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