Nicholas Gerasimatos Seattle, WA Mobile: 206.569.4421
Summary:
Work with strategic Red Hat Certified Cloud Service Providers to design, build and integrate emerging technologies, solutions and products into their portfolios, data centers, lines of business, and route-to-market offerings.
My role allows me to develop executive relationships and act as a trusted advisor to help influence and accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies by sharing the overall vision of multi-product offerings and creating awareness of emerging technologies.
I also partner with the Alliance teams to help develop and implement the adoptions of solutions such as OpenStack (IaaS), OpenShift (Containers, PaaS), Ansible (automation and orchestration), CloudForms (service catalog, chargeback, showback, single pane of glass management between on-premise solutions and Cloud Providers), Middleware, IOT, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL.
Professional Experience:
Emerging Technologies Cloud Evangelist - CCSP Group Red Hat - Seattle, WA : 2015 - Present
Work with strategic Certified Cloud Service Providers to design, build and integrate cloud centric solutions and products into their portfolios, data centers, lines of business, and route-to-market offerings.
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/870074d49fe0ff45f3e6848a605f24c2
Senior Director of Cloud Services FICO - Seattle, WA : 2013 - 2015
Lead the migration to open source software defined scalable data center solution: Including IT applications and VMware secure virtualization systems, Private Cloud, Open Stack Orchestration, Amazon AWS, EC2 services, OpenShift, Ceph, Gluster, HDFS, KVM, Neutron, Docker, Puppet, Jenkins, Git, etc.
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/19187425f55ea87fc352dbc25a09911a
Solutions Architect - Consultant American Express - Seattle, WA : 2013 - 2015
Designed and implemented Enterprise Development, Production, and QA/UAT environments running a combination of Windows Server, Linux, and Solaris instances on VMware ESXi using Cisco UCS for comoute and EMC shared storage as the backend
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/3cef450f200b932173d1234ee11f3b32
Lead Staff Architect, Engineering VMware - Seattle, WA : 2013-2013
Lead the design, physical and logical architecture of VMware Software Defined Data Center products; EVO:RACK / EVO:SDDC Manager
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/e97222836d979570ee5c0bdc82d91117
Senior Solutions Architect - Consultant DAI - Seattle, WA : 2012-2014
Deep infrastructure architecture experience with significant depth around designing, implementing and managing critical cross-functional integration projects at large Fortune 100 companies
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/dcaf280c08947f83e324a821755ae4df
Senior Solutions Architect VCE - Seattle, WA : 2010-2012
End to End Implementation of VMware and partners solutions cetnered around Private Cloud on vBlock Platform; VMware, Cisco UCS, EMC.
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/94be1b9bd64c2e2d9a6143825a5c0625
Education:
Shattuck-Saint Mary's, Faribault, MN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattuck-Saint_Mary%27s
Recognitions:
https://gist.github.com/ngerasimatos/300e6f29874bd18cae039ad03c8e8290
LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngerasimatos
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