About Craig Hadix
info@craighadix.com - +1(310)570-2912
Outcome based digital transformational leader who focuses on growing revenue, increasing market share, and deepening customer relationships, while enabling my clients to achieve massive improvements in how they consume their technology. Liaison to the business; translating business objectives into successful technology services using dynamic, programmatic infrastructures in multi cloud environments.

Outstanding Achievements

Consulted, Architected, and sold fully managed multi-cloud connectivity solution for sub-3ms cloud-to-cloud. Architected high speed (80Gbs) redundant private interconnect between AWS, GCP, and Azure. Integrated AWS VPC, GCP project, and Azure Network routed through Direct Connects/Interconnects to privately hosted Extreme switches configured in HA and in two different data centers on the same campus to cloud regions.

Instructor for cloud adoption classes in several cities and locations within my Western Region to our clients and prospective clients resulting in very high approval ratings from public cloud providers. Classes included an Intro to AWS IAM, S3, Re-Hosting, Re-Factoring, as well as VMware Cloud on AWS.

Designed, architected and deployed cloud DR/migration solution using VM’s, Azure AD, Scale Sets, Networking, Azure Site Recovery, and virtual appliances. Solution is multi-segmented with virtual appliances to enable private logging of network and security threats. Integrated Cisco AppDynamics APM into web-based applications. Migration will happen over time as all the data replicates using ASR.

Designed, architected and deployed streaming all Serverless Data Pipeline based on Google Compute Platform, Google PubSub, Google DataFlow, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage all feeding a big data warehouse on Google BigQuery. Solution streams in millions of record updates daily to feed analytics based on DataStudio.

Architected and deployed Healthcare Information system running in Hybrid cloud running Tableau, Security. Solution is based on VMware with custom orchestration software to enable private cloud. Integrated SaaS based identity management to enable doctors to securely access healthcare information. Healthcare facilities remotely and securely connect via two factor authentication prior to gaining access to the HIPAA sensitive data.

Experience

Unitas Global – (2018 – Current) – Irvine, CA

Drive the full lifecycle of opportunities producing more than twice as many new logos as any other team.

Devising plans for new business with a healthy sense of entrepreneurialism resulting in a 300% increase in new services adding over $10 million a year in MRR.

Develop global interconnectivity solutions using regional performance hubs to private cloud and all public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba) resulting in the most secure, fastest and most reliable international solutions.
Responsible for overall managed solution covering the complete sales cycle including technical/revenue/services qualification as well as margin setting and deal shaping.

Develop deep, companywide relationships to drive new opportunity and close deals. Work across the entire business to drive sales at all stages for all market segments. Vendor management and selection, identification of qualified partners, certification for fit, and onboarding activities.

SHI – (2018 – 2018) – Irvine, CA

Western region technical lead who consults with clients to design and deploy new cloud infrastructure, optimization, migrations, and other cloud adoption services using best practice methodologies.

Involved in every cloud opportunity west of Colorado driving adoption rates by more than 150%

Conducted multi-city tour presenting and teaching AWS and VMware classes resulting in higher attendance and over 45 new clients onboarded

Positioned and sold new cloud service offerings 5 times faster than any other group in the company resulting in rapid adoption into the public cloud market

Dimension Data – (2015 – 2018) – Irvine, CA

Led senior technical architecture for Dimension Data’s enterprise clients who works across Business Units, consults and creates integrated solutions architectures across domains, functions, and industries.

Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into architectural designs, managed services and software solutions using REST, Python, and YANG along with a suite of DevOps tools to create dynamic programmable infrastructures on premise, hybrid, and in multiple clouds.

Provide multi-technology consulting services to clients while providing proven strategies and cloud solutions on all aspects related technology components. Creates excellent client and cross business unit relationships.

Strategic planning and sales enablement with senior account executives, regional sales directors, senior directors, VP’s, practice leaders, engineering and consulting teams resulting increased cloud services and sales activity. Lead Architect in all West-US Cloud Computing (Private/Public/Hybrid, IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS) projects.

Promoting DevOps, SDN, NFV along with Process Optimization and Continuous Integration

Nexus IS – (2012 – 2015) – Valencia, CA

Strategic pre-sales account planning with senior account executives, regional sales directors, practice leaders, and engineering teams.  Creating new consulting, business process optimization, and cloud products. Conducting market research and testing, and presentation of these new products

Define, market test, design, and create new advanced technologies practice for Nexus in the Southern California region including DevOps as a service, SDN, BPO, Cloud, Enterprise Virtualization, and Active-Active data centers

Promoting SDN, DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, along with Process Optimization and Continuous Integration. Architecting enterprise and web-scale solutions using Openstack, VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, Puppet, Chef, CloudForms, OpenShift, Cisco, EMC, NetApp, Dell, HP, IBM, AWS, SunGard, Savvis, Rackspace

IS Systems - 2011-2012 - Los Angeles, CA

Cloud managed services and consulting company, providing private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions. Discover, define, and guide client’s business and technical requirements around Data Center solutions, specializing in vCloud Director and CloudStack.

Responsible for creating technical reference architectures and standards. Pre-Sales Engineering owning the technical relationship with the client and assist with deal shaping. Create and Deliver technical and business presentations. Design, and deliver complete technology solutions using Cisco, HP, EMC, NetApp, VMware, Citrix, and Cloud providers

AppSense - 2011 - Venice, CA

Complete ownership of the technical relationship with the client. Drive all stages of the sales cycle. Architect and implement advanced user virtualization solutions. Provide subject matter expertise with Storage, Network, Server, and Virtualization technologies. Enable channel sales directly supporting resellers

Applied Computer Solutions - 2008-2011 - Los Angeles, CA

Architect technology solutions that fit our customers' business, technology, and budget requirements. Work with client and the sales team to create the strategic architecture and technical diagrams, and then deliver the solution presentations. Assist Account Managers with Deal Shaping, assisting our sales team scope and sell our products

Develops relationships with the clients, proactively validating technology architecture, manage technology projects, creating and delivering technical and business case presentations. Prepare and give presentations on new technology and how it fits with the client’s environment to meet their requirements and decreases capital and/or operational costs

Warner Bros. Entertainment - 2003-2008 - Burbank, CA

Manage the lifecycle of all IT infrastructure while translating the business requirements into technical specifications and strategic design at the leading american film and television production studio. Evangelized VDI, created and ran proof of concepts, organized meetings with directors, VP’s, EVP’s, and the CIO. Produced high level design and implementation strategies, maintaining Warners 3-5-year IT Strategic Plan. Establish and define details, definitions, and requirements of infrastructure, applications, components and enhancements to create technology architectures across a broad set of technology domains

Provide highly competent leadership and specialized technical guidance to complex solution engineering challenges. Simultaneously plan, manage, and lead all technology solution design activities. Managed the Technology Enterprise Architecture Lab, consisting of every production environment plus every development environment, making up a complex set of technologies. Evaluated, Advocated and Evangelized Virtualization with VMware, Consolidation of UNIX/Oracle to IBM P-Series, and our TSM tape backup and archiving into a Virtual Tape Library

IBM/Tivoli Systems - 2000-2003 - Austin, TX / Los Angeles, CA

Architect, design, administer and manage eLearning rapid education for hands on technical training built on Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux, OS390, AS400, VM Ware, and Citrix using HTML, Java, XML, JavaScript, JSP, C, C++, Win32, and MFC

Develop technical training curriculums resulting for an increase of student hours by 220%. Direct large-scale global design projects, accountable for budget, schedule, and execution

EverRAM, Inc. - 1999 - Austin, TX

Direct the development and implementation of user’s desktop experience in remote managed services startup
Negotiate vendor contracts, resulting in 150% reduction in operating expenses.

Develop proposal for implementation of Global access solutions for executives resulting in increased productivity and reduced travel expenses. Recommend long-term approach to strategic vendors and technologies optimizing operations and delivering value.