Jorge Sanchez

Experience

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  Educational Institution

  Jan 1987 - Jan 1995

  Novell NetWare/LANtastic Technician, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics, WordPerfect®, Office Instructor
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  ERC Computer Training and Software Services Inc.

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1998

  Microsoft® Visual Basic/Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access/Mail Instructor | Software Developer
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  Productivity Point International

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  Microsoft® SQL Server® & Visual Basic® Certified Instructor
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  Microsoft

  Apr 2001 - Sept 2009

  Senior Technology Solutions Professional

  SQL Server & Business Intelligence Senior Regional Technical Specialist to support Enterprise and Partners Group (EPG) accounts around Microsoft MultiCountry Americas (Caribbean, Central America, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay), with direct focus in Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Trinidad, contributing to SQL Server +18.2% year-to-year average revenue growth for MCA, and +8.1% year-to-year average revenue growth for Puerto Rico. Responsibilities: Growth the Enterprise Business faster than the market. Drive win rate of assigned opportunities through the delivery of technical sales engagements. Execute relationship excellence by ensuring compliance with Conditions of Satisfaction. Work with account teams and manage consistent pipeline of opportunities within solution proof stage for data management and BI in your territory. Assist the Account Teams, Partner Teams, and Services in the formulation of new Customer Enterprise Agreement (EA) proposals, Partner Plans, and Services proposals. Develop technical engagement plan for key Application Platform workloads: Data Warehouse, Reporting and Analysis, Data Infrastructure (Customer Line of Business, and Data Infrastructure) Independent Software Vendor. Engage in the solutions development and proof phase of the opportunity with Technology Briefings, Architectural Design Sessions (ADS), and Proof of Concept (POC) engagements. Lead the Business Intelligence Road Show to present and explain the Microsoft BI platform to customers and partners. Support strategic opportunity demand generation. Build strong community with Enterprise customer Architects. Enable and engage partners to deliver technical sales. Show less

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  Rock Solid Technologies, Inc.

  Sept 2009 - May 2023

  Oversees and manages IT-Ops, SaaS hosting, and corporate infrastructure & devices, reporting technology financial and operational health to top executives in alignment with business metrics & SLAs, supporting incident and change management events, developing and maintaining IT-Ops policies and procedures, and ensuring strategic projects are completed within budget guidelines, all under our NIST SP 800-53 security framework implementation. Oversees and manages all IT employees and works closely with top executives to suggest initiatives that may improve the business’ cloud & corporate infrastructure and report progress. Consistently improve RST's cloud and corporate infrastructure, including developing and maintaining policies and procedures, ensuring projects are completed within budget guidelines and maintaining best practices for the organization's infrastructure. Microsoft SQL Server Consultant and Analyst: 1) Advanced Performance Analysis, 2) Optimization, and Tuning, 3) Instance & Database Consolidation and Migration, 4) High Availability Architecture, Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, 5) Replication, 6) Database Administration Methodology, 7) Business Intelligence, and 8) Security.

  • Director of IT

    Aug 2021 - May 2023

  • Information Technology Manager

    Oct 2014 - Jul 2021

  • SQL Server® Consultant

    Sept 2009 - Jul 2021
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  Granicus

  Apr 2023 - now

  Director of Cloud FinOps

  Oversees the Cloud Platform hosting & licensing cost strategy, strengthens Cloud Platform and Finance partnership, promotes a culture of cost accountability and awareness across the organization, manages the global cloud & licensing consumption and spend, cost modeling and strategic analysis, executive reporting, cost governance, anomaly tracking, architecture optimization, and contract negotiation analysis.