John Foy

Experience

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  MCI Communications

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1992

  Commercial Account Executive

  Maintained a solid client base of international corporations in metro NY while consistently increasing new business. Exceeded sales quotas and brought over $1.8 million in new revenue.

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  3M Pouyet

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  International Sales Manager (Infra+)

  Negotiated and set up joint ventures in Spain and Brazil for Infra+ (Component and Networking equipment manufacturer - subsequently acquired by 3M Pouyet, itself later acquired by Corning). Trained customers and resellers and organized participation in several trade shows. Doubled international sales in first year. Designed English and Spanish catalogs.

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  APEM

  Jan 1993 - Jan 2003

  Successfully established Mexican assembly plant in 1 year; shifted US production; reduced overall labor costs by 50%. Defined business processes; kept logistical costs below 5%; ensured compliance with applicable customs or tax laws. Evaluated and selected MRP System to track and coordinate duty-deferred exchanges of parts and labor. Overhauled US sales: set up Salesforce.com, phone-marketing and incentive programs to collect, and exploit 8000 leads/year, and to better manage and reward an 80 strong sales force. Trained sales. Increased US OEM business by 20% in spite of Telecom bust. Show less

  • Assistant General Manager

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

  • Asia Sales Manager | OEM Sales Manager

    Jan 1993 - Jan 2000
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  Concierge CIO Partners

  Jan 2003 - now

  Founder and Principal

  Manage and maintain Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace tenants. Set up and automate user on-boarding and off-boarding, groups, and permissions. Manage migrations of mail, drives and applications to the cloud and between clouds. Set up cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-local backups. Configure and manage mobile devices and apps using Intune/Autopilot and Google MDM. Configure and manage VoIP. Implement and enforce policies and best practices for compliance and data protection. Evaluate and deploy new features and functionalities as they become available. Troubleshoot services and provide technical support and training to users.Develop plans to accommodate clients' current and future infrastructure needs. Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end hyperconverged infrastructure stacks integrating hypervisor, ZSF storage, failover mechanisms, and backups in clusters of 3+ servers. Perform server and platform maintenance. Handle server migrations from legacy hardware. Manage VM's and containers including Windows Servers, Active Directory DC's and DM's, LOB's, Linux servers, and Virtual Desktops/Apps (VDI/VAD). Configure and optimize VM's for performance.Set up and manage security and compliance at every level of the client infrastructure: (1) networks and cloud, using Identity, MDM, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection & Prevention (IDS/IPS-EDR/MDR), IP blacklisting, DNS, VPN, & Zero Trust; (2) OSs, using centrally managed anti-virus/malware, firewall, EDR/MDR; (3) Cloud Workloads, using AV, anti-malware, WAF, real-time File Integrity Monitoring, vulnerability detection, DDOS deflection, & data loss prevention.Achieve maximum infrastructure resilience through systematic redundancy: clouds, firewalls, servers, shares, backups, applications, personal computers, access to the internet, VPN, network connectivity, etc.Optimize infrastructure sovereignty, security, and costs through the use of open-source technology.Set up Concierge CIO’s self-hosted operational infrastructure. Show less