Chris Westerfield

Experience

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  Xerox Business Services

  Oct 1998 - now

  Senior Network Design Consultant

  Responsible for providing and selling data network and voice technical solutions for internal and external customers. Includes providing expert telecommunications consulting and interpreting business requirements and then transforming those requirements into a technical network solutions framework. Duties:• Provide technical direction and frameworks to meet business needs.• Provide expert consultation for major network initiatives or incidents.• Produce and/or endorse network standards.• Respond to RFPs and provide advice, recommendations and solutions specific to customer requirements.• Evaluate emerging technologies against business and IT strategic needs.• Serve as a key representative on major network initiatives.• Review the feasibility of new and existing IT projects• Write technical and business documentation.• Lead high level scoping and costing activities.• Guide and influence team members and business colleagues.• Create presentations/solutions and articulate to boards and executives.• Work with other SMEs and technical support teams in the pursuit of technically excellent solutions.• Produce technically excellent solutions architecture that is aligned to business needs and direction.• Review and evaluate disaster recovery strategies• Review designs for standards compliance, architecture compliance and negotiate implementation timeframes.• Work with the network operations and project delivery teams to promote network standards and compliance• Collaborate with business users, technical staff and management to define business and technical requirements.• Research, evaluate and approve vendor services and solutions Show less

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  Atos

  Jul 2015 - now

  Network Solution Architect

  Responsible for providing and selling data network and voice technical solutions for internal and external customers. Includes providing expert telecommunications consulting and interpreting business requirements and then transforming those requirements into a technical network solutions framework. Duties:• Provide technical direction and frameworks to meet business needs.• Provide expert consultation for major network initiatives or incidents.• Produce and/or endorse network standards.• Respond to RFPs and provide advice, recommendations and solutions specific to customer requirements.• Evaluate emerging technologies against business and IT strategic needs.• Serve as a key representative on major network initiatives.• Review the feasibility of new and existing IT projects• Write technical and business documentation.• Lead high level scoping and costing activities.• Guide and influence team members and business colleagues.• Create presentations/solutions and articulate to boards and executives.• Work with other SMEs and technical support teams in the pursuit of technically excellent solutions.• Produce technically excellent solutions architecture that is aligned to business needs and direction.• Review and evaluate disaster recovery strategies• Review designs for standards compliance, architecture compliance and negotiate implementation timeframes.• Work with the network operations and project delivery teams to promote network standards and compliance• Collaborate with business users, technical staff and management to define business and technical requirements.• Research, evaluate and approve vendor services and solutions Show less