Dale McKay
Staff Technical Architect
  • Pflugerville,
  • Texas,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2008/08/15
Industry: Computer & IT
Top Skills:
Tech Certifications:
View All

Provide a quick, creative biography in 140 characters or less.

More bio
Activity
Points this month0
Total points8,400
Questions: 1
Solutions: 6
Articles:
Videos:
Tutorials:
Posts:
Professional Background
Global Principal Architect
NTT DATA, Inc.
November 2016 – Present
The Global Principal Architect is responsible to architect and design solutions to meet customer’s needs in the network and enterprise system space.  The Global Principal Architect performs high level oversight and escalation handling on individual opportunities.

Responsibilities of the role include leading Technical Architects and Subject Matter Experts on individual services engagements to construct and support complex customer network solutions. Conducting customer presentations at the senior management/executive level. Being viewed as a subject matter expert in a specific technology area. Effectively articulating value propositions associated with NTT's product/service offerings. Demonstrating extensive experience in constructing complex service provider solutions in the IT services provider market, and effectively positioning cost effective and practical alternatives for the customer by bundling products/services.
More
Education
Franklin Pierce College
BS
Computer Science/ Bus. Mgmt
1986 – 1989
Central HS
1973 – 1976
More
Full Biography

Key Accomplishments over Career

• Global Principal Architect - Consulting and Systems Integration

• Technical Training Consultant – Global Learning and Development

• Trusted Advisor for an energy services company – Global Architecture and Planning

• Trusted Advisor for an architectural firm. – Lead Consultant, Network Design

• Network Integration and Remediation – multiple companies

• Single Point of Failure (SPOF) Assessment – major financial company

• Responsible for the day to day operations, management and maintenance of technical environment consisting of 100+ Microsoft servers, about 85% of which are virtualized. 4000 Node network. Open source servers. (2009)

More
Languages
No Languages shown

Level Progress

Current: Level 2
Dale needs 9,600 points to level up.
LVL 3
  • Overall
    2
  • Network Management
    1
  • Networking
    1
  • Microsoft Legacy OS
    1
  • Network Analysis
    1
  • Network Architecture
    1
  • WSUS
    1
  • Windows Server 2008
    1
  • Windows Server 2012
    1