Ian Forbes
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Owen Stokes (he/him)
I had the great please of working with Ian over the last four years. Ian is a great virtualization engineer who is also capable of talking across the entire technical stack. Ian delivers great results for his clients and for his Scalar teammates. He is also a respected leader within the technical team and a great team player on large projects. I highly recommend Ian and would be very happy to work with him again in the future.
Owen Stokes (he/him)
I had the great please of working with Ian over the last four years. Ian is a great virtualization engineer who is also capable of talking across the entire technical stack. Ian delivers great results for his clients and for his Scalar teammates. He is also a respected leader within the technical team and a great team player on large projects. I highly recommend Ian and would be very happy to work with him again in the future.
Owen Stokes (he/him)
I had the great please of working with Ian over the last four years. Ian is a great virtualization engineer who is also capable of talking across the entire technical stack. Ian delivers great results for his clients and for his Scalar teammates. He is also a respected leader within the technical team and a great team player on large projects. I highly recommend Ian and would be very happy to work with him again in the future.
Owen Stokes (he/him)
I had the great please of working with Ian over the last four years. Ian is a great virtualization engineer who is also capable of talking across the entire technical stack. Ian delivers great results for his clients and for his Scalar teammates. He is also a respected leader within the technical team and a great team player on large projects. I highly recommend Ian and would be very happy to work with him again in the future.
Credentials
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Master Specialist VMware Cloud on AWS 2020
VMwareJun, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Outcome Focused Sales Foundation
VMwareJun, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Digital Workspace Livefire - Architecture & Design
VMwareMay, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Horizon - Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure 2018
VMwareApr, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Double VCP – Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization
VMwareJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2020
VMwareJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization
VMwareApr, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Architecture Course
VMwareJan, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Advanced Architecture Course
VMwareJan, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Arctiq
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Canada
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Delivery Consultant
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Mar 2021 - Present
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CDW Canada
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Sr Consulatnt
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Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
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Scalar Decisions
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Infrastructure Team Lead
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Jul 2014 - Jan 2020
My focus was around helping customers plan, design and implement datacentre solutions around Digital Transformation. My primary expertise is around the software defined datacentre, as it relates to hyper-converged compute, software defined storage and networking/security - both on premises and in public cloud.
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Solutions Engineer
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Sep 2006 - Jun 2014
I worked as both a Pre-Sales and Post-Sales subject matter expert, focusing on enterprise datacentre products and solutions. My primary focus was virtualization and storage.
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Windows Administrator
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2000 - 2005
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Desktop Support
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1998 - 2000
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Education
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Ryerson University
B.Comm, Accounting and Finance
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