Hi, I'm Mike O'Nan!

Sep 2024 - Feb 2026

Vice President, Networking & Security Architecture

Verinext

May 2022 - Sep 2024

Director, Networking Architecture

Verinext

Feb 2021 - May 2022

Senior Solutions Architect

Verinext

Apr 2023 - Nov 2024

Vice President

Vine Christian Academy, Nashville, TN

• Built the foundation for a hybrid homeschool nonprofit corporation.

Oct 2017 - Feb 2021

Principal Architect

BEDROC

• Create and optimize service offerings, includes sales enablement, best practice configuration runbooks, methods to calculate time and profitability, and demo environments.
• Serve as Lead Architect from presales to delivery and continue to optimize for easier deployments. Projects include multi-year, large-scale healthcare M&A projects.
• Developed and delivered multiple instructor-led hands-on cloud and collaboration training courses to upskill the Engineering team.
• Managed a team of over 15 engineers, created growth plans for technology and soft skills, and served as a mentor for overall career progression.
• Built the Bedroc Engineering lab that allowed engineers to test and build customer environments to improve professional service outcomes drastically. Lab included multi-vendor solutions from Collaboration, Enterprise Networking, Security, Data Center, and Cloud technologies.

2014 - 2017

Founder

Alto Cloud Solutions

• Managed a company specialized in providing small and mid-size businesses with cloud services.
• Developed and implemented business and sales strategies to extend customer base and ensure higher revenues.
• Conducted negotiations and meetings with customers and business partners to explain the benefits of cloud services.
• Managed a team with 60 years of combined experience in IT sales, service, and support.
• Conducted market research and improved business development strategies and services according to their results.

Apr 2015 - Oct 2017

Systems Engineer

Cisco

• Conduct sales briefings for account executives and sales engineers, and define use cases to help drive overall growth for the region.
• Partner with Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco's product solutions; consult, influence and design solutions to meet customers' business requirements.
• Keep up-to-date on relevant competitive solutions, products and services; assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities.

Jan 2014 - Mar 2015

Network & Collaboration Engineer

Ozburn-Hessey Logistics

• Translate business needs into technology specifications and play a key role in the implementation of end-to-end network and UC technologies.
• Create detailed technical documentation and diagrams including Unified Communications Deployment templates and best practices guidelines.
• Optimize Cisco Unified Communications Manager dial plan with globalization and localization.