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| About Us
CloudStrategies is a leading provider of technology-based business solutions that deliver breakaway competitive advantage. Our proven expertise in the practical application of Microsoft On-line Services, offers clients new, creative and innovative ways to utilize information to boost productivity, increase effectiveness and transform their operations. We are dedicated to guiding, designing and implementing customized cloud computing solutions for clients that create lasting value.
CloudStrategies is a Limited Liability Company based in New Jersey with operations throughout the United States that are backed by Microsoft and supported by a global network of implementation partners.
Leadership Team
CloudStrategies is led by a dynamic team of Business and Technology professionals who have a keen understanding of cloud computing and deep experience with optimizing Microsoft based solutions. They include:
| Pete Zarras
Founder and President
Pete is the chief catalyst behind CloudStrategies and plays a key role managing the day-to-day operations and growth of the firm. In addition to these responsibilities, he works directly with clients on assignments where bridging business and technical issues are essential to maximizing value. He brings nearly 20 years of hands-on experience solving technology challenges for some of the world’s largest enterprises and fastest moving small businesses to the work he performs. Before founding CloudStrategies, Pete worked in sales / service roles for Microsoft Corporation in their NY Metro District, as well as several business and technology consulting firms.
Pete earned a dual track MBA / Technology Management degree from the University of Phoenix and has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Pete is very active in his local community and sits on the board of Morris Habitat for Humanity. |
| Doug Fraser
Director of Sales
Doug oversees all Sales and Client Development activities for CloudStrategies. In this role, he identifies opportunities for businesses of all sizes to leverage cloud computing and helps mobilize resources needed to deliver the solution. An Information Technology veteran with more than 10 years of experience, he’s worked with a wide range of Enterprise and Mid-Market customers to solve burning problems from a software and services perspective. Prior to joining CloudStrategies, Doug held several senior sales positions at Microsoft where he managed alliance partner relationships and worked with clients in both the Midwest and New York Metro areas while consistently exceeding sales objectives.
Doug holds an MBA from Seattle University and completed his undergraduate studies at Arizona State University. |
| John Alumbaugh Director of Consulting Services
John oversees all services related client activities and is responsible for growing CloudStrategies consulting business. In addition to helping clients migrate from legacy infrastructure into modern cloud infrastructure, John is responsible for setting consulting business strategy. John is a US Navy Veteran with more than 20 years of IT infrastructure experience. Prior to joining CloudStrategies, John worked at Hewlett Packard in a variety of professional services roles, most notably as the Practice Manager for the Great Lakes Microsoft Infrastructure Practices where he lead consulting teams focused on enterprise migrations to Microsoft platforms. John lives outside of Indianapolis with is family, where he is active in his community. |
| Steve Jacobs Consultant
Steve is responsible for client deployments, migrations, and support operations for CloudStrategies. Steve has been working in Information Technology since the early 1990's. While obtaining his second BA in Computer Science from Tulane University, Steve worked in a computer services business and at a Dow Jones Telerate office in New Orleans, LA. Later, Steve handled the internal support duties and programming responsibilities for Creative Data Research in Mandeville, LA. For eleven years prior to joining CloudStrategies, Steve administered and maintained the technology infrastructure at ISS Group, a leading Microsoft Partner of manufacturing software solutions. |
| Nikolaos Christoforatos Director of European Operations, Athens, Greece
Nikos oversees CloudStrategies operations in Europe. Nikos is an Information Technology Professional with over 10 years of experience working for European Institutions including the European Commission’s Data Center in Luxembourg. Before joining CloudStrategies, he managed, for Microsoft Hellas, support contracts for large telecommunications sector clients. Throughout his career, he has planned, facilitated, and supervised several rollouts of Server and Client deployments in Brussels, Luxembourg and western Balkans. Nikos holds a Master of Science Degree Telematics from ‘The University of Sheffield’ UK and an Electrical Engineering Degree from Athens Technical University.
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Our Qualifications |
| Cloud computing solutions we design for you leverage CloudStrategies extensive knowledge of Microsoft products, best practices and field-tested tactics gleaned from similar client engagements backed by the world-class service of a global infrastructure. CloudStrategies is a Microsoft Certified Partner and a Microsoft Online Services Partner. We are part of a select group named by Microsoft as members of their FY10 Accelerate Initiative for Online Services Partners, an exclusive honor bestowed only to Microsoft's top Online Partners. |
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