Richard is committed to continuous education and improvement over a 20 year career in the IT industry. He has diverse industry expertise with an emphasis on enterprise hardware (entry/mid/high end computing, storage, networking & desktop) & software solutions, virtualization, server / Blade consolidation and IT services. Extensive experience in building customer relationships, building partner relationships, understanding solutions, getting the right people together to see projects through from concept to implementation. He created the articles of formation for Partner One Technologies, LLC; co-founder. He created business guidelines for P1; developed and formed business partnerships for P1.

Proven strengths:

- Business development SMB & Enterprise
- Enterprise hardware & software - server / HP BladeSystem, storage, networking
- Multiple platform solutions (HP, Brocade, HDS, Dell, Cisco etc)
- Multiple software solutions (Microsoft, Citrix, VMWare, Cloudera, Veeam, Commvault etc)
- Sales team growth and training; sales growth and expansion
- Houston area data center on-site services - installations, data migration, converged infrastructure,
networking, security, cloud implementation and more
- Nationwide data center on-site services (our team travel or contracted partners)
- Houston e-waste and electronic recycling; decommission & relocation
- Providing & facilitating expertise to an IT challenge; solution architecture

Products & Solutions:

- HP Computing: HP BladeSystems; HP Proliant Servers; HP UX Servers
- HP Storage: 3PAR StoreServ, StoreVirtual, StoreOnce, MSA & EVA storage
- HDS Storage Systems
- Nimble Storage Systems
- Cisco networking
- New system solutions and remarketed solutions (manufacturer reman, support guarantee)
- Dell Servers, Dell Blades and Dell Storage systems (pc's/laptops too)
- Cloud technology