Director of Operations, Global Services @ VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through the Vblock platform, delivers the industry's first completely integrated IT offering with end-to-end vendor accountability. VCE's prepackaged solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure. VCE professional services provide the field-proven expertise needed to fully deploy and optimize these technologies in your unique environment, including standardized tools and best practice methodologies for ensuring optimal efficiency and performance. We significantly reduce your risk, cost, and time-to-value by initially operating the environment for you, for an agreed upon period of time. When you’re ready, we empower you to control your operations and your future. The result is more reliable end-to-end enablement and a faster, safer transition to a next generation data center environment. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Dallas/Fort Worth AreaPresident @ Financial and operational process consulting for startups and ongoing enterprises. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Director of Operations @ Technisource is an information technology and engineering services company located in more than 35 markets across the United States. Responsible for development, growth and profitability of our Quality Assurance and Project Management practices. Responsibilities included business development, marketing, sales, forecasting, budget management, sales management and partner relations. From December 2007 to August 2012 (4 years 9 months) VP of Finance @ Technisource is an information technology and engineering services company located in more than 35 markets across the United States. Responsible for development, growth and profitability of our Quality Assurance and Project Management practices. Responsibilities included business development, marketing, sales, forecasting, budget management, sales management and partner relations. From January 2003 to December 2007 (5 years) Sr Financial Analyst @ From August 2001 to December 2002 (1 year 5 months) Financial Analyst @ From May 2000 to May 2001 (1 year 1 month)

John Gronen is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Information Technology, PeopleSoft, Budgets, Project Management, Forecasting, Sales Management, Vendor Management, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Applicant Tracking Systems, Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Business Process, Start-ups