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Mike Sprunger, Senior Manager of Cloud and Network Security
Mike brings several decades of experience in security and networking. Mike holds titles of Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, among others. At Insight, he defines, develops, and oversees delivery of security services for our clients as they modernize and transform IT.
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Ken Dymond, Practice Development Manager
Ken brings over 25 years of IT experience, including a diverse background with pre-sales expertise as a Sr. Solution Architect and post-sales expertise in solution delivery. He is passionate about providing thought leadership in emerging Software-Defined Data Center technologies to drive business outcomes.
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Tunde Odeleye, Director of Penetration Testing Services
Tunde leads a team of skilled cybersecurity professionals in providing strategic planning, consulting, and implementation services. He brings nearly a decade of experience in the field and expertise in all major security solutions offered today. Tunde is certified in CISSP-ISSMP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, CISM, PCI-QSA, ISO 27001 LI, EU-GDPR-P, CoBIT, and MCITP.
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Jason Anderson
For more than a decade, Jason’s expertise in information technology has led Insight’s engineers and developers in researching, designing, and deploying world-class technology solutions. His skill in providing effective solutions to complex problems by analyzing situations, data requirements, and technical factors works to increase efficiency and productivity both for Insight and our clients.
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Jeff Langford, Senior Azure Architect
Jeff has 28 years of experience in the technology industry, with more than 12 years in cloud technologies. As one of Microsoft’s first cloud solution architects, he founded the public safety and justice vertical within the Microsoft state and local government sales organization. During his tenure at Microsoft, he also established many best practices and standards while helping local government agencies move to the Azure Cloud. He has applied his experiences in technology and as a reserve deputy sheriff to helping numerous justice agencies achieve electronic information sharing with partner agencies. Today, Jeff educates and assists Insight customers with their journey to the cloud.
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Riaz Javed, Lead Architect
Riaz is a technology evangelist experienced in cloud architecture and security, currently working as a lead architect. His technical proficiency is followed by years of consulting experience, advising both internal and external stakeholders/customers locally and internationally on strategic technology selection and adoption, along with delivery of solutions across a range of business units. Riaz also speaks at community forums and IT conferences, including Microsoft Ignite, IT/Dev Connections, Collab365, SharePoint Saturday, European SharePoint Conference, Modern Workplace Conference, SharePoint Conference, aOS, and more. Riaz has been awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for his contributions to Microsoft Azure and Office Apps & Services.
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Kory Mills, Business Intelligence Architect
Kory Mills is a business insight leader and architect with more than a decade of experience in strategic business insights and analytics. Kory specializes in the implementation of Microsoft’s BI stack, and his proficiency in Power BI, SCRUM/Agile operations, MS Business Intelligence Development Studio Manager, IBM Rational Suite, Adobe Analytics, etc., have made him an incredible force for driving value for clients through strategic execution and customer-centric engineering. With a dedicated focus on delivering long-term value, Kory has delivered impactful results for clients across a wide scope of industries, including entertainment, healthcare, retail, and more.
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Jeremy Nelson, Director of Services
Jeremy Nelson is a multidisciplined solutions architect with extensive experience in networking technologies, including projects in network design and implementation for international enterprises. He leverages his experience in cross-discipline technology fields to ensure Insight services and solutions deliver effective, efficient results for our clients and drive value for the business.
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Andrew F. Nelson, Principal Architect
Andrew Nelson is an architect and technologist with a broad skill set across the data center and cloud landscape. He has just under 30 years of experience across varied industries both as a client and an integrator. Andrew is passionate about transformative projects that adopt cutting-edge technology and drive significant and tangible business value for Insight’s clients. Edge computing, IoT, AI/ML, containers, automation, and SD-WAN/SASE are some of the topics at the top of his mind, as well as all the technology to support those efforts. As a principal architect, Andrew helps shape Insight’s strategy and efforts in an ever-changing IT landscape.
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Mark Walker, Security Consultant
Mark is a results-oriented professional with more than 35 years of international experience in private and public sector management and IT consulting. Mark has extensive leadership and management experience in complex Lean Six Sigma-based business process improvement, security, and IT &and engineering solution design in the healthcare, aerospace, manufacturing, mining, and government industries. He also holds the HITRUST Certified CSF Practitioner (CCSFP) certification.
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Scott Ellis, Security Consulting Practice Lead for Healthcare & Federal
Scott is a security consulting practice lead with Insight. A former three-time Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with 10+ years of expertise in the healthcare industry and 20+ years in the federal sector, he’s a seasoned CISO/senior information security professional with practical experience building security programs from the ground up.
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Jeff Bozic, Principal Architect
With 18 years of industry experience in systems administration, operations, and architecture, Jeff leverages his multidiscipline understanding across IT, the interdependencies, and up/downstream effects of change between technology, people and skills, and operations in his approach to purposeful transformation. He’s passionate about helping clients prioritize and structure their journey to produce value to the business quickly, often, and continuously.
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Steven Walters, Senior Manager, Strategy and Offering Development
With more than 24 years of experience in the managed services space, Steven develops innovative managed services offerings to help clients transform their business.
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Jason Rader, Global VP & Chief Information Security Officer
Jason Rader assumed the role of chief information security officer in 2021 after joining Insight in 2015 to build the security consulting group.  As Insight’s Global VP and CISO, Jason leads the charge to help organizations develop innovative solutions that transform the culture of an organization to align with mitigating the risk of cyberthreats. He builds upon more than 25 years of experience to develop Insight’s end-to-end security consulting portfolio and share Insight's transformation journey with fellow security leaders. In 2022 Jason was the proud recipient of Microsoft's Security Changemaker of the Year award, acknowledging his efforts and impact in the security community at large.
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Douglas Gatto, Solutions Architect
Douglas Gatto is a senior architect with more than 20 years of IT experience delivering technical services in enterprise networking technologies. Utilizing his expertise and experience across multiple networking and security technologies, Douglas provides clients with unique strategies and solutions to enable customers to modernize and operate more efficiently. Douglas holds numerous enterprise networking certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Routing and Switching. 
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Chris Kapusta, Senior Manager
With more than 20 years of data center architecture experience, Chris leads an integrated team responsible for growth across Insight’s data infrastructure practice, working with top infrastructure partners and alliances to help clients innovate across their data protection and data storage strategies.
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Carm Taglienti, Chief Data Officer and Distinguished Engineer
Carmen has more than 25 years of experience as a cloud computing, data science, data analytics, and data management expert. As a principal cloud and AI architect for Insight, he focuses on cloud-based business solutions across multiple industries and technical domains. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Professional Studies teaching graduate courses in data science, cloud computing, and analytics. Carmen is a published author and speaks at industry and technology events.
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Rob Parsons, Practice Director for Networking and Integrated Security Solutions
Rob holds a rare Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Wireless (CCIE Wireless) certification and brings 15+ years of consulting experience helping businesses grow through the applied use of strategic technologies and business process automation.
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Marcus Benson, Principal Architect
As part of Insight's national cloud & DevOps practice, Marcus helps drive the strategy and go-to-market vision for our FinOps service offerings and delivery capabilities. He is passionate about helping clients successfully adopt the FinOps methodology and drive better visibility and accountability of their cloud expenses.
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Ryan Stryker, National Architect, UX
As a member of the User Experience (UX) leadership team, Ryan brings more than two decades of digital product expertise to Insight Consulting Services. As a national architect and certified Human-Centered Design (HCD) instructor, Ryan provides thought leadership and direction to enable practice growth through training, education, and strategic partnerships. Ryan believes the key to unlocking digital transformation happens by putting people at the center of innovation through HCD.
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Mike Corbeille, Lead Architect
Mike leans on more than 14 years as a skilled and passionate technologist to help clients strategically navigate their IT challenges. His expertise and thought leadership span storage, virtualization, cloud compute, and other critical areas that are helping our clients meet business priorities and drive modernization.
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Ken Seier, National Practice Lead for Data & AI
Ken is passionate about driving analytics innovation with measurable outcomes and real business value. Ken and his team have been responsible for billions of dollars of revenue and savings through responsible analytics initiatives and innovation.
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Ryan Rascop, Insight AI Practice
Ryan leans on more than 15 years of industry experience to shape Insight’s go-to-market strategy around AI, empowering teams as they help clients adopt AI strategically. His expertise spans technical and solutions engineering across critical areas such as storage, networking, cloud and more.
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Kris Schroeder, Business Architect & Agilist
Kris is an Agilist and consultant with Insight's Cincinnati office. She is a well-rounded IT professional who helps teams in designing and delivering innovative solutions that bring value to the business. Kris uses her leadership, communication skills, IT know-how, and a personal approach to solve business problems effectively and quickly. 
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Michael Nardone, National Senior Manager
Michael is a passionate national practice leader with experience spanning systems and software engineering, cloud adoption, and DevOps disciplines. His specializations include cloud economics and financial modeling, governance, architecture optimization, automation, and software-defined acceleration. His work involves helping clients achieve successful transformation and digital estate modernization across all major public cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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Brad Nelson, Product Strategy & Agility Manager
Brad Nelson is a manager of product strategy and agility with Insight Consulting Services. His practice partners with organizations to build effective delivery structures in which people and products thrive. Brad has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to grow high-performing teams across domains and industries. He is the co-creator and steward of Insight's DevOps offerings, host for Insight's Agile Series, and has instructed countless people from kids to seasoned professionals.
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Ben Westmoreland, Senior Manager, Solutions
Ben has been with Insight since 2017 and is currently senior manager, solution services presales. His 20+ year career has focused on providing expert technology management and consultative services. His main focus across his roles has been on technology roadmaps, project architecture, and technology strategy.
 
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Mark Candelora, Sr. Manager, Engineering, Connected Platform
Mark pairs the right technology to your needs, designing and building solutions that advance your business. He has specialties in database development, analysis, reporting, data warehousing, and business intelligence.

Mark helps clients distill and transform complex data to inform critical decisions. His project history reflects a keen ability to build high-performing global solutions.
 
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Greg Steinmetz, National Data & AI Practice Director
Greg is a passionate data and AI leader with more than 20 years of experience guiding and architecting solutions across multiple industries. He is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to help clients monetize their data through data estate modernization, AI and governance to ensure trust and security. Greg and his team have engaged across a wide variety of clients to provide data solutions that enable them to differentiate their business, create efficiencies and ultimately realize the value of their data.
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Kevin Feit, Senior Architect
Kevin Feit is a senior architect at Insight and has spent his 30+ year career in the tech field. His combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise has allowed him to build his career around creating solutions that enable businesses to leverage data, and increase productivity and revenue.
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Joe McAllister, Sr. Partner BDM
Joe McAllister’s passion for student development has allowed him to build a career in edtech and establish himself as an esports consultant. Before Insight, he worked as an edtech advisor and esports expert, and he has experience teaching in a classroom of his own.  As a sr. partner BDM for Insight Public Sector, he’s had the opportunity to expand his impact on students and education. 
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Stephen Moss, Senior Vice President, Managed Services
Stephen oversees Insight’s managed services arm, bringing more than 30 years of technology experience spanning hands-on engineering, sales and executive leadership, technical management and more. As one of Insight’s key thought leaders, Stephen is passionate about helping clients drive measurable impact through technology — while empowering teams to stay client-focused in delivering world-class solutions.
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Kent Christensen, Practice Director
Kent researches, recommends, and integrates virtualization hardware and software technologies and services into Insight's portfolio. He also consults with customers on storage consolidation, virtualization, and cloud strategies and technologies. Kent has more than 20 years of IT experience, previously holding IT-related management and software engineering positions at a variety of storage manufacturers and solutions providers.
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Phil O'Konski, Practice Director of Managed Services
Phil leads a highly skilled team that’s dedicated to bringing innovative and effective operational solutions to our clients, consulting on operational, process, and monitoring needs. He brings 20 years of IT experience to Insight. Previously, Phil held numerous IT positions including IT-related consulting management and leadership for advisory, technical, managed services, application development, and integration consulting.
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John Richardson, Senior Manager
John has more than 20 years of experience in the IT services business with a focus on data center operations and technologies. He helps clients navigate the cloud by leveraging Insight's skills and resources to secure IT’s future role in the business.
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Scott Cameron, Principal Solution Architect
Scott collaborates with IT leadership from some of the world’s largest organizations to develop Microsoft Azure cloud solutions. An expert in IT, he is experienced in training, consulting, strategizing, speaking, and blogging. At Insight, he leads a team of talented cloud experts in creating solutions that simplify and accelerate business.
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Juan Orlandini, Chief Technology Officer, North America & Distinguished Engineer
Juan brings more than 20 years of experience to his role as CTO, having served in a variety of leadership roles across technical services management, engineering, and more. As a Distinguished Engineer, Juan plays a strategic role in driving events and activities that promote thought leadership, professional development, and knowledge sharing across our North American organization — promoting a passion for technology that places Insight in a position of leadership in the industry.
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Jeevan John, Regional Principal of Consulting Services

Jeevan helps customers optimize and adapt their IT infrastructure, applications, and processes to meet their growing business demands. His engagements have largely focused on analyzing and designing complex multivendor Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) with requirements of data availability, protection, and business continuity. He has a passion for making IT relevant to business by using a blend of public and private clouds to optimize costs while meeting volatile workload demands.

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Adam Deardurff, National Manager, Digital Strategy & UX
With more than 15 years of industry experience, Adam is a strategic UX and product leader with deep expertise driving enterprise success at scale for Fortune 100 clients. He is passionate about aligning stakeholders to accelerate decision-making and project success.
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Scott Sweren, Security Solutions Principal
Scott has more than 30 years of practical hands-on and managerial experience in information technology, the last 20 focused exclusively on information security. This experience, coupled with a combination of technical skills in programming, systems administration, and information security operations, gives him a unique perspective in information security.
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Anna Donnelly, Services Product Manager
Specializing in communications and collaboration technology with more than 10 years of experience in the Microsoft space, Anna strives to help organizations understand how modern workplace technology can positively impact their businesses and employees.
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Bill Lescher, Data Architect II, Consulting
Bill Lescher is a database architect and administrator with more than 20 years of experience. He excels in bridging IT and business units, addressing complex issues for top financial institutions. Bill co-founded the Chicago chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and served as its president for a decade. He is a respected figure in the SQL Server community, receiving awards for his contributions. He currently holds key roles as a data architect, team lead and engagement lead at Insight.
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Tom Hearn, VP, Architecture at Insight

Over the course of Tom’s 15+ year career, he has established himself as a strategic technical leader with deep knowledge of infrastructure, development, automation, DevOps and security. He is extremely passionate about helping clients solve their tech challenges, which has helped him thrive in his role at Insight.

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David Downs, Product Owner, Cybersecurity
David joined Insight in 2010 and brings a wealth of experience in multiple areas, most notably portfolio and offering development, operations, client success, and the IT industry in general. In his current role he focuses on envisioning, designing, and expanding Insight’s cybersecurity services. If your organization is looking to understand how Insight’s security offerings can positively impact your business and employees, David can help you craft that solution.
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Teresa Cortez, Sr. Product Manager
With a diverse background, Teresa has experience driving operational improvement, developing and launching products, and successfully designing and implementing ERP applications. She is passionate about using technology to build adaptable business operations, aiding business growth and innovation. As a product manager, she is focused on cross-collaboration to build offers that solve client challenges through enhanced security posture.
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Dmitry Tochilovsky, Sr. Security Architect
Dmitry has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, covering diverse roles in networking, system administration and security fields. He is passionate about all aspects of security with a strong focus on cloud security and Zero Trust architecture and strives to provide valuable security solutions to Insight's clients.
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Michael Moore, Senior Manager, Portfolio Development – Modern Infrastructure
Michael leads strategy for Insight’s Infrastructure Solutions Portfolio team with the charter to develop and mature innovative solutions and services that address our clients’ day-to-day challenges. He brings over 18 years of IT experience to the business — ten of which have been with Insight. He has served in a variety of roles ranging from a technical integrator, consulting architect, portfolio manager, to thought leader for modern networking and network security solutions.
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Steven Fleischaker, Architect II
Currently serving as an Architect II within the Multicloud National Scale Team at Insight, Steven specializes in AWS with a strong emphasis on FinOps and professional services. As the Enablement Lead for AWS, Steven has played a pivotal role in projects such as Control Tower and Landing Zones, as well as FinOps and cost management engagements.
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Norm Andersch, Sr. Cybersecurity Architect

Norm Andersch is a senior cybersecurity architect with Insight modern workforce team. His focus is on creating professional and managed services specifically for security and compliance. He holds numerous Microsoft certifications for Azure security, Azure AD and the entire suite of Microsoft Defender solutions.

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Michele Snead, Director of Performance Consulting
Michele is the director of performance consulting for Insight Digital Innovation’s Learning & Development team. She’s been in the industry since 1999 and has significant change management and training experience in the SAP space. She’s an advocate for considering the human side of change in any business transformation. When she’s not consulting, Michele enjoys kickboxing, entertaining and spending time with her husband and two children.
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Pat Thiel, Principal Architect, Consulting
With more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Pat helps Insight’s clients identify solutions to accelerate their cloud journey, transform networking and security, and empower digital workspaces. His expertise brings together technology strategy, business acumen and cross-functional collaboration to help clients drive outcomes.
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Bob Agno, Senior Manager, Tech Enterprise Software
Bob has extensive selling experience in the software industry and leads North America cloud economics and software management at Insight. Prior to Insight, Bob spent 16 years at Microsoft where he held a number of high-profile customer-facing and management roles. Whether it's managing a global team or global account or running the software and cloud solution group for Microsoft’s East Region business, Bob keeps client satisfaction a top priority.
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John O’Shaughnessy, Infrastructure Architect and Senior Consultant
Infrastructure Architect and Senior Consultant John O’Shaughnessy helps clients design, build, and maintain diverse and cost-effective cloud, network and data center environments. With nearly 25 years in IT services, John has proven experience engaging with a wide variety of clients at business and IT-organization levels, and leading technical teams through flawless services delivery.
 
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Randy Fisher, National UX Architect
Randy is a leader and national UX architect with more than 22 years of experience delivering measurable business outcomes for multimillion-dollar enterprise projects and tech startups alike. He is the maker of The Innovation Series and a long-time defender of human-centered design as a means of jump-starting digital transformation.
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