About Geoff

Geoff Hopkins is a principal, technology consulting for RSM US LLP. As the national lead of RSM’s cloud platforms solutions team, he manages multiple markets within the firm’s Northeast technology management consulting practice.

His collective experience of over 22 years includes strategic planning and management of technology and operations, with a distinguished career supporting high-end infrastructure engineering, systems implementation and resource management.

With the continued acceleration of cloud adoption, Geoff is focused on developing solution frameworks, blueprints and scorecards to support standardization efforts for reliability and security by middle market businesses.

Experience

Geoff primarily focuses on the Microsoft stack of services, running on and via industry-leading components for networking, computing, storage and security as organizations adopt a modern workplace.

Geoff maintains strong skills around cloud services such as Azure and Office 365, as well as provides strategic advisory as a virtual chief information officer. He is experienced leading managed services and turn-key project-based staff for digital transformation and modern workplace solutions, providing pragmatic work programs to deploy new or migration-ready infrastructure, such as performing post-acquisition carve-outs.

He is adept at discovering opportunities that enhance IT offerings, including service management, business resumption planning, productivity, automation/process improvement and consolidation. He has deep knowledge in driving total cost of ownership benefits with end-to-end infrastructure and platform strengths to weave between strategy and final execution of road maps.

Outside of work, Geoff is active with the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a licensed pilot and an avid traveler.

Professional Affiliations and Designations

• Azure Cloud Architecture

• ITIL v3 Foundations, COBIT Framework, Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)

• Six Sigma Lean and Yellow Belt

• VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP 5), Business Continuity Accreditation

• Dell Enterprise Architecture Storage

Education

Post Graduate Commerce, Charles Sturt University, Australia