Thinkwise Overview
Thinkwise is an advisory and consultancy business that focuses on enabling cloud technologies for our clients in an efficient, effective, secure, and resilient manner. Our “A Team” will stay with you for the entire scope of any project we undertake.
We’re a team of highly experienced business and IT professionals, focusing our expertise on what we feel are critically misunderstood and underserviced domains in modern IT. We seek to share our knowledge and mentor your teams, leaving you with the internal skills to run IT successfully and continue to evolve and improve.
We are passionate about cloud and resiliency, focusing on the infrastructure that enables and protects your critical data and applications. We enable your organization to sustain a constant state of readiness to address any IT threats you may face.
We provide our clients with practical and holistic solutions, taking on the “heavy lifting” needed to design, implement, and operate the complexity of modern IT environments. We take into account the foundations required to be successful: the People, Process, Technology, and Techniques that all need to come together to sustain your organizations IT capabilities.
Thinkwise strive to establish long-term and trusted relationships with our clients, and have been successful in that goal. We take pride in the work we do and view our clients as partners - the goal is always a Win - Win scenario!
Leadership
Chris Sator
CEO & Principal Consultant
Chris has helped many clients realize significant business, financial and operational benefits using numerous cloud technologies as the foundation to their digital transformations. This includes solving for easier application resiliency, disaster recovery and operations as well as addressing their user’s need for better mobility, communications, collaboration and security. He pioneered a modernized governance risk and compliance (GRC) approach that enables a pro-active and automated way for DevOps to avoid drift and decay of desired standards. His strength is envisioning the conceptual architectures required for a solid business case and timely deployments.
Chris spent his 30+ year career helping many organizations move from traditional to modern technologies and led that charge in roles as CTO, Chief Strategist, and Senior Director of Professional Services while building the cloud practices of several service providers like Rackforce, Onx Enterprise Solutions, Terago and FlexITy to name a few. He oversaw solution delivery across their many clients in various industry verticals throughout Canada and USA.
Andre Noenchen
VP of Services & Principal Consultant
Andre brings the benefits and experiences of having worked on major IT initiatives with hundred’s of businesses and IT shops globally for over 30+ years. This provides unique and broad perspectives on leadership, business, technology, architecture, disaster recovery, operations, and governance. Andre’s ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and technical project teams alike, coupled with strong communications skills, has made him a valuable leader of change and transformation initiatives.
These experiences all come together to provide guidance and leadership to Thinkwise’s focus on cloud enablement, IT resiliency, and disaster recovery; ensuring that the strategies we create, solutions we implement, and operations and governance we enable with / for our clients are successful, high quality, and sustainable.
Radu Scaunasu
Principal Cloud Architect
Ron Stier
UC Business Consultant
Eric Tossell
Lead Integration Specialist
Neil Greenberg
Principal Consultant - CISO
As an experienced and skilled professional, Radu possesses deep knowledge and technical abilities in public / hybrid / private cloud, virtualization, Microsoft technologies, backup, and disaster recovery. He is highly analytical in design, implementation, testing and troubleshooting, ensuring that solutions are delivered efficiently, effectively, and in a secure manner. His experience working with clients’ production environments with mission critical infrastructure, applications and data is always performed using good & best practices, leveraging proper change and release management process, and undergoing rigorous pre-planning, back-out planning, and testing.
Radu’s many years of experience in technical infrastructure and operations roles gives him the ability to relate and truly understand the challenges our clients face. His broad technical experiences, from Azure / AWS cloud to most major vendors across virtualization / server / storage / networking further strengthens his deep and broad infrastructure skills.
Ron has over 35 years of telco and IT sales consulting experience with several of the major IT integrators and telecom service providers. This experience includes identifying and qualifying customer needs and requirements as they relate to unified communications, contact and call centres, security, infrastructure and cloud solutions.
He’s committed to building strong trusting customer relationships at all levels to help solve business challenges with an ability to articulate a strong value proposition that addresses business success. Always focused on understanding and meeting client needs to drive positive outcomes.
A detail focused integration specialist with effective communication skills and a passion for improving operational aspects of IT as well as business process workflows.
Eric comes from a programming back ground that he has augmented with technology infrastructure from Microsoft 365 deployment and administration, to Azure migrations and deployments. He has the talented ability to apply code based approaches to Azure using Terraform Infrastructure as Code for consistent deployments and change controls, or can leverage the deeper value in Microsoft 365 by applying “low code” Power BI, Power Automate and Power Apps to solve business problems.
Has a deep appreciation for ensuring a good customer experience by remaining attentive to their needs and listening effectively. Employs clear and direct communication to overcome technical and non-technical hurdles.
Neil Greenberg is an effective leader of high-performance teams in security policy, security architecture and risk management. Depth of competency extends within the security field across the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Information Technology industries, and Federal Government experience.
Over the past thirty years, he has the experience and the track record of guiding and implementing integrated, leading-edge solutions and processes that achieve enterprise goals to meet business needs. He has gained extensive knowledge in security analysis, corporate risk management, and experience designing and implementing enterprise security solutions.