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 zero-trust 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 the 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
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.
Who We’ve Helped
Thinkwise
We make organizations better with positive change in people, processes and cloud technology.