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We offer full-service Cloud consultancy, "lunch and learns" and fireside chats for CEOs, CTOs and CIOs where we can advise you, your C levels and your architects on Cloud strategy and roadmaps in all areas including multi-cloud, migration, security, tools, Big Data strategy, etc. We can help you turn your roadmap into Epics and your Epics into Features and Stories. We can help you implement your strategy with hands-on Cloud skills in all three clouds including software developers with C#, .Net and Java, Microservices architects and Automation expertise in CI/CD pipelines and Terraform. We have teams with a wealth of skills:
AWS/Azure Cloud architectures * AWS Lambda, AWS CFT, AWS SWF, AWS SQS, Dynamodb, Aurora, and other AWS Services * Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure IOT hub, and other Azure Services * Technical Architect * C#/.Net/.Net Core * Code Reviews * Project Management * Technical Design * Performance Troubleshooting * Business Continuity Planning * Disaster Recovery * IT Strategy * Software design and development * Facebook / social media consultancy * Technical article writing * Source code management systems * Technical problem investigation * Technical Management * Requirements gathering * Programming / software development * Database design, build * IT Audits (ISO9000/ISO9001, Sarbanes Oxley, CISSP, ISACA, COBIT)
Call 678 357 3661 now!
Michelle Sollicito, CTO, has worked in Software Consultancy for 35 years, is AWS certified as a Solution Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Architect and an Azure Architect as well as over 100 certifications including Scrum Master, Security certifications etc. and has worked for well known names such as Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Sema (Schlumberger / ATOS), Cap Gemini (Hoskyns), TMS (The Mandelbrot Set/Curo), Sybase, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Yahoo!, Earthlink, GPC (Napa), Apogee Interactive and Coca Cola.
Michelle has a team of Cloud experts (both AWS and Azure) and C# experts who all have years of experience in what they do best. She also has a group of consultants who are available for projects in Angular, React, Vue, Python, Java and Php amongst other technologies.
Michelle is AWS Solution Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Architect and Azure certified and is Microsoft Certified in many technologies many times over. She is also certified in many other technologies, methodologies and concepts including C#, SQL Server, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Internet Security, Network Security, Ecommerce, Ebusiness, Scrum Master certified, Project Management, etc.
When you hire Cloudable Gurus, you get the benefit of years of experience with some of the best consultancies and some of the best clients, using some of the most advanced web / software technologies.
Michelle is also very ITIL aware, TOGAF aware and has run many Audits to standards such as ISO 900X, Cobit, Sarbanes Oxley and CISSP. This has given her great insight to all aspects of running IT departments, and in particular Software Development projects.
Michelle is also a published writer -her work has been published by Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, QUE and SAMS books as well as Pearson Education and Informit.com. See Michelle's publications
She is established as an expert in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery, having written a book on this subject called "Business Survival" (see Business Survival eBook - download to view - or Business Survival draft)
If you are interested in contacting Michelle, please call 678 357 3661 or email michelle.sollicito@yahoo.com |
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DEI and Cloudable Gurus |
| Posted by msollicito Oct 5th
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Diversity is in our blood
Michelle Sollicito has arranged many festivals, events and trainings over the years for Diwali, LGBTQ++ and for women (especially women in need).
See here for one of the many groups Michelle runs helping women in need.
See here for more about the Diwali event!
Empowering people and Supercharging Diversity is who we are!
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Cloud Out Loud course on Udemy! |
| Posted by msollicito Oct 5th
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See Michelle Sollicito's Udemy course on Multi-Cloud architectures, Cloud Out Loud!
Perfect for beginners - or those who know one cloud and wish to become multi-cloud experts!
Learn about:
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How to determine requirements of your Cloud Architecture
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General principles of designing Cloud systems, such as de-coupling, redundancy, load balancing etc.
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Learn about the types of Cloud systems including public, private and hybrid
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Learn what types of services are provided in the cloud - IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, CAAS, FAAS and more.
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Learn AWS from 101 to Solution Architect Professional level
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Learn Google Cloud from 101 to Google Cloud Professional Architect level
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Learn many aspects of Azure Cloud and how it compares to AWS and Google Cloud
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Reference architectures for many application types in AWS, Azure and GCP and how to determine the best components in those architectures to meet your requirements
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Compare components in the different clouds:
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Database options in AWS vs Azure vs GCP
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File storage and data lake options in the three clouds compared
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Network components compared across all three clouds
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Security issues in the three main clouds (including Zero trust principles)
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Identity and Access Management, Authentication, Authorization and MFA
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Big data - how to implement it in the different clouds
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Data lakes
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Data pipelines/ETL
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Data warehousing
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IOT systems in the different clouds
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Compliance/Governance issues and how to use Cloud components to make Compliance easy
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Explore Hybrid/Multi-cloud architecture issues and migrations
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Learn all about DevOps, CI/CD and DevSecOps - what it is and why you need it for Cloud systems
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How to get certified in AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
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Learn about monitoring, testing and security in all three clouds
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Learn deployment strategies and which meet your needs best
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Learn principles of testing and how to build testing into your CI/CD pipeline effectively
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Plus many Tools, tricks, ebooks, links and other sources of information about the cloud
https://www.udemy.com/course/cloud-out-loud/
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Cloud Computing Certification |
| Posted by msollicito Apr 28th 2015
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So proud to have just passed my Cloud Computing Concepts certification to go with all my others - see https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6cDJKzfqVJUUXJ5bzNYS002ejA&usp=sharing
To get this certification I had to know all about all the following concepts:
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If you are looking for consistently high quality consultancy where consultants have extensive knowledge and experience in their fields and build on that knowledge in providing you time and time again with excellent results, you have come to the right place! Whether you are looking for expertise in AWS/Azure cloud, Microsoft technologies, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, technical architectures, performance troubleshooting or other IT / Software / EBusiness issues, we have a solution for you!
Michelle Sollicito, lead consultant, has worked in Software Consultancy for 25 years, working for well known names such as Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Sema (Schlumberger / ATOS), Cap Gemini (Hoskyns), TMS (The Mandelbrot Set/Curo), Sybase, Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Yahoo!, Earthlink, GPC (Napa), Apogee Interactive and Coca Cola.
Michelle is Microsoft Certified in many technologies many times over, and is Brainbench / Odesk certified in many other technologies, methodologies and concepts including C#, SQL Server, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Internet Security, Network Security, Ecommerce, Ebusiness, Project Management, etc.
When you hire Iteratit, you get the benefit of years of experience with some of the best consultancies and some of the best clients, using some of the most advanced web / software technologies.
As one of the contributors during the development of DSDM/RAD methodology, and a long time user of Agile/Scrum, RUP/SSADM/Prince and various other methodologies, Michelle understands the need for quality processes and procedures.
Michelle is also very ITIL aware, TOGAF aware and has run many Audits to standards such as ISO 900X, Cobit, Sarbanes Oxley and CISSP. This has given her great insight to all aspects of running IT departments, and in particular Software Development projects.
Michelle is also a published writer -her work has been published by Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, QUE and SAMS books as well as Pearson Education and Informit.com. See Michelle's publications
She is established as an expert in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery, having written a book on this subject called "Business Survival" (see Business Survival eBook - download to view - or Business Survival draft)
Michelle and Iteratit are open to projects anywhere in the world, although we are based in the Atlanta area and can also work remotely / telecommute on projects elsewhere. We have worked with many English and New Zealand organizations, as well as many International organizations, despite being located in Georgia, USA. In particular, we have often worked as project managers for outsourced projects where programming resources are based in India or Pakistan.
If you are interested in hiring Michelle Sollicito or an Iteratit team, please call 678 357 3661 or email michelle.sollicito@iteratit.com
Iteratit - making IT great! |
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Michelle Sollicito has been a resident of Cobb County for 12 years. She has two children, Benjamin and Julia, who attend EastValley school. She is probably most famous for Snowedoutatlanta, her Facebook group that was lauded as the "fastest growing Facebook group in history" as it helped thousands stuck in the snowstorm in Jan 2014. For that work, she received a Point of Light award from George HW Bush, and an American Marketing Award (AMY) as well as a TAG Social Savvy Award and other awards.
Since then Michelle has worked with FEMA, DHS (Marcie Roth), GEMA, Georgia Dept of Health, local Emergency Management Agencies such as Cobb EMA, Dekalb EMA etc., Voluntary Organizations (VOADs) such as the American Red Cross, Must Ministries, Simple Needs Georgia, Cobb Moms Helping Cobb, EMDL (Laura George) etc. as well as The Weather Channel, NextDoor.com and other corporations to try to improve the Emergency Response in Georgia and Cobb County. She has also  become CERT certified and is a certified Storm Spotter. She wrote and published a book about Snowedoutatlanta and made a proposal to Governor Deal of how to improve the State's response to disasters in the future.(see http://snowedoutatlanta.spruz.com)
Michelle has worked with Cobb County schools in a number of ways, especially by campaigning to get more funds for schools - see her articles on Cobb school funding
http://patch.com/georgia/eastcobb/call-the-governor--our-school-system-is-broke
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http://patch.com/georgia/eastcobb/looking-for-bloat-in-the-cobb-county-school-district_40f1ed7a
Michelle is a self-employed businesswoman with her own consultancy who has worked for clients like Coca Cola (Global), Earthlink and Yahoo! over the years. She usually acts as a technical architect helping companies to determine how to best fit different pieces of software together to achieve business objectives. You can see Michelle's business site here http://www.iteratit.com She understands what it is like to live and work in Cobb as a business owner also. Michelle has also worked for some of the big companies that call Cobb home (or HQ) such as GPC/Napa, so she understands some of the issues faced by some of the big corporations in our community.
Michelle has run Marietta Moms, a moms group that supports moms in their hard times as well as providing a social outlet for moms (esp single moms) and their kids, providing regulars with a meal and playdate every Wednesday. She has run the group for 8 years, and at one time it had 1000 members, but currently has around 500 members, with her online facebook group Anything Goes Cobb Mos Exchange having around 1000 members currently. It is estimated that 3000+ moms in the area have at one time been a member of her group either in the "real world" or online via one of her facebook groups (Marietta moms https://www.facebook.com/MariettaMoms or Anything Goes Cobb Moms Exchange group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ACobbMomsExchange/)
Michelle has worked at Cobb County schools as a volunteer in various capacities, particularly as an unofficial mentor to two boys who had learning difficulties, who she read with every morning for a year. She started a facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/MariettaNonProfit/) that became a kind of bridge between many non-profits in the area, and as a result, has worked with charities such as Simple Needs Georgia, Cobb Moms Helping Cobb, Must Ministries, Instant Karma and others.
Michelle is a true member of our community, having championed many campaigns in an attempt to improve the community. She has run a campaign to encourage DFCS to become more effective and efficient in handling legitimate claims see https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cobb-DFCS-Complaints
Her social injustice campaign #thishastostop has highlighted many injustices that could have been avoided and has been taken up by many others now too https://www.facebook.com/search/str/%23thishastostop/keywords_top
In particular Michelle is against racial injustice such as that exhibited in Ferguson and Baltimore and has campaigned hard to end such injustices.
If you would like to contact Michelle email her at michelle.sollicito@gmail.com
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
DEI and Cloudable Gurus
Cloud Out Loud course on Udemy!
How to get work in Cloud/Software
Big Data
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Docker - an Introduction
Intro to Blazor
Friday, November 1, 2019
Videos (miscellaneous)
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Why you should hire a Mom!
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Cloud Computing Certification
Thursday, April 2, 2015
White Paper on Facebook API with C#
Books and articles Published
Articles published
Microsoft Certifications, other Certifications and Training Certificates
Examples of Work
Courses for Developers
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Michelle Sollicito has many certifications and awards. See below.
| 2018 | AWS Solution Architect | Associate |
| 2018 | Scrum Master | Certified |
| 2018 | Microsoft Specialist | 70-483 C# |
| 2014 | Microsoft Specialist | 70-480 (HTML5, Javascript and CSS3) |
| 2013 | Microsoft (MCTS) | TS 515
(Web App Development with .Net 4) |
| 2013 | Microsoft (MCP) | SQL Server 2012 |
| 2011 | Brainbench | ASP.Net 3.5 |
| 2009 | Odesk | C# |
| 2009 | Brainbench | ASP.Net |
| 2005 | Brainbench | ASP |
| 2005 | Brainbench | VBScript 5.5 |
| 2004 | Brainbench | Network Security |
| 2004 | Brainbench | Info Tech Security |
| 2004 | Brainbench | ITAA Info Security Awareness |
| 2004 | Brainbench | Internet Security |
| 2004 | Brainbench | XML |
| 2020 | John Hopkins | Contact Tracer, Coronavirus |
| 2004 | Brainbench | EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) |
| 2004 | Brainbench | J2EE |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Ecommerce |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Ecommerce Implementation |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Object Orientation |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Java 2 Advanced |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Java 2 Fundamentals |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Project Management |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Java 1 |
| 2003 | Brainbench | Javascript |
| 2003 | Microsoft | MCSD (VB6/SQL Server 2000) |
| 2002 | Brainbench | RDBMS Concepts |
| 2002 | Brainbench | MS Access |
| 2002 | Brainbench | HTML 3.2 |
| 2003 | Microsoft | MCP VB5 |
| 2003 | Microsoft | MCP SQL Server 7 |
| 1999 | Microsoft | MCSD VB5/SQL Server 7 |
More Certifications and Training courses available here:
Certificates/Training
Also awarded:
Be Greater Atlanta Award by Suntrust Bank and Atlanta Hawks Mar 2014
Amy Award “Marketing For Good” Award by American Marketing Association Mar 2014.
“Points of Light” Award by George H W Bush May 2014
“Social Savvy” Award by TAG (Technology Association Georgia) Sept 2014
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