Loryan Strant
Cloud computing evangelist, passionate about improving productivity through technology. Microsoft Office 365 MVP.
- Location
- Melbourne Area, Australia
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Loryan Strant's Overview
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- Director & Co-Founder at Paradyne
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Loryan Strant's Summary
Over 16 years in IT I have had the opportunity to work with many leading edge technologies - allowing me to be a part of major transformations in the industry.
Starting out in web design prior to the dot com era, I then took on more technical roles and have been involved in some of the first Australian deployments of metropolitan networks, voice over IP and video streaming over the Internet.
My technical experiences were followed by 10 solid years in various senior consulting positions advising both internal and external senior management / stakeholders on strategic technology adoption and selection along with delivery of solutions across a range of business sectors, and managing technical resources for delivery.
Many of my roles have involved coaching and mentoring team members along with establishing incentive schemes to drive results and growth.
One of my strengths is the ability to thoroughly understand each client’s challenges and deliver solution in line with their unique business requirements.
I am passionate about the cloud and the opportunities it brings. Having spent most of my career delivering on-premise business productivity technology, I co-founded Paradyne to deliver cost-effective solutions by means of the cloud. My deep technical expertise is backed by practical business experience, ensuring that customers get the best of both worlds – world-class technology that delivers real business benefits.
Throughout the majority of my career I have often been engaged as a subject matter expert by peers both internal and external to my current place of work.
My passion for technology is evident by my involvement in the global IT community through regular written contributions to media and thought leadership pieces, as do my numerous conference presentations and upcoming books on Office 365.
I have also had the opportunity to act on behalf of Microsoft in my current capacity as a Office 365 MVP and vTSP.
Specialties
The cloud: migrating email, meetings & conversations, business processes, IT management, document & information sharing.
Project Management, business productivity, IT consulting.
Loryan Strant's Experience
Director & Co-Founder
Paradyne
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
February 2010 – Present (2 years 4 months)
As one of the founders I have worked to build a successful business that focuses on Cloud solutions for organisations of all sizes.
Our success has been driven by our passion for delivering quality solutions that both improve our customers productivity as well as saving them money.
Seen as a preferred Cloud partner by Telstra & Microsoft, some of our successes have been:
- second partner in the world to achieve the Microsoft Cloud Accelerate competency
- known globally within Microsoft, its customers & partners for our BPOSsibility.com blog and contribution to the BPOS forums & Office 365 Community
- brought online the most customers to BPOS & Office 365 in Australia
- Microsoft Australian Partner Award finalist for Online Services
- delivering the FIRST Microsoft-managed charity in Australia on BPOS
- launching the FIRST marketplace in the world for BPOS 3rd party solutions
- delivering the FIRST Office 365 customer in Australia
- delivering the FIRST Windows Intune customer in Australia
- becoming the FIRST Office 365 MVP in Australia
Taking on multiple responsbilities at Paradyne, my role is both varied and challenged - and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Loryan Strant's Skills & Expertise
Loryan Strant's Certifications
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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
- Microsoft
- August 2006
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Office Communications Server 2007
- Microsoft
- January 2008
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Microsoft
- July 2009
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Office Live Communications Server 2005
- Microsoft
- October 2006
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Dynamics 3.0
- Microsoft
- March 2006
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Prince2 Practitioner
- ALC Group
- February 2010
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MCTS: Office 365 Administration
- Microsoft
- April 2012
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MCITP: Office 365 Administrator
- Microsoft
- April 2012
Loryan Strant's Languages
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Russian
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English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
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