Loryan Strant

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 Summary

Over my 15 years in IT I have had the opportunity to work with leading edge technologies - allowing me to be a part of major transformations in information technology.

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:
- Wide Area & Metropolitan Area Network deployments
- Voice over IP implementations
- Multicast video streaming over Internet
- Windows 2000 banking sector rollouts

My technical experiences were followed by 10 solid years in various senior consulting positions - designing solutions across a range of business sectors, and managing technical resources for delivery. This included technologies such as unified communications, SharePoint, Internet security, and IP telephony.

I am passionate about the cloud and the opportunities it brings. Having with spent most of my 15 year career in IT delivering on-premise business productivity solutions, I founded Paradyne with James Doutsis to deliver cost-effective IT 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.

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 2010Present (2 years)

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 Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

    • Microsoft
    • August 2006
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Office Communications Server 2007

    • Microsoft
    • January 2008
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

    • Microsoft
    • July 2009
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Office Live Communications Server 2005

    • Microsoft
    • October 2006
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Dynamics 3.0

    • Microsoft
    • March 2006
  • Prince2 Practitioner

    • ALC Group
    • February 2010

Loryan Strant's Languages

  • Russian

    (Limited working proficiency)
  • English

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)

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