-: My name is Rapheal Yactayo, I am an adjunct consultant
and I work for Microsoft.
So whenever a company purchases Microsoft Azure
mostly in the infrastructure realm, at least in my space.
I usually go onsite to the customer or remotely
on the system to implementing architecture solutions.
In order for them to get to Azure and the cloud.
So whenever a customer purchases a MCS contract
they usually have a statement of work, right?
So we go in there and we try to follow
that statement of work.
Usually when we come on site we try to find out
what is it that they're really looking for,
technology wise.
A lot of companies go to Microsoft Azure
because they have an idea already in mind
of what they want to spin up in Azure.
So what we try to do is first try
to initialize that conversation
of why they're purchasing it.
And then we try to give them the roadmap
on how to build in, how to architect the solution.
If they are migrating from different cloud vendors
on what's the fastest and what's the best approach
for them to actually do that.
Without having any down time.
We usually go on site to the customer
and we travel there from Monday to Thursday
and then we do work remotely on Friday's.
But then it also depends.
We do have some customers that they require us
to be a lot more of an remote support.
So we have a lot of calls with them
and we try to guide them the best ways we can.
As a consultant we usually say that it's 90%
required travel.
So, we do travel from Monday to Thursday
if we do have to travel.
Like I mentioned and then we work remote on Fridays
and if not, we usually work from home throughout the week
and as well, we go to different Microsoft offices
at least here in New Jersey.
There's one in Iselin and then there's another one
in Manhattan in New York.