Meet a Helpful Human – Kelly Goolsby

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Having spent nearly twenty years within the hosting industry, Kelly Goosby has gravitated to the more technical side of sales with a profession in Solution Engineering. After 15 years at Rackspace, Goolsby brings his talents to Liquid Web because the Director of Enterprise & Technical Solutions. His team guides customers through a fancy product portfolio, helping to construct solutions that make technical and business sense for every customer’s unique needs. He’s enthusiastic about enabling knowledge-sharing across teams to contribute individual experiences and expertise and improve the organization as an entire. Meet Kelly Goolsby.

I joined Liquid Web since it offered a probability to work with people I had previous relationships with at Rackspace. Liquid Web was working to assist organizations start their journey to the cloud, and I felt my knowledge could make probably the most significant impact on those varieties of customers. 

I like learning about recent things and bringing those concepts to a sometimes non-technical audience. I’ve learned loads about constructing efficiently-designed application infrastructures that allow corporations improve their business outcomes—not only to make use of the most recent and biggest tech. We will design almost anything, however it has to make sense for a client’s unique situation. One thing I all the time say is, “Whether it is something I could not explain the advantages of to my least technical member of the family, then I probably would not offer it to a customer.”

I really like having the ability to effect change. Liquid Web is sufficiently big to supply scope and scale but still sufficiently small that my efforts will help drive improvement noticeably. The small teams, in addition to the power to bounce ideas around with leadership, make Liquid Web an organization by which you are feeling like your work really matters.People in any respect levels of the corporate structure are in communication about learn how to move things forward. 

People will rally to repair issues and go the additional mile for a customer. This tenacity and perseverance to tackle hard projects for purchasers is exclusive amongst hosting providers.

For instance, a client needed to launch a highly redundant and scalable solution. Liquid Web pulled together a team of nearly a dozen experts from across the business to construct and launch the infrastructure, which resulted in a successful weekend launch, including real-time 24/7 expertise through the launch event. 

We had to hurry up our process by a few weeks from their original deadline. The launch featured three, well-known brands and was mentioned on major network news. We pulled off the design early and with out a hitch. 

Nearly every body who had worked with them during design and implementation spent the weekend checking in and offering their assistance and expertise if they may help. It was inspiring to see so many individuals invested within the real-time success of the shoppers we serve.

I used to be significantly involved within the launch of VMware Private Cloud. I had a firm belief that this product could be good for Liquid Web. We were capable of launch our private cloud in only a couple of months by drawing from the industry experience we already had inside our company.  It has since turn out to be a product that is admittedly filling a spot available in the market—we’re certainly one of the one cloud hosts that gives a VMware-ready private cloud solution that’s scalable enough to compete with larger enterprises at a fraction of the fee.

I like mountaineering and doing almost anything on the beach or river. Apart from that, I collect hard-to-find bourbon. I even have a W.L. Weller variety that is tough to search out, and the gathering means loads since it was a present from a friend. I even have a Blanton’s, which I used to be lucky to search out because someone had hidden it behind one other bottle (probably to come back back and buy for themselves, but I am unable to prove that as fact). 

Probably Benjamin Franklin. I’m unsure there has ever been a more out-of-the-box thinker. That is someone who probably never said, “That shouldn’t be my job.” He was just eager about every little thing, and I find a few of that in myself—just without quite as much success.