Alpharetta, GA – January 14, 2021 – XSi (XS International) is thrilled to share that Jake Lawson has joined the company as Service Delivery Manager, Data Center Services. This newest addition to the XSi service delivery team brings L2 and L3 technical expertise across multiple data center (server and data storage) technologies.
Jake Lawson joined XSi following an impressive technical career at CSU Industries, and also at Curvature. Originally from Rochester, New York, Jake started his post-secondary education in mathematics, but quickly discovered a passion for the logic of computers, particularly computer hardware. He’s built Level 2/3 expertise across both servers and data storage, with greatest emphasis on HP ProLiant (mastery of any WinTel servers), Dell PowerEdge, Sun SPARC systems, Dell PowerVault, HP DSXXXX, Sun StorEdge and IBM xSeries, which he thoroughly enjoys. Jake, his wife and teenage daughter live near Dallas, Texas. In his spare time, he enjoys watching pro football, classic rock and is very much an A/V enthusiast. Shared interests with his wife include, “true crime” stories (television, movies, books) and visiting Escape Rooms when they can.
“At a previous employer we share, Jake immediately stood out as energetic, expert in several platforms and has a ferocious tenacity to achieve 100% client satisfaction,” stated Matt Santo, XSi Vice President, Data Center Services. “An impeccable listener, I’ve witnessed few that are better than Jake in balancing taking corrective action with helpful client education. I’m so pleased to again be working with him.” added Santo.
Todd Bone, XSi Founder & President, added, “Last year, we established several objectives to further build-out our support infrastructure and service delivery expertise for enterprise servers and data center storage. Jake Lawson represents a giant leap toward accomplishing our Service Delivery objectives. It’s wonderful to have him on the XSi team.”
About XSi
Founded in 1990 and recognized by Gartner, XSi helps companies deploy a hybrid hardware support model to save important hardware operating expense budget dollars. As an Independent Hardware Support Provider (an industry also known as Third Party Maintenance), XSi provides hardware support options for servers, data storage assets and networking hardware. In addition to servicing enterprise accounts, it also supports Systems Integrators and federal agencies (XSi is ISO9001:2015 Certified for Product Resale, meets SAE AS5553 Standards, currently supports 42 federal agencies and all of the Top 10 Federal Systems Integrators). XSi encourages interested parties to follow its business profile at LinkedIn for weekly blog postings from its Subject Matter Expert team.