Bob Barna Joins Whalley Computer Associates as Consulting Architect

SOUTHWICK — Bob Barna has joined Whalley Computer Associates (WCA) as a consulting architect.

Barna was employed by VMWare as a senior consultant for the last 16 months and has 19 years of experience in the IT industry. He spent 17 of those years as the senior systems engineer at Competitive Computing. He has earned numerous VMware certifications and has extensive experience in design enablement, developing business requirements and identifying use cases, architecture design, environment build, product pilot, documentations and knowledge transfer, and more.

Barna joins a team at WCA that also includes another former VMWare employee, Dan Sullivan, who joined VMWare shortly after it was founded and, in his seven years there, served customers all over New England and New York as a VMware systems engineer, VMware account executive, and partner business manager. Sullivan, who now holds the role of senior solution architect at WCA, is a 39-year veteran of the IT industry, with a background that combines technical expertise and sales skills.

“Over the past six years, we have invested over $20 million to reach our goal of becoming one of the five best IT engineering firms in New England and Upstate New York. Barna is an important piece of the puzzle,” said Paul Whalley, vice president of Whalley Computer Associates.

Added Barna, “I am extremely happy to join a family-owned organization that values customer relationships and ensures the solutions we help deliver enable them to succeed in utilizing technology to meet their desired business outcomes.”

WCA has been a leading technology provider for more than 37 years, servicing customers of all types and sizes throughout New England and Upstate New York. WCA is ranked in the top 0.1% of all solution providers in North America and services more than 3,000 customers with more than 140 local technology professionals.