Andy Thomas Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

I am a pre-sales & post-sales engineer helping customers design and implement the components of a virtualized IT infrastructure

Greater Chicago Area

• My position at 411 Solutions is a dual function role with two main responsibilities. I architect, implement, and manage the data center where 411’s business continuity customers are hosted and co-located. I also.
• Replaced a legacy infrastructure used to host customers running x86 workloads. The new infrastructure more than doubled the compute power, improved network bandwidth by more than 10x, and quadrupled the storage.
• Introduced virtualization into the IBM Power Systems infrastructure used to host IBM i (AS/400) customers. The new IBM Power Systems infrastructure more than doubled the compute and storage capacity while greatly.
• Enhanced the monitoring, alerting, and analysis of the infrastructure with the implementation of new monitoring and reporting systems.
• Introduced a tiered storage model for hosted customers and worked with the sales leadership to develop new pricing structures.
• Redesigned the legacy SAN infrastructure which was incorrectly designed and out of date.

Greater Chicago Area

Technical pre-sales role architecting and demonstrating Softchoice’s solution portfolio to new and existing customer base, as well as supporting various sales and professional services teamsPrimary responsibility was designing, building, managing, and demonstrating solutions to customers in the Softchoice demonstration data centers. These demonstration.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for providing pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales technical support for ACP Enterprise Solutions Group customers and sales team. Designed and implemented IBM AIX high availability clusters, IBM pSeries virtualized platforms, and IBM mid-range storage subsystems and SAN networks.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for providing pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales technical support for datacenter infrastructure and storage solutions. Support sales staff with technical solution design and recommendations. Support end customer before, during, and after consulting engagements. Obtain technical certifications required to maintain vendor partnerships..

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting customized IT solutions such as Storage Area Networks (SAN), enterprise backup/restore solutions (TSM), UNIX high availability clusters (HACMP), and UNIX servers. Responsibilities also call for providing pre and post-sales technical support to sales staff and customers.