Andy Young Email & Phone Number

Andy Young is a Senior Director, Strategic Partners at Hammerspace. He possess expertise in iscsi, solaris, storage area networks, virtualization, high availability and 30 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have worked with Andy Young for +10 years at Sun Microsystem and +2 years when Oracle bought Sun Microsystem. At first he was my colleague, then he be came my Manager. As a colleague (Regional Support Engineer), he was very technical oriented and has strong skill set in servers, solaris, storages, applications, and network. He was able to digest new products and help customers with infrastructure implementation and debug/troubleshoot customers issues with resolution quickly. As a Manager, he was very supportive and willing to help his employee to be successful at his/her position. He always put his employee needs ahead of his. He always support his employee and have his employee back. When managing customers escalation, Andy always calm and cool under extreme pressure. Andy is truly an amazing professional who works with intelligence, integrity and insight. It was a great experience working with and for Andy. I would work for Andy again!", "I had the pleasure of working with Andy for more than fourteen years at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Nexenta. He was my peer for a few years, my manager for roughly eight years and a colleague for two more. As a manager I always had a high degree of respect and even admiration for him. Andy is able to strategize problems in such a way as to resolve the problem, as well as any issues the resolution might cause for those involved. There were countless occasions where I was perfectly comfortable going above and beyond to help resolve a problem because I knew Andy would make sure I was recognized appropriately. He inspired this level of dedication in his entire team, which made him the most effective manager with which I've ever worked.", and "I had the pleasure of working with Andy at Nexenta for 4 years. During my 39 year IT career I never worked with anyone who went as far above and beyond to provide support to those of us in the field as Andy did. He was always patient, complete in his explanations, and quick to volunteer new information as it became available. My experience was that there were many people worked with who seemed to enjoy keeping information to themselves, as though that enhanced their value somehow. Andy always seemed to understand that we were all in it together, and my success was his success. Most of my interactions with him centered around my need to assistance with hardware configurations and pricing for systems from one of our several suppliers. I was always impressed with his ability to stay ahead of constantly changing hardware specs from our suppliers, juggle multiple tasks, especially at the end of sales quarters when everyone was crazed. He did an excellent job of: -Keeping the field sales teams aware of inventory and product availability at our suppliers -Pricing: what’s the best way to get the lowest price on a system that will provide the required level of performance? -Quickly providing finished quotes and pricing we could present to partners and customer. This often was in spite of constantly changing customer requirements. I provided tech support to a sales team and I always felt well taken care of when working with Andy. He understood the suppliers technology inside out, was a master of pricing, and never seemed to be overwhelmed despite being very much in the middle of things."

Listed skills include Iscsi, Solaris, Storage Area Networks, Virtualization, and 31 others.

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  San José State University

  Management Information Systems