Andy Lerner Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, US

Multiple roles as MapR was integrated into HPE and evolved into Ezmeral Data Fabric (EDF) software distributed storage solution for analytics and ML/DL/AI.Global Pre-sales Solution Architect. As the only remaining customer and partner facing engineer at acquisition, I provided technical expertise to HPE sales reps on every MapR deal globally and have.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed technical alliances and provided training and technical assistance to partner engineers creating joint solutions including:
• Query federation, ETL, and distributed execution engine products.
• Server vendor reference architectures.
• MapR storage infrastructure solution with Cisco to implement SAP HANA Appliance and Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) solution.Scripted and configured prototypes, tools and tests including:
• Automated MapR Docker environment to install, configure and start up to 20 MapR nodes on a single server or cloud instance, with Kerberos KDC, MySQL, Web Proxy, and yum repository containers as required for MapR.
• AWS CFT to start up the MapR Docker environment.

Houston, Texas, US

• Design and lead development of HP Cloudera Hadoop Appliance.
• Manage development and integration work of several engineers and lead weekly engineering meeting to keep HP AppSystem for Apache Hadoop project on track.
• Manage engineering relationship with Cloudera for HP and lead weekly engineering meeting with Cloudera.
• Developed Hadoop node cloning and deployment mechanism using HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU). Wrote python scripts to automate Hadoop cluster deployment using CM4 REST API.
• Designed, configured, ordered, deployed, upgraded, and managed servers, switches, and software for CDH Hadoop clusters used by solution development team. "Go to" team resource for all systems.
• Integrated ganglia hadoop metrics for display by HP CMU increasing differentiation of HP Hadoop solution.

Houston, Texas, US

• Created cloud solutions, ported software, tuned performance, resolved compiler issues, and managed engineering relationships to ensure availability, and performance, of ISV software on HP platforms.
• Set up and configured BladeSystems, VLANs, SAN storage and zoning to implement HP CloudMatrix solution.
• Developed HP CloudMatrix map including HPIO template, HPOO workflow, shell and python scripts to deploy Oracle Retail with WebLogic as a cloud service. Solution used as a model for other cloud maps.
• Using HP Caliper, identified Oracle Retail mutex contention issue in C++ standard library. Worked with C++ lab team to develop workaround resulting in 3x performance increase.
• Created scripts to automate execution of benchmark processes and collection of results and HP Performance Agent data on both HP-UX and Linux. Analyzed and published results.
• Wrote sales collateral including performance reports and migration cookbooks, and consulted with sales teams on effective presentation of benchmark results to win sales. Performance reports were used in winning several.

Houston, Texas, US

• Supported partner ISVs in developing software for HP-UX systems and differentiating solutions on HP servers.
• Presented HP hardware and software roadmaps to partners.
• Researched and resolved HP-UX, C/C++, java issues encountered by partner developers.
• Prototyped solutions using HP and partner software.