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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Projects:* Design and deliver new monitoring solution for enterprise scale managed services projects* Lead architect for Platform as a service implementation for a large federal government client.

Melbourne, Australia

Key Projects Delivered:* Led the architecture function for multiple large managed services customer including Private and Federal clients. * Helped shape the managed services framework for as-a-service business model. * Complete overhaul of Storage as a service product set for managed services customer; * Added multi-tiered product set on all flash storage systems.* Architected software defined cloud storage (S3) on Cloudian platform

Sydney, Australia

Provide high quality design and delivery services to customers to implement IT storage solutions ranging from physical installations, through to full consulting engagements across a broad range of technologies.>The primary focus is on the delivery of Midrange and High End storage solutions to customers.>Gathering of project requirements and analysing customer requirements in conjunction with pre-sales>Designing, installing and configuring storage systems.> Reviewing and assess customer specifications and evaluating the requirements so that correct recommendations can be given with follow-through into the physical delivery of the agreed services.>Design deliverable technology solutions and make recommendations to meet the customer’s business needs.>Present proposals and/or general technical materials to customers, where required, to support presales.>Develop implementation plans and solution documentation>Install and test solutions within the agreed time frame. Investigate any errors or issues and resolve the issues to the satisfaction of the customer.

Sydney, Australia

>Storage consultant for Hitachi Data Systems. >Develop storage courses and provide training to HDS customers/partners/engineers on HDS storage and solutions.>Implementation of storage strategies and products.

Bangalore, India

>Functional Qualification of ESX/ESXi Patches and Updates.>Setting up the Lab to closely customer's environment to test the code changes and fixes.>Primarily responsible for storage related issues on ESX/ESXi for FC/iSCSI/NAS protocols.>Identifying new test cases based on code change and customer scenarios reported and perl test scripts to support automation.

Bangalore, India

>Functional Qualification of EMC PowerPath on all Unix based Operating Systems.>Reproduce customer scenarios and test the code changes against it.>Interoperability testing between PowerPath and HPUX, Linux, AIX with applications like logical partioning, PowerPath on VIOS , VCS with PowerPath, VXVM with PowerPath.>MPIO testing of VMware ESX/ESXi .>Interop testing of PowerPath in Storage based Replication and Disaster Recovery scenarios.>Work closely with Lab team and help where required in Procurement, Designing, Installation and Setups.

Test Engineer for HP MFP firmware qualification