NetApp Trident

Co-Founder and Co-Host of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast! Find the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts including Youtube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc.

· Technical Marketing Lead for the Software Defined Infrastructure Group at Lenovo focusing on all things Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions· Subject Matter Expert in VMware vSAN, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack HCI· Collaborate with product managers to define and manage product roadmaps across the portfolio· Spearhead investigative projects into new partner offerings and determining their fit into the Lenovo Portfolio· Collaborate with product marketing managers to build and execute Go-To-Market Strategies across the portfolio targeted towards enterprise customers, channel partners and managed service providers· Ability to identify opportunities with competitive research and customer interaction that drive strategy formulation and execution· Strong public speaker with extensive experience evangelizing disruptive technologies and representing Lenovo’s Data Center Group at Industry trade shows and conferences.· Lead the content creation and delivery for quarterly internal Sales, Partner training, and customer-facing webinars and in-person briefings· Co-designed and published a disaster recovery reference architecture solution for VMware vSAN using VMware Cloud on AWS· Collaborated with Google Cloud Partner engineering team to certify Google Cloud Anthos (GKE On-Prem) alpha release on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX running VMware vSAN· Designed and deployed an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution with VMware Enterprise PKS running on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX· Built a Blockchain reference architecture solution for running Hyperledger Fabric running on Kubernetes on Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution

· Active member of the Tech Marketing team at NetApp, primarily responsible for designing reference architectures for a variety of enterprise applications deployed on FlexPod· Designed and deployed a reference architecture for 2500 user VDI solution using VMware Horizon· Engaged with product management to build out a hosting solution for Managed Service Providers· Architected and published a reference solution for 10000 users using Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Microsoft SharePoint 2016· Integral part of the team that designed, built, and validated the NetApp Integrated EVO:RAIL solution · Designed and implemented a production infrastructure environment for the entire FlexPod organization at NetApp, that served as the foundation for their reference architecture solutions · Collaborated with the engineering managers for quarterly CAPEX ordering cycle

• Extending my summer work of a management tool for a FlexPod to create a management network for the FlexPod validation labs

• Automated the reset procedure of FlexPod, a predesigned configuration built on Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus data center switches and NetApp FAS storage components.• Engineered a complete tool for the management of all the individual components of the FlexPod.• Developed Bash and Expect Scripts to interact with Cisco Nexus Switches, NetApp FAS storage components. • Wrote Cisco Powertool script to manage Cisco Unified Computing System.

1. Converting, Editing, and Saving all forms of digital materials.2. Creating library-oriented media including posters, photographs, and web pages.3. Teaching recurring workshops on a variety of digital media tools and topics like iMovie, Web Development