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Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Research Triangle Park, Nc

Delivering the best quality storage solution. Team lead for Interoperability team, which qualifies that Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, ESX, Solaris, HP-UX & AIX), FC HBAs (Qlogic & Emulex) and FC Switches (Brocade & Cisco) interoperate correctly with the Nimble Storage Array. Involves generating testplans, reviewing testplans, testing schedules and monitoring test completion for the team. Working cross team and site to make sure that features and functionality are being covered for each… Show more Delivering the best quality storage solution. Team lead for Interoperability team, which qualifies that Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, ESX, Solaris, HP-UX & AIX), FC HBAs (Qlogic & Emulex) and FC Switches (Brocade & Cisco) interoperate correctly with the Nimble Storage Array. Involves generating testplans, reviewing testplans, testing schedules and monitoring test completion for the team. Working cross team and site to make sure that features and functionality are being covered for each release.Responsible for team scheduling, budget, ordering, and day to day activities. Responsible for Internal Nimble Array ordering for all of Storage Engineering. SME for quoting and ordering. Show less

Research Triangle Park, Nc

Lead for Cisco FC, FCoE switch and UCS qualification and interoperability testing. With emphasis on fault injected end-to-end qualification from Hosts to NetApp storage. Increased currency by over 500% for Cisco switch Firmware and Hardware. Led projects for inclusion of additional NetApp technologies to be included in Switch Interoperability Testing. Leading to savings of over $1MM. Singlehandedly qualified the industry’s first FCoE Target. Wrote and executed Target… Show more Lead for Cisco FC, FCoE switch and UCS qualification and interoperability testing. With emphasis on fault injected end-to-end qualification from Hosts to NetApp storage. Increased currency by over 500% for Cisco switch Firmware and Hardware. Led projects for inclusion of additional NetApp technologies to be included in Switch Interoperability Testing. Leading to savings of over $1MM. Singlehandedly qualified the industry’s first FCoE Target. Wrote and executed Target Quality Assurance, Host Integration, Host and Switch Interoperability testing. Worked with FCoE Target development team on all defects found and tested all fixes. Also worked with CNA vendor on all defects found in the host FCoE stack.Led technical relationship with Cisco. Including making decisions on nature of all qualification necessary for all Cisco hardware and firmware releases. Responsible for driving all defects found back into Cisco for resolution. Responsible for driving interoperability testing of NetApp Targets inside Cisco’s vendor lab. Reducing the time to support for new Cisco releases by over 75%.Grew Cisco switch qualifications to include all major operating systems including, Windows 2003, 2008 & 2008R2, including Hyper-V, ESX, Linux - RHEL and SLES, Solaris, AIX and HPUX.Serve as the contact person for all escalations to Cisco for FC, FCoE switches and UCS.Responsible for all support postings for Cisco FC and FCoE switches. Show less

New York, Ny

Providing storage consulting services on projects ranging from $20k-8MM. With special emphasis on Data lifecycle management, Storage tiering and design. Also giving technical support to sales teams on engagement planning.Technical lead on large data migration planning engagement. Consisting of greater than 32TB of data from SAN and DAS to state of the art SAN arrays, with Solaris, Windows, Linux and HPUX hosts. Saved 2 months and more than $1.5MM over the previous plan by minimizing… Show more Providing storage consulting services on projects ranging from $20k-8MM. With special emphasis on Data lifecycle management, Storage tiering and design. Also giving technical support to sales teams on engagement planning.Technical lead on large data migration planning engagement. Consisting of greater than 32TB of data from SAN and DAS to state of the art SAN arrays, with Solaris, Windows, Linux and HPUX hosts. Saved 2 months and more than $1.5MM over the previous plan by minimizing the technical limitations of older SAN arrays and implementing standard processes and procedures.Led several high level architecture review projects. To review current state of the existing IT environment, provide a future state and make recommendations to remediate any issues with the current environment. Show less

Hackensack, Nj

Provided account management and escalation support to northern New Jersey customers as a second level hardware and first level software customer service field representative, with specialties in cluster, SAN and storage specialties. Expertise included implementation and configuration services for hardware and software. Acted as primary service contact for assigned customers. Key customers supported included: Paine Webber, Datek, Priceline, Citigroup and Iwon.comSelected for… Show more Provided account management and escalation support to northern New Jersey customers as a second level hardware and first level software customer service field representative, with specialties in cluster, SAN and storage specialties. Expertise included implementation and configuration services for hardware and software. Acted as primary service contact for assigned customers. Key customers supported included: Paine Webber, Datek, Priceline, Citigroup and Iwon.comSelected for membership in exclusive storage support group for highly trained and experienced support engineers with expertise in storage and SAN technologies.Increased customer satisfaction by more than 10% by providing account management and escalation support for assigned service customers.Decreased installation time by leading planning meetings with customers to finalize specification.In two year span, position relocated from Burlington, MA to King of Prussia, PA and then to Hackensack, NJRecipient of Engineer of the month award for mid-Atlantic region twice.Selected as Engineer of the quarter for northeast area. Show less