28 Years experience with: IT/Data Center (Hands on), Hyper-scale and Enterprise Servers, Storage, DRAM, SSDs, CXL, Networking/Fabrics, Applications, Virtualization/Containerization, Presales, Presentations, Evangelizing, and Direct Customer engagements from Engineers to Executives, while supporting and leading internal teams.Strengths: • Seasoned technical and business professional• Strong interpersonal communication• Solve problems with solutions, macro to big-picture to outside-of-box• NPIs/POCs qualification, testing, implementation and operations• Work well with customers, and enjoy the collaboration building partnerships• Organized, tenacious, detailed, personable, leader, strong work ethicCustomer facing Principal Solutions Architect :Supporting and collaborating with technical engineers and architects, business executives and leaders, in the field with customers and internally within my employer.Solving problems and planning ahead is what I do! I have cross functional experience!Technical Summary:• Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Debian system administration and configuration• Multiple SSD technologies: NVMe, SATA, SAS, NVMeoF, 3D xPoint• Bus analyzers PCIe/SATA + SSD debug and analysis• DDR4, DDR5, PCIe 3.4 and 5, Computer Express Link• VMware ESXi, VDI, vSAN, implemented and managed multiple ESXi farms / Openstack/Ceph• Hitachi: VSP, AMS, HUS, HUS-VM, HCP, UCP, HNAS• EMC: VMAX, VNX, ScaleIO, CLARiiON, Celerra, Symmetrix and DataDomain• Servers: Dell, HPE, Cisco, SuperMicro, IBM, Quanta, Wiwynn, Hyve, Inventec, Mitac , OCP • IBM: Storage Server (SAN/NAS) DS4000/5000, N-Series, IBM Blade Centers• NetApp: FAS Data OnTap• Pure Storage• Networking: Cisco, Brocade, McData: Directors and switches• Windows: All versions including Microsoft server applications• Data center open source/enterprise software applications, plus testing FIO, IOmeter, memtest
Listed skills include Disaster Recovery, Data Center, Storage, Virtualization, and 32 others.