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Tinton Falls, Nj

Senior Sales Engineer/Solutions Architect – Enterprise Accounts in NY Metro Area• Participate in account planning with district sales management to strategize net new customers and create action plans to expand opportunity with current customers.• Maintain knowledge of Commvault’s competitive landscape including Veritas, Dell/EMC, IBM, Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik and others• Manage global-scale design and implementation projects.• Prepare, propose and present complex RFP/RFI responses. • Strong business case development to include financial, technical and business value add• Perform discovery while engaging with the customer to understand key technical, financial, operational, and business challenges that can be mitigated or alleviated with the Commvault platform.• Assist various internal development teams to enhance the Commvault solution based on customer asks and requirements.• Propose and demonstrate the Commvault platform through the use of white board, presentations and product demonstration to C-level executives, stakeholders and operations teams.• Assist in the hiring/interview process for potential new SE's and/or Account Managers.• Mentor - provide technical leadership to engineers new to the NY Enterprise team.• Oversee the creation and presentation of the business value surrounded by merits to C-level executives.• Develop and maintain strong relationships, ensuring that technical account management best practices are being followed with customers, partners, VARS, etc.• Define, execute and document complex customer POC's while rounding up the best resources to be successful when needed.• Infinity Club for Top Performers 5 out of 6 years.• 2020 Sales Engineer of Year.

New York City

> IT System Engineer Consultant for one of the largest financial firms in NYC over the course of 5 years.> Responsible for the firms backup infrastructure which included CA Brightstor, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Netbackup, and Commvault.> Before leaving, I designed and implemented Commvault 10. This implementation was a strategic and cost saving integration by removing LTO tape devices and off site facilities such as Iron Mountain and incorporating disk-to-disk technology in two locations with cross site replication to facilitate their DR strategy.> Storage administrator that included various vendors and models such as EMC CX3-80 and CX3-40c, Dell Compellent (Controllers SC030 and 8000), Dell Powervault (3660f model).> Involved in the upgrade and the migration of their Exchange 2003 email environment to Exchange 2010. This consisted of over 2,000 users including office hubs located overseas.> Troubleshoot day to day Exchange 2010 issues from a server and end user level.> During my last year or so at Blackstone, I was involved in two new data center migrations, which consisted of new hardware, software and design.> Implement and support their new and legacy server environments, that included all the major hubs throughout the world. Hardware and software included were HP and Cisco UCS Blade Technology, VMware 5.5 and various stand-a-lone HP Proliant Servers.> Active Directory Administrator

New York

 Work very closely with owners and the operations department in order to plan various IT business solutions and strategies in a cost effective way that will greatly benefit the company and their needs. Able to build or establish good relationships with outside vendors. Oversee five desktop technicians to make sure day to day tasks are completed in a timely manner. Accountable for the network security at a corporate level. Responsible for planning and building out new remote offices which includes ordering data and phone circuits, PC and server equipment, and working with any 3rd parties such as building inspectors and contractors. Fulfilled an upgraded server infrastructure by purchasing HP C7000 blade chassis and servers, implementing a SAN solution using Compellent storage and installing VMware 4.0 for server consolidation. Upgraded entire Active Directory infrastructure from 2003 to 2008.  Upgraded the email system from a single server Exchange 2003 infrastructure to a fully redundant Exchange 2010 environment. Support the entire firms’ server, applications and network infrastructure

New York

 Senior System Engineer consultant for major financial hedge funds in NYC. Supported The Blackstone Group’s existing server infrastructure which consist of over 500 servers. The Server infrastructure contains a mixture of both stand-a-lone servers, VMware, and HP Blade Chassis Technology. Support their existing Exchange 2003/2007 environments. This exchange environment consisted of eight exchange clusters, separate routing and public folder servers. Implement and configure new servers that are added to the server environment. This includes single server installations as well as clustered configurations.  Support the existing Windows 2003 Active Directory infrastructure. Upkeep Blackstone’s current VMware 4.0 environment. This includes creating new virtual servers as needed, resource pools and the conversion from physical to virtual servers.  Support the tape backup environment. The software used is Symantec Netbackup, CA Brightstor and EMC Replications Manager. Responsible for making sure all backups were successful on a daily basis as well as performing data restores when needed. Complete all other day-to-day tasks that are given via an Altiris ticketing system. Responsible for creating all documentation and run books for The Blackstone Group.

 Microsoft consultant in the industry of K-12 school districts and small to medium businesses. Project Leader on all Microsoft implementations. Meeting with clients and giving recommendations on how to better their environment. Active Directory administrator for headquarters and for all Promedia clients. Responsible for designing and implementing mid-level and complex Microsoft environments. Design and implement VMWare Infrastructure 3.5. This included creating new virtual servers as needed, configuring VMotion from one ESX server to another, configuring high availability and resource pools, and converting physical server to virtual servers. Responsible for supporting existing clients with issues that may arise within their server infrastructure.  Perform various software implementations and migrations which include Exchange 2003/2007, operating system installs and upgrades for both desktop and servers, Spam and Content Filtering software, various Anti-Virus solutions, and Backup Solutions. Perform a wide range of hardware installations which includes Servers, Spam and Content Filter Appliances, San Solutions, IBM Blade Solutions and Backup Solutions. Responsible for all Visio Diagrams and documentation upon the completion of projects. Research and test the latest technology in order to educate our existing and future clients. Responsible in reviewing other Microsoft Engineers designs before finalizing.

 Active Directory administrator. Successful in designing and implementing Active Directory for one domain with over 3500 users. Administrator of approximately 250 servers consisting of but not limited to: Windows NT/2000/2003, Linux, Web Servers, Domain Controllers, WINS and DNS Servers and MS Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 Server, and IBM Blade Chassis. Responsible for installing and configuring all new hardware within the data center. Accountable for desktop and laptop image deployments with the use of Symantec Ghost. Liable for all backup and restore procedures with the use of Veritas Backup Software. Responsible for researching and testing new technology that could benefit the company’s environment. Provide 1st level support to the helpdesk for 3,500 clients located in over 250 branches nationwide. Work closely with the Network Operations department to implement and troubleshoot network issues.