Michael Dejong Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, Us

As a Regional Engagement Architect, I have responsibilities for both Delivery and Presales activities. This requires me to effectively communicate and collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure there is end-to-end alignment. • As a practice lead, my key responsibilities include: - Customer architecture and design support - Bill of materials proposal and statement of work development - Presales enablement and collateral - Creation of packaged (SKU) services - Service calculators and pricing - Engineering mentorship - Delivery documentation templates• Recognized leader in the delivery of Dell EMC and Pure storage, VMware Virtualization, and Cisco solutions. - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Active/Active stretched data center workloads - Physical data center migrations - Data and Virtualization migrations

Southfield, Mi, Us

Lead technical consultant and hands-on expert for storage and virtualization implementations and services. Recognized as a leader by the sales team and considered a trusted partner by customers for successful storage and virtualization implementations and migrations. • As a Technical Consultant my key responsibilities included: - Customer architecture and design support - Bill of materials proposal and statement of work development - Delivery of: * Storage technology across geographically dispersed data centers * NetApp storage and Cisco fibre channel networking technologies * VMware virtualization and migration technologies * IBM SVC clusters, DS8000, and GMAS storage grids - Development of internal best practices, strategies, and methodologies - Development of best practice methodologies and design/delivery documentation templates

Wyoming, Mi, Us

Team Lead in the implementation, management, and support of two geographically dispersed Data Centers. - As a Data Center Team Lead my key responsibilities included: - Administration of all storage-related technologies including: * Tivoli TSM and IBM tape systems * Administration of IBM and HP Blade Centers * Server administration of Windows, Netware, AIX, HP-UX, VMware, and Linux Servers - Supported EPIC environment, Novell NetWare clusters, and Microsoft Shared Clustered systems * Administration of HP XP Tier 1, HP EVA800 Tier 2, and Compaq StorageWorks arrays * Administration of Brocade fibre channel environment * Administration of VMware ESX environment to support high availability environment - Daily backup and restore operations and disaster recovery for geographically dispersed data center storage and servers. - My proudest achievement in this role was the relocation of Metro Health Hospital’s primary data center. Spanning 3 months, careful planning and execution resulted in no loss of data during the relocation from the original location, which was 25 miles away.

Responsible for the implementation of technology solutions across an entire school district consisting of six campuses, duties included: - Purchasing of all IT solutions - Oversight of IT budget - Developing recommendations and planning and implementation of IT solutions - District-wide management of all equipment and software - Management of NetWare servers - Management of student and staff accounts - Management of all distributed applications