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Santa Clara, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Drive increased professional services (PS & UoM) pipeline around Hybrid IT Focus areas (ITOM & IIoT) through business development and big deal support.Work directly with PS & UoM regions (AMER, EMEA, APAC) to enable, connect, interact and collaborate (regular visit per region) to build pipeline and close deals for marquee accounts.Provide Architect level.

Santa Clara, California, US

Part of Unified Offering Management, leading the vision and road map for Smart Industrial solutions in the Energy SectorLead engagements with Energy Clients globally with a consultative approach and prioritize lloT use cases based on business values; develop user stories and mockups for high priority use casesWork closely with loT Solutions Engineering and.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Provide on-site and remote technical sales support to the sales team to assist our customers with formulating strategic plans that will achieve their current and future goals.
• Maintain on-going communication and networks with senior level management and network with decision makers to maintain visibility of strategic plans and provide growth opportunities to the HDS organization.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for the Hitachi File and Content product line with expertise specifically in HNAS and HCP.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for SAN management with Brocade and Cisco SAN products.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for customers in regards to server and virtualization deployments on Hitachi storage systems.
• Excellent communicator with a desire to interface with different types of end user clients in an array of industries.

Chantilly, VA, US

• Provide on-site and remote technical sales support to the sales team to assist our customers with formulating strategic plans that will achieve their current and future goals.
• Maintain on-going communication and networks with senior level management and network with decision makers to maintain visibility of strategic plans and provide growth opportunities to the HDS organization.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for the Hitachi File and Content product line with expertise specifically in HNAS and HCP.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for SAN management with Brocade and Cisco SAN products.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for customers in regards to server and virtualization deployments on Hitachi storage systems.
• Excellent communicator with a desire to interface with different types of end user clients in an array of industries.

Meudon, FR

• Lead technical team of 7 Senior Technical Consultants and 8 Technical Consultants, ensuring technical and career growth, developing KPI's, and conducting exercises to improve morale and team camaraderie.
• Work with our customers C-Level Executives, Directors, and other upper management to collect business requirements and develop SOW's for new and existing Solutions.
• Architect, document, deploy, and configure all data center and data management solutions internationally across 5 continents.
• Conduct vendor reviews for Gemalto’s Solution Catalog to ensure the best performance, feature set, and cost of data center solutions.
• Manage vendor contracts and ensure the support quality being provided by Gemalto vendors.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for customers in regards to server and virtualization deployments on Hitachi and Oracle storage systems.

Reston, Virginia, US

• Provide on-site and remote technical sales support to the sales team to assist our customers with formulating strategic plans that will achieve their current and future goals.
• Maintain on-going communication and networks with senior level management and network with decision makers to maintain visibility of strategic plans and provide growth opportunities to the HDS Federal organization.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for the Hitachi File and Content product line with expertise specifically in HNAS and HCP.
• Architect, deploy, configure, and train administration skills for SAN management with Brocade and Cisco SAN products.
• Provide recommendations and best practices for customers in regards to server and virtualization deployments on Hitachi storage systems.
• Excellent communicator with a desire to interface with different types of end user clients in an array of industries.

Clearwater, Florida, US

• Responsible for heterogeneous architecture, deployment, and administration of all Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 type storage systems for TechData America’s, including operations in Canada and South America. (Systems.
• Responsible for heterogeneous architecture, deployment, and administration of new disk and tape backup strategy, leveraging technologies from Dell, EMC, Data Domain, and Symantec’s NetBackup Appliance and NetBackup.
• Responsible for architecture, deployment, and administration of VMware vSphere 4.x environment and VMware View 4.5 environment.
• Responsible for compliance related activities within the Infrastructure team as well as DR/BC policies for TechData North America and South America.
• Perform performance and analysis on SAN and NAS access to reduce disk latency and improve disk IO by a total of 300% for our SQL database servers and by 60% for our Virtual Infrastructures (VMware and Citrix).
• Perform storage efficiency review and was able to recover over 25 TB in Tier 1 storage saving the company an estimated $300,000 strictly in storage purchase.

Clearwater, Florida, US

• Provide on-site and remote technical sales support to the sales team to assist our customers with formulating strategic plans that will achieve their current and future goals.
• Maintain on-going communication and networks with senior level management and network with decision makers to maintain visibility of strategic plans and provide growth opportunities to the HDS Federal organization.
• Responsible for perform duties of both pre-sales and post-sales for the NetApp storage products including:o Architecting NAS-based designs utilizing the SnapManager suite.o Architecting SAN-based designs utilizing the.
• Perform the duties of storage engineer, specializing and certified in Network Appliance systems for internal infrastructure and consultant to various companies.
• Perform the duties of VMware engineer, specializing and certified in the VMware ESX and ESXi product line assisting internal infrastructure and consultant to various companies.
• Perform the duties of data center engineer, resolving any hardware and software related issues in a data center.

• Deploying, implementing, securing, and maintaining, the EMC ControlCenter 6.x and 5.x suite in its 11 remote data centers in the Verizon infrastructure.
• Ensure all change activities, work orders, vulnerabilities assessments, and tickets are entered, approved, and completed within the constraints of the policies set forth by Verizon and our team to maximize.
• Provision storage on EMC Symmetrix, NetApp FAS and V-series, and HDS Lighting Series storage systems.
• Analyze performance of storage system using NetApp Data Fabric Manager (NetApp Operations Manager) and EMC Symmetrix Performance Analyzer.

• Onsite technical support to customers affiliated with USF Health.
• Installation and configuration of information technology hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Prepare new and upgraded computers to be connected to computer networks.
• Upgrade software and hardware on existing computers.
• Diagnose and provide support on computer system problems, including debugging, patching, repairing, servicing, examining, installing, training, and troubleshooting computer hardware, networks, printers, and other.
• Provide assistance to faculty, staff, and students on the use of software and hardware.

• Management Presence, responsible for 3 – 13 people working 2nd and 3rd shift.
• Take inbound support calls to provide first level technical support with the ability to analyze and resolve issues via telephone.
• Working knowledge of Windows based operating systems including Windows NT/95/98/00/07
• Proficient with various administrative applications including MS Office, Extra Attaché Mate,Hummingbird, Reflections, Remedy, PcAnywhere, VNC, URC, NetMeeting.
• Remote assistance Nortel VPN Client via secure token and certificates, and Cisco Secure Remote via secure token.
• Hands-on familiarity configuring, maintaining & troubleshooting the following technologies in a large corporate environment: Outlook POP/SMTP and Exchange configuration, Lotus Notes, Mainframe sessions including RACF.

• Repair and upkeep of all data communication systems throughout the company along with three off-site locations.
• Assist in the implementation of datacomm and telecomm networks coordinated with the network engineer.
• Inbound customer service support for any software, hardware, and telecomm related issues with the staff of Palm Coast Data and their clients.
• Daily tape backups and credit card FTP's daily.
• Active Directory, RAS, and AS/400 support and administration.
• Upkeep of ISO documentation