Douglas Rivera Email & Phone Number

Anahiem, Ca.

- Participate in problem resolution, data entry, data tracking and issue follow-up.- Produce solutions that fulfill requirements within budget and schedule constraints.- Serve as point of escalation for IT Technicians.- Work with project stakeholders to gather, document and maintain project requirements, scope, project schedules and implementation plans.- Analyze, and report system status and problem issues.- Evaluate, analyze, and address the technical and organizational impacts of new service deployments and changes to existing infrastructure services.- Provide subject matter expertise for SJH applications and technology.

Aliso Viejo, Ca

* Storage / Networking Certification Engineer.*Technical Marketing and Product Certification Senior Engineer for Ethernet Business unit. *Tested and demoed storage adapters which support NIC, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, NVMe, NFV, NPAR and SRIOV technology. *Created Demos, test configurations, Proof of Concepts and Solutions Briefs for QLogic connectivity products in conjunction with the Alliances department management team.* Setup managed and maintained Storage Defined Networking Lab. *Installed, Managed, and configured a datacenter with multiple VMware ESXi hosts. *Administered and upgraded vCenter and ESXi servers in SDN lab from vSphere 5 to vSphere 6. *Maintained and deployed lab servers running Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2, and Linux (CentOS, Red Hat and Ubuntu). *Managed and supported various storage arrays, switches and competitive products in the SDN lab environment.

Irvine, Ca

* Manage the Product certification with both (ISV) backup software packages and (IHV)industry storage devices.* Manage product testing witin the Software Verification Test team.* Produce and assist with demos for prospective clients, and visitors.* Develop demos to be used at shows and customer demonstrations.* Perform certification testing with all tier 1 / tier 2 ISV backup software packages.* Perform SVT on preleased product FW and newly released ISV software. * Coordinate equipment to all partners for certification and joint testing.

San Jose, Ca

* Coordinate third-party interoperability / certification testing with IHV’s and ISV’s.* Develop and generate marketing collateral to include white papers, app notes, and technical briefs.* Present technical sales and marketing presentations at tradeshows, technical seminars and customer sites, addressing Gadzoox switch products and technologies.* Develop demos of Gadzoox’s products based SAN solutions in the area of LAN Free backup, Storage Consolidation, and Clustering.* Evaluate and Test new and emerging technologies to create distance solutions. (e.g. iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP).* Manage the Technical marketing lab and maintain inventory control of lab and demo equipment.

Aliso Viejo, Ca

* Responsible for the design verification testing of a family of both SCSI and Fibre Channel HBA's. This includes participating in the development of H/W test requirements & specifications, test plans, test reports, etc., auditing test results, and performing producting testing.* Responsible for WHQL certification of both SCSI and FC HBA's.* Evaluate and order all test equipment, hardware, and software for DVT, Compatibility and Certification testing labs.