Present, design & implement new features for IBM storage products. Responsible for pre and post sales technical activities that involve design, presentation, installation and training activities of the entire IBM storage product portfolio. Architectural emphasis on Flash, enterprise and midrange disk subsystems, and virtualization techniques with tiering capabilities. Weekly onsite San and Storage administration performed at one of the largest healthcare companies in the Denver area.

– Responsible for pre and post sales technical activities that involve design, presentation, installation and training activities of the entire IBM storage product portfolio. As a Presales Storage Architect, leverages specialized knowledge in products, infrastructure, or vertical industry segments, to ensure that solutions accurately link to clients’ business challenges. Researches solution alternatives, provides initial configuration and sizing data, and designs products and solutions that are well targeted to meeting client business needs. Consults with account team’s technical questions, and assists in advancing sales through communication of benchmarks and through orchestrating or direct execution of proof-of-concept implementations, product demonstrations, and technical presentations. IBM Certified Specialist: Enterprise Storage Technical Support V4Midrange Storage Technical Support V4High Volume Storage Fundamentals V4Storwize V7000 Technical Solutions V3System Storage DS8000 Technical Solutions V4XIV Storage System Technical Solutions V4High-End Tape Technical Solutions V7

Responsible for on-boarding storage and san devices into IBM managed Disney site locations. Architectural layout design for redundancy, performance and manageability criteria, adhering to IBM Best Practice.April 2010 – June 2011 IBM-GS XIV / VMAX Migration Team•Architect, design and implement the data migration of all of Disney Corporations’ legacy storage to both IBM XIV and EMC VMAX storage arrays. Approximately 1500 servers in scope, with legacy arrays consisting of EMC DMX, Clariion, IBM DS8000, HP EVA, and NetApp. SAN fabrics include Brocade, McData and Cisco. System OS consists of AIX, HP_UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware.

to assist marketing efforts in all pre-sale technical aspects for storage products that include opportunity investigation, architecture design, performance evaluation and service agreements. •Primary account responsibility was at Qwest Communications main data centers that reside in Denver, Omaha and Columbus. Account coverage also included Qwest’s Cyber Center offering that resides in ten major cities throughout the United States. Backup integration with IBM TSM and Symantec Netbackup•Detailed planning includes understanding Qwest’s business problems and how our storage product portfolio could address these in ‘solutions based’ sale. .•Sun Microsystems acquired StorageTek in June of 2005. The following product list represents a sub-set of Sun StorageTek’s storage product offering and area of concentration