Eric Morton Email & Phone Number

Fletcher, Nc, Us

United States

Storage Architect//Technical expert responsible for block-based storage architecture including roadmap, strategy, DR and functions.• Collaborate with storage vendors on emerging technologies to see how well the technology fits into IT strategic direction• Perform testing/validation/certification of storage environment including resiliency/component failure, performance, power requirements/draw, disaster recovery, snapshots to guard against ransomware and host interaction requirements• Develop and document storage build/deployment processes used when deploying technology in WF data centers.• Develop and document provisioning, storage performance and device health monitoring standards used by WF teams to manage the environment• Monitor and enhance storage standards for all storage platforms• Track storage vulnerabilities and work with vendors to bring about resolution• Architected and developed migration automation scripts to reduce system administrator involvement• Technical lead for Hitachi, EMC and Pure collaborating with internal resources on provisioning, performance, migration, DR replication, snapshots, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.• Member of cloud storage team working with Azure and Google Cloud enablement

Manager/Technical expert for development of Hitachi’s Core professional services roadmap, strategy and functions. Strategy balances storage product portfolio and professional services revenue goals.Collaborate with product management and engineering on all emerging technologies as technical lead to develop professional services that aligns with sales and product strategy.Formulated curriculum for new Hitachi VSP 5000 series array and facilitated six hands on training classes worldwide for 200+ technical resources to meet business and customer requirements.Analyzed and identified best practices by redesigning professional services processes which improved sales enablement and product attach services by 5000% from previous year.Lead project to roll out professional services calculator worldwide to reduce time to quote professional services resulting in time to market savings of over 2000%.Technical Lead for multiple “As s Service” initiatives including IaaS and SaaS options.Architected and developed automation processes to provide second generation of array based non-disruptive migration for servers where revenue projections are over 5 million in Q4 2019Developed services that encompasses intelligent operations strategy using a suite of tools powered by AI and machine learning along with IT Service Management (ITSM).Collaborate with field technical delivery and pre-sales organization to ensure professional services are properly scoped and assist field with any technical delivery issues.

Responsibilities include technical delivery, pre-sales, Subject matter expert for Hitachi storage products and service development.Architected and developed automation processes to provide the first array based non-disruptive migration product for servers and to date over 500,00 servers have been migrated and over 50 million in revenue has been generated.SAN Architect focusing on migrationsArray Performance analysisPre-sales role that includes collaborating with account teams to position professional services that that exceeded goals by 15%.Lead for developing a professional services calculator tool where professional services quoting time was reduced by 2000%.

Pre-sales responsibility for all professional services in Mid Atlantic district.Specialize in design and implementation of technical architectures for Hitachi Storage Products (Hardware and Software).Designed multiple high availability storage environments where customers were able to meet business recovery point and time requirementsProfessional services project oversight.

Responsibilities Include: Subject matter expert for technical architectures for Hitachi Storage Products (Hardware and Software) from Hitachi, Sun, and HP. Understand customer needs for a project and design/deliver a solution that exceeds their expectations.Specialist in architecture and implementation of NetApp storage arrays using Fibre channel, iSCSI, NFS and CIFS.Specialize in design and implementation of Veritas Netbackup, Puredisk, Data Domain De-Duplication Arrays Storage Foundation Suite and Cluster Server products.Pre-Sales Technical Consultant to sales force.Oracle Database Consulting and advisementDisaster Recovery specialistManaged Services consultant

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science