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Lisle, Illinois

• Presales vArchitect focused on designing and proposing VxBlock, VxRack Flex, and VxRail solutions based on customer workload and business requirements• VxBlock - EMC block and file storage platforms, Cisco UCS, Cisco Networking, VMware 6.x/7.x, and VxBlock Central• VxRack Flex - PowerFlex OS software defined storage (SDS), Dell PowerEdge 13G/14G as compute only/storage only/HCI, Cisco networking, VMware 6.x/7.x, and PowerFlex Manager• VxRail - VMware vSAN 6.x/7.x software defined storage (SDS), Dell PowerEdge 13G/14G, VMware ESXi, and VxRail Manager. With and without VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.x/4,x• Work with both internal and external customers to gather workload and business requirements and objectives• Provided educational sessions for internal and external customers on converged infrastructure (CI) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions• Work with internal resources to build out customer facing solution PowerPoints. • Pre and Post sales - Complete inventory and performance reviews with internal and external resources leveraging LiveOptics, RVTools, vROPS, and other raw data from customers. • Work with sales teams to identify new potential opportunities for the solutions I design as well as other solutions offered by Dell Technologies

• Block Storage - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of EMC VMAX (8), EMC XtremIO (15), EMC VNX/Clarriion (2), Pure Storage (16), and NetApp (2) in two primary datacenters• Block Storage Fabric - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of Cisco MDS switches (9100s, 9222, 9250 (FCIP), 9513s, and 9710s).• Block Storage Tasks - Daily storage provisioning, configuration changes, capacity planning, performance analysis, performance troubleshooting from storage platforms to operating systems running on x86 platforms over a core edge Cisco MDS fabric• Block Storage Replication - Configuration, setup, and administration EMC replication technologies – EMC SRDF/A, EMC RecoverPoint.• File Storage - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of EMC Isilon (two 8 node clusters), EMC DataDomain (6), and NetApp (2).• File Storage Tasks - Daily storage provisioning, configuration changes, capacity planning, performance analysis, performance troubleshooting from storage platforms to operating systems running on x86 platforms over a Cisco network• Object Storage - Configuration, setup, and administration of EMC ECS. Was initial used for POCs across multiple business units • Tools - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of EMC VIPR Controller for storage automation • Tools - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of EMC SRM. Custom report designing to support business reporting requests as it related to infrastructure. • VMware - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of VMware vCenter 4.x/5.x/6.x, ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x. Including DRS, HA, vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSS, vDS. Supported over 800 ESXi hosts in two main datacenters• VMware Tasks - Daily provisioning, configuration changes, capacity planning, performance analysis, performance troubleshooting from ESXi operating system to the storage platforms• Hypervisor Based Replication - Design, configuration, setup, and administration of Zerto with VMware

• Installed and supported computer systems 24/7/365 data center • Installed and supported Compaq and IBM servers (x230,x232,x235,x255,x306,x346,x366,x3650).• Planned and scheduled system hardware/software upgrades with internal and external clients.• Troubleshot and resolved technology related emergencies in the Data Center.• Mapped out and executed plans to maximize usage of cabinet space within a Data Center.• Configuration, setup, and administration of VMware Virtual 2.x and ESX Server 3.x.• Experience with vMotion, SVMotion, DRS, HA, P2V.• Installed and supported servers, computers, network gear, and printers while working outside of the data center in the Chicago area.• Troubleshot computer, printer, network, and other peripheral problems.• Troubleshot LAN/WAN connectivity problems and hardware issues.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management Information Systems, General

Associate, Computer Systems/Network Technology

Certificate, Electronics/Computer Occupations