Avi Felsenstein Email & Phone Number

United States

- Product evaluation and certification- VMware bundle development- Grafana/Prometheus based telemetry development

Belgium

I am responsible for creating VMware and KVM bundles to facilitate pre-sales support and OEM vendors. This includes development and delivery of VMware vAPP's, training slide decks , creation and execution of test acceptance criteria , installation guides as well as pre- and post-sales support. I coordinate with the different engineering / qa and documentation teams within the organization to identify cross-team gaps and present solutions where needed.Caringo Inc. , is a VMware… Show more I am responsible for creating VMware and KVM bundles to facilitate pre-sales support and OEM vendors. This includes development and delivery of VMware vAPP's, training slide decks , creation and execution of test acceptance criteria , installation guides as well as pre- and post-sales support. I coordinate with the different engineering / qa and documentation teams within the organization to identify cross-team gaps and present solutions where needed.Caringo Inc. , is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, this provides me access to the resources i need to deliver an enhanced experience of the Caringo Solution Stack.My current focus is on delivering our new Swarm Appliances products. Show less

• Pre - and post sales support for Caringo products.• Design and deploy proof-of-concept solutions.• Training for Caringo products.• Develop and deploy support tools for customers.* Evaluate partner products.• Platform integration developer for CAStor Content File Server.• Support for the Dell DX6000

Belgium

Partner training and support.

EMC used filepool technology to build the first content addressable storage device named Centera. I was a member of the original dev. team.For the last 5 years i have been responsible for the architecture and project management of sustaining engineering projects:• Designing and specifying serviceability enhancements for Centera• Testing and evaluating sustaining eng. tools, fixes and workarounds.Accountable for the quality of solutions during political or critical… Show more EMC used filepool technology to build the first content addressable storage device named Centera. I was a member of the original dev. team.For the last 5 years i have been responsible for the architecture and project management of sustaining engineering projects:• Designing and specifying serviceability enhancements for Centera• Testing and evaluating sustaining eng. tools, fixes and workarounds.Accountable for the quality of solutions during political or critical customer escalations:• Accepting, triaging and root causing customer escalations.• Investigating data unavailability / data-loss cases.• Communicating resolutions and workarounds to the service organization.• Training and knowledge transfer of lower service levels.Accountable for being the 'service' representative within product development:• Being the customers face during Centera product specification sessions. • Impact analysis and risk management of product issues for the customer. Show less

Wave Research was renamed into FilePool inc in 2000.I continue to work as a Senior software engineer on theirnow renamed flagship product called "FilePool".By now our product involved into an internet service called"EzAttach" a Yahoo briefcase style service using Content Addressable Storage.EMC Corp. bought FilePool inc in April 2001 for 50 million dollars.

I worked for 2 years on the flag product "e-CLIP" a client/server architecture storing unstructured data in a new location independant way. ( the forefather of Content Addressable Storage )

During this period I have worked as a lead programmer on the MLM (Mid Level Manager) and ISM (Intranet Service Monitor) project.I was in charge of designing and implementing a distributed collection subsystem.I also worked for 2 months on the User Interface control subsystem.I was involved with the different stages of product development.

During that period I worked with the BT Museum.My job responsibilities were, receiving and assisting groups of visitors, handling group bookings, clerical work, use of video equipment and presentations, producing routine statistics ,etc...I gained a lot of experience and managed to brush up my customer interaction skills.

Msc, Distributed And Parallel Systems

Bsc, Computer Science