As the HPE Storage Solution Architect at PC Corp (Calgary), I work with customers to present, engineer and deliver efficient technology solutions to align to their business requirements.

As the Senior Storage Solution Architect for southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, I was responsible for the entire HP Storage Product line and HP Converged Systems. Technical strengths - Extensive experience in assessing, analyzing, designing and documenting solutions for customer from SMB to Enterprise. Very strong technically and able to talk about many different aspects of a business.Consulting strengths - As the manufacturer’s, Solution Architect, I have excellent abilities in the key areas required to provide a strong collaborative environment.• Analyze and define clients’ business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.• Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.• Gather detailed business requirements and use cases. Translate technical specifications into product requirements.• Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.• Develop data architecture design to facilitate targeted customer analysis.• Suggest architectural improvements, design and integration solutions. Formulate methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.• Organize subject matter expert training and problem analysis for server, desktop, and IT infrastructure work.• Write and implement new server, storage standards.Interpersonal strengths – Strong communication skills with the ability to stand in front of a large audience and be able to communicate a difficult technical subject to all parties in an understandable manner. Leadership - Strong ability to work with a wide variety of organizations. I’ve worked with companies ranging from 3 people in IT to Enterprises with thousands of employees. In each situation, I’ve established a bond and loyalty with the customer to become a trusted advisor

• As the Senior Technical Lead, I was responsible for all infrastructure for Capital and Operational projects.• Accountable and responsible for the day to day technical design of all Server, Storage and Backup infrastructure.• Awareness of networking protocols, their limits and requirements. • Experience of Windows Server System administration. • Knowledge and experience with most modern data center technologies. • Providing leadership/ direction to all project operational staff. • Strong analytical and problem solving skills. • Having a proven industry track record of Solutions Architecture. • Process oriented and experienced in project, quality, issue and risk management methodologies.Virtualized environment - had over 600 virtual guest in 6 data centers around the world.Storage Area Network consisted of 12 arrays with 650Tb of storage with 21 Brocade and 8 HPE Virtual Connect Fibre Channel switches controlling access.Backup Environment - used IBM’s Tivoli Storage Management with 7 Data Domain appliances with 2.6Pb of online backups. Server Environment:• 18 HP C7000 enclosures - 11 enclosures with FlexFabric\Virtual connect• Running Microsoft Windows Server 2000 Standard, 2003 Standard, 2003 Enterprise, 2008 Standard, 2008 R2 Standard, 2008 R2 Enterprise, 2012 Enterprise, 2012 Standard, 2012 R2 Enterprise and 2012 R2 StandardDatabase Environment:• Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 & 2012 Std & Enterprise• Oracle for UNIX and Oracle for MS• SAP HANA• Facilitate the specifications and negotiations for all infrastructure capital hardware acquisitions.• Manage the approval and reporting for two major Data Centers within TransAlta fleet.• Was responsible for the design and overall operations of the over 600+ virtual servers in the Infrastructure.• Liaison and technical advisor for application development, business units and vendors for project scoping and deployments.• Manage Global hardware maintenance and budgeting

• Day to day operation and management of 280 Microsoft Windows 2003 servers in 5 different countries.• Senior member of a highly self-motivated team, providing guidance and recommendations to team members and senior management.• Recommend hardware configuration options and alternatives to meet specific business needs.• Manage hardware maintenance contracts and recommend cost effective options, solutions and alternatives.• Perform resource utilization reporting and recommend alternatives to reduce and/or eliminate any resource limitations.• Accountable for implementing and managing HVAC, PDS and PDU changes and utilization in a Corporate Data Center.

• Internal consulting, responsible for the investigation, recommendation and implementation of appropriate new technology solutions to improve business opportunities and outcomes.• Project Leader on several large projects to investigate and implement, high speed online printing, warehouse automation, network backup of workgroups and the online document interchange service for the World Wide “Business Consul for Sustainable Development”.• Negotiated several large corporate site licenses.

• Providing the Corporation with industry leading technology to achieve the most cost effective computing resources and solutions. • Investigation and implementation of alternative computing and communication technologies.

• Initiated the original Operational Organizational Help Desk structure at TransAlta• Developed day to day operational procedure and processes for the Help Desk.• Provided Vax/VMS, Datatrieve and PC training.

• Managed a staff of thirteen.• Supervised the day to day operations of the Corporate Data Centre.• Supervisor of a multi-platform, multi-operating system data center.• On call 24x7 to support the wide range of systems and applications.