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Texas, United States

Plano, Texas, Us

• Spearheaded teams to transform customer needs into cutting-edge technical solutions, employing industry-leading methodologies for exceptional outcomes.• Fostered seamless collaboration between clients and internal teams, driving storage consolidation projects and achieving substantial device reduction through strategic IBM Flash Storage deployment.• Managed the seamless transition of FibreChannel networks, implementing custom spine-leaf fabric using Cisco MDS technology for optimized performance and efficiency.• Drove impactful Proof of Concepts with SDS solutions like Nexenta and Netapp ONTAP Select, empowering clients with innovative insights for strategic decision-making.• Held a pivotal technical leadership role, consistently delivering storage projects on time and within scope, exceeding client expectations and ensuring outstanding results.

Plano, Texas, Us

• Managed a diverse team of 8 full-time engineers, both on-site and offshore, ensuring seamless storage project delivery and implementation services.• Led the successful deployment of a multi-site Actifio Copy Data System backup solution for VMware, AIX, and Oracle environments, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.• Established an efficient and replicable project delivery model for storage initiatives, serving as a benchmark for other domains and ensuring streamlined processes.• Conducted comprehensive analysis of Cisco fabric performance within a multi-petabyte SAN, optimizing throughput, latency, and traffic flow to enhance system efficiency.• Proactively anticipated future capacity and performance requirements through insightful monitoring, enabling strategic and proactive planning for seamless project execution.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

In this role I was the Senior Network SME for the Storage Infrastructure and Solutions (SIS) Engineering team (Dell Product Group) that developed best practices, technical whitepapers and reference architectures based on Dell storage products.• Forward looking Technologist with primary focus on developing trends in Ethernet/converged traffic networking architectures.• Evaluate new technologies in Ethernet based SAN (Data Center Bridging, Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links [TRILL], IEEE 802.1Qbb, 802.1Qaz, 802.1Qau, DCBx, FibreChannel over Ethernet [FCoE])• Author numerous papers focused on best practices for architecting and implementing Dell Storage utilizing Cisco Nexus, Dell PowerConnect, Juniper Networks, Brocade and other network vendors.• Work with network partners to improve integration and support for Dell network-based storage systems• Mentor to Junior Engineers on team• Conference Presenter (Dell Storage Forum 2011)• Author of EqualLogic SAN Best Practices Whitepapers and Network Reference Architectures for classic Ethernet and DCB enabled Ethernet.• Lead development engineer of EqualLogic Data Center Bridging switch validation process design v1.1, ETS,PFC, CN, DCBx, CEE• Performance Analysis of EqualLogic SAN (Throughput, Bandwidth, Latency, IO/s, Traffic Flows, ISL, Load balancing) utilizing various probe points (Perl/TCL/Expect scripts)• Evaluate switch architectures for Best Practice setup of Ethernet based SANs (1Gb\10Gb)

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

IPTV Network Architect who developed end-to-end IPTV solutions in support of Video Integration Services business as well as the emerging Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. Required to have an understanding of Microsoft IPTV solution, ability to design an IP network (hardware and logical configuration) to deliver the best solution for Triple-Play (voice, data, and video) deployments.• Design storage volume / LUN layout for boot-from-SAN IPTV solutions.• Perform Capacity Planning for boot-from-SAN IPTV solutions.• Author Storage related Engineering Guidelines • Author internal MOPs (Method of Procedure / process steps) • Storage SME (Subject Matter Expert)• Provide technical training for Deployment and Support Personnel in new solutions• Participate on Customer and Sales Representative calls• Support on-site customer POCs (Proof of Concepts)• Troubleshoot / configure Alcatel-Lucent Carrier routers and switches (7x50), VLAN, 802.1q, VPLS, VRRP,LACP, Port Mirroring, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, QoS, CoS, OSPF, PIM, STP, RSTP, MST• Proficient skills in Microsoft Mediaroom troubleshooting, including IIS Logs, SQL Logs and Traces, MS Memory Dumps, MS Clustering Services, Active Directory Domains, • Development of virtualized MS Mediaroom environments in MS Hyper-V• Interface to interact with solution architects inside ALU.• Resource to the other labs for evaluating emerging solutions that are tested initially in the Architecture Development lab

• Research, troubleshoot and resolve issues reported to the Information Systems department by hospital employees.• Verify / Troubleshoot completion of daily backups for all hospital servers• Restore files as needed for users.• Rotate onsite / offsite tapes• Create User accounts and maintain user permissions and shares• Design and develop multiple touch screen Kiosk’s for patient waiting areas. Utilizing Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0 with a MS SQL backend. • Develop photo directory of all hospital staff and physicians listing relevant information. Hosted on internal SharePoint portal and developed using Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0 with a MS SQL backend.