Jason Bixler Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Texas, United States

AHEAD is a strategic consulting, engineering, and infrastructure services organization focused on helping organizations build and manage complex digital strategy initiatives to accelerate their business. AHEAD helps clients realize transformation through our focus on data & AI, enterprise automation, and developer platforms all the way down to the core data center and cloud infrastructure that enables these platforms. As a Sr. Client Solutions Architect, I am responsible for directing the presales strategy for large enterprise clients throughout the State of Texas. I work closely with our clients to help understand their pain points and help design holistic solutions to help address those challenges and accelerate their digital strategies. Having a strong business and financial background, I also help clients with financial consulting and structuring enterprise licensing agreements to assist with creative financial engineering around CapEx/OpEx spend optimization.• Worked with a large, global retailer to develop a 5-year infrastructure consolidation and refresh roadmap and integrated a large enterprise licensing agreement to help optimize CapEx spend and reduce OpEx. Developed a full TCO and ROI analysis to help the client realize a 25% ROI on $50M of spend over the next 5 years. • Helped a large logistics client develop a custom hardware solution designed for ruggedized edge use cases and a management and orchestration strategy to help manage these devices at scale (20K+ devices).• Assisted a financial services company to modernize and refresh their entire VMware and storage infrastructure. Helped that same client realize $10M+ savings on re-structuring their VMware contracts. • Serve on multiple specialist “Tiger Teams” to help with field enablement and technical presales support: o Dell PowerFlex Tiger Team o Dell Compute (and AI) Tiger Team o Data Protection Tiger Team o Data & AI Tiger Team (NVIDIA-based AI Solutions)

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Spruce Peak Capital, LP is an investment management firm focused on advising and directing strategic growth-oriented investments for private investment funds. Born out of the technology industry, we take a qualitative approach that focuses on the technologies, products, and strong business practices first. We feel that if a business passes our qualitative metrics first, that strong financial metrics and capital appreciation will follow.As the co-founder and CIO of Spruce Peak Capital, I am responsible for all administrative, operational, and executive responsibilities as well as overall portfolio management and allocation for our customers.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Co-lead a team within our CTO Ambassador (CTOA) program that focuses on intelligent connected vehicles (ICV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems/Autonomous Driving (ADAS/AD)• Evangelize and architect solutions across the breadth of the Dell Technologies portfolio to solve customer challenges• Demonstrate technical expertise, thought leadership to drive solution architecture across large enterprises within the United States• Collaborate with a global sales and presales across multiple disciplines to support large semiconductors worldwide and create successful business outcomes• Earn customer trust thru attention to detail, consistent follow-up, and advocating for my customers• Provide demand generation and customer’s main interaction point with Dell Technologies• Build comprehensive solution proposals across the entire Dell Technologies portfolio of products and solutions with compelling use cases and financial metrics• Consistent track record of over-achieving key goals and metrics• Proven track record at displacing competitive technology• Built a comprehensive solution across compute, networking, storage and data protection to create a world-class infrastructure to support deep learning and simulation environments to support ADAS and autonomous driving use cases• Maintaining a thirst for knowledge and building technical acumen to become a trusted advisor, both within my peer groups as well as my customers

San Antonio, Tx

• Member of a team responsible for managing a worldwide install base of 200+ devices consisting of EMC Clariion, VNX, VMAX, and Brocade SAN switches• Perform provisioning, migrations, maintenance, and performance analysis on EMC VNX, Clariion, and VMAX storage platforms in addition to Brocade director and departmental SAN switches running Fabric OS• Meet with customers to gather capacity and performance requirements and recommend EMC VNX solutions for dedicated storage environments• Develop automation processes and recommend improvements to increase team efficiency

• Architect storage solutions to meet business requirements• Formulate enterprise-wide storage design standards that are reviewed and approved in design review meetings• Lead SAN architect and support engineer for Cisco MDS SAN with 10,000+ ports, and 30+ VSAN’s• Architected new Cisco SAN design to consolidate hardware and provide a 30% reduction in hardware• Leading effort to design Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), integration with enterprise service catalog, Remedy alerting, and change management system• Designed Microsoft Exchange storage environment for high performance, availability, and recoverability• Designed and implemented the storage environment for our VMware server environment, supporting Windows and Linux servers on a NetApp infrastructure – approximately 700 VM’s in phase 1 and 2,200 VM’s in phase 2• Helped design a new CIFS environment on NetApp hardware to replace current Windows HA file server clusters• Designed and implemented primary block storage and data protection solutions for remote sites in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Japan, Puerto Rico, and Argentina• Configure and support approximately 5 PB+ of SAN storage in EMC and HDS storage environments for over 2,000 servers, including high availability clusters for AIX, HP-UX, ESX, and Windows 2003/2008• Designed, tested, and implemented our fully automated HA/DR solution to replace our Windows clusters utilizing host-based mirroring with a storage-based replication solution• Scripted and implemented the migration of 2000 servers between VSAN’s, non-disruptively• Wrote and deployed our enterprise-wide multi-pathing monitoring solution • Migrated more than 200 servers non-disruptively on physical servers via host-based mirroring/LVM and via storage virtualization• Created several management level presentations accenting new storage features and benefits with new technologies, including our adoption of EMC VMax, EMC VPLEX, and SAN Re-Architecture

Ba, Computer Science

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