John Spinks Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Rtp, Nc

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for SnapCenter and Snap Creator.SnapCenter is NetApp's centralized data protection and copy data management product. I am the subject matter expert for SnapCenter and have worked over several years to help bring SnapCenter to market and to develop its capabilities over several releases. SnapCenter consists of a server or servers capable of high availability, load balancing, and horizontal scaling. It also consists of Plug-ins for applications, databases, hypervisors, and host operating systems. This role requires working with all levels of engineering, QA, and management as well as interfacing with partners and customers to determine their needs and drive change into the PRD. To create an easy to use product I'm focused on simplicity and usability and will continue to drive changes to the product.Plug-ins supported or considered includes Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Windows File Systems, Network File Systems, SAP HANA, MongoDB, and Exchange.Snap Creator is a software framework developed by NetApp to handle backup and recovery of physical, virtual, and/or cloud environments. Snap Creator contains plugins for a variety of popular hypervisors, applications, and databases and handles application/database consistent backup, recovery and cloning. In this role I also act as the Technical Marketing Engineer for the Snap Creator Framework. I also act as NetApp's subject matter expert on IBM Domino and as needed I collaborate with NetApp field engineers, sales engineers, business partners, and customers to answer questions on how Enterprise Applications or High Performance Computing workloads can be best integrated with a NetApp storage system.I am honored to have been selected to speak regularly at NetApp conferences and am excited to talk to customers about their challenges and opportunities.Many of my videos can be seen on Snap Creator's YouTube channel - SnapCreatorTV - http://www.youtube.com/user/SnapCreatorTV

System Administrator: Collaboration and System Management *Responsible for supporting and administering Domino (v 6.5-8.0), Sametime, Quickplace, LDAP, Lotus client, and Lotus webmail, Tumbleweed Email Encryption, Reseach In Motion’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry devices, and Esker Fax Server (Including Notes Integration) *Successfully implemented Tivoli Framework, Tivoli Enterprise Console,Tivoli Monitoring 6.1, and Tivoli Netview in CFI’s Production environment. *Other duties include or have included administration of network, SAN, Bar Code Scanners, KVM and IPKVM, Blade Centers, xSeries and iSeries servers, RemoteView Camera System, Eden PowerPac (Project Management, Asset Management, and Helpdesk), Earthlink Dial-up account management, and wireless device management. *Former duties include Help Desk Specialist and iSeries/AS/400 Operator

* Worldwide Support for all Butler and Curless Networking customers with IP Dial, SNA, Dial, or Frame Relay Products * AS/400 Technical support for BCA Customers * Support and Maintenance of all internal PC and networking hardware * Perform daily backups on multiple AS/400 servers * Perform basic Administrative tasks on the AS/400 and on Lotus Notes * Installation and support for Symbol Technologies Wireless Access Points and Mobile Units for BCA in Raleigh; Howard Berger Company in Newark, New Jersey; Waters and Martin in Norfolk, VA; and Vietri, Inc in Hillsborough, NC * Setup and Configuration of Cisco 2600 router for use in communication between Token-Ring and Ethernet networks * Telephone and Voice Mail support including custom configurations for Atcom PBX and telephone services * Inventory of all computers and related equipment * Technical Sales Support

* Installed and exploded Windows 95, 98, and NT Operating Systems * Created, Installed, and Configured custom images using Norton Ghost * Installed and Configured RAID systems on IBM Servers * Installed IBM options packages such as multiple processors, hard drives, SCSI drives, and extra memory * Performed troubleshooting on IBM AAP processes, IBM desktops, IBM Laptops, and IBM Servers * Performed Quality Assurance Duties for CompuCom Systems

Ms, Communications Technology

Bs, Internetworking Technology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi National College Honor Society

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