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Denver, Co, Us

Armonk, New York, Us

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Richardson, Texas, Us

The Advisory Architect is a senior position within the technical delivery team. The role combines technology and leadership with customer focus. This role requires the development, maintenance and expansion of broad and deep technical expertise across Enterprise Data Center Architectures, Vblock Systems and adjacent technologies. Advisory Architects will demonstrate the ability to engage in technology decision maker discussions related to Converged Infrastructure, agility, solution sustainability, business value, end-to-end security and availability pacifically as it related to Vblock Systems and adjacent technology. They will have a passion for the customer and the technology supporting the customer's business demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the VCE total customer experience.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Plan, implement, and deliver Vblock family of products for all disciplines: Network, Compute, Virtualization, Storage and integrate into customer infrastructure.75% travel to domestic and international clients and implementation locations. Create and deliver Knowledge Transfer documentation and presentations with clients and partners.Plan, execute and verify hardware and software upgrades to existing vBlock infrastructure without outages.Mentor partners and junior staff members with VCE, Cisco, VMware, and EMC best practices.Provide consultative, proactive and/or reactive support to VCE accountsInstall new or rebuild existing Vblock hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related productsCollaborate with cross-functional groups and other IT service engineering groups within VCE and on customer side to achieve key account objectives in support of service sales teams and RFP responses.

I deploy and integrate clouds of all shapes and sizes.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for the successful completion of the Phase 2 IPv6 ReadyLogo and USGv6 Certifications for various Cisco Products (Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, 1k, MDS 9200, Linksys, SmartGrid)Facilitated the transition of physical test servers to virtual servers to reduce redundancy and deployment timeCoordinate with various Business Units to deploy virtual test servers and educate their development and test team to streamline certification processCommunicate with internal Business Units and external UNH InterOperability lab to resolve any certification issues

Morrisville, Nc, Us

Acted as lead and participant platform test engineer for the Aspen family of switches. Collaborated with engineering teams in California and India to ensure efficient testing completion and facilitated the migration from a 100% manual test cycle to a 30% manual test cycle through automation. Additionally, I responded to customer escalated issues by duplicating failure and performing root cause analysis.

Provided customer service to all walk-in customers and callers and offered initial evaluation and scheduled on-site repair for Apple equipment. I also ordered and received replacement parts for the service team.

Responsible for the receipt and distribution of all incoming merchandise.

Mba, Operations Management With Distinction

Bsee, Emphasis On Hardware Design. (Digital And Mixed-Signal Vlsi)

Bscpre, Emphasis On Hardware/Software Integration