Michael Padgett Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

As an Account Technology Specialist, I focus primarily on our most strategic customers here in the Twin Cities, helping them to realize what their on-prem, hybrid cloud, and public cloud journey can and will look like now and down the road! NetApp is ready to provide our customers and the world with not just Data Storage, but full solution Data Management across entire environments, on-prem and in the cloud!!

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Solution Architect focusing on NetApp HCI, StorageGRID, and overall NetApp Data Fabric to our Minnesota customers!

Edina, Mn

The responsibilities of being a Global Solutions Engineers revolves around working directly with my customers in pre-sales and post-sales situations, while also working effectively with other NetApp employees in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Development areas. Specifically, I'm responsible for making sure that I identify what my customer needs are, and how we can make sure their requirements are met using the Data Fabric! Not to mention, it is my goal to make sure that I answer any and all questions my customer have, and provide them with the absolute best experience that NetApp has to offer!

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Previous responsibilities revolved around technical project management including team communication, risk assessment, implementation and close out. Incident response management for multiple sites in the US. Conduct root cause analysis and create post-mortem including; corrective action plans to prevent future failure. Assess and analyze all environment variables to determine empirical needs for the infrastructure. Storage architecture (VMWare, NetApp, SQL and database clustering). Create detailed “as built” documentation and run book design. Build and manage custom OnCommand Insight reporting and management of performance policies.

Previous responsibilities revolved around technical project management including budgeting, milestone, team communication, risk assessment, implementation and close out. Incident response management for multiple sites in the US and UK. Conduct root cause analysis and create post-mortem including; corrective action plans to prevent future failure. Assess and analyze all environment variables to determine empirical needs for the infrastructure. Server and storage architecting (VMWare, NetApp, SQL and database clustering). Create detailed “as built” documentation and run book design.

Lexington, Ky

Primary roles and responsibilities revolved around incident response management for multiple sites in the US and UK. Conducted root cause analysis and create post-mortem including; corrective action plans to prevent future failure. Assessed and analyzed all environment variables to determine empirical needs for the infrastructure. Server and storage architecting (VMWare, NetApp, EMC, Citrix, 3PAR, SQL and database clustering). Disaster recovery. Created detailed “as built” documentation and run book design. Strict adherence to ITIL standards.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Primary roles and responsibilities included technical project management including budgeting, milestone, team communication, risk assessment, implementation and close out. Incident response management for multiple sites in the US and UK. Conducted root cause analysis and created post-mortem including; corrective action plans to prevent future failure. Assessed and analyzed all environment variables to determine empirical needs for the infrastructure. Server and storage architecting (VMWare, NetApp, EMC, SQL and database clustering). Disaster recovery including; SnapCreator Framework with SnapDrive. Created detailed “as built” documentation and run book design.

Primary roles and responsibilities included server and storage architecting (VMWare, EMC, VCE vBlock, SQL and database clustering). Scripted installs with post implementation and end to end regression testing.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

Primary roles and responsibilities included managing projects for new business. Architecture of infrastructure solution for all new business and deliver designs, budgets, ROI and TCO analysis directly to managing director and CTO level personnel. Server and storage architecting (VMWare, NetApp, SQL and database clustering). Analyzing existing architecture and determine upgrades versus ROI. SPOF analysis and elimination of complete environment. Disaster recovery implementation. Creation of detailed “as built” documentation and run book design. Strict adherence to ISO9001, IS20001, SAS70 and HIPAA standards.