Leading teams of product managers and project managers to design large scale rack solutions encompassing servers, storage, networking, liquid cooling, power and cabling. Providing plug and play L11/L12 rack solutions for AI and HPC applications that are fully integrated, tested, validated and benchmarked with industry standard software applications installed. Providing a ready to deploy integrated rack solution to customers.Engaging with large AI GPU cloud providers, HPC institutions, and Fortune 100 enterprises who require technology leading fast time to market rack scale solutions put their businesses at the forefront.For more details please contact Supermicro sales and ask about our rack scale solutions.See weblink to contact ushttps://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/rack-integrationSupermicro (SMCI) is a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for HPC, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/Big Data and Embedded Systems worldwide.

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Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) is a global datacenter solution provider. We combine the efficiency of hyperscale hardware with infrastructure software from a diversity of industry leaders to solve next-generation datacenter design and operation challenges. QCT serves cloud service providers, telecoms and enterprises running public, hybrid and private clouds.Product lines include hyper-converged and software-defined datacenter solutions as well as servers, storage, switches, integrated racks with a diverse ecosystem of hardware component and software partners. QCT designs, manufactures, integrates and services cutting edge offerings via its own global network. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 corporation.

NexGen was originally founded in 2010 by John Spiers and Kelly Long, the original founders of LeftHand Networks.NexGen Storage had venture capital investment from Next World Capital, Grotech Ventures, and Access Venture Partners.The NexGen n5 was a PCIe SSD storage system with storage QoS. NexGen offered both storage quality of service (QoS) for managing performance and service levels. In 2012, n5 test results showed that NexGen maintained storage performance, even when overall system performance was compromised due to spikes in lower priority workloads, or disk or controller failures.NexGen announced an expansion of the product line in July 2012 with models starting at 16 TB, 32 TB or 48 TBs of raw capacity, each designed for an increasing performance target.On April 25, 2013, at Storage Field Day 3, Fusion-io announced their acquisition of NexGen Storage. On January 8, 2015, SanDisk, which had acquired Fusion-io, announced that NexGen Storage had been spun out to become an independent company once again. In January 2016, Pivot3 (based in Austin, Texas) announced an agreement to acquire NexGen Storage.Pivot3 is a leading provider of dynamic hyper-converged solutions. Pivot3’s patented solutions dramatically improve data center simplicity and economics by increasing scale-out performance, driving down complexity and cost, saving an extraordinary amount of disk and physical space and ensuring fault tolerance. With Pivot3’s unique Quality of Service and Virtualization Management capabilities, customers are able to prioritize data and application performance based on business value. Today, Pivot3 has more than 2,000 customers around the world deploying more than 16,000 globally hyper-converged infrastructures in multiple industries such as video surveillance, healthcare, government, transportation, entertainment, education, gaming and retail.

One of the West Coast's leading IT solutions providers, CMT prides itself on being a true value-based advisor to each and every client we serve—whether it's a small, medium or large enterprise.Computer Media Technologies (CMT) delivers high-performance, cost-effective solutions in cloud computing, IT infrastructure and managed services for businesses. For over 30 years, CMT has provided customers with secure, flexible and reliable IT solutions that evolve along with their business goals and needs. CMT maintains the highest levels of partnership accreditation with leading IT manufacturers and cloud solutions providers, including Symantec, NetApp, Brocade, Quantum, Cisco, VMware and PeakColo.CMT has served industry leaders such as Cisco, Expedia, Google, Lucas Films, TiVo, Xilinx, Yahoo, plus numerous clients in the Healthcare and SLED sectors.Primary Areas of Focus Infrastructure Business Continuity Data Protection Collaboration and Messaging Security, Compliance and Archiving Networking Identity Access and Managementhttp://www.gocmt.com

• Managed Northwest Region (Northern California, Portland and Seattle) comprising of nine solutions engineers/architects• Provided thought leadership to engineering team around assessing, designing, implementing, servicing and maintaining Data Center solutions including Data Migrations, Converged Architecture, Data Center Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Protection and Backup/Recovery.• Strong engineering delivery and execution track record including planning, defining milestones, committing to goals, executing to plan, reporting progress and escalation handling.• Responsible for providing field implementation services resources (professional services) around core HW and SW vendors as well as infrastructure assessments.• Technology leadership skills including coaching, mentoring, teaching, critical thinking, facilitation, leading change and team development.• Ability to shift from high-level thinking to realistic and pragmatic execution.• Great written and verbal communicator to a diverse audience including executives, peers, direct team, and customers inclusive of technical influencing, support escalations, conflict management and general presentation.

• Managed and oversaw multiple resources as well as the services process from initial design/architecture through scoping/pricing, SOW creation and into handoff to delivery team and final acceptance of services.• Responsible for district’s professional services sales around core HW and SW products as well as residencies, staff augmentations, assessments, and custom services.• Educate and empower HDS sales teams, channel partners and SIs on HDS’ Global Services Solutions and how best to leverage these services into opportunities.• Create service solutions based upon customer’s business needs/requirements comprising of various service offerings.• Coordinate with co-provider for services outside of HDS products such as CommVault, Brocade, Revert and HCC.• Assist in development of services solutions around unique business-specific areas such as Data Migrations, Data Center Transformations, Infrastructure Virtualization, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, SAP HANA and Data Archival.

Develop and manage technical relationship with global system integrators based in APAC (primarily India) and EMEA driving inbound business to North America.• Designed business solutions integrating HDS with partners such as VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.• Enabled and educated multiple India-based System Integrators (SIs) on HDS products & solutions.• Created and developed solution project teams within System Integrators to package integrated solutions.• Enabled and educated channel partners on HDS products & solutions.• Liaison between product marketing and system integrators/channel partners accelerating understanding of products and futures.• Manage technical relationships between national channel partner and HDS sales teams across districts/regions.• Implemented ITIL processes with SIs around service catalog, service level management and change management on several customer projects drastically improving delivery time.• Grew System Integrator’s revenue by 150% in one year.• Impacted district channel partner revenue growth of 110% to 300% per quarter

Empower channel partners to provide appropriate HDS storage solutions comprising of hardware, software and services via product and solution training, new product updates and assistance in end user meetings.Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional 2009Hitachi Data Systems Qualified Sales Professional 2009• Enabled channel partners through education and shadowing on sales calls equating to revenue growth of 90% to 130% quarter-to-quarter for seven quarters.• Provided NDA, roadmap presentations and product updates to partners.• Managed team of six technical channel managers as team lead.• Delivered “Installation & Configuration” and “Customer Support” certification programs to channel partners allowing them to deliver services resulting in increased PS revenue of 30%+ over three quarters.• Engaged in business development programs with industry partners to create bundled total solutions resulting in revenue growth of at least 40% of third party products.• Architected SAN, NAS, DR/BC, storage/server virtualization, and tiered storage solutions.

Develop, nurture and grow technical relationships within eight plus select enterprise accounts through EMC solutions that best optimize customer infrastructure for growth, profitability, sustainability and reliability.EMC Proven Professional 2007Technology Consultant of Quarter - First Quarter 2007• Primary technical resource for 8+ enterprise customers, managing and coordinating all technical presales aspects resulting in district sales growth of 110%+ for five consecutive quarters.• Rescued three accounts that were at risk of losing and increased revenue in those accounts by 40%+ from prior quarters.• Attended introductory ITIL courses to explore integration of ITIL processes into solution designs.• Coordinated Executive Briefing Center presentations and demonstrations for customers.

Initially coordinated with channel partner community to grow the channel business. Successfully grew revenue in several accounts to transform those into enterprise accounts for which I became a trusted advisor providing insight to optimize their business. • Primary technical resource for 10+ enterprise customers, managing and coordinating technical presales resulting in revenue growth of 80% to 120%.• Increased channel partner business within district by over 25% annually for three years.• Developed strategic alliances with industry partners Brocade, Cisco, McData, VMWare & Veritas.• Architected SAN, NAS, DR/BC, ILM, Storage Virtualization and Storage Management solutions.• Conducted SAN solution and product training sessions for channel partner account teams.

Developed and grew technical pre-sales of the NetCache web caching product line as an evangelist for the emerging caching technology. Evolved into systems engineer for the NAS Filer product with ability to provide total solutions for both NAS and HTTP Web Caching requests.• Managed technical aspects of general territory and named accounts• Provided technology solutions for NAS, SAN, iSCSI, DR, Nearline storage and tape backup.• Conducted product/solution demos for customers and potential customers.• Acted as project manager for named accounts coordinating professional services.• Conducted training sessions for account managers and channel partners.• Assisted Marketing in trade shows and customer events.• Developed business relationship with Legato Systems, Veritas, BakBone, NuView and Rainfinity• Sales representative for San Francisco territory (10 months).• Specialist for NetCache web caching product line (First 2 years).

• Instrumental in strategic account wins of two major Telco/DSL service providers.• Liaison between Product Engineering, Sales, and Quality Assurance.• Assisted customers in “proof of concept” designs for Service Provider Business Unit.• Evaluated and tested new DSL products and new feature sets of existing DSL products.• Authored technical manuals, white papers and configuration guides for DSL products.• Developed training curriculum for sales engineers on new DSL products and features.• Conducted competitive analysis testing against competitor’s products.