Provided technical expertise in support of pre-sales activities globally. Provide analytics, design, and development of fully integrated Data Protection technology solutions. Emphasis on Account Manageability, Support, and Partnerships. Development of end to end strategies for complex enterprise environments while being a trusted adviser to leadership. Responsible for generating over $150M of revenue activity• A specialist in Data Protection technologies with expertise in the total transformation• Managed multiple Enterprise accounts Globally with diverse Infrastructure Environments • A Proven Professional with specialized knowledge of Hardware, Software, and technologies spanning from the Datacenter to the Cloud• Critical involvement in customers Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery initiatives. Providing knowledge for multiple environments and technologies including open systems, mainframe, iSeries, databases, applications, and platforms• Key presenter in educating customers and audiences onsite and at events focused on Data Protection, Disaster Recovery in the cloud, workloads in the cloud, Cyber/Ransomware Attack (air gap) prevention, Archiving, and future roadmap material • Responsible for area sales number both quarterly and annually

Engineer responsible for overall protection of corporate backup and recovery strategy. Part of the storage team involved with daily administration of data lifecycle management and archiving.Lead the effort to create working VCB environment for backing up VM Guest infrastructure to help support an aggressive P2V initiative.Renegotiating Iron Mountain master agreement to stream line pricing and tape handling for overall cost savings and administration. Efforts to cut data protection costs up to 60% monthlyRe-designed backup environment to help data flow to VTL spinning disk while reducing corporate physical tape dependency.Introduced a centralized reporting platform for backup systems enterprise wide.

2006 - 2009Hands on manager in charge of the corporate Data Protection Team responsible for all backups, restores, and archiving for multiple Datacenters and remote locations. Part of the SAN team involved with daily administration of EMC NAS and SAN storage devices.Re-designed entire backup and recovery infrastructure to help ensure completion of data archiving. Increased successfully completion percentage from 62% to better than 99% within 15 months.Lead RFP process to bring in enterprise class disk based backup systems. Created largest Data Domain VTL environment to date using Symantec Netbackup protecting over 2.2PB. Created replication policies to move all production critical data from primary VTL systems to DR VTL systems offsite to meet SOX requirements. Worked with EMC data movers, VDM's and Netapp filers to setup NDMP protection protocols for user and departmental shares.Streamlined staff responsibilities and tasks to better manage the data environment. Developed and validated detailed reporting portal using Aptare Storage Console software.Renegotiated the Master Service agreement with Iron Mountain to better handle media, shredding and management of company assets saving the corporation over $350K per year. Created large scale DFS roots spanning several layers down the hierarchical ladder designed for long term ILM management.Primary protection and migration team for several applications, AD accounts, domains and shares when company was seized and sold.Lead RFP process to bring in enterprise class disk based backup systems. Created largest Data Domain VTL environment to date using Symantec Netbackup protecting over 2.2PB. Created replication policies to move all production critical data from primary VTL systems to DR VTL systems offsite to meet SOX requirementsWorked with systems infrastructure to implement and manage a new server 2008 roll out complete with multi diverse site replication servers for real time business continuance.

Primary operations for corporate enterprise datacenter which includes all Active Directory administration, systems monitoring, maintenance, project implementation and environment control encompassing both corporate and AT&T datacenters. Implemented Change Control releases to systems servers in web farm and clustered infrastructures. • Primarily responsible for the corporate backup solution and data recovery directive. Direct contact for information archiving/vaulting/management and offsite data protection through Iron Mountain.• Secondary lead for large scale Active Directory Migration from NT4 and Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003 with several child domains for multiple application and development business units.• Re-designed and implemented internal and DMZ backup zones for both corporate and hot site data centers.• Implemented data library clusters using ADIC i2000 Scalar fabric libraries (LTO3)• Created core root DFS shares for corporate business units within Netapp data movers• Ensure data integrity and restore disaster recovery procedures to comply with all SOX requirement guidelines.

Responsible for corporate LAN/WAN/WLAN infrastructure including maintenance, daily functions and operations, backup and restoration of data, network design and implementation, design of business continuance procedure, and overall health monitoring.Designed, developed, tested and implemented a corporate wide migration from Novell to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Active Directory GPO structured environments. Migrated and maintained 200+ nodes from Windows 95/98 to Windows XP.Designed and installed corporate enterprise backup solution, anti-virus and spyware protection systems, and an enterprise Rightfax solution. Analyzed business needs to research, develop, test and implement corporate projects.Responsible for design, migration, deployment and configuration of server environment within the data center.Developed and maintained infrastructure for company intranet site.

Developed and documented procedures and processes for the configuration and installation of multiple Corporate Networks Solutions; Primary contact for implementation of documents for the deployment of products into customer networks; Responsible for network design, validation, pre-staging, configuration, and deployment; Provided technical guidance to sales personnel and customers implementing high-end document solutions.Engineered and created the technical process for the installation of a Microsoft Infrastructure into an existing or newly introduced network environment.Engineered and created documents such as the Site Information Document, Site Survey, Network Installation Guide, and Acceptance Report. Resulting in partners gaining the ability to train, deploy and schedule installations of network solutions.Created and provided documentation that resulted in more efficient handling and design of the network while reducing overall cost.Advanced implementation and troubleshooting of high-end advanced imaging equipment such as digital copiers, printers, scanners, and archiving equipment. Interviews with existing and future customers to determine the most cost effective solution and long-term relationship needs and requirements.

Troubleshoot problematic KyoceraMita business equipment throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties; Installed digital equipment within different network environments and protocols; Demonstrated superior customer relation skills while generating sales leads from new and existing customers and acting as corporate liaison for jeopardized accounts. Provided customers and sales personnel state-of-the-art knowledge of products and procedures through continual education. Increased product reliability by more than 30% allowing for reduction in overall cost of ownership, resulting in customer satisfaction with future business relationships.Interfaced with manufacture representatives throughout the industry to gain insight on up and coming solutions to provide a more effective confidence level of problematic business equipment.First tier training specialist for company technicians on high-end digital equipment. Provided troubleshooting material and Preventive Maintenance schedules for new product line.