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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Pre-Sales Solutions Architect for data center and virtualized infrastructure solutions.• Statement of Work creation including detailed task lists.• Expertise in Pure, HPE Nimble, HPE Simplivity, Nutanix, EMC Unity, Infinidat, Wasabi, Azure and Amazon S3 storage solutions.• Assist customers in transitioning from on premise infrastructure to hybrid cloud and full cloud environments.• Expert in backup, recovery and disaster recovery solutions including on premise, cloud and immutable storage solutions.• Develop excellent working relationships with customers and earning trusted advisor status.• Execute health checks and recommend remediation for virtual infrastructure including upgrades, redesign and solutions development for customer owned datacenters and private and public clouds.• Perform system integration of new/upgraded infrastructure into existing legacy systems.• Subject matter expert for Vmware Vsphere, Horizon VDI, storage, hyperconverged solutions and all data protection suites and technologies.• Responsible for identifying potential value add sales opportunities while on professional services and managed services engagements with existing customers.• Provide customer demonstrations and POCs in subject matter expert related technologies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Implementation architect for compute, storage, hyperconverged and Backup & disaster recovery solutions.• Pre-Sales Solutions Architect for Hyperconverged, VDI and Backup & DR solutions.• Statement of Work creation including detailed task lists.• Full start to finish implementations of data center solutions including HPE, Cisco, Simplivity and EMC converged and hyperconverged solutions.• Expertise in Pure, HPE Nimble, HPE Simplivity, Nutanix, EMC Unity, Infinidat, Wasabi, Azure and Amazon S3 storage solutions.• Architect, implement and optimize vSphere, Veeam, Cisco UCS, EMC, Simplvity, HPE and Nutanix solutions.• Assist customers in transitioning from on premise infrastructure to hybrid cloud and full cloud environments.• Architecting backup, recovery and disaster recovery solutions including on premise, cloud and immutable storage solutions.• Develop excellent working relationships with customers and earning trusted advisor status.• Execute health checks and remediation for virtual infrastructure including upgrades, redesign and solutions development for customer owned datacenters and private and public clouds.• Perform system integration of new/upgraded infrastructure into existing legacy systems.• Subject matter expert for Vmware Vsphere, Horizon VDI, storage, hyperconverged solutions and all data protection suites and technologies.• Responsible for identifying potential value add sales opportunities while on professional services and managed services engagements with existing customers.• Provide customer demonstrations and POCs in subject matter expert related technologies.• Develop and construct customer deliverables in the form of documentation of infrastructure as built implementations, including runbooks and visio diagrams.• Perform Data Center, Veeam and VMware vSphere health checks, analysis and remediation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Architect for Data Protection solutions including CommVault, Veeam, Cohesity and Rubrik.Conduct scoping and infrastructure assessment sessions with customers in order to provide vendor independent recommendations and solutions. Compile task lists and hours estimates for statements of work (SOW) and level of effort cost estimates (LOE).Storage engineer for EMC, Netapp, Pure, Exagrid and HPE.HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) engineer for Cisco, HPE, VMWare, Nutanix and Netapp. Pre-sales consultant for hardware sales and professional services engagements.Develop excellent working relationships with customers and earning trusted advisor status.Installed and configured enterprise level storage solutions for use with Vsphere & HyperV.Subject matter expert for Pure Storage, Netapp, EMC storage, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, HPE (storage, compute, Simplivity), Cisco UCS & Hyperflex and Nutanix.Responsible for identifying potential value add sales opportunities while on professional services and managed services engagements with existing customers.Customer demostrations in SME related technologies.Develop and construct customer deliverables in the form of documentation of infrastructure as built implementations. Perform Commvault, Veeam and Vmware vSphere health checks and analysis for customers.Architect Commvault and Veeam solutions to solve enterprise level backup and disaster recovery problems. Interview customers to gain understanding of their environment and provide a vendor independent solution.

Bloomington, Mn

Architect for VMware Horizon View and Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp VDI environmentsArchitect for Data Protection solutions including CommVault, Veeam, NetBackup and HP Data Protector.Architect for VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.x customer solutions.Compile task lists and hours estimates for statements of work (SOW).Full start to finish implementations of data center solutions including HPE, Cisco, Simplivity and EMC converged and hyperconverged solutions.Storage engineer for EMC, Netapp, HPE 3Par/StoreVirtual, Pure, Nexsan and Nimble.Pre-sales consultant for hardware sales and professional services engagements.Implemented and optimized Horizon View, vSphere, Commvault and Veeam Solution sets.Develop excellent working relationships with customers and earning trusted advisor status.Responsible for virtual infrastructure implementations, upgrades and solutions development for customer owned datacenters and private and public clouds.Perform system integration of new/upgraded infrastructure into existing legacy systems.Installed and configured HP and Cisco UCS converged solutions. Installed and configured enterprise level storage solutions for use with Vsphere & HyperV.Subject matter expert for Vmware Vsphere, Citrx and Vmware VDI, all data protection suites and technologies. Responsible for identifying potential value add sales opportunities while on professional services and managed services engagements with existing customers.Customer demostrations in SME related technologies.Develop and construct customer deliverables in the form of documentation of infrastructure as built implementations. Perform Commvault, Veeam, Horizon View and Vmware vSphere health checks and analysis for customers.Provide support and administrative functions for internal IT infrastructure.

Plymouth, Mn

Architect for Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp and VMware Horizon View VDI environmentsArchitect for CommVault backup/restore, Quantum DXi and DR environmentsArchitect for VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.x customer solutions.Recipient of 2014 Soaring Eagle award for excellence in customer service and technical excellence.Full start to finish implementations of Cisco UCS environments.Virtual Desktop Infrastructure architect & design, implemenetation and support.Pre-sales support for managed services customers and professional services engagements.Implemented several Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.x hosted VDI with Netscaler 10.x Access gateway solutions.Develop excellent working relationships with customers and earning trusted advisor status.Responsible for virtual infrastructure implementations, upgrades and solutions development for Iaas, SaaS, RaaS and customer owned datacenters.Perform system integration of new/upgraded infrastructure into existing legacy systems.Installed and configured HP and Cisco UCS servers in customer and company owned datacenters and co-locations. Installed and configured enterprise level storage solutions for use with Vsphere & HyperV.Subject matter expert for Vmware Vsphere, Citrx and Vmware VDI, Netapp SnapManager for SQL & Exchange, backup/recovery and disaster recovery technologies. Responsible for identifying potential value add sales opportunities while on professional services and managed services engagements with existing customers.Executed disaster recovery tests using Nimble storage replication, FalconStore CDP, Netapp SnapMirror, VEEAM and BackupExec.Customer demostrations in SME related technologies.Develop and construct customer deliverables in the form of documentation of infrastructure as built implementations. Perform Vmware vSphere health checks and analysis for customers.Respond and resolve Managed Service incident and support tickets for SaaS, IaaS, RaaS and general support services customers.

Eagan, Mn

• Managed 2 direct reports, including hiring/termination of employees, scheduling and periodic performance appraisals.• Local liaison to Head of IT Infrastructure. Primary point of contact for all things related to internal IT, external vendors and project lead for the entire systems, database and network teams.• Designed, managed and directed complete “Greenfield” infrastructure build including a separate disaster recovery location. This included all project management, architecture design, systems configuration and vendor management.• Lead systems administration on vSphere 5, HP C7000 Blade server, EMC VNX 5700, approximately 100 RHEL 6.2 virtual severs with vFabric tc (tomcat) server and 30 Windows 2008 virtual and physical servers.• Systems builds of Riverbed Stingray traffic manager (Zeus), Zenoss monitoring, Hyperic server and PRTG network monitoring software tools. • Research and recommend new software/hardware technologies for implementation in a new infrastructure.• Architect and administer CommVault backup and recovery implementation including Oracle database backups/restores.• System and application level troubleshooting including Windows, Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux system issues, tomcat server and java spring applications. • Systems infrastructure documentation, Visio diagrams and process documentation• Managed on-call rotation for group of 7 to provide 24x7x365 coverage for a 100% uptime requirement for public websites.

Mounds View, Mn

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Roseville, Mn

• Primary responsibilities consist of high-level disaster recovery support, implementation, and consulting for network and backup administrators. • Expertise in mixed environments consisting of Windows 2000- 2008R2, XP, Windows7, Solaris 2.6-10, HP-UX, AIX, SUSE and Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX 3.5-4.1 (vSphere), SAN and enterprise wide network environments.. • Architect and manage all lab system builds, manage robots, and administer the Windows, Solaris, and VMware farms to replicate customer environments and problems.• Architect and support Verizon MS-SQL, Oracle and DB2 backup and recovery solutions.• Install and configure MS-SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 standalone servers and clustered solutions both as physical machines and virtual environments.• Monitor and manage customer technical support cases.• Provide technical assistance to other Symantec Business Critical Engineers in the areas of database and MS-Windows support.• Travel to customer sites to provide on-site support, training and consulting.• Write and develop custom technical reference documents and disaster recovery procedures for all types of backup systems including enterprise level environments.• Design and deliver proactive support and review Verizon processes and procedures regarding their enterprise wide NetBackup environment.• Serve as backup to the technical account manager in basic account management duties.• Architect and administrate Opscenter Analytics reporting server based on a Sybase 11 engine.

• Systems administrator for Windows, Solaris and Novell servers.• Backup Administrator on Arcserve 6.5 for NT.• Provided desktop support to end-users using the Windows operating system on both desktop and laptop machines. Support included configuration, troubleshooting connectivity issues and training.• Supported end-users in a computer lab, managed print queues, troubleshot, trained end-users in use of software and equipment, and logon/logout procedures.• Database design, management, report writing and generation.

• Installed ethernet 10base-T category 5 network including running cable, terminating connections via RJ-45 connectors, installing hubs, testing and making sure network was to category 5 standards, set up user accounts, installed network interface cards (nic) and performed work station setup.• Provided desktop support to end-users using the Windows operating system on both desktop and laptop machines. Support included configuration, troubleshooting connectivity issues and training.• Supported end-users in a computer lab, managed print queues, troubleshot, trained end-users in use of software and equipment, and logon/logout procedures.• Netware 3.11, 4.0, and 4.11 administrator.• Wrote and designed departmental web pages. • Administered 3000 user Nortel PBX telecommunications system including call accounting, purchasing decisions, troubleshooting and maintenance.