Michael Peters Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

United States

Greater Atlanta Area

In October 2019, Data Blue and Sovereign Systems joined forces with AHEAD.

Atlanta, Georgia

Suwanee, Ga

In the Engineering & Architecture team, my responsibility scope diversified to include:AWS Architect and Product Technical Lead -Led technical development of Managed AWS offering -Advised on AWS technical development training plans for team members -Served as SME for AWS architectures on sales engagements -Evangelized AWS platform internally with strong emphasis on learning and skills developmentPrivate Cloud Architect -Heavily involved in development of a new Hosted Private Cloud offering and peripheral services -Built custom sizing tools for Sales Engineering teamsData Protection Architect -Led vendor product evaluations and POC efforts around infrastructure refresh for replication and backup solutions -Provided expertise for emerging data protection technologies including object storage and scale-out data protection solutions. -Delivered multiple reference architecture designs and documentation for next generation backup solutionsStorage Architect/SME -Served as the architecture level escalation point for storage infrastructure issues and solutions. -Established deployment standards and storage architecture configurations. -Tracked consumption across all SAN systems and update capacity planning strategy. -Constantly evaluated new storage technologies including object storage, software defined storage, and hybrid cloud storage solutions. -Documented reference architecture designs and proposals for QTS deployment. -Built and updated cost models for SAN designs.

Suwanee, Ga

Responsible for all QTS owned and managed SAN environments. I handle system upgrades, designs, implementations, provisioning, and troubleshooting.-The multi-tenant managed environment consists of 35 storage arrays across 7 locations using EMC VNX, VNXe, and Clariion systems. Includes separate SAN fabrics of Brocade and Cisco switches.-The total managed space has grown from about 600 TB to over 3 PB.-Includes separate implementations for PCI compliance and FEDRAMP Cloud certified environments.-Configure/monitor site to site and CDP replication configurations using EMC RecoverPoint.-Implemented first wave of storage virtualization using EMC VPLEX for QTS Cloud environments.-Environment monitoring and analysis through EMC ViPR SRM Suite.

Roswell, Ga

Design/Deployment/Management of the following:-Network infrastructure (physical and logical)-VMware and SAN storage-Windows and Linux servers -Citrix XenApp and Microsoft RDS-Network Security-Routing/VPN/WAN connectivity-Microsoft Exchange Server-Backup systems-Disaster Recovery planning

Roswell, Ga

Roswell, Ga

Telecommunications Management

Activities and Societies: Linux Users Group

Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Theta Xi, Georgia Tech Chorale