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Redwood City, California, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

With the most networks and interconnection options, Equinix will help you get connected, stay connected, and expand your connections. With Equinix, you can directly connect to a dynamic ecosystem of business partners, networks, and carriers. Leverage direct connections to corporate WAN providers, as well as enterprise, cloud, and managed service providers.The Equinix Global Solution Architect (GSA) builds customer solutions leveraging designs from the existing Equinix portfolio of reference architectures. The GSA identifies unique opportunities to incorporate components found in the larger Equinix ecosystem & solution offerings. Equinix GSAs help you map out a clear path to:1. Evaluate and establish technology roadmap focused on cloud strategy, WAN optimization and application performance2. Optimize your data center infrastructure3. Boost network and application performance4. Improve service availability and continuity of operations5. Build private, public and hybrid cloud solutions6. Lower overhead and operational costs7. Develop a criteria to meet other critical business needs such as vendor selection for IT, network or cloud services

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Providing pre- and post-sales technical support of QLogic, Brocade and Broadcom Fibre Channel and Ethernet products to end users, resellers, and OEMs, incl. EMC, Dell, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage►Preparing and leading presentations to audiences of all levels, including engineers, architects, sales, OEM partners, integrators, resellers, CIOs, COOs and CEOs►Subject Matter Expert on Cloud and Security for the field sales organization►Communicating detailed technical requirements, potential enhancements and future product requests to QLogic product marketing and engineering departmentsAchievements✔Nominated team subject matter expert for security and cloud, both emerging use cases for our products✔Conducted competitive analysis on the industry and competitors to identify potential accounts & vendors✔Pursued and achieved SSCP certification and received training in cloud and OpenStack✔Chosen to represent my team at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab for a multi-vendor interoperability test, testing products with devices from all the high end Ethernet 25Gb and 50Gb vendors

Houston, Texas, Us

Portfolio Manager for all Cloud & Utility Web Hosting business including feature development, pricing, account retention, new pursuits, and strategy► Selected as Technical Lead on project to integrate & converge all HP Web Hosting/Utility/Flex/Grid customers and assets (>$200 Million annual revenue stream) into HP Enterprise Private & Hybrid Clouds

Munich, De

Transformed and stabilized the Siemens IT storage and backup architecture in readiness for merger with Atos. Managed an operations team with oversight of Avamar, NetBackup, TSM, VMware, NetApp, HP, Hitachi, EMC, Cisco SAN/LAN, and Brocade SAN►Accountable for 24/7/365 operations to include backups for over 5000 servers, over 5 Petabytes of SAN & NAS storage and associated SAN/LAN/WAN infrastructure►Managed all BUR & storage for Siemens North America Infrastructure & Cloud ServicesAchievements✔Invited to work on a special project combining all IT operations for each business unit into one holistic enterprise wide architecture which was then migrated into a cloud IT operation prior to the move into Atos✔Managed the team to move all hard- and software for data storage and backups for thousands of servers

Houston, Texas, Us

Manager of HP's North America and South America disaster recovery facilities and staff.● Manager of multiple disaster recovery and cloud/grid/utility data centers to include management of projects upgrading infrastructure & deploying new continuity solutions Americas Delivery Manager April 2006 – March 2011Client Manager & Technical Lead May 2001 – March 2006Managed two dozen staff architecting, implementing and supporting; VMware, Mainframe, HP-UX, AS/400, Linux, EMC, NetApp, Cisco & Brocade SAN/LAN►Accountable for readiness and audit compliance of over 1700 servers, 450 Terabytes of SAN storage, data/telecom, PBX and over 1000 call center phones and workstations►Repeat speaker and panel member at HP technical forum for topics including data center management, business continuity and disaster recovery►Client management and disaster recovery assistance for over 140 customers from SMB to Fortune 100►Lead architect on SAN projects, server and network hardening, and disaster recovery Achievements✔Developed an internal only disaster recovery product into an external product that experienced explosive growth for several years with profitability of 60%+, maintaining best in class customer satisfaction ratings✔Progressed from Engineer - Client Manager - Single Site Manager - Director of N & S America operations● Prepared and presented material on HP disaster recovery and cloud/grid/utility solutions● Repeat speaker at HP technical forum, chosen for multiple expert panels● Accountable for readiness and audit compliance of over 1700 servers, 450 Terabytes of SAN storage, data/telecom, PBX and over 1000 call center phones and workstations

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Installed and supported EMC software on Sun Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, HP-UX and AIX.• Assisted customers in configuring servers, mounting disks, designing and implementing disk groups and volume groups.• Selected as Regional Performance Specialist, analyzed performance issues and made recommendations to customers to fix performance issues.• Selected to serve on rapid-response break/fix team to fix emergency issues.• Administrator of Atlanta Customer Service lab comprised of Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AS-400, NT servers and EMC disk arrays. Lab was used to teach classes, recreate customer problems, and give customer demonstrations.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Installed, configured and serviced EMC disk arrays, Connectrix (McData) and Brocade fibre channel switches, tape backup solutions, and all associated software.• Lead Field Engineer for Southwest Georgia, covered standby 24 x 7 x 365, all service calls, installs, and upgrades.• Assisted customers in disk connection, volume group setup, disaster recovery planning and testing, data recovery, and troubleshooting using HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and Windows NT.

Accountable for all technology strategy and oversight, transformed environment from non-centralized to client server environment with enterprise security and regulation compliance. Managed all technology to include databases, servers, laptops, desktops, phone systems, and printers.

● Instructed students from US, Egyptian, Hellenic (Greek), Turkish, Australian, and Taiwanese navies in RF, digital/analog, high voltage transmitters, and hydraulics● Earned Master Training Specialist designation● Researched, created, and maintained courseware for four mission critical courses

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management, Accounting

B.S., Information Technology