Specialized Senior Solution Consultant supporting local Account Managers in Canadian Enterprise for Data Protection Solutions. Supported multiple customers across financial, manufacturing, retail space. Part of Pre-Sales Organization. - Provided pre-sales support to account management teams including technical sizing, proposals TCO's and RFPs- Performed whiteboarding sessions, deep dives and analysis exercises with customers on regular basis to develop roadmaps and strategies for the business - Developed enterprise proposals for Data Protection Solutions in hybrid-cloud and on-premise deployments - Developed account plans and strategies with core teams and other specialty groups to provide complete solutions for large enterprise customers - Supported technical teams with competitive analysis, reverse architectures and solution sizing - Managed customer escalations and facilitated deep dives into issues with SME's

Solution Architect supporting customers on planning and designing enterprise solutions for public sector organizations. Part of Pre-Sales Organization. - Practice lead for Software-Defined Infrastructure, Co-Lead for Advanced Data Management - Developed reference architectures and materials for go-to-market strategy - Technical lead on RFPs, architecture engagements and reviews, roadmaps and planning sessions - Supported several account managers across multiple verticals including education, government, healthcare and utilities - Built and maintained local lab for customer demos, vendor programs and solution validation / testing - Supported technical teams with training, managed development of new hires - Participated in technical resource hiring process including vetting talent and providing onboarding planning and guidance

Professional Services leader for enterprise projects. Focused on Public Sector including government, healthcare, education and utilities. - Responsible for design and architecture for large-scale datacenter deployments with a focus on IT infrastructure (Storage, Network, Compute, Virtualization, HCI, Data Protection & Hybrid Cloud) - Provided support on RPF technical responses, competitive analysis and solutioning - Completed Statements of Work for Professional Services for wide range of customers, use-cases and verticals - Technical lead on project deployments, implementations and training engagements - Deep expertise with enterprise IT solutions including enterprise storage arrays (HPE, Dell, Hitachi, Pure, IBM), virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization), Networking (Cisco, Brocade, Dell) and Servers (Dell, HPE, Huawei)

-Solutions Engineer focused on Data Center - Virtualization, Storage, Networking, Backup and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity-Worked on many successful RFP/RFS responses and was involved in most aspects of the process, with a focus on technological analysis and technical response.-Lead on multiple enterprise projects, including backup assessments, DC refresh projects and greenfield infrastructure / virtual deployments.-Have worked within several different silos, including Healthcare, Education, Municipal and other government agencies.-Involved regularly on customer engagements in a pre-sales role, including discovery, analysis and design.

-Deployed multiple CommVault Simpana solutions from the ground up with infrastructure across multiple datacenters-Designed Network Topologies using VMWare, FC SAN, iSCSI, HP Storage Arrays / HP Proliant Servers-Managed / Installed HP Blade Servers (G1 to G8) including networking and SAN Attachement / Disk Presentation-Designed and Deployed Business Continuity for customers with large infrastructures (FalconStor, VMware SRM, SAN replication-Managed / Deployed Backup Solutions using EMC Networker / Avamar / Data Domain-Ground up understanding of backup & business continuity projects and solutions-Designed and deployed enterprise architectures for internal solutions (IaaS & PaaS) as well as for Customers-Deployed and configured MS Exchange Servers, Active Directory, SQL Servers, Print / File Servers, VPN Servers, Web Servers (WAMP, IIS) as well as ESXi 5 and Redhat Linux-Designed and deployed automation scripts including those for benchmarking, connection scheduling and domain-Developed and engaged in troubleshooting and maintenance of enterprise servers / disk arrays and production Servers-Designed innovative solutions using available resources, while proposing the multiple avenues available based on cost and efficiency