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Silicon Valley Ca.

HPE Inc - Created collateral for HPE FlexFabric and Arista networking products. White papers, slide decks, podcasts, training webinars and reference architectures. Maintained internal share point web sites for field related material. Assisted engineers with Lab work related to demonstrations and proof of concepts. Helped define product requirements for Object storage integration with HPE Flex fabric networking products Worked with HPE SAN storage groups on how HPE networking products integrate with Scality RING object storage vendor solutions. TSP Inc - Provided NetApp Storage field service supervision to storage engineers. Managed NetApp Evaluation lab Installed DOT 8.1 – 8.3 versions and performed various installations at co location data center such as Equinix, CenturyLink and customer specific sites. Project planned scope of work related to disaster recover and business continuance for NetApp storage systems Worked with Field Sales to drive new product initiatives 8200, 9000 , flash cache NVMe, NVMe –oF All Flash FAS AFF SSD arrays.Crafted statements of work, scoped time lines and project managed data center solution in compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and converged infrastructure.Consulting - Adara Networks - Software Define Networking arena. Instrumental in creating collateral that includes engineering guides, white papers, proof of concept plans. Lead teams that demonstrate to customers the value of automated discovery, optimized cloud orchestration software that enhances existing Network and WAN infrastructure.Consulting - Sureline Systems - Conducted Sales Engineering - DC Program / Project management - Promotion Backup/ Disaster recovery products. Provided analysis, trainings, directed campaigns viaWebex, PowerPoint and go to market events. Managed internal labs and provided technical live demonstrations of both Physical and Virtual backup appliances. Products were demonstrated within local and cloud offerings such as MS Azure

Redwood City Ca.

Supporting Oracle Direct Sales Group. Provided analysis, trainings to customers and sales staff on Oracle Stack, Cloud services, Servers, Disks and Tape products. Created and directed campaigns via PowerPoint, Webex and voice customer calls to identify Storage needs for various industries. Installed SL150 at customer site. Knowledge of have expertise in Backup / Recover using Tape LTO, T10K technologies. Program Managed staff that created technical and general technical materials to support oracle sales teams. Understands ACSLS, STK Tape Analytics, Oracle Secure backup from RMAN.Provide project management to address the installation and upgrade paths for customer data center refresh initiatives.

Santa Clara Ca.

Demonstrated background in providing product management services to EMC customers with analysis and design and implementation of EMC Recover Point Continuous Data Protection, Disaster Recovery and Redundancy product. Refreshed creation of a local testing lab for proof of concept projects. Configured SAN storage with Brocade 7600B switches, Symmetrix VMAXe, Clariion storage arrays within the Lab, Installed, configured ESX 5.0, Vsphere and VCenter server allowing for VMware images to support field demonstrations. Set up and managed Red Hat Linux servers, Symantec NetBackup application and documented all related recovery best practice deployment and recover procedure guides.

Lead architectural and implementation support efforts from customer escalations for top 100 NetApp accounts. Designed / revamped use cases and scaling tests of ndmp dump and SMTape backup products. Created technical reports,white paper, updated user and deployment guides and marketing material related to NDMP.Lead weekly project meetings that included Software QA, Product Management, Technical Marketing, Customer Account Managers in Architecting multi-tier backup and Disaster Recovery solutions using NetApp Snapmirror, SnapVault and deduplication technologies. Systems administration of NetApp’s FAS Storage products that integrated Unix and Windows clients over Fibre Channel, NAS and iSCSI. Set up client connections NFS, CIFS to benchmark data-sets that model NDMP dump performance to LTO3 and LTO4 tape. Configured IBM TS3500, ADIC i2000, SUN STK and HP MSL Libraries. Installed Symantec NetBackup on IBM x3350 MS Windows Server as the media / master server. Configured Symantec Netbackup tools such as robtest to troubleshoot connection issues. Defined storage units, schedules, pool and policies for all aspects dealing with NDMP testing. Configured DOT V6.x, 7.x and 8.0 as well as GX OS. Configured disk aggregates and flex volumes. Set up various Red Hat Linux MS Windows Servers 2003, 2008. Tested VMware VMDK files to tape for performance modeling. This included VMware ESX servers. Project managed software development / product requirements and Use Case specifications for NetApp advanced backup application for tape based disaster recovery and redundancy products such as “SMTape” or SnapMirror to tape. Product was developed for FC SAN sites that needed fast solutions for disaster recovery requirements.Program managed and created new interoperability web matrix environment allowing tape hardware and software backup vendors to pass NetApp Inc. certification criteria. Defined / Ran tests that characterized storage bottlenecks to tape.