Robert Cantu Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Storage Engineer for the Mid-Atlantic Enterprise district covering all healthcare accounts in the state of Virginia. Focusing on FlashArray (Epic, VMware and database workloads), FlashBlade (PACS, VNA, backup, etc), Cloud Block Store, Portworx and Evergreen One (STaaS). Always willing to help, just reach out!

United States

Technical sales engineering for the entire storage portfolio of HPE in the greater DC-Baltimore metro areas. Hunter/Acquisition accounts regaining lapsed customers and winning new logos.Selected to the File Champions SME Team, a virtual overlay across North America bringing expertise in unstructured data and workloads. Focused on HPE’s capabilities expansion into Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and HPC workloads, using solutions based around HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, HPE Solutions for WEKA, GreenLake for FileSME in the capabilities of GreenLake for File, HPE Solutions for Qumulo, and competitor products such as Dell Powerscale and NetApp OnTAP

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Part of an elite global team of presales technical resources who maintain the highest levels of knowledge for file and object storage solutions, markets, and products. We use and leverage that knowledge in support of our customers, partners, and internal teams to grow revenue and raise the level of understanding in the presales community.Our mission is to anticipate, remove or solve the unknowns, uncertainties or complexities around the most challenging unstructured data solutions for our customers, partners and sales. Member of the Performance Warriors group, an all-volunteer tiger team of deep-technical specialists for OneFS, taking cases from the field sales engineers for their most challenging situations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Providing pre sales engineering expertise in unstructured data solutions utilizing Isilon and ECS. Recognized top Mid Atlantic UDS Team 2H 2019. Currently aligned to the Enterprise Capital District. Member of the performance warriors group, assisting other UDS teams tackle their customers’ issues, in order to remove performance obstacles to sales.

Delivered on statements of work as a lead technical consultant for various clients in the US focusing on block-based traditional and non-disruptive migrationAdvised on presales efforts for consulting opportunities which included being a technology SME and delivering presentations on and demonstrations of migration methodology both to internal resources and customersPerformed storage performance analysis for deep-dive investigations, determining root cause, and presenting findings to customer technicians and management Developed better engagement collateral and methods using existing and emerging technologiesMentored junior and peer technical consultants in the field and tracked their development into more capable resourcesConducted and delivered formal training in a classroom setting of delivery consultants on migration methods

Executed statements of work as an HDS Technical Consultant for various clients in the USProjects included open systems data migration, proofs of concept, storage management, storage virtualization, non-disruptive migration, and SAN fabric deploymentWorked on several large-scale, multi-team migration projects using automated scripting frameworks and facilitiesPerformed planning and design for initial evaluation of data migrationAdvised on pre-sales efforts for sizing consulting effort and overall solution integrity

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area

Developing and executing enterprise solutions for IT organizations with a focus on storage, backup, disaster recovery, high availability and virtualization. Performed presales solution architecting as well as postsales service delivery, many times both in the same opportunity