Pre-Sales Solutions Architect Resume

SUMMARY:

Over 10 years of experience with a VAR/Systems Integrator, providing clients pre - sales consultation and solutions for on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments
Extensive experience with data center virtualization and storage technologies
Multiple vendor s from AWS, Cisco, VMware, HPE, Nutanix, NetApp
Familiarity with AWS cloud services: sizing, planning and migration methodology, AppStream and Workspaces
Well suited for teh fast-paced atmosphere of a VAR/Systems Integrator and its demanding sales team and customers
Trusted technical advisor to a multitude of clients in various industries (financial, health care, service providers, SMB, etc.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Meet with clients to assess their environment, architect and provide compute, storage and virtualization solutions to address their business challenges and objectives
Assist clients with evaluating AWS cloud services for workload migrations and end user compute solutions
Create detailed Statements of Work and Proposals to address RFPs from clients
Act as primary data center virtualization engineer to develop solutions for converged, and hyperconverged infrastructure deployments
Involved in over 100 data center deployments, starting from pre-sales and architectural planning to post-sales implementation and hand-off to teh customer
Act as team lead to coordinate planning and deployment of solutions for customers
Perform product overviews to Sales Team as well as internal to prepare engineering staff for deployments

SAN Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Responsible for provisioning and managing FC SAN consisting of EMC storage and over 200 servers
Implemented and managed a backup and disaster recovery solution to protect production servers and mission critical data
Assisted SQA and Development teams from both Fremont and India in setting up test configurations and troubleshooting system and fabric related issues
Provided support to all departments on IT related issues via our Help Desk system

Sr. Test Engineer

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

Performed compatibility testing of FC and iSCSI HBA’s under Windows and Linux OS environments
Performed interoperability testing of FC and iSCSI HBA’s and external storage arrays with SAN components (FC switches, tape libraries, JBODs, etc.)
Created implementation and deployment guides/manuals of Storage Solution configurations for publication on public website
Led a team of engineers in executing testing against products
Trained staff on test methodologies and company’s product features