SUMMARY

• Seasoned IT professional with over 20+ years of information technology expertise, including large scale data center operations with a focus on storage, systems and networking.
• Over 16 years in enterprise data storage - compute systems, performance-capacity planning & analysis, and pre-sales product launch drawing annual revenue stream of 100+ million, hands-on experience in design, test, and implement large scale data center solutions & collaterals
• Specialized in solutions pertaining to architectural design of highly distributed compute/storage systems, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection and migration with a demonstrated track records of working in the Solution Engineering - Storage Performance, Quality, SAN/NAS/Object Storage, Interoperability, Hyper-Converged servers, Hyper-Scale File System (Software Defined Storage) Cloud environments, Test Methodologies, Proof of Concept Design and implementation, Storage software Integration, File and Content, Data Protection, remote replication.
• Technical lead in solution engineering and technical operations scale-out solutions, hands on experience with large enterprise complex systems such as data protection/replication/backup solutions, infrastructure projects, and large proof of concepts including IoT projects related to public safety and smart cities
• Proven leader, Managed several successful new product launch. Passionate about customer satisfaction and business growth. Provided excellent Technical leadership, managing multiple concurrent projects, maintaining the ability to make rational decisions in high-pressure situations, and completion of projects before deadlines.
• Familiar with agile /scrum and JIRA and Microsoft project and Confluence tools, to deliver projects within committed scope, deadlines, and budget

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Solution Architect- Solution Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Implemented software and hardware solutions on projects related to IoT space. Developed designed and deployed improvement based on the customer requirements and solution to halp fixing products and in turn halped sales and support.
• Deployed Confidential Hyper-Converged Unified Computing Environment and produced solution for highest number of ESXi VMs can run with various applications in Scalable test environment.
• Deployed Confidential Scalable Platform - Hyper-Scale filesystems based KVM-VMs, Implemented Hadoop based Confidential Scalable Platform (HSP)-software defined storage and file systems for Big Data analytics.
• Implemented OpenStack based private cloud.
• Implemented Hyper-V, VMware, Xen,Virtualization platforms with VM failover technologies.
• Developed and Implemented solution based on customer’s present and future requirements, presented solutions and made recommendations.
• Planned, developed resource plans and schedules and participate in cross-functional release and roadmap planning, executed Storage sub-systems interoperability and performance measurement tests in a complex enterprise level system configurations.
• Published white papers and technical documentation, to facilitate field engineer’s faster deployment and understanding, in turn increasing revenues.
• Collaborated with diverse stakeholders like Solution owners, Test infrastructure, customers, service owner, developers, and hardware/software PMs throughout the entire development and go to market process for the technical implementations.
• Automated storage test process using Python, Shell Script which reduces testing time and improved error findings to fix the products issues before General Availability (GA). Established and implemented best practices for quality assurance processes and halp R&D.

Confidential Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Performance Consultant- Performance Test Labs

Responsibilities:

• Performed performance tests for Confidential and OEMs storages and servers, object storage, NAS, Hitachi
• Content Platform (HCP) and published technical white papers for every completed project.

Confidential Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Performance Consultant- Interoperability and Complex Test Labs

Responsibilities:

• Storage performance, Interoperability, Storage and Server Certifications for Confidential and OEMs storages and servers, object storage, NAS, Confidential Content Platform, and Data Protection.
• Performed Performance measurement for Confidential Enterprise Storage arrays, system integration for a large number of Confidential products including Business Continuity Remote Copy products, Confidential NAS products, Confidential Content Platform, Object Storage products, Hyper Converged Servers (Cisco UCS, Confidential Unified computing(UCP) Platform), with FC/CNA/iSCSI/FCoE in Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris and server virtualizations environments.
• Collaborated with different Switch, HBA vendors and the Confidential Storage Development (Japan) team to resolve issues encountered during interoperability tests; analyzed logs using Fibre Channel Analyzer.
• Implemented initiatives to improve quality through novel test approaches and strategies, configure and write scripts, methods and specs to extract data from storage devices to discover, build topology and get performance metrics;
• Experience in the storage domain and operations ecosystem with knowledge of various tools and monitoring
• Collaborated with Team in other geo locations to avoid duplicate efforts, saved 25% of testing/integration time.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Certification Engineer - Interoperability Lab

Responsibilities:

• Led projects through five different generations, and multiple release cycles of Hitachi’s Enterprise
• Storage, Mid-range Storage, and Confidential Blade Servers.
• Configured complex end-to-end solutions for interoperability testing of Confidential storage, Confidential NAS in Solaris, Linux(RH, SLES), AIX, Windows, IBM pSeries, Confidential Blade, Cisco UCS Servers environments with FC /FCoE and IP switches from Cisco, Brocade and HBAs from Cisco, Brocade, Qlogic, Emulex and Hitachi.
• VMware, Xen Virtualization platforms
• Integrated Confidential storage with OEM storages: IBM DS 8800, DELL, DDN. EMC and NetApp storages.

Confidential, moutain view, CA

Senior SAN QA Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior QA SAN Engineer . me worked with QA and Development groups at Confidential cLab to develop QA processes and plans for SAN software products. Developed infrastructure, including tests and automation.
• Responsibilities included, implementation, and test execution and qualification of Confidential products; Confidential SAN POINT CONTROL SPC, Confidential CCS and Confidential VCS, associated with system level testing on Fiber Channel HBA, SAN Switches (McData, Brocade, Cisco, QLogic, Inrange), corresponding drivers and firmware, and storage devices (IBM Shark, LSIFAStT, HDS9960, 9980, EMC DMX, JBODs. The tasks included; qualifying drivers on the HBA and the arrays, the firmware testing, HA testing, DMP testing, analyzing the logs and report the bugs the Etrack database. Executed tests, reviewed results, worked with Development groups to identify and resolve problems. Communicated test results, including all issues found, in written and verbal formats. Assisted development groups with troubleshooting, debugging, and ultimately closing product issues.

Confidential ,

Pre post sale Engineer Confidential Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Supported the pre-sales activity and me was the customer service liaison during the customer installation and integration process.
• Worked closely with the Sales Representative on acquiring new business including sales participation, proposal creation, implementation planning and post-sales support of assigned customers installations.

Confidential, 5600 Cattle Road San Jose CA

Open Storage Subsystems Storage System Division,

Responsibilities:

• Member of level 3 advanced Support of the Mid-entry Open Systems Storage Subsystem and SAN Product Field Engineering (PFE) Storage System Division.
• Provided world class support on a 7 x 24 basis to ensure maximum availability on a wide range of multi-vendor Storage and Switches equipment to local IBM account teams, World Wide Support Centers, IBM and vendor OEM development teams.
• Diagnosed and resolved complex Software issues using IBM internal decoder as well as Hardware issues down to component level including micro-code updates (Image files on the controllers and firmware update on the controllers and on the drives), and feature upgrades on assigned equipment, including bin files, implement maintenance programs that optimize machine performance and minimize unavailability and data loss.
• Provided assistance to operations and field services personnel on technical matters, such difficult machine problems, parts replacement and diagnostic techniques. Developed a working dialog with operations, sales and product management staff, submitted timely and prompt reports, including suggestions to improve operating procedures and to control costs.