JOHN A CARDE

San Antonio, TX

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Work experience

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Technical Consultant

Lead Data migration architect responsible for all phases of the migration

Install and configured data center automation Operations Orchestration IT automation software

Worked with customers storage, network and server teams to identify Data center requirements

Performed infrastructure data center assessments covering Storage, Server, Network

Created Data Center Assessment Documents, Test plans and Visio diagrams for the customer.

Deployed and configured hybrid, Hyper Converged, cloud Storage, HP BL-XXX, DL-XXX, HC-250, HC-380, C7000, load Balancers, Brocade and Cisco Switches.

Created scripts for repeatable processes

Function as a subject matter expert (SME) for technical staff regarding hyper Converged, Hybrid Storage, Cloud proposed solution design, configuration, implementation, and testing specifics

10/2015 to 05/2016- HPE – Texas

Pre Sales Solutions Architect-Technology Consultant

Provide technical presales consulting to sales teams channel partners identifying customer Infrastructure requirements with the end goal of acquiring new customers and expanding the footprint in existing customer environments

Drive sale initiatives related to new server, storage and network products to meet or exceed quotas on a quarterly basis.

Used salesforce to track current sales opportunities in assigned accounts and Identify new leads

Created solution architecture,configurations. BOM files for Storage, Server, network solutions

Designed High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Storage, Server, Network and Backup solutions for customers.

Function as a subject matter expert (SME) for technical staff regarding hyper Converged, HPC, Hybrid Storage, HA, DR, Data Center Virtualization proposed solution design, configuration, implementation, and testing specifics.

Created documents for pre and post sales Assessment, POC Test plans and Visio diagrams for the customer.

Created and presented presentations showing the value of the HPE Solution to customers at customer locations and remotely

Organize and provided remote and onsite hardware and software training for customers and channel partners

Lead all technical pre and post sales Storage, Network and Server Assessment discussions

Developed and Lead Proof of Concepts (POC) and Demos

Provided account team training on new hardware and software products.

Responded to RFPs and RIOs.

Provided weekly updates on current deal and new opportunities focused on the retail, financial and Medical segments

Establish trusted advisor relationship with decision makers to drive new business.

12/2010-02/2015 HP

Technical Solutions Architect

Lead Architect for customer Data Center virtualizations, Data Center migrations, Cloud Migrations

Designed High Availability Disaster Recovery solutions, Storage, Server, Network and Backup solutions for customers.

Install and configured data center automation using HPOO- Operations Orchestration IT automation software

Implemented and configured 3rd party migration tools MPX200, Vmotion, Double take, ATAdata, AWS Kinesis Firehose, AWS Storage Gateway

Worked with customers storage, network and server teams to identify Data center requirements

Created Data Center Assessment Documents, Test plans and Visio diagrams for the customer.

Deployed and configured HPC, Hyper Converged, cloud Storage, HP BL-XXX, DL-XXX, HC-250,HC-380, C7000, load Balancers, Brocade and Cisco Switches.

Created scripts for repeatable processes

Performed infrastructure data center assessments covering Storage, Server, Network

Lead Implementations, configuration Microsoft HyperV, Microsoft Azure

Organized and lead weekly customer meetings to review project status opportunities focused on the retail, financial and Medical segments

Organized and provided customer training on Hardware and Software solutions including best practices.

Conducted assessments, health checks on storage, servers and networks

Assisted support engineering team with escalation call on performance issue by analyzing collected data to determine root cause and determine fix.

Function as a subject matter expert (SME) for technical staff regarding hyper Converged, HPC, Hybrid Storage, Cloud proposed solution design, configuration, implementation, and testing specifics.

04/2008-12/2010 3PAR

Presales Solutions Engineer.

Partnered with sales and account managers in multiple regions and support the sales process to achieve revenue monthly, quarterly and yearly quotas

Created and presented presentations showing the value add of the 3PAR Enterprise Solution to customers at customer locations and remotely

Provide technical presales consulting to sales teams channel partners identifying customer Infrastructure requirements with the end goal of acquiring new customers and expanding the footprint in existing customer environments opportunities focused on the retail, financial and Medical segments

Assist the sales team in identifying customers’ business and technical requirements during the sales cycle and determining appropriate actions.

Conduct product demonstrations on web and face-to-face meetings, field marketing events, webinars, meetups and industry events.

Function as a subject matter expert (SME) for technical staff regarding hyper Converged, Flash, Hybrid Storage, Cloud proposed solution design, configuration, implementation, and testing specifics.

Used salesforce to provide weekly updates on current deal.

Drive new opportunities related to new server, storage and network products in my accounts.

Created Configurations and BOM files,

Provide customers on going assistance to optimize performance and reliability and to achieve customer satisfaction goals.

Lead all technical presales activities, presentations, white boarding, demos, POC and training.

Technical liaison for the sales team, Perform technical presentations to customer and prospects, responding to RFPs and RIOs.

Managed direct account and partner responsibilities for selected accounts in assigned territory.

Deep knowledge of the Federal and Medicall segments.

Organized and lead customer training and best practices on Hardware and Software products.

Organized weekly meeting with account teams to review salesforce opportunities to drive new business.

Created and maintain relationship with decision makers and senior buyers to drive new business.

Responded to RFPs and RIOs.

9/2005 03/2008 IBM

Senior IT Storage specialist / Solutions Architect

Responsible for technical presentations, white boarding on TSM and SVC software across a national territory.

Lead Data Center Architect for the State of Texas 31 to 4 data center consolidation and migration project

Lead Architect for IBM Data Center transformation and Migration team for several high profile customers

Mentor junior solution architects on best practices for large scale data center migration

Provide technical presales consulting to sales teams channel partners identifying customer Infrastructure requirements with the end goal of acquiring new customers and expanding the footprint in existing customer environments

Assist the sales team in identifying customers’ business and technical requirements during the sales cycle and determining appropriate actions.

Conduct product demonstrations on web and face-to-face meetings, field marketing events, webinars, meetups and industry events

Lead Technical discussion with customer’s infrastructure team to identify Data Center requirements and expectations.

Created New data center infrastructure design and Visio documentation to be presented to the customer

Collected performance data using the tools Performance Tools to analysis for possible performance issues.

Gathered data from customer’s current infrastructure for capacity planning and forecast.

Organized and lead weekly multi-vendor project meeting to review status and opportunities focused on the retail, financial and Medical segments

Lead and managed a team of 9 system engineers that were responsible for the day to day administration duties for their TSM backup production IT Infrastructure environment and their SAN storage.

Deployed and configured IBMs GDPS/PPRC Hyper Swap Manager software

Implemented and configured IBM GDPS/XRC software

11/2004-09/2005 Analysts International/ EMC Inc., San Antonio,

Implementation Specialist

Design, Integration and Implementation of SAN solutions in customer production Infrastructure Using Current EMC Hardware SYMM, DMX, CX600, CX400, CX200, Connectrix, Cisco, Mcdata and Brocade switches solutions.

Install and Configure all hardware and software such as Mirror view, Snap view, SAN Copy, Time Finder, SRDF at customer's location throughout the United States.

Team lead engineer on several big projects such as Storage performance tuning, SAN, Backup assessment as well as Data center relocations.

Configured and implemented Data migrations.

Configured and installed Veritas backup tape solutions NetBackup, Backup Exec and Legato

Responsible for SAN Production Infrastructure administration duties

Conduct weekly status face to face meetings with customers

09/2002 11/2004 CTS Inc., San Antonio, TX

SYSTEM ENGINEER

Design, Integration and Implementation of SAN solutions in customer production Infrastructure Using Current EMC Hardware SYMM, CX600, CX400, CX200 and HDS Hardware 9980, 9970, 9510, McData, Cisco and Brocade switches solutions.

Installed and Configure all hardware and software such as Mirror view, Snap view, SAN Copy, Time Finder, SRDF at customer’s location throughout the United States.

Lead System Engineer on SAN Assessment and Health Check

Organized Customer Backup Assessments by interviewing customers SAN and Storage team to obtain the information and data

Lead and managed all aspect of a customer data center relocation projects.

Assisted sales account managers as needed doing technical presentation and white boarding.

Configured and installed Veritas backup tape solutions Net backup, Backup Exec and Legato

Responsible for SAN Production Infrastructure administration duties

Conduct weekly status face to face meetings with customers

03/2001- 09/2002 Hitachi Data Systems. Madison, Wisc.

Pre-Sale Consulting System Engineer

Work with sales Manager to increase sale in my Territory with new and current customers.

Provide technical presales consulting to sales teams channel partners identifying customer Infrastructure requirements with the end goal of acquiring new customers and expanding the footprint in existing customer environments

Assist the sales team in identifying customers’ business and technical requirements during the sales cycle and determining appropriate actions.

Lead product presentations and technical presentations on Hitachi Data Systems products from the Tech level to the C level.

Assist customer Service with any customer issues in the customer production Infrastructure mainframe environment, open systems, NAS and San.

Worked along with the VARS on any Technical issues that they or their customers may have.

Organize and lead the design, Implementation, configuration and Integration of HDS SAN and NAS equipment into the customer production Infrastructure.

Technical assistances with the setup of booting of the SAN, Zoning of the Switch or Director.

Organized and lead the installation of all HDS software in my area.

Configured Shadow Image (snaps) Files Configured True Copy for data replication and data migrations

Collaborated with the customer and HDS customer service to design the Data migration that would have the least amount of down time or impact to the production data environment.

Collaborated with Territory Managers replying to RFP and any other type of requests.

Collaborated with EPIC Software engineering team to get the HDS 9200 certified storage array

04/1998-02/2001 EMC Corporation San Antonio, TX

Senior Field Engineer

Organized, Planned and Installed EMC DASD, Connectrix and Clariion equipment connecting it to multiple host systems, such as RS 6000, IBM AIX, True64, Sun Systems, HP UNIX, Novell, and NT servers. Managed customer’s performance issues and was first line of support for EMC software

Responsible for multiple customers’ sites continuing to update Micro Code, Patches and equipment upgrades.

Coordinates and lead monthly meetings with customers to discuss pass Month’s activities and detail plans for future installations and upgrades

Lead the installation of all EMC software Products on platforms attached to EMC equipment.

Installed and ran performance software on the arrays

Handled disk, logic cards, power supply, troubleshooting and replacement in the field

Maintained field inventory

Conduct weekly status face to face meetings with customers

02/1990- 04/1998 STI San Antonio, Texas

Senior System Engineer

Maintain high profile accounts in the field which included mainframes, midrange and networks sites.

Handled all service calls, upgrades and software installations on IBM ES9000, 3090, AS400, RS6000, sun servers, and hardware installation for assigned territory on IBM, Novell, Windows Servers Extensive experience installing SCO Unix software, Aix on RS6000, multi-platform servers, Cisco routers, Brocade switches, hubs, ISDN lines, new software and all other aspects of networks calls and installation on Midrange, open systems and network in the branch and remote areas

Obtained Novel CNE and MCSE Certification.

Managed 6 customer service engineers, scheduled training, vacation and did reviews.

Collaborated with a sales force of 5 sales personnel with pre/post sales questions and required configurations to meet the customer needs and get the most performance from system.

Lead the technical presentations at local user groups and expose

Handled disk, logic cards, power supply, troubleshooting and replacement in the field

Maintained field inventory

Conduct weekly status face to face meetings with customers

Education and Training

• Utah Technical College, Provo, Utah Associate of Science Electronic Technology

Certifications

• Data Migration Architect

• MCSE-NT 4.0

• CNE-Novel

Additional Skills

•SME - hyper Converged, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid Storage,

•3PAR Apps - Remote Copy, Peer Motion, Online Import, AO and Performance tuning champions

•Storage Architectures HPE, 3PAR, HDS-9200,99XX, EMC-SYMM,DNX, Clariion, VMAX,VNX, IBM-XIV,AS400,RS6000, DS4000,DS8000,

•IBM Mainframe - 4341, 4381,3084,3090,ES9000,S/390,zSeries 800

•NAS - Netapp, Blue Arc

•Server Architectures - HP BL-XXX, DL-XXX, HC-250,HC-380, C7000.

•Load balancers - Barracuda,F5,Brocade,

•Backup Solutions- Backup Exec, Net backup, Commvault, Veeam

•Operating Systems –Linux, Aix, Novell, Unix, VMware, Vsphere, Vcenter, Vmotion, VMware Cluster 5, 5.1, 6, Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 cluster

•Multi pathing Software- Power Path, MPIO, HDLM

•Databases. MySQL SQL, SQLite, Oracle

•Applications-SaaS,PaaS, IaaS, SAP HANNA, ERP,CRM

•HP Applications - HPE Orchestration, HP Archsight, HP SiteScope, HP Openview,

•Switches- Brocade-blade and director switches, Cisco Director switches and routers

•Migration tools – MPX200, Double take, ATAdata, Vmotion, True Copy, AWS Kinesis Firehose, AWS Storage Gateway

•Microsoft - Microsoft Azure, Microsoft HypreV

•Scripting- Python

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