Enterprise Storage Architect

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Results-driven and goal oriented technical marketing architect and

management professional with cross-functional expertise in enterprise

storage, databases, virtualization and cloud infrastructure, data analysis

and management, DB2 and Oracle DBA, experienced in managing highly talented

team of architects and working with stack-holders, managing customer and

partner relationships, leading projects and culturally diverse teams. Over

19 years of multi-industry experience in defining data strategy, policies,

and programs, developing and implementing enterprise architecture and

application solutions. Hands on experienced in developing strategies for

data management, disaster recovery, High availability and data retention.

Good presentation, mentoring and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Sr. Manager Product and Partner Engineering, NetApp

Inc., 2005 - Jan 2013

Primary focus on architecting and developing vertical solutions using

NetApp unified storage, IBM DB2 database and other technology products.

Setup equipment over NAS, SAN, iSAN, in dedicated or virtual environments.

Interact with customers to understand their business requirement.

Collaborate with partner engineering teams to develop innovative solutions

for customers. Partner with product management and engineering team to

drive the future product functionality that enhances value for customer.

Manage resource needed for joint work with partners. Deliver sales tools

such as technical solution guide, white papers, and technical articles to

help NetApp field, channel and IBM sales teams to boost sales revenue.

Provide pre-sales and post-sales support, present technical sessions in

events and shows.

Accomplishments:

. Led 16 joint Enterprise technology solution projects with IBM using

various IBM and NetApp technologies, eight of these joint projects were

converted into IBM Redbooks and Red papers.

. Worked with IBM DB2 Engineering team to integrate NetApp Snapshot

technology into DB2 engine that not only simplified DB2 backup and

restore operation for IBM NetApp joint customers but also increased

NetApp revenue for IBM Enterprise Application segment.

. Developed backup, restore, replication, cloning and disaster recovery

scenarios using DB2 and NetApp features and tested in enterprise

environment setting with large databases.

. Developed custom scripts and tools for storage system monitoring and

integration that helped customers to leverage advanced NetApp features.

. Lead projects to develop DB2, Lotus Domino and AIX solutions and

collateral that helped to increase NetApp revenue for IBM Enterprise

Application segment from $5.0M to $110.

. Built strong alliance relationship with IBM DB2, Lotus Domino, AIX and

Tivoli Engineering teams that resulted in joint business development

efforts contributing to joint collateral, POC and integration efforts

targeted to increase revenue for both NetApp and IBM.

. Worked with NetApp customers do proof of concept according to the

business requirement that helped to secure multimillion dollar deals. Few

examples are View Pointe, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Palm beach

Florida,

. Generated Technical collateral (10 Technical Reports, 6 Redbooks,

PowerPoint presentations, VODs and knowledge base articles) for clients,

sales team and channel partners, which significantly reduces number of

customer support cases and pre-sales engineering engagements.

. Work with NetApp Global Support (NGS) team to diagnose and resolve

customer escalation cases.

Lead Database and Performance Engineer, PeopleSoft Inc,

Pleasanton CA 2003 - 2005

Accomplishments:

. Reviewed and contributed to RMS Database design for PS 8.4 for IBM DB2

. Analyzed RMS application design issue and collaborated the effort with

offshore development team in India to fix for the current product which

improved performance more than 90%.

. Contributed in designing the PeopleSoft RMS product's enhancement

roadmap.

. Collaborated with offshore development and strategy teams to develop

performance and benchmark standard and presented it to the senior

manager.

. Led benchmarks team and completed benchmarks for PeopleSoft 8.44 (RMS and

EPM)

. Effectively resolved team conflicts, kept team spirits, and moral high to

ensure product delivers on time and under budget.

Lead Data Architect, RHI Pleasanton CA

1998 -2003

. Conceptual, Logical and Physical data design for complex enterprise OLTP

applications

. Data modeling for data mart using Dimensional modeling techniques

. Discussing and reviewing the design with the stack holders.

. Gathering metadata and managing meta data repository

. Develop Architecture for Data Cleansing, Transformation and migration

legacy data

. Extract, transform and Load data in Data mart, staging and target system.

. Create templates for Requirement gathering, coding and database design.

. Perform DBA role for development environments and work closely with DBA

and developers.

. Application and Data base performance tuning.

. Installing, configuring and upgrading database, plan backup, recovery and

high system availability

Data Modler and Analyst, Data Case BV Groningen, Netherlands

1996 -1998

. Create Conceptual, Logical and Physical data design for complex

enterprise OLTP applications for an Insurance company (FAZIS).

. Document and review the design with business stack holders

. Coordinate design and development effort of with offshore team working in

New Delhi, India

. Design Application architecture.

. Extract, transform and Load data in new system from legacy.

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Aug. 2008

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Kenan-Flagler Business

School

Masters of Computer Applications (MCA) May. 1995

The University of Rajasthan Jaipur, India;

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS:

. Professional Certification Program from IBM

. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

. Virtualization/Cloud: VMware vSphere 5.x and vCenter, Hyper-v 2012,

Citrix VDI, Hadoop

. Storage Technology- NetApp Data ONTAP and c-mode, NetApp FAS and E-series

IBM N-series and DS series.

. Databases: IBM DB2 V 7-10.5, Oracle 9i & 10g R2

. Modeling tools: Oracle Designer, Erwin, ER studio, Rational Rose

. Languages: PL/SQL, DB2 SQL PL, JAVA, SQL*Loader, SQL, SQLJ, XML, Unix

Shell script

. OS: SUN Solaris 9, HP-UX 11i, AIX 5.2, Linux, Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.x,

Windows 2Kx

. Others: Informatica (PowerMart, PowerCenter), PeopleSoft RMS. People

Tools, Data ONTAP

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