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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Storage/Server Presales

consulting

D2D & Tape management

IT Solution management

Disaster Recovery

Resource management

Server/storage technical

managent

Backup & Recovery

Monitoring & Reporting

Managing client

Networking & partnership

SAN solution

Client focussed service

INTERNATIONAL

TRAINING

South Africa

Austria

Morocco

Germany

United Arab Emirates

Victor Udoh

Storage and Technology Consultant

SUMMARY

A proven self-motivated team player, who works well with both internal teams and clients with near to 13 years’ worth of experience in the storage industry, 3 years of which as a HP employee. His capabilities include but are not limited to the design, installation and implementation of complex storage landscapes. He has a remarkable problem-solving attitude and the capability of overseeing complex problems. He is a true out-of-the-box thinker who can also easily cope with stress; regardless if this is due to a down system or a project based on a tight deadline. He has the ability to quickly master new talents and put them into practice. Victor takes a great deal of pride in his work and customer satisfaction.

Victor being well equipped with the knowledge and experience is capable of working with large enterprise implementations of Netapp, HP, EMC, ORACLE, storage and all aspects that go along with those implementations; these aspects include but are not limited to: networking, Fibre Channel SAN, DAS, NAS, DR, BI, Business Continuity, Backup & Recovery with both D2D and Tape, hypervisors like VMware and sever side operating systems like Linux or Windows.

CAREER HISTORY

Systemtech Group (Channel Distributions)

TEAM LEAD Solution and Services Feburary 2014 – Till Date Responsible for managing the delivery of (Servers, Storage and Network) and Service Delivery Manager (all Projects). Also responsible for formulation and execution of business plans and sales strategy; in addition to providing sizing, presales consultations and configurations for enterprise solutions.

Duties:

Managed company budget of $16 million for thr FY

Trusted advisor to all sectors in the area of Virtualization, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Server Consolidation and Data Centre Optimization.

Understood that each organization needs are unique to one another.

Took business objectives as a requirement to design Infrastructure solution that suites the customer’s business objectives and budget.

Presales Consultant for High End server, Storage Architecture Configurations, Virtualization solution, Enterprise Disaster recovery, Data centre Automation and Transformation

Hewlett-Packard

STORAGE PRESALES CONSULTANT December 2010 – December 2013 Duties:

Exceeded 90% of West African Target of $40 million for the FY

Developed and Implemented technical enablement and certification plan on HP storage product

Architect solution to position HP Storage Portfolio with the partner(s) as part of the joint solution development exercise

Supported complex solution deals involving HP Storage product

Positioned competitive technical advantage of HP storage

Created and maintained key technical leads from the partner organization

Local point of interaction for the partner(s) in deal pursuits which involve HP storage solution.

Provided presales technical support to partners on deal pursuits and help shape deals by cross-selling and/or up-selling on HP Storage technology

Performed requirements definitions, system analysis and design, interface and data architectures, lifecycle cost analysis and estimation, and governance INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Telecoms

Financial Sector

Education

Government

IT

Manufactuering

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PERSONAL DETAILS

Victor Udoh

601 Saddleback Ln, Flower

Mound, TX75028

M: +1-682-***-****

S: beluvic

E: acvhcy@r.postjobfree.com

E: acvhcy@r.postjobfree.com

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PERSONAL SKILLS

Whiteboard

Analytic

Problem Solving

Relationship building

Confident

Creative

Confident

CBCemea

SERVER/STORAGE ENGINEER January 2003 – November 2010 Responsible for the effective strategic plan, organisational structure and provided clear management direction to support the overall vision and mission. Also worked closely with other departmental managers to create a strong organisational culture. Duties:

Actively supported the account team with solution advice, proposals, presentations, and other customer communications

Analyzes and provides support to deals in the pipeline where needed

Assessed operating system and suggested storage architecture solutions, including backup hardware.

Helped implement SAN, including configuration and enhancing platform security

Understood the roles and affectively engages other teams and resources within CBC and partners

Identified overlooked opportunities suggested by technical expertise

Facilitated smooth transition from sales to implementation by orienting the appropriate teams to the solution design

Performed change interventions for faulty Sun hardware and Netapp (servers and storages).

Prepared Scope of Work (SOW) new hardware and software configurations.

Prepared fault trend report for hardware and software on a monthly basis

Installed and supported SAN environment

Installed and supported Veritas Storages foundation for UNIX

Installed and supported of FASxxx Netapp filers.

Daily backup and restore operations

Used of Snapmirror,snap drive UNIX/WINDOWS and Snapvault for data replication and protection

Used of Flexclone for data testing

Installed and Configured of ESX servers

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Technical attributes

Platforms: Linux, Unix, Mac OS, Windows, AIX

Networking: SAN, LAN/WAN, Network Attached Storage (NAS), TCP/IP, VPN, NFS/SMB/ CIFS/SCSI protocols, Brocade switches/directors, Multi- Protocol Router (MPR)

Storage: HP, EMC, NETAPP, ORACLE, DELL, IBM

Servers: HP, SUN/ORACLE, IBM, DELL, VMWare,

Applications: Veritas, HP StorageWorks, StorageTek, ONTAP Professional attributes

Assessed operating system and suggested storage architecture solutions, including backup hardware.

Helped implement SAN, including configuration and enhancing platform security

Provided advocacy and hands on support to the sales team in order to assist them in closing new business

Experience of attending meetings with C- level executives (or able to demonstrate a strong ability to do so)

Good presentation and documentation skills

CERTIFICATION

B.Sc Mathematics/Statistics

EMCISA

NACP

VCP V3 (25945)

NCDA

SCNA 10

NASAP

Master ASE – Storage

IBM - Storage Sales –N

Accredited Presales

Professional (APP)

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