Solution Architect Gen Ai

Allen Liu

**** ********** **** ***, **********, CA, 94566.

408-***-**** (c) ***********@*******.***

HIGHLIGHTS

Previous certificates:

oGoogle Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

oHashiCorp Terraform Associate

oAWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

oVMWare Certified Professional (VCP-DCV55)

Experienced in Generative AI, AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, virtualization, storage, Cloud, Data Center.

20+ years comprehensive career experiences: technical marketing, systems engineering, pre-sales engineering, solution architecting, technical support, technology evangelizing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Amazon Web Services – Santa Clara, CA 11/23 - Present

Sr. Cloud Solution Architect, ISV; Gen AI AWsomeBuilder; Storage Subject Expert

As field CTO and trusted advisor of customers, work with customers to adopt cloud by achieving Cloud Well-Architected state with all AWS services, especially on Gen AI solutions. Drive and guide customers through entire adoption cycle - Requirement discovery, proposal, POC, and launch.

Covering many large strategic customers. Total revenue is about $100M.

Conduct workshops, game days, immersion days to promote AWS technology and solutions, to educate customers and partners to be able to get full benefits from AWS services, products and technologies.

As Thought-Leader, contribution to company resources like blogs, content generations, public speaking.

Gen AI AWSome Builder Program Panelist. Mentor and coach solution architects in Gen AI AWSome Builder program.

Storage Subject Expert - Technical Forum Committee (TFC). Support all projects as storage expert in solution architecture design to ensure comply Well-Architected design rules.

Seagate Technologies LLC, Lyve Cloud – Fremont, CA 06/21 - 09/23

Lyve Cloud is a S3 compatible public object storage provider.

Sr. Manager, Cloud Solution Architect 10/22 - 09/23

Manage solution architect team that provides customer facing presales/post-sales works.

Manage solution development lab to development and validate solutions.

Work on key accounts as solution experts.

Coordinate between pre-sales, professional services, product, supports teams on customer projects (new & existing).

Cloud API Gateway, S3 API development, integration and implementation.

Sr. Staff Cloud Solution Architect 06/21 -10/22

Pre-sales solution design for Lyve Cloud with applications in various fields.

Solution engineering with partner applications and cross certification, validation.

Professional services engagement and implementation.

Product development collaboration.

Cross team project lead and management.

Customer cloud API, S3 API integration, development and implementation.

Tencent Cloud America – Palo Alto, CA 04/19 – 06/21

Tencent Cloud is a global-wide, AWS-alike Public Cloud Provider. I possess deep AWS solution architect expertise.

Sr. Cloud Solution Architect (Pre-sales)

Pre-sales technical engagement, solution proposal, PoC design and execution, delivery.

On-going customer relationship maintaining.

New opportunity discovery from existing and new customers.

Technical marketing support.

Technical document authoring, translation.

Goke US Laboratory – Santa Clara, CA 01/18 –01/2019

Sr. Solution Architect/Team lead – Cloud and Storage

Software Defined Storage product and solutions architecting, designing – based on Ceph and Gluster with Acceleration technology in the scope.

Chip API - SSD Controller API design, verification, and integration.

Storage solution development for cloud virtualization and Container – Docker, Kubernetes(K8S) – Research and PoC work on Kubernetes storage solution with Ceph.

Hybrid Cloud/Public cloud migration solution: MS Azure, AWS, VMWare,OpenStack.

Supervise product management, design, and development.

Market analysis and positioning research.

Solution development.

Provide reference architecture to partners.

Collect partners and customers feedback to work with engineering team to innovate and

improve products.

Dell EMC – Pleasanton, CA 10/16 –11/17

Sr.Advisor, Solution Architect, Converged Platform Solution Division

Hybrid and Public cloud enterprise solution with: VMWare, Microsoft Azure and WAP, AWS,EMC storage, Data Protection (Avamar,Networker,Data Domain, Recover Point).

EMC Corporation – Pleasanton/Palo Alto, CA 8/14 –10/16

Principal Solution Architect, EMC and VMWare Federation

Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud Solution

Develop Hybrid Cloud solution based on MS Azure to move workload between on-premise Azure WAP Pack and Azure Public Cloud.

Develop Add-on enterprise modules (data protection module, monitoring and analyze module), and integrate them to Azure environment.

PowerShell development.

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution

This project is to implement new IT architecture for modern enterprises to build cloud based IT layout. It addresses traditional IT structure’s limitation on resource isolation and under-utilization. All computing, networking, storage and software can be shared to reach maximum utilization. It can start with small scale and grow to huge size and spin out to cross sites. It involves broad range of products from various vendors.

IaaS/BaaS/ STaaS solution architecting, development and deliverables.

Core technology: VMWare: vSphere, vCloud suite ( vCAC, vCO, vOM,View). EMC: Viper, Data Protection Suites (Data Domain, Avamar, RecoverPoint).

Microsoft Cloud solution: Azure, System Center, Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager, Enterprise Applications (SQL, Exchange)

Native Hybrid Cloud Solution

This solution is to implement Cloud Native Application Platform for modern DevOps architecture. The infrastructure layer components include OpenStack, VMWare vSphere, EMC ScaleIO, VMWare vSAN, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry as center pieces based with EMC orchestration products as well as VxRail, VxRack, VMWare SDDC. The products have been adopted by many major enterprises as datacenter foundations.

Analytic Insights Module – Big Data Comprehensive Solution

This project is to provide Big Data comprehensive environments to large enterprises with a solution that in the situation of large amount, diverse types of data environment, be able to retrieve data for various analysis purposes. Data is ingested and stored in bulk format. Various applications are able to get data in the efficient way to generate results.

The solution has infrastructure layer, service layer, and application layer. The main components in the solution include Hadoop/Spark, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, virtualization (VMWare, OpenStack), and enterprise IT products like server and storage from Dell EMC.

EMC Corporation - Santa Clara, CA 8/10 –8/2014

Principal Systems Engineer, Technical Marketing – Storage and Cloud

Highly hands-on on products and technologies: Data Domain, Amazon, AWS, VMware, MS Azure and WAP,EMC, NetApp, Oracle, Symantec, Microsoft, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Replication.

Technical marketing, solution developments on integration of hardware and data storage, cloud and related applications.

Competitive analysis. Running testing in labs, writing reports on competitors’ technologies.

Interconnected various teams to improve products and marketing effectiveness.

Supported worldwide field sales engineers on solution architecting and technical consulting.

Managed solution verification with various strategic partner applications in corporate lab.

Evangelized technologies and products to the markets.

Training field sales engineers on new products and solutions, providing lab environments for testing and customer solutions to enable sales engineers sell.

ParaScale Inc. Cloud Storage - Cupertino, CA 05/10 –06/10

Director of Sales Engineering

Sales engineering activities.

Data Domain (EMC acquired Data Domain in July 2009) - Santa Clara, CA 8/05 –05/10

Technical Director, Solution Architect (pre-sales)

Technical hands-on on Storage, Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery,Data Center Monitoring etc,

Successful experience in startups, made tremendous contribution to its IPO and being acquired.

Traveled frequently between HQ and fields.

Sales engineering activities for US West and Asia Pacific. Conducted presentations, solution proposals, POC and trainings. Closed sales deals.

Conducted marketing events. Raised company awareness.

Founded and built up business, operations and teams in Asia Pacific. Brought revenue from zero (2005) to $20M (2009).

Training to field SE teams and partners SE teams.

Interconnected field technical staff to headquarter engineering team. Gathered feedback on products and technology, feedback to product management/engineering teams.

Knowledge/information transfer from HQ to fields.

Corporate technology speaker to the market.

Corporate solution engineering.

EMC Professional Services - Collective Technologies

Professional Services Consultant – Boston,MA 4/05 -8/05

Conducted assessment on customer data storage systems.

Architected and designed enterprise data storage and protection solutions.

Implemented, tested data storage systems to ensure meeting customers requirements.

Managed/maintained customer’s storage equipments, systems and devices, provided consulting services.

Bell Canada - Ottawa, Ontario 6/01 – 4/05

System/Storage Specialist

Administered storage systems to achieve SLA, operate in optimistic state.

Provisioned storage spaces and servers to new business applications.

Coordinated with vendors (EMC, Sun, Veritas, Oracle) to upgrade and update equipments, deploy new gears.

Accomplished Storage/Backup-Recovery redesigning to improve availability, capacity balance and performance. There was limited backup functionality in early 2002. I redesigned and supervised implementation of new backup system to cover all major business applications. The new backup system utilized Veritas NetBackup and EMC Solution Enabler/BCV. I made the script to integrate them work together.

Developed new application system – IP Application Gateway (IPAG). This is an application interconnect system which facilitates xml standard to exchange information between various business systems of telecomm services.

Entrust Technologies - Ottawa, Ontario 10/00 –6/01

Senior System Integrator

Accomplished Entrust.Net architecting, designing and implementation.Entrust.Net is a public online service for Internet security certificates. It issues electronic certificates with a high security standard. The system included infrastructure (servers, storage) and applications (security, processing and management).

Contributed to online business growth. Maintained the system in a high availability and reliability state.

Sun Microsystems 12/95 – 10/00

System Support Engineer/Professional Services Engineer, Ottawa, ON 12/98 – 10/00

Onsite supported enterprise customers (Nortel, Alcatel, Federal Government of Canada) to troubleshoot problems. Achieved customers satisfaction.

Delivered Sun Installation Services, Integration Services, Preventive Maintenances and T&M services.

Managed and coordinated project processes.

Senior Systems Engineer (Pre-sales)/BD manager, Beijing, China 12/95 – 10/98

Contributed to rapid business growth of Sun business in China. Secured numerous large contracts (China Telecom, China Auto Association, ICBC Hebei etc) which established major milestones for Sun to penetrate into the enterprise markets in China.

Worked closely with sales representatives to win sales contracts and reached established targets.

Analyzed customer requirements and developed solutions.

Supervised implementations of developing computer/network systems, including planning of building procedures, layout, installation and testing.

Promoted Sun products and technologies to the public and industries -- such as Java and Internet.

EDUCATION

Tsinghua University- Beijing, China

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1981.08-1986.07)

Tsinghua University- Beijing, China

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1986.08-1988.12)

AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional (SAP-C02)

- First obtained Jun 2021.

- Valid till Jun 2027.

- Verification# WPGGEELBJ2VE1T9T

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification

-No expiration

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