Stephen Carl

Denver Metropolitan Area

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Summary

Dynamic technical engineer with extensive expertise in providing innovation and change for enterprise storage and data management products. Known for collaborating with product management, engineering, sales, product marketing, and the field facing teams, to create content and solutions to help customers and partners better understand products and their capabilities. Passionate about using current and new technologies to help customers create solutions to solve business requirements Experience

Solutions Architect

Panzura

Nov 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 3 months)

Pre-Sales Engineering to develop solutions for customers to transform to the Panzura CloudFS global files system for performance and unstructured data management. The solution is developed for a hybrid cloud architecture using a combination of on premises infrastructure and cloud object storage. Complete review of business requirements to design of the solutions using major cloud providers AWS, GCP, Azure and many more.

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

Panzura

Nov 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 1 month)

Technical Marketing Engineer at Panzura.Key responsibilities to provide product collateral for customers, partners, and the public. Deliverables include the creation of technical reports, blogs, presentations, proof-of-concept projects for customer solutions, project management of special projects. Working with field support, marketing, Education, pre-sales product enablement team, and engineering development teams. Collaborate to ensure products are following product management road maps, building and managing internal technical marketing engineering test lab and remote labs for third party testing project engagements. Engage customers to discuss and promote product capabilities and business value to solve customer solutions.

Technical Marketing Engineer - NetApp HCI

NetApp

Feb 2017 - Oct 2020 (3 years 9 months)

Key responsibilities to provide product collateral for customers, partners, and the public. Deliverables include the creation of technical reports, blogs, presentations, proof-of-concept projects for customer solutions, project management of special projects, and product performance testing engagements with industry analysts. Support field, marketing, NetApp University, pre-sales product enablement team, engineering development teams. Collaborate to ensure products are following product management road maps, building and managing internal technical marketing engineering test lab and remote labs for Stephen Carl - page 1

third-party testing project engagements. Attend trade shows and engage customers at booths to show product capabilities.

Solutions Quality Engineer

NetApp SolidFire

Oct 2016 - Feb 2017 (5 months)

Solutions Quality Engineer

Solutions Quality Development (SQD) - NetApp-SolidFire Responsible for designing, developing, automating, and testing end-to-end customer solutions for the Cloud and Cloud storage. Bringing storage agility to the Next Generation Data Center. Scale-out all-flash storage platform that is highly available, easy to control, and delivers guaranteed performance to every application.

MTS SW at NetApp

NetApp

Jun 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 5 months)

E-Series Solutions Engineering - SW Customer Engineering Hyperscale Storage Group (HSG) Enablement Team:

Engage potential enterprise storage partners and customers in Data Backup, Analytics, and Object storage for solutions and appliance environments. Work to create reference architecture and use case benchmarking tests to validate data storage solutions to enable partnerships and create technical reports for sales engineers and customers. Recent projects include 3rd platform software vendors Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, CEPH, and Splunk.

Sr. OEM Product Applications Engineer

NetApp

May 2011 - Jun 2014 (3 years 2 months)

Senior OEM Product Application Engineer at NetApp for product releases of Fibre Channel, SAS, and iSCSI disk storage products for disk in traditional and cloud storage environments. Multitude of customer interaction in product development phase prior to launching new and sustaining products. Customer interface includes Development Engineering, Product Test, Program Management, Product Management, Support, Technical publications, and Manufacturing Engineering groups. Includes product release involvement from the planning phase to the GA release of products. On-site technical expertise with customer test and development engineering teams. Triage of issues and defects from customers. Release coordination of product deliverable content for product launch. Customer liaison during pre-sales and post-sales support. Engage a multitude of cross-functional teams. Responsible for manufacturing configuration specifications for a product launch with OEM partner's customizations for the product. Input for a statement of work documents during the planning phase with product management team through the product test and launch cycle. Assist in product enhancement requests to integrate into current products and product road-maps for future releases. Specialties: defect resolution, code releases, storage solutions, product road-maps, customer liaison, test architecture, firmware architecture, Storage Management software, and Customer defect recreation in the lab.

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Senior OEM Product Applications Engineer

LSI, an Avago Technologies Company

Nov 2006 - May 2011 (4 years 7 months)

Senior OEM Product Application Engineer for Fibre Channel, SAS, and iSCSI disk storage offerings for our OEM partners. Interface with the OEM customer during the product development phase prior to launching the product. The interface with the OEM customer includes the controller firmware, host software, failover software, technical publications, product test, failure analysis, and manufacturing groups. Development and verification of product code and functionality. Verifying test plans for OEM test and internal test architecture team. Code release coordinator during the Product test cycle. Produce enhancement requests to integrate in current products and future releases. Systems Integration Test engineer

Sun Microsystems

Jan 2006 - Aug 2006 (8 months)

Integration test Engineer for (SAN) Storage Area Networks in multiple platform environments. The focus has been on validating the compatibility of fiber channel switches such as Brocade, McData, and Qlogic with various HBA vendors and operating systems. Included is Backup/recovery software, specifically Veritas and Tivoli Storage Manager as well as disk subsystems, tape libraries, and tape drives. Development of test strategies and schedules which include test suites specific to requirements-based testing. I would like to leverage my SAN knowledge and other experience to seek positions utilizing these skills. Specialties:

SAN design and integration. Brocade and McData fibre channel switches. Veritas Netbackup. Tivoli Storage Manager.

Education

Regis University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems Red Rocks Community College

AAS, Computer information Systems

Mohawk Valley Community College

Civil Engineering Technology

Licenses & Certifications

DevOps Essentials - Linux Academy

Essential Container Concepts - Linux Academy

Kubernetes Essentials - Linux Academy

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Terraform Associate 2020 - HashiCorp

Google Cloud Essentials - Linux Academy

Skills

Infrastructure as code (IaC) • Active Directory • Cloud Applications • Elasticsearch • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Data Management • Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Critical Thinking • Storage • Solution Architecture

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