Joel Alvarez
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Credentials
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HP ASE - HP-UX 11i v3 Administrator V1
Hewlett Packard Enterprise -
HPE ASE - Server Solutions Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise -
HPE Master ASE - Storage Solutions Architect V2
Hewlett Packard Enterprise -
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Pink Elephant -
Project Management Professional
University of Pennsylvania -
VMware Certified Professional
VMware
Experience
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Infinidat
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Solutions Architect, APJ at INFINIDAT
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Feb 2018 - Present
Only INFINIDAT provides 5PB+ of Effective Capacity in a Single 42 "InfiniBox" Frame; The Bulletproof InfiniBox achieves this Multi-PB Scale in a Single Floor Tile with a Unified & Simplified Patented Architecture that provides Customers with All-Flash Performance, Native Multi-Protocol Support ( SAN/ NAS / FICON ), Unmatched 99.99999 RAS ( 7-9's equates to less than 3.2 seconds of down-time per Calendar year )...all...at the Economics of Spinning Disk. INFINIDAT (www.infinidat.com). The company is founded by Moshe Yanai - Moshe (the Godfather of Enterprise Storage) and our team are the creators of EMC Symmetrix, IBM XIV and now the INFINIDAT "InfiniBox" Enterprise Storage Platform. INFINIDAT has over 2,000PB of InfiniBox Storage deployed in production today across some of the largest Financial Services, HealthCare, Insurance and Cloud providers in the world. INFINIDAT is very successful in showing customers how to consolidate their environment, reduce costs while improving both their performance and reliability at the same time.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Storage Architect
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Nov 2010 - Present
• Engaged in large and complex Storage deals across the APJ region to support in-country presales team on various aspects of the Storage solution including resiliency, high availability, backup, disaster recovery & sizing. • Lead consultative engagements with customers through demos, proof of concepts, Performance benchmarking and workshops to develop solutions and offerings encompassing HPE infrastructure products (Servers, Storage, Networking). • Work with HPE partners and ISV to leverage on complementary offerings to supplement HPE and infrastructure and cloud service offerings. • Create, mentor and groom a focused group of in-country presales representatives/Channel partners as go-to-champions on Storage solutions. Contributions: • Helped drive the 3PAR All-Flash adoption with Application Acceleration w/ 3PAR storage initiative. Offered free Oracle AWR Assessment to customers to identify if customer will benefit from All-Flash storage. • Instrumental on winning strategic 3PAR All-Flash, SIMPLIVITY, LeftHand/StoreVirtual Software Defined Storage deals in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore by helping on PoCs & Performance Benchmarking. • Created the following Storage solutions and trained Presales/Channel partners to increase storage adoption/sales: HPE Storage for Video Surveillance, HPE Storage for Healthcare PACS, HPE Storage for Media Entertainment Workflow / Broadcasting, Introduced HPE Server + Qumulo - highly scalable file storage solution • Provide regular storage product updates to Presales/Channel partners • Do technical sharing on best practices on PoC/Performance benchmarks to Presales community in APJ • Sharing of success stories to APJ Presales/Channel Partners • Go-to-person /SME on Performance benchmarks and tuning in APJ region
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HP
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Regional Presales focused Performance Tuning/Benchmarking
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Oct 2000 - Oct 2010
• Provide hands-on support through PoC and benchmarks for deals using VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization software. Performed variety of VMware Virtualization PoCs involving Host/Storage Vmotion, DRS, High Availability, Fault Tolerance and SRM on HP hardware infrastructure. • Instrumental in providing Capacity Planning services like Performance benchmarks, Proof of scaling, Performance tuning for applications/databases/middleware like Oracle, SQL Server, Weblogic, Financial applications like core banking, Internet trading, Telco Billing applications etc., to win large size deals. • Well experienced in the use of performance analysis tools like OVPA, OVPM, Windows PERFMON, Linux Kernel Instrumentation for performance troubleshooting and performance assessments for customers having performance pain point or requiring server and storage upgrade. • Demonstrating the key enabling technologies of the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio through proof of concepts and demos involving HP Converged Infrastructure namely: Virtual Connect, FLEXFABRIC, Insight Orchestration, Insight Recovery, Virtual Connect, VCEM, Dynamic Power Capping and Logical Servers. Contributions: • Helped win deals that required PoC/Performance benchmarks by helping on tuning the systems and application. • Did sharing of benchmark best practices to other Performance engineers in the region. • especially if Helped drive the 3PAR All-Flash adoption with Application Acceleration w/ 3PAR storage initiative. Offered free Oracle AWR Assessment to customers to identify if customer will benefit from All-Flash storage.
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Komputer Wisman Sdn Bhd
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Brunei Darussalam
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head, Technical Support Group (Presales & Post Sales)
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Aug 1995 - Aug 2000
• Installed & configured HP9000 workstations & servers in different ministries of Brunei government and Brunei Shell Petroleum. • Seconded to Brunei Shell Petroleum as Chief Engineer to lead the NT migration project for the whole company in span of one year. • Promoted as Head of the Technical Support Group that consist of 12 people. Looking after the whole operations of the group that includes the following: hardware/software maintenance for HP-UX install-based customers., assigning and deploying technicians/engineers to customers, designing solutions for the customer Contributions: • Implemented SAP ERP solutions for Brunei’s Ministry of Defense together with MINCOM – an Australian Systems Integrator. • Led a group of engineers that deploy Windows NT clients and servers in Brunei Shell Petroleum and Ministry of Defense. Installed Oracle database on HP9000 servers.
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Online Advanced Systems Corporation
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Philippines
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Systems Engineer
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Jul 1992 - Jul 1995
• Provide support to Sales team in terms of providing correct UNIX server configuration based on the customer requirements. • Provide HP-UX training to System Administrators and end-users. Contributions: • Won deals through performance tuning and PoCs • Provided System performance monitoring & tuning to HP-UX installed base customers • Provide support to Sales team in terms of providing correct UNIX server configuration based on the customer requirements. • Provide HP-UX training to System Administrators and end-users. Contributions: • Won deals through performance tuning and PoCs • Provided System performance monitoring & tuning to HP-UX installed base customers
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Education
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PATS School of Aeronautics / Ateneo de Manila University
BS Aeronautical Engineering / MS Computer Science -
Metropolitan Aviation School
Private Pilot Certificate Course (Ground/Flight Training Course)
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