Istanbul, Türkiye
Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise storage, backup, and DR solutions. Proven success driving infrastructure modernization and automation initiatives that improve resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency
Assist customers in implementing data center infrastructure initiatives: - Design, deploy, and support enterprise infrastructure and platforms such as Netapp, Huawei, VMware, Proxmox, Commvault, Veeam, Netbackup and other strategic vendors - Architect and implement BC and DR solutions - Provide upgrade and migration services, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems - Supervise and manage server, storage, data protection, and virtualization environments - Improve infrastructure agility, resiliency, availability, scalability, and security - Plan, design and provision SAN and NAS capacity based on best practices - Perform periodic health checks for customers to proactively avoid system bottlenecks - Guide customers through their infrastructure automation initiatives by writing Ansible codes - Assist sales teams by performing POCs that closely match production environment use cases
Helped clients overcome data management and protection challenges. Architected innovative technology solutions by leveraging partnerships with HPE, Dell EMC, Nutanix, NetApp, Qumulo, Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, Druva, VMware, AWS, and Azure: - Created customized solutions to solve specific IT challenges of clients - Guided clients through their IT transformation challenges - Demonstrated the relevance of certain solutions by providing architectural perspective - Gained credibility by effectively presenting product demos and completing POCs - Participated in strategic account planning for new opportunities in targeted accounts - Conveyed value proposition of datacenter technologies (Server, Network, Storage, CI/HCI, Cloud) - Established and maintained customer relationships at decision maker level - Collaborated with all sales teams to run highly effective and successful sales campaigns
Trusted advisor for commercial customers in acquisition space - Created customized solutions to solve specific IT challenges of clients - Guided clients through their IT transformation challenges - Demonstrated the relevance of Dell EMC by providing architectural perspective - Gained credibility by effectively presenting product demos and completing POCs - Participated in strategic account planning for new opportunities in targeted accounts - Conveyed value proposition of Dell EMC’s data center technologies (Server, Network, Storage, CI/HCI, Cloud) - Established and maintained customer relationships at decision maker level - Collaborated with all sales teams to run highly effective and successful sales campaigns
Performed load tests to validate system performance and stability. Analyzed and presented results to strategic decision makers - Provided competitive research and analysis of midrange storage products - Provided consulting to support and influence future product development initiatives - Designed, implemented, tuned and analyzed performance characterization tests (All Flash and HCI) - Presented test results and analysis to engineering and marketing groups upon completion of projects - Collaborated with other performance teams to ensure the quality and standardization of test plans - Utilized VDBench, AFA POC Toolkit, SPECsfs2014, HCIBench - Managed and maintained all aspects of Competitive Performance Group’s Lab Responsibilities included: • Installation, configuration, and management of competitive gear • Deployment, configuration, and management of hypervisors (VMware/Hyper-V) • Deployment, configuration, and management of virtual machines (Windows/Linux) • Installation of SAN switches, HBAs and proper network cabling of all connected devices
Responsible for the support, operation, and recovery of SAN storage infrastructure including arrays, switches, and supporting software - Administered, provisioned, monitored and troubleshot: EMC, HDS, NetApp Storage Arrays and Cisco/Brocade SAN switches - Planned, designed and provisioned SAN and NAS capacity to satisfy performance SLAs - Identified potential storage performance bottlenecks and pro-actively tuned systems - Provided tuning recommendations to application owners for better system performance - Worked closely with planning teams to make sure projects are delivered on time and met specs - Assisted with technical planning for future capacity measurement and planning initiatives - Recommended changes to procedures which resulted in operational optimization - Provided analysis of current environment and best practice knowledge transfer - Implemented necessary vendor recommended upgrades and maintenance schedules - Demonstrated high quality results working with cross-functional teams for internal projects