Sam Avula

Solutions Architect | Team Lead | Hybrid DC Management | Hands on Operations & Migration specialist

Professional Summary- Results-driven Leader and Solution Architect specialized in Storage, Backup, Compute, and Disaster Recovery, with expertise in the financial industry. Seeking a challenging role to leverage 12+ years of experience in leadership, designing and implementing robust architectures, delivering scalable solutions that drive business growth and optimize operational efficiency.

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• Architected a scalable storage solution leveraging SAN, NAS, and storage virtualization technologies, resulting in a 30% improvement in storage utilization and reducing operational costs annually.
• Proven ability to analyze complex business requirements, devise innovative strategies, and lead end-to-end implementations, resulting in cost savings of up to $5 million
• Led the design and implementation of a comprehensive backup and recovery strategy, resulting in a 50% reduction in backup window and achieving a 99.8% success rate in data restores and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, leading to a successful audit.
• Configured and maintained storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) systems, achieving 99.9% system availability and reducing downtime incidents by 40%.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design a high-performance compute platform, resulting in a 25% increase in application performance and reducing hardware costs by $1M annually.
• Developed and executed disaster recovery plans, conducting regular tests that achieved a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 4 hours, meeting stringent financial industry standards.
• Expertise in developing comprehensive migration strategies and plans, considering factors such as downtime minimization, risk assessment, and business continuity.
• Strong Hands-on multiple technologies (Storage- Pure, Nimble/Alletra, EMC, NetApp and Minio | Backups -Rubrik, Veeam, and EMC | Replication- Zerto, VMware SRM, Veeam, SRDF and all array-based replications)
• Good understanding with VMware virtualization, Cloud Technologies, database (SQL, Oracle and more), HPE Synergy, Cisco UCS and CNI.

Certified AWS Solutions architect