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Skills
Certification
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Founder First VMware Users group in the U.S (Dallas VMware Users Group) NetApp, Top Performer (Amer
NetApp, Top Performer (Americas Professional Services) Q2 FY 2012
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Percy Gonzales

Prosper,Texas

Summary

Architectural consultant with solid expertise in designing and implementing innovative solutions. Skilled in project management, problem-solving, and aligning technology with business goals. Strong focus on team collaboration and delivering impactful results. Adaptable, reliable, and able to navigate changing needs and environments.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consulting Architect

ZeOmega
01.2023 - Current
  • Planning, orchestration, and delivery of Private and public Cloud Infrastructure projects
  • Development of Infrastructure for snowflake solutions.
  • Troubleshoot reported customer impacted issues/problems
  • Match Terchnical requirements based on Business requirements.
  • Define mentor and evangelize Datacenter Technology t in order to achieve better performace and create a culture aware of our technical abilities.
  • Specialized Architecture in High Value Workload Solution, Business Critical Applications and Low Latency workloads including optimizing current workloads.
  • Team Management
  • Datacenter analytics and Projection
  • Network integration planning, including service chains (Flow, NSX)
  • Day two operations coaching and knowledge transfer.
  • VMware Fit checks, Architecture Review and optimization
  • AWS and Azure Migrations.
  • Health Checks to troubleshoot Datacenter as a whole,increase performance and lower operational cost.
  • VMware Workload Migration and integration to create hybrid environments.
  • Right size hybrid resources using Vrops to recuperate resources
  • Architecture of Cloud Disaster Recovery solution and storage.
  • Vendor Management

Solutions Consultant

Hitachi Vantara
02.2022 - 01.2023
  • Engaged with Hitachi Vantara inside field sales and partners to support the technical positioning of the entire Hitachi Vantara portfolio of products, services and solutions.
  • Worked extensively with Technical Channel Partners on alignment and understanding of Hitachi Vantara’s differentiators and GTM Strategies
  • Customer and partner training and help in Architecting, planning and executing Azure migrations from Vmware to Azure and DR to Azure.
  • Demonstrated a client centric approach to ensure proposed solutions have technical impact, operational effectiveness and meet desired business outcomes.
  • Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies such as Server technologies, Virtualization/VMware, Business Continuity, Data Protection, SAN, LAN/WAN Concepts and Architectures.
  • Hands on Knowledge with VMware ESX,Vmware vSAN, Vmware NSX, VMware vRealize and Vmware VRops.
  • Hands on Knowledge with San, Nas and Object storage.
  • Experience with “X-as-a-Service” offerings embracing AWS, GCP and Azure Public Cloud and some private cloud offerings.
  • Contributor to technology ‘virtual communities’ across the business to share best practices, case studies and references. Founder of the first Vmware User Group in North America.
  • Develop capability in consultative technology sales utilizing whiteboard briefings, solution demos and supporting technical information. Contributor to the technology sales components of a clients RFI, RFP response.
  • Implementation Experience with Management Software GUI’s Both internal and Industry standard.
  • Partner and Distribution Channel knowledge and strategist.
  • Azure Migrations and Assessments including architecture and Disaster recovery.
  • Effective communicator with confident presentations skills as a technology evangelist.
  • Clear logical thinker with the ability to simplify and explain technology solution outcomes and realistic LOE.
  • Ambitious, passionate team player who is self-motivated and empowered to deliver results!
  • Team Management, Helped with Strategy for the ISR and Partner development, Coached SE and Partners.

Consulting Architect

Nutanix
01.2020 - 02.2022
  • Planning, orchestration, and delivery of Private and public Cloud Infrastructure projects
  • Development of Infrastructure for snowflake solutions.
  • Troubleshoot reported customer impacted issues/problems
  • Define and evangelize virtual frameworks, best practices for Nutanix AHV and VMware design.
  • Software defined network and services, NSX (VMware) and Flow (Nutanix) Integration, Micro segmentation, Network Load Balancers, Documentation.
  • Specialized Architecture in High Value Workload Solution, Business Critical Applications and Low Latency workloads
  • Network integration planning, including service chains (Flow)
  • Day two operations coaching and knowledge transfer.
  • VMware Fit checks, Architecture Review and optimization
  • AWS and Azure Migrations
  • Health Checks to troubleshoot and increase performance.
  • VMware Workload Migration and integration to create hybrid environments.
  • Right size hybrid resources using Nutanix Xi Beam
  • Architecture of Cloud Disaster Recovery solution and storage.
  • Migration to Cloud using Nutanix native tools.

Sr. Cloud Architect

Safeway & Albertsons
05.2017 - 01.2020
  • Responsible for the delivery of the Cloud Infrastructure projects
  • Work with the development team to project and implement the solutions.
  • Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common infrastructure and functional capabilities.
  • Troubleshoot reported customer impacted issues/problems.
  • POC new solutions that optimize the business.
  • Work across the organization to review and transform existing virtual frameworks and define new services
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture to define the architecture of the Platform and to develop and publish security standards, guidelines, best practices, and reference architectures
  • VRNI Implementation (NSX Monitoring)
  • Software defined network and services, NSX Integration, Micro segmentation, Network Load Balancers, Documentation.
  • Azure Cloud Simple
  • Hyper Converged VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRails using VSan
  • Cisco UCS Architecture SME, troubleshooting and mentoring team members.
  • Specialized Architecture in High Value Workload Solution, Business Critical Applications and Low Latency workloads
  • NetApp, VMAX and VNXe all Flash, Monitoring, troubleshooting and day to day operations
  • Vra, Vro (DevOps) Terraform, Ansible
  • NSX Congruency with Cloud offerings.
  • Nimble Architecture Deployment and operations
  • Pure Storage Architecture Deployment and operations
  • Log Insight, Analytics and future trends assessment.

Professional Services Consultant

3rp/Evoteck/Vcore
07.2015 - 05.2017
  • Pre-Sales Support
  • Holistic architecture review and optimization
  • Partner Planning Management and Support
  • Mesa Airlines Nutanix implementation and pre-sales planning.
  • Trusted Infrastructure Advisor
  • Virtualization best practices review and optimization
  • Mentoring team members
  • Windows & NetApp Best practices and issue resolution
  • Windows, VMware & SAN Best practices and issue resolution
  • Data Center Assessments
  • SAN Setup, Architecture and Troubleshooting
  • NetApp Architecture and operations
  • Pure Storage Architecture and operations
  • ONTAP Cluster Mode Setup, Architecture and Troubleshooting
  • VMware on Nutanix (Converged Infrastructure) Horizon View 6
  • NSX Micro segmentation, NSX on VDI, NSX for production including VXLANS
  • VMware ESXi 5 and 6 including SRM
  • VMware Horizon View 5 and 6
  • Cisco UCS Support on Flexpod (Converged Infrastructure)
  • AZURE and AWS Architecture and Migrations

Professional Services Consultant

Netapp
01.2015 - 07.2015
  • Sales Support
  • NetApp Ticket resolution
  • NetApp Holistic architecture review and optimization
  • Trusted Advisor for the Storage Team
  • Hyper-V with NetApp best practices
  • Upgrade & Migration advisor
  • 7mode transition tool advisor
  • Holistic Application Optimization
  • Windows & NetApp Best practices and issue resolution
  • NetApp Cloud solutions advisor
  • NetApp and App monitoring
  • Microsoft & NetApp interaction support
  • Holistic Application Optimization
  • Windows & NetApp Best practices and issue resolution
  • Trusted technology advisor
  • Data Center Assessments
  • Technical Architecture Design
  • ONTAP Cluster Mode Setup, Architecture and Troubleshooting

Senior Architect

Silicon Labs
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • VMware SME
  • VMware fine tuning using Akorri aka (NetApp OnCommand Balance).
  • EMC VNX Management and Architecture
  • EMC Isilon Management and Architecture
  • EMC Simmetrix Management and Architecture
  • EMC XtremelO Management and Architecture
  • NetApp Ontap 7 Mode Management
  • NetApp C mode Management and Architecture
  • NetApp 7mode to C mode migrations.
  • Storage system troubleshooting and optimization
  • VMware vs Application troubleshooting
  • Holistic Application Optimization
  • Windows, VMware , EMC & NetApp Best practices and issue resolution
  • Trusted technology advisor
  • Data Center AssessmentsTechnical Architecture Design
  • Team Management and Scheduling of projects & Project Management

Senior Cloud Architect

NETAPP (Corporate)
11.2006 - 01.2014
  • Pre- Sales support
  • Post-Sales support
  • Trusted technology advisor
  • Create methodologies to engage customer in New technologies
  • VMware Principal
  • ONTAP7 Setup, Architecture and Troubleshooting
  • ONTAP8 Setup, Architecture and Troubleshooting
  • OnCommand Balance, Setup, training and Troubleshooting
  • SME lead
  • SRM Architecture & Implementation
  • Data Center Assessments
  • Data Center to Virtual Assessments
  • Data Center optimization
  • Hot Data Migration strategies
  • IBM N series, setup configuration and troubleshooting
  • Technical Architecture Design including the largest VMware deployment in the State of Arizona.
  • Team Management, Scheduling of projects & Project Management
  • VMware ESX SME (Tiger Team)
  • VMware SRM for disaster recovery and Business continuity
  • High availability (SAN distributed over controllers & Fabrics including LUN load optimization)
  • High availability (Cisco local director distributed over various ESX Hosts)
  • High availability (Microsoft Cluster services)
  • High availability (San configuration and setup including HP EVA 5000, HP EVA 4000, EMC CX 300, CX 500 and CX 700.
  • High availability (Shared LUN) including cluster raw Quorum for Physical and virtual server clustering.
  • High availability DR (Disaster recovery planning) Planning and project management
  • High availability DRS and HA using ESX 3.x, ESX 4.x and ESXi
  • High availability file servers (Using Microsoft DFS over VMGuest graphically dispersed in the enterprise (Global)
  • Netapp Ontap Cifs, NFS, ISCSI and FCP Configuration & Initial Setup
  • Netapp Snap mirror, for DR & HA SAN/NAS Solutions
  • Designed and implemented cloud architecture solutions to optimize performance and scalability.

Education

High School Diploma -

La Porte H.S
La Porte, TX
01-1988

Skills

  • Cloud architect specializing in comprehensive datacenter solutions focusing in ensuring the overall solution is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective
  • Create and Maintain infrastructure architecture standards, and best practices for infrastructure platforms
  • Vendor Management for the Datacenter Technologies
  • Training and mentoring f the team and coaching on new solutions

Certification

  • Nutanix Certified Sales Representative L1
  • VMware Certified Professional 2021 – Data Center Certification VCP-DCV2021
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Certification VCP5-DCV
  • VMware Certified Professional 2 (VCP2)
  • Nutanix Certified Services Security
  • Nutanix Certified Data Services
  • Nutanix Certified Services Core
  • Nutanix certified Professional 5

Languages

Trilingual speaking fluent Portuguese Spanish and English with some familiarity with Italian and French

Accomplishments

  • Founder First VMware Users group in the U.S (Dallas VMware Users Group)
  • NetApp, Top Performer (Americas Professional Services) Q2 FY 2012
  • NetApp, One Team Award FY 2012
  • Microsoft, Ship IT award, for internet Security and Acceleration Server
  • Featured Architect in Virtual-Strategy.com and Virtualizationinfo.com
  • Agilysys, MVP (Virtualization Team)
  • NASA & Lockheed Martin, Employee service award (CSOC Contract)
  • Fluent English, Portuguese, and Spanish

Training

  • Medical CPR and First Aid certified by the U.S Coast Guard. Medical officer in a vessel while in The Bearing Sea.
  • Navigation, Radar , Sonar ,GPS, Loran, Sea plot, ECC.
  • Communication, Extensive satellite Voice and data transfer using Inmarsat standard A and B as well as seven seas. Primarily Sea to land data transfer but also some sea-to-sea data transfer. Extensive SSB, Vhf and 144 KHz (2 Meter) radio including encryption.

Founder First VMware Users group in the U.S (Dallas VMware Users Group) NetApp, Top Performer (Amer

Founder of the First VMware Users Group in the US. (Dallas)


NetApp, Top Performer (Americas Professional Services) Q2 FY 2012

Delivery of Creative solutions to Customers and increased ROI

Timeline

Consulting Architect

ZeOmega
01.2023 - Current

Solutions Consultant

Hitachi Vantara
02.2022 - 01.2023

Consulting Architect

Nutanix
01.2020 - 02.2022

Sr. Cloud Architect

Safeway & Albertsons
05.2017 - 01.2020

Professional Services Consultant

3rp/Evoteck/Vcore
07.2015 - 05.2017

Professional Services Consultant

Netapp
01.2015 - 07.2015

Senior Architect

Silicon Labs
01.2014 - 01.2015

Senior Cloud Architect

NETAPP (Corporate)
11.2006 - 01.2014

High School Diploma -

La Porte H.S

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