Experience

15+ years of enterprise infrastructure work across distributed systems, storage platforms, virtualization, Linux, networking, automation, telemetry, customer escalation, architecture guidance, and AI/HPC infrastructure.

Independent Consulting

Principal Systems & Reliability Engineer

Selected project-based infrastructure, reliability, automation, diagnostic, documentation, and advisory work. Client identities and internal systems are protected, so I describe the work by practice area: architecture guidance, solution design support, validation paths, operational runbooks, and reliability-focused infrastructure improvement.

Architecture guidance and solution design support
Distributed storage, object storage, and VMware-centric infrastructure review
Automation-backed validation and operational handoff
Runbooks, documentation, and remediation planning
Cross-layer diagnostics across storage, network, compute, and virtualization

VAST Data

Customer Success Engineer — AI/ML & High-Performance Storage

I supported VAST Data Platform / AI OS environments where distributed storage, NAS, S3/object access, metadata behavior, GPU workload pressure, workload readiness, telemetry correlation, and customer-facing reliability had to be understood together, including multi-petabyte and exabyte-scale operating contexts.

VAST DataStore, DataBase, DataEngine, and DataSpace exposure
Distributed storage diagnostics and data-path performance analysis
AI/HPC infrastructure and workload behavior
Slurm / scheduler-aware troubleshooting context
Customer-facing escalation ownership and technical advisory support

Dell Technologies

Enterprise Storage & Virtualization Engineering

I worked across enterprise storage, VMware, virtualization, server platforms, networking, validation environments, and difficult field escalations during a 12+ year Dell Technologies tenure. The work often required architecture review, high-availability validation, performance troubleshooting, and cross-layer diagnosis across storage, hypervisor, OS, network, and server domains.

VMware vSphere / ESXi escalation work
Enterprise storage diagnostics and high-availability platform guidance
Linux performance diagnostics and workload behavior
Hardware, OS, storage, and fabric failure-domain triage
Automation for evidence collection and operational learning

Ithaca City School District

Infrastructure & Systems Administration Foundation

Early hands-on infrastructure work across Windows, Linux, virtualization, directory services, messaging, database platforms, SAN storage, and operational support for a large user environment.

Windows and Linux infrastructure administration
VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V support
EMC Clariion Fibre Channel and EqualLogic iSCSI storage
6,000+ user environment across physical and virtual servers

Selected Credentials

VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV) Wireshark Certified Network Analyst (WCNA) SNIA Storage Certifications

Technical Focus Areas

Distributed SystemsEnterprise Storage Enterprise Infrastructure Linux VMware & Virtualization Networking & RDMA AI / HPC Platforms Slurm / Scheduler-Aware Troubleshooting Workload Readiness Platform & Infrastructure Architecture Automation Reliability Engineering