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Email Address James Gallegos

James Gallegos
Somewhere, USA
866.555.4545 | me@me.com

CAREER SUMMARY

More than 10 years experience with enterprise data center design, cultivating exceptional customer relationships,
problem solving, and business development. Passionate about being a team leader, peer mentoring, and facilitating
group development. Proud of continually exceeding quotas and expectations.

EXPERIENCE

Pure Storage March 2016 to Present

Sr. Systems Engineer

Development of business in existing, top-tier, customer base.

Proactively ensure highest levels of array availability and customer experience.
Provide exceptional design and sizing for customer growth.
Cultivate partner ecosystems through delivering partner enablement education.
Peer mentor for performance & capacity sizing, TCO tool assistance, and proposal design.

CDW June 2013 to March 2016

Principal Data Center Architect

Design and development of client data center architecture (Servers, storage, virtualization, backup & recovery,
disaster recovery, networking, security, and automation).
Analyze budget and costs jointly with clients to determine precise business and data center blueprints.
Leader amongst peers participating in company technical advisory board, skunk-works board, and partner liaison.

cStor April 2012 to June 2013

Sr. Systems Architect

Provide pre-sales technical support and product education, and ongoing post-sales support.
Representation of focus solutions & partners to customers.
Delivery of product demonstrations, including at field events such as conferences and seminars.
Produce and deliver product training and material for members of the sales & engineering team.

Arrow Electronics May 2010 to April 2012

Technical Sales Specialist

Partner & NetApp Sales support with customer technical requests.

Compile information necessary in order to build NetApp configurations.
Host trainings and white boarding sessions for partner account managers and engineers.
NetApp business development in the Southwest region.

NetApp April 2006 to May 2010

Technical Channel Manager

Development of NetApp channel business in the Americas Southwest region.

Demonstrations of NetApp technology to prospective and existing customer base.
Host trainings and white boarding sessions for partner account managers and engineers.
Coordinate field and partner teams with account mapping and field events.
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 Professional Website
Email Address James Gallegos

EDUCATION

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2014 - current

Liberal Arts & Sciences

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY, 2004 - 2006

Information Systems and Technology

WEBER HIGH SCHOOL

Graduated with High Honors

CERTIFICATIONS

CISCO DATA CENTER UNIFIED COMPUTING DESIGN SPECIALIST (DCUCD)

CISCO DATA CENTER UNIFIED FABRIC DESIGN SPECIALIST (DCUFD)
COMMVAULT CERTIFIED SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
NETAPP CERTIFIED DATA MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATOR (NCDA)
NETAPP CERTIFIED DATA MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATOR - CLUSTERED DATA ONTAP (NCDA)
NETAPP CERTIFIED IMPLEMENTATION ENGINEER - BACKUP & RECOVERY (NCIE)
NUTANIX PLATFORM SALES ENGINEER
RIVERBED CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE - NETWORK PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (RCSA)
VCE CERTIFIED CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE MASTER DESIGN ENGINEER (VCE - CIMDE)
VMWARE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL - DATACENTER VIRTUALIZATION ON VSPHERE 5 (VCP5 - DV)
VMWARE VIRTUAL SAN DEPLOY AND MANAGE 6.0 COURSE TRAINING

PUBLICATIONS

CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
CDW Authors: James Gallegos http://blog.cdw.com/building-out-or-refreshing-your-data-center-considerconverged-
infrastructure-as-a-solution/#.VZviUee-Xhk
Building Out or Refreshing Your Data Center? Consider Converged Infrastructure as a Solution.

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