About

Brian is a Solutions Architect with Presidio Networked Solutions. He has been a technology consultant since 2008, specializing in Storage, Virtualization, Converged and HyperConverged Infrastructure, and Data Center Architecture. Prior to that, Brian spent 10 years designing and implementing storage, server and desktop solutions for a Fortune 25 enterprise company. In addition to learning new things, Brian spends his free time with his kids Paris, Alex, Justin and Jordan and granddaughter Chloe, rooting for the Nashville Predators Hockey Team, or on the ice playing hockey with his team. Brian completed his Master of Science Degree in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University in 2018.

In 2019, Brian was presented the Infrastructure Engineer of the Year award by the Nashville Technology Council. Additionally, in 2019, Brian received the Top Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Tennessee award from Nutanix, Inc.

Brian's experience includes:

Designing and implementing Cisco solutions:
- - - Unified Computing Systems (UCS)
    - HyperConverged systems - HyperFlex
    - Data Center storage switch solutions (MDS)
    - Data Center switch solutions (Catalyst/Nexus)
Designing and implementing Pure Storage Solutions:
- - - FlashArray
    - FlashBlade
    - FlashStack - Integration with Cisco UCS
Designing and implementing Brocade storage switch solutions
Designing, sizing and implementing Nutanix solutions
- - - Acropolis Operating System
    - AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V
    - Frame Desktop as a Service
    - Files NAS solution
    - Volumes Block solution
    - Calm Orchestration
    - Karbon Kubernetes
    - Beam Cloud Management
    - Tools and Utilities
Designing and implementing Dell Technologies solutions:
- - - XtremIO X1 and X2 All Flash Arrays
    - Isilon Generation 5 and Generation 6 nodes
    - VNX solutions
    - Unity solutions
    - HyperConverged solutions - VxRail, Dell XC
    - RecoverPoint replication
Designing and implementing VMware solutions:
- - - vSphere (VCP)
    - vSphere Advanced Professional (VCAP)
    - Horizon View (VDI)
Designing and implementing Microsoft Server solutions

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