Frank Diaz

Senior IT professional and executive with 20+ years’ experience in technical pre-sales, enterprise architecture design, and I.T. Operations. Respected as an effective communicator supporting pre-sales, marketing and delivery efforts across the I.T. Community. Extensive experience in leveraging strategic sales coordination, including hands-on implementation and administration of complex multi-practice, high availability, and cloud, tier 1 storage environments that deliver successful sales campaigns. Providing nearly 25 years of delivery experience in systems architecture and engineering with a focus on storage, data center design, data lifecycle management, and cloud infrastructure. Other accomplishments include the delivery of large complex projects and exceeding earnings goals. Over the past years, technical projects and critical initiatives include; deployments of cloud infrastructure (IAAS), (SaaS), storage virtualization, performance optimization with the best of breed enterprise-class platforms. Additionally, expertise comprises a team, partner, and brand development. This focus includes current, and future technologies surrounding hybrid cloud infrastructure systems as well as software define data centers, machine learning, and data analytics. Career Highlights ⇒Multi Petabytes of Storage Management, Architecting, and Implementation experience ❖ Big Data, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Hybrid Cloud, S3, Open Swift, HDFS, NFS/CIFS/SMB, File Systems, Object Store and Block ❖ Manage Multi-Vendor, Multi-Data Centers Storage Infrastructure ❖ Controlled, implemented and Manage 80% YOY storage capacity growth ⇒ Acquisition of Major Accounts ❖ Turner, Ford, AT&T, Boeing, HCA, Eastman Chemical, Anadarko, NASA, Amazon, Bank of America, Wal-Mart, CSX, Comcast, Disney, Fed-Ex and many more. ⇒ Quota overachievement with an average of 116% ❖ ASP (Average Selling Price) of $370K ❖ Strong Startup Experience • Cleversafe DsNet (Big Data, Object-Based Cloud Storage), Qumulo (QF2)