Vallinayagam Pechiappan

• Maintained up-to-date knowledge on industry trends and regulations, ensuring accurate advice was provided to clients at all times.
• Developed long-lasting relationships with clients to ensure consistent retention and loyalty.
• Mentored junior advisors, fostering a supportive team environment focused on growth and learning.
• Educated students on college admissions process and scholarship requirements.

• Work closely with the offering manager to design/develop new Storage Offerings

• Responsible for translating Business requirements to Technical requirements.

• Lead design effort for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) NAS capability with NetApp FAS systems

• Automation of NAS workflows for provisioning/Decommissioning of NAS storage capacity within VPC

• Define best practices and standards for the VPC NAS offering including integration with VMware and Hyper-V

• To provide High-level blue print or design of direction which "points the way" to achieve stated objectives

• Leading OpenStack based object storage POC environment within VPC

• Perform product evaluations on new HP NAS products and provide feedbacks and request for enhancements.

• Participate in Storage Division’s (SD) beta testing of new storage products and provide feedbacks and request for enhancements.

• Lead the 3PAR Unity beta testing efforts for Enterprise Services (ES)

• Subject matter expert for NAS within VPC

• Successfully designed and implemented first ever NAS storage solution for HP VPC

• Submitted a paper titled “Quadra – The Four Datacenter Replication Solution” which has been cleared by HP Legal Dept. & filed with US patent office.

• Part of the Microsoft Business Unit focusing on Azure Public Cloud solutions

• Acts as an advocate for the client, as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems.

• Technical Solutions lead guiding the UK geography solutions architect team members on customer’s Cloud & hosting Transformations solutions.

• Responsible for designing infrastructure solutions for applications deployments on various landing zones through automations/DevOps pipeline.

• Responsible for building transformation offerings and frameworks to accelerate Cloud Adoption

• Provide Design documents for new projects by assessing current Network, Compute, Storage and Backup infrastructure.

• Lead Datacenter Migration, Project implementation, Capacity Planning and provide implementation support.

• Optimization of IT Infrastructure and storage to consistently achieve high availability, performance and driving the implementation of best practices.