Proof built across regulated industries where storage failure isn't an option — and where the business stakes made resilience the real deliverable.
The work spans strategic data-center consolidation at a semiconductor company, an 18-month embedded NetApp residency in regulated biopharma, and flash-storage strategy in high-growth EdTech. Each required diagnosing a complex environment fast, earning operational trust in a room that didn't yet know him, and leaving it more automated, more recoverable, and less dependent on any one person.
Career timeline
6 roles
Impact case studies
DC Consolidation and ONTAP Automation
Led strategic site optimization and ONTAP automation at a semiconductor company — reducing power consumption, reclaiming floor space, and automating the upgrade lifecycle.
Business impact: Converted a manual, high-risk ONTAP upgrade process into an automated autoops flow, and executed a full site shutdown with rack documentation and an orderly decommission plan — a systems-level move made without losing data or availability.
Prioritized systematic issue identification before recommending changes — root cause analysis first, remediation plan second
Chose autoops as the automation target for ONTAP upgrades because firmware and OS updates are highest-risk when done manually under pressure
Maintained rack location inventory throughout the site shutdown to ensure orderly decommissioning with no asset loss
Created run books before starting upgrade cycles — not after — so the operational knowledge was captured independently of the engineer executing it
Automated
ONTAP upgrade process on autoops flow
Full
DC site shutdown with rack-level inventory
NetApp SME Residency: Biopharma at Scale
Embedded 18-month NetApp SME residency at a biopharmaceutical company — owning performance monitoring, end-user issue resolution, NAS namespace design, and automation tooling evaluation.
Business impact: Became the on-site storage authority in a regulated environment where data availability directly affects research operations — and reduced recurring incidents by replacing reactive firefighting with proactive capacity and health monitoring.
NetApp FASONTAPNASOCUMAutomation tooling
Key decisions
Established proactive capacity monitoring before storage health became reactive firefighting — capacity alerts at 70% rather than 90%
Structured change requests for every performance issue so resolution was traceable and repeatable
Designed export policies and namespace for multi-team NAS access — preventing the ad hoc access patterns that cause performance contention
Evaluated automation tools based on operational fit, not feature count — only introduced tooling that reduced human judgment in high-risk windows
18mo
embedded storage residency in regulated biopharma
Proactive
capacity monitoring replacing reactive incidents
Flash Storage Strategy and Operational Tooling
Developed storage strategy and built operational tooling for an EdTech company transitioning to flash-based storage — including monitoring automation, service offerings, and capacity forecasting.
Business impact: Turned ad hoc storage operations into a managed service layer with defined offerings, automated monitoring, and utilization forecasting aligned to business growth — storage run as a product, not a firefight.