Irakli Natsvlishvili

Current

• SAP Virtualization and Hosting Architect, consulting at SAP

Past

• Datacenter Solutions Architect, HP Servers and Storage at CDW
• LAN/Network performance, consulting at Flextronics
• Datacenter Virtualization and Monitoring, consulting at Solyndra

• Solutions Architect and Applications Engineer at Ditech Networks
• LAN/Network performance, consulting at Chevron
• Security, LAN and VPN, consulting at Choice Hotels International
• Securit, LAN and VPN consulting at City of San Francisco
• Solutions Engineer at ThinkingVoice Networks
• Senior Network and Systems Administrator at Soffront Software Inc
• Network and Systems Administrator at NexPrise Inc

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Education

• Cisco Networking Academy
• Tbilisi State University

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Information Technology and Services

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Summary

I am a customer oriented data center Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert with a proven track record designing, implementing and supporting enterprise class data centers. My strong technical background and excellent interpersonal skills are key contributors to my ability to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction by working the entire life cycle of engagements from pre-sales (requirements analysis, identifying optimal problem resolution), business development (creating and presenting to executive and technical audiences complex technical solutions), and delivery (deployment, troubleshooting and training).

Helping customers exceed their goals, working with cutting edge technologies and constantly seeking new knowledge are my passions.

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Specialties:

VIRTUALIZATION: Vmware vSphere/VI/SRM/View, Microsoft, Citrix ZENserver
SERVER HARDWARE: HP, Dell, IBM - Blade and Rack
STORAGE: Brocade, Cisco, SAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FCIP, iFCP, NAS, DAS, VSAN, Fabric Management
OS: Windows XP/2008/2003, Linux (RHAT, SUSE)
SERVERS: Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, OCS/LCS, IIS, Oracle, MySQL
NETWORKS/ PROTOCOLS: Ethernet/VLAN/WAN/WLAN/Routing, TCP/IP, VoIP
EMS/NETWORK MANAGEMENT: HP Software, CiscoWorks, SolarWinds, Wireshark/EtheReal

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Experience

• SAP Virtualization and Hosting Architect, consulting

  SAP

  (Public Company; SAP; Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

  • Providing consulting services for SAP’s Co-Innovation Lab to create, validate, certify, optimize, demonstrate and document energy efficient datacenter consolidation solutions. Solutions involve SAP’ Business Suite products (BW, BWA, NetWeaver) and products and technologies provided by SAP partners: Netapp (FAS Storage arrays, SnapMirror, SyncMirror, A-SIS), HP (rack and blade x86/Integrity servers, Virtual Connect, EVA and MSA storage arrays, Business Copy and Continues Access), Vmware (vSphere/ESX, View, SRM), Cisco (Catalyst and Nexus switches), Brocade (SAN switches and DCFM) Citrix (XenServer and XenDesktop, Netscaller), Novell (SUSE Enterprise Linux).
  • I take ownership of projects, develop and execute the solution strategy and business plan to support the growth of the solution offering, provide subject matter expertise in complex heterogeneous environment

• Datacenter Solutions Architect, HP Servers and Storage

  CDW

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  • As a senior technology consultant and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CDW, I've analyzed customers’ project and business case requirements and designed, built and optimized energy efficient, high performance/availability data center solutions for large/medium enterprises, government, educational and health care institutions.
  • Leaded the customer engagement process, traveling to customer sites to present business and usage cases to customers’ executive and tech personnel.
  • Wrote responses to RFPs, provided solutions’ competitive analysis/ROI studies, presentations and trainings to both internal and external business and technical audiences.
  • Worked with Solution Deployment Group to deliver complex solutions which included, but were not limited to: Server and desktop virtualization and consolidation, enterprise storage and servers, Proliant BladeSystem and rack servers, HP Virtual Connect and Flex10 technologies, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuality using storage and application level data replication, heterogeneous and multi-platform network, security and SAN devices from various vendors, multi-node clustering/high availability for database, web and file servicing, High Performance and Distributed Computing (HPC)

• LAN/Network performance, consulting

  Flextronics

  (Public Company; FLEX; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

  • Working as a SME for Sun Professional Services at Flextronics I analyzed the root causes of poor network/system performance on Sun M9000 cluster running Oracle RAC which caused slower than expected transaction processing. I created, tested, documented and deployed troubleshooting plans to pinpoint and eliminate system bottlenecks. After my recommendations were implemented the system delivered the required performance and was accepted as a best practices solution by the customer.

• Datacenter Virtualization and Monitoring, consulting

  Solyndra

  (Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)

  November 2007 — December 2007 (2 months)

  • I delivered datacenter performance analysis and monitoring solutions to the customer by utilizing VMware ESX/VI platform to deploy several virtual monitoring appliances running open source and commercial software. After implementing the solution it was possible to quickly identify the root causes of the repeated performance degradation problems, isolate and fix them.

• Solutions Architect and Applications Engineer

  Ditech Networks

  (Public Company; DITC; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  • As the primary technical liaison between Ditech’s Engineering, Sales and customers I provided technical pre-sales support for account managers to drive engagements, performed customer datacenter and network infrastructure evaluations and certifications, designed and delivered solutions to customers.
  • Created, managed and constantly updated Ditech’s Third Party Interoperability Testing and Product Demonstrations Lab utilizing complex environment of OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris), technologies (SAN/NAS/iSCSI, VoIP, VPN, Virtualization, VLANs) and testing equipment from various vendors.
  • Created considerable CapEX/OpEX savings for Ditech by proposing, designing, testing and successfully deploying virtual servers’ farm on VMware ESX/VI for customers’ data processing.
  • Contributed to regular cross-functional team meetings and product presentations, engineering and sales/professional services seminars by delivering lab research reports and easy to understand engineering presentations to both executive level and technical audience.
  • Created comprehensive SIP protocol compliance test plans for Ditech’s PvP and SBC product lines.
  • Staged product demos for new and existing Ditech customers and prospects, authored numerous product application notes and white papers specific to product features.

• LAN/Network performance, consulting

  Chevron

  (Public Company; CVX; Oil & Energy industry)

  November 2006 — November 2006 (1 month)

  • As a networking SME for Sun Professional Services I worked at the customer’s site to troubleshoot and provided a solution for a proper trunking/link aggregation technology usage on Sun v490 server. I performed various tests in different environments to isolate and identify the root cause which was related to the host’s limitations and delivered the proposed resolution to the customer.

• Security, LAN and VPN, consulting

  Choice Hotels International

  (Public Company; CHH; Hospitality industry)

  October 2006 — October 2006 (1 month)

  • Working as a networking Subject Matter Expert for Sun Professional Services (Sun PSO) I gathered customer’s requirements, did site and network/infrastructure surveys, designed and presented to the customer a scalable and budgetary solution for large scale (more then 300 hosts) deployment of secure Sunray Ultrathin Client technology via VPN – Sunray@Home.

• Securit, LAN and VPN consulting

  City of San Francisco

  (Government Administration industry)

  July 2005 — August 2005 (2 months)

  • Working as a third-party contractor for Sun Professional Services I designed, tested and implemented secured Sunray Ultrathin Client solution for Sun Francisco Board of Supervisors. It was first VPN based implementation of Sunray technology outside of SUN. Built a pre-production lab, performed overall system, stress and reliability tests. Provided to the client pre and post-sales support and training.

• Solutions Engineer

  ThinkingVoice Networks

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 11 months)

  • As technical sales support for the company’s sales team, I provided solutions design and technical presentations to customers with hands-on configuration assistance and onsite troubleshooting.
  • Performed interoperability testing between Thinkingvoice’s hosted solution and third-party applications.
  • Designed, installed and configured WAN, LAN, WLAN and VPN in corporate and colocation.
  • Researched new VoIP and virtualization technologies and setup a lab which involved installing, configuring and testing Vmware ESX/Server/Workstation, Microsoft Virtual Server and XEN servers.
  • Created several sets of network diagrams and product application notes.

• Senior Network and Systems Administrator

  Soffront Software Inc

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 1999 — August 2004 (4 years 9 months)

  • I’ve designed and deployed company’s IT infrastructure – installed, configured and supported Dell and HP servers, Cisco and Intel/Dialogic based VoIP phone system and Cisco CallManager server.
  • Defined, developed, maintained and enforced corporate security policies regarding network and systems access, performed log analysis using log analyzer tools.
  • Performed IT architecture review and security scans on regular basis to address new security threats.
  • Enabled VPN access to the corporate office from remote offices and telecommuters.
  • Secured corporate mail and web servers using various tools on network and host level.

• Network and Systems Administrator

  NexPrise Inc

  (Public Company; NXPS; Computer Software industry)

  January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)

  • Migrated network from legacy Frame-Relay based VPN to IPSec based VPN.
  • Created and implemented migration plan from NT 4.0 network to Active Directory.
  • Managed corporate network on Windows NT 4.0 with one main office and three branch offices.
  • Created and implemented migration plan from UNIX based mail to MS Exchange server.

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Education

• Cisco Networking Academy

  Computer Networking and Security 2003 — 2004

• Tbilisi State University

  Masters , Applied Mathematics and Computer Science , 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Interests:

Consulting: planning, design, implementation and support of efficient and high availability/performance data centers.

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Groups:

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
IEEE Communications Society
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
•    The Storage Networking Industry Association
•    Storage: SAN, NAS
•    The Storage Group
•    Storage Specialists
•    Storage Professionals

Irakli Natsvlishvili’s Contact Settings

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