
Solution Architect at COMA ZALOHOVACI SYSTEMY a.s.
Czech Republic

Solution Architect at COMA ZALOHOVACI SYSTEMY a.s.
Czech Republic
Certificates (Exams):
2008 - VMware Certified Professional (VCP-301)
2007 - FalconStor - IPStor v5.1 Basic Training Online Exam
2006 - CCNA 1
Courses (Certificates of Attendance):
2008 - LeftHand Gold Partner Technical Workshop (London, UK)
2007 - Sun & LSI Storage Technical Training (Brecknell, UK)
2007 - IBM System Storage Campus ´07 (Portoroz, Slovenija)
2006 - Overland Storage - Tape Libraries maintenance (Wokingham, UK)
2005 - Citrix Presentation Server 4.0: Administration (Prague, Czechia)
Online Insights (written for TechDirt Insight Community; selected and republished by Dell, IBM):
http://thefutureofstorage.com, http://virtualizationconversation.com/.
Presales support – consulting storage, backup and high-availability services, dealing with clients.
Project management of storage and backup systems' implementation – VMware Virtual Infrastructure and LeftHand storage solutions' deployments (Technology s.r.o., Nemocnice Trinec), dual-datacenter symmetrical design (VMware + LeftHand); team leader for analysis and implementation of backup system in ICZ (IT development company), covering 100 servers in 4 sites, 6 server platforms, backup libraries and disk arrays.
Storage performance benchmarking and analysis. Evaluating customer's I/O needs, peformance improvement design.
Project analysis – storage and backup systems analysis and development concept for Dopravni podnik Hl. m. Prahy (Prague city transport company).
Live presentations of storage products – iSCSI arrays, servers and storage virtualization, backup systems.
Server virtualization systems, storage virtualization, Linux services, SANs, iSCSI arrays and infrastructure, Fibre Channel networks and arrays, IT storage systems analysis and design, IT disaster recovery design, backup systems analysis, storage performance.
Products: VMWare Virtual Infrastructure, LeftHand SAN/IQ, iStor iSCSI arrays, FalconStor IPStor, Debian GNU Linux, RedHat Linux, SLES Linux, Windows Server 2003, OpenAFS, OpenLDAP, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Citrix PS.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
- Project analysis and design.
- Storage and server virtualization presales support.
- Managing large installations.
Technical product specialist for:
- LeftHand SAN/IQ
- VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- iStor IntegraStor
- FalconStor IPStor.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)
Occasional insight writing - mainly of storage and server virtualization.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 7 months)
External consultant and system engineer. Providing IT services and consultancy for SMB companies.
Linux servers' administration - Samba file and authentication services, terminal services, VPN, PXE booting, backup systems.
(Education Management industry)
July 2002 — July 2006 (4 years 1 month)
Administering server infrastructure of 2500 users. Server platforms Linux (most experience), Novell, Windows Server.
Lectoring Linux - related courses.
Management of authentication services, backup, file servers.
Management of thin-client infrastructure deployment, based on Citrix/Windows.
MSc , Finance , 1996 — 2002
photography, mountains hiking, music
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