Anna Tanato

Current

• Sr SQA Engineer at Maxiscale

Past

• Systems Engineer/Consultant at Various Corporations
• Sr. TPS Consultant/Team Lead at IBM Tivoli Software
• Sr. Wincenter Technical Support at Network Computing Devices

• Consultant and Systems Administrator at Miscellaneous Major Corporations

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Education

• Crunch Boxing Classes
• University of San Francisco, a Jesuit University
• University of San Francisco, a Jesuit University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Anna Tanato’s Summary

Systems Administration, Consulting, Technical Support, and Pre-Sales Systems Engineering in technology and infrastructure within a Data Center; encompassing niche areas within networking, storage, SAN, NAS, systems management and server virtualization.

Anna Tanato’s Specialties:

Windows, Unix and Linux networking and operating systems, Solaris and NCD X terminals, Tivoli Management Enterprise platform, EMC storage, BlueArc NAS, storage virtualization, Server virtualization (Egenera Bladeframe, VMWare).

Anna Tanato’s Experience

• Sr SQA Engineer

  Maxiscale

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (9 months)

  at.the.QA Lab.

• Systems Engineer/Consultant

  Various Corporations

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 1999 — 2007 (8 years)

  Among the Major Corporations and Roles Assumed in the Past:
  * SE at Crosswalk Inc.
  * Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Corporation
  * Sr Systems Engineer at egenera Inc.
  * Systems Engineer at Rainfinity (an EMC Corporation)
  * Product Manager/Tech Mktg Engr at BlueArc Corpration
  * Sr Systems Engineer at EMC Corporation

• Sr. TPS Consultant/Team Lead

  IBM Tivoli Software

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

  February 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 9 months)

  • Architecture, design and implementation; pre and post sales technical consulting: supporting the TME 10 Tivoli product line within, but not limited to, the Western Region.
  • Physical and logical network analysis, systems design, integration and deployment of the TME 10 product supporting heterogeneous platforms: Solaris, AIX, NT, Netware, etc.
  • Project management, account management, critical situation management and problem resolution includes management of customer issues vis a vis technical support, development and sales management groups within Tivoli.
  • Major customer deployments include: McKesson Corporation, United States Customs, BBN Planet/GTE services, Kaiser Permanente, The GAP, City and County of San Francisco, Halifax plc (United Kingdom), Intesa (Caracas, Venezuela), Deloitte and Touche LLP.
  • 1998 Tivoli Professional Services Consultant of the Year for the Northwest Region

• Sr. Wincenter Technical Support

  Network Computing Devices

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; NCDI; Computer Software industry)

  November 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 3 months)

  • Technical lead and management of 3rd party OEM vendors and relationships, primarily: Citrix Winframe, Microsoft, InterDrive NT NFS
  • Lead technical support engineer for WinCenterPro, Citrix Winframe OS, and NCDWare X server software; implemented support process, procedures and documentation.
  • Critical situation account - national and international customers, on-site problem resolution, systems integration.
  • Major customer accounts include: Intel, Motorola, Harris Corporation, Barclays Bank (London), GTS Gral (European-based 3rd party), Tekelek (European-based 3rd party), Rolls Royce (London)

• Consultant and Systems Administrator

  Miscellaneous Major Corporations

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1991 — November 1995 (4 years 11 months)

  - Systems Administrator for Wells Fargo Bank's Wholesale Services Group (WSG)
  - Sr Consultant - Digital Equipment Corporation - CNE/CNI, Microsoft MCT, etc.

Anna Tanato’s Education

• Crunch Boxing Classes

• University of San Francisco, a Jesuit University

  Bachelor of Arts, Communication Theory

• University of San Francisco, a Jesuit University

  Masters, Organization Development

Additional Information

Anna Tanato’s Websites:

• My Company

Anna Tanato’s Interests:

- Boxing - Jogging/Running - New Technology - Reading - A thinker

Anna Tanato’s Groups:

Dual Citizenship: United States Passport and EU Passport (Italian Citizen)

Boxing Student at: Third Street Boxing Gym, Titanium Training Center and SFC (StraightForward Club) Boxing

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Tivoli Software Alumni
•    ASMALLWORLD.net
•    aSmallWorld Group
•    Yelp Elite
•    Cloud Computing
•    University of San Francisco Alumni Association
•    Storage: SAN, NAS
•    Wells Fargo Alumni