1. EMILIO U. LOPEZ
Coral Springs, FL - (954) 464-0637 - jela3536@hotmail.com
STORAGE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Motivated and driven IT professional offering 23+ years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing,
managing and maintaining highly complex, heterogeneous Storage Area Networks, and computing solutions.
 Responsible for highly robust and resilient storage solutions for mission critical environments.
 Experienced in Highly Available IT environments as well as Disaster Recovery procedures and best
practices.
 Strategically manage time and expediently resolve problems for optimal productivity, improvement and
profitability; able to perform multiple tasks effectively.
 Strong technical background with a solid history of delivering outstanding customer service resulting in
high customer satisfaction.
 Highly effective liaison and communication skills proven by effective interaction with management, users,
team members and vendors.
 District Technical lead and Subject Matter Expert for Storage and SAN environments.
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Technical Skills
Operating Systems: HPUX, Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, VMware/SRM, OS/390, Z/OS
Languages: C++, JAVA, Assembler, Visual Basic.
Hardware 3PAR, EVA, XP, P9500, Hitachi, IBM, EMC, Cisco MDS, Brocade, McData
Services - Design and implementation of complete Storage Area Networks.
- Disaster Recovery and High Availability solutions expert.
- In-depth performance analysis and troubleshooting for storage and SAN.
- Data migration services on all the operating systems listed above utilizing tools
like TDMF, DMM, and host based commands as well as Storage virtualization.
- Health Checks and improvement evaluations on Storage Area Networks
- Proof of concept management and pre-sales support.
Professional Experience
Hewlett Packard, Account Support Manager (2005 - Present)
Proactive support of large Storage Area Networks to include: SAN health checks, performance analysis and
firmware upgrades for high end, enterprise customers.
 Customers include T-MOBIL, Tracfone Wireless, Memorial HealthCare Systems, ING, Hughes Supply,
Univision Communications, Beckman Coulter, Telefonica Mobiles and many others.
 Design, implementation and support of complex, heterogeneous SAN environments.
 Mentoring of less experienced ASM’s.
 Composed and delivered training seminars on Mainframe concepts and storage connectivity.
 Statement of Work creation and Project Management.
 Change Management services.
 Created a well-defined portfolio of services to offer our customer base.
 Increased proactive and reactive support services in the district by 30%.

2.  Provide pre-sales technical support on Storage Solutions.
Senior Storage Consultant (2002 – 2005)
 Design and Implementation of large, complex and heterogeneous SAN environments.
 Regional support for Mainframe connectivity projects.
 Regional support for the entire line of Hitachi based storage products from HP. (XP product line)
 Regional support for mid-range storage products (EVA product line)
 Regional support for Mainframe data migration.
 Performed many data migrations on open systems using TDMF, DMM and operating system volume
management features as well as raw OS commands on HPUX, Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris.
 Performed Mainframe data migrations using TDMF and OS utilities.
Hitachi Data Systems, Solutions Architect (1999 - 2002)
 Design, implementation and pre-sales support for Storage Area Networks for HDS Latin America.
 Post sales Latin America support for Storage Area Networks.
 Worked closely with the connectivity support labs at HDS to document and troubleshoot SAN
connectivity problems in Latin America.
 Project Lead for HDS’ readiness plan in Latin America for Y2K.
District Hardware Specialist (1988 – 1999)
 Responsible for second level support to all of Florida for the entire line of HDS mainframe and storage
portfolio to include OS/390 class mainframe CPU’s, 7700, 7700E, 9960 and 9910 storage devices in
Mainframe as well as open systems environments.
Education:
Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida
AA Degree in Electrical Engineering
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Currently working on my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
Certifications:
 Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
 ITIL foundations certified
 HP NI62 certified
Miscellaneous:
 Fluent in English, Spanish and basic Portuguese.
 US citizen, valid passport.
 Proficient on Brocade, Cisco and McData SAN switches and directors.