Calling all EMC Proven Professionals!

I was just skimming through some older threads and realized that I never actually responded to this one... So I thought I'd take the chance to introduce myself (again).

My name is Allen Ward. My current Role is Enterprise Storage Technology Specialist for a large financial services organization with operations in North America and Europe. I'm based in one of our data center locations in Canada. I have been working with SAN Storage technologies for about 9 years now and specialize in primary disk (both Midrange and Enterprise class), the Fibre Channel infrastructure that holds the SAN together, and the ControlCenter infrastructure that facilitates centralized monitoring, management, and reporting. I work on a dedicated team of 12 Storage professionals with specialties ranging from Backup & Recovery to Mainframe Storage.

Back in May of this year I finally got around to writing my first EMC certification exam (I've been an MCP since 1996) at EMC World. I'm now an EMCPA after passing the Information Storage and Management exam. I'm planning on furthering my certifications this coming year up to the Specialist level, but haven't decided for sure which specialist cert to start with.

Hi,

My name is Sean Tolliver and I'm a Solutions Engineer @ McKesson.  I currently hold the following certifications:

Clariion

EMCPA, (reCertified) 04/08

EMCIE, 02/06

EMCIEe, 11/06

EMCTA, 06/09

CAS

EMCTA, 05/08

CSII

EMCTA, 05/09

I'm currently working on NAS and Symmetrix TA for 2010.

Waaw, you're almost as good as I am.... hahaha

Welcome

Hey Roy,

nice to see you again !

@RRR

I'm still here. Just add some other topics in the community

Greetz, Roy

My name is Christy Turner and I am a Senior Systems Engineer in NC.  I am an EMCPA and EMCSA with the CLARiiON specialty.  Currently I manage 4 CLARiiONs, 1 in Atlanta, GA, 2 in Raleigh, NC, and 1 in London, along with the attached servers and FC network (comprised of Brocade FC switches).  We are currently running MirrorViewA and Recoverpoint as well. 

It's nice to connect with other SAN administrators out there. 

Christy

Hi to all the new folks!! Looking forward to hearing more from all of you!!

For those of you who are customers, did you see Candace's request - she's looking for customers who are willing do a video on their thoughts about what sorts of value you have seen (or your employer has seen) from you being a certified Proven Professional.

I know some of you have looked at it -- are you all really that shy? Go check out Candace's thread, all the details and her contact information is there...we want to see your beautiful faces!

Hey Gina,

In case you aren't getting as much response as you hoped to Candace's thread, I know I'm in the position of not being allowed to participate. We have some strict rule in place about anything that appears to be vendor promotion. I always have to be careful on here to make sure I don't cross the line even with other confirmed customers, let alone in something that could get posted on open public sites.

Hi Christy, and welcome!

Is that London you are referring to in NC as well, or would that be the UK or Canada? I'm up in the Canadian "instance" and provide some support for our UK operations as well.

Well you never know what they might have down there in NC.

I'm in London, Ontario (and yes, we have the Thames river running through the city too) and Paris is only a little more than an hour's drive away. Sometimes folks aren't exactly the most original with their naming :-)

Anyway, welcome (again) and hopefully we will see you over in the Support Forums as well.

Hello Michelle,

In India, Techie's are crazy about storage. People from other domain like Unix/Backup/Network like to get into Storage, especially into EMC Symmetrix. In my previous job, I have seen couple of my team members (who were specialist in other storage products) learned EMC stuffs from me & got EMC Foundation certified.

Hello Michelle,

my name is Dieter Kuefner and I'm living in Germany. Working for an IT Service Provider as a Systems Architect. We're using Storage systems of different vendors. These are crazy days because we just got into that multi-vendor approach trying to implement a common Storage Management infrastructure.

I'm holding a Specialist certification as an EMCTA - Networked Storage, a basic SNIA certification as well as a Brocade BCFP. I really appreciate the ECN where I can find a lot of interesting discussions, hints, links to other ressources and so on. I hope you keep that thing going...

Best regards

Dieter