Stephen Spencer

Stephen Spencer

Associate Analyst/Programmer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    System Architect at Nutanix: Solving business challenges and pain via technology

  • Education

    • Springfield Catholic Central

      1987 - 1990
      Diploma
    • Wright State University

      1990 - 1996
      BS Management Information Systems

      Activities and Societies: I ran cross country for 2 years.

    • Wright State University

      2009 - 2010
      Masters Information Systems

      I graduated on 1/8/2010.

  • Experience

    • Marathon Oil Corporation

      Mar 1996 - Oct 1997
      Associate Analyst/Programmer

      I actually worked at Emro Marketing Company as a Windows SA.

    • Quick Solutions, LLC

      Oct 1997 - Sept 1999
      Consultant

      I was a consultant doing Windows System Administration.

    • City of Columbus

      Oct 1999 - Sept 2000
      Windows System Adminstrator

      I was a Windows System Administrator responsible for day to day adminstration. I was also part of the team that migrated Banyan Vines to Windows AD.

    • Sterling Commerce an AT&T company

      Sept 2000 - Sept 2004
      Senior Systems Engineer

      I was a Windows SA and a Storage Area Network (SAN) engineer managing 30TB of SAN storage.

    • Advizex

      Sept 2004 - Jul 2005
      Consultant

      I was responsible for installation and configuration of storage solutions sold by our sale reps. I was also responsible for pricing and sizing the solutions.

    • JPMorganChase

      Jul 2005 - Oct 2012

      I am on the Solution, Design and Integration team within our CT LOB. I am responsible for designing server side solutions and application integrations. I perform work such as right sizing of servers, storage and network based configurations such as load balancing for both local and global. I curerntly reside on the SAN Deployment team. I am responsible for all net new Storage deployments, storage decomms and BAU adds to existing servers. I also performed SAN Array tech refresh, SAN Fabric tech refresh as well as NAS tech refresh.

      • Architect Lead

        Nov 2010 - Oct 2012
      • Engineer Lead

        Jul 2005 - Nov 2010
    • Advizex

      Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
      Senior Storage Architect

      I am a pre-sales storage architect heading up enterprise accounts and a 5 state region. I currently architect solutions on the following platforms: EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC VNXe, Cisco SAN Switches, Brocade SAN Switches, EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain.

    • VCE

      Nov 2013 - Sept 2016
      Sr. vArchitect

      I am a pre-sales engineer supporting Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. I currently designed solutions around the following products sets: EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, EMC Recoverpoint, EMC XtremeIO, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, VMware, Linux, and MS Windows.

    • Dell Technologies

      Sept 2016 - Aug 2021

      I am responsible Globally for our CI product portfolio as a field liaison between the field and product engineering, product management and product marketing. I am also responsible for the rest of our MDC product portfolio. I am currently covering the America’s and I am responsible for our CI VxBlock portfolio as a field liaison between product engineering and product management and the field. I am a pre-sales engineer supporting Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. I currently designed solutions around the following products sets: EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Unity, EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, EMC Recoverpoint, EMC XtremeIO, EMC ScaleIO, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, VMware, VSAN, Linux, and MS Windows. I am a pre-sales engineer supporting Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus. I currently designed solutions around the following products sets: EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, EMC Recoverpoint, EMC XtremeIO, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco MDS, VMware, Linux, and MS Windows.

      • Global Field CTO

        Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
      • Horizontal Systems Advisory Consultant

        Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
      • Advisory Systems Engineer

        Sept 2017 - Mar 2018
      • Sr. vArchitect

        Sept 2016 - Sept 2017
    • Nutanix

      Sept 2021 - now
      System Architect

      I will be supporting the Enterprise customers in the Columbus market

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • VMware Sales Professional VSP 5.5

      Dec 2013
    • VMware Technical Sales Professional VTSP 5.5

      Dec 2013
    • Technology Architect, Backup Recovery Solutions Specialist

      EMC
      May 2013
    • ESIE-CS (EMC Proven Professional – Implementation Engineer – Clariion Specialty Specialist Level)

      EMC
      Jan 2005
    • ESSA-CS( EMC Proven Professional – Storage Administrator – Clariion Specialty Specialist Level)

      EMC
      Dec 2004
    • BCFP (Brocade Certified Fabric Professional)

      Brocade
      Jun 2004
    • MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

      Microsoft
      Jul 1999
    • VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate (VCE-CIA)

      Feb 2014
    • VSP - VCF - 2020

      VMware
      Jul 2020
    • CCENT

      Cisco
      Oct 2014
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Stephen Spencer
      3Q CTO Award JPMC Corporate Technology Oct 2011 I was awarded this award along with the project team for our effort to bring to market a key initiative for CT.
    • Awarded to Stephen Spencer
      CSi Coin CSI Jul 2010 I received this Coin award due to the help I provided an external LOB.
    • Awarded to Stephen Spencer
      PIE (Partner in Excellence) JPMC GTI (JPMorgan Chase, Global Technology Infrastructure) Jan 2008 I received this work due to the work I performed during the 2007 calendar year for the SAN Tech Refresh Initiative.