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Marco Schneider

Life-Learning Cloud Generalist - Staff Solution Architect

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Marco Schneider

Cloud Generalist - Staff Solution Architect

Resume

Resume

Education
ABB Energy

Energy Electrical in Industry

Friedrich Ebert School

Highschool Graduation

09.1994 - 06.1998

09.1989 - 07.1994

I got my degree in web design and development, and later on, I have finished a course in photography and photoplay. Graphic design has become my motivation for the further career path…
Employment
Zadara

Staff Solution Architect

01.2016 - present

TBD

IBM

Associate Certified Cloud Infrastructure Architect

10.2013 - 12.2015

IBM

Global Enterprise Cloud Delivery Architect

01.2010 - 09.2013

• Traveling generalist going on-site to 15 data-centers in 11 countries, among them Japan, France, Switzerland, US, Brazil, and Canada, to personally perform site assessment, datacenter planning together with the local team, leading physical and logical builds of over 2000 physical servers per datacenter.
• Deployed a variety of infrastructures including; Red Hat/KVM, VMware/ESXi, IBM AIX, building network platforms on Juniper Networks hardware, Brocade storage networks, mostly IBM Hardware including System X and System P, and deploying large complex middleware solutions.
• Co-founded the IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise Plus (SCE+) solution. This was the first IBM Cloud IaaS offering.
• Chief Storage Architect designing continuous architecture to leverage across several offerings including the design patterns and roadmap.
IBM

Lead Storage Architect

01.2006 - 12.2010

• Designed the building block reference architecture for IBM’s strategic outsourcing offering in all three German datacenters with a small group of Architects. Consultant during sales engagement, developing overall transition architecture based on the reference design.
• Worked to reduce cost and improve infrastructure stability through innovation projects focused on virtualization.
• Supported financial planning, resource tracking (including Global Resourcing / Delivery), service line strategic planning, executive updates, and productivity & cost takeout initiatives for the Storage and Backup Service Line Component of SSO.
• Coordinated the leadership of critical situation (Outage) groups, using methods to analyzing the situation and communicate the workaround or solution between IBM and the customer management on C-Level.
IBM

Storage Subject Matter Expert

01.2000 - 04.2006

• Designed, Installed and administered high available infrastructure solution for a global IBM file store to fulfil the business critical data transfer around the world.
• Installed and tested new IBM hardware together with the IBM Lab and updated the IBM Linux and Storage interoperability matrix
• Consulting Storage SME for 20 different customers (banking, travel and transportation, energy and national security) in Europe focused on Storage, Backup and Storage area Network.
Badges and Certificates
Skills
Cloud Infrastructure
90%
Kubernetes
70%
Network
60%
Storage
100%
Automation (Terraform / Ansible)
75%
Business Categories
Sales30
Solution Design45
Post Sales15
Development10
Language Skills
German
English
Spanish

Portfolio

Portfolio

Testimonials

Testimonials

Yair Hershko
YH

It was my privilege working with Marco for over 6 years at Zadara. Marco has a passion for technology with in-depth technical expertise in Storage, IT and Cloud Services. He also masters…

Noam Shendar
NS

Marco is one of those rare people who is able to handle both the technical and business sides of a sale. On top of that, he is knowledgeable, professional, and organized. It…

Dani Naor
DN

I know Marco 6 year, since he joined Zadara EMEA. I learned to know him personally as a warm, nice greeting person and as a dedicated professional team member. Marco is very…

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