Sam Avula

Background

About Sam Avula

Extensive experience architecting Storage, Backup, Compute, and Disaster Recovery solutions for the financial industry, resulting in increased data security, reduced downtime, and improved regulatory compliance. Proven ability to analyze complex business requirements, devise innovative strategies, and lead end-to-end implementations, resulting in cost savings of up to multi million dollar. •Architected a scalable storage solution leveraging SAN, NAS, and storage virtualization technologies, resulting in a 30% improvement in storage utilization and reducing operational costs annually. •Led the design and implementation of a comprehensive backup and recovery strategy, resulting in a 50% reduction in backup window and achieving a 99.8% success rate in data restores and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, leading to a successful audit. •Configured and maintained storage area networks (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) systems, achieving 99.9% system availability and reducing downtime incidents by 40%. •Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design a high-performance compute platform, resulting in a 25% increase in application performance and reducing hardware costs by $1M annually. •Conducted detailed capacity planning, optimizing resource allocation and reducing infrastructure costs annually. •Developed and executed disaster recovery plans, conducting regular tests that achieved a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 4 hours. •Expertise in developing comprehensive migration strategies and plans, considering factors such as downtime minimization, risk assessment, and business continuity. Ability to assess existing data center infrastructure, including hardware, software, network topology, and power requirements, to identify potential challenges and opportunities during migration. •Strong project management skills to effectively lead data center migration projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budget, and quality standards. •Strong leadership and communication skills, collaborating with stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to drive successful project outcomes. •Exceptional problem-solving abilities, consistently resolving complex infrastructure issues, resulting in a 30% reduction in incident response time. •Strong Hands-on multiple technologies (Storage- Pure, Nimble/Alletra, EMC, NetApp and Minio | Backups -Rubrik, Veeam, and EMC | Replication- Zerto, VMware SRM, Veeam and all array-based replications) •Good understanding with VMware virtualization, Cloud Technologies, databases, HPE Synergy, Cisco UCS and CNI.