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Anthony (Tony) Baldini, Senior Storage Engineer
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| Tony has about 10 years of IT experience, including 4 years with storage. He assists in managing 20 NetApp storage systems and other storage platforms (Boo!!!! Hiss!!!) with more than 120TB of capacity. In his spare time, Tony thinks about climbing mountains and running marathons; but that just tires him out. Instead, he spends as much time as he can with his wife and 4-year-old son.
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Jess Carruthers, Project Manager, William Beaumont Hospitals
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| For the past nine years Jess has managed NetApp and competing storage systems supporting Oracle ERP, financial, clinical, document, and PACS Imaging environments. In 2005 as a beta site for Data ONTAP 7G, Jess and his team consolidated 28TB of Oracle and CIFS storage across 9 NetApp systems to a FAS960c and a NearStore system running SnapVault. Utilization jumped from 50% to 76%. The team is currently expanding its environment to include three FAS clusters, three NearStore systems and a FAS3070 at a remote DR site. (Success story, Technical case study)
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Daniel Kerning, President/Systems Engineer, WebHouse Inc.
Network Appliance Certified Expert
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| One of the first 20 people in the world to become a NetApp Certified Expert, Dan is the president of a full service storage solutions company dedicated to helping customers design storage solutions around a core NetApp infrastructure.
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Reinoud Reynders, IT manager
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| After joining Leuven University Hospital over 10 years ago, Reinoud worked his way up through the ranks to become an IT manager responsible for strategic planning and design as well as 43 staff members. In his spare time, Reinoud pursues outdoor activities that include hiking le Massif Central in France and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, sailing, and gliding. (Tech OnTap Q&A Interview)
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Rajeev Karamchedu, director of IT Operations,
Leading Genomics Research Institute
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| Rajeev manages various IT teams, including Storage, Backup/DR, HPC (Grid Computing), Databases, UNIX, and Web Technologies. With over 10 years of experience in Enterprise IT, Rajeev is a very active and passionate technologist. His experience with NetApp spans many years and includes working with most of the FAS storage line, from the F85 through the FAS6000, and with Data ONTAP® GX. One of the many NetApp tools he created, filestat, was featured in the Tech OnTap publication. Rajeev's team heads the Washington, D.C., NetApp User Group. Rajeev blogs about storage, plus everything else, at http://rajeev.name/blog, The Occasional Blog.
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Steve Stamps, Systems Integration Consultant
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| Steve is a systems integration consultant at Newgate Systems focusing on storage and networking. He also regularly trains and consults in Europe, the United States, and Asia on storage, SAN, NAS, and networking technologies, including the NetApp University curriculum.
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