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About Adam Jones - March 2021 Update Coming Soon

Adam Jones is the EMC Converged Infrastructure Discipline Lead for the Americas and a VCE Master Engineer. His expertise is in storage, high speed connectivity and VMware performance engineering on some of the world’s largest Converged Infrastructure environments. One of his many achievements is that he was selected by VCE Executive Management in 2013 to be accepted into the Master Engineer Program in order to prepare for the Distinguished Engineer designation.

Adam has spent the majority of his career seeking distinct opportunities to solve complex scenarios that bring together cross platform and disciplines in engineering. Within this approach, Adam believes that complex obstacles push our boundaries to produce greatness.

 

A) Primary Areas of Engineering Expertise and Research (Electrical/Computer Engineering)

 

  • Vblock, VxBlock, Vscale, VxRack and VxRail Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • Symmetrix Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • XtremIO Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • DSSD D5 Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • VNX Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • VPLEX Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • RecoverPoint Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering

  • High Speed Connectivity (Fibre Channel, Infiniband, NVMe Fabric, and Intel Omni-Path Fabric) Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering – Focus on Genome Sequencing & Bioinformatics

  • Next Generation HPC Architectures (Hyper-Converged, Cray and System Z Mainframe) – Focus on Genome Sequencing & Bioinformatics

  • Single Cell, Multi Cell and Triple Cell Solid State Drive Engineering

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Rapid Prototyping Solution Engineering (Integrated Circuit Design, Integrated Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Printing/Machining and Circuit Logic Analysis)

 

B) Primary Areas of Extended Learning and Focus (Electrical/Computer Engineering)

 

  • VMAX All Flash, XtremIO, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, VxBlock, Vscale, VxRack, VxRail, DSSD D5, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Elastic Cloud Storage and Big Data/Data Lake “Data Scientist” integration of Hadoop with Isilon

  • High Speed Connectivity (Fibre Channel, Infiniband, NVMe Fabric, and Intel Omni-Path Fabric) Configuration and Performance Analysis Engineering – Focus on Genome Sequencing & Bioinformatics

  • Next Generation HPC Architectures (Hyper-Converged, Cray and System Z Mainframe) – Focus on Genome Sequencing & Bioinformatics

  • Big Data/Data Scientist Infrastructure Design and Data Analytics (Hadoop With HDFS, MapReduce, Flume, Oozie, Hive, Pig, HBase, and YARN), Spark, NoSQL, Machine Learning and Data Mining (R), Statistical and Quantitative Analysis, Data Visualization (Tableau) and General Purpose Programming Languages (C and Python) – Focus on Genome Sequencing & Bioinformatics

    • Currently in 6 month Big Data class through University of California San Diego

    • After Big Data Specialization at UCSD, will then be in a 6 month Data Science Specialization and Next Generation Genomic Sequencing Data Scientist Specialization through Johns Hopkins University

  • Next Generation Sequencing Data Scientist (Genomic Data Science Specialization)

 

C) Primary Areas of Engineering Expertise and Research (Mechanical Engineering)

 

  • Power Production and Distribution Engineering

  • Large Scale Diesel Engineering for Power Production

  • Thermal Analysis (Component and Solution Centric)

  • Industrial Manufacturing Design and Rapid Prototyping Solution Engineering

    • 3D Scanning (Physical Object -> NextEngine 3D Scanner with ProScan and RapidWorks -> Autodesk Fusion360 (Complete Reverse Engineering Tooling Workflow)

    • 3D Printing (PLA and SLA)

    • Milling (3 - 5 Axis)

    • Lathing

    • Molding

    • Vacuum Forming

    • Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM)

    • Casting

    • Forging

    • Water Jetting

    • Sheet Metal Fabrication

    • Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Fabrication

    • Welding, Soldering, Brazing

    • Laser Cutting and Engraving

    • Stamping

    • Grinding

    • Plating and Anodization

    • General and Final Assembly

  • Current Advanced Research Toolset Summary Available at http://buff.ly/24kt6u8

 

D) Major EMC\VCE Contributions

 

  • Developed the VCE Vblock 1xx, 2xx, 3xx, 5xx and 7xx Health Check Data Collection and Analysis/Process Master Material

  • Developed the Vblock 3xx and 7xx Run Book Master Material

  • Developed the Vblock 3xx and 7xx Delivery Documentation Master Material

  • Developed in depth Vblock VMAX and VNX Performance Engineering Master Material

  • Master Vblock 5xx Design and Development Team Member

  • Vision Engineering Summit Design Team Member (Vision Core Functions and Framework)

  • VCE Global Professional Services point of contact in reference to complex integration as new products and solutions are introduced

  • Was key advanced technical resource in establishing VCE Technical Documentation content and standards (After Acadia to VCE rebranding and following years)

  • Was key advanced technical resource in establishing VCE Global Professional Services in EMEA and APJ

  • Recognized technical expert within Professional Services, Support and Engineering in reference to product integration across a diverse amount of EMC core products and solutions

 

E) Current Memberships

 

  • EMC Connectivity Champion

  • EMC Published Author

  • EMC Symmetrix Champion

  • VMware Champion

  • EMC SPEED Member

  • EMC uSPEED Member

  • EMC vSPEED Member

  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers Member

  • VCE Master Engineer Member


F) Current Certifications 

 

  • Brocade Certified Fabric Designer

  • Brocade Certified Fabric Professional

  • Brocade Certified SAN Designer

  • CompTIA Certified A+

  • CompTIA Certified Network+

  • CompTIA Certified Server+

  • Cisco Certified Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist

  • Dell Certified Storage Networking Professional

  • EMC Certified Celerra\VNX Networked Storage Implementation Engineer

  • EMC Certified Celerra\VNX Networked Storage Technology Architect

  • EMC Certified CLARiiON\VNX Platform Engineer

  • EMC Certified CLARiiON\VNX Implementation Engineer

  • EMC Certified CLARiiON\VNX Technology Architect

  • EMC Certified Data Center Architect

  • EMC Certified Disk Library and Backup to Disk Technologist

  • EMC Certified SAN Technology Architect (Expert Level)

  • EMC Certified Storage Administrator

  • EMC Certified Symmetrix Business Continuity Technology Architect

  • EMC Certified Symmetrix Business Continuity Implementation Engineer

  • Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional

  • HP-UX Certified System Administrator

  • IBM Certified Cloud Computing Solution Architect

  • IBM Certified High-End Disk for Open Systems Solution Architect

  • IBM Certified Storwize V7000 Solution Architect

  • IBM Certified XIV Storage Systems Solution Architect

  • NetApp Certified Storage Professional

  • SNIA Certified Architect

  • SNIA Certified Professional

  • SNIA Certified Storage Networking Expert

  • SNIA Certified Systems Engineer

  • Sun Certified Backup and Recovery Engineer

  • Sun Certified Data Management Engineer

  • Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris

  • Sun Certified Storage Architect

  • Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris

  • VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate

  • VMware Certified Professional - 3.x, 4.x and 5.x

  • VMware Certified Sales Professional

  • VMware Certified Technical Sales Professional