Biography:
Vance L. Ballew Solutions Architect at Long View Systems, Long View is one of the largest and fastest growing IT solutions and services companies with over 600 technical consultants operating from offices across North America. We offer project based technology solutions focused on IT infrastructure, as well as end to end operational outsourcing solutions for SMB to enterprise customers. We provide our clients with some of the best IT people anywhere and we have senior technical experts in key technology areas like virtualization, storage, managed IT services, networking solutions, unified communications, user support, and Data Center.Ballew served as a Senior Technical Consultant at Sigma Solutions Inc. Sigma specializes in IT Advanced Infrastructure that Advises, Implements and Maintains an enterprise's data systems. Prior to Sigma Ballew served as an information Storage Architect for five years at Datalink Corp. Were he analyze, design, implement, and support information storage infrastructures that store, protect, and provide continuous access to fortune 100 companies data information. Ballew served as the Director of Media Technology for Convizion and Chief Information Officer of Orus Information Services and the Director of Network Solutions at Indigious INC., an innovative leader in full service, solution-oriented Information Technology services. Ballew has over twenty three years of infrastructure architecture, project management and management experience at fortune 100 companies like Texas Instruments, Boeing, Associates of North America, Zales, Bell Helicopter, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Sony, National Geographic, Warner Brothers, Fox Sports and PepsiCo. Ballew has 25 years experience in leadership and interpersonal skills with strong organizational ability; he is detailed oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ballew has organized teams to work together to accomplish a common goal and meet business requirements. Ballew has coordinated the efforts of outside vendors to work with internal teams to successfully completion of major projects. Ballew has provided Architectural strategies, Project Management Methodologies and implementation services for Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Storage management systems. Ballew has extensive experience Architecting and deploying Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks, iSCSI technologies, Enterprise Servers, and LAN/WAN technologies implementing various protocols like TCP/IP, FCIP, CIFS, iSCSI. Ballew’s enterprise server experience is extensive, the environments Ballew has worked with are UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 server, Exchange, Windows Terminal Server, Citrix, and Intel based server technologies. Ballew also served as Director of Network operations at Boeing Electronics where he worked with the installation of the network on the U.S. Air Force AWCS Boeing 707 command center aircraft. Prior to joining Boeing Electronics, he was a Manager of Network Engineering with Andrew Communications for four years were he participated on Government Communication projects. In addition, Ballew was a Senior Network Engineer with Texas Instruments for eight years implementing Ethernet networks and server designs for users groups within Texas Instruments. Ballew is a Harley Davidson Enthusiast and enjoys the open road where it is about the journey and not the destination.
Expertise:
Architect/ Consultant responsible for designing, implementation, of Server and storage consolidations utilizing NetApp
and VMware solutions that stores, protect, and provide continuous access to information in a highly complex server and
data storage environment. As a Senior Technical Consultant I provided pre-sales/post sale support to Sigma Solutions
account executives for best-of-breed server/storage solutions. Interact with customers to analyze, design, test, document,
and implement information management server/storage solutions to give our clients nonstop data availability, integrity,
virtulization, storage and protection. Responsible for building relationships with the industry’s top hardware and software
manufacturers to gain inside access to each manufacturer’s research and development roadmap, resources, and products.
This insight, along with hands-on experience gained working in interoperability labs and in the field, enables me to
provide guidance that is well-informed and objective. My objective at our customers is to earn the respect, confidence, and
loyalty of our customers and become their trusted advisor; to build long-term relationships with customers; to be
recognized for my integrity, dedication, expertise, and innovation. Systems solutions provided were NetApp SnapManager
for Exchange/SQL/Oracle/SAP/VI/SharePoint, SnapShots, SnapLock, SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, OSSV,
Snapdrive on windows and Unix, Sigle Mail Box Recovery for Exchange, Deduplication on FAS with ASIS and
Nearstore, Nearstore R100, R200, FlexShare, Flexclone, RAID-DP, Filerview, HA System Configuration, Snapvalidator
for Oracle, MultiStore/vFiler experience including DR feature sets, Fabric Metrocluster experience, Sfamily (StoreVault),
NDMP backup, FAS2000, FAS30x0, FAS31x0,FAS60x0 experience, Operations Manager (DFM) experience, Ethernet
experience to work with network Admins to configure virtual interfaces (vifs) on NetApp, Oracle/SAP/VMware on
NetApp experience, NetApp best practices implementation within customer environment, Datafort encryption systems,
NetApp VTL 300, VTL700, VTL1400 Virtual Tape Systems, IS1200 information server, SANscreen Service Insight,
Service Assurance, Appliaction Insight, Capacity Manager, VM Insight, provided Knowledge transfer for customer
operations staff,. Attended Fall Classic multiple years in a row. Recognized by NetApp as the SE of the Quarter twice in
the last two years, also I am well known with an excellent reputation at the local NetApp office.
