Hi, I'm John.



John R. Stone

Email: jrstone100@gmail.com | Connect with me on LinkedIn

My Favorite Parts of My Job at IBM

This job allowed me to help organizations achieve data center excellence by providing solutions that exceeded expections while meeting budget requirements. Additionally, this
position allowed me to always provide secure and easy to use solutions to
protect against cyber and ransomware attacks in the same solution as providing fast and reliable storage and compute solutions.
Morever, I was able to do this while working with one of the best teams of individuals I have ever had the priviledge of working with.


IBM Client Technical Specialist - Storage and Software Specialist (04/2020 - Current)

• IBM Software Portfolio Specialist • Storage Scale • Storage Virtualize • Storage Protect • Storage Defender • Copy Data Manager

• Delivered detailed documentation to leadership on all sales opportunities

• Created current and future state slides to show exposures and improvements

• Results driven through increased sales and new customer accounts

• Designed detailed Spectrum Protect designs for complex infrastructures to support organizations data recovery requirements

• Configured IBM FlashSystem to meet the needs of an organizations storage requirements including growth projections

• Delivered sales campaigns that included Brocade/Broadcom solutions for end-to-end connectivity that produced high input/output bandwidth

• Developed Hybrid Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS) designs for organizations with requirement to support millions of files.

• Helped create solutions to protect against and recover from Ransomware attacks.

• Produced detailed reports showing an organizations current vulnerabilities from analysis through research

• Detailed analysis for organizations to expose and correct Cyber-Attack vulnerabilities

• Led team building training events for Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Virtualize, Spectrum Scale and Cybervault.





Skillset Keywords

• AIX   • Redhat   • Linux   • Unix   • Flashsystem   • EMC   • Data Domain   • Brocade   • Broadcom   • Cisco   • Tivoli Storage Manager   • TSM   • Avamar   • Networker   • AWS   • Azure   • HTML   • CSS   • C++   • Storage   • Scale   • Virtualize   • GPFS   • DR   • Disaster Recovery   • Data Resiliency   • VIO   • Commvault   • Cohesity   • IDPA   • SAN   • 3PAR   • Pure Storage   • IBM   • Dell   • VMware  






What code and changes I've made learning to build this website
November 19 - Parallax, paragraph, headings, bold, underline, adding an image
December 5 - wrapper
December 7 - text-box
December 21 - Modified the Parallax so the bottom line aligns with top image
December 22 - Learned how to code for the dot used in the keywords, code for the space between the dot and the text
December 26 - Added the menu bar for easier navigation
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