Will Strickland

About Will Strickland

Experienced technology professional dedicated to the principles of rigorous testing methodology and brilliant customer service.

Experience

1. Staff Performance Engineer

   Nutanix

   Sep 2013 — Present · Durham, NC, US

   Responsible for performance testing on the Nutanix Files NAS solution, focusing on NFS specifically. Worked directly with development team to implement improvements in filesystem and protocol performance. Assisted field with performance sizing and worked with customers on performance related support escalations as needed- Performed application and benchmark testing related to Nutanix platform performance and solution validation. Fed results back to development and to field personnel. This testing directly led to performance improvements in the product and facilitated and assisted sales- Ran the testing for the first publications of the Microsoft Exchange Storage Reviewed Program (MSRP) on the Nutanix platform. Tested on both ESX and Acropolis Hypervisor. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn756396.aspx - Worked on some of the initial performance and comparison testing of the Nutanix Acropolis KVM Hypervisor. Conducted the testing to achieve Microsoft SVVP certification and SUSE YES certification for the Acropolis Hypervisor- Assisted field pre-sales personnel with customer performance proof-of-concept testing both remotely and in the Nutanix Performance Proof of Concept lab in Durham, NC. Application testing included VDI benchmarking with LoginVSI, System stress testing with Oracle, SQL TPC, Exchange Loadgen and Jetstress workloads and micro benchmarks- Coordinated with Nutanix customer technical support to help resolve escalated or highly political performance cases- Administered lab infrastructure, performed maintenance of Nutanix storage systems, ESXi, KVM, and Hyper-V hosts for test environments, and assisted with maintenance and administration of lab network infrastructure- earned Nutanix Platform Professional certification #200

Education

• Wilson Community College

  AAS, Computer Science - Programming

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Vmware
• Servers
• Iscsi
• San
• High Availability
• Debian Linux
• Computer Hardware
• Hyperconverged Platforms
• Nas
• Troubleshooting
• Performance Benchmarking
• Data Center
• Loginvsi
• Netapp
• Nfs
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Iis
• Storage Area Networks
• Nutanix
• Virtualization
• Cisco Ios
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Performance Tuning
• Netapp Filers
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Splunk
• Redhat Linux
• Unix
• Hardware
• Citrix
• Hyper-V
• Operating Systems
• Citrix Xenapp
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Acropolis Hypervisor
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery
• Citrix Xendesktop
• Performance Testing