Michael Lee Wootan

939 South Clayton Way Denver, CO 80209 mw8ef1a4@westpost.net 303.

777.5837
Career Objective: Systems Engineer
Innovative and accomplished technology leader with extensive and diversified exp
erience in a fast-paced industry, including but not limited to technical leaders
hip, account management, customer support, and management. Excellent communica
tion and interpersonal skills; quick learner; known for the ability to grasp com
plex situations; and expert multi-tasker.
Storage / SAN Project Management Process re-engineering I/O I
nstallations and Migrations Z/OS, Z/VM, UNIX, PC IBM, HDS, HP Team
Leadership Problem-Solving Mentoring/Skills Transfer
I am working toward the following certifications (e.g., CCNA, VCP, ITIL, and Gre
en/Black).
Professional Experience
Storage SAN Systems Engineer
* Provided technical marketing, sales and support to the HP sales force in the n
ewly released XP Product line, selling and installing over $12M all within the f
irst 6 months of introduction.
* Spearheaded marketing and sales effort to sell and install a total solution in
cluding a mainframe, storage and tape for a large insurance company resulting in
a sales volume of $4 Million, a satisfied client and extended capacity.
* Architected, negotiated and sold $15M of storage solutions (XP storage, brocad
e switches and UNIX servers), meeting quota for that year.
Project Manager
* Coordinated a storage team of 20 to consolidate and migrate core MCI applicati
ons from 3 data centers into other production data centers, resulting in large s
avings.
* Successfully project managed a UNIX/Storage solution, resulting in an annual s
avings of $1.5M.
* Managed numerous hardware and software installation at customer sites.
Services Delivery Manager / National Account Manager
* Established account responsibilities, expectations and delivered excellent ser
vices for $45M worth of HDS hardware and software at all Sprint locations.
* Managed the consolidation efforts for all HDS hardware from four Sprint mega d
ata centers to two mega data centers, resulting in streamlined processes and bet
ter efficiencies of existing mega data centers.
* Team lead a group of ten to design, develop and implement a new production con
trol department. The results were a streamlined approach in creating, testing a
nd shipping the Info / Family of Products.
History
Account Executive (Abba Technologies)
Storage Consultant / Marketing Representative (HP)
National Account Manager / Senior Systems Engineer (Hitachi Data Systems)
Project Manager (Hitachi Data Systems / MCI-Verizon)
Advisory Systems Engineer / Storage Programmer / Team Lead (IBM Corporation)
Education
Education: University of Arizona - BS / MIS