EMC Proven Professional Spotlight: Rodrigo Alves, Jody Goncalves, and Raphael Soeiro

Raphael Soeiro, Jody Goncalves, and Rodrigo Alves all work at EMC Education Services in Franklin, MA. While working in the same physical location, they don’t usually cross paths in the projects they take on. However, for the 2014 Knowledge Sharing Competition, these three EMC Proven Professionals worked together to write “2014: An SDS Odyssey*,” published this month. “Rodrigo, Raphael, and I don’t often work directly together in our day jobs, so it was nice to be able to share information and ideas with them,” said Jody.

The first published Knowledge Sharing article for each of them, the article explores the importance and considerations of storage tiering and classification for implementing an SDS environment.

The authors shared how they came to join forces on developing and writing their Knowledge Sharing article, the experience they brought to the process, and the thought leadership and best practices that their article contribute as the industry adopts Software Defined Storage in greater numbers.  

In his role at EMC, Raphael develops pre-GA training; he is currently working on the pre-GA training for the ScaleIO 1.30 release. Raphael started thinking about writing a paper on the topic last year, when he co-developed the first release of the EMC ViPR course.

Jody manages a team that develops and delivers technical training, currently working on Solutions training. She recently finished the launch of the new Technology Architect EMC Information Storage Solutions Specialist certification. Jody described her thinking on the article as “SDS is relatively new – and not many people have experience with it, nor is much written on the best practices.  We thought we would help shed some light on an area that was important for a successful SDS implementation.”

Rodrigo, whose role focuses on curriculum planning at EMC, added, “We all have several years of work experience in IT, and have learned a lot along the way. Now with the world moving to software-defined everything, I wanted to explore and learn more about this topic,” He hopes that the article will generate discussion on the topic. “I am sure the technology, design, and implementation best practices will quickly evolve as companies adopt it.”

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Rodrigo Alves

Title:  Advanced Technical Education Consultant at EMC Education Services

EMC Certifications:

• Cloud Architect, Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist
• Data Center Architect, Information Availability Design Specialist
• Storage Administrator, Backup and Recovery - NetWorker Specialist
• Storage Administrator, Backup Recovery - Avamar Specialist
• Technology Architect, Backup and Recovery - NetWorker Specialist
• Technology Architect, Backup Recovery Solutions Specialist
• Technology Architect, CLARiiON Solutions Specialist
• Technology Architect, Backup and Recovery - Networker Expert
• Technology Architect, Backup and Recovery Expert
• Technology Architect, Backup Recovery Solutions Expert

Jody Goncalves

Title:  Senior Technical Education Consultant at EMC Education Services

EMC Certifications:

• Technology Architect, EMC Information Storage Solutions Specialist
• Information Storage Associate

Education: B.S. Biology, magna cum laude; B.S. Mathematics, magna cum laude – University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Twitter: @JodyGoncalves

Raphael Soeiro

Title:  Senior Technical Education Consultant at EMC Education Services

EMC Certifications:

• Cloud Architect, Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist
• Cloud Architect, IT-as-a-Service Expert
• Storage Administrator, Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist
• Technology Architect, EMC Storage & Information Infrastructure - Commercial Specialist
• Technology Architect, EMC Storage & Information Infrastructure Specialist               
• Technology Architect, Networked Storage - NAS Specialist
• Technology Architect, Networked Storage - SAN Specialist
• Technology Architect, Symmetrix Solutions Specialist
• Technology Architect, Storage Area Network (SAN) Expert
• Implementation Engineer, CLARiiON Solutions Specialist
• Implementation Engineer, Networked Storage - SAN Specialist
• Implementation Engineer, Networked Storage - SAN Expert
• Implementation Engineer, Storage Area Network (SAN) Expert
• Information Storage Associate        

Education: Master’s in Business Administration – FGV Brazil

Twitter: @raphaelsoeiro

ECN: Raphael Soeiro

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