IT Architecture Consultant in Big Data, Backup and Recovery, NetApp Solutions, NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer, (NCIE) NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator, (NCDA) NetApp Certified Storage Associate – Hybrid Cloud (NCSA-HC) Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center, (CCNP) Storage Networking Industry Association, (SNIA) Project Management Professional, (PMP) VMware Certified Professional, (VCP) Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) CommVault Certified Professional (CCP) • AWS Certified Solution Architect Splunk Certified Architects F5 Certified Technology Specialists

1. EMAD FARAHZADI
Email: emad.nematy@gmail.com
Mobile: +61 420681978
Profile
A certified professional consultant with proven track record in providing superior solutions in
designing IT architecture, my strength lies in combining strong customer focus with solid
knowledge in systems that provide competitive advantage to the company and its clients.
Certificates
• NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer, (NCIE)
• NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator, (NCDA)
• NetApp Certified Storage Associate – Hybrid Cloud (NCSA-HC)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center, (CCNP)
• Storage Networking Industry Association, (SNIA)
• Project Management Professional, (PMP)
• VMware Certified Professional, (VCP)
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
• CommVault Certified Professional (CCP)
• AWS Certified Solution Architect
• Splunk Certified Architects
• F5 Certified Technology Specialists
Career history:
1/Feb/2017 – Present
University of Melbourne
Master of Information Technology in Cloud Computing and Distributed Computers
Address: Parkville Melbourne VIC 3010 Australia
Phone:(03) 9035 5511
As the world experiences an exponential growth in high-speed broadband and distributed
storage and computation, an increasing demand for cloud computing and the need to

2. access large quantities of data quickly and efficiently, experts are required to manage
these complex networks.
Learn to manage large quantities of data through distributed systems. I will develop cloud
computing solutions, devise innovative broadband applications, and work on team
projects applying distributed computing technologies to e-science and e-business.
Major strands of study include:
Mobile computer systems programming
Cloud computing
High performance computing
Distributed algorithms
Parallel computing
Employment opportunities
Senior roles in web services, e-business, cloud computing, mobile systems programming
and sensor networks, working as project leaders, network analysts, mobile applications
developers and more.
1/Oct/2015 – 1/Feb/2017:
NetApp Solutions Architecture for Storage, Big Data, FlexPod, Cloud
Enterprise App, Data Protection, Data Fabric and Virtualization
Lajevard Techwin (Latech)
Address: 2st Floor, No 32, Firozeh St, North Sohrevardi St, Tehran, IRAN.
Tel: + 98 21 88545132 , 5 Fax: + 98 21 88446809
A Solutions Architect has a very high level of pre-sales technical competence on the
team in chosen discipline. An individual contributor with team responsibilities for
technical advocacy. Usually works across multiple projects at a time providing the
technical vision during the development phase of a project. Develops technical solutions
and presales deliverables in partnership with sales to address client and prospect needs
relative to the practice area. Delivers well defined business value to prospects and
clients through the presales process and drives the highest possible level of services.
1/Feb/2015 – 1/Sep/2015:
Post Graduate Certificate in Information Technology (Network & Security)
Address: 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East VIC AUSTRALIA 3145
Tell: (03) 9903 2000
Monash University is ranked amongst the world's most prestigious universities.

3. Graduating with a degree from a university in the world's top one per cent adds
significant value to my resume. Its global reputation ensures I am recognized for any
skills and talents – no matter where in the world I choose to pursue my dreams.
University rankings
Monash is ranked:
• top one per cent of world universities – 83rd
in the world – according to the
Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2014-2015)
This course prepares me for work in the information technology industry at the highest levels. It
provides me with a previous tertiary qualification in another discipline area with the knowledge,
understanding and skills to enable me to deal effectively with advanced issues involving the
application of information technology.
Graduates of the MIT will have the knowledge and skills to solve complex social, economic and
technical problems within the context of information technology. I will develop deep theoretical
and practical knowledge in specific areas so that I will have the intellectual and conceptual
foundation to play leading roles in the development of the information technology industry.
Covered Subjects:
• Network protocols standards
• Network infrastructure
• Advanced topics in information technology
• Information and computer security
• Network design and performance
• Quality of service and network management
• Network security
• Distributed and big data processing
1/Nov/2013 – 1/Feb/2015:
Data Storage, Network and Security Consultant
Lajvard Tech (LaTech) Company
Address: No. 75, Zeinali Sharghi, Sohrevardi Shomali, Tehran, Iran
Tell: +98 21 88440596 Fax: +98 21 88446809
The company was founded in 1994 with the aim of promoting the image of computer science and
informatics and other related services; especially providing comprehensive solutions in the field
of Data Storage and electronic archive systems. Lajvard Tech (LaTech) company with twenty
years of experience in the informatics industry, the service personnel and technical experts that
work has used its subsidiaries. All the experts in the company's most advanced specialized

4. courses in their field of activity inside and outside the country and they have valid certificates and
a variety of specialized activities themselves. In order to provide highly specialized services and
document management software and services with focus on electronic archives, image data
analysis company was established , and all matters relating to the these new agencies, records
Management System transferred.
Principle roles, competencies and achievements:
• Configuration of routing and switching equipment.
• Configuration of hosted IP voice services.
• Basic configuration of firewalls.
• Remote support of on-site engineers and end users/customers during installation.
• Remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur upon initial installation.
• Capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data
centers.
• Liaising with project management team, 3rd line engineers and service desk engineers
on a regular basis.
• Speaking with customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture.
1/Oct/2009-1/Nov/2013:
Project Manager & Professional Service Consultant NetApp
Address: No. 214, Build 2, Internet City, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 43911160 Fax: +971 43918894
NetApp (A leading computer storage and data management company, headquartered in California,
USA. NetApp is a member of the NASDAQ-100 and Fortune Magazine’s fifth best place to work)
I joined NetApp in 2009 as Technical Trainee. Within six months, I was taken on board as professional
service engineer was I managed key clients’ projects in areas of:
FAS Series: Most popular Unified NetApp Storage start from new series of 2000 to 8000 – I have
configured, installed, serviced and even trouble shooting all of NetApp series in UAE and Oman
companies like OXY, MBC, Leo Burnet, Al-Hassani Group, Atkins, Agility, Dubai World, Ferrari World and
etc.
Date Migration: One of the most critical activity for any customer due to some new
requirements, data must be migrate to another Disk Shelves or another data center. As I
developed my skills in NetApp features like SnapMirror and techniques in Head Swapping then
I’m capable to do any data migration. Some companies like DEWA, ADMC, Dry Dock and
Morgan Stantely have done this critical movement by my unique skills.
SAN / NAS: One of the key strength of NetApp is Unified Storage which can handle all of
protocols like CIFS, NFS, Fiber and ISCSI at the same time. Depend on customer needs SAN
or NAS environment can be designed or both of them to serve file sharing in NAS or doing
some SAN booting for any servers. All of customers in UAE and Oman asked me to enable
both of them.
Disaster Recovery solutions: NetApp has a lot of solutions and feature to pretend any
customer from losing any data. Most important features is SnapShot, SnapRestore, Synch
Mirror, SnapManager, SnapVault, Deduplication, Raid-DP and solutions like Clustering, High
Availability, Metro Cluster, Stretch Cluster
Metro-cluster: Advanced NetApp solution to provide high-availability of data for a large oil
and gas company. I’ve designed this solution for ADMA and ZADCO.
Project Manager of Middle-East: Definitely this position needs more skills in higher level
for communication, team management, handling, initializing and controlling of a project from
begging till end to satisfy customer.

5. Principle roles, competencies and achievements:
• Consulting experience for enterprise clients.
• Proficiency in of the following NetApp Specialty Solutions: SAN, Exchange, Databases
(Oracle, SQL), DR/BC, Compliance or Grid Computing
• Virtualization, Hyper-V, backup
• Data migration, deployment, implementation
• Consulting experience including providing strategic and tactical planning for data
management and delivery systems.
• Project managing storage solutions.
• Designing/architecting major components.
• NetApp Data ONTAP 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, including clustered Data ONTAP.
• FlexPod (Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and NetApp).
• Storage Networking: Fiber Channel & FCoE – iSCSI - CIFS, NFS.
• Practical experience working with fiber channel switches (FC) and LUN configuration
• Support, maintain and manage the technical aspects of SAN storage, UCS,
virtualization and backup and recovery solutions
• Infrastructure architecture & design.
• Supporting the Sales Reps in their account strategy.
• Being the technical contact and trusted adviser for my customers.
• Build, Implementation and support experience with Commvault.
1/Jan/2000 – 1/Sep/2009:
Storage, Network and Security engineer
Lajvard Tech (LaTech) Company
Address: No. 75, Zeinali Sharghi, Sohrevardi Shomali, Tehran, Iran
Tell: +98 21 88440596 Fax: +98 21 88446809
Principle roles, competencies and achievements:
• Designed and commissioned the company’s HQ IT network infrastructure and
maintenance.
• Securing network system by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and
monitoring access.
• Support and administration of firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
• Reporting network operational status by gathering, prioritizing information and
managing projects.
• Upgrading data network equipment to latest stable firmware releases.
• Establishing networking environment by designing system configuration, directing
system installation, defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.
• Design and implementation of new solutions and improving resilience of the current
environment.
• Maximizing network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network
problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects
on network optimization.
• Undertaking data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments, using
information from multiple sources.

6. Education
• Master of IT in Cloud Computing and Distributed Computers, University of
Melbourne
• Post Graduate Certificate in Information Technology (Network & Security),
Monash University
• Bachelor of Computer Science, Wollongong University
NetApp Extra Trainings:
• E-Series E2600 Storage System Technical Overview
• ABCs of NetApp V-Series
• ABCs of Operations Manager
• ABCs of Provisioning Manager
• ABCs of SnapProtect Management Software
• Accelerated NCDA Boot Camp Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode
• An Introduction to NetApp Hardware
• Architecting VMware Solutions on NetApp Storage
• Data ONTAP 7G Fundamentals
• Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode: New Features
• Data ONTAP 8.0 Cluster-Mode: New Features
• Data ONTAP 8.0.1: New Features
• Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode New Features
• Data ONTAP 8.1 Launch Essentials Technical Curriculum
• Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode Fundamentals
• Data ONTAP Fundamentals, Release 7.2
• Data ONTAP GX Fundamentals, Release 10.0.3 (WBT)
• Data ONTAP Release 7.3 Update
• Designing Open Systems SnapVault Solutions
• Designing SnapVault Solutions
• Effective Sizing of Customer Solutions
• E-Series E5400 Storage System Technical Overview
• FAS2000 Series Hardware Maintenance
• FAS3000 Series Hardware Maintenance
• FAS3100 Series Hardware Maintenance
• FAS3200 and V3200 Series Architecture
• FAS6000 Series Hardware Maintenance Update, Rev02
• FAS6200 and V6200 Series Architecture
• Fibre Channel and iSCSI Protocol Overview
• Fibre Channel Basics in a NetApp Environment
• Fibre Channel SAN Troubleshooting
• Fibre Channel Switching Concepts
• FY11 Bookings Policy Changes and Impact to Selling PS
• Getting Started with NetApp Software: System Manager Cluster-Mode Management
• High Availability on Data ONTAP 7.3
• Introduction to NetApp Products
• Introduction to NetApp Value
• Managing CFFP Projects for LOE Accuracy
• Net2 Fundamentals

7. • NetApp DS4243 Planning and Implementation
• NetApp Hardware Installation Fundamentals
• NetApp Software Installation Fundamentals
• NetApp StorageGRID E-Series Design
• NetApp Synergy Fundamentals
• NetApp Synergy Storage Design Studio Fundamentals
• Performance Acceleration Module Hardware
• Planning and Implementing MetroCluster on Data ONTAP
• Positioning and Messaging the Business Value of Data ONTAP 8.1
• Positioning Network File System (NFS) on Data ONTAP
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• PowerUP Overview/SAP Navigation
• PowerUP Sales and Corporate Support Training
• Remote LAN Module (RLM)
• RETIRED: NetApp Technical Overview of Storage
• SAN Administration on Data ONTAP 7.3 Assessment
• SAN Design
• SAN Design Test
• SAN Implementation Fundamentals
• SAN Implementation Planning
• SAN Implementation Workshop
• SAN Implementation-Host - Windows Assessment
• SAN Implementation-Host Configuration
• SAN Implementation-LUN Prep & Verify - Windows
• SAN Implementation-Storage System
• SAN Implementation-Switch Configuration
• SANscreen Deployment (Retired Course)
• Shared IT Infrastructure: Articulating New Product
• Shared IT Infrastructure: Mapping Buying Criteria
• Shared IT Infrastructure: Presenting the Golden Pitch
• SnapDrive 6.1 for Windows: Install, Operate
• SnapDrive for UNIX Operate and Troubleshoot
• SnapDrive for UNIX Operate and Troubleshoot Test
• SnapDrive for UNIX Overview and Install
• SnapDrive for UNIX Overview and Install Test
• SnapDrive for Windows Overview and Install
• SnapManager 6.0 for Exchange: Install, Operate
• SnapManager for Hyper-V: Overview and Installation
• SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure Operation
• SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure Overview
• SnapMirror Performance and Best Practices
• SnapMirror Planning and Implementation
• Solution Builder
• STOR: Delivering Reports to Customers
• STOR: Generating Customer Reports
• System Manager
• Synergy Storage Design
• Technical Overview of System Manager 1.0
• Technical Positioning of Data ONTAP 8.1
• Technical Presentations Using Whiteboards

8. Handled Projects as PM (Just Important Customers)
• Agility Custom Kuwait
• Zadco UAE
• MOI Bahrain
• Al Rayan Bank Qatar
• Petroleum Development of
Oman Oman
• Siemens LLC UAE
• Omnix Qatar Company Qatar
• Agility Kuwait
• Maersk Oil Qatar
• National Bank of Kuwait Kuwait
• Agility Kuwait Kuwait
• Leo Burnet UAE
• Agility Kuwait Kuwait
• CREDIT SUISSE Qatar
• Atkins UAE
• MBC UAE
• Dubai World UAE
• MBC
• INTESA SAN PAOLO Group UAE
• ECCS UAE
• Atkins Middle East & India Qatar
• GASCO UAE
• Abu Dhabi Computer
Center UAE
• Al Rostamani Group UAE
• T-System Oman
• T-System Oman
• ROYAL BANK OF
SCOTLAND UAE
• KEO International
Consultants Kuwait
• KEO International
Consultants Kuwait
• KEO International
Consultants Kuwait

9. • KEO International
Consultants Kuwait
Hobbies and Interests:
Marathon Runner, Black belt in Karate, AIKIDO, Violin, Jungian Trainer, Fitness Activities
Personal Information
Nationality: Iranian
My Own Website: http://nematy.wix.com/emad
Date of birth: 18/09/1978
Driving Licenses: Iran – United Arab Emirate