Kerry Aleman is an award-winning project manager who offers value driven solutions and organization building. He determines which projects and operational activities staff should prioritize to remain in alignment with business needs. He is an established IT professional with experience managing both projects and people at a worldwide level on enterprise systems.

  • Project Leadership
  • Scheduling
  • Cost Control
  • Risk Management
  • Cross-Functional Supervision

Work

  • System Engineering
  • System Migrations/
    Integrations
  • Agile/SCRUM
  • Team Building & Mentoring
  • Client Relations
    & Presentations
  • Vendor Management

Dell EMC Technologies
Senior Project Manager | 2015 – present

As the DSME MDiags (Dell Manufacturing Diagnostics Lead Engineer, I was responsible for the team performing HDD/SSD MDiags validation for new HDD/SSD/NVME programs and firmware updates simulating the factory process in a lab environment.

  • Project Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Quality Development

Dell Inc.
Storage Development Senior Engineer | 2014 – 2015

Dell Windows “NX” platform NAS (Network Attached
Storage ) Development Lead Engineer responsible for the full life-cycle of engineering development of the project.

  • Led creation of embedded system recovery method
  • NAS Development
  • Presented Dell Windows NAS features to Sales, Marketing, and OEM Partners.

Dell Inc.
Storage Development Senior Engineer | 2012-2014

FluidFS (Fluid File System) NAS Systems Engineer responsible for designing validation tests for Quality Assurance team.

  • Developed Hardware Replacement Procedure documentation and training.
  • Coordinated certification of multiple third-part NDMP backup applications.

IBM
Customer Technical Services Enterprise Advocate | 2000 – 2012

Lead Level 3 IMB AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) support team performing problem determination and resolution on servers, direct attached storage and networks.

AIX System Performance, SAN, and Network Communications Subject Matter Expert.

AWARD – “IBM Means Service”
Awarded for novel thinking and problem solving resulting in the retention of a high-value customer.

Education

University of Texas, Masters of Engineering, Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Software Engineering

2007

Texas A&M University
Marine Sciences, B. S.

1997

Expertise

  • SATA, SAS, NVMe, PCIe 
  • SAN, iSCSI, DAS, RAID
  • Windows Cluster
  • Dell PowerEdge & Storage
  • EMC Isilon
  • SMB, CIFS, NFS, VLAN
  • AIX, LINUX, RHEL, CentOS
  • Python, Powershell