Rick Wacht
SR Technical Storage Specialist - Flash SDS Cyber Resiliancy Cloud Storage Solutions at IBM
Swanzey, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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SeniorRick Wacht is a senior technical storage specialist with over 30 years in IT and a decade focused on enterprise storage, cloud and cyber resiliency solutions at IBM. He architects and sells complex Flash, SDS and hybrid multi‑cloud storage platforms, blending deep hands‑on experience with IBM Spectrum Storage, Flash Systems and cloud object storage with pre-sales, capacity planning and ROI/TCO analysis. Rick has led large infrastructure teams and multi‑site DR programs, managing multi‑million dollar vendor negotiations and 500TB+ virtualized storage estates across three data centers. His background spans networking, tape and backup ecosystems through to modern software‑defined storage, giving him a rare full‑stack perspective on data lifecycle and resiliency. A former Army squad leader, he brings disciplined leadership and practical operational rigor to large, high‑stake migrations and proposals.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (1)
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lwacht/Common_Library
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 72 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 5 months
mattjhart54/CalCannabis
May 2017 - Sep 2018
CDFA California Cannabis
Contributions:1343 commits, 1303 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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