SUMMARY:

• Transition from fulltime onsite resident to Data Center Practice Lead
• Areas covered:Compute, Storage, Storage Connectivity, Virtualization, backup/recovery/archive
• Disaster Recovery, Data Center Move, replication and flash Storage solutions
• Provided Sales Engineering assistance
• Created and presented Statements of Effort
• Created Sales campaigns on product and solution
• Divided workload and mentored 3 consultants
• Evaluated product for line card addition
• Conducted interviews for both technical and soft skill evaluation
• Acted as Storage SME consulted on Meaningful Use (MU) initiative at 5 different hospital systems in the Nashville area
• Consulted and Mentored on all facets of Storage Paradigms
• Created step by step documentation and scripts for SAN creation and storage allocation
• Created step by step documentation for SAN creation and storage allocation
• Created conceptual models of DR site replication and recovery processes
• Divided time spent in three areas:
• Practice development
• Sales Engineering
• Billable

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: PERL, HTML, UNIX Shell Scripting (POSIX - SH, Bourne, Korn, and C-Shell), ruby, Expect, Powershell.

Operating Systems: HPUX, Sun/Solaris 2.5 - 8, AIX, SCO, Linux, Microsoft, Macintosh, VMware ESXi 4-5, OSX

Monitoring Utilities: Monitoring software: NetApp DFM, CA TNG, Big Brother, Netcool

Backup Utilities: EDM, Epoch, HP Omniback, Veritas Network Backup and Backup ExecRetrospect, TSM

Storage Software: Applications (Solutions Enabler, Time Finder, SRDF, Navisphere, PowerPath, Centera Viewer, Celerra, ECC; etc Unisphere, Unisphere Remote, Unisphere for VMAX, .) Connectrix Manager Storage Scope, Prosphere, Watch4net, DCFM, SVC, Falconstor, CDP, Recoverpoint, samba.

Storage Arrays: EMC Symmetrix, DMX, Clarrion, VNX, Celerra, Centera, VG2 and VG8, Isilon, Atmos,, IBM DS5100, SVC, 8000, V7000, Netapp, 3PAR, Hitachi, Brocade/ McData, Cisco, HP Storage Works/EVA, Isilon, Atmos, DataDomain, SVC, Storwise

Migration Utilities: Rsync, robocopy, ssh, replistor, ppme, SRDF as a tool for SYMM to SYMM migration, LVM, dd, CPIO, emcopy, sancopy

Storage Paradigms: Block, Business Continuity, disaster recovery, Content Addressed Storage, CIFS, SMB, Cloud Object, restful api, VTL, storage pools, Full Automated Storage Tiering, Hierarchal File System, Write once read many (WORM), RAID 1, 10, 3, 4, 5, 50, 6, RAID-S, Enclosure protection, Array creation, zoning, converged networks, V-Block, Virtual storage, virtual pools, Smart Connect, Smart Pools, SyncIQ, GUID

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide due diligence reporting on current infrastructure
• Acted as SME related to all storage concerns including but not limited to BURA, DR, SAN and storage subsystem and software
• Assisted in design of large DB structuring and DR/BU procedures for the same
• Created Visio diagrams of SAN and Backup (existing and proposed architecture)
• Created Presentations on SAN design and storage knowledge
• Prepared straw man DR guide for the client
• Provided UNIX and Intel support as needed
• Vendor screening and RFP creation

Confidential

EMC Services Account Manager and Designated Support Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with CSM all customer service activities for UBS (Global)
• Single point of escalation for all outage related problems for UBS
• Created customer centric support and escalation plans for over 50 sites
• Owned service delivery to sites located in 5 continents and 10 countries
• Managed EMC resources in a matrix environment for UBS support issues
• Project managed and consulted on level 1 installs for EMC products
• Webex support for HA, backup and storage products
• Captured current run state and provided long - term storage strategies for various customers.
• Acted as technical interface to sustaining engineer for AAM, DiskXtender and Networker as well as field relations for EMC Corporate CS
• SME on core EMC hardware and software to Enterprise Software Group

Confidential

Storage Administrator/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created and implemented the pilot for NAS storage monitoring of the NAS/SAN infrastructure
• Lead a pilot team consisting of 10 people globally for a global NAS (Netapp) environment (2 PB)
• Created and presented weekly progress reports (Power Point)
• Transitioned this pilot program to full production in Singapore
• Key member of the storage management provisioning team
• Performed routine storage allocation
• Provided level 3 support for SAN (EMC Clarrion/Symmetrix) and NAS

Confidential

Owner/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged enterprise methodology to reduce TCO for small medical practices and consulted in all aspects of IT concerns
• Developed disaster recovery and business resumption plans
• Addressed compliance issues in IT and related documentation
• Created and deployed office wide upgrades
• Created rollback plans to ensure business continuity
• Installed various backup and recovery, and business specific software
• Designed and installed various small business networks
• Consulted on medical imaging storage concerns

Confidential

Storage Implementation/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Storage Engineer/Solutions Architect contracted to EMC
• Architected and supervised EMC implementations
• Wrote detailed implementation and migration plans for various OS/Platforms
• Provided introduction for new implementations
• Deployed and Architected SAN, SRDF and Timefinder solutions
• Deployed and Architected SAN, Clariion and Centera solutions

Confidential

Acting VP Enterprise Technology

Responsibilities:

• Designed the UNIX service delivery model
• Designed the security management model prototype for a subsidiary focusing on HIPAA
• Created conceptual, logical and physical models in security services
• Implemented selling method for LINUX in predominantly Microsoft market
• Created implementation plans for various companies
• Defined engineer participation in sales planning, design, and implementation methodology

Confidential

UNIX/Storage Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the original transition team for the UTC Account
• Owned day to day technical direction of UTC Newington Data Center
• Technically directed 17 person CSC Unix server consolidation team
• Designed mentoring program to augment onsite personnel for UTC account
• PMO for technological direction of any mid-range proposed projects
• Recognized as the SME for storage deployment of open systems for the North East
• Provided engineering services to a variety of ERP and Business Warehouse projects

Confidential, Reston, VA

SR. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise to the account team.
• Assisted in developing strategic relations with channel partners
• Provided project management and technical direction in implementations
• Recognized as the company lead in storage deployment (HP, Hitachi and EMC)