Summary of qualifications:

• Senior DevOps Engineer with internal and external engineering relationship and project management experience. Joined NetApp in 2004 to lead HP-UX host integration with NetApp's new fibre channel SAN product offering. Assigned ownership of NetApp Engineering's relationship with Symantec Engineering teams in 2005, focusing on the integration and certification of Symantec's host-based SF/Veritas storage virtualization product with NetApp storage systems across all UNIX/Windows host platforms . Scope of responsibilities expanded in 2008 to include ownership of an internal initiative to consolidate and streamline engineering qualification testing across multiple global product teams.
• 20 years of data center enterprise-class/mission-critical server, networking, and storage experience, with 10 years of product development/integration/QA experience for NetApp and HP/Compaq Tandem Division Engineering organizations
• Full UNIX host stack and end-to-end SAN software hardware solution configuration, tuning and troubleshooting, to include Emulex/Qlogic HBAs/SCSI initiators, fibre channel SAN switches, and SCSI targets.
• Technical lead and project management responsibilities global scope
• Root cause analysis for complex end-to-end solution integration/interoperability/production issues
• T10 SCSI and T11 Fibre Channel standards/protocol knowledge FCP/SCSI trace analysis experience

• Engineering Partner Relationship Manager for NetApp and Symantec. Includes running weekly meetings, leading joint development projects, coordinating product certification activities, supporting internal solution qualification efforts, working closely with Symantec's partner manager assigned to NetApp, product management, and product engineering groups.
• Project and technical lead for the development of multiple host attach releases across multiple operating system platforms C programming, UNIX shell scripts
• Responsible for Veritas Array Support Library ASL and Array Policy Module APM design and development includes support for T10 thin provisioning space reclamation and ALUA functionality C programming
• Veritas DMP Dynamic Multipathing subject matter expert for all host operating system platforms
• Manage escalated field and interoperability/QA group issues to resolution
• Review fibre channel traces as needed for root cause analysis Finisar I-Tech FC protocol analyzers
• Scalable SAN Early Access Program Lead. Lead a high visibility cross-functional effort spanning multiple product engineering teams, global support, technical marketing, and product management to enable customer evaluation of early product bits. Heavy interaction and coordination with early adopter customers..
• Co-owned performance study/product requirement verification of VMware vCenter storage plug-in used for discovery of storage objects. Developed automation code to rapidly build-out and back-out 1000 LUNs across 10,000 guests hosted on 200 physical hosts, and distribute IO across the same. Collection of interdependent Korn Shell scripts
• Storage System Health Monitor C programming
• Conceived, designed and developed LOCUST Log Consolidator and Search Tool . The tool recognizes differing log and trace file formats from various sources and normalizes to a single format for searching using a method unavailable in standard tools such as GREP or AWK. Perl programming

Confidential

• Managed complex server and storage product upgrades and data migrations
• Developed programs and processes to automate management of 300 enterprise-class UNIX servers Korn Shell scripting
• Enhanced monitoring of server and storage environment
• Frequently interacted with server and storage vendors' support and engineering organizations
• Performed root cause analysis on issues impacting production operations

Confidential

• Performed standard development activities defect analysis, code fixes, new feature development, unit testing, code reviews/inspections, code check-ins, and user documentation updates
• Managed customer-funded project for NonStop-UX RAMdisk product development
• Managed escalated field and test group issues to resolution
• Developed data collection tools for Global Customer Support Center engineers

Confidential

• Reviewed and improved high availability system and network configurations to support 24x7x365 manufacturing environment
• Designed first Storage Area Network consisting of two EMC Symmetrix cabinets, two fibre channel switches, and multiple HP servers
• Managed complex server and storage product upgrades and data migrations
• Performed low level operating system, application, and network troubleshooting to reduce revenue affecting impact on manufacturing operations
• Frequently interacted with vendors to resolve technical problems, obtain purchase quotations, and strategize large upgrades and migrations

Confidential

• Configured and maintained complex, multi-tiered application testing environments for Development and Quality Engineering groups
• Performed extensive DCL program maintenance and development
• Prepared and submitted proposals for system, network, and storage solutions to upper management based on current and future requirements

• Operating Systems: NetApp Data ONTAP, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Red Hat/SUSE Linux, Compaq/Tandem NonStop-UX, SCO UnixWare, Windows, and OpenVMS

• Other Software: NetApp storage management products, EMC Control Center ECC and related components SYMCLI , Navisphere and related components NAVICLI , SAN switch management software e.g., Connectrix Manager , Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster File System with I/O Fencing, Veritas Volume Manager DMP, Veritas Array Support Library ASL , HP-UX ServiceGuard Clustering, Linux Firewall netfilter/iptables , DNS, NIS, NFS, Compaq/Tandem Non-Stop Clustering, Oracle Parallel Server, OpenVMS Clustering

• Programming/Code Management: Korn Shell, C, C , Python, Perl, Perforce, Software Configuration Management System SCMS , FoxPro RDBMS, DCL

• System Hardware: Enterprise-class HP and Sun Servers, Compaq/Tandem NonStop Integrity Systems, Compaq Proliant Servers, Alpha VAX Servers and Workstations

• Storage Hardware: NetApp FAS Series Disk Arrays, EMC Symmetrix/DMX and CLARiiON Disk Arrays, Brocade and McDATA Storage Switches, DEC/Compaq StorageWorks, Miscellaneous RAID Products and Levels

• Other: SCSI, Fibre Channel, I-Tech and Finisar Xgig Fibre Channel Analyzers and companion software, Storage Area Networks SANs , TCP/IP, Ethernet, FDDI, Local Area Networks LANs , DECnet