Storage Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Accomplished and experienced senior IT professional with a proven record leading the design, development and implementation of advanced enterprise systems and tools for the efficient and effective management of sophisticated enterprise systems.
Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a fast paced environment.
Exceptionally strong communication, collaboration, and teamwork capabilities used to drive consensus among diverse stakeholders and bring projects to fruition.
Advanced technical and project management skills.
EMC vMAX - have been working on multiple(hundreds) vMAX systems utilizing symcli and Unisphere to manage.
Creation of initiator groups, replacing wwn in zones and IG’s for HBA replacements.
Resync SRDF copies when SRDF errors out due to write IO overrun.
Created and destroyed Meta’s in allocating and un-allocating LUNs.
Created SRDF pairs for VMWare SRM replication.
Switches - Work with both Cisco and Brocade in managing FC connectivity.
Have setup both vendors switches from scratch.
Have saved configs and restored/imported configs.
Expert with the GUI and CLI of both vendors.
Have upgraded the FW for both and have designed and implemented FCIP tunnels on both.
Utilizes the change management feature of config backup for making changes as changes should never be made in the active config.
Have performed fabric migrations to new gear forcing single pathing of IO thereby moving the off lined path to the new gear and then reverting the paths to multipath.
Built out scripts to populate new switches with wwn’s/aliases and zones prior to move.
VMWare - have worked with VMWare since 3.5 and currently up to 6.0.
Created DC and built ESX/ESXi hosts.
Have used P2V to move DC to virtual from physical.
Have run migrations using SVM and Have setup SRM with EMC and HDS gear.
HDS - worked on HDS gear since the Thunder/Lighting series 9500v arrays.
Expert in CCI/HORCM/raidcom administration.
Have performed numerous migrations to and from HDS gear using Tiered Storage Manager(TSM).
Have designed DR/BC solutions around HDS gear.
Have virtualized EMC equipment to provide BE storage for VSP and VSP G1000 arrays.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows 2012 Server, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 2008 Server, VMWare 5.x/6.x,RHEL.

Tools: / Databases: Veritas Volume Manager, Symantec Storage Foundations, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Office 2013 (Word, Excel, Access, Project, Outlook, FrontPage), Visio, Publisher, MMC, Microsoft Exchange, DB2, FTP, TCP/IP, Cisco VPN, NetBackup 8.0, CommVault, Brocade, Cisco MDS, Putty.

Hardware: HDS Enterprise and Modular Series of Storage Arrays, HDS HNAS(formerly BlueArc), EMC Isilon Clustered Storage Arrays, NetApp, EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, Data Domain DDR Appliances, HP 3Par, HP EVA, MA and MSA Storage Arrays. HP Servers, Dell Servers, IBM DSxxxx series arrays, IBM SVC, EqualLogic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

Have taken over All Storage Assets and developed capacity planning reports, migrated vfilers to new controllers, allocated NFS and CIFS shares, managed dual access protocols. Managed snapmirrors, deleted irrelevant snaps and created snaps and snapmirror relationships.
Modification of rc file and snapmirror.conf files.
Setup Nimble Storage Array for Oracle Environments
Upgraded Master and media servers to NetBackup v8.0. Built and edited Policies and created backup to cloud storage policy.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

implement new HDS hardware and software into organization consisting of G1000’s, HDS HDID, configuration of zOS storage devices and replication to DR site.
Helped in setup of Brocade FCIP tunnels from Prod to DR.
Configuration of HNAS for File Share environment and replication of HNAS environment.
Performance tuning and knowledge transfer on the tuning software. Creating reports using tuning software to hone in on flash performance.

Confidential

Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

Work in a multinational company allocating, un-allocating, expanding volumes on Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris servers.
Troubleshooting all storage related issues. Updating and tracking changes for storage work.
Storage included EMC, HDS, Isilon, NetApp, 3Par and EqualLogic.
Zoning of Cisco MDS and Brocade fabrics, updating firmware of SAN switches.
Troubleshooting oversubscribed storage ports and working to repair poor design issues.
Utilizing Secure copy to migrate off of NetApp filers to EMC Isilon and Celerra Filers.

Confidential

Owner/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

Migration project off legacy USPV and VSP frames to G1000.
Replacement of legacy SAN Fabric to new Brocade 8510’s build out of FCIP tunnels using 7840’s.

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