SUMMARY:

• Very comfortable with installing new clusters, joining nodes to clusters, creating ifgrps/LIFs, volumes, export - policies, rules, vol moves, LIF migrations, junction-paths, snapmirrors, cluster interconnect switches, etc. I can install new clusters start to finish without any assistance.
• Strong planning skills and good scripting allows me to quickly collect all information about what needs to happen as part of the migration as well as create the new volumes, mirrors, and exports. Clear communications between me, my team, and the customer about the roles and responsibilities of each party and defined tasks during cutover phase.
• Familiar with data center standards, procedures, and contacts. Work well with data center engineers to get things racked, cabled, etc.
• Planning rack space, power requirements, and managing inventory help meet deployment SLAs.
• I am very fluent with Excel and can take large amounts of information about Filers and use Excel to help track and plan migrations and tasks.
• I can use Excel to help build massive scripts for changes.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

Platforms: Network Appliance, Oracle Solaris, Redhat Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Hardware: Network Appliance, FAS 8080,6280,6210,6080,6070,6040, FAS 3240,3170,3140, FAS 3070,3040, FAS 3050,3020, FAS 2050,2020, FAS270, F760, F840, FAS940, FAS960, FAS980, Nearstore R200 Filers (NAS & SAN) - (Emulux and Qlogic adapters for SAN connected to Brocade Switch), Oracle T3-1, T4-2, T5-2

Operating Systems: Network Appliance Data ONTAP, 8.3, 8.2.3P3, 8.1.3, 8.0.2P3, 7.3.5.1P4, 7.3.2P4, 7.2.2, 7.1.2.1, 7.0.3, 6x, 5.x, ONTAP 7-mode, and cDOT (cluster mode), Sun Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, Linux (RedHat and SuSE), Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS

Network: Ethernet 10G, 10/100/1000 (copper/fibre), TCP/IP routing, subnetting, and troubleshootingNetapp LIFs, LACP, VIF and single nic, Sun IP Multipathing

Miscellaneous Packages: Netapp perfstat, pktt, DFM, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Visio, Project, Hummingbird eXceed, PuTTY, Mac Terminal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Senior Storage Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior NetApp subject matter expert
• Documented and turned over ESI processes for storage team to support to remove myself as a single point of failure
• Work closely with SITES to rack and stack new hardware in data centers
• Deploy new Oracle servers as requested by the Production DBA team
• Jumpstart Oracle servers upgrading OS from Solaris 10 to 11.2
• Meet with NetApp every two weeks to discuss and address any risk and discuss support of 118 Filers
• Maintain ON Command (Operations Manager) servers to monitor all Filers
• Build all new Filers to our new storage standards.
• Hardware and OS installs/upgrades (Head swaps, shelf adds, network upgrades)
• Performance analysis assistance using Performance Advisor and perfstat tools.
• Manage filer inventory and assets

Senior Storage Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tier I, II, and III support for 72 Filers throughout four strategic data centers in the San Jose area.
• Documented and implemented storage standards and best practices
• Documented all data that resides on current Filers
• Worked with NetApp to design new Las Vegas hardware layout.
• Worked with NetApp to rack and stack all new 48 Filers that were installed in Las Vegas.
• Built new ON Command (Operations Manager) server in Las Vegas to monitor the new Filers.
• Build all new Filers to our new storage standards.
• Created 500+ SnapMirrors from the existing San Jose Filers to the designated Las Vegas landing.
• Manage and design Aggregate layout standards on all filers
• Hardware and OS installs/upgrades (Head swaps, shelf adds, network upgrades)
• Initial Filer deployment in Las Vegas data center
• Qtree, Volume, and Aggregate creations
• Provisioning of new storage allocations
• Update Data Fabric Manager (DFM) with current contact information of customer owned storage.
• Performance analysis assistance using Performance Advisor and perfstat tools.
• Manage filer inventory (internal systems and NOW site contacts)
• Verification that all autosupport alerts are reaching destinations
• Integration of SSL encryption and SSH public key encryption into all filers for a secure environment.

Senior Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tier I, II, and III support for 70+ Filers throughout three strategic data centers in North America.
• Provide technical expertise and advise on standards and best practices
• Document standards and how to procedures and publish those to Wiki.
• Manage and design Aggregate layout standards on all filers
• Hardware and OS installs/upgrades (Head swaps, shelf adds, network upgrades)
• Initial Filer deployment in data center
• Qtree, Volume, and Aggregate creations
• Provisioning of storage allocations and necessary data replication for DR solution via snapmirror technology
• Update Data Fabric Manager (DFM) with current contact information of customer owned storage.
• Performance analysis assistance using Performance Advisor and perfstat tools.
• Manage filer inventory (internal systems and NOW site contacts)
• Verification that all autosupport alerts are reaching destinations
• Integration of SSL encryption and SSH public key encryption into all filers for a secure environment.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead role in stability and reliability of 310 filers throughout North America
• Provide technical expertise and advise on standards and best practices
• Develop migration and upgrade plans
• Manage and design Aggregate layout standards on all filers
• Perform random audit checks on Production Filers and report issues to Operate Team
• Hardware and OS installs/upgrades (Head swaps, shelf adds, network upgrades)
• Initial Filer deployment in data center
• Qtree, Volume, and Aggregate creations
• Provisioning of storage allocations and necessary data replication for DR solution via snapmirror technology
• Update Data Fabric Manager (DFM) with current contact information of customer owned storage.
• Performance analysis assistance
• Manage data migrations and hardware refresh
• Coordination of disk failure replacement process with Netapp
• Manage filer inventory (internal systems and NOW site contacts)
• Verification that all autosupport alerts are reaching destinations
• Ensure snapmirror traffic is routed through the proper network interfaces via static routes.
• Integration of SSL encryption and SSH public key encryption into all filers for a secure environment.
• Provide subject matter expertise for NFS platform to Operate Team.
• Development of detailed steps provided to junior administrators to assist with change events.
• Create and maintain customized UNIX scripts to assist with monitoring all filers.
• Provide custom KSH scripting skills to Operate team to collect important information.
• Assist team members with their daily system admin activities when needed.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support Sun Solaris UNIX servers responsible for OS, uptime and availability, external DNS, and centralized storage (NetApp Filers SAN & NAS and IBM Shark SAN).
• Primary support for maintenance for 4 Network Appliance FAS960 Filers and one new Nearstore R200.
• Support Hummingbird eXceed application which is standard access to UNIX servers.
• Hardware support which includes racking new equipment, replacing parts, adding cards/boards/memory etc, moving servers.
• Monthly password changes on all servers to comply with security standards.
• Document UNIX processes/procedures for new work instructions as part of change control.
• Network Appliance Capacity Planning.
• Work with application teams to migrate away from telnet/ftp to ssh/scp…to tightened security.
• OS patching on regular time schedule.
• Assist team members with their daily system admin activities including user account changes, DNS administration, monitor nightly backups, access control, disk allocation, and troubleshooting.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Primary support for HPUX, Solaris, AIX, and Linux servers located in US, Europe, and Asia Datacenters.
• Assist team members with their daily system admin activities including user account changes, DNS administration, monitor nightly backups, access control, disk allocation, and troubleshooting.
• Primary support for installation, configuration, and maintenance for 9 Network Appliance Filers and one new Nearstore R200.
• Actively consolidating old servers along with low end Sun servers to high performance servers.
• UNIX print server administration used by users globally.
• Hardware support which includes racking new equipment, replacing parts, adding cards/boards/memory etc, moving servers, installing cabling (including fibre) under floor.
• Coordinate with facilities to have power installed in data center.
• Monthly password changes on all servers.
• Core team member of Oracle ERP support team assisting in all capacities.
• Assist Oracle team with third party add-on applications and support.
• Document UNIX processes/procedures for team repository.
• Monitor nightly backups for US, France and Asia; work with Operations on tape export and recall.
• Capacity planning.
• Shell scripting.