ENTERPRISE IT CLOUD DATA INFRASTRUCTURE STORAGE SPECIALIST Resume San Francisco, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Cloud Data Infrastructure Specialist working in all aspects of Cloud Infrastructure IT support, planning and life cycle management leveraging SAN, NAS, and Object based storage. Diligently focus on Company Total Cost of Ownership Objectives wherever possible while managing multiple data center locations and enterprise projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ENTERPRISE IT CLOUD DATA INFRASTRUCTURE STORAGE SPECIALIST

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Consolidated to newer and fewer IT assets; worked on enterprise data center migration to move
mission Critical Systems away from vulnerable data center locations. Lowered overall total cost of ownership (TCO), coordinated assets, data migration, host OS installations. Implemented new systems.
Reduced maintenance and TCO costs migrating SAN Storage Systems to newer more efficient SAN and object based platforms as well as leveraging lower cost NAS storage solutions. Dell EMC Isilon, VMAX, VNX, Vblock, VTLs, Celerras; HDS G1000,VSP,USP/v, AMS; IBM SVC,D8300, PureFlex; Netapp.
Enhanced performance reliability and high availability by migrating from RAID 5 to RAID 6 data pools.
Maintained system health, performance, implemented code upgrades and did performance analysis.
Improved asset and change mgmt data and process improving enterprise agility. Audit TCO of enterprise data footprint. Recommend Object Storage.
Improved fiber channel network, implemented a Core - Edge Fiber Channel topology. Cisco 9513/09
Survived 2 RIF initiatives during cost cutting crises
Trained new team members and screened potential team member candidate resumes during several hiring rounds for consideration by the group.

LEAD INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Saved $450K virtualizing with VMs, SAN, NAS. Improved HA via clustering and streamlined upgrades.
Planned and developed annual Capital & Operating budgets up to $500K.
Achieved a $98K Reduction in overall maintenance costs. Consolidated to SAN Storage, EFCM, IBM TS Blades and retired standalone windows servers, IBM Shark and ADIC backup hardware.
Maintained 120 TB SAN and NAS data stores, Migrated data to DR site. HDS USP, AMS, IBM Shark
Improved preemptive problem identification implementing System Monitoring tools and Dashboard.
Supported internal customers managing Solaris, Windows and Linux systems, addressed customer needs, patch updates, installations, lifecycle, backup/recovery requests and performance monitoring.
Survived 4 RIF initiatives before leaving for my next job during a major print industry disruption working on cost optimization projects to help further digitize press production processes.
Streamlined IT help ticket system working on the implementation of a company-wide Salesforce CRM.
Achieved greater operational flexibility, worked closely with the Application, Web and Prepress Production groups on projects Initiatives, reduced bottlenecks and met project deliverables.
Implemented and tested SOx control elements to formalize processes to meet Federal requirements.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and operating costs by replacing TSM with Netback.
Supervised and managed team of 12 Sun/Mac/Windows Systems Engineers.

SENIOR IT MANAGER

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Managed IT Staff in SF and NY offices. Support Windows 98/NT, Apple G4, Linux, UNIX IRIX T1 environment.
Developed budgets, IT expansion plan in Europe and SE Asia

DATABASE ADMIN

Confidential, Washington, DC

PROJECT CONSULTANT / NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential, DC