SUMMARY:

• I have consulted on many Hitachi / NetApp / EMC environments, where it is either Heterogeneous or Homogenous Storage Frames in a very large multi - petabyte, multi-fabric, and multi-tiered SATA, SAS, Solid State disk trays
• These consultations including storage capacity planning, disk re-alignment, disk optimization, disk recovery / conservation, disk expansion, and disk geometrical computational analysis
• My long-range planning and provisioning including LUN planning & provisioning months out to live data, live data transfer from older storage disk & frame to newly configured storage frames & drawers, zone clean up and fabric merger ISL with newer fully-populated FC frame switches Cisco Nexus / UCS and Brocade DC-4

TECHNICAL  SKILLS:

Programming Languages: SQL, JavaScript, PERL, C++, bash/csh scripting, Perl, tcl/tk, Expect, Exceed

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris v.10, Linux v.4, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, ESX v.3.5.1

Storage Management Systems: Unisphere, Navisphere, Command 7.5, Storage Volume Controller, HP Storage Works, 3PAR StorServ, Cisco UCS Manager, ioSphere

Storage Platforms: EMC vPlex, VNX, VMAX, Data Domain Appliance, Avamar Appliance, Recover Point Appliance; Hitachi VSP, USP-V, AMS 2500; NetApp Flex Pod, FAS 6500, FAS 3240, FAS 2040 R5; FusionIO; IBM DS8000, DS6000, DS4000, XIV; 3-PAR

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Storage & Cloud Migration SME & VMware Engineer / Migration SME

Responsibilities:

• Netapp 7-mode to v,9,0.3 CDOT Storage Operating System Migration SME and ESXi v.6.9; migration of the entire EDCAPS FMSS BS R12 Architecture to the consolidated framework with HP C7000, as the ESXi hosts 48 running Windows 2K16 and RHEL 7 as the guests Oss.

Confidential

Senior Storage & Cloud Migration SME

Responsibilities:

• Migration from EOL equipment to EMC ALL Flash Unity & Isilon & Nimble & RAID 1 Arrays. Implementation to merge & migrate to Yottabyte Cloud Infrastructure StaaS, IaaS, & PaaS for over 27 Cloud Silos with 177 Petabytes of data AND complete migration, configuration, and integration with Oracle IAM Cloud Identity Management LDAP Server in parallel with a stand up for Oracle Human Capital Management - entire suite of HCM modules. vRealize & vCloud wmare ESXi 6.9 appliance in “witness mode” for the full automated & rapid deployment of RHEL 7 & Windows 2016 servers & VDI desktops under Windows 10. vRealize vCloud deployments with “hooks” to support migration to Yottabyte Cloud Environment
• Lifecycle management, manage local and remote services, Quality of service, and performance Cost containment

Confidential

Senior Storage & Unified Computing Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2016 Enterprise for File Server ReFS and AD, RHEL 7.x guest OS installation & VMware Orchestration + Raytheon Security Blanket System Hardening.
• InfoBlox DNS DHCP & NTP appliance installation and configuration. 2500 Physical-2-Vritual conversions. vRealize & vCloud wmare ESXi 6.9 appliance in “witness mode” for the full automated & rapid deployment of RHEL 7 & Windows 2016 servers & VDI desktops under Windows 10. vRealize vCloud deployments with “hooks” to support migration to Yottabyte Cloud Environment - Lifecycle management, manage local and remote services, Quality of service, and performance Cost containment

Confidential

Storage Systems Instrumentation

Responsibilities:

• POC for SolarWinds Storage Resoure Manager vs. Brocade Network Advisor vs. Splunk vs. ViPR for SRM for NetApp CDOT v.9 and EMC PowerMax & Extreme I/O & Unity arrays to predict capacity and identify throughput bottlenecks in the fabric and disk arrays Solid State & spinning disk

Confidential

AD Migration SME

Responsibilities:

• Migration of the entire environment from Sun One & Netscape Directory Server to Microsoft Active Directory under Windows 2K16 using QUEST LDAP to Active directory consolidation & migration toolset and PowerShell scripting to resolve UUID/ GIDs // SID issues.
• Complete Enterprise migration, configuration, and integration with Oracle IAM Cloud Identity Management LDAP Server in parallel with a stand up for Oracle Human Capital Management

Confidential

Senior Storage, Windows Systems Administrator, and VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Veritas NBU 7.5.0.1 migration to NBU 8.0.1 with IBM LTO-6 tape vault, Symantec Endpoint migration to DELL Security Endpoint Appliance.
• Dell Storage Systems FC, iSCSI, & FCoE protocols enabled with ESXi 6.5.0.U1 hosts attached running vCenter and SRM with migration to VSAN, VxRail, Scale IO, VxRack EMC platforms to support cloud multi-tenancy services. AVAMAR & Data Domain host backup server & data administration, Microsoft 2016 Enterprise Systems WSUS, AD & Office 365 integration, PKI 2nd level authentication, DNS, DHCP & Office 365 Administration SharePoint, Yammer, e-mail, & a host of many collaborative tools, RHEL 7 Administration and automation with Puppet, Chef, & Ansible, and VMware NSX Administration. Microsoft PKI & CA Server Administration for hosts & user authentication for digital signage of certified documents and secure transmissions of e-mail and SFTP data. Data Migration for AS400 systems used to host transcript services for LANSA heavy lifting into new Windows SQL 2016 / Windows 2K16 database
• Ansible’s unique multitier, multistep orchestration for multiple tenant RHEL 7 installation & configuration; Rolling updates
• Continuous deployment of management content, Integrated stage testing, Version control-based deployment
• Embedded tests in deployment
• I also deployed & customized Splunk 7.0 OVF appliance in a VMWare ESXi 6.5 U1 environment to collect & log data from network devices, servers, and virtual host’s SIEM data analysis. eVAULT cloud backup & e-discovery migration - EVault SaaS for cloud-based backup and recovery. Carbonite EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service for managed recovery in the EVault cloud with 4-hour Service Level Agreements.EVault Plug-n-Protect for appliance-based, on-premises, all-in-one backup and recovery for disk-to-disk, on-premises backup and recovery. EVault Endpoint Protection for integrated backup, recovery, and data security for laptops and desktops. Complete Enterprise migration, configuration, and integration with Oracle IAM Cloud Identity Management LDAP Server in parallel with a stand up for Oracle Human Capital Management entire suite of HCM modules
• Furthermore, I have written scripts to convert Windows File formats into Linux / RHEL 7 GFS2 file friendly formats in perl, python, and BASH to automate file moves, permission checks, AD to RBAC conversion, and file cleanup. And, performed scripting for data moves in a hybrid-cloud environment - AWS - for remote shared files
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow
• I have added, delete, and moved users and groups within Active Directory AD . Performed AD cleanup for expired users & groups & permissions for security audits. I have performed AD multi-federation and multi-tenant I have written PowerShell code & batch code to deploy software & policy changes password expiry and length, NTP sync, software audit & deployment using Group Policy GPO // gpforce from command line & GUI.
• I have also administered Office365 and Sharepoint for e-mail access and home / share directory remote synchronization and access.

Confidential, Reston, VA

NetApp Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hitachi VSP G1000, HCP G10, AMS 2500, HNAS 310 - FC, FCoE and NAS NFS
• Cisco UCS installation, configuration, and administration
• Cisco UCS Service profile setup and configuration for ESXi 6.1 vmware host, Network portgroup creations Confidential Layer2 level
• VMware port group creation, Port mirroring on VMware vSwitch/dvSwitch (dvMirror), MIRRORING PORT ON A VSWITCH, Remote Mirroring Source and Remote Mirroring Destination (RSPAN), and Encapsulated Remote Mirroring (L3) Source (ERSPAN)
• NetApp 8080-Ex - SnapMirror, SnapProtect, and SnapVault administration & general SAN Admin CIFS vSphere vmware 6.0.5 ESXi Enterprise fully licensed - SRM & VSAN DR/BUF testing & stand up
• EMC Data Domain DD9500 and Avamar setup, configuration, and administration for local & three remote sites
• Hitachi Privileged Access Manager I used to set up and manage multiple Domain “forest” password management, password policies & rules, and heterogenous systems / physical domains
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential

Senior 3PAR Storage & Backup Engineer and SAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I performed Storage Migration to GFS2 shared filed system from phase 1 to phase 2 using Peer Motion upon 3PAR StorServ 20000 with 20 - 2TB LUNs.
• I also setup & configured Remote Copy for DR from primary to backup site.
• I configured set-up, and the daily administration of DO - Dynamic optimization& Virtual Copy. I configured 4 SAS 9.4 M3 Storage and Compute nodes.
• I also performed day-to-day Storage Administration new cpg / LUNs, expand LUNs, destroy LUNs - disk reclamation, creation of virtual volumes, Storage health check and SAS Admin functions - shutdown / startup, add / remove users, etc.
• EMC DataDomain 890 databoost data de-duplication and replication for NAS NFS attached devices over 2 bonded 10-GigE interfaces
• Avamar Appliance Administration and agent deployment upon ESXi & RHEL servers
• SAS Administration and tuning with LSF for the compute and meta-data tier and functions for the mid-tier startup / shutdown, updates, and GUI admin to add / remove users and jobs
• SAS Grid Controller Administration for the submission and modeling of “Big Data” jobs
• Migration from SAS 9.2 non-clustered file system to SAS GRID 9.3 M5 GFS2 running on RHEL 6.7.002 upon 3-HP C7000 blades
• Managing SAS Application and Operating System level security, managing SAS Configuration Files, planning and scheduling SAS processes, integrating PIV card and Active Directory Authentication,
• Managing multi-tier SAS platform with products listed under SAS Data Analytics Platform (DAP) that includes SAS EBI, EDM, EM, Forecaster, Model Manager and Visual Analytics
• Setting up Data Access in SAS, including registering libraries and tables in the metadata, updating table metadata, setting up data access, and troubleshooting data access
• Experience with different SAS servers and troubleshooting potential configuration problems
• Any performance related issues, migration time issues that you have faced
• HSM 9000 & Venafi Enterprise PKI Key management server - Certificate grant, revoke, and edit - Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) provisioning, discovery, monitoring, and management of digital certificates and encryption keys and integration with Thales HSM 9000 appliance. vormetric data security integration with Azure Cloud services, centralized management of data security policies and key management and Management through a Web-based console, command line interface (CLI) and a RESTful API. I performed RBAC control over data security policies, encryption keys, and DSM administration with a strong separation of duties.
• Configuration of 8 PB Dell EMC Unity 500F All-Flash Storage
• Python scripting for server & systems automation and SAS 9.4 M5 upgrade
• Migration from Solaris 10 & True 64 Unix to RHEL Kernel 6.7.3 & 7.0.2
• Automated RHEL 6 / 7 provisioning of servers using SpaceWalk and “native” Kickstart
• I have written scripts to convert Windows File formats into Linux / RHEL 7 GFS2 file friendly formats in perl, python, and BASH to automate file moves, permission checks, AD to RBAC conversion, and file cleanup
• AWS / Amazon Hybrid Cloud Integration with RHEL 7 Servers
• Carbonite EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service for managed recovery in the EVault cloud with 4-hour Service Level Agreements.EVault Plug-n-Protect for appliance-based, on-premises, all-in-one backup and recovery for disk-to-disk, on-premises backup and recovery. EVault Endpoint Protection for integrated backup, recovery, and data security for laptops and desktops.
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Senior Backup & Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• HP Data Protector, Science Logic EM7, and Asigra Enterprise Backup. NetApp migration to EMC VMAX. Hitachi VSP Engineering and True Copy multisite setup, configuration, and administration.
• I have used CliQR - less so, Puppet & Chef to automate provisioning of RHEL & CentOS in a vm-ware / ESXi 5.5 >> 6.0.1 hosts cluster
• Prime Services Catalog - I have setup and configured the reporting utility and integration with third-party and free-ware products.
• UCS Director - I have setup & configured Cisco UCS to seamlessly integrate with vm-ware and Prime Services Catalog.
• Azure - just wrote a series of PowerShell scripts to provision in a hybrid cloud environment.
• AWS / Amazon Hybrid Cloud Integration with RHEL 6 & 7 Servers
• Hitachi Privileged Access Manager I used to set up and manage multiple Domain “forest” password management, password policies & rules, and heterogenous systems / physical domains
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NetApp 8060 Engineering and migration from FAS 3140 & 3270 filers.
• NetBackup 7.6.1 Execution, creation, and Integration of Transition Plan and Run Book in current environment of SAS and Oracle Databases, BUF / DR of Oracle Data using Snap Manager for Oracle.
• Zoning of SAN Fabric in a Cisco Nexus 7000 environment. Standing up of HP C7000 and Moon Shot with vm-ware 6.0.1 + SRM & VSAN + vCOP + Orchestrator for provisioning of guest operating systems Windows 2012 R2, RHEL 6, Cent OS, Solaris 10 / 11 .
• Symantec NetBackup 7.6 and Storage Foundation Enterprise HA/DR 6.0implementation with Oracle 12 w/RAC DR/BUF clustering and replication licensed enabled, configured, and tested.
• Veritas Replicator Option 6.0 configured and enabled for SAS 9.1.0.2 "grid" running in a RHEL 7.0 Unix 12-node clustered environment.
• ESXi v.3.5.5 >> Microsoft HyperVisor conversion V-2-V
• AWS / Amazon Hybrid Cloud Integration with RHEL 6 Servers
• Carbonite EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service for managed recovery in the EVault cloud with 4-hour Service Level Agreements.EVault Plug-n-Protect for appliance-based, on-premises, all-in-one backup and recovery for disk-to-disk, on-premises backup and recovery. EVault Endpoint Protection for integrated backup, recovery, and data security for laptops and desktops.
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Senior Storage, Backup, & VM-ware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, design, provisioning, and day-to-day administration for NetApp FAS8060, Cisco Nexus 7018, HP C7000, and Oracle / SUN Exadata devices for a major migration effort.
• ORACLE STORAGE APPLIANCES ORACLE ZFS STORAGE 7420, ZFS STORAGE ZS3-2, ZFS STORAGE ZS3-4, ZFS
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow
• Storage Capacity, Recovery, & Planning in a mixed Storage Environment of NetApp, Hitachi, EMCIsilon, VMAX and VPLEX, FusionIO, and IBM XIV using VMware vCOP v.5.2.
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

VMware 5.1 & EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning of LUNs in an EMC Isilon, VMAX array for ESX data stores & FusionIO SSD array for VDI, “soft” zoning of 24-port Brocade Fabric Switch, and Installation / Configuration of HP Blade Chassis C7000 full length Windows Server 2012 R2 with RFS & RHEL 7 in a VMware 5.1 ESX multi-node cluster running SRM, VSAN, & vmotion. vCloud Automation Center 5.1 & vRealize implementation, configuration, and roll-out.
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration.
• Configuration of SAP SRM / VSAN 5> 7 environment. Upgrade from SRM & VSAN Version 5 to Version 7.0. Functional and configuration experience with SRM 7.0.
• I have used CliQR - less so, Puppet & Chef to automate provisioning of RHEL & CentOS in a vm-ware / ESXi 5.5 >> 6.0.1 hosts cluster
• AWS / Amazon Hybrid Cloud Integration with RHEL 6 Servers
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Hitachi VSP Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning of Storage Arrays & LUNs with Command 7.5 and Storage Fabric with Brocade Fabric Manager.
• Commissioning of Storage Groups & Volumes for ESX 5.5 servers, Blade servers, Solaris & Linux bare metal servers all with dual HBAs and Multi-path enabled from the LDEV-to-Fabric-to-HBA.
• Storage // Volume Wide Area and in-frame replication & duplication True-Copy & Data-duplicator II .
• Hitachi Device Manager & Tuning Manager for optimization and reporting statistics for Storage Processors, LUNs, & Frames. VCloud Automation Center 5.1 integration and storage optimization.
• Hitachi Privileged Access Manager I used to set up and manage multiple Domain “forest” password management, password policies & rules, and heterogenous systems / physical domains
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets. I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow

Confidential

Solar Winds Storage Manager

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Storage Manager upon VCenter, EMC Isilon, VNX 5300, & VNXe all-flash array storage systems.
• Reporting of storage utilization, file types and ageing, CPU & resource over-subscription, CIFS file shares.

Confidential

Lead EMC Storage // Virtualization and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Installation of Storage virtualization for EMCIsilon VPLEX, VMAX, and VNX storage arrays and data migration from older EMC storage frames.
• VMware Optimization and p2v conversions of over 1500 physical machines Windows & RHEL .
• VCloud Automation Center 5.1 implementation, configuration, and roll-out.
• VCenter Operations Manager, VMware vFabric Hyperic, and VMware vFabric AppInsight.
• Data Domain Installation & Configuration Confidential 25 sites and Recover Point replication appliance set up and configuration for 1 local and 2 global site with Global Object replication enabled.
• Symantec NetBackup v.7.5.2 Media client installation and configuration with Storage Tek LTO-5 tape vault and data domain VTL.
• Integrated & applied data domain & UniSphere log-ins & zoning configuration with Storage Domain.
• Clever safe Object Data Replication set up and configuration in a failsafe mode to Data Domain / Avamar. Recover Point in-frame & out-of-frame data duplication.
• EMC Avamar Configuration &Administration for 18 PB of EMC storage & 24 remote sites.
• EMC ViPR Hyper-scale data object storage provisioning test phase - not customer accepted . encipher HSM 9000 encryption appliance installation & configuration & verification.
• Cisco Nexus 7000 // MDX 9000 series FCip WAN SAN replication setup, install, & configuration.
• SAN Screen™ Installation and BMC CMDB ATRIUM Integration for database & application monitoring for both physical & VMs machines.
• SANSCreen™ Administration and Optimization for Service Assurance, Application Insight, VM Insight, vRealize, and Service Insight.
• I have used ServiceNow / REMEDY to enter, track, update, & close out trouble tickets.
• I also entered meta-data and “run books” to help with the AI functionality of ServiceNow VMware vCloud provided technical expertise in the building out cloud infrastructure:
• Standardized Homogeneous infrastructure delivered across pools of standard x86 hardware & VmWare ESX 5.01 host.
• Cloud platform optimized for the entire datacenter fabric.
• Configured automated management framework to execute complex and brittle scripting, for cloud-scale operations against database and web servers.
• Resiliency Testing to ensure software-based architecture compensated for failing hardware.
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration.
• I have used CliQR - less so, Puppet & Chef to automate provisioning of RHEL & CentOS in a vm-ware / ESXi 5.5 >> 6.0.1 hosts cluster
• Prime Services Catalog - I have setup and configured the reporting utility and integration with third-party and free-ware products.
• ESXi v.3.5.5 >> Microsoft HyperVisor conversion V-2-V

Confidential

Senior Storage Data Migration SME

Responsibilities:

• Oracle iStore and Configurator.
• Zpool mirror creation and confirmation bash scripting Confidential & Confidential .
• OBP firmware update v890 Confidential & Confidential .
• Acquire, Asses, catalog, & organize all volumes, volume groups, & LUNs to be migrated.
• Gain access to old and new storage controllers, and fabric switches.
• Confirm the source & target LUNs are in the same soft zone. If not, re-zone accordingly.
• Access any in-house third party or vendor tools to observe and gather empirical evidence of flow rate.
• Map all of the source and target data volumes & LUNS.
• Verify one or more data volumes / LUNs being transferred with TDMF.
• Fine tune and debug any issues with TDMF, especially related to open databases and any specialized scripting upon the database engine quiescent script .
• Begin the entire one-time move of all LUNS.
• Verify the data integrity of the LUNS after copy.
• Remap the host to the new LUNs.
• Verify the new mounts and associated new LUN masks are working properly.
• Decommission the old storage array.
• Clean up the zones on the fabric switch.
• Finalize with “Customer Acceptance Testing” for the new SAN equipment / LUNs.
• Hitachi VSP Command Center v.7.00.1 and Data Duplicator2 configuration and LUN copy migration.
• Oracle RMAN /DBA and Hitachi Shadow Image integration and Unix scripting for database cloning and replication.
• I used to set up and manage multiple Domain “forest” password management, password policies & rules, and heterogenous systems / physical domains