SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished solution architect, technical systems engineer, project manager, data scientist with over twenty - five years of experience.
• Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer managing and implementing SAN and NAS using EMC (Symmetrix, VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, SRM, Unity, RecoverPoint, Replication Manager).
• Data Scientist managing and implementing Big Data Analytics solutions with IBM Watson Studio, Python, Anaconda, Jupyter Notebooks, SQL, Rstudio, Power BI. Data protection with Cohesity.
• Strong interpersonal skills, highly adapt at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations with stakeholders. Recognized project management skills for large-scale projects.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Project Management
• Budgeting & Planning
• System Solution Architectures
• Cost & Resource Estimates
• Change Control Management
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible planning and implementing a data migration solution for a VPLEX environment.
• The solution contained encapsulation of heterogeneous storage, migration of multiprotocol production systems.
• Planning included system selection, POC development, migration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover planning, rollback planning and documentation.
• Responsible for designing, planning, and implementing a data migration solution for a Celerra to Isilon environment.
• The solution contained migration of NFS, SMB, and multiprotocol production data.
• Planning included toolset selection, POC development, migration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover planning, rollback planning and documentation.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, strategy, engineering, and administration for the Health Care Information Technology Informatics, to include the Electric Health Record, Infrastructure for the entire health care organization.
• Worked at the enterprise level with system and enterprise management architects, application developers, and database and application administrators in determining disk storage allocation, backup and restore requirements, and redundancy needs.
• Evaluates new hardware and software management solutions. Make recommendations to management or the client on adoptions and direction while working closely with information assurance to evaluate and implement storage network security.
• Analyzes complex information data management and storage requirements, design, architect, document, test, configure and implement deployable solutions.
• Performs configuration and integration of SAN, NAT, fiber channel or other technologies to include integration of enhanced security of individual platforms, systems, or networks. Provides vulnerability/data integrity assessments by analysis and or design reviews, develop test scenarios, exercises and simulations and support testing and comparisons of new and enhanced software products.
• Provides work direction and guidance to other personnel.

Confidential

Director of Storage

Responsibilities:

• Lead the SAN Engineering team responsible for the development, strategy, and engineering, and administration for the Infrastructure of the organization. Worked at the enterprise level to insure infrastructure mapped effectively to strategic initiatives workflow.
• Lead the SAN Engineering team responsible for the development, strategy, and engineering, and administration for the entire Infrastructure and Operations organization. Worked at the enterprise level with system and enterprise management architects, application developers, and database and application administrators in determining disk storage allocation, backup and restore requirements, and redundancy needs.
• Evaluates new hardware and software management solutions. Make recommendations to management or the client on adoptions and direction while working closely with information assurance to evaluate and implement storage network security. Analyzes complex information data management and storage requirements, design, architect, document, test, configure and implement deployable solutions.
• Performs configuration and integration of SAN, NAT, fiber channel or other technologies to include integration of enhanced security of individual platforms, systems, or networks. Provides vulnerability/data integrity assessments by analysis and or design reviews, develop test scenarios, exercises and simulations and support testing and comparisons of new and enhanced software products. Provides work direction and guidance to other personnel.
• Provide subject matter expertise with Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, and Hitachi In-System Replication
• Symmetrix, VMAX, Clariion, Centera, Celerra, EDL
• Collaborate with storage support teams
• Respond to daily Advanced Storage Administration issues and changes, including Disk space, Data backup and recovery, assisting with local testing for disaster recovery, and monitoring storage infrastructure logs
• Maintain a working knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery plan, and provide support in the event of an invocation or test
• Collaborate with assigned Hitachi Data Systems storage engineers to manage the implementation of all additional storage infrastructure and storage services
• Perform Storage allocation alignment with established service levels
• Responsible for Policy definition and management