SUMMARY:

• A challenging position with a progressive organization offering professional growth based upon proven performance - where experience, training and capabilities in Enterprise SAN/NAS Storage would be of special value. With heavy mphasis on Automation.
• Experience and Varied Training Includes.
• System research and purchasing
• System Design/Architecture
• Team Management and development
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• System/Storage/Network Administration
• System/Storage/Network Management
• Web Server Management
• Software/Script Development
• Storage Automation
• Personnel
• Supervising and scheduling staff
• Evaluation staff performance
• Hiring and discharging of employees
• Offshore staff augmentation management
• Training Employees

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE:

• Sym/DMX/Vmax
• VNX
• Celerra
• HP 3Par
• Cisco MDS Family
• Brocade Fiber Family
• PC Servers/Standalones/Blades
• McData Family
• HP XP7
• Hitachi Arrays

JOB EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Advisory Technologist/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Infrastructure Services Manager supporting the Confidential account a large-scale transportation environment. There are 15 offshore and 6 North America employees that I manage. My day starts with a turnover call with the offshore every morning.
• Then I review the SLA, Capacity, Performance reports.
• From there I go into a call with the Sr Sabre Staff to go over any issues/outages ETC.
• The rest of my day consists of Support all Confidential, HP,3Par,Cisco MDS,Brocade,Hitachi activity’s including architecting, planning, allocations, performance/troubleshooting, and process improvement.
• We just finished a lager EOL Migrations. And will soon be starting another.
• This included Host Based Migrations to SRDF Migrations. I’m also running a number of projects.
• One of which is a Self-Help tool to allow the UEs and end users to query storage information from zoning to masking, Host Information.
• I handle escalations, complicated issues, and scheduling.
• I’ve just finished writing an automation program to reduce the time it takes to do allocations and changes.
• It’s a web-based tool which does error and standards checking and creates the service request using Oracle/Apache/Perl.
• All of the automation and alerting has connectivity into ServiceNow via JSON/SOAP calls.
• There are monthly lunch and learns I put on that are from Programming to Array Operations.

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• I worked for Confidential from 2000-2009. I’m now currently working for Confidential as a contractor doing Solutions Architect work for the Confidential .
• A majority of the work I’ve been doing is VNX/Vmax Design Workbooks.
• Which included Vblock with UCS. I’ve also been involved in many ECC installs and replication Manger installs and configurations. And my Knowledge is not limited to VNX.
• I have extensive experience with VMAX,Celerra,Clarrion. In the past I’ve done many migrations, Hardware and Software installs.
• I was the NAS lead for the West coast during my time Confidential . I’m strong in NAS Migrations. And not limited to FLR Migrations.
• I have done extensive work with VMware as well.
• My knowledge of Confidential hardware and software is well rounded and provide a great asset to the team I’m working with.
• Supported and provide storage allocation for a number of companies.
• This included NETAPP. There were a number of Operation systems including Windows, HPUX, Solaris, Linux.

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported Four Regional Datacenters and one DR Site. Each RDC has anywhere from 3-6 Arrays and a Core Edge Topology.
• My Daily Tasks included Storage Allocation, Troubleshooting of Performance issues, Care and feeding of ECC. I was also a resource to the Design and Architecture group.
• I have a position on the Storage Council board.
• I’m currently working on some small apps to help in managing the SAN/NAS.

Confidential, Franklin, TN

Resident, Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Solutions Architect Roll Creating Designs for customers from SAN to NAS to Backup strategies involving numerous solutions and Applications.
• I support multiple Confidential .
• I also have to configure hardware where needed.
• I have become well versed in SAN and NAS environments.
• I’m a resource within my region for Perl and Celerra, Specific also fill in gaps for Oracle Confidential a Recovery Solutions level.
• I architect complicated SAN/NAS Environments.
• I’m required to create timelines for completion, Install Guides and Design Workbooks.
• I’ve worked in just about every industry while I’ve been Confidential . I work very well with customers to accommodate their needs and wants.
• I’ve been a Team Lead managing up to ten people working for me around the world. I took care of their Training, Work Schedules, and reviews.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Unix Platform Engineer/Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• I deployed a high availability & disaster recovery solution.
• Provided an environment to allow upgrades to the backend without causing down time.
• This also provides an Enterprise Back-up System.
• I provided a knowledge base for perl scripts.
• I have also written a Task Tracking Weblication.
• Worked with the NOC Admins helping them make decisions on monitoring and security.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported the back end of the customer support Infrastructure.
• Provided better ways to upgrade the database/applications and decrease the down times.
• Provided Perl expertise. I wrote a Weblication that kept track of the issues that came into the group.
• This was so they could justify their head count and show where their time was spent.
• Supported the Web servers in the area, which included writing scripts and supporting samba to access this information.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported a variety of UNIX systems.
• Transplant Servers.
• Also did proactive Monitoring and security analysis of all servers.
• Web server support was also a part of my duties.
• I also wrote an account management tool.
• I was the DBA Liaison that helped bring the teams closer together.

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Information Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported over 2,000 UNIX systems and Xterms between four people in my team.
• Built and maintained the site security system for monitoring all UNIX activities.
• Was project manager on numerous projects. Responsible for all IS UNIX Based Web Servers.

Confidential, Woodland, WA

Designer, System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for computers, networks and Engineering workstations
• Setup and maintain the INTERNET connections and E-mail (INTERNET).
• Designed and researched for a WAN to be installed.
• Worked close with the engineers on design work.