Senior Storage Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Strong and effective network storage, backup and system engineer & administrator with 9 years of diversified information technology experience to include 5 years as a dedicated storage engineer & administrator .
Highly competent team - leader, capable of revolutionizing the storage engineering function into a proactive strategic business partner.
Well versed in multiple vendor technologies for storage engineering & administration including Hitachi, Netapp, EMC, HP, Commvault, Netbackup, Brocade, Cisco.
Active Top Secret, SCI Eligible Clearance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented and executed storage optimization plan; reclaimed five disks from allocated storage pools - boosted available storage by 13.4 TB, relieving storage constraints significantly.
Devised and delivered file storage archiving process; Migrated 3 million+ dormant files to cloud storage - allowed 4 TB more storage capability on CIF environment.
Initiated SAN storage review; identified and deleted 17 unneeded LUNs - raised capacity 11.4 TB.

Confidential

Backup & Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

Resolved 165+ time-critical tickets. Utilized Netbackup, Commvault, Hitachi Command Suite.
Optimized backup environment throughput; migrated 70+ virtual clients into virtualization policies - effectively produced 75% faster backups over traditional methods.
Designed and delivered enterprise SAN storage solution; provisioned/allocated/zoned 24 TB for Defense Connect Online migration - achieved seamless upgrade to ESXi vSphere environment.
Solved widespread frozen tape issue; replaced faulty hardware - retention capacity increased 600%.

Confidential

Network Storage/Backup Technician - Supervisor

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded Storage Area Network install for three bases; migrated 224 Terabytes of core service data - $909,000 equipment install/configuration completed ahead of schedule/without incident.
Reconfigured SAN to support secure remote access; eliminating Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.
Led Enterprise-wide SAN storage upgrade; installed/configured Commvault on four units - increased performance by 50%.
Implemented security scan maintenance using Retina network scans and manual patching; removed 113 vulnerabilities on 8,000 systems.