SUMMARY
- Over 15 years of SAN/storage engineering providing full life - cycle support including technology conceptualization, architecture, design, planning, pricing, technology and product review & selection, staging, installation, configuration, integration, implementation, upgrade, enhancement, retirement, migration, monitoring, capacity planning & reporting, maintenance, problem determination & resolution, and process automation.
- Established the complete SAN & storage infrastructure for five data centers, including FCIP-based storage replication (via Global Mirror) between three data centers
- Provided full life-cycle support for the SAN fabrics, storage subsystems, and associated storage management systems for seven USDOJ & USDOE data centers
- Provided storage support for VMware, Windows, Linux, & UNIX (AIX & Solaris) operating system platforms
- Improved several recurrent, tedious and/or complex configuration & management processes
- Improved performance and increased throughput - often without storage system improvement(s)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- IBM Spectrum Virtualize (IBM SAN Volume Controller / SVC) and Storwize V7000
- AIX hosts utilizing PowerHA/HACMP, NPIV, & LPM
- VMware hosts
- Linux hosts
- Windows hosts
- IBM Spectrum Control (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center / TPC)
- Performance monitoring & capacity reporting
- Brocade DCX & DCX-8510
- Cisco MDS 9000
- DR, COOP, & business continuity solutions
- SVC Global Mirror (via FCIP)
- Switch and storage administration & monitoring
- Automation of storage configuration & management processes
- IBM DS8000, DS5000, & DS4000
- HDS VSP, G-Series 200 & 400
- Fibre Channel
- TCP/IP
- Problem determination & resolution
- Availability management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Sr. SAN/Storage Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Senior engineer responsible for all facets of USDOJ OCIO-managed SAN/storage infrastructure and associated storage management systems for four data centersSome of my major individual accomplishments:
- Engineering of USDOJ OCIO SAN/storage infrastructure for two new data centers
- Decommission & redeployment of USDOJ OCIO SAN/storage infrastructure for two data centers
- Development of tools to generate SAN/storage configuration for complex/frequent operations
- Design, engineering, implementation, & operation of SAN/storage management systems
- Implementation of SNMP-based SAN/storage monitoring & alerting
