SUMMARY:

• A Senior Level Storage / Systems Engineer / Architect with over 20 years of experience supporting High Availability systems.
• Proven analytic troubleshooting skills from working with a computer manufacturer and supporting a wide variety of enterprise infrastructures.
• Experienced consultant with a background in Cloud, VMware, Windows, Storage, Data Center Migrations and application environments across a variety of industries.
• The primary driver is migrating from the reactive mindset to a proactive management. Focused on delivering superior customer service to ensure customer satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

NetApp Storage - Ontap 7-Mode, FAS series, V-series, On Command Insight, Unified Manager (OCUM), Performance Manager, Snap Manager suite, DFM, On Command Workflow Automation, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, and Interconnect Switches:

Confidential Storage - Confidential Symmetrix VMAX 20K, Solutions Enabler, SYMCLI, SMC, Connectrix Manager, DMX3 - 4, VNX, Celerra, Clariion, Centera, Atmos, Data Domain, FAST VP, SRDF, Time Finder, Open Replicator, Power Path Migration Enabler, Open Migrator L/M, Isilon OneFS:

Experience with VMware management in a Windows environment:

Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.:

Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture.:

Troubleshooting Complex issues within a virtualized environment:

SAN Project Management and Deliverables:

Brocade, McData, Cisco Fibre Channel and iSCSI Switches; Brocade DCX, Core, Edge switching FC, iSCSI,SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, FCoE, FCIP, Ethernet, DWDM, VLAN, VSAN,:

Embedded Switches, SAN Health, AN Assessments ,SAN Design, Routing, Transceivers, FC Trace Analysis, SAN Performance, monitoring and tuning.:

SAN & LAN Security, DR> Long Distance/Remote Fabrics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Day to day storage requirements (Isilon, XIO, VNX & VNX2, Unity, vBlock,)
• Data migrations from old VNX to VNX2 and Unity (VNX3)
• Zoning of Cisco and Brocade Enterprise directors
• Responsible of new vBlock implementation for VDI environment
• Data migrations from CX4-480 and CX4-960 arrays to VNX5800 and XIO
• Redesigning VMware environment to include 2 new UCS domains for VDI and test/dev
• Manage replication of Recover point environment
• Manage replication and snapshots of approximately 1.2 PB’s of Isilon storage
• Research and design new data center for new POD design
• Preparing for merger of MSHA and Wellmont Health System. (New domains, email, etc.)

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience of file level migration in multi domain environment.
• Very good understanding of Isilon and NetApp hardware architecture and its different tools from various vendors Confidential Isilon - Smart Connect, Smart Fail, Smart Pools/Zones, SyncIQ Smart Quota, SnapShotIQ, Smart Lock, InsightIQ and NetApp - Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, On command Manager, Filer View, OCI, On Command Insight.
• DNS/AD requirement or update as per Smart Connect IP (SCIP), Zone name and pool configuration.
• CIFS/NFS and multi-protocol migration from NetApp 3xxx to Isilon X series, VNX and Celerra to Isilon 6 node cluster.
• Thorough knowledge of migration tools Array Base (isi vol copy); Host Base (robo copy, EMCopy, Rsync, StorageX).
• Depth understanding of Confidential Isilon, VMAX2 and VMAX3 arrays, NetApp FAS series and Confidential VNX hardware architecture, Node Clusters
• In and out of OneFS, Data ONTAP, VNX and Celerra OS architecture
• Thorough knowledge of Data Ontap 7.x and 8.x
• Knowledge of NFS and CIFS share creation using Filer view/OCI and CLI interface on FAS filers and Isilon GUI and on CLI
• Defined Vfilers on NetApp filers using VLAN-TAGGING for the Active Directory domain.
• Designing & implementation - NetApp filers (V3000/6000, FAS6040, FAS 3070/3040/3020, FAS2050) Isilon (S-Series, X-Series and NL Nodes)
• Depth Knowledge on SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, Smart Quota, Smart Lock, Smart Connect, Subnets and pool configuration
• Knowledge of OneFS 6.x.x.x - 7.0.x.x, 7.1.x.x and depth understanding of Isilon S, X and NL series and hardware architecture Infini-band switch connectivity, node connectivity, I/O flow and Load balancing between nodes
• Support the installation, configuration and maintenance of FAS 3xxx, 6xxx NetApp filers, Maintain backup solutions per client requirement
• Multiple PB Data Migration using various host base and Array Base tools (Snap Mirror, Snap Vault, Emcopy,RoboCopy, Isi Vol Copy)
• Analyze current infrastructure and provide recommendations for maintaining a stable environment For NAS and SAN environment
• Provide L3 engineering and problem resolution support for critical issues in NAS and SAN environment Along with FC switch Support
• Design, architecture and deployment of SAN and NAS (Hp EVA, Isilon, NetApp, VNX, Celerra) technology infrastructure to deliver systems and services with high availability and reliability
• Develops departmental specifications, policies, procedures and standards to guide the management of the server, storage and networking infrastructure
• Ensuring that policies, procedures and standards are being followed and Manages and coordinates work with other IT departments to deliver systems and services.
• Extensively worked on Brocade Director Switches, McData and Cisco MDS switches. Proficient in using Confidential Connectrix Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager to manage, monitor and configure switches in a SAN
• Proficient in design & implementing scripts and procedures to automate and enhance the monitoring and failure recovery for system services

Confidential

Senior Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and carrying out migrations and refreshes of storage systems
• SAN and NAS administration of arrays connected to hundreds of servers
• Install and setup alerting, monitoring, and management of enterprise storage arrays
• Perfstat gathering and analysis and remediation based on results
• Experience of FC SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS ( Confidential VNX, VMAX, VMAX2, VMAX3 and Extreme IO) NetApp, storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments
• Experience in troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgrades of SANs in VMware and different environments
• Involved in DR design and planning of VMware
• Provision VMware Data store’s and configure storage for Virtual Machines
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery
• Upgrading/updating and patching storage systems with vendor recommended releases
• Handle on-call and off hour schedules to assist in troubleshooting and remediation of systems
• Day to day provisioning and reclaims, zoning, de-allocations
• Performance tuning, capacity sizing, and life cycle planning
• Remediate current environment with supported software and hardware components
• Migration of Terabytes of data to new arrays
• Consolidation of server and systems
• Implement best practice for Oracle OVM, XEN, SharePoint, and Exchange environments
• Forecast and capacity management of all arrays

Confidential

Systems Engineer / Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrated hundreds of servers using Netapp and Confidential storage technologies
• Worked at an environment which consumes 2 PB of data on a yearly basis
• SAN Administration of storage arrays on an enterprise level which is 3,000 plus servers and 25 plus arrays
• NAS Administration of storage arrays on an enterprise level which is 2500 plus servers and 20 plus arrays
• SAN Fabric Management of 12 plus switches which includes upgrades, installs, migrations, zoning, troubleshooting of these fabrics
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients
• Systems Administrator with 5+ years of experience in VMware vSphere- global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure
• Proficient with Disaster Recovery implementation on Netapp using snap mirror and snap vault
• Architect using On Command Insight 6.3.2 formerly SanScreen
• Setup and configure new hosts and arrays for new projects
• Administer NAS and SAN connections from storage array to Unix and Linux clusters
• Subject Matter Expert for Netapp, and Confidential storage technologies
• Troubleshooting on various file, backup, high availability applications servers
• Support SAN and NAS environment - EMC, Brocade, McData
• Configure and manage On Command Insight (OCI) formerly SANscreen
• Manage petabytes of data across numerous arrays and frames
• Created standard operating procedures for disaster recover events and testing in various locations
• Performance tuning of Storage arrays and other operating systems for best performance
• Data integrity, space management, and system performance analysis
• Produce standard operating procedures on various customer technologies
• Handle Severity and Priority 1 as a Level 3 Engineer
• Design and implement FAST VP and Optimizer technologies on Confidential VMAX
• Symmetrix performance analyzer used for performance analysis on IOPS
• Storage migration and consolidation using Confidential SRDF replication software, Open Replicator and Time finder
• Clone/Snap
• Performance management using ECC performance manager and Symmetrix performance analyzer to monitor performance indicators such as I/O per second, throughput, I/O size, and response time
• Confidential Solutions Enabler/Symcli, Power path and Recover Point
• Manage backup data protection and data life-cycle efficiently
• Project work in upgrading and maintaining SAN switches and arrays
• Troubleshoot complex database performance issues along with array spindle performance
• Provision and management of Confidential SAN and NAS arrays using SYMCLI, ECC, NaviCLI, NaviSphere and Unisphere
• Configure and administer Recovery Point Objectives at different levels for enterprise mission critical applications
• Perform data replication, both local and extended distance using EMC, Time finder/SRDF and RecoverPoint

Confidential

Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of 7+ Petabyte environment to include 9 data centers
• Assist in the recommendation of new storage solutions for the Enterprise
• Administer and manage daily, (2) VMAX arrays, (10) VNX arrays, (1) Extreme IO, (1) 6 node Isilon cluster replicating to (1) 6 node Isilon cluster from primary data center to DR data center in a multi tenancy environment. We were using “S” and “X” and “NL” nodes. Used for archiving and file shares. Perform One FS upgrades when necessary. (14) Centera’s, (30) Recover point Nodes, (2) Atmos, (2) VPlex, (4) Brocade DCX’s, (18) Brocade DS-300b’s
• Architected the NetApp to VNX migration for our 7 regional data centers
• Currently working on the migration from (1) NS-960 to (2) VNX 7600’s
• Mentor (3) Storage Engineers for whom I am responsible
• Utilize Prosphere and the various other Confidential tools to monitor our environment
• Performance tuning, capacity sizing, and life cycle planning
• Planned and carried out migrations on 7-Mode
• Architecture and implementation of On Command Unified Manager, Performance Manager, Insight installations
• Implemented advanced configurations of clustered and 7-mode systems
• Modeling workflows within On Command Workflow Automation to suit customer needs
• Implement best practice for Oracle, SharePoint, and Exchange environments
• Forecast and capacity management of all NAS arrays
• Create standard operating procedures, process, and system documentation
• Handle on-call and off hour schedules to assist in troubleshooting, migrations, and disaster recovery events

Confidential San Antonio, Texas

Senior NetApp Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Travel to customer sites to perform NetApp implementations into customer environments
• Cable and configure FAS systems that conform to NetApp best practices
• Provide onsite for customer on NetApp software products
• Provide documentation to customer on their environment prior to leaving site
• Responsible for updating Confidential internal procedures for NetApp implementations
• Continue to research and stay up to date on NetApp technologies

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day management of multiple NetApp Filers in local and remote data centers to include the US and Europe
• Utilize Operations Manager for monitoring and alerting on the environment
• Lead onsite Storage Engineer
• Mentor and train other administrators on the storage environment
• Conduct weekly meetings with members of the storage team
• Keep up to date on current and future technologies that will benefit PPD
• Configure and replicate between data centers using Snap mirror
• Configure and manage multiple HP EVA 5000 and HP EVA 8000 using Command View

Confidential

NetApp Professional Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NetApp onsite resident at Langley AFB - provided operational and technical leadership for design, implementation, configuration, and maintenance of network storage systems supporting Air Combat Command Network Control Centers
• Provided storage subject matter expertise for the Air Force Integrated Network Operations and Security Center (INOSC)
• Hands-on installation of multiple FAS storage arrays
• Assisted with large Metro Cluster implementation
• Performed storage tech refreshes at multiple Air Force Bases

Confidential, Norfolk, Virginia

Storage Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided operational support and guidance to customer with regards to Confidential storage solutions and industry best practices
• Performed a wide variety of daily storage management tasks such as capacity management, configuration, storage provisioning, and ensuring business continuity
• Monitored and managed 30+ NMCI unclassified and 8 classified remote locations using Confidential Control Center and SymCli
• Researched and recommended operational improvements based on the current enterprise environment and Confidential storage best practices
• Participated in the design and implementation of the business continuance and disaster recovery plans for the world’s largest intranet environment
• Planned and successfully executed seven Confidential migrations for both exchange and file share environments
• Built and deployed Windows 2000 and 2003 servers for SAN connectivity

Confidential,

Storage Engineer/System Administrator

Responsibilities;

• Administered and managed (2) Confidential DMX-2000s, (2) Confidential DMX-3s, and (40) Confidential Clariions ranging from the FC-4700 to the CX-3 platform on both classified and unclassified networks
• Configured and managed (14) Cisco Enterprise Directors and (48) Brocade departmental switches
• Monitored and maintained SAN environment using Confidential Control Center and native tools
• Installed and upgraded Windows 2000 and 2003 servers for SAN connectivity in a multi domain environment inclusive of (16) remote locations
• Wrote detailed process documentation for server connectivity

Confidential

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 20-25 incoming Associate Implementation Specialists in the TSAP Program every 8 weeks
• Administered written and verbal evaluations for each associate on a weekly basis
• Facilitated on Confidential core tools
• Coached and mentored associates to ensure successful completion of program
• Conducted technical interviews of TSAP program candidates
• Communicated performance data to their respective delivery managers on the progress of their associates