AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• EMC Storage
• Migrations
• Troubleshooting
• Hitachi Storage
• Automation
• Allocating, Alerting & Monitoring
• SANscreen
• Disaster Recovery
• Change Management
• Storage Consolidations
• Capacity Planning
• System Administration
• Systems Management
• Application Support
• Process Improvement
• UNIX
• Cisco MDS
• Incident Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware:

SUN SPARC: Enterprise class servers, UNIX, AIX, HP - UX, Linux, ESX

Wintel: HP DL380 G series & DL585 G Series, C Class Blade servers

Storage: EMC VMAX, EMC DMX, EMC Clariion CX, Hitachi Tagmastore USPV, USP, HP 9500, 2400 and 1200

SAN: CISCO MDS, Brocade, McData

Software Products:

Operating Systems: Windows 2k/2003, Sun Solaris 8, 9 & 10, AIX 5.2 & 5.3, HP-UX 11.x, VMware

Storage Software: EMC NaviSphere, EMC Control Center suite, SMC, CISCO Fabric Mgr, EMC SRDF, SANscreen, Storage Navigator, Hitachi Command Suite, Brocade Network Analyzer

CLI: Symcli, Netapp CLI & XIV-CLI

Tools: Putty, SanScreen

CRM/Ticketing Systems: Remedy ARS, BMC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

SAN Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a stable, predictable, and scalable Storage environment to protect business critical data.
• Work closely with GDC Operations to maintain current infrastructure with required new releases.
• Designs and provisions storage to systems as required through rotational standby support; responds to failure and alert event notifications 24x7 to ensure capacity demands.
• Part of a team environment that communicates clear, concise messages to Internal Teams, IT and functional leadership on operations and support activities.
• Ensures conformance to established system architecture, methods, regulations, standards and practices. Assures consistency with business objectives for resiliency, disaster tolerance, and regulatory compliance.
• Monitors performance and SAN connectivity to ensure availability and prepares, schedules, documents storage assignments w/ System Administrators, related infrastructure teams, management staff through a regulatory change management system and other documentation.
• Oversees and remediates SAN device/application {access, performance, and event} alerts to identify/ potential incidents. Escalates and follows incidents with senior management and other J&J agencies to ensure capacity management, data storage integrity and performance service level objectives are met.
• Manage the Storage solution implemented within J&J’s Enterprise Data Center infrastructure.
• Executes processes that ensure capabilities meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Confidential, Warren, NJ & New York, NY

Vice President | SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured VSANs, Zones, CISCO MDS - Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager & CLI.
• Utilized command line scripts to provision EMC storage on DMX, V-MAX, and Fast VP arrays.
• Created LUN metas, mappings and SRDF pairings. Thick and thin LUN provisioning on V-MAX and Fast VP arrays.
• Provisioned Clariion storage with NaviSphere.
• Skilled in provisioning Hitachi storage USPV and USP arrays using Storage Navigator and HCS.
• Supported SAs in troubleshooting SAN issues such as initial storage configuration, path and storage failures.
• Proven ability to handle significant workload with experience managing multiple projects concurrently in a matrix process environment.
• Adhered strictly to Confidential ’s Problem/Change Management policies to ensure proper controls.
• Worked on major storage migration projects for 111 Wall St (NY), Weehawken (NJ), Tampa (FL) and Silver Springs (MD).
• Participated in weekly meetings with PMO’s, SA’s and Business technical leads to ensure current and future projects met SLA’s for SAN storage.

Storage Integration | Vice President | System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with the Confidential (Technical Capacity Request System) development team to define SAN storage requirements through proof of concept/UAT testing.
• Performed BAU capacity planning and quarterly long term forecasting that enabled management to run reports to assess future needs.
• Reviewed projects requesting new and additional SAN storage submitted thought the Confidential system. Ensured storage amounts requested were justified based on facts/figures and not just random storage amounts. Reduced initial storage amounts requested as appropriate to drive efficiency and cost savings averaging about $ 1million per year.
• Team member on the Aperture work flow system that tracked status of new and existing SAN storage projects.
• Worked with compliance on audit, PCM and RCSA documentation.

Project Leader | Senior UNIX System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervised day-to-day operations for a team of 8 UNIX SA’s delegating project assignments.
• Responsible for building and maintenance of UNIX servers and desktops.
• Partnered with various technology groups to plan and accomplish long-range departmental objectives; implemented OS upgrades, environment and major equipment purchases & installations.

UNIX System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built and administrated 100+ Solaris/SunOS servers and desktops for various organizations of the firm.
• Supported Fixed Income & Equity Trading floors.
• Handled troubleshooting hardware/software problems.

UNIX TP21 Operator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the assembly and installation of UNIX workstations for 7WTC trading floor project.
• Monitored UNIX server backups and batch jobs.

IBM Operator | Shift Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day shift operations.
• Worked with MVS and IBM 3800 printers.