SUMMARY:

Well - qualified Enterprise Storage Administrator with sophisticated technical skills and passion for implementing best practices to maximize efficiency. Possess a combination of system integration, system analysis and administrative skills on different infrastructure services. resolving complex problems or business challenges through innovation and technical research. Successful in centralization of infrastructure management while increasing operational efficiency and greatly decreasing time needed to backup and recover data. Experienced with using multi-location, data-centers for backups and disaster recovery needs. Known for exceeding needs of end-users while reducing downtime and preventing service interruption. Exceptional problem solver and collaborator who embraces new technologies and proactively plans for storage needs.

CORE NETAPP SKILLS INCLUDE:

• 19+ years of Data ONTap, Clustered 8.2, 8.3 & 9.0 and 7-mode NFS/CIFS, FC, SAN, iSCSI, OCUM, OCSM
• Backups using SnapVault, SnapMirror, and Confidential
• Writing and testing NetApp Disaster Recovery Plan Documentation
• Networking and DNS Management
• Performance enhancements - deduplication, replication, data compression, flash pools
• Support 100+ node environment in multiple data centers
• Windows, UNIX/Linux Administration
• Data ONTap Troubleshooting & Break/Fix support

TECHNICAL AND SPECIALIZED SKILLS:

Storage: NetApp Clustered ONTAP (cDOT) 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 & 9.0 and 7-mode, 7.x, 8.x

AIX, Linux, HP: UX, Solaris, Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012

Tools: OnCommand Systems Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Insight, OnCommand Performance, Operations Manager

Protocols: NAS, SAN, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, LDAP, Active Directory, DNS, NIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Durham, NC

NetApp Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities, supporting the new cDOT Flash Pool, SAN/NAS environment w/6 - node clusters.
• Provisioning storage for SAN and NAS clients, including creating volumes, LUNs, CIFs shares & NFS exports.
• Configured new nodes and new clusters including aggregates, SVMs, LIFs, ASUP and more.
• Performing SnapMirror migrations of NAS volumes from 7-mode NetApps to cDOT clusters.
• Supporting multiple data center environment doing replication, deduplication and compression.
• Supporting/configuring SnapMirror replication to remote filers/data centers.
• Performing 7-mode DATA ONTap upgrades from 7.3.x to 8.2.4P4.
• NetApp systems include FAS8040s with a mix of SSD, HDD drives, FlashPools, FlashCache also AFF 8080s with all SSDs.
• Responsible for creating Change Management requests for upgrades, migrations and other changes.
• Work with the backup team to configure Veritas NetBackup NAS backups.

NetApp Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked remotely with onsite team and NetBackup team to review Snapshot, SnapVault and SMTAPE schedules and configurations on 7 - mode and cDOT HA clusters.
• Performed SnapVault to secondary clusters for redundancy and executed online backups with the ability to write to tape without adding load to the production NetApps.

Confidential, Tukwila, WA

NetApp NAS Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data ONTap upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3
• Storage Capacity monitoring/planning/reporting
• Aggregate/Volume/Qtree quota configuration
• Snapshot/SnapMirror/SnapVault, deduplication & compression management
• CIFS/NFS Access permissions
• Network Interface LIF/LACP/VLAN configuration
• Fpolicy configuration
• NetBackup Support - 7.6, backup and replication to disk

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

NetApp NAS Storage Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform design and 3rd level support of 7-mode and Clustered ONTAP clusters for Enterprise storage needs, all in HA pair configurations.
• Testing and configuring NFS, CIFS and Multi-protocol on vservers and vfilers that serve data to Windows, UNIX, Linux and VMWare clients. NFSv4 with LDAP in 7-mode and Clustered mode.
• Use of OnCommand System Manager and OnCommand Unified Manager.
• Design and support of existing 7-mode corporate environment. Testing 7-mode configuration NFS, NFSv4, CIFS and Multiprotocol on Clustered mode filers to insure compatibility using Active Directory, LDAP and authentication.
• SnapShot, SnapVault and SnapMirror management.
• Assisting with design and installation of a FAS6290 NetApp Cluster in a new data center. Attended instructor led NetApp Clustered ONTap training course, 2013.
• Attended instructor led VMWare vSphere Install, Configure and Manage v5.1 Sept 2013

Confidential, Boulder, CO

NetApp NAS Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed bare-metal installation and complete configuration of NAS/SAN filer(s), including creating volumes/LUNs, configuring NFS/CIFS, iSCSI/SAN connections, DNS, Active Directory authentication, virtual filers and restoring backups from tape during disaster recovery drills.
• Led NetApp recovery team during disaster recovery drills, recreating clients’ computing environment in data center enabling practice environment on operation of customer’s business.
• Prepared documentation for recovering clients NetApp filer(s) using / testing document during event, allowing anyone with NetApp experience to follow step-by-step instructions for setting up client's filer during real outage.
• Recovered NetApp filer(s) at all events, overcoming DS8000 formatting issues.
• Implemented VMWare ESX best practices while configuring VM client storage which eliminated unneeded software, shortened installation time, reduced overhead and improved performance.
• Reduced overhead and improved performance by implementing VMWare best practices while decreasing client’s storage connection and software installation time during events.
• Provided 24/7 coverage.

Staff Systems Administrator

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Responsibilities:

• Supported databases, web servers, and software development infrastructure for products across multiple locations using integrated DB2, Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest used for source code control.
• Sustained application development infrastructure, using Rational source code control software, DB2 databases and WebSphere web servers.
• Ensured on-time emergency client patches and future releases by installing, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting source code control software.
• Facilitated seamless client product installations, administering upgrades, users, local storage, storage access (NFS, CIFS) for AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Linux and Windows servers.

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Lead Engineering IT Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed, designed, upgraded and maintained Software Development’s storage including NetApp infrastructure, provisioned storage, data replication and snapshots in a multiprotocol environment. My NetApp filers contained all future release and necessary build files.
• Maintained all aspects of computing infrastructure for Engineering department, which included 250+ servers used for source code control, development and testing.
• Centralized infrastructure and simplified support by expanding NetApp from 250GB to 5TB of storage which reduced data recovery time and increased developer productivity.
• Enhanced systems by adding CommVault as backup server for NetApps and source code servers, centralizing backups on single platform and running regular backups for flat files and databases.
• Improved off-site, online data redundancy by using NetApp SnapMirror to replicate data to an off-site NetApp.
• Reduced cost of new servers and server deployment time by adding VMWare for client virtualization.
• Responded as a first and second level Help Desk personnel handling issues and was part of 24/7 coverage rotation.