PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

SAN Admin/Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Global 24x7 Server and Storage environment
• Manage, Architect, and Engineer Enterprise - Class Storage Hardware from EMC XtremIO, (VMAX (Symmetrix), Isilon, Centera and Clarion), HDS (USP), (VSP), (G100), Network Appliances (NAS Filer) 7-Mode and CDOT OnTap 8.x. OnCommand Unified Manager, Snap Vault and Snap Mirror, OneFS, Storage Navigator, Unisphere.
• Manage, Architect, and Engineer Enterprise-Class Fiber Switch/Director Hardware from Cisco, Brocade/McData. BNA, and FOS upgrades.
• HP, Dell, servers and Blade Centers Cisco UCS Blade Centers.
• Work with Veritas Volume Manager, Powerpath and LVM.
• Large VMware environment, Windows 2008 & 2012, Oracle Solaris, RHEL 5 & 6, Oracle RAC & ASM.
• Configuration and monitoring of replication strategies (ECC, SRDF, BCV Clone, SyncIQ, Shadow Image, True Copy, Tagma Store, and HiCommand)
• Work with best practice storage concepts (mapping/creation, FC Switch Configs)
• Work with and administration of Data Domain, Veritas Netbackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Avamar, and Commvault
• IP Network, WAN and LAN free (SAN) based data backup design and configuration.
• Data protection and backup recovery solutions such as using virtual tape, disk to disk to tape, data replication.
• Unix and/or Windows systems administration.
• OS/Application storage requirements (File System Layout and Databases)
• System Fault Tolerance Design, Business continuity and Disaster recovery planning.

SAN Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Integrate environment of acquisition SGK into Matthews Intl
• Global Storage environment US, EMEA, APAC, Australia
• Server compute environment is VMWare ESXi 5.5, vCenter 5.5, and Windows 2008, 2012, and Linux RHEL 5 & 6.
• Storage environment is Cisco switch fabric, IBM XIV GEN I & II, DS-Midrange 3500, v5K-v7K, Dell 3800, and 7Mode/CDOT NetApp.
• Many locations are converged environments.
• Remediation to upgrade firmware on all storage arrays
• Active Directory
• Global Commvault Backup.
• Cherwell Service Management Problem Ticket and Incident resolution
• Large NetApp environment
• NetApp Migrations

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

SAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Resident Consultant to Wells Fargo North America environment
• Assist Brocade clients with the implementation of Brocade SAN Fabrics
• Provide configuration templates and configuration guides for implementation of new directors as well as upgrade of existing directors.
• Subject Matter Expert Brocade Network Advisor
• Subject Matter Expert Brocade Fabric Vision.
• Subject Matter Expert MAPSDB and FLOW Vision
• Assist clients in performing regular SAN Health Checks
• Assist clients with end-to-end fabric monitoring
• Travel to client sites to assist EMC with initial install and configuration of new directors.
• Perform pre-install testing and runbooks for fabric implementation and upgrades.
• Install/configure one (1) new IBM Storwize v5000.
• Install/configure two (2) new SAN24B-4 (Brocade 300E) SAN Switches.
• Configure zoning on two (2) new SAN24B-4 SAN (Brocade 300E) Switches to match server/storage environment (SVC to be de-commissioned no longer used).
• Connect existing DS4700 storage into new SAN Switches.
• Configure existing DS4700 storage behind the v5000 as virtualized LUNs.
• Configure connectivity/LUN access of existing BladeCenter through new SAN Switches.
• Migrate 6.5 TB of data (6-8 LUNs) from DS4700 to Integrated SVC/v5000 using the v5000 Migration Tool.
• Validate all servers (1 System P, and up to 3 blades) can access their v5000 LUNs via new SAN Switches.
• Design and configure one (1) new IBM Power8 PowerVM (Dual VIO serving NPIV & 802.1 VLANs).
• Install & configure one (1) new AIX V7.1 NIM server.
• Map SAN Storage to 33 AIX instances.
• Assist in migrating three (3) AIX instances, exclusively using the IBM Storwize V5000 storage, to the new Power8 server.

Confidential, New York, NY

SAN Architect/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAN Admin for steady state support of NBSA account
• Subject Matter Expert for environment
• Problem and Incident resolution using Service Now
• IBM DS8800, XIV, SVC, and N-Series NAS 6240 (7-Mode), Brocade FOS and Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade Fabric Watch, Fabric Vision, and MAPs
• Brocade DCX SAN Directors
• Data OnTap, CDOT, IBM Copy Services (FlashCopy), IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris 8,9, and 10 Global Zones
• CLI on all SAN devices
• IBM TPC for SAN, Disk, and Backup as well as HealthCheck
• IBM SSD Multi-Pathing
• Windows and VMWare native MPIO LPM (LPAR Mobility)
• Perform micro-code and FOS upgrades on Brocade 8510 Directors, SVC Clusters, and NAS Filers.
• Implement IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Sr Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Update DCNM Prime and firmware on Cisco Directors for HCSC environment.
• IBM SAN Volume Controller update and consolidation.
• Environment is EMC VNX, EMC Isilon, IBM DS8870, IBM SVC, and HDS VSP/HUS-150/HUS-VM.
• PROD environment located in Waukegan. DR environment located in Fort Worth, TX
• Replication technologies IBM TPC, TPC-R, Global Mirror and EMC Isilon SyncIQ.

Confidential, Sun Prairie, WI

Sr Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confirm documentation of DR plan for pre- test and actual testing.
• Confirm replication is in place and that mapping of source to target devices is correct.
• Confirm replication of Isilon NAS shares.
• Troubleshoot PowerPath issues on target DR server. Source server located in Atlanta, GA
• Upgrade PowerPath from v5.5 to v6.0
• Server is Solaris 10 zones.
• Replication technologies are Isilon SyncIQ and VPLEX/RecoverPoint.
• Storage for block is EMC VMAX and NAS is Isilon X-Blade.
• Executed successful DR exercise.
• DB Administration Oracle DataPump

Confidential, Madison, WI

Sr Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and document DR plan for testing.
• Determine which replication technologies will be relevant and document failover procedure for each.
• Determine which hosts will need to be activated at DR site, create zones and configure active zoneset on SAN switches.
• Replication technologies include Pure Storage Flash Replication, VPLEX/RecoverPoint, Celerra Replication, Isilon SyncIQ, and Centera Replication.

Environment: Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL Server, HP Blade Centers, UCS Blade Centers, SRM, Pure Storage, EMC VMAX, EMC NS Series, EMC Isilon, and Cisco MDS Director Class Fibre Channel switches. Active/Passive some HA hosts are live.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter migration, datacenter build.
• Migrate current primary site to secondary site, build new DR/secondary site.
• Perform baseline measurements before and afterwards.
• Perform full system backups prior to datacenter relocation.
• Re IP iSeries frames and test connectivity prior to move.
• Use LPAR Mobility (LPM) to virtually migrate LPARs live.
• Minimize the downtime.
• Capacity planning to facilitate data migrations.
• AIX and Wintel IBM H Blade Centers.
• IBM SVC, EMC and associated SAN infrastructure N-NAS, DS4800, DS5300, DS8300, XIV and UCS/EMC vBLOCK/VMAX. XtremIO, and Cisco MDS 9513 Fabric directors.
• IBM TSM for backup including large 3584 tape libraries.
• IBM P Series PowerHA, P570, Power6 570, P595, Power6 595, and P795 .
• IBM AS400 legacy iSeries i520 and i570.
• Migrate large Windows and VMWare ESX environment from IBM storage to EMC VBLOCK/VMAX.
• Upgrade AIX from 5.3 and 6.1 to 7.x
• P2V conversions VMware to reduce footprint in datacenter.
• Fiber channel to FCOE conversions.
• IBM SSD Multi-pathing
• EMC PowerPath
• Documented migration strategy and environment Visio, Excel, and Word.
• Design and architect New Greenfield Environment to be implemented
• Cisco MDS 9710 Directors at both datacenters
• (2) IBM Power 880 at Primary datacenter, update P795 for Power VM environment
• (2) IBM GEN IV XIV, (2) IBM v7000 - SAP and dedicated TSM disk pool at Primary datacenter
• New SVC Clusters
• Flashcopy, Metromirror
• EMC vBLOCK, XtremI/O, DataDomain RecoverPoint, Isilon, and Avamar added to Primary site to implement vPLEX
• IBM Power 870 Power VM at DR site
• IBM GEN IV XIV, IBM v7000 dedicated TSM disk pool at DR site
• New SVC Clusters
• Flashcopy, Metromirror
• EMC vBLOCK, XtremI/O, DataDomain, RecoverPoint, Isilon, and Avamar added to DR site to implement vPLEX

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Thick to thin LUN migration on PROD and DR VMAX.
• Upgrade Veritas Storage Foundation Suite from 4.x to 5.1 on Sun Solaris v9 and v10 Oracle DB servers to facilitate migration.
• Implement FAST-VP. Upgrade OnTap to facilitate NDMP backups.
• Phaseout of legacy Novell and Sun Solaris environments. Move to Active Directory and new Sun hardware or AIX/Linux.
• Evaluate and make design recommendations for consolidation of NAS and mid-tier CX SAN environments (recommendation is to be moved to VMAX and VNX VG8 Gateway).
• VMAX and VNX VG8 Gateway solution is being implemented.
• Evaluate current backup solution and make recommendations for enhancements or new backup and archive solution.
• Design migration from TSM and Data Domain environment to Commvault and Isilon.
• Refresh aging network infrastructure to high speed convergered.
• SAN environment consist two (2) VMAX 20K, two (2) EMC CX4-960, EMC RecoverPoint, two (2) EMC VTL-MF DLM, two (2) NetApp FAS 3040, two (2) Data Domain 880, two (2), IBM TS3584 Tape Libraries, four (4) Cisco MDS 9513 FC Switches, four (4) Cisco 9222i FC Switches.
• Upgraded environment from Cisco MDS9500 GENII series switches to GENIII series switches. Configured FCIP Tunneling for Open Systems and Mainframe SRDF replication.
• EMC SMAS, DPA, EMC SYMCLI, EMC SRDF and TimeFinder, NetApp OPS Manager, NetApp OnTap (C-MODE), NetApp SnapVol and SnapMirror, Cisco Fabric Manager Data Center Edition.
• Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 11g, IBM DB2, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, RHEL5, WIN 2k3/2K8, VMware ESX v4, VMware VDI, Novell, IBM TSM, TKLM, IBM VIO, NIM, and HMC, Veritas Storage Foundation 4x/5x, PowerPath, Veritas DMP, and MPIO.
• IBM Pseries-5, HP DL-380/DL-580.
• Design Implementation of new IBM Pseries-7.
• Design Implementation of new Oracle/Sun T-5000 series servers, Solaris Zones, and Oracle Solaris environment migration.
• Provide Knowledge Transfer and Runbook to Blue Cross Storage Team.

Solutions Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Install/configure Oracle VM Manager for Oracle Linux on Sun x3 servers.
• Install/configure Oracle VM Server for Oracle Linux on Sun x3 servers.
• Create VM’s OS Oracle Linux.
• Configure SSO (Single Sign On) on Oracle Linux
• Configure HAP (Hardware Assisted Paging) on Oracle Linux.
• Configure Connection Manager on Oracle Linux.
• Configure network to use NIC bonding and VLAN Tagging (802.1p).

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design Data Center Buildout for DR replication and testing.
• Design and build environment for replication testing of DB2 and MSSQL databases as well as VMware VDI on NetApp.
• SAN environment consist two (1) VMAX-1 (2) EMC VMAX SE, one (1) Data Domain 890, two (2) Data Domain 690, IBM TS3500, two (2) EMC 5100B FC Switches, two (2) EMC DCX-B, Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco Nexus 7000, EMC MP 7800B and two (2) NetApp FAS 3270.
• EMC SMAS, DPA, NetApp OPS Manager, EMC Connetrix Manager Data Center Edition, Brocade Webtools, IBM VIOS/HMC.
• Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, IBM AIX, WIN 2K3/2K8, ESX v4/5, IBM TSM, TKLM, IBM VIO and HMC.
• HP Proliant DL380 G7, IBM P740.
• Did switch design and configuration and configured MP-7800’s FCIP tunnel for replication from K.C. to Portsmouth.
• Did switch design and configuration and all zoning for all hosts and Data Domain on 5100B’s and EMC DCX-B/Brocade 8510.
• Installed and configured Connectrix Manager DE, ECC, Solutions Enabler, SMAS(SMC), and SPA for PROD and DR VMAX management.
• Install and configuration of PowerPath on hosts. Also ODM filesets on AIX/VIO servers.
• Provisioned storage to AIX, MSSQL, and TSM hosts on VMAX.
• Designed, configured, and implemented SRDF/A for MSSQL and AIX/DB2 on VMAX SE’s and VMAX-1.
• Designed, configured, and implemented FAST VP.