SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years experience in the Information Technology industry, with a strong emphasis on architecture, design, pre sales, administration and project management.
• Strong knowledge of Storage, High Availability, Security, Backup, Business Continuity, Fiber Channel, SCSI
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, leadership and organizational skills.SAN Hardware and Software
• Brocade DCX, DCX4s, 48000, 24000, 7600 and McData 6140, i10k
• FC and FCIP Routing, Adaptive Networking
• EFCM, DCFM, Web Tools, Fabric Watch
• CISCO MDS 9000, CISCO DCNM
• Confidential SVC, DS8000, V7000, XIV, DS5x00, DS4x00, storage subsystems
• Confidential TPC, TPC - R, TotalStorage, Storage Manager, XIVGUI, SVC GUI/cli, dscli, csmcli
• Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror using SVC, dscli and TPC-R
• VMAX, EMC DMX2, DMX3, DMX4, Clariion CX700, CX340, CX412, Centera Gen 2-4,
• EMC Control Center, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Navisphere, Centera Tools, Solution Enabler
• SRDF, SRDFA, Time Finder, using symcli and EMC Control Center
• Confidential VSP, USPV and ASM 2500 storage subsystems
• Confidential Storage Navigator, Device Manager, Dynamic Tiering Manager, Replication Manager, Tuning Manager
• Shadow Image, True copy using HORCM or Replication Manager
• Storage archiving using DiskXtender, EmailXtender and CommVaultIndustry s &
• Legato DiskXtender 2000 for Windows 2000
• Legato-NetWorker 5.x for UNIX Administrator
• SUN Microsystems Workgroup computing
• SUN Microsystems Enterprise computing
• Microsoft Certified System Engineer + Internet M.C.S.E. + I
• Copy Services, Toronto, ON
• SVC Planning and Implementation, Toronto, ON
• TPC, Toronto, ON
• EMC Host to Storage SAN Connectivity, Toronto, ON
• CAS Management Centera, Toronto, ON
• Clariion Management and Host Integration, Toronto, ON
• CISCO MDS9000 Configuration and Troubleshooting, Ottawa, ON
• EMC Time Finder and SRDF, Chicago, IL
• EMC Celerra NAS Operations and Management, Denver, CO
• EMC Symmetrix performance using EMC ControlCenter, Dallas, TX
• ECC Control Center Management, Toronto, ON
• CommVault Galaxy Administration, Ottawa, ON
• SOLARIS, basic and advanced administration; EDS University, Calgary
• Cisco Routers ; SAIT, Calgary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Providing architecture, engineering and support for Confidential Clients
• Designing and building storage solutions with consideration for overall strategy, installation, setup, data migration and administration, continuously striving to provide highly available and efficient storage solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, standards and best practices to infrastructure teams during infrastructure design and build phases of initiatives/projects
• Managing and implementing large scale data migrations and fabric refreshes
• Analyzing SAN performance, recommending options and implementing solutions
• Analyzing metrics to identify trends and make recommendations to improve operations
• Ability to exercise good judgment and make sound business decisions to gain consensus in a diverse environment
• Refining business requirements, converting them to technical requirements and devising an appropriate infrastructure solution requires choosing from multiple technologies and ensuring that solutions stay within the guidelines of security/audit standards and conform to industry best practice
• Design and test emerging hardware and infrastructure software solutions.
• Developing and improving Data Migration services and processes
• Creating and developing new service offerings for Confidential Clients

Confidential

Storage Consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Providing design, engineering and 3rd level support for Confidential Clients Storage environment
• Recommending infrastructure standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise
• Provide technical leadership, standards and best practices to infrastructure teams during infrastructure design and build phases of initiatives/projects
• Managing and implementing large scale data migrations
• Analyzing SAN performance, recommending options and implementing solutions
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions for IT delivery engagements in the form of detailed architecture plans and technical proposals
• Conduct studies regarding system usage, makes recommendations for improvements, and determines infrastructure system requirements.

Confidential

Senior Storage Consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing performance problems and recommending solutions to enhance functionality and reliability
• Analyzing metrics to identify trends and make recommendations to improve operations
• Recommending infrastructure standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise
• Provide technical leadership, standards and best practices to infrastructure teams during infrastructure design and build phases of initiatives/projects
• Managing and implementing fabric and data migrations
• Working with vendors to evaluate, select, price and configure software, hardware and services required for solution
• Maintaining and enhancing documentation for SAN hardware, software, and firmware as it relates to configurations, changes, problems, standards, procedures, and processes
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions for IT delivery engagements in the form of detailed architecture plans and technical proposals

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Providing architecture, engineering and support for Confidential SAN environment
• Leading team of 12 Storage Engineers
• Managing and implementing large scale data migrations and fabric refreshes
• Provide technical leadership, standards and best practices to infrastructure teams during infrastructure design and build phases of initiatives/projects.
• Determine standards and roadmaps for hardware and software. Decide how infrastructure is built and recommends infrastructure standards for organization wide initiatives based on area of expertise.
• Conduct major studies regarding system usage, makes recommendations for improvements, and determines infrastructure system requirements.
• Refining business requirements, converting them to technical requirements and devising an appropriate infrastructure solution requires choosing from multiple technologies and ensuring that solutions stay within the guidelines of security/audit standards and conform to industry best practice.
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions for IT delivery engagements in the form of detailed architecture plans and technical proposals
• Working with vendors to evaluate, select, price and configure software, hardware and services required for solution
• Matching workload and resource skill to optimize SAN resource usage

Confidential

SAN and UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAN architecture and administration on Windows and UNIX platforms
• Managing large scale Fabric Migrations
• Acting as a liaison between the customer, suppliers, and other technical groups on technical and business-process level
• Ability to articulate complex technical solutions for IT delivery engagements in the form of detailed architecture plans and technical proposals
• Participating on project teams in the implementation of new/upgraded designs.
• Implementing operational support standards and procedures relating to change management, performance management, and security.
• Analyzing performance problems and recommending solutions to enhance functionality, reliability and/or usability.
• Implementing operational support standards and procedures relating to change management, performance management, and security.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure architecture, design and implementation for Digidyne’s clients
• Writing detailed business and functional specifications documents for Digidyne’s clients
• Creating and developing new service offerings for Digidyne’s clients
• Server consolidation feasibility study, application suitability assessment, planning and implementation.
• Determining clients’ networking needs followed by configuring, designing, implementing and supporting Digidyne’s Unix (SUN, AIX, HPUX and LINUX) or WINDOWS NT solution.
• Installing and testing networking software and hardware components
• Supporting client software in a Client / Server environment.
• Knowledge of High Availability, Storage, OpenView, Security, Backup & Recovery

Confidential

Network Analyst (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• DNS, DHCP configuration and implementation, as well as TCP/IP network administration
• Cisco routers configuration and implementation
• Modifying and adopting existing software to meet specific needs, as required
• Installing and testing networking software and hardware components
• Diagnosing hardware and related software problems and replacing defective components
• Ensuring that network backups are performed per procedure and performing data recovery as necessary

Confidential

Network Administrator (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Completely responsible for the entire network from day-to-day administration, server builds, upgrades and troubleshooting to software installation, support and capacity planning
• Ensuring that network backups were performed per procedure and performing data recovery as necessary