SUMMARY:

I have consulted on many Hitachi / NetApp / EMC environments, where it is either Heterogeneous or Homogenous Storage Frames in a very large multi - petabyte, multi-fabric, and multi-tiered SATA, SAS, Solid State disk trays. These consultations including storage capacity planning, disk re-alignment, disk optimization, disk recovery / conservation, disk expansion, and disk geometrical computational analysis. My long-range planning and provisioning including LUN planning & provisioning months out to live data, live data transfer from older storage disk & frame to newly configured storage frames & drawers, zone clean up and fabric merger ISL with newer fully-populated FC frame switches Cisco Nexus / UCS and Brocade DC-4 Senior VMware, Security, Encryption, & Storage Engineer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: SQL, JavaScript, PERL, C++, bash/csh scripting, perl, tcl/tk, Expect, Exceed

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris v.10, Linux v.4, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, ESX v.3.5.1

Storage Management Systems: Unisphere, Navisphere, Command 7.5, Storage Volume Controller, Confidential StorageWorks, 3PAR StorServ, Cisco UCS Manager, ioSphere.

Storage Platforms: EMC vPlex, VNX, VMAX, Data Domain Appliance, Avamar Appliance, Recover Point Appliance; Confidential VSP, USP-V, AMS 2500; NetApp Flex Pod, FAS 6500, FAS 3240, FAS 2040 R5; FusionIO; IBM DS8000, DS6000, DS4000, XIV; 3-PAR;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NetApp 8060 Engineering and migration from FAS 3140 & 3270 filers. NetBackup 7.6.1 Execution, creation, and Integration of Transition
• Plan and Run Book in current environment of SAS and Oracle Databases, BUF / DR of Oracle Data using Snap Manager for Oracle.
• Zoning of SAN Fabric in a Cisco Nexus 7000 environment.
• Standing up of Confidential C7000 and MoonShot with vm-ware 6.0.1 + SRM + vCOP + Orchestrator for provisioning of guest operating systems Windows 2012 R2, RHEL 6, Cent OS, Solaris 10 / 11 .

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Senior Storage & vm-ware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, design, provisioning, and day-to-day administration for NetApp FAS8060, Cisco Nexus 7018, Confidential C7000, and Oracle / SUN Exadata devices for a major migration effort.
• VMWware vCOP dashboard configuration and interpretation
• Storage Capacity, Recovery, & Planning in a mixed Storage Environment of NetApp, Hitachi, EMC Isilon, VMAX and VPLEX, FusionIO, and IBM XIV using VMware vCOP v.5.2.
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration

Confidential, Rockville, MD

VMware 5.1 & EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning of LUNs in an EMC Isilon, VMAX array for ESX datastores & FusionIO SSD array for VDI, “soft” zoning of 24-port Brocade Fabric Switch, and Installation / Configuration of Confidential Blade Chassis C7000 full length Windows Server 2012 R2 with RFS & RHEL 7 in a VMware 5.1 ESX multi-node cluster running SRM & vmotion. vCloud Automation Center 5.1 & vRealize implementation, configuration, and roll-out. Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning of Storage Arrays & LUNs with Command 7.5 and Storage Fabric with Brocade Fabric Manager.
• Commissioning of Storage Groups & Volumes for ESX 5.5 servers, Blade servers, Solaris & Linux bare metal servers all with dual HBAs and Multi-path enabled from the LDEV-to-Fabric-to-HBA.
• Storage // Volume Wide Area and in-frame replication & duplication True-Copy & Data-duplicator II .
• Confidential Device Manager & Tuning Manager for optimization and reporting statistics for Storage Processors, LUNs, & Frames. vCloud Automation Center 5.1 integration and storage optimization.
• Endurix Staffing 170 hour contract with Unisys for Confidential remote SolarWinds Storage Manager July to September
• Installation and configuration of Storage Manager upon vCenter, EMC Isilon VNX, & VNXe storage frames
• Reporting of storage utilization, file types and ageing, cpu & resource over-subscription, CIFS file shares

Confidential

Lead EMC Storage // Virtualization and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Installation of Storage virtualization for EMC Isilon VPLEX, VMAX, and VNX storage arrays and data migration from older EMC storage frames.
• VMware Optimization and p2v conversions of over 1500 physical machines Windows & RHEL vCloud Automation Center 5.1 implementation, configuration, and roll-out vCenter Operations Manager, VMware vFabric Hyperic, and VMware vFabric AppInsight
• Data Domain Installation & Configuration Confidential 25 sites and Recover Point replication appliance set up and configuration for 1 local and 2 global sites with Global Object replication enabled
• Symantec Netbackup v.7.5.2 Media client installation and configuration with Storage Tek LTO-5 tape vault and data domain VTL
• Integrated & applied data domain & UniSphere log-ins & zoning configuration with Storage Domain
• Cleversafe Object Data Replication set up and configuration in a failsafe mode to Data Domain / Avamar. Recover Point in-frame & out-of-frame data duplication
• EMC Avamar Configuration & Administration for 18 PB of EMC storage & 24 remote sites.
• EMC ViPR Hyper-scale data object storage provisioning test phase - not customer accepted encipher HSM 9000 encryption appliance installation & configuration & verification
• Cisco Nexus 7000 // MDX 9000 series FCip WAN SAN replication setup, install, & configuration
• SANScreen™ Installation and BMC CMDB ATRIUM Integration for database & application monitoring for both physical & VMs machines
• SANSCreen™ Administration and Optimization for Service Assurance, Application Insight, VM Insight, vRealize, and Service Insight.
• Standardized—Homogeneous infrastructure delivered across pools of standard x86 hardware & Vmware ESX 5.01 host
• Cloud platform optimized for the entire datacenter fabric
• Configured automated management framework to execute complex and brittle scripting, for cloud-scale operations against database and web servers.
• Resiliency Testing to ensure software-based architecture compensated for failing hardware
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration

Senior Storage Data Migration SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oracle iStore and Configurator
• Zpool mirror creation and confirmation bash scripting Confidential & Confidential
• OBP firmware update v890 Confidential & Confidential
• Acquire, Asses, catalog, & organize all volumes, volume groups, & LUNs to be migrated
• Gain access to old and new storage controllers, and fabric switches
• Confirm the source & target LUNs are in the same soft zone. If not, re-zone accordingly
• Access any in-house third party or vendor tools to observe and gather empirical evidence of flow rate
• Map all of the source and target data volumes & LUNS
• Verify one or more data volumes / LUNs being transferred with Confidential
• Fine tune and debug any issues with Confidential, especially related to open databases and any specialized scripting upon the database engine quiescent script
• Begin the entire one-time move of all LUNS
• Verify the data integrity of the LUNS after copy
• Remap the host to the new LUNs
• Verify the new mounts and associated new LUN masks are working properly
• Decommission the old storage array
• Clean up the zones on the fabric switch
• Finalize with “Customer Acceptance Testing” for the new SAN equipment / LUNs
• Confidential VSP Command Center v.7.00.1 and Data Duplicator2 configuration and LUN copy migration
• Oracle RMAN /DBA and Confidential ShadowImage integration and Unix scripting for database cloning and replication

Confidential

Senior Storage, Security, & Unix / Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrate data LUNS using Snap Mirror for Exchange
• Zoning of Cisco FC switches inside Confidential Rack / C7000 Chassis to Cisco Nexus 5000 series
• VLAN configuration of the C7000 full length blades
• Presentation of LUNS to the C7000 blades
• Setup, configuration, job scheduling of backup StorageTEK tape drives LTO-5 using CommVault Simpana v.9.0.R2
• Government Acceptance Unit / White Box testing and acceptance
• RHEL OpenLDAP setup, installation, configuration and integration with Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory 36 full-length Confidential blade OS Kernel build outs of RHEL & Windows
• SANScreen™ Installation and BMC CMDB ATRIUM Integration for database & application monitoring for both physical & VMs machines
• SANSCreen™ Administration and Optimization for Service Assurance, Application Insight, VM Insight, and Service Insight.
• Performed real-world deployment and scripting experience leveraging Confidential ’s XP line of SAN equipment
• Performed extensive scripting to extract data, relationships, or executing commands to manage SAN storage and day-to-day provisioning
• Experience in writing scripts for web or REST services
• Disk and LUN re-alignment
• Data migration from FC disk to SAS disk using CommVault migration tool
• 1 GB copper to 10 GB Fiber net migration
• Current back up scheduler monitoring and new back up job provisioning
• Storage Provisioning on FAS3270
• Additional Storage Fabric and Storage Tray add ons
• Disaster drills and weekend on-call
• Integration and Unit Testing Grey Box and DoDAF framework user-ability testing & script automation of testing modules
• Administered & build out of 24 RHEL & Ubuntu linux servers for data ingest & data base servers Oracle & mySQL
• Installation and BMC CMDB ATRIUM Integration for database & application monitoring for both physical & VMs machines
• Administration and Optimization for Service Assurance, Application Insight, VM Insight, and Service Insight. vCenter Operations Manager, vRealize, VMware vFabric Hyperic, and VMware vFabric AppInsight

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Storage & Security Architect // Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Capture and Risk Mitigation
• Physical setup, cabling, zoning, phone home, Active Directory, clustering, and Configuration of Confidential 38000 NAS filers & Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
• Virtualized 3PAR Storage with Confidential NAS filer and LUN carving
• Prepping for LUN transfer
• Double-take Enterprise Version for LUN & Volume transfer of data luns from “old” EMC filer to Confidential / 3PAR configuration
• User Acceptance Testing & White Box methods for UAT / CAT testing & perl script automation for data load simulation against FCoE WAN replication
• Performed real-world deployment and scripting experience leveraging Confidential ’s XP line of SAN equipment
• Performed extensive scripting to extract data, relationships, or executing commands to manage SAN storage and day-to-day provisioning
• Experience in writing scripts for web or REST services
• Performed real-world deployment and scripting experience leveraging Confidential ’s XP line of SAN equipment
• Performed extensive scripting to extract data, relationships, or executing commands to manage SAN storage and day-to-day provisioning
• Experience in writing scripts for web or REST services

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Lead Storage Engineer & PKI / LDAP RHEL Security & Ecryption Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Storage Frame Optimization, Storage Administration LUN masking, fiber channel zoning, LUN creation, file system laydowns, & LUN presentation and QoS systems enhancements for EMC CX3-10 migration to Confidential HSV 300 Blade Chassis & P6000 storage frames. RHEL Enterprise LDAP server administration and PKI x.509 certificate CA server Administration.
• Confidential Blade Chassis & Storage HSV 300 Subsystem w/FC450 GB 10 drawers migration, set up, configuration, and build outs.
• CleverSafe dsNET Manager 2100, Accesser 2100, & SliceStore 2210 setup, configuration, and administration for multi-site RAID Disaster Recovery total solution.
• Brocade Silkworm 4100-32 port 2/4GB FC fabric administration zone creation, zone delete, zoning & port aliasing, etc. . Installation and stand-up of over 48 RHEL 6.0 Linux servers on 3 Confidential UCS Blade systems and configured Confidential Blade Chassis’ network and fabric profiles. RHEL open LDAP v.6 & v.7.x Server Installation & schema // ldif verification & import. Black Box Government Acceptance Testing & user module builds & scripts for automatic LDAP schema WAN replication & LUN WAN replication traffic flows.
• Isilon OneFS CIFS & NFS shares exports, global permissions, iSCSI replication enablement and configuration

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

VMware & RHEL / CentOS Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, testing, and full integration of Security Blanket, tripwire, splunk v.4.3, Operations Manager, Hyper9, & other NetApp tools for the complete over-haul of FAS2040 40 VM environment, 80 additional P-2-Vs, security hardening to FISMA, DCID 6/3, JAFAN 6/3, NISPROM Chapter 8, NSA Secure Configuration, & SANS LAMP configuration and model using Security Blanket for CENT OS & RHEL 5 unix servers.
• Installed 4 additional storage trays and stood up 2-6200 NetApp controllers along with 2 brocade DCX-4s. NetApp oNTaP 8.0.1 SNAP Manager Suite of tools utilization; snapmirror, snapdrive, SyncMirror, snapvault, snapclone, & snapprotect for backup & DR hotsite recovery
• . Migration from MS SQL 2005 lite to SQL 2008 Enterprise with clustering for VCenter database. Stood up from iso into ESX / VMware 4.0.1 environment CENT OS 6.0 and RHEL 5.0.1 using Vcenter tools.
• Placed RHEL unix hosts into “clustered” environment using Vcenter // Vmware tool for clustering & cpu “throttle” control, Red Hat Satellite Server automation for downloading of patches, and perl scripting for log rotation. Windows 2008 R2 64 bit VM stand ups & Exchange 2010 cluster set up, configuration, & tuning with BlackBerry integration & add-on. Active Directory schema & security profile checks for a new “virtual server forest” that I created.
• Stood up and performed “dash boarding” comparison between CapacityIQ vs. vkernel vs. Solar Wind appliances to help “optimize” the current infrastructure and VMs to a “best fit” scenario.
• I have executed “planning & acceptance procedures” for “Customer // Government Acceptance Testing” for the physical-to-virtual conversion which were validated and accepted by the customer upon review. I have also upgraded the virtual infrastructure from ESX 4.1 Enterprise with SRM to VMware Vsphere version 5.0.1 & Site Recovery Manager 5.0 for business continuity. NetApp FAS2040R5 firmware updates & phone home configuration
• Government Acceptance Testing GAT Grey & White Box methods for virtual machine replication & disaster failover testing vmotion & SRM as the engine of choice . HA, vmotion, SRM, & DRS optimization for vSphere 5.0 & 4.1. Create, analyze, and manage resource pools, virtual clusters, alert structures, security groups, permissions, vm templates, virtual networks. SnapManager for Oracle
• VMware vCloud provided technical expertise in the building out cloud infrastructure:
• Standardized—Homogeneous infrastructure delivered across pools of standard x86 hardware & Vmware ESX 5.01 host
• Cloud platform optimized for the entire datacenter fabric
• Configured automated management framework to execute complex and brittle scripting, for cloud-scale operations against database and web servers.
• Resiliency Testing to ensure software-based architecture compensated for failing hardware

Senior Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration LUN provisioning, and Administration for Confidential AMS 2500 & USP V, NetApp FAS 6000, Brocade DCX-4, Storage Tek Tape Library, & replication for DR/BUF // media servers for a 2 PB SAN array having over 300 LUNS. Storage Virtualization using Confidential Storage Navigator, Confidential HiTrack, Confidential Tiered Storage Manager, Confidential VSP, and Device Manager.
• I performed volume migration through the use of custom tiering using Tiered Storage Manager. I enabled storage system and storage semantics with higher-level application data quality of service (QoS) metrics and customer-definable storage tiers (custom tiers). I enabled performance optimization through integration with Confidential Tuning Manager software. I realigned application storage allocations. I managed volume locations relative to an application’s minimum requirements. Performed build migration groups and custom tiers. I enabled performance monitor software which allowed one to see performance within the storage system. BOSS & OnTap v.7.x configuration to enable phone-home feature & system diagnostics, firmware updates, disk-to-FC channel assignments.
• I used Storage Navigator LUN Management software for configuration management to define, configure, add, delete, expand, revise and reassign LUNs to specific paths dynamically. I performed SAN Security LUN Masking to ensure security in open systems storage area networking environments through restricted server access. I performed replication Setup and Management feature to provide basic configuration and management of Confidential ShadowImage®, Copy-on-Write and TrueCopy® mirrored pairs. Performed Modular Volume Migration to enabled dynamic data migration.
• I made active use of Confidential Cache Residency Manager feature allows you to "lock" and "unlock" data into cache in real time to optimize access to your most frequently accessed data and Confidential Cache Partition Manager feature allows partitioning of the cache by the application to improve performance. I used and performed dynamic addition of HDDs to a RAID Group, System Maintenance for online controller microcode updates and other system maintenance functions, and SNMP Agent support includes Confidential specific MIBs and enables SNMP-based reporting on status and alerts for Confidential storage systems via e-mail
• Oracle RMAN /DBA and Confidential ShadowImage integration and Unix scripting for database cloning and replication with multiple Oracle database instances. SnapManager for Oracle
• Symantec NetBackup v.7.0.1 installation, setup, & configuration, NBU Installation & Configuration, NBU Implementation, Design and Architecture Implementation, Network Data Management Protocol configuration and tuning, Domains, NFS, AIX, Windows 2008 R2 64 bit
• Setup Media Server on a Windows 2008 R2 64 host with HBA to address 5 LTO-5 LUNS in a Storage Tek Tape Library
• Performed DR site recovery and backup dump installation & configuration utilizing ONTAP 7.0G flexvol, snapmirror, & snapvault SnapManager per delta on a daily basis for GroupWise post offices & core data dumps upon a FAS6200 over iSCSI.
• Stood up 24 RHEL Linux OS kernels in a Confidential Blade Chassis. Installed and configured GroupWise post offices 9 and associated GroupWise Middle-ware servers.
• Performed real-world deployment and scripting experience leveraging Confidential ’s XP & HSV line of SAN equipment
• Performed extensive scripting to extract data, relationships, or executing commands to manage SAN storage and day-to-day provisioning
• Experience in writing scripts for web or REST services
• Virtualization & Storage Engineer moved onto a new opportunity
• LUN creation & presentation to hosts from SAN Fabric DS5000 // DS8000 vKernel installation & configuration for LUN storage optimization
• VMware View 6.5 & 7.0 Installation & testing for single & multiple VMs vCenter Operations Manager, VMware vFabric Hyperic, and VMware vFabric AppInsight
• LPAR creation & installation for AIX Power 7, AIX 5.3, RHEL 6+ VIO, VIM, NIM, WPAR, LPAR, etc.
• ISS Secure Cloudburst Appliance installation & configuration
• IBM Intel/AMD Blade Server setup, configuration, & Virtualization
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Setup and Configuration for vSAN & SAN
• Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) Enterprise set up & administration
• Tivoli Storage Manager v.6.0.1 setup, updates, configuration, and administration
• VMware VMotion & Site Recovery Manager configuration & continuity stress testing for DR // BUF site
• HA, vmotion, SRM, & DRS optimization for vSphere 4.1. Create, analyze, and manage resource pools, virtual clusters, alert structures, security groups, permissions, vm templates, virtual networks.
• FlashCopy TSM backup of all active, cloned, & copied VMs Confidential prime & remote sites
• VMware Lab Manager & Vkernel installation, configuration, and implementation for configuration management and server rollouts of Windows 2008 & RHEL Linux servers. Performed 210 P-2-V conversions using Vcenter tool. I have executed “planning & acceptance procedures” for “Customer // Government Acceptance Testing” for the physical-to-virtual conversion which were validated and accepted by the customer upon review. I have also provided installation & administration support for the entire suite of Tivoli products listed below:
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb)
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems (TAMOS) - controls access to operating system resources
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAMESSO)
• Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
• I have installed, configured, and administered Tivoli Access Manager to provide policy-based security. I have tuned & provide macros, scripts, and module plug-ins for TAMeb in order to provide authentication of users, control of access privileges, auditing, single sign-on, high availability, and logging.
• I have provided TIM integration and installation for centralized identity lifecycle management to automatically create, manage, and delete user access to various system resources such as files, servers, applications, and more based on job roles or request
• Baseline comparison with competitor’s product lines in the SAN arena with SAN fabrics built up using Confidential Integrity RX8640, Confidential P4000 G2 SAN, and Confidential LeftHand iSCSI SAN P9500 platform with associated Confidential HyperVisor running Confidential -UX guest OSes.
• Performed over 30 “fresh” installations of Windows 2008 R2 and 40 RHEL 5.x server installation in an IBM Blade Chassis 4 with associated application & middleware installs.
• I have also performed data modeling & “dash boarding” using Rational Clear Case // Rose and Tivoli Enterprise Management Suite
• Configuration guidelines and best practices for both hetro and homogenous Storage controllers
• Live updates in IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
• SAN topology and layout
• SAN Volume Controller clustered filesystem layout and configuration
• Back-end storage best practices and workflow execution
• Storage pools and managed disks layout and configuration
• Volumes: creation, expansion, quota management, and deletion
• Remote copy services over Wide-Area-Network
• Hosts visibility for AIX, UNIX, and Window Server Systems
• Performance best practices
• Performancemetrics for SAN Volume Controller V6.2
• Back-end storage performance considerations per disk type and geometry
• IBM System Storage Easy Tier function integration solid state to SATA to SAS
• Management, monitoring, & troubleshooting of Easy Tier
• IBM HMC AIX pSeries 570 AIX LPAR server provisioning & administration on DS8000
• LPAR creation & installation for AIX Power 7, AIX 5.3, RHEL 6+ VIO, VIM, NIM, WPAR, LPAR, etc.
• VMware // ESX Server provisioning for RHEL 5 & Windows 2003 vCenter Operations Manager, VMware vFabric Hyperic, and VMware vFabric AppInsight
• VMware View 6.5 & 7.0 Installation & testing for single & multiple VMs
• HA, vmotion, SRM, & DRS optimization for vSphere 4.1. Create, analyze, and manage resource pools, virtual clusters, alert structures, security groups, permissions, vm templates, virtual networks.
• Cisco PIX, VPN, Nexus 7000 Administration & Administration
• Ghost 2.5.x provisioning for TEC “Proof of Technology // Concepts”
• Installation, Configuration, & Administration of Datapower & Cloudburst Appliances
• IBM Intel/AMD Blade Server setup, configuration, & Virtualization
• Tivoli Storage Manager v.6.0.1 setup, updates, configuration, and administration
• VMware VMotion & Site Recovery Manager configuration & continuity stress testing for DR // BUF site
• FlashCopy TSM backup of all active, cloned, & copied VMs Confidential prime & remote sites
• VMware Lab Manager & Vkernel installation, configuration, and implementation
• I have also provided installation & administration support for the entire suite of Tivoli products listed below:
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAMeb)
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems (TAMOS) - controls access to operating system resources
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAMESSO)
• Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
• I have installed, configured, and administered Tivoli Access Manager to provide policy-based security. I have tuned & provide macros, scripts, and module plug-ins for TAMeb in order to provide authentication of users, control of access privileges, auditing, single sign-on, high availability, and logging.
• I have provided TIM integration and installation for centralized identity lifecycle management to automatically create, manage, and delete user access to various system resources such as files, servers, applications, and more based on job roles or request
• Configuration guidelines and best practices for both hetro and homogenous Storage controllers
• Live updates in IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
• SAN topology and layout
• SAN Volume Controller clustered filesystem layout and configuration
• Back-end storage best practices and workflow execution
• Storage pools and managed disks layout and configuration
• Volumes: creation, expansion, quota management, and deletion
• Remote copy services over Wide-Area-Network
• Hosts visability for AIX, UNIX, and Window Server Systems
• Performance best practices
• Performancemetrics for SAN Volume Controller V6.2
• Back-end storage performance considerations per disk type and geometry
• IBM System Storage Easy Tier function integration solid state to SATA to SAS
• Management, monitoring, & troubleshooting of Easy Tier
• Served as the primary Backup & Storage Administrator in NCR UNIX & Solaris 2.9 Server environment on a contract Confidential OSHA.
• Implemented & Tested Splunk 3.2.4 log server solution to parse log files
• OpenLDAP on a RHEL v.4.x host for FISMA Unix security compliance.
• Windows 2008 R2 64 bit VM stand ups & Exchange 2010 cluster set up, configuration, & tuning with BlackBerry integration & add-on.

Senior VMWare & Storage Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• EMC CX4 setup, installation, and configuration upon a DELL Intel/AMD based BLADE chassis.
• Installation, configuration, and integration of Storage Optimization tools
• Pano Logic Virtual Desktop setup, installation, integration
• VMWare // ESX 3.5.x
• Virtual Security tools setup, installation, and configuration
• Consolidation of 14 RSA divisions into a “single VM environment” duplicating such applications as Deltek Enterprise Project Management, and Deltek Costpoint® snapshot, test, clone, & re-test AND BUF // DR with VMotion
• Tivoli Storage Manager v.6.0.1 setup, updates, configuration, and administration
• VMware VMotion & Site Recovery Manager configuration & continuity stress testing for DR // BUF site
• FlashCopy TSM backup of all active, cloned, & copied VMs Confidential prime & remote sites
• VMware Lab Manager & Vkernel installation, configuration, and implementation

Senior Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior Storage Engineer responsible for maintenance, repair, upgrade, and administration of 2 EMC iSCSI AX150i NAS that provide storage services for RSA and its over 30 offices, and it’s over 4500 users in a mixed Unix and Windows environment using CIFS and NFS structures using over 8 terabytes of disk storage.
• Monitoring user and organizational share quotas and adjusting storage space.
• Configuring, scheduling, and monitoring SnapMirror VTL operations between filers. Adjusting disk space per user requests, adding, removing, and adjusting luns. Also responsible for backup and restoration of data using Veritas NetBackup and Backup Express.
• Scheduling and monitoring backups and restores. Maintaining 5 separate tape libraries and 2 virtual tape, disk storage devices. Backup and restorations of data spanning over 300 servers.
• ESX Server v.3.5.1 installation and configuration with over 18 RHEL 4 & 5 domains 300 P-2-Vs . I have executed “planning & acceptance procedures” for “Customer // Government Acceptance Testing” for the physical-to-virtual conversion which were validated and accepted by the customer upon review.
• Tivoli Storage Manager v.6.0.1 setup, updates, configuration, and administration
• VMware VMotion & Site Recovery Manager configuration & continuity stress testing for DR // BUF site
• FlashCopy TSM backup of all active, cloned, & copied VMs Confidential prime & remote sites
• VMware Lab Manager & Vkernel installation, configuration, and implementation
• Implemented & Tested Splunk 3.1.7 log server solution to parse log files
• Windows 2008 R2 64 bit VM stand ups & Exchange 2010 cluster set up, configuration, & tuning with BlackBerry integration & add-on.

Senior Storage/System Administrator

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Responsibilities:

• Primary SAN administrator of over 48TB of storage space. Monitored disk space usage of Confidential EVA 4100. Allocated space, zoning via Brocade switches, adding luns for virtual disk usage. Setup, monitor, trouble shoot on tape libraries, VTL, and associated software and equipment. Schedule and monitor daily and weekly backups on over 50 servers.
• Provide backup strategy and regimen including troubleshooting and restoration of applications, servers and user-shares to full operating status. Provide support for the administration of servers and the uploading of patches and fixes, including on-going IAVA and anti-virus compliance.
• Provide support and guidance for the daily administration of the servers and OS equipment in a Windows 2003/ Active Directory environment. Stood up new primary & backup domain directory for SAN boot environment in Intransitive Trust relationship.
• Solaris 2.9 & 2.10 design of zones & virtual environments.
• CommVault Simpana v.8.x Administration, journal job scheduling, and tape backup monitoring restores, replace, dumps, etc.
• EMC Symetrix SAN boot for UNIX & Windows 2K3. Active Directory integration & security auditing compliance SOX . VMWare XEN Technologies, RHE Linux v.4.0.1,
• ESX Server implementation v.3.5.0, integration, & day-to-day administration.
• RHN Satellite Server v.4.1.0 tasks included: Security — maintained an end-to-end secure connection is maintained from the client systems to the RHN Satellite Server without connecting to the public Internet. Packages delivery over a local area network. Controlled clients' System Profiles as stored on the local RHN Satellite Server. Customized updates for automated package delivery system for custom software packages as required by client systems, as well as Red Hat packages. Access control for system administrators for restricted to access only those systems within their maintenance responsibilities.
• Confidential Universal Storage Platform™ VM: Virtualization of storage from Confidential and other vendors into one pool. Thin provisioning through Confidential Dynamic Provisioning for nondisruptive volume expansion. Security services, business continuity services and content management services configuration & installation. Load balancing to improve application performance Non-disruptive dynamic data migration from Confidential and other storage systems
• Tivoli Storage Manager v.6.0.1 setup, updates, configuration, and administration
• VMware VMotion & Site Recovery Manager configuration & continuity stress testing for DR // BUF site
• FlashCopy TSM backup of all active, cloned, & copied VMs Confidential prime & remote sites
• VMware Lab Manager & Vkernel installation, configuration, and implementation
• VAX/Alpha equipment maintenance and repair Red book "tear down & repair", HPUX equipment maintenance and repair Red book "tear down & repair"
• DataDomain Appliance Installation, configuration, and Administration
• Oracle RMAN /DBA and Confidential ShadowImage integration and Unix scripting for database cloning and replication