SUMMARY

• Proactive solutions - oriented IT systems management specialist open to challenges in datacenter/enterprise environments using technology products and solutions to meet established business objectives.
• Architecture, implementation & management of high availability cluster & load balancing technology solutions deployed in global enterprise datacenter environments; VMware HA and Windows Enterprise operating systems solutions configured for local and geographic failover.
• Hands-on experience leading all stages of solution development efforts, including defining business requirements, project design, architecture, testing and long-term management and support.
• Mitigation of disaster/failure of mission critical systems, services and applications; Information protection certification; Business continuity, recovery and contingency planning, failover protection and back-out planning.
• Consolidation and optimization of datacenter resources using virtualization technology on VMWare ESX, Virtual Iron and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization solutions.
• Excellent team contributor and proactive independent worker; Outstanding leadership abilities; Superior peer & customer interpersonal communication skill; Organized, well structured and punctual.

Core Competencies:

Planning, architecture, deployment and administration of enterprise storage solutions, Storage Virtualization solutions (IBM SVC), Confidential VMAX and VNX, HP EVA and IBM XIV solutions, core fibre switch infrastructure fabrics, Cisco MDS and Brocade 5000 series; VMware ESX 3.5/4/5, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server, NLB, HA Clusters, Complete Active Directory Architecture, Replication, FSMO; Information Protection Methodology; System & Network Secure Authentication and Encryption Technology; Business Impact Analysis; Disaster Recovery & Contingency Planning; Risk Assessments; Cost Benefit Analysis and Return on Investment detailing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms & Servers: Microsoft Windows® Enterprise class operating systems, Microsoft SQL Server 200x, Microsoft Exchange Server 200x, System Center, DPM, Citrix, ESX/ESXi 2.5/3.5/4/5, vSphere 4.1/5, Virtual Iron, Hyper-V 2/3, Red Hat 5/6 Enterprise, SuSe (SLES) 9/10/11 and other legacy platform interoperability.

Networking & System Communications/Protocols: TCP/IP, OSPF, RIP, SNMP, Active Directory (LDAP), DNS, WINS, IIS, Ethernet, Sonicwall Firewall Solutions, Cisco VPN, Cisco Firewalls, Wireless (WEP/WPA/WPA2), SSH/SSH2, SecureID (RSA token), IPSec, SSL, PGP, PKI, HIPPA (where applicable).

Hardware: IBM SVC, Confidential Symmetrix DMX-4 and V-Max series, Clariion, HP EVA4000, EVA5000 and EVA8000 series, IBM DS4000, DS5000 & DS8000 series, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant & IBM Power servers, Dell PowerConnect & HP ProCurve network switches, Brocade/McData/Cisco fibre switches, Dell, Confidential, EqualLogic & Lefthand iSCSI storage solutions, Dell & HP NAS.

Tools: /Apps: Confidential Control Center, PowerPath, SRDF (Symmetrix), TimeFinder, IBM Tivoli TSM, Veritas Backup Exec & NetBackup, application platform support, corporate reporting, projection and analyzing, and audit and compliance tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Enterprise Virtualization and Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management of Storage Architecture and Engineering planning, projects and tasks
• Facilitate datacenter production LUN snapshots, cloning, hot migrations and optimized provisioning
• Assist in Implementation of new Confidential VNX 5300, allocation and disk and storage pool configs

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sr. SAN Storage Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architect production run book and high-level operations procedures and documentation for Accenture's Production Confidential Symmetrix VMAX Storage solutions, engineered down to an operations level. Documentation for administration, troubleshooting and optimization of SRDF, FAST, Thin Pool Optimization, etc.
• On-site consultant technology specialist for Confidential 's Accenture Account for duration of project term.
• Other high-level Symmetrix VMAX configuration and change tasks as requested by Accenture's on-site Storage Team Manager/Director.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Sr. SAN Storage Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Management of Storage Architecture and Engineering planning, projects and tasks
• Facilitate datacenter production LUN snapshots, cloning, hot migrations and optimized provisioning
• Implement new HP EVA4400, expansion disk shelves, patching fiber loops and enterprise data migrations

Confidential, Sharonville, Ohio

Director of Storage & Systems Engineering Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Management of Systems Engineering projects and tasks
• Facilitate datacenter production environment backups and disaster recovery planning
• Administration and optimization of Active Directory 2008 Infrastructure

Confidential, West Chester, Ohio

Sr. Infrastructure/Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management and day-to-day administration of production storage sub-systems and fibre infrastructure; including the following storage systems (Petabytes of critical production corporate data): HP EVA 4000/8000 series, HP EVA 5000 series, IBM DS 4x00/8x00 series, Confidential Symmetrix DMX line, Clarion and IBM SVC and appliances, vendor best practices and storage architecture, planning and deployments.
• Zoning, port configs, production fabric configuration of HP Storageworks 4/64 SAN Switch, Brocade 5000, Brocade Silkworm 4100, IBM Totalstorage SAN32M-2, Confidential DS-24M2, McData Sphereon 4700 and Cisco Switch fabrics.
• Inter-site data replication across WAN utilizing Riverbed WAN acceleration, Confidential SRDF, TimeFinder, SnapView, MirrorView, Global Mirror, Data Domain da-deduplication and replication.
• End to End management and administration of High Availability VMware ESX 3.5 cluster virtualization environment hosting 120+ virtual servers.
• Lead project management in upgrade migration from NetBackup 5.1 (MP7) to NetBackup 6.5
• Data backups and disaster recovery contingency via administration of NetBackup 6.5.3 environment utilizing NetBackup SSO (Shared Storage) interconnecting Quantum Scalar i2000 and i500 enterprise tape libraries containing LTO fibre-optic tape drives and Brocade switch fabric.

Confidential, Blue Ash, Ohio

Sr. Systems & Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Research datacenter DR solutions utilizing virtualization and Riverbed WAN acceleration solutions
• Configuration and Maintenance on Confidential SAN, Silkworm Fibre Switch and iSCSI central storage solutions
• Planned, Implemented and deployed complete production Active Directory environment for EMT
• Plan, Implement, upgrade, and Manage Net Backup 6 (MP4) from 5.1 (MP5)
• Spec Host hardware for HA virtualization solutions; Virtual Iron, VMWare ESX 3.0.2 up, Virtual Server 2005 R2

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Sr.SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• After hours maintenance, provisioning of storage, and zoning configurations for Confidential Clariion and Symmetrix DMX family storage frames, as well as assist in running new fibre under raised floor in datacenter.
• Data replication for geographic datacenter failover via Confidential Symmetrix SRDF service and SMC management console.