Storage Solutions Engineer Resume Plano, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

I am a high - energy trailblazer with 20 years of broad IT tower experience in storage engineering, network engineering, firewall and security administration, messaging and servers, consulting, training, and IT auditing.
Through a high level of personal integrity, I am able to be influential in modeling the service delivery for all aspects of the infrastructure and cloud computing environment for my employer and customer.
I am a highly respected and valued member of the Tenet Healthcare services account with numerous excellent references at all levels of the organization.
I am former Confidential intelligence with principled strategies for data security and integrity at all times within the IT environment.

Core Competencies

High-Level technical storage design for multi-site communications and disaster planning
Highly effective team leadership, development, and retention methodologies
Project delivery design and optimization
IT process maturity development and auditing
Customer-facing reports and presentations
Budgeting and P&L analysis and management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Storage Delivery Leader

Confidential - Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

I am the primary storage architect for storage communications and connectivity across one of the largest hospital chains in the country.
I work with application and database teams to design and support high reliability systems for Cerner Millennium, Ensemble, Polyserve, PBAR, and numerous other HRO solutions.
I manage an annual capital budget of $20m and a $3m service profit center.
I have implemented and maintain a highly tuned team communication, reporting, and performance structure to reduce costs, improve retention, and improve services delivery.
I developed my team’s “Always On” plan for storage operations globalization and developed the plan to onboard and train global teams for operational delivery.
I resolved budgeting and billing issues plaguing the storage team’s profitability for the Confidential Services account and implemented the project delivery standard modeled by other service delivery teams.
I was the recipient of one of the first Confidential Champion awards for outstanding achievements in FY14

Storage Solutions Engineer

Confidential - Round Rock, TX

Responsibilities:

I worked with Confidential storage engineering to provide reference architecture documentation for our customers on high performance application solutions.
I developed a SQL 2012 tiered load balancing performance best practice whitepaper and a SharePoint 2010 reference architecture paper for our enterprise customers.

Compellent Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I provided disaster recovery planning and testing as well as business continuity procedures.
I managed SAN FC and ISCSI connectivity utilizing Qlogic, Brocade, and Cisco FC switching.
I managed the annual implementation and documentation required for SAS-70 and PCI audits.
I provided SQL 2008 backup solutions and disaster planning for our customers federally audited database systems.

Director of Education

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I managed the training department for this Cisco and CheckPoint partner.
I increased overall annual revenue by 247% and was accordingly promoted and rewarded management of the entire training department.
I established strong vendor relationships and assisted in the development of official training and testing material for CheckPoint.