SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated Information Systems Professional with over 19 years of IS experience. Dedicated and enthusiastic team player with leadership qualities. Able to lead major projects. Proven ability to solve problems, finish assignments, and quickly master complex technical and financial topics. Very good analysis and documentation skills. Seeking a Senior Architect/Engineer position in Information Systems and/or Enterprise Storage.

SKILL:

Solution Design: Requirements gathering, Solution research, Logical design documentation, develop cost models, Develop financial models (TCO, ROI, P&L), Build business case, Present solution, Write Statement Of Work

Storage Design & Support For: Gentran Integration Suite, Manugistics, McAfee EPO, Microsoft BizTalk, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Mimosa NearPoint, SAP BW, SAP ePortal, SAP R/3, Siebel, Symantec Enterprise Vault, IBM MQ Series

Storage Systems: ADIC Tape Libraries, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Centera, EMC CLARiiON, EMC DMX, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar, Hitachi Data Systems AMS, Hitachi Data Systems USP - V, HP Optical Libraries, HP Tape Libraries, Quantum Tape Libraries, IBM Magstar, NetApp FAS, NetApp V-Series, STK Arrays, STK Powderhorn, TI RAMSAN

Storage Networking: Brocade FC Switches, Cisco MDS FC Switches, Emulex HBAs, McData FC Switches, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, QLogic HBAs, QLogic Sansurfer FC Switches

Storage Admin Software: Cisco Device Manager, Cisco Fabric Manager, EMC ControlCenter, EMC NaviCLI, EMC NaviSphere, EMC Unisphere, EMC Powerpath, EMC Replication Manager, EMC SnapView, EMC SymCLI, EMC TimeFinder, EMC Volume Logix, Hitachi HDLM, Hitachi Storage Navigator, NetApp Data ONTAP, NetApp SnapDrive, NetApp SnapManager (Exchange, Oracle, SQL, & VI), NetApp SnapMirror, NetApp SnapVault, Veritas Storage Foundations

Backup Software: CA BrightStor, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Microsoft NTBackup, Syncsort BackupExpress, Symantec (Veritas) BackupExec, Symantec (Veritas) NetBackup, EMC Avamar

Operating Systems: AIX, DOS, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, MVS, OS/2, OS/400, Solaris, Windows (3.x, 9x, NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, 7), VMware ESX

Network Operating Systems: IBM DOSLAN, Novell NetWare, Windows (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008)

Systems: Apple Macintosh, Compaq ProLiant, Dell Poweredge, HP BladeSystems, HP Integrity Servers, NetServers, HP ProLiant Servers, HP BladeSystems, IBM eSeries, IBM pSeries, IBM AS/400, IBM S/390, Sun SunFire Servers, Sun SPARC Enterprise M Servers, VMware Virtual Servers

Network Systems: Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Hubs, Cisco PIX Firewalls, Cisco Routers, F5 BigIP, IBM Bridges, IBM Switches, Linux Firewalls, Proxy Servers, 3Com switches, 3Com Hubs

Networking (Lower-layers): AppleTalk, ARP, ATM, CDP, DLSW+, EIGRP, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ICMP, IPX/SPX, ISDN, L2TP, NetBEUI, OSPF, PPP, PPTP, RIP, RS-232, SNA, Spanning Tree, TCP/IP, Token Ring, VPN

Networking (Upper-layers): BOOTP, DNS, DHCP, FTP. HTTP, LDAP, NetBIOS, NFS, NTP, PKI, POP3, RADIUS, RDP, SMB, SSH, SSL, SMTP, Telnet

Supported Applications: Citrix Presentation Server, Gentran Integration Suite, McAfee EPO, Microsoft BizTalk, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Mimosa NearPoint, Reports Archival, SAP BIA, SAP ePortal

Applications: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, ServiceCenter, TeraTerm, Zephyr

Databases: Oracle, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL, MySQL

Development Using: ASP, Batch, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, Microsoft .Net, Perl, PHP, RPG, UNIX Shell Script, VBScript, Visual Basic, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Portfolio & Solution Architect

Confidential, (Orlando, FL)

Responsibilities:

• Solutioned and designed backup and storage environments based on customer requests and general infrastructure need. This involved assessment, analysis, design, and testing of storage strategies, solutions, processes, and standards. These strategies and solutions involved Cisco and Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP storage solutions, NetApp storage arrays, EMC storage arrays, EMC backup solutions (Avamar, Data Domain, Networker), data replication solutions, data archiving solutions, and Information Lifecycle Management.
• Provided solution design for customer request for service, including logical design, cost modeling, financial modeling and justification, P&L breakdown, contract authoring and review, project plan design, steady state WLI documentation.
• Architected Long Term Tape Retention solution and cost model, providing standard full cost recovery model enabling infrastructure refresh and establishing positive P&L over the life of the contract.
• Created financial models used in business cases and presentations of solution investment requests to financial committees.
• Worked with customer and to satisfy requests for non-commodity services. This included obtaining requirements, presenting solution to the customer, answering customer questions both on proposed technology and price to customer.
• Designed storage and backup regional service offerings including Cold Storage, Big Data Storage, Networker and NetBackup to Data Domain data protection solutions.
• Worked with Global Service Architects in providing global standards
• Provided storage and backup strategies.
• Provided Root Cause Analysis and review for major outages in storage, backups, Windows, Clusterng including delivering action items for recurrence avoidance.
• Provided MS Exchange storage design supporting over 60,000 mailboxes for MS Exchange 2010.

Architect III

Confidential, (Orlando, FL)

Responsibilities:

• Solutioned and designed backup and storage environments based on customer requests and general infrastructure need. This involved assessment, analysis, design, and testing of storage strategies, solutions, processes, and standards. These strategies and solutions involved Cisco and Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP storage solutions, NetApp storage arrays, EMC storage arrays, HDS storage arrays, EMC backup solutions (Avamar, Data Domain, Networker), data replication solutions, data archiving solutions, and Information Lifecycle Management.
• Provided solution design for customer request for service, including logical design, cost modeling, financial modeling and justification, P&L breakdown, contract authoring and review, project plan design, steady state WLI documentation
• Provided storage and backup strategies.
• Provided customized (non-standard basket) storage and backup solutions satisfying customer requests.
• Provided Root Cause Analysis for outages in storage, backups, Windows, Clusterng including delivering action items for recurrence avoidance.
• Developed admin tool using HTA for use in maintaining storage environments.
• Member of a team and supported over 6 PB storage

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Confidential, (Orlando, FL)

Responsibilities:

• Filled the role of Storage Architect for global storage involving assessment, analysis, design, and testing of storage strategies, solutions, processes, and standards. These strategies and solutions involved Cisco, Qlogic, and McData Fibre Channel SANs, IP storage solutions, HDS storage arrays, STK storage arrays, NetApp storage arrays, TI RAMSAN arrays, data replication solutions, data archiving solutions, and Information Lifecycle Management.
• Completely redesigned, implemented, and administered the corporate SAN
• Designed and implemented disaster recovery storage environment involving a Cisco MDS Fibre Channel SAN and an HDS USP-V array.
• Extensively researched replication solutions to support disaster recovery and business continuance objectives.
• Trained and mentored coworkers in Enterprise Storage design, engineering, and administration; thereby removing the risk of a single person administering storage.
• Led Project for the NetApp V-Series, including leveraging SnapDrive, SnapMirror, SnapManager for Oracle, SnapManager for VI, SnapManager for Exchange, SnapVault, Single Mailbox Restore, OSSV.
• Administered backups on Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec.
• Administered, supported, installed, and configured Solaris 8,9,10 servers both SPARC & x86.
• Administered, supported, installed, and configured SUSE Linux servers.
• Administered, supported, installed, and configured Windows (2000, 2003, 2003 R2, 2008) servers.
• Administered, supported, installed, and configured FreeBSD server.
• Administered host-based storage configuration leveraging Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas DMP.
• Designed supported storage for various environments including SAP, Siebel, Oracle, MS SQL, VMware, and Enterprise Vault.
• Provided solutions in the areas of automation, batch processing, network enhancements, Application Development involving UNIX Shell Script, Perl, MS SQL, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, WMI, ASP, and HTML.
• Supported co-workers with advanced Windows and networking support.
• Negotiated with vendors providing million+ dollar savings to Confidential .

Systems Engineer III

Confidential, (St. Petersburg, FL)

Responsibilities:

• Filled the role of Storage Architect for global storage involving assessment, analysis, design, and testing of storage strategies, solutions, processes, and standards. These strategies and solutions involved Cisco and Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP storage solutions, EMC storage arrays, archival solutions, data replication solutions, and Information Lifecycle Management. Additionally in this role, I was called on in escalations for storage related issues.
• Presented IT strategies, expenditure justifications, root-cause analysis, and research analysis to Business Management and Executives using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Designed, implemented, and administered the corporate SAN, involving EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 and CLARiiON systems, and Cisco MDS switches, using EMC ControlCenter, NaviSphere, SymCLI, NaviCLI, Cisco Fabric Manager, and native administration tools.
• Designed systems and storage for various environments including BizTalk, MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS MOSS, Gentran Integration Suite, and CA Brightstor ARCserve Backup.
• Trained and mentored Storage Administrators and Systems Engineers on storage administration, systems’ storage design, storage engineering, and storage troubleshooting.
• Administered and supported a Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 network, including design and support of MS Active Directory in a 20,000+ user environment.
• Served as the final escalation for systems’ issues in areas of Windows operating systems, Windows networking, MS ISA Server, F5 BigIP, Citrix Presentation Server, Citrix Secure Gateway, HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers, HP Blade servers, and PKI before involving vendor support, often working through complex challenges.
• Designed and implemented web publishing solutions for Outlook Web Access 2003, Citrix Secure Gateway, and eCommerce solutions using MS Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
• Designed, implemented, and supported F5 BigIP hardware load balancing solutions.
• Designed, implemented, and supported Citrix Presentation Server 4 global environment.
• Developed various systems and storage reporting applications using SQL databases and web front-ends leveraging ASP
• Provided solutions in the areas of automation, batch processing, network enhancements, Application Development involving MS SQL, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, WMI, ASP, and HTML.

Senior Technical Programmer

Confidential, (Jacksonville, FL)

Responsibilities:

• Administered a mixed Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 network, including design, installation and support of MS Active Directory in a 50,000+ user environment.
• Designed and administered an Enterprise Tivoli Storage Manager backup system involving 25+ backup servers.
• Lead technical specialist with SAN design, migration, and administration involving in a 100+ TB Enterprise Storage environment consisting of EMC Symmetrix arrays, EMC CLARiiON arrays, Brocade and McData Fibre Channel SANs, and Differential SCSI
• Trained and mentored Technical Programmers in enterprise storage administration and design.
• Developed various systems and storage reporting applications using SQL databases and web front-ends leveraging ASP
• Designed and implemented a Lab connectivity solution involving a firewall and a VPN solution.
• Supported multi-farm enterprise Citrix MetaFrame XPe environment with average sessions per server exceeding 90 and number of servers per farm exceeding 25.
• Administered the MS Exchange environment.
• Provided solutions in the areas of automation, batch processing, network enhancements, Application Development, and project planning.
• Provided network and systems support.
• Designed, installed, and supported DNS, Proxy, VPN, and Firewall solutions.
• Developed, installed, and supported MS Cluster Network Load Balancing IIS solutions and MS Cluster Service Failover Cluster solutions.
• Wrote several processes, programs, and applications involving MS SQL, XML, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, and C++.

Network Engineer

Confidential, (Cleveland, OH)

Responsibilities:

• Administered a mixed Novell 4.11 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 network of more than 1800 users in a LAN/WAN environment.
• Built a team to do the day-to-day network and systems administration.
• Designed the server room and data center which involved floor planning, electrical planning, network design, UPS requirements and planning, and project managing.
• Configured Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, 3Com CoreBuilder switches, and 3Com SuperStack II switches.
• Designed, implemented, and supported a multi-vendor Frame Relay WAN, converting branch and remote office locations from multi-drop leased lines to Frame Relay with ISDN backup. This solution leveraged Cisco routers and DLSW for SNA communications.
• Designed, implemented, and supported the fully redundant (leveraging Spanning Tree) corporate LAN using a core-edge design involving 2 Cisco Catalyst 6509 w/MFSC core switches, 2 Cisco Catalyst 6509 (Layer 2 only) server farm switches, 2 Cisco Catalyst 4912Gs distribution switches, and 75 Cisco Catalyst 3524XL edge switches.
• Designed, implemented, and supported remote location LANs leveraging Cisco Catalyst switches.
• Administered Differential SCSI SAN including an EMC Symmetrix array.
• Supported the Mainframe COLD system leveraging TSO, ESCON attached library emulation, and FTP.
• Trained and mentored programmers in COLD technology and Enterprise Reporting systems using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Developed automation techniques and administration tools in C++.
• Provided Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery solutions for critical systems.
• Designed and supported backup solutions using Syncsort Backup Express and Veritas backup Exec.
• Provided on administrating Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
• Provided solutions in the areas of automation, batch processing, network enhancements, and project planning.
• Traveled to branch locations in Ohio and Florida for systems and network implementations, including new branch installations.
• Provided service and sales of personal computers, components, and accessories.
• Provided on-site services and telephone support of systems, networks, applications, and MS Windows operating systems.
• Consulted in the areas of information systems and telecommunications.
• Provided on applications and operating systems.
• Responsible for all the bookkeeping, ordering and clerical duties.

Computer Resources Technician

Confidential, (Elyria, OH)

Responsibilities:

• Supported a 700+ Windows 3.11 & Windows 95 workstations.
• Supported OS/2 LAN Manager network running on Token Ring and Ethernet.
• Installed computer hardware, software and networking components.
• Provided to end-users on operating systems, Internet, hardware, and software.
• Managed projects in the implementation of personal computers, application development, and imaging solutions.