Summary Of Qualifications

• Over 20 years of large enterprise complex IT and Systems Engineering experience, seven years as SAN Storage and VMware Architect, seven years as Team Lead and six years of Systems Engineering. Most current Technical focus on EMC SAN, Brocade Cisco Fabrics, VMware vSphere, Oracle RAC, Red Hat Linux and Windows. Skilled with Tier 1 multi-platform, multi-tier distributed systems, architecture design, ITIL process and enterprise level support. Highly successful with worldwide projects up to 50M for Government, Private and Public sectors.

Skills And Expertise

Personal Aptitude, Reputation and Professional Experience

Do whatever it takes to deliver first class results to clients, extremely passionate about meeting or exceeding goals. Enthusiastic with teamwork environment, very efficient, proactive, fast self-starter / learner and love challenges. Considered as subject matter expert / guru among peers. Possess strong oral and written communication skills, love to create documentation, capable of creating clear, concise client presentations and enjoy mentoring junior level staff. Solid understanding of the capabilities and limitations of technology. Very energetic, positive, smart, friendly and professional.

• Current Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 6, CentOS Linux 6, Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows 2012 R2, Mac OS X.
• Cluster Software: Oracle O2CB, Oracle CRS, Redhat Clustering, Windows Failover Clustering.
• Clustered File System: Oracle ASM, Oracle OCFS2, VMware VMFS5, Redhat GFS and NFS.
• Virtualization: VMware vSphere ESX / ESXi 5.5, vCenter Server, vCenter Operations Manager, Hyperic, vFoglight, VMware Server, WMware AppSpeed, VMware Workstation / Fusion, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Converter / Doubletake / Acronis P2V, V2P, V2V and P2P .
• IA-64 Servers: HP Integrity Superdome sx2000, HP Integrity rx8640, NPAR configuration.
• HP Servers: HP Proliant c7000 Blade enclosure, BL680c, BL490c, BL460c Blades, HP Proliant DL580, DL380, DL360.
• Dell Servers: Dell PowerEdge R910, R900, R820, R810, R720xd, R710,R620, R610, R510, R410
• Directors and Switches: Brocade DCX Backbone, EMC Connectrix Directors Brocade 48000 Directors , Cisco MDS 9710 Director, Cisco MDS 9509 Director, Cisco MDS 9506 Director, Cisco MDS 9134 Switches, Brocade 6510 Switches.
• EMC SAN: Symmetrix VMAX 20k 10k, VPLEX GEOSynchronicity V2, DMX-4, DMX-3, EMC VNX5700/5500/5300, EMC Clariion CX480, CX340.
• EMC NAS: VNX, Celerra NS480, NS120
• 3PAR SAN: Infserv S400,S800,T400,V400
• HP SAN: EVA 8400, 8000, 4400.
• Netapp SAN/NAS: FAS6000, FAS3000
• Isilon NAS: IQ3000i.
• EMC Software: Solutions Enabler SymCLI, Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VNX, ProSphere, Symmetrix Management Console, Replication Manager, ECC ControlCenter, Performance Manager, StroageScope, Timefinder, SRDF Adaptive Copy / Asynchronous , Navisphere, Powerpath, ESRS.
• HP Software: 3Par Management Console, 3Par Remote Copy, 3Par CLI, Command View, EVA Perf.
• Netapp Software: ONCommand System Manager, Management Console, Operations Manager/DFM, Config Advisor, Filer View, Virtual Storage Console, SMVI, RCU.
• Brocade Software: CMCNA EMC Connectrix Manager, BNA Brocade Network Advisor, DCFM, SAN Health
• Cisco Software: Fabirc Manager, Device Manager.
• Database: Oracle RAC Enterprise Database 11g, MySQL Community Server 5.1, MS SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 Bit.
• Application Server: JBOSS 4, Oracle Application Server 11g.
• Backup: Commvault Simpana 9.
• Deduplication: Data Domain DDX Array, DD890, DD880, DD690G, DD580.
• Scripting: Bash Shell, Shell, Korn Shell.
• Troubleshooting Tools: EMC VSI Virtual Storage Integrator, Performance Analyzer, EMC Grab / Reports, EMC HEAT, EMC E-Lab, EMC Powerlink, EMC Primus, Redhat Sysstat package, Redhat Sysreport, Redhat Kbase, Cacti, Oracle OSWatcher, Oracle Metalink, Emulex OneCommand, Qlogic SAN Surfer, Splunk

Professional Experience

Sr. SAN Storage Lead

• Accomplished Projects:
• Direct focus on multiple EMC VMAX SAN Storage Arrays Architecture, Operations and Support related to one of the largest Oil Services Company in the world, spanning 80 countries, and over 100k employees.
• Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Participated of overall 365x24x7 production support for multiple VMAX arrays, on multiple remotely located datacenters.
• Storage Architecture, operations and support, for large Oracle / SAP database environments on UNIX, ESX, Windows and Linux operating systems.
• EMC VMAX 20k Enterprise SAN storage administration, Enginuity 5876, performance, troubleshooting and overall storage management through Solutions Enabler 7.6 SymCLI, Symmetrix Management Console, and Unisphere for VMAX, administration of Storage Pools, TDEVs, BCV devices, RDF devices, meta devices, gatekeepers, auto-provision, binding to storage pools, mapping devices, masking devices, FAST pool/policy administration.
• Timefinder Clone / Snap and SRDF administration, creation of device groups and composite groups, SymClone precopy / activate , SymSnap sessions, SRDF device pair creation, establish / split and query operations.
• VNX NAS Gateway administration, troubleshooting, provisioning shares, setting up ACLs, security, administration via Unisphere for VNX
• Administration and support of the EMC Replication Manager Environment, to manage the automated replication and cloning operations.
• Cisco MDS 9509 SAN Director Administration, Fabric Manager, alias, zone and configuration activation, user management, HBA logins, and troubleshooting.
• Provisioning and expanding capacity online, to very large Physical Soalris SAP servers, and VMware ESX clusters.
• Management of Initiator Groups, Port Groups, Storage Groups and Masking Views.
• Managing ESXi FC/Block Datastores provisioning and capacity to multiple ESXi 5.x clusters
• Managing migration strategies, EMC Open Replicator, Powerpath Migration Enabler, VMware sVmotion..
• Scaling clusters, host Initiator additions to the fabric, decommissioning target LUNs addition, growing, migrations, decommissioning, installation of MPIO EMC PowerPath, upgrading HBA firmware.
• Coordinated Enginutiy upgrades for all VMAX arrays, validated pre-requisites, upgrade plan, remediation plan including Solutions Enabler, Powerpath, Replication Manager, Flare code, Unisphere for VMAX and VNX.
• VMAX performance management, director / cache / disk performance and bottlenecks detection, pool capacity.
• Validation configuration via EMC Grabs and E-Lab navigator, troubleshooting via EMC Primus and Powerlink.
• Familiar working with heavily regulated ITIL process oriented organizations, change management meetings, change review / change approval, ticketing for project / task work.

Confidential

Consulting

• Accomplished Projects:
• Project to architect VMware vSAN, to be implemented at remote locations and extend existing virtualization business functionality with low cost. Presentations to the architecture and operations team, designed architecture building blocks, work sessions with VMware team, product in scope VMware vSphere 5.5 with vSAN, Dell 720xd Compute platform, and Cisco Nexus 10Gb network.

Confidential

Accomplished Projects:

• Project to physically migrate a complete datacenter to a different location, assisting on the architecture and design of the new datacenter IP networking and SAN fabric, block replication, virtual machine live migration, documenting migration strategies using runbooks, EMC VMAX 10k to 20k migration utilizing EMC Open Replicator Hot PULL live with cut over window, EMC Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME , EMC RecoveryPoint, EMC VNX, Avamar and Data Domain physical migration, Tape libraries migration, physical hosts migration.
• Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Design storage migration strategies around OpenReplicator Hot PULL .
• Design storage migration strategies around Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME.
• Design storage migration strategies around VMware Storage vMotion.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

• Accomplished Projects:
• IT Consulting for CBS Corporation Team Lead/SME for the West Coast Infrastructure. Architected Tier 1 business applications infrastructure, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, solution around VMware ESXi Site Recovery Manager Virtualization, 3Par Netapp Enterprise Storage, and Brocade DCX Storage Area Network.
• Multiple Colocations/Data Centers between West and East Coast, 2000 server footprint 50 Linux/Unix, 50 Windows , 50 Physicals / 50 Virtuals.
• Architecture and Operational Support of a large farm of Netapp Arrays 3PB, 20 Netapp heads 3xx0 and 6xx00 series , distributed among west and east coast.
• Architecture and Operational Support of an effort to migrate critical Tier 1 Business Apps from SAN attached Netapp arrays to 3Par V400 arrays S400s, T400s, V400s , distributed among west and east coast.
• Migrated hundreds of Terabytes from old end of life Netapp arrays into new 3Par V400 arrays, for the VMware Production ESX environment.
• Implemented 3Par Remote Copy IP Async replication between LA and NY sites, part of the Disaster Recovery architecture.
• Upgraded multiple 3Par arrays to latest InServ 3.1.2 revision, upgraded Netapp arrays to newer OnTap 8.x revision, performed Netapp 31x0 to 32x0 head swap.
• Surveyed Top-Down production infrastructure assisted the company to find opportunities around cost reduction, consolidation, performance, efficiency, scaling and density.
• Re-architecture the Production ESX environment, created a new framework, to reduce and consolidate the datacenter footprint, reduce CAPEX and OPEX cost, to increase VM density per host to 150:1, including Platinum, Gold and Silver SLA tiers, Disaster Recovery via VMware SRM Array Based Replication, instantaneous backups of the VMs via Array based snapshots, long term backups to a separate array, increasing the uptime, and reducing the infrastructure complexity by standardizing the complete stack building blocks.
• Vendor Relationship interaction for technology refreshes, architecture roadmaps, score carding, ROI/TCO analysis, white boarding, creating/conducting presentations, proof of concepts, assisting Sr. management on architecture/technical decisions.

Confidential

Production Infrastructure Architect and Systems Engineering Team Lead

• Accomplished Projects:
• Built the IT team who helped to take the company public, stabilized the production systems to achieve no SEV-1 outages for over a year created the framework that helped the company to manage and scale a very large and complex IT infrastructure with minimal staff.
• Architected, deployed and supported Tier 1 Infrastructure for the company Registrar business. Consisting of multi-site Disaster Recovery,EMC Symmetrix VMAX Enterprise storage on the primary site, EMC VNX storage on the DR site, EMC VPLEX GEOSynchroicity V2, new Brocade DCX Fabric using CMCNE for the management, 10Gb redundant links for replication, 4x2 Node Active-Passive Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 Stretch Clusters. Reduced database latency well under 10ms response time from 30ms, increased IOPS capacity from 40k to well over 300k, increased available bandwidth from 600MB/s to well over 2GB/s.
• Architected and implemented reduction of the datacenter footprint by 50 by virtualizing physical servers, going from 50v/50p virtualization to 80v/20p virtualization by the end of 2012
• Architected and deployed compute resources tiers based on SLA, three tiers Platinum, Gold and Silver. This is around a private cloud model, where compute resources can be promoted and demoted among tiers with no downtime, the infrastructure included an automated server provisioning model and user web portal by using Vmware vCloud Director
• Architected and deployed VMware vCenter Operations Manager to monitor, alert, real-time analysis, historical trending, and forecasting resources. The infrastructure included the Configuration Management Module and collection of application and OS metrics from physical servers through Hyperic.
• Architected and deployed EMC Prosphere, monitor enterprise wide storage and SAN fabric components utilization and consumption. Used in conjunction with other tools to validate and have more evidence for historical analysis and root cause analysis during outages.
• Architected newest Vmware vSphere 5 reference production architecture 4 Clusters, 32 ESXi Hosts doubled server density from prior architecture to 150:1 consolidation ratio at 50 capacity, scaled the virtualization environment horizontally and vertically, increased VM capacity from 1000 VM hosts to 4800 VM hosts.
• Architected and implemented migration plan to move off a large 3Par array 4 engines, 600 Drives to 1 EMC VMAX, 1 EMC 5700, and 2 VNX 5500 with the goal to reduce cost by implementing storage tiers, based on SLA, improve uptime, reduce IO contention, improve throughput and scalability of the multiple environments.
• Architected and implemented migration plan to move off a large to move off a large number of Cisco MDS SAN 4 Directors and 44 Edge Switches to 6 Brocade DCX-4s Backbones with the goal to improve port density, improve SAN throughput and reduce complexity and improve manageability
• Architected and implemented the production VMware vSphere 4 environment 8 Clusters, 36 ESXi Hosts, 830 VMs increasing server density to 60:1 consolidation ratio, reduced CPU and Memory bottlenecks and spindle over subscription, increased per VM IOPs by 3 times. Implemented VMware and Netapp Best Practices. Created the production virtualization capacity model requirements.
• Architected and implemented VMware Virtual Machine instantaneous backups through Netapp VSC/SMVI NDMP Commvault Backups reduced backup times from 30 hours to 30 minutes.
• Successfully migrated 1000 Virtual Machines from VMware ESX 3.5 to VMware ESXi 4.1 with no downtime or impact.
• Re-Architected the Enterprise Backup environment, upgraded the entire infrastructure to Commvault Simpana 9, 6x10Gb Gridstor Linux Media Agents, installed a Data Domain DD880 appliance. Reduced backup times from 3 days to 12 hours, increased backup throughput from 40GB per hour to 800 GB per hour, increased deduplication ratio from 3x to 12x achieving greater cost saving on the backup storage.
• Built the Oracle 11g ERP company financial system, 3 tiers Dataguard replication and RMAN backups.
• Architected and implemented the production Linux LDAP central authentication system included Multi-Master replication, Sudoers schema and SSL encryption.
• Architected and implemented the production Syslog-NG central logging system, sized and tuned the for high performance logging for 1000 appliances
• Architected the Linux Gold Standard and Best Practices for the Company, including fully automated Kickstart build environment 10 minutes server provision .
• Architected and implemented the production Cacti system for server historical performance metrics, pooling 1000 objects every minute.
• Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Production Infrastructure Architect and Systems Engineering Team Lead Team of 7 Offshore Team of 3 , focus on Storage, SAN Fabric, Virtualization, OSs and Backups
• Participated of overall 365x24x7 worldwide production support for 8 Datacenters San Jose, Las Vegas, Ashburn, Amsterdam, Austin, Chicago, Santa Monica and Kirkland 3000 server environment 50 Windows / 50 Linux .
• Yearly budgeting and forecasting growth, technology refreshes and retirement, IT road mapping planning and implementation, vendor interaction, proofs of concepts, support contracts, white boarding, negotiating and influencing decisions with business liaisons and senior management, score carding, RTO / TCO Analysis, risk analysis.
• Written and enforced standards, frameworks, policies and procedures across the IT team.
• Documentation of technical solutions, rack elevations, storage and network diagrams, flows.
• SME escalation point during outages, project management and coordination during projects deployments.
• VMware Architect and Administration complete ESXi top-down cluster builds, Physical and Virtual network Stacks, Backend SAN/NAS storage. Designed the Production capacity model and the best practices according to company requirements. Lead for maintenance, monitoring, alerting, migrations and continuous growth.
• Diligently supported and maintained operational in production, Isilon Cluster servicing NFS and CIFS, utilized to serve high business impact business environment data requiring 5x9s availability, this included PCI environment backups and Oracle ERP RMAN company financial backups, maintained NFS and CIFS mounts, managed access permissions, performed OneFS upgrades, commission and decommission Isilon cluster nodes.