Technical Architect Resume Minneapolis, Minnesota - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Technically advanced engineering professional experienced in the successful design, implementation, and configuration of complex virtual storage networks.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

In - depth knowledge and broad success in engineering the development of complex virtual storage environments, including requirements gathering/assessment, performance analysis, and full life cycle project management.
Successfully developing, executing and analyzing qualification, integration, and acceptance testing plan for diverse systems
Skilled principal and mentor with a record of effectively completing multiple tasks with on Confidential completion of all deliverables.
Excellent interpersonal and communication ability to influence positive outcomes of required objectives.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Hardware: EMC Symmetrix, DMX and VMAX Series, EMC VPLEX, EMC Isilon, EMC RecoverPoint, HP\3Par, VMware ESX, EMC Clariion\VNX Series, NetApp FAS Series, Brocade Fiber Channel Switches, Cisco Fiber Channel Switches, Hitachi Data Systems, Cisco Networking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

Designed, implemented, and maintained first Recover Point hardware implementation for shared infrastructure deployment. Recover Point solution provided $100K/month recurring revenue over previous stand-alone solutions.
Replaced existing Clariion arrays by designing and installing multiple VNX arrays. Assessed all site requirements to determine array requirements, and configured VNX arrays for sizing, disk, pool layout, Fast Pool and FastCache requirements. Used SAN Copy and PowerPath Migration Enabler to migrate data to VNX arrays.
Designed, implemented, and maintained first VPXEX hardware implementation for shared infrastructure deployment. Virtualization reduced array migrations from weeks, or months, to days saving 100s of person-hours.
Developed large-scale, PERL SAN reporting tool to report automatically available capacity and customer utilization that replaced manual monthly update and report time decreased from 20 person-hours to 15 minutes.
Created Fibre and iSCSI MirrorView\A replication environments to support disaster recovery efforts for multiple customers.

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Storage Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked on storage and switch focal teams performing IBM-based storage disk allocations.
Troubleshot zoning, LUN sequencing, and disk error storage issues.

Confidential, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

Improved 20,000+ users’ data and storage management to reduce the number of servers, and maintenance and replacement costs.
Designed and implemented solutions that reduced host identify times on any storage platform from hours to minutes, and enforced company storage policies by eliminating non-business related data on servers.
Reduced overall document management storage costs by moving non-critical data to tiered storage.
Promoted from Desktop Support to Server Support, Capacity and Performance Management of 200 stand-alone servers, and then to storage infrastructure architect.
Managed enterprise backup refresh project’s software upgrade of 700+ servers.
Migrated and consolidated 15TB of data on 35 servers down to 12 servers.
Improved availability and better resource utilization for over 20,000 users with near zero impact.
Reduced file server utilization by 15% and minimized company infringement liability with redesigned enforcement file server policy.

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