SUMMARY:

• Versatile professional dedicated to delivering IT solutions that create Business value for the customer by reducing risk, improving costs and accelerating the pace of delivery. Areas of expertise include Infrastructure Solution Design & Delivery, Server & Storage Virtualization, Storage Architecture, Data Protection & Archive, Business Continuity, Data Lifecycle Management, Capacity Planning and Datacenter migrations.
• Delivered key project milestones on a multi Datacenter consolidation and migration project which included deployment of Cisco UCS and All Flash Storage Arrays, complete refresh of the Vmware Infrastructure and development of migration process methodologies.
• Redesigned an Enterprise Storage environment across dual Datacenters to replace HDS VSP with multiple G1000 arrays to support Business Continuity from any datacenter and delivered an improved RTO for Vmware servers.
• Gained approval from the Senior Leadership to initiate a Data Lifecycle Management project to create a storage environment with tiering policies to auto tier cold data to Archive thereby reducing constraints on the Backup environment.
• Created a multi - year roadmap for the current Storage, Backup and Archive as-is environment to manage change in a predictable way including the budget line items to deliver against the roadmap.
• Evaluated and recommend new technologies such as public/private cloud and object storage.
• Lead and delivered a multi datacenter Petabyte migration project to fully replace a Dell Storage environment, project involved hundreds of servers and was driven by aggressive EOL/EOS deadlines.
• Introduced a capacity planning methodology to the storage environment, which avoided unforeseen capacity issues but also avoided un-budgeted purchases.
• Introduced best practices, team building and mentoring across regional locations and times zones.
• Streamlining of storage provisioning for new server builds, developed automation tools, documentation and for a Server build team, storage provisioning services went from 30-60 days to less than two.
• Developed an alerting framework to monitor a heterogeneous storage environment using in-house, vendor native and custom tools, created a visual storage dashboard along with the documented Sop’s for use by a Global off-shore Storage support team.
• Designed an in-house multi-vendor Thin Provisioning Storage Show-back reporting tool using Open source software, information was refreshed daily into a MySQL Database. Finished product was used to report on and curtail storage waste, slow down storage consumption and avoid Storage Capital Expenditure.

SYSTEMS SOFTWARE:

Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Unix - RedHat, CentOS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX Scripting - Bash/Korn Shell & PowerShell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Fully assigned to one customer with complete responsibility for their IT functions duties include but not limited to Systems Infrastructure Engineering, Enterprise Storage, Virtualization, Directory Services and Messaging Services.
• Create and execute and IT consolidation and migration plan, duties include application rationalization, storage migration, vendor management and user support to a team of Mechanical Engineers working with Medical devices.

Confidential

Senior Consultant, Cloud Enabled Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Guide and advise clients around the technical and business dimensions of technology management, related to storage strategy, data lifecycle management, backup and recovery and related cloud storage services.
• Evaluate application portfolios and infrastructure workloads for private cloud migrations.
• Create and implement architectures and designs and guide technical resources performing implementation tasks.
• Provide vendor neutral technical expertise to customers.

Confidential

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design documents and gain approval from the Banks Infrastructure Advisory Board.
• Responsible for storage architecture and roadmap in a multi-sourced (outsourced) Hitachi environment, the estate covered Distributed and Mainframe servers and included Data Protection (Backup) and Archiving platforms.
• Create and implement designs and guide the outsourced providers technical teams performing implementation tasks.
• Top to bottom review of Data Protection environment, which included RFI with Backup vendors and products such as Commvault, Netbackup and Backup to Disk technologies.
• Responsible for remediation of storage audit deficiencies including project initiation and Governance and adherence to new storage Auditing standards.

Confidential

Senior Solutions Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide Tier 3 support for San Infrastructure in a fast paced, highly visible, mission critical and SEC regulated environment.
• Storage services were hosted on HDS, NetApp and Dell storage arrays, file servers, VTL’s and Brocade switches.
• Capacity planning analysis and remediation in co-ordination with the Database & Server Virtualization teams.
• Developed a San migration and integration strategy for new Businesses acquired by the Company.
• Designed a Storage Virtualization strategy using several HDS G800’s as an alternative to a Dell forklift upgrade.
• Work in partnership with leading technology companies to complete Proof of Concepts such as AWS Storage Gateway, Nimble storage.

Confidential

Senior San Administrator & Capacity Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Large scale Enterprise environment, position involved deploying new Vsp, Vmax and Vnx arrays, server migrations from older arrays (Cisco/Clariion/Dmx), Core/Edge switch deployments, creating a robust monitoring and reporting framework, creating Sop’s to integrate Level Two (onshore/offshore) Operations, switch and disk array Capacity planning and upgrading San management software.
• Developed a methodology of Key Performance Indicators to determine array health in a vendor agnostic way.
• Team Lead for storage administrators on a dedicated server-build team to automate and operationalize their functions to improve service delivery.
• Responsible for much of the SRM and San Management tools, Control Center upgrades from UB9 to UB12, upgrade of DCFM to Network Advisor, Storage Essentials from 6.3 to 9.x and POC for new tools.
• Developed an in-house tool, which captures the relationship from Lun to HBA to server, for the entire storage footprint including Brocade and Cisco fabrics. Finished product allowed analytics against the Confidential Storage Environment as well as Ops assurance reports such as server with single HBA’s.

Confidential

Senior Consultant - Systems and Storage

Responsibilities:

• Dedicated to a transformation project, from design to implementation, to migrate the Banks core Oracle databases from Open VMS Alpha servers to Solaris servers and StorageTek arrays.
• Upgrade of an Emc Networker backup environment from v7.3 to v7.4 and migration of the environment to new M4000 hardware using a StorageTek Sl500 library, leveraging snapshot technology, with encryption of backup tapes and several M4000’s configured as Storage Nodes for direct access to the Lto4 tape resources over the San.
• Configuration of a DR site with additional M4000 Oracle clusters, Emc Networker with a StorageTek Sl500 Lto4 library and a redundant Brocade fiber channel switches with a 6140 StorageTek array.

Confidential

Senior Storage and Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a core-edge San with fully redundant fabrics across dual datacenters with Brocade Extended fabrics. The disk arrays were in a tiered Storage environment managed by IBM’s San Volume Controller and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). The Enterprise backup solution leveraged San based disk and Lto tape library.
• Lead a project to implement Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2 across the Enterprise on an IBM P650 and a 3584 Library and fiber attached Lto2 drives, train Datacenter technicians to Operate the environment.
• Schedule and publish a roster to support operations and plan for systems maintenance and security patch installation.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NetBackup upgrade including clients on each hardware platform and testing backups / restores and connectivity between versions before continuing to upgrade the master and media servers.