Summary

• Acted at the highest level technical role as an individual contributor and/or team lead for the most complex project designs or enterprise initiatives. Maintains a thorough understanding of available technology, tools, and existing designs. Plans, performs, and acts as the escalation point for the most complex platform designs, testing, and implementation. Ensured the availability, fault-tolerance, and performance of the entire storage environment. Created and managed strategic IT storage direction and delivered substantial results for Enterprise class datacenters. Leadership skills include team building, change initiation, continuous learning, coaching, adaptability, and accountability. Selected achievements:
• Proficient in cross-cultural team interaction in defining roles, requirements and solutions.
• Developed industry recognized Storage Services Architecture and roadmaps.
• Successfully reduced CAPEX and OPEX costs of Infrastructure through education, vendor management, and service level alignment.
• Architected services and supporting solutions then led team of engineers through product implementation. Recipient of multiple CIO Awards for Project implemtation.
• Researched new technologies for relevant implementation supporting business requirements following enterprise technology adoption processes.
• Developed RFI/P's and scoring matrix for major infrastructure initiatives. Reviewed and approved Infrastructure related contracts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Architect/Build Engineer DataCenter Services

• Lead Engineer for multiple customers in build and migration activities.
• Develop migration process and procedures for junior engineers to execute migration to VPLEX from legacy storage arrays.
• Plan, configure, document, and execute Storage Lifecycle activities on EMC hardware to include Clariion to VMAX and DMX to VMAX. Includes HDS to VMAX and NetApp to VMAX.
• Create documentation for internal BUILD team as well as turnover documentation for the RUN team on customer environments.
• Plan and build Cloud Services environment using Cisco/EMC VBlock architecture including VNX, VMAX arrays and MDS 9148 and 9513 switches.
• Top level support and buildouts of Shared-customer environments utilizing EMC VMAX, VNX, VPLEX HDS HNAS legacy McData, Brocade DCX and Cisco SAN hardware.
• Responsible for building new arrays, planning infrastructure upgrades and tactical-level technical architecture for customers DR capabilities or customer migration activities.
• Configure, and support SRDF operations on Brocade and Cisco FCIP switches.
• Considered SME on Oracle ZFS platform.

Confidential

Sr. Engineer, Enterprise Storage Services

• Migrated 400 of 700 servers in environment using Open Replicator and associated tools. Includes migration of NAS. Responsible for configuration of Storage Pools, FAST-VP Policies, TDEV best practice implementation and documentation.
• Role changed upon completion of Architecture.
• Proficient with EMC Solutions Enabler CLI, SMC, SRDF/A, OpenReplicator and SPA software tools.
• Proficient with Brocade 48K, 7800 and DCX platforms using DCFM. Additional expereince with McData 6140s as well as legacy Brocade 24Ks and Cisco 9509/13 platforms.
• Responsible for daily storage activities including design, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting and migration on EMC DMX, VMAX, Celerra systems.

Confidential

• Reduced time to complete provisioning request from days to a sub-hour average.
• Developed RunBook for Storage Team. RunBook included daily provisioning scripts troubleshooting checklists and sample scripts general infrastructure information.
• Responsible for the planning and overall execution of the Enterprise Storage Architecture.
• Developed an industry leading service-based architecture which reduced the overall yearly spend in storage acquistions by 2M a year on average by buying storage at the time of delivery.
• Designed the SAN infrastructure upgrade to include creating the RFI, scoring criteria and guiding team to execution of Brocade DCX fabric from legacy McData/Brocade mixed environment.
• Designed a refresh architecture for legacy Storage subsystems to current technologies which included upgrading Operational Recovery and Disaster Recovery strategy increased platform utilization which consolidated Mainframe and Open systems environments. Created RFI and scoring criteria, developed financial models and reduced capital and expense costs from 20M to 4M. value of all capital assets plus annual maintenance spend .
• Educated application designers and infrastructure engineers thus reducing infrastructure spends through aligning application performance to Pricing Grades of disk.
• Engineered Online Archiving infrastructure with increased response time in data retrival.
• Reduced Operational Recovery Time Objectives RTO through disk-based snapshots while reducing dependency on tape infrastructure.

Confidential

Infrastructure Systems Architect

Enterprise Systems Architect

Member of central IT architecture teams reporting to CIO responsible ensure the architectures developed satisfy the business needs and adhere to the Wells Fargo Enterprise Architecture principles. Lead member on enterprise-wide Proof-of-Concept testing initiatives defining test and success criteria.

Infrastructure Architect

Confidential

• Co-developed a datacenter Utility Grid Infrastructure Architecture design to support the following initiatives: Automated Server Management I/O Consolidation and Server Virtualization. Current and future technologies, such as ITIL/ITSM, VMWare, Opsware SAS, InfiniBand and 10GbE, were leveraged in the design.
• Architected an industry leading multi-tier SAN Fabric design endorsed and supported by key suppliers which connected all isolated storage resources and enabled vendor interoperability.
• Architected and implemented an Enterprise-Wide Media Encrpytion solution to protect Corporate and Customer data from theft and enable transportability between Wells Fargo's partners.
• Executed POC using Oracle 10G RAC with Grid Control Server on an Infiniband network with VFrame virtualization software and boot from SAN.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

• Created industry's first Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Service-Oriented Architecture SOA . Services defined and roadmaps outlined for: Storage Management Fabric and Resource , Data Protection, and Information Management. Services for remote branch and regional operations were defined and exposed. Architecture was conceptual, logical and physical.
• Assessed and Evaluated LOB requirements and architecture designs. Defined standards for infrastructure technologies. Promoted design principles and governance.
• Consulted and designed storage solution for Exchange 2003 environment. Solution achieved enhanced Disaster Recovery, Backup, Snapshot, and Replication objections.
• Emerging Technologist Server and Storage based technologies:
• Architected, tested and implemented Active Directory as core authentication credentials for enterprise.
• Architected, tested and implemented Application Hosting Service for enterprise. Initial deployment for Business Banking LOB included saves of 3.6M per year on networking infrastructure. ROI for deployment was achieved in 4 months.
• Evaluated and implemented a consolidated file systems platform replacing legacy Novell environment.

Systems Engineer

Confidential