Experience

Confidential

Storage Operations Specialist

• This customer site is ranked 134th out of Forbes 2000 list. Our Storage Team managed the day to day operations for 9 Symmetrix, 4 VMAX's and 37 Clariions ranging from CX's to VNX's. I was on the team that took care of the Clariions.
• Made up the SAN team of 6, we took care of the day to day operations consisting of allocations/deallocations, zoning Brocade/McData switches and Directors.
• Conducted meetings and managing projects that include but not limited to upgrading the Clariion Code and the FOS on the switches
• Ran reports using SAN Health and conducted weekly maintenance reports on the arrays using StorageScope
• Managed the ticket queue for the team making sure we didn't miss SLA

Confidential

Storage Operations Specialist onsite

• At this customer site, we successfully migrated from Hitachi Data Systems to EMC Hardware. The migration included 850TB's of VMAX data, 100 TB's of Clariion data and 1.5 Petabytes from NetApp to Celerra and 200 TB on Centera. The sites we migrated are located all over the globe and the data has to be available in the time zone required 24x7.
• Upon the completion of the migration our team assumed the responsibilities of day to day Storage operations that include but not limited to migrating new servers, allocations/deallocations upgrades, etc.
• Currently in the infrastructure there are 4 VMaxs 1 in Singapore, 1 in the UK, 1 in Columbus Indiana and one in Nashville Tennessee. There are 32 clariions positioned throughout the globe, some that are just NAS heads and some unified.
• Using tools such as SMC, Unipshere/Navisphere and command line helps our group focus on infrastructure, performance optimization, and advancing technologies. All of which plays a vital role in the day to day business continuity.
• My objective is to continue to work and improve security, infrastructure, and stability while striving to improve upon all processes/procedures and relationships with the company's ever growing global environment.

Confidential

Storage Area Network SAN Manager

• Created processes/procedures, which led to the creation and success of a multi-million dollar Storage Area Network department.
• Assisted the client base in a range of SAN systems troubleshooting, development, and implementation projects. Identify client requirements, and formulate cost-effective solutions on time and within budget, for EMC, HP and IBM Hardware.
• Duties and responsibilities include designing and implementing SAN infrastructures, ILM solutions, assessing and reclaiming dormant storage, project management, budgeting, purchasing, price negotiations, sales marketing, Quality Assurance, and capital justifications.
• Technical consultation for post/pre-sales support, creating quotes for EMC, IBM and HP solutions.
• Successfully managed and completed data migrations.
• Storage Area Network installation/implementations and troubleshooting for EMC, HP, IBM, McData and Brocade hardware.
• Serviced medium to large businesses after installation with knowledge transfer.
• Customer satisfaction rating is 99 due to my attention to detail and delivering cost-effective solutions on time.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

• Technical Consultant for EMC's Clariion storage area network implementation team.
• Responsible for supporting EMC's medium to large scale customers Clariion needs.
• Successfully utilized Project Management Skills to install Clarions from out of box, to production.
• Designed and integrated fibre switches/zoning, HBA's, all the software needed, and migration if necessary.
• All around general SAN troubleshooting for customers in the Chicago and Wisconsin areas.

Confidential

Storage Management

• Primary SAN Administrator for EMC Clariion FC4700 and three-CX600s using Navisphere 6.5 totaling 37 terabytes of space and HP Storage Works 5000 Storage Unit using Open view storage management appliance 2.0 totaling 4 terabytes of space.
• Secondary SAN Administrator for two 8000 series Symmetrix and two DMX Storage Units using Connectrix Manager 7.01.009 and SymCli 5.2, totaling 121 terabytes of data center storage space in a 24 X 7 production environment. Experience with McData 1032 directors and 64m switches. Also, installed Emulex 8000, 9802, and 10000 hbas, and used both LC and SC connectors.
• Project Manager of successfully migrated applications such as Microsoft Exchange from 8430 to Clariion, Cypress from 3930 to EVA, SAP/ Business Warehouse from legacy equipment to new EMC storage units using SanCopy and RoboCopy.
• Successfully migrated legacy Data General SCSI Clariion connected 5 terabytes of Meditech to Fibre based Clariion. And effectively migrated and consolidated all Windows 2000 Corporate file servers from Symmetrix to Clariion FC4700.
• Monitored SAN usage and projected future SAN requirements for annual budget.
• Involved in migration of new switches into 3 existing fabrics.
• Successfully implemented Cisco SN5420 iSCSI router into the Quality Assurance lab.
• Involved in enterprise wide centralized back up solution using 3 terabytes Auspex NAS device.
• Created and maintained department web page on company's intranet.