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Lead Storage Engineer/Architect

I am a highly motivated Systems Engineer who has an exceptional record designing, implementing and documenting storage technology practices for diverse customers ranging from Direct Mail to Government entities. I have over 25 years of experience with the last 10 focus on SAN/Storage.

Over the course of my twenty-two yearlong professional career, I have had the ability to ascertain how different types and sizes of corporations utilize technology in their daily activities. What I documented was, even though a set process or computer system performed to expectation for one business, it could be detrimental to another. I maintain an ever-changing set of best practices that I apply to improve business functionality and maintain profitability while aggressively researching new ways to do the job more effectively.

Summary of Qualifications and Certifications

Extensive experience in Storage Area Networks and virtual storage technologies including EMC Clariion, VNX, DMX and Celerra, HP EVA and IBM, Storwize v7000, SAN Volume Controller, DCS 3700, DS 5000 and DS 8000 storage systems

Extensive experience with Cisco and Brocade Fiber Channel SAN switch hardware

  • Extensive experience with developing Business Continuity solutions for mid-level to enterprise level organizations.
  • IT Professional with 20 years of experience in Wintel Systems, SAN Storage and Network Administration
  • Extensive experience in virtualizing servers and storage in enterprise level environments
  • Extensive experience developing procedures, policies, technical manuals, software guides and instructions, executive briefings and presentations
  • Over 10 years of management experience in Systems Administration and Systems Engineering project environment
  • High moral character that helps build trust in large teams.
  • EMCISA Certification EMC Information Storage and Administration v2 for Specialization on the VNX Arrays
  • EMC Storage Administrator
  • EMC CLARiiON Foundations
  • EMC Connectrix Foundations
  • EMC Disk Library Fundamentals
  • CompTIA, A , Server and Network
  • Microsoft MCP and MCSE currently working on MCITP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Storage Architect

Confidential

  • Part of the Storage Team that designed, configured and maintained the IBM Storwize v7000 and N-Series arrays in their Colorado and Texas Data Centers.
  • Total storage configured was 45 Petabytes
  • Configured storage fabrics zones on their Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches Brocade Directors and Cisco MDS
  • Working on a project for several high-profile banks and companies based in the United States.
  • Part of the Team that is upgrading over 70 AIX servers running Tivoli Storage Manager from version 5 to version 6
  • Coordinate projects with several Teams based all over the world to maintain 99.999 uptime on their Storage Arrays
  • Work as 3rd Level support for the SAN Team
  • Develop high quality documentation for current SAN configuration that will be a part of the Run-Books

Senior Storage Architect

Confidential

  • Work as a Senior Storage Engineering Consultant for the GOES-R next generation weather satellite. This is a NASA and NOAA Project that involves the configuration of IBM v7000, DS8000 and DCS 3700 SAN Storage Systems. Environment consists of several physical sites totaling over 5 Petabytes of dynamic data.
  • Worked with Harris storage engineers to train and perform knowledge transfer on new hardware.
  • Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers versions 5 and 6 utilizing Emulex CNA adapters for FCoE connectivity
  • Migrated data and servers from existing Hitachi USPVM Storage system to the IBM Storwize v7000 system
  • Created best-practices documentation for their existing SAN environment
  • Performed initial configuration of Cisco Nexus FCoE switches and performed Nexus firmware upgrades
  • Performed initial configuration of IBM DS8000 arrays including MDisk, Volume and Host configurations. Installed software upgrades as required.
  • Performed initial configuration of IBM v7000 arrays including MDisk, Volume and Host configurations. Installed v7000 software upgrades as required.
  • Performed initial configuration of IBM DCS 3700 arrays including expansion configuration, Dynamic Disk Pool creation and all software and firmware updates as required
  • Maintained existing IBM DS4000 and 5000 series arrays
  • Configuration of their VMAX 10k arrays with SRDF
  • Setup and configuration of the Data Domain 800 series units
  • Created multiple Fabrics, Zone sets and VSANS to maintain data integrity and security from Array to Host devices
  • Designed fabric layout in line with strict security requirements for this Government project.
  • Developed high quality documentation for new SAN layout and new SAN configurations
  • Position required Public-Trust Security Clearance

Solutions Architect

Confidential

  • Lead technical resource providing solutions to customer challenges
  • Establish and recommend changes to current SAN configurations for select Razor clients
  • Recommended SAN Best-Practices for select Razor clients
  • Setup and configuration of the Data Domain 800 series units for their corporate clients
  • Designed and implemented several physical to virtual server consolidation projects using VM Ware ESX 4.1. Typical projects ranged from 100 to over 500 physical servers and over 20 ESX hosts in clustered environment.
  • Acted as a Windows Server Engineer for several of Razor's clients who had to supplement their staff with a more senior engineer. Environments consisted of medium to large organizations' and consisted of over 150 physical servers, over 10k users and several sites.
  • Worked with vendors EMC, NetApp, IBM, Hitachi, Cisco, etc. to perform proof-of-concepts for various clients to design the correct IT infrastructure for their needs. for over 20 enterprise level clients
  • Acted as the Check Point Engineer for two of Razor's clients who did not have people on-staff with that knowledge. Tasks included Node creations, Network creations, VPN Tunnel creations, monthly patching and upgrades of their existing Check Point Appliances.
  • Installed and configured several F5 Network Load Balancing appliances for various Razor clients
  • Developed high quality documentation for Razor clients

Senior Storage Engineer

Confidential

  • Troubleshoot and manage problem resolution including root cause analysis of current SAN systems
  • Establish and recommend changes to current SAN configurations.
  • Recommended SAN Best-Practices for all SAN attached devices and Fiber-Channel Arrays.
  • Managed and performance tuned server hardware and operating systems and set up connectivity to EMC CX4 Arrays
  • Participated in SAN Server administration, implementation, security implementation and SAN upgrades
  • Configured current Celerra NAS units to use 10gb Data Movers connected to Cisco Nexus switches
  • Developed high quality documentation for supported infrastructure.
  • Migrated VM Ware ESX Hosts and VMs from NFS storage to Fiber-Channel
  • Performed proof-of-concept for various Storage vendors in bake-off
  • Configured IBM XIV System for product testing
  • Installed and configured NetApp SANscreen application to monitor and report on current Fiber Channel switches, EMC Arrays, all FC connected hosts and VM hotels.
  • Migrated data from existing IBM D Series arrays
  • Performed installation and configuration of EMC VNX 5500 and 7500 arrays, which included: RAID Group design, storage tiering design, Storage Group configuration, Snap View configuration and Mirror View configuration between arrays
  • Designed and implemented the Data Domain 800 series units for replication
  • Maintained and upgraded their existing SAN Switches Brocade 5300
  • Setup and configured Cisco 5108 UCS platform for use with the current VM Ware environment and migrated current ESX hosts to it.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

  • Worked as an engineer on the Testing Lab Team
  • Maintained the VM Ware virtual devices for the Lab
  • Performed several installs of Windows 2003 and 2008 server, which included Active Directory install and configuration, OU and GPO setup, cluster configuration, DFS configuration, Terminal Services configuration and IIS configuration.
  • manipulated domains in existing AD environment and enforce AD infrastructure
  • Offered second and third level technical support and delegated for maintaining all Windows Servers and related technologies.
  • Managed technical services of Windows network infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS and SMS.
  • Provided support for the corporate Testing Lab, which included server backups, new server builds for all projects, maintaining the direct attached storage for all IBM Servers and supporting the other testing engineers for issues elevated from Level 1 and 2 engineers

Senior Systems Engineer / Storage Engineer

Confidential

  • Support technical SAN configurations on EMC platform.
  • Support, maintain, administer, and enhance the infrastructure that supports the CLIENT Help Desk and Network Operations Center NOC .
  • Provide 24x7 3rd level support for the SAN EMC Clariion, Celerra and DMX EDL Backup infrastructure as part of an on call rotational assignment. Models of Clariion ranged from the CX3-10 to the CX4-960 arrays.
  • Worked with existing Storage Engineers to implement Brocade Enterprise level SAN Directors 48000 and Brocade DCX 4s Backbone SAN devices in to current Data Center.
  • Data Center consolidation with the above SAN devices
  • Implementation of Brocade DCFM software
  • Configuration of their VMAX 40k arrays with SRDF between three sites
  • Managed the EMC Celerra NAS units NS-960 to provide storage for various departments and for the VM Ware ESX Hosts. Began to configure system for total unified storage plans.
  • Performed initial configuration of the Celerra arrays and maintained them on a daily basis.
  • Worked with Networking Team to create a high-availability back-end network for the Celerra.
  • Planned, tested and implemented the TSM software upgrade from version 5.5 to version 6 on all backup servers
  • Planned, tested and implemented the TSM software upgrade from version 5.5 to version 6.2 on all TSM clients
  • Created backup policies, storage pools, reclamation policies and schedules for all connected hosts approx. 700 Windows, HPC and Unix devices in accordance with the DOE standards
  • Maintained the EMC EDL array Enterprise Disk Library for all disk to disk archives
  • Support RSA SecurID software and SecurID tokens.
  • Worked with their existing Intel Server Team to: identify servers capable of virtualization, design VM Hotel farm, work with the purchasing staff to order all server hardware, installed vSphere 4 on the ESX Hotel servers, worked with Networking Team to implement Cisco Nexus virtual servers to take advantage of advanced virtual networking technologies, created Server templates while adhering to the strict security directives as documented by the US Dept. of Energy, created VM ESX Hotel clusters to use DRS and HA tools and begin to design the Best-Practices documentation.
  • Perform SAN and TSM administration and reporting activities utilizing EMC Navisphere, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager ISC, Ionix Control Center and EMC Data Protection Advisor.
  • On a daily basis used EMC Control Center to manage Arrays and perform reporting for Managers
  • Installed and configured NetApp SANscreen application to monitor and report on current Fiber Channel switches, EMC Arrays, all FC connected hosts and VM hotels.
  • Trained existing Storage Team in the use of SanScreen and its Reporting module
  • Proactively monitor operational status, capacity and performance of supported Enterprise
  • Participate in maintaining and exercising Disaster Recovery procedures
  • Ensure high quality documentation for supported infrastructure is developed and maintained
  • Provide timely, quality updates for any project work

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Part of the Consulting team for ANSI Advanced Network Systems Inc.

Took lead on two large Virtualization projects 3 months on-site for Law Firms in Center City Philadelphia. Projects consisted of P2V of their current systems approx. 160 total , introduction of an Equal Logic SAN, development and testing of a High-Availability VM environment, training of existing IT Staff in VM Ware software technologies and creation of Best Practices and Daily Activity documentation for their VM Ware Server Farm

Tested performance of applications and server operating systems on ESX versions 3.5 and vSphere 4.

Performed various Storage rollout projects for different companies, which included EMC CX-3 and CX-4 Fiber Channel Storage arrays, Celerra NAS Units ranging from entry-level units to the enterprise class models , proof-of-concept for EMC Centera Content Address Storage units for legal compliance, Equal Logic iSCSI arrays and various Quantum Tape units for off-site storage projects.

Managed technical services of Windows network infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS and SMS.

Migrated obsolete hardware platforms to VMs via VMware Converter.

Provide Active Directory and DNS support based upon requests and issues

Installed EMC Control Center for various clients to maintain their EMC storage solutions, trained staff on its operation and provided documentation for reference.

Promoted best practices by sharing lessons-learned and improvement suggestions with management, technology focus and peer groups.

As directed by managers, traveled to Client sites to perform IT Support, ranging from adding workstations, to setup of Virtual environments, configuration of NAS, DAS or SAN devices, design and test backup procedure, etc.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Engineer for the Chase Card Services Wintel Server Engineering Team.

Lead Engineer for a large Windows Server Cluster project. Worked with Infrastructure, Database, Storage Networking and IP Networking teams to create a multi-node cluster consisting of 39 HP DL380 G5 and DL580 G5 Servers.

Created Run-books to document every step of the cluster configuration process for their other staff engineers.

Responsible for basic run the engine tasks, complex software installations, upgrades and license verifications, fault detection, escalation and repair.

Supplemented their existing VM Ware Engineering Staff as another VM Engineer working on daily tasks, which included: Updating all VM Templates to adhere to JP Corporate server standards, installing and testing new VM Ware patches in their Lab environment then rolling out approved patches to all production Hotels, track all attached LUNs to make sure all storage is used to its fullest potential

Worked to continually update and patch server operating systems to make sure all systems maintained Chase standards.

Provide Active Directory and DNS support based upon requests and issues

Assisted developers with code rollout and operational troubleshooting, identifying opportunities to increase operational efficiency, planning and implementing single system installations, and overall system availability.

Promoted best practices by sharing lessons-learned and improvement suggestions with management, technology related focus groups, and peer groups.

Analyzed, developed, tested and implemented database designs in support of corporate and client technology requirements.

Creation of user home directories and migration of user data from various servers and domains

Routine maintenance and cleanup of server file and directory structure

Responsible for data loading, security, performance monitoring and tuning, capacity planning, backup and recovery for Wintel managed systems.

Production Scheduling Manager

Confidential

Primary responsibility was the scheduling of 5 million dollars of business on a weekly basis. Production runs 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Creation of customized reports for all production plant General Managers 4 plants total

Scheduled hot food items for the US Military on a weekly basis.

I redesigned scheduling program to interface with the Enterprise CRM Systems. Program was a stand-alone Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Senior Server Engineer

Confidential

Part of the Server Engineering Team responsible for maintaining 100 up time on all corporate servers.

Part of On-Call Engineering Team with a weekly rotation schedule to cover the systems 24/7/365.

Migrated 60 physical servers on to four VM Ware Version 3.5 Hotels using Virtual Center. Servers included IIS Servers, Application Servers, Exchange Servers front-end , file servers, print servers and SQL Database Servers.

Designed the VM Ware DR Cluster for the entire organization utilizing the VM technologies: vMotion, DRS and High-Availability tool sets.

Created a VM Ware Best-Practices guide for all future VM roll-outs

Worked with DB Team to design new hardware to fit the needs of a new application they were developing.

Assisted in Application Rollout of a new internal SQL application with the SQL Database Team.

Created scripts to perform a global change of WINS Servers and NTP Server addresses for all corporate servers.

Cleaned up the MS Active Directory Domains, Trusts, OUs and all GPOs attached to them for approx. 600 users and 3 Domains.

Created and maintained MS SQL Database Clusters using MS Cluster Services.

Worked to continually update and patch server operating systems to make sure all systems were up to date.

Responsible for Server testing and deployment to ensure compliance with corporate standards.

Helped establish a full Testing and Development Lab for the IT Staff and Database Developers. Lab consisted of 20 Dell 2850 Servers in a clustered environment attached to an EMC SAN backend.

Installation, upgrade, configuration, maintenance and support for Installation of Server Operating Systems Windows Server 2003 O/S, Linux O/S, Solaris O/S, VM-Ware O/S

Senior Server Engineer

Confidential

Part of the Server Engineering Team responsible for over 15,000 IBM, Dell, HP and Sun Server environment.

Maintain Microsoft Windows, Linux and other technologies in a multi-site environment using various tools.

Helped maintain the VM Ware Hotels and Virtual Servers approx. 300 through the corporate infrastructure

Part of On-Call Engineering Team with a weekly rotation schedule to cover the systems 24/7/365.

Maintained Tivoli Storage Manager within the Shared Services domain. TSM consisted of 5 AIX TSM backup servers and approximately 400 clients.

Installation, configuration and support of Windows 2003 servers utilizing Dell, HP and IBM hardware

Run weekly compliance reports for all servers security status, anti-virus, patches, etc. , and patched systems that needed updates.

Provide project management, installation and documentation of various network upgrades and new installations.

Active Directory planning and management.

Implementation of group policies

Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 and Exchange servers

Responsible for Server testing and deployment to ensure compliance with Wachovia's corporate standards.

Responsible for Pre-Production Server reviews to catch any configuration or security issues before the Server was added to the Production environment.

Installation, upgrade, configuration, maintenance and support for Citrix Presentation Server, Server migrations, Citrix farm administration, ICA client connectivity troubleshooting, Citrix policy implementation including GPOs.

Installation of Server Operating Systems Windows Server 2003 O/S, Linux O/S, Solaris O/S, VM-Ware O/S

Maintain Tivoli Storage Manager for the servers on my Team approx. 2000

Senior Data Engineer

Confidential

Working as a Senior Data Engineer and Consultant for small to large organizations 10 to 5000 user networks

Managed and mentored two other Junior Level Data Engineers.

Responsible for going on-site to design, implement, troubleshoot and maintain various types of Networked environments

Work with Project Managers to design and carry out different projects relating to Corporate and or School networks

Worked with all current clients to identify, design, implement and utilize a VM Ware solution tailored to their specific IT Infrastructure.

Work with and train existing IT Staff on the current VM Ware applications

Meet with prospective clients to find the most cost effective solutions for network upgrades and or installations

Setup MS Active Directory and all of its related processes for Clients i.e., Integrated DNS, DHCP and WINS when there are Network devices that require it.

Resolve Active Directory issues with the MS Tool set metadata cleanup ADSI edit, etc.

Create scripts to implement various options during user login and or logoff.

Setup of Server equipment for Clients from entry-level servers to enterprise level servers.

Design, installation, configuration and maintenance of MS Exchange Server for small to large businesses

Installation of Server Operating Systems Windows Server O/S, Linux O/S, UNIX O/S, VM-Ware O/S and Patches per Clients requests.

Setup of Server monitoring and Configuration software, i.e., Dell OpenManage, IBM Director, HP Open View, etc.

Setup and configuration of Workgroup and Enterprise level NAS and SAN solutions using EMC Clariion Arrays

Provide all tiers of Tech Support to Clients with lower lever or no existing IT Departments.

Create implement and test Disaster Recovery Protocols for Clients.

Helped cross-train current IT Engineers with other technologies.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Developed Disaster Recovery procedures for the City Hall, Fire Department and Emergency Management offices

Designed, implemented and maintained the Fire Department and Emergency Management Network devices, servers and workstations

Managed and cross-trained current IT Staff three people to work with newer Intel technologies.

Answered and performed all level of Help-Desk functions for the City Hall, Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management Networks.

Maintained internal applications run on IIS platform.

Installed and configured Microsoft SMS and MOM Microsoft Operations Manager software

Maintained near 100 up-time for all critical Servers and Applications

Administered the entire Active Directory structure for the City Network

Maintain MS Exchange Exchange 2000 servers for entire City Government.

Developed a testing environment for their Datacenter

Administered their Barracuda Hardware Appliance to filter Email

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Developed and maintained MS SQL and Exchange Clusters with Load-Balancing on their production servers

Acted as their Datacenter Operations Manager with 6 people under me

Wrote policies for their IT Staff on Clustering, Load-Balancing and Server consolidation

Provide project management, installation and documentation of various network upgrades and new installations.

Active Directory planning and management.

Implementation of group policies

Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 and Exchange servers

Assist IT Help-Desk Personnel with Network or Computer related errors or queries

Identified and implemented Server virtualization using VM Ware ESX 2.5 software for several business critical applications using three ESX Hotels and single Virtual Center application server.

Maintained the EMC CX-700 SAN Array and the Brocade Fiber-Channel Switches.

Installation, upgrade, configuration, maintenance and support for Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server

Assist IT Staff with Disaster Recovery plans and Co-location projects with SunGard

Acted as point for their ADP Payroll Software package, including their Network attached Time Clocks

Installed and configured Microsoft SMS and MOM Microsoft Operations Manager software

Worked with their Network Engineers to develop a VLAN structure

Developed a testing environment for their Datacenter

Developed a migration plan of mail and services for 1800 users from Novell GroupWise to Exchange 2003.

Administered their Ironmail Hardware Appliance to filter Email

Director of Information Technology

Confidential

Designed and implemented a 200 user network, spanning two sites

Managed two person Help-Desk Staff and one System Administrator

Implemented Print Industry ERP/CRM Software package EFi Printcafe' and trained ICS personnel on its operation

Rolled-out and maintained GMC PrintNet production software and it's Web Proofing plug-ins

Rolled-out and maintained IBM Infoprint Production Printing Software for ICS Data Center

Converted Data Center from the IBM Mainframe environment to PC Platform processing saving ICS 400k per year in Software Licensing fees and Hardware Support fees.

Designed 10 terabyte Redundant Fiber Channel SAN EMC Clariion CX-300 for ICS Data Center including LUN and RAID setup and disk classification

Maintain 3mbps Dedicated Internet Connection and all hardware involved

Designed corporate Internet and Intranet Web Sites

Designed and maintain Extranet for ICS Clients to check Inventory, Job Status in real-time and the ability for Clients to view their print jobs via a web portal.

Designed a Disaster Recovery Protocol for ICS and some of its clients.

Assist ICS Personnel with Network or Computer related errors or queries

Meet with prospective ICS Clients as deemed necessary by ICS Executives

Meet with VP of R D once a week to discuss IT related changes to the Industry that can save ICS money

Maintain VPN connections for ICS remote users

Maintain building Access Keri Swipe Card Access , Alarm, CCTV and DVR systems

Designed custom reports for Accounting and Production personnel

Maintain Internal and Cellular Phone systems for ICS

Negotiate ISP, Telephone, Cellular and IT Equipment Contracts for ICS with Vendors

Responsible for all IT related company purchases

Designed Corporate Network Policy with HR Department for ICS Personnel Handbook

Account Executive and system administrator

Confidential

Managed several Fortune 500 and 1000 Companies Direct Mail projects

Produced Print-Ready files for Data Center Production Printers

Met with Clients every month for an Account Review

Maintained Data-Collection systems in Production Areas

Co-Administered 25-user Unix Network and Network attached devices

Migrated all Novell GroupWise email accounts over to MS Exchange 5.0

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