Professional Experience

Confidential

Enterprise Storage Engineer II

• Full-time employee of Confidential to provide storage engineering solutions for a Cisco UCS and Vmware virtual environment in support of the Confidential medical application for Confidential in a production and disaster recovery environment, along with 7 regional datacenters located throughout Confidential, storage infrastructure included EMC CX4-960,VNX, VNX2,VMAX 20K, XtremIO and Isilon storage arrays, VPlex, Celerra VG8, Brocade DS3000, DCX and Cisco MDS 9710 enterprise directors, duties included maintenance of Centera storage arrays migrating medical imaging data to the Atmos platform, support of Timefinder and RecoveryPoint solutions for Backup and Restore. Primary resource for setting-up Celerra VG8 with VMAX 20K backend for replication of file data on 7 VNX 5300 from regional datacenters for DR solution.

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Performance Monitoring Engineer

• Contracted to Confidential through Confidential to develop capacity planning and performance monitoring practice for Citi for 500 PB of storage worldwide on Confidential arrays utilizing Confidential, and Watch4Net, Cisco's NXOS 5.6.2 and Prime Datacenter Network Manager , Confidential Hi Command, Tuning Manager, IBM's XIV GUI, and BMC's Apature, responsibilities included assisting developing a requirement to identify storage metrics for SAS application and evaluating EMC SRM suite including Watch4net, IntelliMagic Vision and Direction as well as Virtual Instruments applications.

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MDS 9500 SAN Engineer

• Contracted by Confidential to perform 3rd level engineering support for 480 Cisco MDS 9500 Directors 85,000 ports worldwide , setting up Confidential with AAA and TACACS , support for the planning and documenting IOA Cluster Migration to IPFC Run Book, PowerPoint presentation for DCNM Performance Monitoring presentation, identifying commands to perform Fabric Health Check and include in Rover administration program.

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Storage Implementation Engineer

• Contracted to ConfidentialTechnologies to perform Confidential storage arrays, job is 75 travel, once on-site duties included setting-up cabinets, cabling hardware, zoning Cisco UCS C200 Blade servers to VNX storage arrays with Cisco MDS 9148 fibre channel directors, create storage pools, Confidential groups and LUNS, register Cisco C200 blade3 servers HBAs and associate storage to ESXi hosts, register PowerPath, submit data collection generated from VCE's CGS scripts Version Tool, complete acceptance testing and obtain customers sign-off.

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Storage Engineer

• TEK Systems contracted to Confidential to allocate storage with the Fiber Attached Storage Build Team in more than 11 datacenters nationwide, responsibilities include assigning, FA port on EMC arrays for new systems to be installed in infrastructure, fulfilling storage requests for new and existing systems on EMC DMX, VMAX and CLARiiON arrays, experience includes EMC's Open Replicator to migrate data from older arrays to newer VMAX platform, other considerations for allocations include multi-tiered storage allocations, TimeFinder/Clone and SRDF/A disaster recovery requirements, additional tasks include reclaiming storage, submitting request for change through the Maximo application, and allocation of storage through Confidential automated batch processing application called Masters.

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Senior Storage Administrator

• Contracted by Confidential storage worldwide in 8 datacenters, responsibilities include assessing new systems to be installed in infrastructure, SAN port assignment on CiscoMDS9500 series directors for new systems, storage allocations for new and existing systems on DMX, CLARiiON and IBM XIV arrays, other considerations for allocations include multi-tiered storage, VMware, TimeFinder and SRDF/A, additional tasks include decommissioning servers, reclaiming storage, on-call storage resource responsible for troubleshooting storage related issues and performing corrective actions, additional areas of expertise include documentation and cross training of a SOP for SAN Port Assignment for GEs technical documentation library.

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PC Consultant

• Hardware and software maintenance and upgrades, installing applications, patching operating systems, upgrading operating system release levels, performance tuning, virus and malware removal, backup and restore of customers data, designed and integrated a Facebook business web page with a twitter connecter for small business implementation.

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Storage Operations Team Lead

• Contracted to Citizens Property Insurance through EMC as a Resident Storage Resource for staff augmentation to assist in SAN implementation and data migrations. Responsibilities included change control, ad hoc storage allocation, and after hours support. Principal resource for developing and documenting Enterprise Storage work flow and Disaster Recovery procedures. Also while at Citizens I was the Celerra SME configuring network interfaces, virtual datamovers CIFS/NFS servers, mountpoints and filesystems, allocating storage and managing replication ver2 for Confidential located in Confidential, secondary resource for Centera, allocating pools to applications, exporting pfile and additional storage to existing applications. Responsible for documenting enterprise storage processes related to Change Control, Incident Management, and Problem Escalation.

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Senior Storage Administrator

• Contracted through Confidential, Inc to Confidential Company by Confidential as a data migration specialist to assist IBM Professional Service to perform data migrations from Symmetrix to DMX, responsibilities included allocate storage, configuring devices for SRDF, perform zoning to multiple arrays, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.

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Senior Storage Administrator

• Contracted to Confidentials to assist in data center migration and deployment of a new DMX3 array, responsibilities included administration of ECC, allocate storage, monitoring alerts, set data collection policies and alert thresholds, responsible for testing and verifying device configuration recommendation to enhance the DMX performance for mission critical database.