Senior Technical Consultant Resume Profile

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL

Open Systems skills and Subject Matter Expert in areas of enterprise servers and storage
Expert in design, implementation, documentation and training for solutions hardware and software for small, mid and large-scale businesses, clients, and data centers. Served several years as technical consultant jointly responsible for managing large consolidation of SAN storage affecting over 2800 servers. Strong background ranging from hands-on experience to managing projects to successful completion.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Technical Consultant IV

Working with various lines of business to ensure critical data is protected to meet business/regulatory requirements. Validate backup requirements for various versions of UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. Mapped backup infrastructure to fulfill documented requirements. Involved in design and implementation of NetBackup master/media servers and clients per backup requirements. Mentor coworkers in backup and recovery environment. Implemented NetApp Open Systems SnapVault/Avamar clients per backup requirements.
Implemented disaster recovery backup/restore environment on new Data Domain platform for large SAP environment for major bank and continue to be lead for environment.
Ensured backup implementations were completed within SLAs each year for hundreds of assigned projects and thousands of servers for major bank.

Confidential

Vice President / CNSLT - Systems Engineer

Worked with various lines of business to ensure critical data is protected to meet business/regulatory requirements. Validated backup requirements for various versions of UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. Mapped infrastructure to fulfill documented backup requirements. Submitted for quote and EMF backup hardware. Responsible for implementation of NetBackup master/media servers and clients per backup requirements. Documented implementation processes.
Contributed to streamlining business process to request, validate, track, and implement backup requests for hundreds of projects and thousands of servers by contributions to business process improvements.

Vice President / CNSLT - Systems Engineer

Member of storage optimization team tasked with coordinating annual refresh of storage arrays, requiring migration of thousands of servers from old to new storage, while minimizing impact to hundreds of enterprise applications.
Collaborated with vendors, BAC teams, and application teams to schedule servers for migration, meeting go-dark dates for old hardware, reducing financial penalties and contributing to documented processes.
Created storage optimization SQL database, tracking storage-migration efforts.
Migrated thousands of servers from existing modular, monolithic, and network-attached disk storage to replacement EMC storage, consolidating server storage to reach run-rate savings from lease stream and maintenance costs which realized over 5 MM in savings.
Coordinated replacement of targeted storage arrays with newer arrays, decreasing amount of storage from 908 TB to 518 TB during consolidation of arrays from 73 to 22 in 9 data centers for project.
Coordinated efforts with lines of business, system/storage/SAN/application resources, migrating from existing disk storage to replacement optimized disk storage.

Confidential

Client Solutions Consultant

Implemented IT solutions on various versions of UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows running on platforms ranging from blade servers to Sun Fire 15k servers. Handled architecture, design, documentation, and implementation of enterprise system, storage, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. Solutions consisted of Sun enterprise servers, Sun/NetApp enterprise storage and Symantec/VERITAS product solutions.
Designed and implemented enterprise storage, backup, server, and cluster solutions for numerous clients, fulfilling critical business/regulatory requirements and increasing business efficiency and profitability.
Documented and trained clients on implemented solutions, allowing clients to manage new environments.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Implemented IT solutions on various versions of storage, Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Windows running on platforms from blade servers to Sun Fire 15k servers.
Replaced older Sun Cluster solution with Veritas Cluster solution for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department, ensuring databases were available 24/7/365 for crime data.
Implemented new NetBackup solution for Sealed Air providing data protection for a heterogeneous environment including SAP.
Contributed technical content to SOWs that landed solution deals.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Engineer

FIRST DATA CORPORATION HEALTH SYSTEMS GROUP/American Express

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Programmer

Technical Skills

Systems	Solaris/SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, XENIX, Linux, Microsoft Windows
Hardware	Sun 12K/15K, Netra 210/240/440, V480/V490, V880/V890, V1280, V240, V440, E250, E450, E280r, HP9000/800, Intel/AMD based.
Storage	Avamar, Brocade, EMC, Data Domain, NetApp, Sun/StorageTek, VERITAS Foundation Suite , Raid, ADIC, SpectraLogics, Sun Volume Manager
Networking	TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, Ethernet
Programming	ksh, PERL, Borne-shell shell scripting, PL/1, Assembly Lang., Pascal, Smalltalk, BASIC, Unibasic, IRIS Basic
Other	Data Protection Advisor DPA , HBSM, ACSLS, Samba, SSH, VERITAS Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, VERITAS NetBackup including database and application agents , VERITAS Storage Migrator, Microsoft Office SQL, Office Suite . Design, Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery, and System Administration