OBJECTIVE

Highly self-motivated and goal-oriented professional committed to pursuing a long-term career in the IT Industry. I offer a proven track record in demonstrating excellent customer service skills, analytical and complex problem solving, project management skills, effective communication, and the ability to successfully follow through with projects from inception to completion.

PROFILE IT

professional with over 15 years of experience in the area of storage strategy, storage management, storage processes and procedures, optimization, virtualization, datacenter consolidation and relocation, application data alignment, server virtualization, windows system administration and networking. Demonstrated ability to translate business needs and requirements into sound technical solutions grounded on information lifecycle management for large Banking, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Government, Healthcare and Retail clients with complex environments. SKILLS SUMMARY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Storage Managing Consultant

I'm currently performing an Optimization study for Sony a newly acquired client. The objective is to find opportunities to optimize the Sony storage environment that exists on a global scale. This will be accomplished by performing the following:

• Meet with client to identify data requirements and timelines
• Work with 3rd party vendors to collect storage information:
• Storage Array Information capacity, utilization, support contracts, end of leases
• Collect host information server types, storage capacities, utilization
• Collect application portfolio
• Database types
• SAN configuration
• Analyze collected data and identify gaps
• Review initial findings with customer for data validation
• Work with cross-towers to validate solution opportunities
• Create comprehensive study identifying opportunities to reduce cost by introducing storage tiers, reclaiming unused and orphaned LUNs, archiving older data, classifying data, and virtualizing storage

Storage Assessment-Storage Lead

I was asked to perform a storage assessment for the Federal Reserve's AIX environment. Working with the IBM pSeries team I was tasked with creating an assessment to:

• Identify storage best practice methods for AIX operating systems
• Identify current pSeries and AIX storage performance issues
• Collect storage array and SAN director configurations
• Identify AIX host SAN zoning issues
• Recommend solutions for SAN zoning improvements
• Recommend solutions for resolving identified mixed port speed settings, and low/high utilized SAN ports

Storage Work stream Lead

• Lead Consultant in preforming storage assessments with the objective of examining the client's storage environment to find opportunities for improvement. Each assessment performs the following steps:
• I was asked to come back to the Federal Reserve to assist another IBM group to perform a storage study based on best practices for pSeries hardware and AIX Oct 2014-Dec 2014
• HSCS recently contacted IBM for follow up services from my team to perform a data rationalization assessment 1/20/15 .
• The HCSC Storage Strategy resulted in a 12 million dollar hardware purchase 5/1/14
• I was a member of a small team that created a Storage Strategy for HCSC and the Federal Reserve. The process is similar to the SIO's that I performed however the strategy contains more emphasis around resolving issues, prioritizing scheduled projects, and technology recommendations that are translated into roadmaps and implementation timelines.
• Analysis of data:
• Present to customer to validate
• Review with internal team
• Initial findings document
• Strategy documentation
• Capital costs
• Operating costs
• Policy and Procedural documentation
• Backup environment disk capacity, application metrics, tape capacity
• SAN connected server capacity
• SAN switches
• Storage environment Arrays, Switches
• Collect Data from:
• Helpdesk ticket submission process
• Management Storage Director, CEO, CFO
• Database Architects
• Capacity Planning Team
• Server Teams
• Storage Admins
• Storage Architects
• Conduct interviews with:
• My job responsibilities were to collect data from the storage environment to calculate the amount of space that will be needed for the target locations. I met with the Staples storage team and discussed the data collection requirements. I held several meetings to review data collected and initial capacity numbers. I also helped with the data analysis for the Intel and Unix Platforms and combined all data through an Access database. Once the data collection was complete I created an Assessment containing the migration options and chosen migration paths for all servers within the environment and estimated storage capacity requirements for target datacenter locations.
• Creation of Optimization roadmap

Project Lead for Data Rationalization work-stream which is one part of a large datacenter consolidation project. Our team conducted interviews to validate or gather data. The purpose of this task is to validate existing, or gather additional information required by IBM to analyze the storage and backup environment. Our team is to make recommendations for classifying data, storage tiers, storage elimination opportunities, and recommendations for Sutter Health Standardization. Sutter is comprised of 8 DC's and the goal is to consolidate eight into two DC's. Our team is responsible for:

• Creating a macro level overview of the Sutter Health Storage environment
• Analyzing the data collected from interviews/workshops, and detailed storage management data provided.
• Deliverable Definition :
• Macro level current state of the data within the Storage environment
• Develop recommendations and reasoning for improvements for the future state of the storage environment specifically providing recommendations on the following:
• Elimination of existing data pool due to non-access
• Identify data required by development and test environments
• Identify virtualization candidates to reduce direct access storage
• Identify de-duplication candidates on NAS and backups
• Identify thin-provisioning capabilities with a reduction of SAN allocations
• Additional recommendations and the associated benefits of these recommendations for data retention, elimination, and other as appropriate.
• Prepare a report which explains the current state of Sutter Health data, classification guidelines, define, give reasoning, and provide benefit statements for IBM recommendations.
• As Technical Lead I oversee the implementation of 7 work streams that make up a plan for optimizing the storage environment for WellPoint Health Care. In addition to managing these work streams I work closely with other WellPoint Project Teams to coordinate the use of resources, outage windows, and information. Below are the 7 work streams that are made up of separate teams and separate deliverables 60 :
• SVC Implementation and Deployment-Implementation Complete-Deploying
• Application Right Tiering
• Implementation and Deployment of TPC
• Implementation of Enterprise Standard Procedures
• Implementation of HSM Archiving migration and Policy recommendations
• Implementation of Optim Enterprise Policies and Standards
• Storage Service Catalog Standardization Framework

Two additional tasks I'm running:

• Finding a methodology for deleting files after retention policies have expired.
• Finding a methodology for shrinking file systems after archiving.

The primary objective is to design and implement the SVC appliance in the WellPoint environment to provide a virtual storage layer between server and array in two datacenters. The implementation phase of this project is complete and the deployment phase is in full roll-out mode.

Responsibilities:

• Create Project Plan
• Create Phased Approach Design Document includes Rack diagrams, San Diagrams, Architectural Recommendations, Net New provisioning, migration procedures
• Hold weekly meetings with Wellpoint Data Center Facility Technicians, Storage Refresh Team, Client Architects, and IBM internal Architects
• Verify SAN Switch, and Storage Array compatibility with SVC code level
• Install and Configure two 8 node SVC Clusters. One in St. Louis MO and the other in Richmond VA
• Create Naming Conventions Document
• Create Test Plan
• Define Managed Disk Groups per Class of Service via Storage Service Catalog
• Develop knowledge transfer documentation
• Integrate SVC provisioning processes into existing policies and procedures
• Created Two Year Storage Virtualization Schedule for all Arrays within St. Louis MO and Richmond VA datacenters
• Align storage virtualization with another work stream application retiering so that we not only virtualize the storage but also move that data to the appropriate class of storage
• The purpose of this project is to properly align 50 Critical Applications with specific tiers of storage for the National Bank of Canada. The output of this exercise are three main deliverables AAR app. alignment report , BIA business impact analysis and SSC storage service catalog . In order to create these documents we are doing the following:
• Identify 50 of the most critical applications
• Hold interviews with Business Owners, Application Owners, and Infrastructure Owners for each application
• Capture detailed information on data valuation, availability, allocation requirements, performance, operational recovery objectives, disaster recovery objectives, data security, compliance and data mobility requirements of the applications
• Capture detailed information on operating systems, HA information, replication configurations, and database configuration
• Data analysis and Initial Findings Report
• Development of AAR,BIA, and SSC Deliverables
• Executive Presentation of Deliverables

The assessment was performed by measuring the Architectural Complexity of the storage environment by following 8 specific metrics and scoring the customer on those metrics. Once the assessment and findings are documented I perform a gap analysis. The deliverable for the assessment was a document with our findings and our recommendations for remediation. The recommendations were for short term quick improvements over a 6 month to 1 year timeline and for a longer period of 3 years. The customer also requested a storage strategy document. The storage strategy document consisted of the proper steps for ensuring successful projects that were in progress and a 5 year outlook of recommendations for the environment. To gather all the information needed to perform the Assessment we held interviews:

• Interviewed CTO for business view and goals
• Datacenter Redundancy
• SAN
• Storage Arrays
• Interviewed Technical Personnel to gather information about:
• Interviewed Storage Project Managers for view of current projects
• Procedural Processes
• Pain Points
• Skill Alignment
• Training

MCF Storage Assessment Lead Engineer

The assessment was performed by measuring the Architectural Complexity of the storage environment by following 8 specific metrics and scoring the customer on those metrics. Once the assessment and findings are documented I perform a gap analysis. The deliverable for the assessment was a document with our findings and our recommendations for remediation. The recommendations were for short term quick improvements over a 6 month to 1 year timeline and for a longer period of 3 years. The customer also requested a re-write of their existing storage strategy document. The re-write was the process of taking the customers future projects and plan to revamp the current datacenter and reinforcing them with the recommendations we wrote in our assessment. To gather all the information needed to perform the Assessment we held interviews:

• Interviewed Infrastructure Manager for view of datacenter direction and goals
• Interviewed Storage Team manager to gather information about:
• Pain Points
• Skill Alignment
• Storage Goals
• Process and Procedures
• Current Projects
• Interviewed Operations Team to gather information about:
• Daily workload and Work Processes
• Pain Points
• Technical Documentation
• Training
• Interview Technical Staff to gather information about:
• Storage Arrays
• SAN
• Tools
• Process and Procedures
• Pain Points
• Personal Goals
• Training
• Skill Alignment

Capacity Plan and Design Storage Architect

I was part of a team that architected a Storage solution for an Advance Metering System AMS . We performed storage capacity planning for 3.5 million meters that would be sending data to local Datacenter every 15 minutes over a 4 year period. This included the collaboration of many teams for data requirements of Databases and other applications within the AMS environment. Storage Capacity included Retention guidelines, RTO/RPO guidelines, Replication, Backups, and Disaster Recovery. Hardware recommendations for SAN and Network were included in the overall deliverable. We designed the hardware of new Infrastructure layout via Visio diagrams. Software recommendations for Support Tools were also included in the Final Deliverable and Executive Presentation.

-Data Migration Project Lead

Migrated 400TB of data from IBM DS4800's to IBM Data Direct Networks DDN S2A9550's, then copied all data from DDN9550 in New Jersey to another DDN9550 in Tennessee for offsite recovery. Processes involved for migration:

• Creation of Stornext file systems
• Mounting of Stornext file systems on Linux Metadata controllers
• Creation of Linux Unix bash scripts for file system copies using Stornext CVCP commands
• Creation Rsync's scripts to maintain up-to-date file systems
• Cisco Fabric Zoning
• Creation of file system documentation

Enterprise SAN Architect/Texas State University Infrastructure as a member of the Infrastructure teams I provided support for two on-site Datacenters: Hardware includes:

• Three HP EVA Sans' two 5000's,one 8000
• Two HDS NSC Arrays
• One HDS AMS Array
• SAN connectivity for Single Fabric Management Cisco MDS9509
• HP Blade Centers BL20p, Dell Servers 1850's,2950's,6850's, IBM 3850 Servers
• Enterprise File Servers
• VMware Virtual Environment and Support for Off-Site Offices.

Projects:

Datacenter Consolidation and Virtualization Architected a new solution for the current server hardware by virtualizing servers using VMware thus improving utilization and reducing the datacenter footprint.

Procedures involved:

• Designed virtual environment hardware layout
• Designed virtual configurations
• Implemented VMware Infrastructure 3 HA, DRS, Vmotion
• Implemented Production Environment on 6 IBM 3850's load balanced between two datacenters
• Implemented Test Dev Environment on Dell 2950 hardware
• Documented all configurations and processes of virtual environment
• Enterprise File Server - Provided Texas State University Staff with File Services. I built two-node cluster active-passive on Windows 2003 and installed Server File Services, VSS, and DFS. Hardware used HP bl20p Blades.
• Web Application Server - Configured Web Application and Sql backend Database for internal department and used Virtual Windows 2003 Server, and a
• Tiered Storage Virtualization and Consolidation - Re-Architected current Fiber Storage. Goal was to provide the University with a 3 tiered storage environment. Procedures involved were:
• Data Classification
• Implementation and Configuration of 2 HDS NSC55's Virtual Storage Controllers
• Implementation of 1 HDS AMS200 SATA Storage
• Configuration of SAN fabric
• Selection of servers and storage for migration
• Updating of multipath software and storage drivers on servers
• Virtualization of File Server LUN's, Exchange 2003 LUN's, and VMware LUN's from Fiber to SATA
• Project Member-Email Archive Project, Project Role: Provide recommendation decision on Software vendor, Architect Storage requirements, Implement recommended Servers and Storage.
• Previous to providing support for the datacenters, I supported Campus departmental Servers and Infrastructure covering 20 departments I also instructed technical staff, sometimes in a classroom setting. In addition, I assisted faculty, staff and students regarding various aspects of computer hardware, software using local workstations as well as to access campus network resources and the Internet. This assistance includes analyzing, diagnosing, and problem solving for a variety of various network servers and workstations, and administration of LANS. Network operation systems include Windows Server 2003, Windows NT, 2000, 98, as well as Macintosh OS and AppleTalk. When a call is received I determine if a staff member in the department can solve it and dispatch that person. If there is not someone in the department qualified to handle it, then I will provide the analysis and solution.