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Summary of Qualifications

Over 20 years experience in Information Technology Storage and Systems Administration. Expertise in planning, installation, configuration, management and disaster recovery of complex Information Storage and Unix based Systems. Crisis management expert with over 20 years of experience in systems and storage technology issues. Proven technical troubleshooter. Outstanding interpersonal, team oriented and mentoring skills.

Technical Expertise

Storage Area Network SAN Administration:	Brocade, Cisco, McData directors and switches
Systems Administration:	AIX 5x, 6x, 7x, HP-UX 11.xx, Linux Red Hat 5,x, 6.x, SLES 10, 11, Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10,11, Windows Server 2003 R2, 2012 R2
Disaster Recovery	DR configuration, Remote site management, Data Mirroring, Data Migration
Test Lead:	Test planning, project management, product core development team member
Storage Arrays and NAS:	XIV, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000 Disk Arrays, IBM SONAS and NAS appliances
IBM Tape Storage libraries and drives:	TS3500, TS4500, TS3310, TS3200, TS3200, TS2900, TS3580, TS7620, TS11xx, TS22xx, TS23xx
Backup Solutions:	Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Netbackup, Symantec Backup Exec, EMC Legato Networker
Clustering Solutions:	Veritas VxFS, VxVM, VCS, HP Serviceguard

Professional Experience

Confidential

Staff Engineer

System Administration Installed, configured, and managed AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows server systems to attach to IBM storage arrays and tape storage products via SCSI, FC, iSCSI, NFS, NAS and FCoE.
Storage Administration Attached, configured, and tested IBM Tape and Disk storage products. Tested TS3500, TS3310, TS3200, TS3100, TS7620 tape libraries, TS11xx, TS22xx and TS23xx drives, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000 and XIV disk arrays, IBM SONAS and NAS appliances.
Clustering Solutions Installed, configured and managed Veritas and HP Serviceguard solutions to test IBM disk and tape storage products..
Test Coordinator - Responsible for test coordination with our firmware development group for IBM's TS3500, TS4500 and TS7620 tape libraries, TS11xx drives. Managed test cycles and wrote test plans to ensure proper test coverage of the product. Deliver status updates to upper management on readiness of the product and if release schedule would be met.
Core team member of the Product Development Team PDT for TS3500, TS7620 tape libraries and TS11xx tape drives. The team would manage product development cycle and determine go or no go status of the product for general release.
Tested Data Mirroring failover and failback scenarios on IBM Disk Arrays.
Developed configuration scripts to configure data mirroring configurations that would take 3 days to configure down to 2 hours.
Project Management Set schedules, milestones and drove testing to ensure complete product testing before targeted release dates.
ISV Test Coordinator Coordinated testing with Symantec, Tivoli, and Legato to test IBM storage products with vendor's backup solutions TSM, Netbackup, Backupexec, and Networker .
Installed, configured, and managed Netbackup and TSM Master and media servers to simulate real world backup environments.
Created Netbackup, TSM, Networker backup policies as well as adhoc backups to backup attached SCSI, iSCIS, FcoE, FC, NFS and NAS disk storage to IBM tape libraries and drives.
Virtual Environments Installed, configured and managed Vmware, HyperV, and KVM virtual environments.
Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system, and reported defects to software developers.
Followed up with developers to ensure high severity defects were addressed and corrected in a timely manor.
Reviewed software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.
Wrote and maintained test scripts using perl, bash, ksh, or csh shells to automate backup testing of IBM storage products to simulate customer production environments.
Technical Support - Worked with IBM product field engineers to expedite and resolve technical issues which impacted IBM customers and was considered the team's subject matter expert with Symantec, Tivoli and EMC backup solutions.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Documented software defects, using a bug tracking system, and reported defects to software developers.
Followed up with developers to ensure high severity defects were addressed and corrected in a timely manor.
Reviewed software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.

Confidential

System Administrator

Performed installs, upgrades, configuration and management of IT infrastructure.

Confidential

System Administrator

Performed installs, upgrades, configuration and management of IT infrastructure.

Confidential

Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class

Performed Test and repair of communication and Navigation system in Naval Aviation Aircraft.

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