SAN Administrator Resume Profile, FL - Hire IT People

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Forward thinking professional of systems and networking technologies with strong emphasis on team building, process improvement, and project management. Diverse and extensive experience with designing, building, and managing storage networks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior SAN Engineer

Project lead to migrate/virtualize existing Hitachi USP-V LUNs to new VSP array using Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager
Upgrade Brocade FOS on 4 new DCXs and configure zoning.
Consolidate storage pools to increase overall array utilization and simplify provisioning.
Provided SAN documentation and 'Run Book' procedures.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Expand and manage the Burlington Northern Santa Fee multi-site SAN environment, consisting of multiple Brocade SAN's and SAN Volume Controller SVC clusters, back ended by several storage tiers including: DS8K's, XIV's, and V7K's.
Team lead for the enterprise implementation of Tivoli TPC as the primary source for infrastructure storage inventory and billing.
Project lead to perform the migration from the existing single tier to a multi tier storage environment.
Project manager for the implementation of 'high volume' storage projects including VMWare and SAP.

Confidential

SAN Architect

Design and implement new enterprise SAN consisting of DS8100,XIV, Brocade 48K's, 2145 SAN Volume Controller SVC , 3584 Tape Library, and existing CX400. Implement Symantec Veritas NetBackup to replace Backup Exec.
Project Manager to define the city's DR/BC plan and establish RTO/RPO with each division and develop, implement and test the master plan.
Project Manager for multiphase project plan to: 1 Relocate existing SAN and production servers to Terramark Category 5 facility in downtown Miami. 2 Replace relocated SAN with Brocade 5K's, new SVC, and DS4700. 3 Install new DS4700, Brocade 5K's, SVC, and 3576 Tape Library at city's new Emergency Operations Facility. 4 Create logical SAN's for all 3 sites using Brocade 7500 FCIP routers via the city's new 10GigE WAN for Flash Copy and Metro Mirror implementation.

Confidential

Senior Storage Systems Engineer

Senior IT Storage Specialist supporting Storage Sales Teams and customers to explore and define specific areas for cost/performance improvement in their existing or planned IT infrastructure. Key focus on Infrastructure Simplification, Information Lifecycle Management, and Business Continuance

JAMES HANKEY

Assisted customers in creating tactical and strategic road maps to exploit benefits of tiered storage, virtualization SAN Volume Controller , and the IBM 'On-Demand' architecture

Confidential

SAN Architect Project Manager

Project Manager for extensive data center relocation and consolidation of all SAN and Storage related systems.
Technical Project Manager for migration of Symantec Master Catalog from Dunedin, Fl. location to a new Master Cluster in Oldsmar, Fl. Data Center using existing extended SAN Fabrics

Confidential

Principal Technology Consultant

Designed, implemented, managed, and documented multiple SANs Storage Area Networks utilizing multi-vendor products from Brocade, McData, IBM, CNT, Qlogic, and Emulex.
Trained storage group in methods of managing storage pools, storage consolidation, and data migration techniques between heterogeneous servers

TECHNICAL/COMPUTER SKILLS

Hardware: Most IBM Storage related subsystems, SAN Volume Controllers SVC and Brocade SAN components. Hitachi USPV and VSP
Operating Systems: Windows NT/2K/2K3/2K8 Server Advanced Server MSCS
Management Software: Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager, Web Tools, and CLI.
IBM DS, XIV, V7K Storage Manager, SAN Volume Controller SVC , Total Productivity Center TPC TPCR , Metro/Global Mirror, Flash Copy, and Tivoli Storage Manager TSM
Symantec NetBackup 6.x and 7.x, Bare Metal Restore, Storage Foundation SFHA VxVM and VCS
Hitachi Storage Navigaton, Configuration Suite, Device Manager, and Tiered Storage Manager.

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