Career Profile:

I am a seasoned storage professional with 13 years of enterprise SAN experience architecting and supporting enterprise storage solutions including data protection, data replication and disaster recovery.

Accomplishments:

• Provided team leadership for data protection in a large engineering and ERP environment with over 9 PB of storage.
• Deployed EMC RPA replication solution for SAP environment that reduced RPO and RTO from hours to minutes.
• Point person for disaster readiness efforts. These efforts resulted in complete disaster readiness documentation and reduced time to recovery in successive disaster recovery tests.
• Provided leadership for several large datacenter move projects and managed infrastructure teams to complete complicated changes on time.

Key Technical Skills:

• SAN - EMC VNX 7500/7600/5700, Clariion FC4700/CX700/CX600/CX500, Engenio 3498, 6998, IBM DS4800/5000, NetApp v6240/3240, OnTap 8.x 7 mode Unisphere, PowerPath, SANTricity storage manager, Solarwinds Storage Manager
• Data Protection - EMC RecoverPoint, EMC VNX file replication, EMC Mirrorview, Snapview, SANCopy,
• Backup technologies IBM TSM V6.x, Symantec NetBackup v6.x-7.x, NetBackup Vault
• Backup Hardware solutions IBM Protectier, Quantum DXi, Quantum tape libraries, IBM Protectier.
• SAN Management DCFM/EFCM, Connectrix Manager, Native Brocade management tools, Cisco SAN management.
• NAS NetApp filers OnTap as well as EMC VNX

Employment:

Confidential

Principal Storage Architect

• Backup Lead for storage team with 12 employees globally utilizing Symantec NetBackup and IBM TSM
• Coordinated activities/upgrades across a global team
• Established and implemented global standardization of backup environments including:
• Standard hardware platforms for tape as well as master/media servers.
• Data retention time based on company retention policies.
• Responsible for complete data protection for the company, meet with senior management monthly to review reporting and ensure that all data was protected to company defined SLA's.
• Support and engineering of ERP storage infrastructure including:
• Implementation of EMC RecoverPoint solution for 12 TB SAP environment
• Proof of concept testing and implementation of RPA in production, coordination with DBA, UNIX and Network teams to migrate data to EMC and enable replication from Allentown PA to Colorado Springs CO.
• Full DR testing for all applications/Databases in the environment.
• Part of the support/implementation team associated with archive project utilizing Panzura cloud gateway.
• Worked with other team members to evaluate Twinstrata cloud gateway for use in the environment.
• Served as spokesperson for the storage team to senior management.
• Documented processes for recovering key business and engineering systems.
• Worked with other teams within IT to ensure that processes were concise and clear ensuring that any DR activity would be successful.
• Cloud storage
• Point person for storage disaster recovery documentation and process development.
• Provided team leadership for two large datacenter moves. Ensuring that all storage and backup systems were online and functional post-move
• Day to day administration and Troubleshooting - EMC VNX for block and NAS storage, RecoverPoint, NetApp Filers, Engenio Storage, Symantec NetBackup.
• Responsible for Solarwinds Storage Manager architecture, installation and configuration in an environment with 80 storage arrays.

Confidential

Team Lead Unix/Linux/Storage/Backup/VMWare

Responsibilities included:

• Management of a team of 8 UNIX/Linux/Storage system administrators.
• Management of on-site consultants working on various projects and initiatives including a large datacenter move including hardware and software refresh.
• Lead in design and implementation of VMWare environment to support key revenue generating E-commerce web sites.
• Administration of storage including IBM DS4800, EMC NS480 and IBM SVC.
• Supported Brocade 4900, 2040 and IBM M48 Brocade 48000 class switches.
• Participated in company disaster recovery tests that showed improved recovery time at each test.
• Worked in cross functional teams that reviewed IT solutions to support the business.

Confidential

Technical Services Manager

• Management of 13 staff members supporting Oracle, SQL databases, SAN, and UNIX/Linux administration. DBA/System administration staff
• Assists in decision making regarding high availability/cluster solutions.
• Work with multiple vendors to evaluate new technologies for use at VWR.

Confidential

Maintech Supporting Agere Systems/LSI

Storage Team Lead providing tier 3-4 Support

• Leadership role in a team of 5 administrators handling all SAN and NAS storage as well as backup systems supporting Agere Systems/LSI worldwide.
• Assisted with evaluation of new technology/hardware for corporate use.
• Served as an escalation point for all critical issues for the group. Provided technical leadership when working to problem resolution.
• Responsible for configuration, architecture and troubleshooting of EMC storage supporting ERP. Clariion CX700, CX600, CX500 and FC4700
• Support of Engenio and NetApp storage.
• Designed of McData SAN Switch architecture to support disaster recovery capability as well as fiber tape backups between two corporate datacenters
• Support of Veritas NetBackup and HP Omniback.

Confidential

Senior UNIX System Administrator/SAN Administrator

• On-site support for 90 enterprise class Sun Solaris, HP and Linux servers in an ERP environment
• Shell scripting.
• Lead role in two data migration projects:
• Migration of data from EMC Symmetrix 8730 to EMC Clariion CX600/700 storage.
• Lead in implementation and support of new SAN infrastructure supporting Oracle RAC.
• Worked with other teams to establish a disaster recovery plan for business critical systems.
• SAN switching and storage administration.

Confidential

Support Center Tools Administrator Lucent Technologies

• Development and administration of Remedy Call Tracking System and Primus knowledge base
• Customized and deployed Remedy Help Desk 4.0 and Change Request system used at all North American sites
• Basic UNIX system Administration. Solaris 2.5.1/2.6

Confidential

• Tier one Oracle application Phone support At Lucent Microelectronics.
• Supported global Oracle application roll out.