SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and experienced senior IT professional with a proven record leading the design, development and implementation of advanced enterprise systems and tools for the efficient and effective management of sophisticated enterprise systems. Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a fast paced environment. Exceptionally strong communication, collaboration, and teamwork capabilities used to drive consensus among diverse stakeholders and bring projects to fruition. Advanced technical and project management skills.
• EMC vMAX - have been working on multiple(hundreds) vMAX systems utilizing symcli and Unisphere to manage. Creation of initiator groups, replacing wwn in zones and IG’s for HBA replacements. Resync SRDF copies when SRDF errors out due to write IO overrun. Created and destroyed Meta’s in allocating and un-allocating LUNs. Created SRDF pairs for VMWare SRM replication.
• Switches - Work with both Cisco and Brocade in managing FC connectivity. Have setup both vendors switches from scratch. Have saved configs and restored/imported configs. Expert with the GUI and CLI of both vendors. Have upgraded the FW for both and have designed and implemented FCIP tunnels on both. Utilizes the change management feature of config backup for making changes as changes should never be made in the active config. Have performed fabric migrations to new gear forcing single pathing of IO thereby moving the off lined path to the new gear and then reverting the paths to multipath. Built out scripts to populate new switches with wwn’s/aliases and zones prior to move.
• VMWare - have worked with VMWare since 3.5 and currently up to 6.0. Created DC and built ESX/ESXi hosts. Have used P2V to move DC to virtual from physical. Have run migrations using SVM and Have setup SRM with EMC and HDS gear.
• HDS - worked on HDS gear since the Thunder/Lighting series 9500v arrays. Expert in CCI/HORCM/raidcom administration. Have performed numerous migrations to and from HDS gear using Tiered Storage Manager(TSM). Have designed DR/BC solutions around HDS gear. Have virtualized EMC equipment to provide BE storage for VSP and VSP G1000 arrays.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows 2012 Server, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 2008 Server, VMWare 5.x/6.x,RHEL.

Tools: / Databases: Veritas Volume Manager, Symantec Storage Foundations, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Office 2013 (Word, Excel, Access, Project, Outlook, FrontPage), Visio, Publisher, MMC, Microsoft Exchange, DB2, FTP, TCP/IP, Cisco VPN, NetBackup 8.0, CommVault, Brocade, Cisco MDS, Putty.Hardware: HDS Enterprise and Modular Series of Storage Arrays, HDS HNAS(formerly BlueArc), EMC Isilon Clustered Storage Arrays, NetApp, EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, Data Domain DDR Appliances, HP 3Par, HP EVA, MA and MSA Storage Arrays. HP Servers, Dell Servers, IBM DSxxxx series arrays, IBM SVC, EqualLogic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have taken over All Storage Assets and developed capacity planning reports, migrated vfilers to new controllers, allocated NFS and CIFS shares, managed dual access protocols. Managed snapmirrors, deleted irrelevant snaps and created snaps and snapmirror relationships.
• Upgraded Master and media servers to NetBackup v8.0. Built and edited Policies and created backup to cloud storage policy.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Financial Client - implement new HDS hardware and software into organization consisting of G1000’s, HDS HDID, configuration of zOS storage devices and replication to DR site. Helped in setup of Brocade FCIP tunnels from Prod to DR. Configuration of HNAS for File Share environment and replication of HNAS environment.
• Financial Client - Performance tuning and knowledge transfer on the tuning software. Creating reports using tuning software to hone in on flash performance.

Confidential

Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Second Shift - Work in a multinational company allocating, un-allocating, expanding volumes on Windows, Linux, AIX and Solaris servers. Troubleshooting all storage related issues. Updating and tracking changes for storage work. Storage included EMC, HDS, Isilon, NetApp, 3Par and EqualLogic. Zoning of Cisco MDS and Brocade fabrics, updating firmware of SAN switches. Troubleshooting oversubscribed storage ports and working to repair poor design issues. Utilizing Secure copy to migrate off of NetApp filers to EMC Isilon and Celerra Filers.

Confidential

Owner/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Staff Confidential during time of shorthanded-ness. Migration project off legacy USPV and VSP frames to G1000. Replacement of legacy SAN Fabric to new Brocade 8510’s build out of FCIP tunnels using 7840’s.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ohio Hospital - Configuration of HNAS with G400 backend array. Dual File System for GE PACS imaging and other non-identified application. Engaged in architecting virtualization of AMS2300/AMS2500 behind G400.Development of Externalized pools and monitoring of performance against the external devices. Knowledge transfer with regard to HCS 8.x and setup of thin devices using storage navigator for the G400.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Residency working remotely in optimizing system and development of scripts.
• Migration from EMC to HDS G1000, Setup HUR, Power Shell scripting. Installed and configured Tuning Manager.
• Left-Hand networks, HDS VSP, EMC VNX, BNA

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing Array based virtualization and migration methods.
• Added Cisco MDS switches to environment to make redundant and no outage time for firmware upgrades.
• Setup and testing of the VMware SRM integration with HDS array.
• Document testing and results.
• Utilizing Array based virtualization and migration methods.
• Utilizing 2 Core Brocade DCX switches designed and migrated all connections from 7 switches to 2.
• Using HDS USPVM SAN array with externalized AMS2300 array as the disk migrated off of HDS 9570 array and IBM FAStT 700 series using HTSM.
• Setup of Dynamic Pool utilizing the external storage.
• Externalized EMC DMX and (2) Clariion CX700 arrays for migration to HDS VSP.
• Created 7 Dynamic Pools for LUN creation and presentation.
• Migrated 30+TB over a one week period.
• Help team to migrate clone scripts to HDS format and tested.

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• team on how replication for HDS works and began build-out for this.
• Troubleshot performance issues with concern to Mainframe and Open Systems volumes presented off of an HDS VSP storage array.
• Determined issue and documented steps to fix.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

NETWORK ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Conducted server build outs and integrations. Developed new FTP policies and procedures for file transfer access and security. Utilized multiport access based on departments, bypassing default port 21. Developed and maintained build books for the projects that I was lead on. Assisted in migration to Exchange 2007 from Exchange 2003. Responsibilities included all storage arrays and infrastructure relating to storage. Design and build of storage infrastructures to support defined SLAs that were performance based. Designed and implemented the Array replication from Alexandria to Sterling. Developing Failover Run books for applications. Troubleshoot File System data on a PolyServe 3 node cluster utilizing DFS as the underlying component. Administer and maintain a High End HDS Storage solution utilizing Universal Replicator, Volume Manager and Tiered Storage Manager in a 2 data center replication scheme. Responsible for all storage assignments, allocations and recovering.
• Management of Virtual server and storage infrastructure using VMWare, Brocade and Cisco. Utilizing NPIV technology for virtual storage and server connectivity. Maintain Commvault 8.0 environment of 160 servers and 20+ laptops. Commvault Environment utilizes Data Domain as a target with media agents in a GridStor failover configuration. Responsible for upgrading from 7.0 to 8.0 and planned the migration to 9.0 before leaving.

Confidential, New York. NY

Responsibilities:

• CRG carefully manages correspondence between industry experts and those who seek industry information using its proprietary software, Knowledge Broker.
• As a member of the Executive Forum, Provide in-depth technical expertise regarding Storage platforms, Infiniband HPC connectivity, COTS software and its effects on the market. d on multiple Infiniband and Backup/Recovery projects. These are conference calls and this is done in addition to full-time or contractual obligations.

Confidential, Reston VA

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a tiered scalable storage solution for a government contractor resulting in lower power and cooling costs, greater storage efficiencies and achieved targeted performance goals. Worked with department heads to determine performance goals and gain insight on shared data pools.
• Designed and implemented a DR solution for MOSS 2007 for Government organization which included items at the object level. Worked with engineers to implement sites/databases/objects for internal and external portals. Customized sites to clients’ needs making them aware of the DR recovery method as this would also impact planning and production should an event occur.
• Designed and implemented a DR solution for an in-house application for an e-discovery corporation. Worked with project lead, systems engineers and vendor technicians to facilitate the implementation successfully. This solution utilized Blue Arc Titan 22xx series heads with LSI storage on the back end. CIFS/NFS file systems were created and replicated to DR site. Solution helped to remove over 300 Windows File Servers that were used in the ingest of E-discovery data.
• Developed data management policies for SMBs in the Northern Virginia region utilizing software such as Symantec NetBackup, Commvault and Networker.
• Obtained Commvault 7.0 Engineer .
• Implemented 8 data protection designs. Installed and integrated the designs in the commercial sector. Utilized CDR, Image level backups, Single instancing and Disaster Recovery options.

Confidential, Silver Spring MD

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Started a technical newsletter for clients and potential clients. This newsletter covered technical aspects found in the field that other technical users may find in their commands or companies.
• Created technical manuals for installations and initiated a customer satisfaction survey that was sent to each client after install.
• Worked with commands on developing written SLAs for each application core that the command was responsible for.

Confidential, Alexandria VA

COMPUTER PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in the design and implementation to Exchange 2000 and then to Exchange 2003. Developed knowledge of storage array systems with the use of Compaq HSG80 systems. Delivered better performance to Exchange by changing the RAID level to match that of Best Practices.