SUMMARY:

• Information Technology and Cloud Computing Professional. Versatile and seasoned. Looking for emerging Cloud Computing initiatives or Vmware, Xen or Microsoft Hypervisor Projects. Also pre - sales - post sales in the storage space - Confidential, Confidential, Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Research: HP MOPIER patent

Software: C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Microsoft Visual C# and Basic

Operating Systems: OSX 10.6, Solaris 11, HP/UX 11i, AIX 5.3, 6.1 Win2003 Server Linux Redhat, SUSE

Web: Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, HTML, XML, CGI

Storage: LSI, 3PAR, Sun, Hitachi, Confidential, Confidential VNX, Isilon,VMAX, SAN, iSCSIDell Compellent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego CA

Responsibilities:

• Setup and Demo of Confidential Triton product in Executive Briefing Center.
• Travel to select customer sites for Triton demo software configuration
• Travel to select customer sites for post sales configuration.
• Feedback to Customer Support and Engineering teams as customer advocate.
• Feedback to Documentation team to improve customer installation experience.
• Review of new UX team proposals for new product proposals.
• Build custom product spins working with Engineering for custom installations.
• Evaluated Openstack for Confidential Triton Cloud deployment architecture.
• Build Virtualized Demo’s for trade shows.

Confidential, Boulder CO

Responsibilities:

• Mapping storage performance of cache based storage with Splunk
• Running storage performance tests and graphing with Gnuplot and Excel
• Created automated Perl test harness for automated storage performance testing
• Working on Linux Driver caching solution using SSD’s. Building installable .ko
• Testing Caching performance against Facebook cache.
• Build Engineer - Linux device drivers for storage cache testing, gmake w/ gnu software stacks
• Kernel Development - Bcache kernel modification. Addition of metadata for internal caching solution
• Storage performance test scripts written in Python to run continuous FIO testing.
• Create runbook to hand off performance testing to new hires.

Confidential

Compellent Equallogic PV consultant

Responsibilities:

• Presales PDA group: Respond to RFP’s for storage configurations for a GO/NO-GO decision
• Test Compellent Storage designs in Lab with IOmeter and VDbench for performance
• Certify Multipathing solutions against RFP’s
• Augment RFP’s with best practices relying on vendor information
• Provide support to Field Engagements to promote sales process.
• Answer any questions from any field person about any Storage Issue to further a sale.
• Certified on Compellent for Top Gun Sales and Top Gun Storage Architecture
• Attended various Equallogic Seminars.

Confidential, Anaheim CA

Storage Architecture migration consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter architect. Plan migration of 2,600 servers to two data centers
• Build “what if” scenarios with different storage platforms. Study costs and trade offs
• Interview hospital IT teams to provide background to build proposal.
• Provide input to storage section of data center green field build proposal.
• Submitted team crafted proposal as requested to Confidential CTO.
• Specification of approved array vendors such as Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential
• Use Splunk to understand error conditions of app work load of apps to be migrated.

Confidential, Palo Alto CA

Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter Storage Admin - Avamar setup of 600 servers of Confidential for Confidential .
• Created runbooks for IDC team in India.
• Monitoring of proper operation of Avamar Backup servers with Confidential on site Avamar lead.
• Day to day operations of Avamar and Networker backups as required by Confidential and Confidential .
• Restores of Confidential VMAX corrupted LUNS. Monitoring of Oracle Databases.
• Provisioning of Confidential VMAX for day to day needs of Oracle DBA’s.
• Emergency restores of servers as required by Management and Confidential teams during migrations.
• Migration LUN creation and zoning for migrating servers and databases
• Monitored migrated servers with Splunk for operational errors and correctness.
• Setup puppet master to assist with migration to green field Confidential UCS servers.
• Create run book for Avamar backups and restores to hand to Run team.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter Storage Admin - SAN/Servers / Address Book Application Performance testing of 1.0 and 1.2 release of Address Book Application on SAN Support of SAN infrastructure LUNS between production and backup site via SRDF.
• Response to Address Book incidents and outages Response to SAN outages including Symmetrix and VMAX production and backup sites Audit of WWN mappings on Brocade DCX switches.
• Oracle performance tuning. Storage tuning. Application and storage performance metrics.

Confidential, PA

Splunk consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implement Splunk rollout at two Confidential Data centers.
• Install Splunk on servers, install licensing. Configure PDF reporting.
• Set up realtime alerting. Set up users with specific views.
• Train OPS team on how to query Splunk for errors.
• See Confidential .com:8000 for Splunk example. Query “landrover”.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter Storage Admin - SAN/Servers / Oracle / Data mining and config.
• Create Method of Procedures (MOP’s) for all changes to data center infrastructure Day to day management of Confidential Symmetrix DMX’s including timefinder and SRDF.
• Zoning and configuration of Brocade DMX switches. Hold weekly meetings on all projects. Replication from an Oracle single instance to Oracle RAC under Symmetrix. Migration of Oracle instance from single to Oracle RAC with Symmetrix timefinder/mirror.
• Confidential VPLEX, 3PAR metro evaluation for replication between local data centers.
• Measured storage performance with Oracle database workloads. Graph performance with Cacti monitoring tool.
• Confidential V-Max migration planning from Symmetrix to VMAX via SRDF.
• Oracle DBA - looking for deadlocks with Oracle 11 instance.

Confidential, Santa Barbara, CA

Senior Datacenter Architect

Responsibilities:

• Apply best practices to existing SAN.
• Provide direction for upgrade of physical infrastructure to Brocade DCX via MPT fibre.
• Implementation of 3rd party SAN monitoring tools to provide metrics on throughput and bottlenecks.
• Virtualization of existing hard server assets to XEN based blade infrastructure.

Confidential, Livermore, CA

Senior Datacenter Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of existing storage environment - redesign of Finisar monitoring solution. Upgrade to 8 gig Finisar monitoring pending.
• Design and deployment of Live Site Ops monitoring with SNMP connection into Confidential, Confidential and Confidential storage systems. Display of real time performance with Splunk monitoring tool
• Storage provisioning on Confidential, Confidential, 3par arrays. Failover testing.
• Switch consolidation - Upgrade to HP/Brocade director from brocade silkworm based switches.
• Day to day storage operations including bad disk replacement, power supply replacements.
• Architecture of Vmware Cluster using Virtual Center and ESX servers. Attachment to 3Par storage over Confidential on dedicated IP network to green field Vmware rollout.
• Upgrade of storage infrastructure to 8 gig SAN using Brocade 5300 class switches.
• Data Domain DD690 De-duplication systems.
• Rollout of Vmware 4.0 vSphere Cluster using Confidential on 3par 400 backend. Documentation of whole process and handoff to Live Site team.
• Confidential Lightening arrays, Confidential arrays and Upgrade to 3par 800 series
• Oracle Enterprise Manager - OEM and best practices.
• Move of current data center across campus to new building. Objective - new Force 10 switches, cabling, network infrastructure and backup power. Move of Oracle RAC classified clusters and data. Move of critical govt classified apps.

Confidential, Emeryville, CA

Senior Datacenter Architect

Responsibilities:

• Product Specification - Architecture of low cost 200 TB storage grid. Goal: five 9's of uptime. HA configuration. Cost lower than existing storage solutions offered by top tier vendors
• Vendor Selection - Core prototype constructed from Solaris 10 servers. Confidential arrays evaluated in terms of cost over 7 data centers. Arrays evaluated in terms of performance, recovery from induced failure, MTBF statistics.
• Program Management - Weekly reporting to management of project essentials including acceptance testing, of staff, deployment of prototype to remote data centers, failure and recovery scenarios, system administration automation.
• System Administration and Automation - Setup Sun Clusters for HA availability of ZFS volumes. Integrate with CIFS/Samba. Build cutting edge 3.2 based cluster from open Solaris B79b and test integrated Solaris CIFS solution.
• Filesystem tuning - Tune SAMQFS filesystem for a heavy read/write environment. Review performance. Analyze source for potential bottlenecks.
• Data center move and addition: Data replicated in house and moved to CAPD data center in Scottsdale, AZ. Custom storage and applications. Solaris 10 and Win2003 server.
• Array vendor evaluation - Rasilient arrays, Sun Storage Arrays, Apple Xserve arrays.

Confidential, Newark, CA

Senior Systems New Products Presales Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Software Development and Hands On - Coded Java solution for Confidential . Automated licensing process using Java, Tomcat Web server and mySQL. Built test harnesses from C++ using Engenio Symbol API for automated array volume and LUN configuration scripts.
• Program Management - Managed OEM product definition processes for Sun Storage products including 6130 and 6140 arrays. All project details including SOW, costs, beta deployment schedule, beta firmware upgrades and software program. Interaction with stakeholders on all levels inside and outside of Confidential to promote beta schedule and product. Successful deployment of SE6130 and ST6140 arrays. Managed weekly Program Management meetings with all stakeholders to manage and assure program schedules.
• Evangelist - Direct and promote adoption of 6130 and 6140 array products into PTS, Marketing and Sales organizations of Confidential assuring internal penetration of new array product.
• Performance Measurement Program - Directed Direct performance testing and specification of SE6130 and ST6140 arrays using internal Sun and external resources to provide performance metrics for winning business and/or retaining key Confidential accounts
• Sales and Systems Engineer Program Management - Direct program direction with Sales Teams on key accounts - provide architecture specification, performance metrics and integration approaches to assure seamless delivery and data migration of array and server products to new and existing Confidential customer accounts to assure program acceptance and success at Revenue Release dates.
• Vendor competive analysis - Evaulated array offering from competitors such as Confidential and Confidential . Evaulated peformance of Confidential midrange arrays. Evaluated performance of Confidential FAS series arrays. Compared performance on other OS's: Linux, HP-UX 11, AIX 5.3

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Storage Area Network (SAN) engineer

Responsibilities:

• Directed re-architecture effort of underutilized in house Brocade based SAN
• Brought direct attached HP K-Class systems into the SAN
• Upgrade of all firmware in Brocade switches and HBA's and Compaq HSV-12000 RAID.
• Stress test of SAN for 10,000 users - complete and documentation for Dept.
• Testing of HP Secure Path failover mechanisms under load
• Stress tested backup SAN with Netbackup
• Delivered rapid diagnostic Microsoft VB and C# .NET app for diagnostic of 12 HP servers.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential GR series array problem reproduction and resolution between Sunnyvale based Sales Division and Japan based corporate offices.
• Managed customer expectations with key Confidential customers to understand Confidential capabilities and problem resolution strategy and time line for new firmware loads.
• Mentored and provided scoping of special array software projects to enhance array functionality as requested to gain sales advantage by custom upgrades to array firmware.

Confidential

Senior Architect and Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected Chip bring-up Executive Processes and functions to bring up Fibre Channel and Ethernet proposed interfaces on 16 core LXI based SoC.
• Performance measurement of Confidential Confidential Confidential and Confidential initiator drivers and I/O characterization.
• Architecture of Confidential spec for distillation to hardware group for fast 10 gig wire speed implementation of Confidential to FC by Electrical Engineers designing prototype SoC.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Senior Storage Software and Protocols Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed relationships between internal HP server divisions (software) and external hardware vendors.
• Directed Input Output Dependent Code (server BIOS) integration between Ft. Collins, Roseville and Cupertino HP sites between Workstations and Server Divisions.
• Managed IODC BIOS firmware escalations across HP Divisions to satisfy hot customer accounts
• Managed redesign and implementation of DVD firmware download and test program to support live field service DVD upgrades.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed Research and design broadcast system control software for control of hardware and software interfaces for large scale domestic and international broadcast systems..
• Managed external vendors and contractors to project deadlines for Confidential Confidential Arizona based 300 channel broadcast center meeting agreed upon SOW between AskyB and Sony.

Confidential, Boise, Idaho

Senior Firmware Team Project Lead/Manager

Responsibilities:

• My team designed and implemented MOPIER functionality for HP Laser jet 5 printers. Team was two engineers. ed Patent for MOPIER process. Environment was "C" cross-compiled from HPUX Unix development systems to AMD Confidential emulation systems.
• Directed and Managed transition of Division firmware platform from LJOS to WindRiver VxWorks embedded OS. Planned and implemented transition of software builds to structured Clearcase environment. Includes all internal and external contracts and, systems capacity planning and upgrades. Managed all infrastructure upgrades and software deployments

Confidential, Rochester, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed architecture and specification of Kodak KIMS imaging printing and acquisition driver subsystems for scanner and printer groups
• Managed cost reduction and phase out of printer vendor HBA solution and architected cost saving solution from existing inventory for SCSI printing solution.
• Managed inter-division transfer of scanning architecture from Kodak Information Management Systems to Business Information System Divisions enabling increased Time to Market and cost reductions from reuse of scanner driver stack.
• Managed software sustaining efforts for Kodak Image Writer Printer.
• Managed external vendor for porting of scanner driver to Solaris Unix platform.