SUMMARY:

• 20+ years of data center technology experience and leadership
• Built and led international teams supporting infrastructure, data centers, and applications development
• Have worked for EMC, IBM, and CSC, three of the leading leveraged service providers in the world
• Project Management experience with software integration, virtual cloud based platform configuration and development of IaaS, using AGILE project management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EMC NS40, NS960, RecoverPoint, Clariion, EMC DMX, SRDF, NetApp, HDS USPV, SVC, DS8000(6/08 - Present) VMWare, Oracle RAC, VNX, VMAX, VPLEX, VBLOCK 700, Redhat Linux, AIX, Oracle/Sun Solaris, Perl, korn,Python, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, CEPH, RADOS, Cinder, Swift, Manila, Software Defined Storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Architect

• Lead Storage scrum team as Product Owner Delegate for OpenStack storage integration and development projects. Implementation of Openstack current releases into existing codebase. Agile project methodology using Rally. Integration and testing of Cinder and Swift API's with EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, and Solidfire storage array's. Build Openstack test and devlopment infrastrutucre and maintaining Chef cookbooks for production rollout. Planning systems regression tests prior to upgrades.
• Define CEPH and SDS implementation strategies for future integration into cloud storage offerings

Confidential

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

• Assist with Cloud service providor selection process. Design high level P-2-C migration methodology. Technical design of security and network when moved to a cloud based providor.
• Configure AWS to support customer's SaaS application

Confidential

Storage Migration Architect

• Working with a multi-vendor team, developed migration methodologies to consolidate EMC storage based data from satellite data centers to BOA major data centers in the US. Developed host remediation strategies for Unix and Windows server platforms. Open Migrator and SRDF was used for data migration.

Confidential

Big Data Architect

• Project manager for implementation services (EMC) of Isilon storage systems for digital asset management. Implementation of Cloudera Apache Hadoop stack, MapReduce, Hbase, Pig scripting, Hive. Storage migration from legacy CX storage arrays to VNX5500. Legato Networker upgrade to 8.0, integration with Data Domain and VMware (VADP) planning for upgrade to Networker 8.1 VMWare integration

Confidential

Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Logical and Physical technology models used to develop leveraged storage services that will be sold to CSC customers. STaaS consisted of VMAX, VNX, and VPLEX. VBLOCK designed for VDT deployment using leveraged VMAX. Architected Atmos Cloud Delivery platform for self-help STaaS. Worked with EMC on Greenplum HD design with VNX HDFS. Worked with lead storage vendor technical resources on service development, scalability, and new technology availability. Defined VMware hardware management appliance network requirements. Collaborated with CSC network security to define and design appropriate secure network design for external customers, vendors, and administrators. Assisted the NetApp NAS service development team with service level design. Worked with the CSC data center resources to define cabling and power requirements for new storage infrastructure, including LAN and WAN networking hardware. Integrated new storage equipment with existing NetApp OnCommand (SANscreen) servers.

Confidential

Technical Architect

• Large data center consolidation project. Responsible for storage migration solutions and technology refresh using latest EMC hardware/software. Hands-on configuration of SAN fabrics (Brocade and Cisco), VMAX FAST VP and thin provisioning.

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

• Architect complex storage solutions for EMC customers. VMAX, Clariion, RecoverPoint
• Develop data migration strategies and design of data replication using Recoverpoint. Integration of Oracle and SQL database replication using CRR via RecoverPoint appliances. Integrated ECC Oracle database with Atomshpere cloud application to replicate data. Developed a storage systems cost model for major health care system.

Confidential

Capacity Planning and Storage Migration Architect

• Manage migration from 80+ DMX and HDS / HP-XP storage array’s to VMAX storage arrays. Developed capacity planning strategy to manage business as usual growth that would occur during the migration project life. Develop internal storage tiering cost of ownership and chargeback systems. Dynamic cache, FAST, virtual provisioning. Design VMAX virtual provisioning storage requirements. Design data storage tiering solutions for MS Exchange servers, Oracle databases, Sybase databases, SQL Server databases, and numerous internet facing servers.
• Responsible for development of Ruby on Rails application to provide UI to storage management system.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Transition existing IBM customers to Global Delivery teams. Transition IBM customers to Boulder RDC. Responsible for architecture of storage hardware and implementation of new equipment. Responsible for coordination of upgrades to equipment. Perform steady state storage capacity planning. SVC configuration for data migration and replication for several major professional services accounts. Configuration of VMware storage systems DS3200 and NS40. AIX VIO and HACMP LVM configuration and administration.

Confidential

Pre and Post Sales Storage Architect

• Develop and deliver technical sales presentations. Assist customers with implementation of Confidential products. Develop SSD best practices guidelines for use by internal engineering teams. Install and configure Linux servers for internal lab and customers.