Skills Summary

EMC storage technologies Symmetrix, VNX, Clariion, Data Domain, Recoverpoint, XtremIO, ViPR SRM ,Disaster Recovery, VMware Infrastructure 4/5, Windows Server platform, Cisco UCS servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, Cisco fiber switches, Brocade fiber switches, IBM DS storage, IBM Bladecenter, IBM xSeries servers, IBM SVC, Windows clustering, HP Proliant servers and blades, HP EVA storage, HP Systems Insight Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, CommVault Galaxy, Symantec NetBackup, Microsoft Enterprise products SCOM, Exchange, SQL

Professional Experience

Recall Corporation

Network/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities include Storage / VMware engineering and administrationon over 1000 Wintel servers and VM's, maintaining daily operations within a global infrastructure and providing delivery services on new solutions required by the needs of the business.

• Confidential engineering and administration: Responsible for production storage environment which includes SymmetrixVMAXe/VMAX10K, VNX 5500/5300 File and Block, CX4-120, Data Domain, XtremIOwith Cisco MDS and Brocade fiber switch configurations.
• VMware engineering and administration: Day to day operational experience and overall engineering responsibilities of the global VMware VSphere 5x infrastructure. Worked extensively on migrations to reduce the physical server footprintand multiple upgrade efforts to implement best practices for the entire production virtual infrastructure.
• Disaster Recovery:Implemented DR infrastructure using EMC VNX storage and Recoverpoint appliances at a remote facility and facilitated the coordination of tests using third party verification.
• Cisco UCS and Dell server support:Including the installation and maintenance ofthe physical server infrastructure including high availability MS SQL clusters. Implemented the Cisco UCS infrastructure Interconnects, Chassis, and B200 M3 blades and worked to migrate all legacy compute to new virtual platform.
• Windows Server implementation and administration: Primarily responsible for production server deployments and procedural documentation within the environment to support all lines of business. Daily usage of both native and third party administrative tools Dell OME, Sitescope, etc to help in problem resolution ranging from hardware failures to facilitating users, organizational units and security policies in Active Directory.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Primary job responsibilities are working with customers to implement various technologies within their environments based on thorough design and configuration sessions. Successfully implemented many IT projects for a wide range of customers focusing on solving real business problems with proven technical solutions.

• Confidential : Assess and implementfiber switches IBM, Brocade , various storage controllers IBM DS family of storage, IBM N-Series NetApp appliances , XIV, and HP EVA , storage virtualization IBM SVC and other related storage technologies including iSCSI, NAS, and NFS.
• Confidential: Designed and implemented VMWare solutions for various customers ranging from multi-cluster datacenters to standalone hosts. Engagements have varied from large VI rollouts which included building out the physical SAN and server infrastructure , VDI rollouts, VCB configurations, and Site Recovery Manager across multiple sites.
• Confidential Rack and configureIBMBladecenter chassis and blades, xSeries servers, SVC, TS tape libraries, and TPC SSPC . Other software solutions include Open Fabric Manager and Director.
• Confidential : Primarily focused onthe Windows Server operating system but many engagements included other tasks which involved working with Exchange, SQL, SCOM, and Sharepoint. Activities ranged from fresh installations of entire solution to brief assessments in determining compliance with best practices and most revolved around virtualization activities.
• Confidential: Deployed multiple versions of RHEL on various server platforms and createdkickstart scripts to ensure configuration consistency based off of customer requirements.
• Confidential Installation and configuration of IBMTivoli Storage Manager, IBM TSM FastBack, Veritas NetBackup, and CommVault Galaxy.

Confidential

SeniorTechnical Analyst

Responsibilities include high availability cluster implementations and maintenance, implementing Intel servers on SAN, server consolidation onto HP Blade infrastructure, and maintaining daily operations on over 200 Wintel servers.

• Confidential within production environment to offer high availability to database and Intranet servers. Daily usage of both native and third party administrative tools HP SIM, MOM, SMS, etc to help in problem resolution ranging from hardware failures to facilitating users, organizational units and security policies in Active Directory.
• Confidential systems. HP Certified Self Maintainer.
• Storage/SAN Administration: primarily responsible for production backup environment using CommVault Galaxy previously used HP Data Protector , EMC CX3-40/80 storage allocation, Cisco fiber switch configurations and Windows Storage Server NAS administration also experienced with NetappGFiler .
• Virtualization: Experienced with both Microsoft and VMWare virtual server products from installation to administration. Deployed Production VMware 3.5 SAN attached cluster utilizing 3 Physical hosts and migrated 30 physical servers to virtual machines using VMWare Converter software. Created and managed several resource pools to accommodate multiple application tiers.

Confidential

Senior Technical Analyst

Administration of over 100 TB of storage and 1000 fiber ports in an open systems environment Windows 2000 and AIX . Managing both the Storage Area Network and attached open systems storage, which include the McData fiber switches and IBM Enterprise Storage Servers.

• Storage Area Network implementation and administration: McData fabric maintenance and administration within both the open systems and mainframe environments. Implementation of Core Edge infrastructure and evaluating various virtualization technologies to manage disparate storage solutions.
• Storage administration - Open systems support migrating Intel based servers to an IBM Enterprise Storage Server or IBM FAStT and planning for optimization of specific applications within the SAN environment. Responsible for the day to day management and maintenance of all SAN attached open systems storage.

Technical Analyst II

Responsibilities included daily support of Intel Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 corporate servers in North America. This included server hardware, operating system, and any related utilities. Provided first level support for enterprise corporate servers and third level support for all Division servers in North America.

• Confidential : Support and troubleshoot production systems as required, optimizing performance and resolving production problems, execute project tasks to deliver quality and timely projects that satisfy business and technical requirements, and provide on call support for servers from beginning of problem to resolution. Responsible for the daily operations of seven data centers requiring a high level of communication with various support structures to maintain software, update virus signatures and trouble shoot issues for over 1500 Intel servers.
• Backup / Recovery deployment and administration: Enterprise use of Veritas Backup Exec over seven datacenters using DLT tape library solutions and configuring software to backup servers over the network. Also worked with Tivoli Storage Manager in installations and support. Facilitated and documented Disaster Recovery exercises multiple times restoring business critical applications at an offsite location.

Confidential

Network/Systems Administrator

Solely responsible for the deployment, administration, and maintenance of several critical Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 Servers,supporting a 100 desktop Ethernet network. Also responsible for the enterprise wide deployment of any tools that relate to network accessibility, including anti-virus software, backups, remote access, email systems, etc.

• Dell PowerEdge Server support: Including the purchasing, installation, and maintenance of Dell PowerEdge 2300, 2400, 4300 and 6300 servers.