Professional EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lochbridge/The Judge Group

• Datacenter migration, datacenter build. Migrate current primary site to secondary site, build new DR/secondary site.
• Perform baseline measurements before and afterwards.
• Perform full system backups prior to datacenter relocation.
• Re IP iSeries frames and test connectivity prior to move.
• Use LPARMobility to virtually migrate LPARs live.
• Minimize the downtime.
• Capacity planning to facilitate data migrations.
• AIX and Wintel IBM H Blade Centers.
• IBM SVC, EMC and associated SAN infrastructureN-NAS, DS4800, DS5300, DS8300, XIV and UCS/EMC vBLOCK/VMAX.Cisco MDS 9513 Fabric directors.
• IBM TSM for backup including large 3584 tape libraries.
• IBM P SeriesPowerHA, P570, Power6 570,P595, Power6 595, and P795 .
• IBM AS400 legacy iSeries i520 and i570.
• Migrate large Windows and VmWareESX environment from IBM storage to EMC VBLOCK/VMAX.
• P2V conversions VMware to reduce footprint in datacenter.
• Fiber channel to FCOE conversions.
• Documented migration strategy and environment Visio, Excel, and Word.
• New Greenfield Environment to be implemented
• o Cisco MDS 9710 Directors at both datacenters
• o 2 IBM Power 880 at Primary datacenter, update P795 for Power VM environment
• o 2 IBM GEN IV XIV, 2 IBM v7000 SAP and dedicated TSM disk pool at Primary datacenter
• o New SVC Clusters
• o EMC DataDomain and Avamar added to Primary site to implement vPLEX
• o IBM Power 870 Power VM at DR site
• o IBM GEN IV XIV, IBM v7000 dedicated TSM disk pool at DR site
• o New SVC Clusters
• o EMC vBLOCK, DataDomain, and Avamar added to DR site to implement vPLEX

Confidential

SAN Architect/Administrator

• SAN Admin for steady state support of NBSA account
• Subject Matter Expert for environment
• Problem and Incident resolution using Service Now
• IBM DS8800, XIV, SVC, and N-Series NAS
• Brocade DCX SAN Directors
• Data OnTap, IBM Copy Services FlashCopy , IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris 8,9, and 10 Global Zones
• CLI on all SAN devices
• IBM TPC for SAN, Disk, and Backup as well as HealthCheck

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Thick to thin LUN migration on PROD and DR VMAX.
• Upgrade Veritas Storage Foundation Suite from 4.x to 5.1 on Sun Solaris v9 and v10 Oracle DB servers to facilitate migration.
• Implement FAST-VP. Upgrade OnTap to facilitate NDMP backups.
• Phaseout of legacy Novell and Sun Solaris environments. Move to Active Directory and new Sun hardware or AIX/Linux.
• Evaluate and make recommendations for consolidation of NAS and mid-tier CX SAN environments recommendation is to be moved to VMAX and VNX VG8 Gateway .
• VMAX and VNX VG8 Gateway solution is being implemented.
• Evaluate current backup solution and make recommendations for enhancements or new backup and archive solution.
• Migrating from TSM and Data Domain environment to Commvault and Isilon.
• Refresh aging network infrastructure to high speed convergered.
• SAN environment consist two 2 VMAX, two 2 EMC CX4-960, EMC Recoverpoint, two 2 EMC VTL-MF DLM, two 2 NetApp FAS 3040, two 2 Data Domain 880, two 2 , IBM TS3584 Tape Libraries, four 4 Cisco MDS 9513 FC Switches, four 4 Cisco 9222i FC Switches.
• Upgraded environment from Cisco MDS9500 GENII series switches to GENIII series switches. Configured FCIP Tunneling for Open Systems and Mainframe SRDF replication.
• EMC SMAS, EMC SYMCLI, EMC SRDF and TimeFinder, NetApp OPS Manager, NetApp OnTap, NetApp SnapVol and SnapMirror, CiscoFabric Manager Data Center Edition.
• Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 11g, IBM DB2, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, RHEL5, WIN 2k3/2K8, VMware ESX v4, VMware VDI, Novell, IBM TSM, TKLM, IBM VIO, NIM, and HMC, Veritas Storage Foundation 4x/5x, PowerPath, and MPIO.
• IBM Pseries-5, HP DL-380/DL-580.
• Implementation of new IBM Pseries-7.
• Implementation of new Oracle/Sun T-5000 series servers, Solaris Zones, and Oracle Solaris environment migration.
• Provide Knowledge Transfer and Runbook to Blue Cross Storage Team.

Confidential

Headwaters Group

• Install/configure Oracle VM Manager for Oracle Linux on Sun x3 servers.
• Install/configure Oracle VM Server for Oracle Linux on Sun x3 servers.
• Create VM's OS Oracle Linux.
• Configure SSO Single Sign On on Oracle Linux
• Configure HAP Hardware Assisted Paging on Oracle Linux.
• Configure Connection Manager on Oracle Linux.
• Configure network to use NIC bonding and VLAN Tagging 802.1p .

Confidential

• Data Center Buildout for DR replication and testing.
• Build environement for replication testing of DB2 and MSSQL databases as well as VMware VDI on NetApp.
• SAN environment consist two 1 VMAX-1 2 EMC VMAX SE, one 1 Data Domain 890, two 2 Data Domain 690, IBM TS3500, two 2 EMC 5100B FC Switches, two 2 EMC DCX-B, Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco Nexus 7000, EMC MP 7800B and two 2 NetApp FAS 3270.
• EMC SMAS, NetApp OPS Manager, EMC ConnetrixManager Data Center Edition, Brocade Webtools, IBM VIOS/HMC.
• Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, IBM AIX, WIN 2K3/2K8, ESX v4/5, IBM TSM, TKLM, IBM VIO and HMC.
• HP Proliant DL380 G7, IBM P740.
• Did switch configuration and configured MP-7800's FCIP tunnel for replication from K.C. to Portsmouth.
• Did Switch configuration and all zoning for all hosts and Data Domain on 5100B's and DCX-B.
• Installed and configured Conntrix Manager DE, ECC, Solutions Enabler, SMAS SMC , and SPA for PROD and DR VMAX management.
• Install and configuration of PowerPath on hosts. Also ODM filesets on AIX/VIO servers.
• Provisioned storage to AIX, MSSQL, and TSM hosts on VMAX.
• Configured and implemented SRDF/A for MSSQL and AIX/DB2 on VMAX SE's and VMAX-1.
• Configure and implement FAST VP.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Working with International Services Account Team as Storage SME for EMC, IBM, and Hitachi storage.
• IBM TPC, EMC SMC, Unisphere, ECC. All software tools for each vendors arrays.
• WIN 2K8/2K3, IBM AIX, RHEL4/5, VMware ESX v4.
• IBM DS4000, DS8000, V7000, and XIV.
• EMC VMAX, DMX, VNX, CLARiiON, and Celerra
• Hitachi USP-V, VSP, XP, AMS
• Brocade and Cisco SAN switches.
• Work on largest accounts in U.S. for International clients, as well U.S. clients.