SUMMARY:

• Hands - on experience as a customer service oriented SAN / NAS / IT Engineer, IT Architect and IT Project Manager along with strong set of overall IT skills and knowledge. I have served as Team Lead, Site Manager, Manager of a Data Center and Manager IT Infrastructure.
• Managed teams consisting of several full-time individuals and Consultants through out the world. Supporting various types of Operating Systems ranging from OpenVMS to UNIX (AIX, Solaris, and Linux), Windows and VMware.
• Brocade and Cisco SAN / Director class switches along with various Storage Arrays from Confidential, IBM DS class, XiV, SVC, Confidential XP class arrays, 3PAR, EVA, Dell / EMC VMAX, Xtrem IO and various vendors Flash arrays. Along with cost analysis, migration and consolidation of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with ServiceNow, Remedy and SRM as well as engagement with Problem Resolution / Incident Management, Change Management and IT Inventory life Cycle Management (Asset Management) teams and boards. I have planed, designed and architected Disaster Recovery implementations and procedures for all aspects of Business continuity. Managed and supported, various monitoring, performance and automation tools such as. Confidential: On Command Insight and Confidential: OpenView.
• I am a Solutions-oriented, multifaceted, and highly skilled professional, with experience in IT management and project administration, encompassing systems implementation and solutions. Efficient at managing and providing expert technical support to various projects with focus on efficiency and process optimization. Exceeds expectations and meeting deadlines while working effectively within fast-paced environments.
• ITIL Fundamentals and have written several technical papers for my companies, one of which was a Proof of Concept that the vendor used as part of their product presentations. Most importantly, I still have a passion to learn and to improve my skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

OCI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Install, manage, troubleshoot and customize Confidential On-command Insight based solutions for IT infrastructure analysis and optimization. I have expertise around OCI deployment & configuration services for all modules, (Discover, Assure, Plan and Perform) and the Anomaly Detection Engine (ADE). I have a strong customer service focus providing detailed visibility on customer project tasks and goals for statistical reporting and performance monitoring in order to make Infrastructure improvements.

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed, Documented, Monitored and made recommendations for clean up and consolidation of the Confidential / Starwood IT Infrastructure. Used Confidential On-Command Insight for statistical reporting and performance specifications in order to make Infrastructure improvements.

Confidential

Manager System Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Manager Infrastructure Team that was responsible for Servers and Storage Hardware, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Replication, Purchasing, IT Inventory life Cycle Management and Overall Support for several data centers worldwide. Maintained over 2+ PB Heterogeneous SAN’s consisting of various vendors’ storage arrays along with Performance and Monitoring applications. Managed, coordinated and implemented 30 plus ongoing IT projects, ranging from consolidations, migrations, refreshes (hardware & Software), and Proof of Concepts to streamline Data Centers. Managed and maintained Confidential OpenView tool set for
• SAN Automation, reporting and performance monitoring of Servers and BladeCenter. Evaluated and Recommend Server and Storage technologies (Blade Composable infrastructure and Hyperconverged Systems). Render direct supervision, mentorship,, development, and performance management to direct reports. A key member of the architectural team formed to evaluate cost savings of data center consolidation and Cloud deployment and migrations as well as designing an AWS NAS solution.

Confidential

Storage Engineer / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Build Team Storage Lead and Project Manager. Supervised project and build activities across multiple data centers as well as mentoring to junior storage team members. Managed Data Center consolidation and migrations, along with several storage migrations and installations across Data Centers using multiple vendors
• Confidential, Dell / EMC, Confidential 3PAR. Drove storage strategy, developed storage standards, and selection of storage monitoring and reporting tools. Drove multiple concurrent storage projects and initiatives including concept, evaluation, architecture design, planning and implementation. Installed and managed Confidential On-command Insight tool set for statistical reporting and performance specifications in order to make Infrastructure improvements. Created, maintain and drove a five-year storage strategy roadmap working closely with other Confidential teams to ensure simplification and standardization across a global enterprise environment. Received numerous Employee Recognition s for Expertise, Customers Determine Success, Imagination and Courage.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documenting run-book processes of day-to-day operations and SAN support. Provide storage allocations and support on Confidential 3PAR class storage arrays; EMC Celerra and Brocade class SAN Switches, across multiple global sites. Maintain corporate-wide data storage standards and procedures, as well responsibility for analysis of storage requirements forecasting.

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected and planed a major SAN infrastructure refresh. Lead in migrating several hundred TB’s of data and over two hundred servers off of EMC DMX, NS80 environment to a multi Tiered IBM DS8800, XiV, Confidential and SVC storage virtualization environment.
• Responsible for the design, support, installation and maintenance of the YNHH data storage infrastructure consisting of EMC Symmetrix (DMX-3 & VMAX) plus Confidential 3PAR. Develop and maintain corporate-wide data storage standards and procedures. As well as responsible for quarterly storage capacity analysis, storage requirements forecasting and (3) year storage plan that includes budget assumptions and detailed cost analysis reporting.

Confidential

ITO Service Delivery Consultant III / Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Over saw the Day-to-Day actives of the Confidential Trumbull SAN / Storage areas. I supervised three full time Confidential employees plus two consultants.
• Architectural Solutions team providing design and analysis on applications being migrated to a centralized Confidential data center.
• Part of the data migration team responsible for moving over 800 TB’s of data from the Trumbull Data Center to the centralized Confidential center.
• Provided Architecture Solutions proposals, processes flows and pricing for all new and existing projects.
• Researching and identifying new potential storage technologies. Day-to-day duties entail the design, installation, configuration, monitoring, Zoning, LUN allocations and maintenance of all Brocade and Cisco SAN environments. (Tape and Disk)
• Provide direction, and serve as a point contact for escalation of SAN related issues. As well as defining and documenting SAN strategies, designs, polices, procedures and changes within the storage environment.
• The dual SAN fabrics consist of interfacing with 100 Plus TBs of IBM Enterprise Storage Servers (Shark), IBM DS4000 class arrays, Confidential StorageWorks EVAs and Confidential XP 12000 & 24000 (HDS) with an IBM SVC front end. One of the key focus points for migrating 200 Plus AIX servers from Brocade Silkworm and Director Class SAN switches to Cisco MDS9000 Directors fabrics, a long with migrating 10 TB off legacy storage servers.
• Researched, designed, installed and configured three IBM N3700 ( Confidential C270) NAS servers. Past responsibilities entailed the Lead of the Backup / Recover area. I purposed several Tape and Backup consolidation plans and strategies along with Proof of Concepts for new data mirroring technologies.
• I supported the production AIX, Tru64 and SunOS servers. These consisted of several HA Clusters, Confidential TruClusters and a Sun E10K Veritas Cluster.
• Duties included interfacing with SAP Basis Team and other Customers with in Confidential USA as well as Canada to resolve any Hardware, O/S Application issues.