TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: EMC VMAX, VNX, DMX3, DMX 3000, DMX 2000, Clariion CX3 - 80, Clariion 6000 and 4700, and 3930 arrays. IBM XIV, SVC, v7k, v8k arrays. NetApp NAS arrays. RecoverPoint devices. InforTrend Storage Arrays. DataDomain 690 and 880 Storage Devices. Cisco 9222i Switches. McData Director Class 114 port fibre switches. Brocade DCX, 5300, 5100, 4900, 12K, 7500, 7800, 3900 and 3800 Fibre switches. EMC DS-32M Fibre switches. Gateway, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Dell computers; IBM, Digital, and Toshiba, Compaq, and Dell laptop computers; Compaq, HP, and Dell servers; Digital computers and servers; Hewlett Packard and Canon printers; Hubs, Switches and Routers; Jet Direct cards; Intel Netport, 3Com, Intel, IBM, and Xircom NIC cards (all types); 3Com, Intel, IBM, and Xircom cards (all types), Emulex LP7000 and LP9000 HBA’s, Storagetek 9740 Tape Library, Storagetek Storagenet fibre channel/SCSI bridge 3100, HP SureStore DLT Autoloader, and IBM DLT1 and DLT2 tape farms.

Operating Systems and Software: DOS 5.0 - 6.22, UNIX; Windows 3.1, 3.11, 3.11 for Workgroups; Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7, 8, 10, NT 3.51 and 4.0; Microsoft Server NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2013; Microsoft Office 4.3 through Microsoft Office 2013 and 365; Lotus Suite 5.0 - Millennium, Notes, cc:Mail 6.2, 7, 8; Netscape / Internet Explorer/Mozilla/Chrome Browsers; Cheyenne Antivirus, McAfee Epolicy Orchestrator, McAfee VirusScan 4.5-4.51, Arcserve 6.1-2000, Seagate BackupExec, Veritas Netbackup Datacenter, Commvault Simpana Version 8, Remotely Possible; Terminal Services, Novell 4.11, IntranetWare; Palm Pilot; IRMA for mainframe; Lawson financials; Ghost; Partition Magic 7.0, AT&T VPN, and Cisco VPN, PC Anywhere, Tivoli Storage Management v. 5.2.2., EMC ECC v5 and Connectix Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Grove, IL

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage EMC Storage Area Network consisting of 8 VMAXs, 1 DMX3s, 1 VNX using SYMCLI and Unisphere.
• Manage NAS environment consisting of 8 NetApp devices.
• Manage IBM Storage Area Network consisting of 5 SVCs with multiple 7Ks and 8K behind them, and 1 XIV storage arrays.
• Manage SAN network consisting of 8+ redundant SAN fabrics with 100+ switches, 1000+ ports, including Brocade DCXs, 48000 directors, Brocade 5300s switches, and Brocade 4900s. And 7800s and 7500 for FCIP replication and FICON connectivity.
• Installed, updated, and maintained 3 active instances of Brocades BNA for the monitoring, management, support, and upgrading of switches.
• Manage, maintain, and trouble - shoot connectivity and physical access between the SAN and hosts consisting of SUN Solaris 7 - 10 servers, LINUX servers, Windows 2000 - 2008 servers, and VMware ESX hosts.
• Perform new server and existing server provisioning, and decommission of server storage.
• Manage and trouble-shoot access issues between above hosts and storage disks.
• Monitor and maintain DR replication utilizing RecoverPoint.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises designed to simulate loss of primary datacenter.
• Monitor, maintain, and trouble-shoot BCV replication for backup to Mainframe.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Storage Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and oversee integration of new technology with existing systems.
• Integrated SAN and Backup teams into one unified Storage team through documentation and training.
• Manage EMC Storage Area Network consisting of 2 DMX3s, 2 NS-480s, 4 Clariion CX3-80s, 1 AX-4, and 1 Clariion CX600.
• Manage IBM Storage Area Network consisting of 5 XIV storage arrays.
• Manage SAN network consisting of 2 Brocade 48000 directors, 2 Brocade 5300, switches 4 Brocade 4900 switches, 2 12K directors, 2 Brocade 3900 switches, as well as 2 Brocade 3850s and 2 McData switches utilized for DR environment.
• Manage, maintain trouble-shoot connectivity and physical access between the SAN and hosts consisting of SUN Solaris 7 - 10 servers, Windows 2000 - 2008 servers, and VMware ESX hosts.
• Lead the Storage Team effort to move our entire DR Datacenter from New Jersey to Iowa.
• Manage and trouble-shoot access issues between above hosts and storage disks.
• Monitor and maintain SRDF/A replication to DR site.
• Participated in Storage Migration project consisting of migration of all data and servers to a new arrays and switches.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery exercises designed to simulate loss of primary datacenter.
• Monitor, maintain, and trouble-shoot Timefinder replication utilized for tape-backup, and test environments.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, il

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage EMC Storage Area Network access and all connections to open systems such as Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000-2003, and Novell. Including running fibre between servers and fibre switches, and providing backups and fail-safe procedures for the environment.
• Evaluated Hitachi 9990 for 12 months for potential use in datacenter.
• NetApp NAS storage administration.
• Monitoring backups using Tivoli Storage Management Software Version 5.2.
• Participated on a team that created a 3rd DR site utilizing EMC’s SRDF-A technology.
• Manage, Monitor, and Maintain MTI Gladiator 6700 SAN.
• Set-up and administrate backups for a multi-server, multi-SAN, multi-site environment with Storagetek 3790 Tape library, Storagetek Storagenet fibre channel/SCSI bridge 3100 and Netbackup Datacenter edition, and ArcServe software.
• Install and Trouble-shoot server hardware and software, including enabling servers to boot directly from SAN.
• Instituted policy and oversee PC rollouts using Ghost 7.5 software.
• Migrated Servers to Windows 2000 Domain from a Windows NT Domain.
• Utilize Ghost Console to refresh computers in a state of the art training center.
• Rolled out and administrate McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator to keep workstations’ and servers’ virus signature files current.
• Instituted quality assurance policy for rolling out PC’s, ensuring that all hardware and software meet user’s requirements.
• Upgrade and administrate CMS and Mobil Time, Billing Software.
• Established quality assurance policies for PC roll-outs.
• Trouble-shoot and manage VPN clients utilizing Cisco VPN software.
• Trouble-shoot user’s issues with local ISPs and broadband connections, i.e. Cable and DSL lines.
• Administrate and trouble-shoot a Windows 2000 Domain. Manage user accounts and access to data.