Lead Architect Resume Deerfield, IL - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Architect

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

Led team of 10 engineers with forward vision, project planning and direction.
Enhanced operations locally and globally to reduce expenses while improving performance and efficiency.
Assisted the cloud design for reduced expense while enforcing required protection measures.
Recommended designs for future projects and technology refreshes.
Primary contact for all vendor engagements and strategy planning.
Completed migration to disk based backups for the entire Confidential Company including enterprise data centers and remote offices.

Data Protection SME

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

Designed, planned and implemented the standardization across 40 global NetWorker backup zones.
Redesigned infrastructure environment to the latest tape technologies resulting in a TCO reduction while data growth continued. Multi - million dollar ROI achieved in 6 months.
Lead administrator of the data protection environment with over 5,000 clients worldwide.

Backup & Storage Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed the architecture for the migration to a deduplication and replication solution for enterprise backups.
Worked with vendor engineers to design an efficient solution with high throughput at a reduced financial expenditure.
Designed and implemented the movement from older Storage Tek tape libraries to EMC EDL virtual tape libraries and IBM 3310 physical tape libraries.
Standardized the EMC NetWorker environment.
Transitioned fibre switch infra from Brocade 4100 fibre switches to Cisco MDS9513 director switches.
Introduced 10 GigE networks to the backup environment to drive the backups sufficiently.
Created various automated scripting for tape cloning, replication and reporting.
Migrated 1,200 backup clients from standard physical tape backups to virtual tape backups with monthly storage of 500TB.
Consolidated the backup environment down to two datazones for improved performance, efficiency and centralization.
Enhanced the existing backup/recovery procedures. Created a full range of documentation for backups thus closing existing audit points.