Storage Test Engineer Resume Buffalo, NY - Hire IT People

Confidential, Buffalo, NY ( ) Achievements/Projects Deliver enterprise business solutions using Microsoft technologies and popular 3rd party ISV products while harnessing IBM hardware products.

Storage Test Engineer A key member of IBM's Systems and Technology Group operating out of IBM's Center for Microsoft Technologies and Executive Briefing center located in Kirkland, WA. A deep understanding of these technologies are required in order to build a complete solution for our customers seriously deploying sound technologies in tandem with their production assets. In order to provide customer a viable solution, we personally stage all the necessary resources, test, document storage and data protection solutions implementing Microsoft's technologies like Exchange 2007/2010, SQL 2008 and Hyper - V. Led the planning, system and storage configuration, testing, and submittal of test results for certain ESRP solutions. Maintain assigned lab server equipment to include rack mount servers, network switches, SAN switches and interconnect cabling Management of SAN test environment includes configuring both Fibre/iSCSI based hosts to provisioning of storage LUNS on the disk-array and creating SAN zones on the Fibre switch. Engage with assisting IBM's global technical evangelist/sales rep, and lead XIV Storage manager on providing enterprise solutions. Manage several enterprise class server rack and storage systems located at Microsoft's Enterprise Engineer Center and other buildings.

Confidential, Redmond, WA ( ) Sustaining Engineer Supported Microsoft's premium corporate A/V, IM, telephony, web conferencing, VOIP and data collaboration software of Live Communication Server 2005 and Office Communications Server 2007 at Microsoft North Campus. Assisted in deploying complex Windows infrastructure Active Directory test environments in the test lab. Worked alongside Microsoft SDT, product/project managers and developers on current projects. A strong understanding of Microsoft's premier products was a strong asset for this position. Help escalation team recreate customer issues found on the field which requires recreating a configuration very close to customer's IT environment.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA ( ) QA Software Engineer Achievements/Projects Managed both a CLARiiON CX-300 and CX-3 Model 80 storage array. Helped pilot a data protection solution for Cape Cod Hospital's data center in Hyannis, MA For reference, please visit the press release regarding this case study. Instrumental in assisting IT staff migrate older Microsoft Exchange mail servers to newer Microsoft Exchange mail servers. Responsible for the planning, system configuration setup, test case development, test execution and reporting for pre-GA software for the following products:

NetWorker Backup 5.x - 7.x
NetWorker Module for Exchange Versions 3 - 5.1
NetWorker Module for SQL Ver 5.1
NetWorker Module for MEDITECH Ver 1.0
NetWorker PowerSnap for Windows
VMWare Consolidated Backup 1.x

Implemented VMWare Infrastructure Suite to test machines to be used for projects rolled out 100+ virtual PC's using. Implemented VMWare's VMware DRS, High-Availability and VMotion features for test lab. Decreased Windows OS image rollout/creation times utilizing a USB flash drive to speed up traditional Symantec GHOSTing tasks. USB flash drive is bootable and utilizes a network connection to Windows shares for storing/accessing GHOST images. The same USB flash drive eliminates maintaining multiple Ghost disks normally used for dissimilar network devices. Reduced times installing Windows Server 2003 using Microsoft unattended mode or Microsoft's SysPrep utility. Devised a non-documented method to replace a failed or corrupted VMWare VMFS volume without invalidating data.

General Responsibilities: Management of VMware Infrastructure test bed consisting of 8 ESX 3.01 servers. Management of VM virtual machines using VMware Converter. Install, configure, & manage test bed of several test Windows domains. Simulate populating and massaging data on an Exchange server for testing purposes. Provisioning of disk storage on CLARiiON for engineering staff. Zoning (Creation of Logical SAN group ) on Brocade 200E (16-port) and port) Fibre switches Management of Dell's PowerConnect 5212 Gigabit switch. Wiring of Fibre cables to and from Fibre switches and Emulex HBAs. Formulate, review test plan, test specifications, and test cases. Create, track, and verify bug defects using HP's Test Director for Quality Center Executed command-line or Windows based scripts written in Perl or VBScript/VB. Troubleshoot script failures analyzing the contents of scripts. Validated C and C++ code changes for bug fixes. Researched new technologies/procedures and presented to team.

Confidential, (Now HP) Bellevue, WA ( 9) Software Test Engineer Achievements/Projects Responsible for testing the following pre-GA products:

FX 32 Win32 emulator for Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha
Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 & 4.0 for DEC Alpha
Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha

Designed & implemented a Visual based application allowing remote users to view remote bugs' database at Microsoft. Developed a tool to replicate data between to secured companies. General Responsibilities: Daily executed Windows NT API level stress tests of nightly pre-production builds of Windows NT Server. Administer in-house Window NT 4.0 file and print servers. Mentored software testers at Microsoft office in building 26. Assisted software developers during bug defect investigations. Documented test plans, test cases & technical lab procedures.

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