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0-5 years of experience
Provided storage solutions expertise on the Midrange Transformation Improvement team creating an end-to-end streamlined repeatable process from RFP through to successful midrange transformation.
- Improved success rate of Transformation program by more than 50%.
- Reduced transformation labor cost by 20%.
- Reduced time spent on documentation by more than 50%.
- Provided on site and virtual consulting for midrange transformation implementations across a diverse group of customers including AON, Ascension, Motorola, Textron, General Dynamics, and ETS.
- Mentored and coached 200 storage resources throughout the US, Europe, and Australia.
0-5 years of experience
Recruited to lead storage team in design of a comprehensive data storage and disaster recovery solution.
- Led design and layout of EMC Symmetrix storage units for production and DR, including (SRDF) connection between the storage units. Performed of data documentation for go-live of the DR environment.
- Created and implemented cross country disaster recovery solution for production systems
- Reduced costs by implementing a small footprint large capacity drive solution for storage products.
- Maintained 99.999% uptime for production storage units.
0-5 years of experience
Accountable for the design and day to day operations of the 600+ TB storage environment, which spanned 4 Clariion storage arrays and a redundant CISCO MDS fabric – providing fiber connectivity to 180 host machines via PowerPath running a variety of operating systems (Windows Server, Solaris, HP-UX, RHEL5)
- Setup and implemented Commvault and DataDomain device.
- Managed and monitored the capacity and performance of the storage environment and provided monthly reports to Senior IT management.
- Key driver for establishing enterprise level storage standards, policies and procedures according to best practices.
- Implemented a tiered storage platform by generating service levels agreements and providing lower cost alternatives based on application performance requirements.
- Negotiated vendor support relationships and achieved an overall reduction in cost for maintenance agreements
0-5 years of experience
Hired as part of Forsythe’s building its New England presence. Responsibilities include pre-sales conversations with customers, writing responses to RFPs, qualifying and sizing service opportunities, and developing strong customer relationships with a focus on Storage Infrastructure.
- Managed a successful project to move backup and disaster recovery from tape to disk.
- Recognized for outstanding knowledge in the backup and recovery space.
- Address customer’s storage issues by offering them customized solutions that take advantage of new storage architectures and technologies such as Integrated ILM, De-Duplication, NAS, SAN, Replication, VTL, etc.
- Developed technical knowledge of Data Domain, Sepaton, Quantum and Diligent solutions de-duplication solutions.
- Developed detailed knowledge of various vendor’s storage solutions such as EMC, IBM, Quantum, HDS, HP, and others.
- Certification attained with EMC and HDS.
6-10 years of experience
Architected and engineered storage solution for private cloud. Introduced and implemented standard storage cloud solution, which reduced storage complexity and increase manageability of the private cloud environment.
- Lead NAS Architect. Re-architected NAS environment from ground up. Doubled the capacity of NAS without any impact to the service levels. Implemented one of the first successful Clustered NAS (cDOT) solutions.
- Architected storage solution for VDI, matching high performance demands.
- Introduced and documented Business Requirements for backup and disaster recovery of the company.
- Simplified cost allocation by introducing planning concepts of the capacity unit for data protection.
- Negotiated vendor purchases, which resulted in multi-million savings for the company.
0-5 years of experience
Hired as part of Forsythe’s building its New England presence. Responsibilities were to architect solutions to customer’s storage requirements using EMC storage and Forsythe professional services.
- Managed a successful project to move backup and disaster recovery from tape to disk.
- Recognized for outstanding knowledge in the backup and recovery space.
- Address customer’s storage issues by offering them customized solutions that take advantage of new storage architectures and technologies such as Symetrix DMX, De-Duplication, NAS, SAN, RecoverPoint, VTL, etc.
- Developed technical knowledge of Data Domain, Sepaton, Quantum and Diligent solutions de-duplication solutions.
- Developed detailed knowledge of various vendor’s storage solutions such as EMC, IBM, Quantum, HDS, HP, and others.
- Certification attained with EMC and HDS.
0-5 years of experience
Storage Architect consultant providing direct support for the Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations Philadelphia site.
- Designed and implemented a major Storage Consolidation project including the migration from multiple DAS based Storage appliances to a SAN/NAS (EVA4400/8000 / Netapp V3140) Data Center Enterprise Storage Solution.
- Analyzed and redesigned NetApp snapshot environment recouping 26% of production Tier-1 storage and alleviated several hours of weekly snapshot administration tasks by creating custom auto deletion policies and lowering the snapshot reserves where needed.
- Restructured NetApp NAS storage environment through a combination of balancing and reducing volume sizes to accommodate storage deduplication (a-sis) resulting in a 37% reduction in Tier-1 capacity utilization.
- Planned and executed a Fabric Migration from legacy Brocade 3800 and 4900 fabric switches to enterprise class 48000 switches resulting in a fully redundant fabric and a significant drop in persistent errors.
- Designed and implemented a highly efficient disk based backup solution used to consolidate 3 tape libraries with a total of 34 dated tape drives down to a single backup appliance resulting in a significant improvement in general backup efficiency.
- Provided a Disaster Recovery (DR) / Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP) strategy plan needed to meet the DLA standard MAC II Recovery Time Objective (RTO) / Recovery Point Objective (RPO) involving a disk based backup architecture with replication to an offsite remote location.
- Besides day to day storage management duties, provided top tier support for NetApp (NAS/SAN), HP EVA (SAN), NetBackup (Backup and Recovery), Brocade (Fabric), and Enterprise Vault (Archive) with an average application recovery time of less than 20 minutes and a 99.99% overall storage system availability from 2010-2013.
0-5 years of experience
Created SAN standards associated with on premise cloud for infrastructure and tooling
- Developed storage replication standards for Microsoft IT using SRDF and RecoverPoint
- Created Storage Standards for EMC’s VMAX FAST implementation
- Tested new SAN technologies from vendors in a lab environment and documented the results
- Performed Proof Of Concepts on other new technologies
- Implemented NetApp’s OnCommand Insight (OCI) Suite for reporting and Business Intelligence
- Led storage business intelligence team in support of OCI including maintenance, updates, and feature enhancements for one of the largest virtualized, OCI deployments in the world
0-5 years of experience
Lead the development of long-term vision, strategy, and roadmaps for storage across the organization in conjunction with company objectives and goals
- Analyzed the storage environment and make recommendations to make changes in processes and build new Artifacts
- Develop, document and distribute production operational processes to ensure the availability and reliability of the Tier Storage environment
- Maintained project plans, coordinated meetings with all stakeholders, conducted tests, identified prerequisites, documented technical procedures, and monitored the implementation phase of various storage related projects
- Developed and presented training for SAN engineers
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for providing architecture design, recommending storage, SAN, backup solutions and introducing new technologies to meet business needs
- As Lead Storage Architect on largest SAP/ERP deployment initiative, developed storage architecture and designed solutions
- As Lead Storage Architect in North America Data Center Consolidation Initiative, architected solution to consolidate storage from the 3 Data Centers. Designed and configured appropriate tiers of shared storage and helped define data migration strategy to reduce downtime and minimize risk
- Partnered with vendors such CSC, Cisco and EMC to introduce appropriate technologies based on business needs.
- As a member of the core Architecture Team, helped design Architecture & layout for new Enterprise Data Center.
- Architected and introduced new technologies and ensured seamless integration across various platforms.
- Provided guidance / coaching to team members on various projects
- Assisted in budgeting and procurement of appropriate Storage technologies
0-5 years of experience
[company name] is a non-profit provider of health insurance products with provider networks in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. As a system administrator and storage architect I am responsible for the design, maintenance, and day-to-day operations of a mixed SAN environment including products from EMC, NetApp, and Cisco. Additionally, I serve as an additional server administrator resource and provide technical guidance during project scoping and strategy discussions.
- Assumed primary ownership of and responsibility for all storage products immediately upon hire, including responsibility for the successful elimination of legacy IBM DS4000 series storage arrays and migration of legacy NetApp equipment to two new NetApp arrays housed in separate data centers
- Minimized downtime required for NetApp migration by pre-staging large portions of the target environment using SnapMirror replication
- Developed and launched a storage capacity monitoring tool for EMC VMAX arrays that provides dashboard views of storage capacity consumption to enable rapid assessment of current capacity trending and future needs
- Presented architectural recommendations that became the foundation of disaster recovery strategies for each individual technology stack in the [company name] infrastructure
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for the North American EMC revenue number, solutions design, training of the technical and sales resources, and business development for all of [company name].
- Grew backup and recovery focus area by 241%, resulting in over 7M in revenue and over 1.2M in GP.
- Designed and sold the first partner led implementation VBlock in the Southeast, with 3 more in upside for the year.
- Realigned services to support the areas on which I focused, driving their utilization up 400%.
- Developed SMB storage packages for ease of sale across multi-focused sales regions, increasing SMB sales 150% in a month.
6-10 years of experience
Partnered with Regional Sales Manager to develop one most successful sales territories within Brocade
- Lead technical meetings that educated customers, potential customers, channel partners, and OEM partners of the advantages of integrating the Brocade product line into their environment
- Exceeded annual quota twice and made sales team of the year twice
- Supported multiple territories within a 3 state region
- Represented Brocade as a SAN Subject Matter Expert in sales calls for the Brocade internal sales force and channel partners
- Lead meetings with existing & new customers, existing & new channel partners with or without a sale person present
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for assessment, architecture and delivery of high availability SANs across heterogeneous open systems to prospects/customers of StorageNetworks PACS services
- Developed best practice methodologies and documented as technical solution guides
- As a Pre-Sales Engineer, assisted the sales team to formulate a winning strategy as it relates to prospective client requirements
- Provided technical qualifications based on prospect/customer architectural surveys
- Delivered presentations to prospective technical/management teams to articulate StorageNetworks value proposition
- Mentored and trained new technical support personnel
0-5 years of experience
I was part of the service operations team and the designated engineer to architect and design the environment consisting of VMware Vsphere cluster Farms in datacenters spread across North America and UK hosting Linux vms at one end and EMC VNXe 7500, CX4-960 SAN devices, Isilon/NetApp NAS devices at the backend providing SaaS and Cloud computing services.
- Configured ESX deployment server to automate the rollout of ESXi 4.1 and customized install image with device drivers using Vibddi tool.
- Designed and deployed 600 server virtual environment managed by Vsphere Vcenter including 18 HA clusters, A Redhat 5 servers acting as vault environment spread across various datacenters connecting different parts U.S, Canada and UK in the direction to virtualize the company’s vault environment.
- Written Perl scripts to take snapshots of EMC luns accessed by vaults via cron.
- EMC SAN Management via EMC Control Center, SymmCLI and NaviCLI.
- Worked on NetApp CLI to setup SnapVault between filers.
- Worked with DBAs to take cold and hot backup of Oracle 10g and 11g database using EMC TimeFinder/Clone.
- Installed and configured HP Blade c7000 chassis with HP DL380 G7 blade units in various datacenters.
0-5 years of experience
Planned, designed, and built $2M storage and testing laboratory, including cooling, cabling, power and physical security issues. Provide clients with expert level consulting regarding SAN-LAN-WAN integration and high availability planning in UNIX and Microsoft environments.
- Designed, tested and provided proof of concept for FDIC’s disaster recovery plan, ensuring public confidence. This designed supported their Wintel environment of over 200 servers, but a disaster recovery site with only 50 servers. Designed the plan used to make emergency consolidation for FDIC to run critical applications.
- Tested the first iSCSI devices ever developed. Developed test cases, conducted testing, and wrote the evaluation report, resulting in client proving product viability and selling company to Cisco for over $500M.
- Designed and architected large scale storage networks, backup environments and replication to meet customers’ business requirements.
10+ years of experience
Designed and developed the successful storage practice from ground zero to a profitable level.
- Worked closely with vendors and management to design products and service offerings.
- Trained staff on products and service procedures.
- Sold, installed and supported storage solutions for a wide range of small business to enterprise customers throughout the U.S.
- Participated in beta testing with multiple storage startups.
- Proven track record for customer satisfaction.
0-5 years of experience
Sales Engineer for Enterprise hardware and software, supporting seven account managers
- Responsible for quotations, designing and configuration of EMC hardware and software
- Worked with Sales Representatives on account calls and account planning
- Responded to RFP’s from customers and Interface with high-profile clients
- Worked with Sales/Account Managers and Operation teams in gathering requirements for clients
- Attained quarterly and annual objectives assigned by management
- Leveraged relationships within organizations to solve technical hurdles and foster awareness of our products and solutions
0-5 years of experience
Designed Total Architecture for Storage Area Network and Disaster Recovery using EMC SRDF. Implemented over 200
TB of EMC Symmetrix Storage with a 400 port SAN using EMC/McData Connectrix switches
- Over 100 mid to large Sun Solaris and HP Servers. Exchange Microsoft Clusters on SAN with SRDF based DR
- Celerra NAS implementation with Active/Passive redundant design using 12 Data Movers on each side and over 6TB of EMC BCV/TimeFinder storage.
- Disaster Recovery over Dark Fibre using DWDMs with a completely redundant multiple Fabric design, using EMC
- Wrote extensive shell scripts to automate various trouble-shooting procedures and DR failover recovery
- Provided critical documentation to manage the total project with detailed Visio diagrams, Implementation Plans and checklists
0-5 years of experience
Monitored storage arrays using a data center fabric manager, utilizing Microsoft Excel to record inactive/offline storage arrays, then utilized ticketing system to confirm records of listed storage arrays
- Project management related tasks- summarized meetings, maintained communication lines with stakeholders
- Process Mapping- Created flowcharts using appropriate flow diagram symbols
- Obtained high level views of Storage Area Networks, Network-Attached Storage, and Database Management
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for designing and managing the storage infrastructure for [company name] business and financial data centers.
- Lead efforts to migrate data and operational practices from SAN to NAS based storage arrays.
- Team Lead and technical mentor to three Systems Administrators.
- Provide architectural guidance for SAP, Oracle and infrastructure migration projects.
- Implemented architectural and operational standards for storage infrastructure support, monitoring and implementation.
- Analyzed future technologies and made recommendations based on alignment with [company name] business initiatives.
- Managed storage and Unix systems vendor relationships as it related to projects, support and infrastructure procurement.
0-5 years of experience
Prepared and delivered technical presentations on customer’s current storage environment
- Worked with customers to ensure that their current storage environment is optimized
- Conducted analysis to ensure the customer is receiving vendors’ best prices on hardware and software.
- Worked on two data center solution utilizing two Brocade 12000 Directors in each data center. This allowed communications for disaster recover over fiber. The environment consisted of VMWARE servers and HDS VSP as Tier1 storage and included AMS 2500’s as, Tier 2 and Tier 3 storage. Utilized HDS Tiered Storage Manager to move data between Tiers based on customer requirements. This data was then replicated utilizing HUR between both data centers to ensure data consistency. Each data center was backed up locally on Quantum solutions.
- Evaluated HDS Thin Provisioning; however the customer did not utilize the solution.
- Migrated 60TB from USP-V to VSP utilizing True Copy. Environment consisted of Brocade switches and 10 Solaris servers consisting of 10K’s and Sun SPARC servers. Migration covered five weekends to minimize downtime. Customer was very satisfied with migration.
- Manage equipment specification changes and software changes for assigned accounts
- Migrated data from competitive vendor hardware by virtualizing behind VSP. Performed migration non-disruptively.
0-5 years of experience
Part of the Storage Team that designs, configures and maintains the IBM Storwize v7000 and N-Series arrays in their Colorado and Texas Data Centers.
- Working on a project for several high-profile banks and companies based in the United States.
- Part of the Team that is upgrading over 70 AIX servers running Tivoli Storage Manager from version 5 to version 6
- Coordinate projects with several Teams based all over the world to maintain 99.999% uptime on their Storage Arrays
- Work as 3rd Level support for the SAN Team
- Develop high quality documentation for current SAN configuration that will be a part of the Run-Books
0-5 years of experience
Design and Build Cisco UCS to Virtualze the existing Virtual and Physical envivonment
- Design and Architected NetApp FlexPod solution along with Hybrid NetApp 3270 as a interim solution
- Gathered Application, Server, LUN and Database Data mapping across MedImmune Applications
- Recommended Monitoring Tools across the entire Enterpriese Infrastructure, Lab, Research facilities using Netuitive, Zenoss, SCOM, Quest and Solarwinds
- Architected Backup and Disaster Recovery solution using CommVault with option to Archive
- Implemented SCCM across Enterpreise wide
- Reviewed VMware 5.0 Strategy compare to 4.1 in lab envrionment
- Worked with Application and Database team to provide P2Vand V2V migration
0-5 years of experience
- Strategic Focused Partner with hands on experience with Microsoft, EMC, Symantec, and Citrix
- Senior Solution Architect that assisted a team of 75 plus sales professionals identify and close networking and storage opportunities to SMD and Enterprise class accounts
- Substantially improved all areas of the sale development life cycle for the company products, introducing frameworks, methodologies, and best practices to the team. Established iterative development process, set up a QA lab, significantly amended release management and documentation.
- Development Manager targeting Commercial and Enterprise Level Accounts in the Georgia/Alabama Area
- Managed company vendor relationships, along with Extensive Product Research, Development, and Marketing
0-5 years of experience
Storage Consultant
- Designed, engineered and managed enterprise SAN, NAS and Backup solutions.
- Review all designs and customer solutions provided by Junior Architects.
- Liaise with customers and operational staff
- Manage a team of 5 storage engineers providing technical guidance and training.
- Design, implement and document troubleshooting and operational documentation for customers transitioning to SAN and NAS based storage.
0-5 years of experience
Managed team of 8 full time and contract consultants.
- Designed cost effective storage solutions utilizing multiple storage technologies(Hitachi, EMC, HP, Brocade, IBM, NetApp)
- Analyzed existing and new processes; recommended modifications for improvement or automation as needed to reduce problems and increase efficiencies and capabilities.
- Identify performance issues and assist in the development of tools and procedures for better system management.
- Responsible for mentoring and developing new and existing team members.
- Responsible for the design, management and maintenance of large scale enterprise storage environment, which included over 2 petabytes of data.
0-5 years of experience
- Re-aligned the EMC account team to improve responsiveness and increase collaboration on key efforts.
- Lead a team of 4 individuals to manage the Disk Storage, Backup, Unix and DBA environments for a 3 billion dollar business services company.
- Developed a comprehensive storage strategy which addressed key business needs over a 24 month period.
- Conducted an in-depth evaluation of file level reporting tools and developed a rating methodology to aid in the selection process.
- Acted as a key resource in a project to evaluate and implement an Oracle 10g RAC shared database environment.
- Acted as a key resource in a project to implement a DR plan for a highly available AS400 system.
- Developed detailed process documentation for storage tasks.
- Managed, trained and mentored team members.
- Implemented processes and methodologies to improve storage capacity planning
- Created and improved processes to maintain high levels of availability.
0-5 years of experience
Provided the Piper Mainframe Data Migration service as member of a two man team, for the Americas utilizing Innovation Data Processing’s FDRPAS, IBM’s PPRC and other methods to move data from old DASD technology to IBM’s new storage devices. Move data for customers with different environments, and requirements on a consistent basis without customer outages. Customer industries have included insurance, financial, banks, hotel management, credit cards processing, publishers, news papers, manufacturing, transportation, package delivery, hospitals and universities.
- Responsible for presenting the Piper migration service offering to customers, followed by technical discussions and project planning for the migration service.
- Responsible for requesting migration hardware for customer’s engagements. Once onsite, un-pack equipment and connected to customer’s environment, configure the migration device and created JCL to move data. Provided full on-site support while data was being migrated and provided status reports. Once the data was migrated, removed all hardware and repacked the migration hardware for shipping.
- Created and maintained a project status spreadsheet, tracking customer engagements as well as the Piper hardware status and locations.
- Provided equipment loaner support for the Life Sciences team across the US, determined each customer’s hardware needs, requested the needed hardware through several processes and tracked it through the end of the loan term.
0-5 years of experience
Member of Data migration Team – Recommendations for Architecture and Implementation with Engineering Team of the program for MetLife for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and US sites (RISC & SISC).
- Technologies involve EMC RecoverPoint, VPLEX, VMware, DataDomain, RecoverPoint4VM, vSphere replication, Zerto.
- Successfully migration of non-prod and prod environments for Brazil using EMC RecoverPoint. Infrastructure consisted of EMC VPLEX Metropoint, VMAX, VNX, DataDomain, IBM XIV and Cisco SAN switches.
- MetLife Chile HDS storage -HUS130-PyC and virtual using Hitachi storage navigator modular2.
- As member of Cloud Team recommendation and Gap Analysis for VMware NSX to customers VBLOCK environment. Involved in detailed analysis for network/architecture for recommendation to engineering Team of Intralinks NetApp environment consisting of NetApp FAS3140 Data onTap 8.1.2P1 – 7 mode environment installed in both NY and Boston sites.
- Assisted in troubleshooting of Hyperwiser NetApp 7.3.6 environment issues.
- Shadowing of EMC xtremIO poc and install configurations with EMC and customer Teams.
- Attendance to EMC DPAD, ViPr, EPIC training sessions in Boston, MA along with xtremIO
- Completed EMC xtremIO certification.
- Recommendations to customers in Hartford, CTwith EPIC recommendations.
6-10 years of experience
Design, provide training and implement Cisco’s local and remote Oracle Data Base disk based backup and protection (BlackStar Systems) consisting of installation of FalconStor Software (NSS) on Cisco’s UCS C & B series servers, setting up Protections and Replications, performing real time Local and Disaster recoveries with RTO and RPO statistics from SVL San Jose California systems campus to RTP North Carolina system campus as well as providing training to all departments (Storage Admins, DBA, Operations, Lab Team, Implementation Groups).
- Received strong customer praise for work done with Data Center production environments including implementation of Exchange Clusters (2010, 2007, 2003), SQL Clusters, File Servers, VMware/SRM (Site Recovery Manager)/SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) with Failback Manager, Hyper-V, Symantec NetBackup, BackupExec, Solaris, AIX, AS400, etc., as well essentials for Data Center Disaster Recoveries.
- Designed, installed and implemented all FalconStor award-winning storage software within the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Traveled approximately 85% annually.
- Supervised and managed installations of data de-duplication with both File-interface De-duplication System (FDS) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL), CDP (Continuous Data Protection) and NSS (Network Storage Servers) products for customers nationwide and international.
- Using Snapshot technology led and directed customers’ implementation and recovery efforts within Networking, Security, Microsoft Administration, UNIX, Linux and Database administration.
- Led, designed and managed Storage Solution projects to ensuring customer satisfaction, working with diverse customers such as Accenture, Cisco, Destination Maternity, Medical Card Systems, Boeing Seal Beach Defense Agency, Quest (Integral Systems), Doral Bank, TSWG, RBC Dain, The Baupost Group, LLC, Disney, Lahey Clinic, etc.
- Performed goal-setting, measuring and reporting of actual results versus goals on deployments.
- Developed planning and testing documentation on disaster recovery procedures for customers.
- Educated and trained customer staff to ensure that all customers’ Storage Area Network administrators ascertained and comprehended IPStor’s CDP, NSS and VTL storage functionalities.
- Managed, created and stage customer site environment at headquarters location to detect and document procedures prior to implementation.
- Led Tech Support staff in successfully resolution of customer issues.
0-5 years of experience
- Business Solution Architect, IT PM and Relationship Manager focused to build a strategic partnership for collaboration to enhance the IT portfolio to support business objectives. Supporting the execution of the long-term IT strategy and system roadmap that addresses local needs while contributing to the improvement of the Global IT strategy.
- Managed various projects for JnJ Pharma and JnJ Global Clinical Operations group resulting in improved efficiency, consolidated and reduction in cost to the company.
- Designed and architected the deployment of large and complex technical solutions in Johnson & Johnson’s Global Data Centers
- Managed one acquisition and three spin-off, integration projects for JnJ. Lead Macroflux spin-off in capacity of technology architect.
- Support and assist in number of New Drug Application submissions.
- Implemented global processes in the areas of IT Operations utilizing Process Excellence tools.
- Researched, implemented and maintained solutions in the areas disaster recovery and high-availability for mission critical environments.
- As technology lead architected HP, Quantum and Network Appliance based SAN solution. Created and managed JnJ Pharma West Coast SAN solution group.
- Architecture and deployment of Global Infrastructure Services using concepts of TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
0-5 years of experience
DX Object Platform SME for Dell GICS (Round Rock)
- Designed Statements of Work for Macquarie Group Services and L3
- Design and Implemented a Commvault Backup Environment for LPCH
- Designed Sales Presentations
- Zoned Tape Library Infrastructure and Assisted in Installation
- Configured, Presented Equallogic Storage, Powerconnect 10G Switches, R810 Servers, Brocade 6510 Switches
- Performed customer presentations for LPCH Migration Project
- Assisted Sales Team with Storage sales on Commvault with DL2200 over Netapp
- Assisted Global Sales Team to sell DX-Object Platform
- Left this role to pursue Managed Service Consulting/Architecture Work on Request of Dell Services (Legacy Perot Systems)
0-5 years of experience
Architect future direction for storage at future data center with virtual technologies.
- Architect cost saving processes for storage growth management.
- Work with project managers to implement projects with outsourcers.
- Keep current on new technologies and trends and utilize the education for future planning.
- Plan growth and future direction for Datacenter Technologies group.
- Working with 5PB of NAS/SAN storage.
- Disaster Recovery Architecture using EMC/VMWare products.
0-5 years of experience
Assist and train department team members to complete day-to-day tasks and newly signed contracts.
- Design, deploy, and support internal, managed hosted and remote customer infrastructures.
- Monitor and manage all internal storage solutions.
- Work with management on storage forecasting and planning future usage and needs.
- Design and build new EMC storage environments; performance tuning and rectifying identified issues in existing storage solutions.
0-5 years of experience
- Provided technical lead to various large projects, such as BCP, Y2K, Novell to Windows, DR.
- Worked on Hp/Compaq, Dell, EMC, IBM and StorageTek SAN and NAS products.
- Implemented Veritas Netbackup/BpVault for DR and backup solutions.
- Designed, upgraded and implemented BDC, PDC, DNS, Exchange solutions.
0-5 years of experience
Provide performance monitoring, testing, and evaluation of high performance computing infrastructures.
- Develop conceptual framework and design for a metadata filesystem.
- Develop project plans for storage infrastructure installation, configuration, and integration.
- Produce architectural diagrams and technical documentation for network topology, storage area network design and configuration.
- Install, configure, and support hardware and software products across a variety of host environments.
- Examine data and information requirements from a business perspective and develop hardware and software architectures to meet established requirements.
0-5 years of experience
Provided business development and technical pre-sales support for a rapidly growing SAN storage provider. Compellent has a sales model that is 100% via channel. My role consists of training and assisting our business partners in articulating the business value and technical merit of our storage solutions.
- Identified, qualified and captured new business.
- Assisted prospective customers in the development and implementation of IT infrastructure strategies for storage technologies.
- Provide post sales support for installs, upgrades and DR site I implementation.
0-5 years of experience
Deployed internal systems to support the business and deployed hosted and on-premise customer solutions to support business goals and objectives.
- Prepare technical architectural and implementation design documents presales and post-engagement for Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Systems and Storage Environments
- Perform capacity planning studies for all related technologies
- Facilitate operational directives including; inventory control, budgeting, and business management and compliance of all applicable federal, state & local laws
- Established key relationships with vendors, suppliers, and other sales personnel to leverage profitable pricing and buying power.
- Effectively utilize technical and communications expertise to identify and resolve problems
- Provide long term planning and direction for storage environment
0-5 years of experience
Installation and Configuration of NetApp Storage appliances.
- Design and Implementation of Disaster Recovery Solutions.
- Installed, configured NetApp Snap Software suite (Drive, Exchange, MS/SQL) for client servers.
- Installed, configured Clustered NetApp Storage Controllers for Army and Air Force customers.
- Migrated LUNs from Legacy (out of warranty) EMC SANs to a NetApp 3020
- Installed, configured and trained customers on SyncSort Backup Express solution at multiple Air Force Training Command bases.
6-10 years of experience
- Provide operational and management support for various projects.
- Analysis of the existing enterprise comprised of multiple SANs, various vendors (Brocade, Compaq/HP, DataDomain, EMC, NetApp, SUN), replication, remote disaster recovery sites, and various nationwide locations
- Utilizing analysis results to propose modification and remediation to address performance and security
- Create standard operating policies and procedures for storage management group
- Recommend the implementation and procurement of tools to assist with operations and engineering
- Tailor the current enterprise storage and backup solutions into a lifecycle system with the end goal of a tiered storage solution with reduced total cost of ownership and earned value analysis in mind
- Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reports on status of storage, backups, and service level agreements
- Supported two SRA proposal teams. Responsibilities included writer, reviewer, and subject matter expert. Activities included orals, solution development, and technical design. Translated and aligned customer’s highly involved life cycle procedures with SRA’s ELITE methodology
0-5 years of experience
- Worked to create an enterprise data model (EDM) for district applications.
- Manager of database team supporting Oracle RAC and 11g databases including EBS, SQL Server
- Lead effort to stabilize, secure and document a multi-platform multi-database environment.
- Creation of a custom Oracle to MySQL migration program.
- Designed an enterprise backup solution through interviews with stakeholders to gauge current data
0-5 years of experience
- Engaged in cross-country client site visits partnering with client IT administrators to implement SAN solutions projects. Provide extensive onsite support and training with high profile clients.
- Cultivated client relationships by developing an in-depth understanding of client needs and ensuring efforts are directed towards meeting client objectives.
- Collect configuration and resolve issues on site. Prepare and maintain documents.
0-5 years of experience
Design, Certify, and Document Installation of EMC, Compellent, IBM Shark & HP SAN Data Storage & Switching products for a new and existing NYU installations.
- Generate engineering drawings/designs and define all installation standards
- Provide Project Manager services for the above builds as well as coordinate all Data Cable and Electrical installations
- Gather user technical requirements and design/suggest application specific technologies that fill the unique needs for each client/installation.
- Implement a series of best practices for storage management, provisioning, data retention, application specific storage device configuration(tiers, raid configs etc.), naming standards, capacity planning and DR/Data Replication
- Manage IBM Global services personnel who maintain all of NYU’s SAN infrastructure
- Provide Proof of Concept testing and Best Practices for each NYU Production & DR client host & storage installation in each NYU Production & DR site.
- Host types included HP/Compaq, Dell, IBM Wintel Servers & Blade Centers. Storage Consisted of 12 IBM Shark frames & Multiple smaller SAN installs. The smaller SANS were usually Clariion, HP EVA/EMA, or Compellent
0-5 years of experience
Install and configure EMC ViPR controller and SRM for automated storage provisioning and reporting
- Architect and configure VMAX-3 platform
- Troubleshoot and recommend solutions to performance problems on VMAX/VNX using SYMMERGE and or Unisphere.
- Look for flash suitability of VMAX/VNX using Tier-Advisor and work with EMC pre-sales team to design new arrays.
- Run performance modeling of a given workload on a different VMAX using symmerge to see how this new load will perform on the target array.
- Conducted technical sessions on how to use Unisphere to analyze and resolve performance issues on VMAX arrays.
- Worked on VMAX3 certification/best practice implementation.
- As part of VMAX3 certification we set standards for cabling and fa mappings for maximum availability and best performance.
- Worked on Xtreme IO set up and configuration. Analyzed and reported performance metrics during peak workloads.
- Analyzed performance of about 50 VMAX 20k’s after Raid-5 to Raid-6 conversion and marked them as High/Medium/Low so that operations team does not pick the heavily loaded arrays for new allocations.
- Storage automation by writing scripts for all basic storage tasks, including report generation and allocation.
0-5 years of experience
Setup, Testing, and Fine Tuning of Solaris 9, Linux, Windows, HP-UX, AIX environments for connectivity to Storagetek products such as Tape Libraries and Disk Storage via FC HBA’s.
- Setting up of LUN’s in SANtricity for customization of customer’s environment.
- Configuration of equipment from SUN, Brocade, Cisco, Storagetek, VERITAS, EMC, Network Appliance, and Hitachi.
- Setup of VERITAS products, such as Volume Manager, Netbackup, & Cluster Server
- Implementation of associated hardware (Tape Libraries, Disk Array’s), including Disaster Recovery testing.
- Management and troubleshooting of SAN infrastructure, creating and extending LUN’s using SANtricity, managing hosts and zoning, and creating network maps using tools like brocade’s
- Fabric Manager, and Cisco’s Fabric Manager and CLI.
- Implementation of Jumpstart services for Solaris server builds.
6-10 years of experience
Work with Strategic Business Units (SBUs) to determine client needs and refreshes for the environments
- Develop and model new service offerings for existing and new client business
- Design Storage Solutions for new client business and create models for migration and deal planning.
- Continuous Data Center Consolidation
0-5 years of experience
- Consult with Fortune 100 companies to assess existing storage environment: Analyze all aspects of storage, including physical, virtual, SAN/NAS, unallocated, and backup; determine weaknesses; and forecast future needs.
- Design storage environments tailored to clients’ needs, recommending ways to increase efficiency, provide visibility, and reduce TCO (total cost of ownership).
- Provide cost analysis and roadmap for comprehensive Cloud solutions.
- Present analysis and recommendations to executive management. Articulate key aspects of architecture and design (e.g., scalability, availability, manageability, robustness, appropriate incorporation of new technology) through models and documentation.
- Transfer knowledge to clients’ technical staff and provide ongoing support.
0-5 years of experience
Install new or rebuild existing Vblock hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.
- Contribute to and maintain “Best Practice” process and procedures related to Vblock logical configuration
- Configured Cisco UCS systems, networks, and SAN technologies per customer requirements.
- Install ESXi and deployed VM’s per customer requirements.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for implementation tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale
- Mentor VCE Partners and junior staff member in VCE & EMC best practices Delivery Knowledge Transfer sessions with clients and partners
- Troubleshoot any Vblock issues that may arises from the field or interal.
- Configure Storage (VNXe, VNX, VMAX, and Celerra), UCS and Nexus to VCE standards.
0-5 years of experience
- Provide Architecture guidance for migration efforts to new VMAX into Data Center
- Support and maintain new VPLEX hardware/software for migration purposes
- Document and implement migration efforts using VPLEX and Veritas Mirroring methods
- Heavy scripting to automate the data capture of I/O performance on all arrays (Clariion, DMX, VMAX).
- Heavy scripting to automate the collection of user capacity on new Virtual Lun Pools used in the VMAX
- Provided 24X7 support for all SAN activities
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