Aaron Webster Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

I work with Lustre and OCI to scale solutions for an AI charged world.

San Francisco, California, Us

Resolved issues with various job with custom Wellsfargo toolsGranted access to critical infrastructure on a temporary basis for critical systemsAssisted restarting critical jobs with application supportCollaborated on complex technical issues and initiatives to streamline processes

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Set standard for array vendor based on use case• Replaced backup infrastructure with Commvault• Troubleshooting multiple disk and host performance issues with CentOS and RHEL• Lead projects to replace VMWare storage infrastructure• Maintained and customized Puppet environments via GitHub• Rebuilt puppet modules for scalability for monitoring packages• Documented architecture and model standards for basic deployment• Managed relationships with vendors for purchases, design, and implementations• Collaborated with business stake holders to ensure minimal disruption consolidating our existing datacenter with less than 2 hours of overall disruption• Integrated monitoring between storage and NOC tools for quick identification of issues• Create runbooks for our NOC to follow common problems or escalate

Phoenix, Az, Us

Familiarized with NetApp 7-mode with OnTap versions ranging from 7.4 to 8.2Utilized existing DFM configuration to identify root cause issue for Citrix profiles hanging during logoffUsed PowerShell to map out NetApp environment in preparation for data migrationDevised, tested, and completed data migration plan from NetApp to Oracle ZFS with standard tools including rsync, Robocopy, and Beyond CompareExperience with ZFS analytics to provide accurate information to team members for performance issuesConfigured Oracle ZFS appliance for optimization with NFS, SMB, VMWare, SQL, and Exchange Used PowerShell to retrieve VMWare footprint compared to physical footprint against ADImplemented PowerShell script to clean up all snapshots (and backing snapshots) for a specific aggregate due to issues with backup software failing to clean up snapshotsAutomated rolling reboots for Citrix environments through PowerShellImplemented group policy changes for Active Directory to resolve immediate issuesDeployed CRM update from SCCM with 98.5% success ratePerformed storage group migrations from Exchange 2007 due to repeated search index corruptionConfigured, tested, and deployed new HR Kiosks with Windows 8 touch screen devicesStrong desire to research best practices from multiple sources including storage white papers, application white papers, and legitimate blogs supporting similar configurationsConsistently provided custom scripts through .bat and PowerShell to resolve urgent issues ranging from KMS failure to urgent group policy updates on serversManaged Exchange 2007 infrastructure with Symantec Evault backupsResolved backup issues with CommVault application for SMB and ExchangeExperience with TCP/IP implementation with LACP and Cisco vPCMigrated VMs between datastores and VMWare 3.5 to 5.5 simultaneouslyIngested several Dell physical machines into VMWare 5.5

Phoenix, Az, Us

Automated installation of the internal register build process with .bat filesCreated extensive documentation for troubleshooting and proceduresDeveloped and maintained a positive relationship with multiple vendorsEnsured manual complete backup of user profile during Windows 7 migrationCreated .wim image for environment moving away from manual install of OS and applications

Westlake, Texas, Us

Participated in the creation and maintenance of a central knowledge databaseCreated reports and presentation methodologies for research purposesWorked with Team Leads to resolve technically complex issues with other technicians