Bryan Coward Email & Phone Number

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Chapin, South Carolina

As a Senior Storage Engineer, I am responsible for 1.4PB of storage spread across 7 arrays. Technologies include HDS VSP arrays, Dell SC8000's, Dell SC9000's, and Netapp AFF200 arrays.(GIS, 2017-2018)

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Healthesystems manages the cost and utilization of pharmacy and ancillary medical benefits for workers’ compensation insurance payers and ensures that injured worker patients receive the most appropriate care and treatment. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬As a senior IT systems storage engineer, I administer and maintain the EMC SAN infrastructure. My responsibilities include monitoring arrays and switches for issues, replacing failed drives, completing capacity reporting and utilization, designing and architecting storage solutions, implementing disaster recovery systems, and managing documentation. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS► Installing and configuring three new VNX arrays and migrating over 75 TB of data to new arrays with no unplanned downtime► Eliminating Raid Groups and moving to a tiered storage strategy utilizing storage pools ► Setting and configuring 4 Cisco Nexus 5k and EMC host XtremSF cache cardsFor a detailed list of my accomplishments, please see my resume.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Jabil Circuit is an independent supplier of turnkey manufacturing services for circuit board assemblies, subsystems and systems.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬During my four years at Jabil Circuit, I was responsible for engineering, architecting, and designing storage solutions for over 70 sites and data centers around the world, as well as training the operations team to support day-to-day maintenance. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS► Installed and configured DMX-3 array► Designed new SAN architecture and implemented hardware as well as led the migration of over 50 hosts and 55TB of data► Implemented global storage capacity reporting tool OnCommand Insight► Trained operations team on VNX file and block, Unisphere, and Cisco MDS director switches► Assisted with Jabil’s data center relocation in Singapore and moved all hardware to another provider within 48 hours with no unplanned downtime or outages. Technology included EMC DMX, VNX, VNXe series, and Cisco MDS Director Switches.For a detailed list of accomplishments, please request my resume.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬WEX Inc. is a global leader in corporate payments solutions. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬I spent nearly 11 years at WEX in a variety of progressively challenging positions. During my last seven years with the company, I served as a storage administrator. I managed and administered the SAN environment and Tandem mainframe and was also responsible for vendor relations, administering fabric zoning, LUN masking, performance reporting, and alert management. Additionally, I was a primary contributor of a SAN environment upgrade that had many different aspects, including upgrading EMC disk arrays and implementing a new STK Enterprise tape library. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS► Administered storage provisioning using ECC, Navisphere, and Celerra Manager► Implemented cross-platform system architecture designs and configurations on Cisco and Brocade SAN Switches► Served as the technical lead on VMWare ESX Server SAN deployment on IMB Blades using Brocade switchesFor a detailed list of accomplishments, please request my resume.