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Wright- Patterson Air Force Base

Dayton, Ohio, United States

• Develop and recommend a migration path for mission simulators from a distributed to a centralized, cloud-based architecture that accommodates all common simulator functionality• Analyze, model, characterize, and document current training systems addressing design approach, networks and interfaces, proprietary applications, and all other information that will support adaptation to a standard digitally modeled architecture• Gather the architectural data to the sub-system level of all current platforms to develop and expand the system model of the simulator community, the interfacing networks, and all other such data as necessary to construct a complete and accurate as-is WNS training system environment, using model-based system engineering (MBSE) practices

Dayton, Oh

• Analyze new and changed system requirements and system designs, and refine technical solutions to ensure continuity between IT infrastructure design and installation. • Provide engineering and installation support focusing on the design, implementation and maintenance of data center storage services • Manage HDS storage arrays to include provisioning and host changes. Plan overall guidance and architecture support for the hardware installation, performance monitoring and client problem resolution. Troubleshooting and potentially correcting issues pertaining to storage connectivity, capacity or performance is also required. Perform system capacity analysis and planning to ensure storage management system operation and resource utilization optimization• Support multi-tenant customers in large highly complex environment. Manage multi-petabyte storage arrays and SAN infrastructure.

Bellevue, Ne

• Provide data center storage engineering and installation support focusing on integration, implementation and upgrade of enterprise-wide, large-scale data center storage infrastructure operating on complex distributed networks supporting DoD entities. • Analyze new and changed system requirements and system designs, and refine technical solutions to ensure continuity between IT infrastructure design and installation. • Provide engineering and installation support focusing on the design, implementation and maintenance of data center storage services

Northern Virginia

Responsible for delivery of storage services according to a statement of work. This responsibility typically spans all layers of IT infrastructure including hardware, software, networking, and applications. Perform all manner of storage services including data migrations, SAN implementations, tiered storage architecture, and implementation of advanced storage functionalities. Experience designing, deploying, educating, and integrating tiered storage solutions based on hardware and software products from HDS or other storage vendors.

Reston, Va

Responsible for leading the services business in a designated district. This responsibility spans all phases of a project's life-cycle including scoping service opportunities, overseeing deliveries, handling technical escalations, and ensuring orderly project closure. Solution Architect, Engineering of new solution, Pre-sales and Post-sales support, SAN, Virtualization, Business Continuity, SAN, Open System Data Migration, Shadow Image, True Copy, SRDF, SRDF-A, EMC, IBM

Responsible for delivery of storage services according to a statement of work. This responsibility typically spans all layers of IT infrastructure including hardware, software, networking, and applications. Perform all manner of storage services including data migrations, SAN implementations, tiered storage architecture, and implementation of advanced storage functionalities. Experience designing, deploying, educating, and integrating tiered storage solutions based on hardware and software products from HDS or other storage vendors.

Responsible for design, assessment, implementation, and management of storage service solution. Leverage knowledge of storage arrays, storage area network architecture and configuration, storage element creation and presentation, storage-related security, storage network configuration, array-based data replication, enterprise storage management, and backup architecture and practices in developing and implementing a world-class storage solution for a unique, industry-leading cloud-based solution. Conduct storage architecture analysis ranging across multiple technologies (NAS, SAN, tape, etc) and vendors (HP, EMC, Brocade, Cisco, etc). Assess existing architecture; identify issues, risks, and opportunities relating to current plan, recommending improvements as identified. Design, build, and implement flexible and scalable storage and backup solution; documenting requirements, architecture, and schedule. Incorporate COOP/DR requirements and needs into the storage/backup design. Manage storage engineers to implement, test, and maintain storage and backup solution. Identify performance requirements and constraints. Represent all areas of storage-related efforts to management, at all review boards and other teams. Define and integrate current best practices (technical, security, process) in storage and backup solution analysis and definition.Interface directly with teammates on all storage-related matters. Coordinate regularly with management on solution plans and status.

Responsible for administration & configuration of all SAN devices in a highly complex technical environment. Experienced configuring and deploying storage with, Hitachi USP/USPV, AMS and IBM FastT line of products. Experience installing and configuring multipathing software (Hitachi DLM and Microsoft MPIO). Experience designing and deploying local/remote mirroring solutions for backup and disaster recovery.

Was responsible for administration & advanced troubleshooting of SAN devices in a highly complex technical environment. Performed troubleshooting of complex problems. Perform advanced management of all types of hardware and software. Create change processes and procedures for maintaining current environment. Perform root cause analysis of failures and document solutions. Monitor health of environment to achieve optimum performance.

Responsible for administration, installation, maintenance, & advanced troubleshooting of servers in an enterprise environment. Perform migrations of physical servers to virtual servers. Performed daily operation and maintenance of over 630 servers using VirtualCenter. Create change processes and procedures for maintaining current environment and new installations. Perform root cause analysis of failures and document solutions. Monitor health of environment to achieve optimum performance.

Responsible for installation, maintenance, repair & advanced troubleshooting and administration of Storage Area Networks. Installation and troubleshoot of advanced SAN applications, complex tape backup solutions and clustered solutions. Performed installation, zoning, firmware upgrades & troubleshooting of Brocade & McData fiber channel switches. Performed data migrations and advanced software installations in high available complex environments. Performed SAN upgrades & health checks in high available complex environments. Performed complex HPCC installations and troubleshooting. Performed Microsoft and Veritas cluster installations in enterprise environments. Performed VMware designs and installations for several large corporate clients. Performed complex installations of HA, DRS, VMotion and Virtual Center. Very familiar with system administration involving these NOS’s. Traveled extensively throughout USA to client sites to perform above duties.