As a Principal Storage Engineer, I specialise in designing, implementing, and managing global storage solutions. My role focuses on advanced NetApp technologies including FAS/AFF, StorageGrid and public cloud via GCP/Azure with NetApp CVO. I additionally have experience with Ansible automation to improve management of our storage infrastructure streamlining administrative tasks and improving efficiency. ◍ Expert in NetApp AFF/FAS/C-Series, StorageGrid.◍ Deployed and manage NetApp Cloud Volumes OnTap on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure (AZR)◍ Implemented and configured monitoring tools using Everbridge, Micro Focus SM9, NetApp Active IQ Manager.◍ Utilized Ansible for automation of storage management tasks for NetApp Clusters and NetApp StorageGrid◍ Successfully managed large-scale data centre migrations and storage system relocations.◍ Planned, executed, and oversaw new enterprise-scale environments in North America, EMEA and ASPAC regions.◍ Trained new team members: Facilitated onboarding and training sessions for new team members, ensuring they were proficient in technical processes and company standards.

As the EMEA Storage Systems Team Lead, I led a team of engineers to deliver high-performance storage solutions across the EMEA region. My responsibilities included project management, team leadership, and ensuring the efficient operation of storage infrastructure.◍ Led a team of storage engineers, promoting collaboration and high performance.◍ Managed storage infrastructure projects, ensuring timely and budget-conscious delivery.◍ Expert and company SME in NetApp Cluster and StorageGrid installation, optimisation and support.◍ Created detailed workflows and technical documentation for knowledge transfer.◍ Monitored team KPIs and team member performance metrics. Provided consistent feedback to my team to help prepare for yearly appraisals.

My role at OpenText as a Senior Storage Administrator was for the Cloud Services Team. My core responsibilities were to ensure that all commercialised customer facing cloud environments were 100% available and managed effectively. Also included in the scope of my role was deploying storage changes through ITIL change management, working with external vendors (NetApp, EMC) maintaining storage backup infrastructure, and to ensure performance specifications are met.

As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, I provided in-depth enterprise technical support to customers, support personnel, and field support engineers. This is focused on diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging NetApp products. Support incidents that could range from various hardware and/or software issues with NetApp storage systems and solutions, to multi-system, multi-vendor, and multi-network interoperability issues.

After successfully supporting the business as the Subject Matter Expert for SAN/NAS storage and Business Continuity for Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, in April 2013 I was promoted to ICT System Administrator - Data Management Specialist.My core responsibilities are ensuring that all Data Storage architecture in the global Fisher & Paykel environment is reliably managed through effective availability and capacity management of SAN architecture and endeavoring that all data volumes and presented LUN’s were highly available to the production environment with data replication and proactive support involving patching processes.I have also eliminated capacity management issues for our core file data storage by successfully migrating core critical business data to a new implemented SAN Equallogic storage solution. Other storage implementations include provisonment and installation of Dell Equallogic SAN’s for our highly available SAP environment In addition my role involved protecting all company servers and applications through effective backup and Disaster Recovery management. I am also the primary contact for the company in regards to incident/problem management and change/release management for our global backup infrastructure. In this role, I successfully improved our business protection by implementing and operating a new global image based backup solution that has significantly improved recovery times for our server environment from a 24 hours RPO & RTO to a 2 hours RTO, and increased RTO points by over 10 times for our server infrastructure. Other recent projects include being a core member of a team that are currently migrating our International user base to a Cloud based email storage solution. (Microsoft Office 365) Other key responsibilities of my role included, technical documentation, rolling out training to other team members, as well as fully communicating system recovery statistics to senior management on a monthly basis.

• Became the subject matter expert for backup and data management support using Backup Exec and ArcServe.• Using Agile methodologies became the Scum Master for the ICT System Administration team. • Implemented new core server infrastructure remotely for new sales office based in Sweden. – January 2013• Key team member that successfully implemented ICT infrastructure for a 3rd manufacturing/office facility based in Auckland, New Zealand. – December 2012After emigrating to Auckland, New Zealand I was successful at being employed as an ICT System Administrator for Fisher and Paykel Healthcare. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited is a thriving, cutting-edge New Zealand medical device company with a wide and growing range of highly innovative healthcare products operating in 120 countries around the world. My main responsibilities were to provide ICT operational support to resolve system issues, and to recommend and implement improvements to ensure ICT services were continually running reliably and to achieve service level expectations. I provided second and third line support to the global business in regards to server management. The role involved support of over 120 servers worldwide across 15 global affiliates. (Microsoft Server 2003, through to Server 2012). The company consists of over 4000 users that rely on our ICT server infrastructure, my role also consisted of out of hours on call support for the other global ICT teams that were based at our other manufacturing sites and sales and distribution offices around the world.My role-involved support and resolution of alerts produced though SCOM for our operational environment as well as management of our services including Exchange (encompassing threats identified using Mail Marshal). I also facilitated user account creation and support of the Activate system, LAN/WAN TCP/IP support, Print Management, Backup reporting and support, and implementation of new infrastructure and services for the business.

• Implemented new asset/security management work processes (Dell PC’s, Active Directory, Exchange, IBM, Vodafone/Avaya telecoms) for UK / European IT – Completed May 2012.• Involved in project team to fully migrate UK corporate mail client from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. My work as part of this project included; Training resource planning, Pilot testing, and Address Group migration. – Completed May 2012• Core part of a team that successfully relocated 300 users and IT Equipment (Inc. PC/Telecoms/Servers) to a brand new site built in Kent, England - Completed February 2012.• Key member in fully migrating over 900 PCs and 1000 user accounts to a new global corporate domain in Active Directory – Completed February 2012.• Project managed the full encryption of the whole UK’s business laptops; using McAfee Endpoint Encryption. This included over 900 laptops including business critical and remote users – Completed October 2011.• Individually accomplished a hardware refresh for 300 office based users over two sites based in the UK. My project included planning, testing of new image, implementation and after support care – September 2010.Situated at the Abbott UK Head Office in Maidenhead, Berkshire, My main responsibilities were to provide high levels of customer service and technical IT support to the UK business. This support involved over 1000 users that are office and field based. I provided support to the Abbott UK business in regards to PC/Telecommunications, as well as being fully accountable for Asset Management as part of the Change Management process. I was also the sole security administrator for the IBM-I Business Application System in the UK, and also managed Active Directory security administration in user, computer and group access.

• Completed hardware refresh for approximately 300 remote sales users, whilst project managing a team of Dell provided contractors – October 2009.• Liaised with UK Service Desk Manager for Implementation of new sales/call management software client for the whole UK field force (approximately 500 users) – Completed August 2009.• Awarded an Abbott Divisional Award for the successful consolidation of the Abbott UK based iSeries, to the new European Data-centre based in the Netherlands – Completed January 2009.• Successful completion of an Offsite Disaster Recovery Test for the UK iSeries system – Completed June 2008.In October 2006 I was relocated to Abbott Laboratories’ Head Office in Berkshire, I was integrated into the Service desk to provide support with PC based applications as well as providing continued support to the UK iSeries Application System. In this role, I have been successful in obtaining both a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCDST) and an ITIL Foundation qualification. My completed Projects included a successful rollout and upgrade of all the Field Force PC’s and operating systems to support the new sales/call management system MI. I also upgraded the affiliate desktop environment to include all corporate standard applications. My biggest achievement in this role was to be a core member of a team that successfully automated the iSeries night-time operational tasks and a successful migration of the hardware to the Corporate European Datacentre. This move was achieved with no business downtime. I was awarded a Divisional Award for my work towards this project.

Before my relocation to Abbott Laboratories’ Head Office in Berkshire, I was employed at the Queenborough affiliate in Kent as an iSeries Computer Operator. In this role, I was successfully certified as an IBM Certified Professional. My main responsibilities included operation of IBM iSeries application system 825. That was logically partitioned into 5 separate partitions. I performed my tasks while manning a busy IT helpdesk for approximately 600 users based at the Queenborough site. I successfully completed business critical hardware upgrades, system software and operating system upgrades.