Chris Boothe Email & Phone Number

Acworth, Ga, Us

United States

Georgia, United States

• Disaster Recovery Architect at BSW Healthcare for Isilon/PowerScale storage systems.• Lead Engineer for capacity and performance re-balance efforts on large scale production NetApp systems housing multiple PBs of data. Targeted OS NAS/CIFS/VMware Datastores.• Designed monitoring solution to ensure 99.999% uptime SLAs would be upheld for all storage systems.• Implementation of NetApp NSE, both on-board and remote with IBM SKLM.• Storage Efficiencies experience with Deduplication, Compression, Compaction, FAST.• Networking collaborations involving DNS, Aliasing, LACP, VLANs, Subnetting & Routing concepts.

Alpharetta, Ga

• Disaster Recovery Architect for McKesson Medical-Surgical leveraging NetApp and VNX storage systems at the enterprise level.• Storage and backup engineer for hundreds of P2P, P2V, V2Vs server refresh and migration effortsleveraging technologies such as Storage vMotion and EMC Open Replicator.• Principle engineer migrating production environments for Medical-Surgical from VNX to NetApp using Varonis DatAdvantage and from 3Par to Netapp with FLI.• Workflow Automation (WFA) integration into a NetApp environment, with focus on volume creation & expansion with VMware Orchestrator.• Upgrade/planning/zoning for Cisco (MDS/Nexus) and McData (Connectrix) core-edge switch fabrics.• Decommissioning of FC volume/LUNs, fabric zoning and NAS filesystems.

Southeast Division

• Implementing mid to high-end storage solutions for varying companies. Handling switch zoning &configuration, backend storage array configurations, host storage allocation via multi-protocol deliverywith developed customer knowledge transfer with in-depth product and technologies overview.• Extensive working experience with IP & Fibre storage technologies, snap/clone based backup and recovery products, disaster recovery planning/implementation and architectural storage design.• Storage allocation and administrative experience with Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, VMware as well as Cisco, Brocade and McData switches using FSN, LACP & EthC in conjunction with VLANs and subnetting.• Rack & stack, code and firmware upgrades of various EMC and vendor hardware.• Received EMC NAS TA, NAS IE, Dell Certification, STF Certifications.

Duluth, Ga

• Help Desk Tier II Support- Worked with a team to provide PC applications and network support to over 40 individual banking and large corporate clients.• Responsible for the coding and graphical development of new web sites for customers, as well as all technical support and management of existing sites. • Supported bank branch construction including cabling, rack development and install, wiring, PC imaging, creation and management of Active Directory accounts; Setting up phone systems and workstations; Developing Visio diagrams of these and other bank’s LAN/WAN Infrastructure.

Atlanta, Ga

• Testing of new products to increase the overall productivity, efficiency and competency of the existing network while making sure these products did not conflict with the current hardware and software in use.• Gained extensive knowledge of how a client/server network functions by troubleshooting end users computers, working directly with our servers, routers, switches, patch panels, and hubs.• Worked with a team to map out the entire physical network of the DOAA in order to facilitate the departments move to a new location. This entailed rewiring racks for efficiency through simplicity, assisting with inventory and creating detailed layouts of each department, wiring closet, server room, printer lab and test lab.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems And Services

Activities and Societies: Brother of The Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Eta Phi Chapter

Leap Graduate, Leadership Development

Activities and Societies: N/ALearning Excellence Acceleration Program (LEAP). LEAP focused on providing a critical development experience.