Chris Hayward Email & Phone Number

Wimberley, TX, US

• Assist Brocade customers with fabric migrations, encryption, FCIP, fabric watch, and the Analytical Monitoring Platform (AMP) utilizing numerous technologies, including: Brocade Encryption Switch (BES), Brocade.
• Planned and implemented multiple fabric migrations that included thousands of ports and technologies, including: FCIP, ISL trunking, and virtual fabrics.
• Performed advance configurations (Virtual Fabrics & Performance monitoring)
• Performed multiple installations of FCIP SAN switches for long-distance SAN and data migrations.
• Installed/configured Brocade Encryption switches for clients to encrypt credit card and social security numbers.
• Created SAN Health assessments and verified customer environments using Brocade’s SAN Health report.

• Provided onsite storage consulting to Dell Corporate customers covering various SAN products, including: EMC Clariion CX Series, Dell EqualLogic, and Brocade/McData/Cisco Fibre Channel Switches.
• Provided onsite training and configuration assistance covering various platforms, including: Windows 2000/2003/2008, VMware 2.x/3.x, and MSCS.
• Assisted customers with designing data migrations and implementing 500GB to 20TB migrations using various tools, including: EMC Mirrorview, EMC SANcopy, EMC Open Migrator, Robocopy, and Securecopy.
• Installed VMware VI3 in SAN solutions, including implementation of ESX 3.x, Virtual Center 2.x, HA, DRS, and VMotion; many installations included migrating Virtual Machines from 2.x to 3.x and upgrading ESX 2.x to 3.x.
• Installed Brocade, McData, and Cisco Fibre channel switches; installed and configured Brocade 7500 FCIP routers over long distances.

Plano, TX

• Responsible for the administration and maintenance of Windows NT/2000/2003 servers, multiple SANs, SQL 2000 and File clusters, and internet/intranet farms.
• Installed security patches and maintained 1100+ workstations and 100 servers throughout the company.
• Performed data backups/restores and assisted users with software installations and migrations.
• Assisted with upgrade of Netbackup from 3.4.1 to 4.5 on Sun and Windows NT/2000 platforms.
• Installed Netbackup Media servers in a Microsoft clustered environment consisting of over 4TB of data each.
• Installed and administered internet web servers within a DMZ with Site Server 3.0 in a Microsoft Load Balancing configuration, including setting up LDAP, membership websites, and web applications.