Christopher B. Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

• Served as a primary focal for repairing Commvault backup infrastructure. • Worked with SolidFire, NetApp and Isilon storage.• Planned and implemented backup solutions for cloud applications such as OneDrive and Exchange Online.• Worked with customers to resolve issues with various backup infrastructure issues such as poor performance and failing backups. • Wrote documentation to help share knowledge with the rest of the organization.• Assited with Linux system administration issues• Configured NetApp SnapMirror associations to provide customers with disaster recovery solutions for their NAS shares.• Traveled to customer sites with team members to provide technical knowledge.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Served as primary focal for repairing Commvault backup infrastructure. • Worked with EMC Unity, VNX and ExtremeIO arrays• Fixed multiple serious Commserve database issues.• Planned and implemented fixes to bring dedupe database timeouts that were occurring to an end.• Supported SAP/HANA backups and assisted the DBA teams with backup problems• Worked on-call every other week for backup and storage issues

Greater St. Louis Area

• Served as regional focal/escalation point for all Enterprise Storage in N. American corporate IT infrastructure (US/ Canada)• Planned, maintained, provisioned, and monitored SAN/NAS infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, HP EVA, Hitachi HDS), as well as DR and Backup infrastructure (Data Domain VTL, Commvault Simpana, NetApp Snapmirror)• Planned and executed data migrations from existing arrays to new arrays, working with UNIX/NT teams if needed. Worked with customers to tailor major storage purchases to their workload• Maintained vendor relationships and met regularly to discuss new products and follow up on service needs. Tracked storage consumption and performance• Led proof-of-concept projects on new storage and cloud products• Troubleshot performance issues on Storage, VMWare, Linux, and HPUX systems• Worked closely with UNIX and Windows Server teams to ensure best-possible performance and efficiency • Achieved ISO20K conformity for the Enterprise Storage team• Assisted with Linux and HP-UX systems administration • Configured and maintained Cisco MDS SAN infrastructure• Wrote ksh/bash scripts to automate certain backup and storage operations• Planned storage deployments for high-profile projects such as Exchange 2010 rollout Oracle Databases and VMWare Clusters• Hired in 2006 as a Sr. Unix Systems Administrator; began working with Enterprise Storage team in 2008

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Deployed and maintained UNIX systems running AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux • Assisted developers with troubleshooting application issues• Coordinated across multiple stakeholders in project planning and execution

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for UNIX systems running Linux and Solaris, capacity planning, and security auditing• Assisted customers with UNIX shell issues• Maintained USENet servers