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Remote

Daily storage activities/maintenance on dozens of MDS switches, EMC VNXs and IBM arrays, plus three IBM SVCsProtect through LVM mirroring and hardware provided recovery for several Solaris 10 global/local zone serversDisaster management and server restoration on several critical core service failures

Colorado

· Perform daily storage activities and migration from two NS-120s, a VNXs and EMC CTA to a pair of Isilon clusters.· Migration from HDS VSP to VMAX and datacenter storage consolidation· Recovered several critically failed arrays with minimal data loss to an operational and manageable state

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Day to day maintenance and troubleshooting of HP cloud development lab, including several 3PAR SAN fabrics, OpenVPN, internal network VLANs and cross platform integration. Redesigned boot-from-SAN environment to enable cloud development on blade server infrastructure.

Perform and manage client site installs, configurations, integration, upgrades and performance tuning. I was also a member of the Critical Account Team’s onsite quick response team for client issue remediation. I have installed and project managed several large VTL clusters for government, energy, medical and finical clients. I was also the professional service engineering team's TSM SME resulting in several long-term deployments with a critical enterprise accounts in Illinois, Texas and California

Greater Denver Area

Senior member of managed services storage team. Performed EMC CX and 3PAR array installs as well as capacity planning and project management. Additionally supplemented the TSM architecture team, disaster recovery design and implementation teams. Enhanced internal reporting tools for SAN and backup applications including developing a new customer reporting method for select TSM clients. Installed 5+ EMC CX3-XX plus several 3PAR S and T series arrays as well as multiple SAN Fabrics Redesigned company standards for ADIC/Quantum tape libraries to reduce vendor support requirements and managed change implementation for SunGard's 401 Broad library Developed, designed, implemented and managed SunGard's first VTLs including regional replication

Acted as a full-service storage administrator from landing of hardware to landing of data. Provided capacity planning, performance management, server virtualization, storage consolidation, backup recovery, data center migration, technical pre-sales and project management. Founding member of virtualization and consolidation team Member of performance management and storage layout team Tech lead on 2006’s high profile contract

Produced/managed designs for the provisioning for leased and customer owned IBM storage systems maintained my IBM MSS. Assisted in rewriting firewall rules to provide better security for managed storage local networks. Developed and maintained capacity layout for shared SAN locations. Implemented IBM SVCs for multiple regional SAN environments.

Designed and installed server farms, as well as configured multiple high-availability production environments to provide internet mail to millions of residential and corporate customers. Directly responsible for system hardware of 100+ front end and 75+ back end Sun Enterprise Servers. Managed implementation of EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, and Solutions Enabler Attached, configured and maintained 75+ Sun Solaris servers to EMC Connetrix and EMC Symmetrx Managed, installed, and configured 40+ TB of EMC SAN attached storage