Don Wilde Email & Phone Number

Martinsville, In, Us

Us & Uk

Architect for Disaster Recovery and Managing SAN Storage for IBM Global Services.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Designed and implemented the Disaster Recovery site for Meijer.

Colorado & New York

Implemented and administered IBM's iERP San Storage, and DR sites.

Manage and implement 1.7 petabytes (PB) of data consisting of IBM, Hitachi, HP, and Engenio subsystems. Direct storage allocations for test and production environments across 2,500 servers. Perform Level 3 (top-level) support for SAN and/or storage issues and concurrently administer Cisco and Brocade infrastructures.

Consulting division provides large-scale IT solutions, including staffingrequirements, project services, and managed services to Fortune 500 corporations.

Manage and implement 1.7 petabytes (PB) of dataconsisting of IBM, Hitachi, HP, and Engenio subsystems. Direct storage allocations fortest and production environments across 2,500 servers. Perform Level 3 (top-level) supportfor SAN and/or storage issues and administered the Cisco and Brocade infrastructures. * Developed and implemented repository to back up SAN switch and disk configuration fileson nightly basis to provide protection from subsystem failure.* Realized more than $150K in cost savings through streamlining Help Desk SAN storageprocess.* Improved bank customer response time by eliminating intermittent SAN connectionfailures.

National Field support on Sun's Storage Soluations, consisting of Backup software, Sun, Hitachi & LSI disk subsystems, StorageTeks Tape Storage Systems, San products from Brocade & Cisco.

Global provider of network computing infrastructure solutions that include computersystems, software, storage, and services.National Storage Support Engineer: SAN and Network Attached Storage support for FieldEngineers throughout US for 4 years, with principle focus in Indiana and SouthernIllinois. Managed key storage accounts Robert Bosch, Sirva, Sallie Mae, and Jupiter Mediaby conducting weekly meetings to notify customers, sales team, and field engineers of allcritical instances, technical problems, and/or system changes. I served as a San andStorage analyst for major issues and outages. I provided professional implementationservices for engagements that would be less than one week.* Played key role in garnering 5-year, $1M contract by working closely with customer andsales team to propose and implement additional services.* Facilitated internal training program for Field Engineers, resulting in approximately$5K in savings per employee trained.; Primary SAN and Network Attached Storage support for FieldEngineers focusing on the Indiana and Southern Illinois accounts for 3 years. Collaboratedclosely with sales team to devise customer proposals, including professional servicesimplementations and customer training schedules* Reduced customer's nightly backup speed by 8.5 hours and increased data retrievalresponse time on the SAN Disk storage subsystem by distributing the raid disk across thestorage subsystem.Team Lead: Team lead for Indiana for SAN and IP Networks, I supported the field engineersin the Midwest area for 5 years. The network support was for the legacy network productsobtained after the purchase of Network Systems. Network Support Engineer IV: IP Network and support for the Midwest area for 4 years. Engineer in Charge: Duties included first level manager for the engineers in Indiana,Kentucky and Ohio while providing IP Network support.

As a National Software Support Engineer my responsibilitys included supporting the customers and SUN Microsystems field serveice for it's SAN and Storage soluations.

Associate Of Science, Electrical Engineering

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