Gary Castle

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Senior Manager Storage and Backup Infrastructure at Worldpay @ Worldpay
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Acworth, Georgia, United States, United States
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About Gary Castle

Accomplished IT Professional with over 22 years of hands-on experience in the field of information technology. A dedicated professional, with a proven track record of managing, mentoring and leading highly technical teams and projects. Well versed in IT operations within Agile and ITIL frameworks. Deep experience in the control of budgeting and operational costs, and performance improvement. Posses an extensive background in the building of and management of enterprise storage, backup and virtualization infrastructures, as well as data migration, data protection, and the expansion of IT environments.

Gary Castle's Current Company Details
Worldpay

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Senior Manager Storage and Backup Infrastructure at Worldpay
Gary Castle Work Experience Details
  • Worldpay
    Senior Manager Storage And Backup Infrastructure
    Worldpay Mar 2015 - Present
    Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
    • Provide management to Storage Infrastructure Team where responsibilities include the design and implementation of Storage Area Network Arrays and Switches across North America.• Optimization of Enterprise storage hardware environment including over 110,000 SAN Ports, 125 directors, 85 SAN Storage arrays and 100 PB of Data.• Develop and evolve ongoing hardware refresh/roadmap plan to focus on the removal of End of Support Life Hardware.• Managed 3 year project to refresh 50 End of Support SAN directors resulting in the migration of 20,0000 connections and 40% hardware reduction.• Experience in managing virtual teams• Developed and maintained CapEx and OpEx Storage budgets• Manage vendor relationships including engagements, RFPs and issue escalation.• Managed implementation of complex storage subsystems across multiple vendor platforms.• Ensured system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and firmware upgrades.• Supervised and provided direction to direct reports regarding Storage Infrastructure
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  • Independent Consultant
    Independent Consultant/Pre-Sales Engineer
    Independent Consultant Jan 2015 - May 2015
    Worked as a consultant on retainer for company that sold storage and backup equipment. Worked closely with in house Engineers and Sales force. Attended calls and met with prospective customers on their storage needs. Designed solutions based on discovery calls, meetings, and stats or reports that were available. Gathered reports, or helped customer furnish reports of their environment. My services were valuable to the company as I have extensive backgrounds in both EMC and Netapp storage. Also possess deep knowledge in the administration of 3-PAR, Dell Compellant, IBM XIV, IBM SVC, and Pure storage systems.
  • Cbeyond
    Sr. Cloud Storage Architect
    Cbeyond Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
    Atlanta, Ga, Us
    Led the design and development of enhancements related to storage infrastructure as it related to the Cloud Services Environment. ▪ Engineered and designed complex storage environments across the infrastructure stack that included hardware, software, tools, automation, storage, virtualization and network. ▪ Worked with Sales Engineering teams to design complex infrastructure solutions that were cost effective, supportable, and high performing for the Company’s suite of Cloud offerings in the SaaS, and IaaS space. Included managed and unmanaged infrastructures. ▪ Primary hardware and software used included EMC VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, and 7500. VNXe 3100, and 3300. 3 PAR and Dell Compellant. EMC Replication and Backup technologies were Recoverpoint and Data Domain. Environments were built using Nexus 5K and Cisco 9148 FC and FCoE switching. Host environment was made up of VMWare 5.5 and 5.1 utilizing UCS blades.
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  • Earthlink
    Sr. Storage Engineer
    Earthlink Sep 2012 - Oct 2013
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    ▪ Helped lead and manage migrations from outdated EMC and Netapp arrays to UCS Flexpods, Newer Netapp and VNX5700 storage.▪ Responsible for operations and management of SAN and NAS environments. Responsible for Ongoing Purchase orders and proper sizing that met requirements of the business. ▪ Engineered solutions that met IOPs needs, factoring in Raid Type, Disk Type, proper Tier, Random vs. Sequential reads and writes, cost analysis vs.risk. ▪ Recommended and implemented tiered storage model for the business by utilizing FAST VP on the VNX and Fast Cache pools on Netapp. Implemented Thin Provisioning thus reducing storage costs on SAN. This included migrations from Thick LUN’s to Thin.▪ Storage frames included Netapp FAS 3170, 3240, 6080 running Data OnTap 8.1. On SAN, EMC Clariion/VNX arrays included CX3-80, CX600, CX700, DMX 1000, Celerra NS82, and VNX5700’s. These all resided on a mix of Brocade, Nexus/Cisco fabrics. Server infrastructure included Solaris 9 and 10, Windows 2003 and 2008. ESX hosts 4.1, 5.0 running VSphere and Vcloud Director.
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  • Qbe North America
    Senior Storage Engineer/Architect
    Qbe North America Jun 2011 - Mar 2013
    New York, Ny, Us
    Member of three person team responsible for Maintenance, Design, and Administration of Storage Infrastructure. Duties included day to day operations of equipment. Allocation of storage to hosts running Citrix, VMWare, Windows 2008, 2012, Linux, and SUN. Team responsible for design of storage infrastructure, and purchase of equipment and allocation of those resources. Environment included EMC VMAX 20k, VNX 5300, CX4-480, VNX 7500, VNX 8000, Isilon, and Recover Point appliances for replication. This was all residing on a Fiber Channel Network connected through a mix of Brocade, Cisco MDS and Nexus switches. Monitoring tools included EMC Management and Reporter tool and Solarwinds.
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  • Sprint Nextel
    Storage Engineer
    Sprint Nextel May 2008 - Sep 2012
    Overland Park, Kansas, Us
    Senior level Storage Architect and Engineer specializing in the hardware and software on varied SAN and NAS equipment. Have been in industry as a Enterprise System administrator for over 16 years. Hands on expertise in Storage arena includes but not limited to: -EMC Arrays: CX3-80, CX4-480, DMX-24, VMAX, VNX and VNXe. -EMC NAS Systems: Isilon Version 6.5.3, Celera NX4, and NS-G8 -Netapp NAS Filers: 960c and 3070c -IBM Arrays: XIV GEN 2 and 3. SVC nodes. SVC (SAN Volume Controller) 6.02 -Cisco MDS 9000 switches, UCS blades on Nexus 7000. The zoning of hosts using Cisco, Brocade and McData switches and corresponding Vendor supplied software. Experience in allocating and zoning storage to a a variety of Operating systems including: OS versions: AIX, SUN, Linux, Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008. Stand-alone servers, UCS blades along with ESX hosts running VMware VSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0. Job duties included the recommendation of hardware platforms, new product lines and software tools that should be implemented for future growth and performance for the business. Criteria in that decision included cost vs. gain, performance boost, power footprint, data recovery and virtualization capabilties. Experience with virtualized Storage environment utilizing IBM SVC. Proffecient in Unix Shell scripting. SSH and VI.
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  • Sprint Nextel
    Vmware Administrator
    Sprint Nextel Jun 2004 - Mar 2008
    Overland Park, Kansas, Us
    Created new Virtual Machines and responsible for installing Windows 2003/2008 R2 for a variety of projects in the Enterprise and DMZ.Performed VMotions to clear datastore’s to allow creation of VM’s with large disk requirements.Built ESX and ESXi hosts and implemented infrastructure including networks and HA and DRS strategies. Responsible for day to day administration and monitoring of VM guests along with general health of overall ESX infrastructure. Provisioned storage, ran storage vmotions and ran datastores efficiently through the use of several tools including VAAI.
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  • Sprint
    Windows Server Administrator (Mcse)
    Sprint May 2001 - Apr 2004
    Overland Park, Kansas, Us
    Member of Server Operations team that Supported and Maintained hardware and OS of Approximately 6,000 Servers. This included Capacity planning, Disaster Recovery, Virus Protection, Patch maintenance, Software and OS maintenance, Design, Active Directory implementation, Access and Deployment to the LAN Infrastructure.Individually managed 180 MS 2000/2003/2008 R2 servers on HP and Dell hardware as well as VMware machines in, a mix of File, print server, Domain and Application roles.
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  • Ibm Global Services
    Consultant/Server Engineer
    Ibm Global Services Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
    Contracted to work on The Solectron Project. Objective was to build a Private Network that was to mirror production sites that were located in France, and Denver, Colorado. Part of a five-person team whose primary responsibility was to build Developmental Servers to exact Solectron specifications. Maintained hardware and software during the regression testing and install of BAAN bolt-on applications. Administered NT domain and server access, monitored and tweaked system controls, and created baselines and performance reviews for Production teams in remote locales. Researched and implemented ways to enhance the ability and performance of operating systems and applications. This was in a mixed NT, Sun Solaris, and AIX environment that included 175 IBM Netfinity servers.
  • City Of Columbus
    System Administrator
    City Of Columbus Jan 1999 - Jan 2001
    Columbus, Oh, Us
    Administered NT Server network consisting of 9,000 users and 147 servers. Provided third level support to help desk and managers. Responsible for Exchange Server 5.5. This included install, configuration, connections, and account maintenance. Member of Migration Team. Successfully moved 4,000 users from Banyan Vines to Windows NT. Worked in the design and implementation of Windows network resources. This included the building of servers (Compaq, HP) and the configuration for domain as Primary, Backup Domain Controllers and members. Supported Internet Information Server 4.0. Managed and administered virus protection on all NT nodes.
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Gary Castle Skills

Vmware Virtualization Vmware Esx Disaster Recovery Servers Storage Area Networks Storage San Cisco Technologies Windows Server System Administration Netapp Solaris Nas Emc Storage Cloud Computing Brocade Networking Infrastructure Unix Microsoft Exchange System Deployment Data Center Active Directory Vsphere Aix Troubleshooting Cisco Nexus Iis High Availability Storage Area Network Switches Netbackup Tcp/ip Red Hat Linux Storage Architecture Storage Virtualization Storage Solutions Storage Management Enterprise Storage Isilon Clariion Linux Technical Support Wan Windows Netapp Filers Symmetrix Cisco Ucs

Gary Castle Education Details

  • Bowling Green State University
    Bowling Green State University
    Telecommunications Engineering
  • Sandusky Perkins High School
    Sandusky Perkins High School
    College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program
  • New Horizons Computer Training Center
    New Horizons Computer Training Center

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