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San Jose, Ca, Us

Direct the day to day operations of the Storage Team and all the Corporate Data Centers. • Implemented Nlyte as the Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tool.• Conduct weekly meetings with the Hands and Eyes teams at all corporate data centers.• Develop and maintain the Best Practices, Corporate Standards, Hardware Intake forms, Cable Matrix, and Standard Operating Procedure documentation for all Data Centers globally.• Coordinate with all US and regional IT groups to develop comprehensive strategies to consolidate data centers through migrations and/or decommissions.• Collaborate with IT, Operations, and Applications teams to define, plan, implement, and test business continuance and disaster recovery plans.• Work with all Colocation facilities on current and future infrastructure requirements.• Coordinated all regional database and Big Data backups along with array-based snapshots and managed all restore and refresh requirements.• Manage storage array refreshes, data migration, and all the replication requirements for mission-critical DR solutions.• Lead the Architecture Review Board to review all infrastructure across network, storage, compute, and facilities.• Managed the Applications and Sever teams migrating the production infrastructure from Boulder, CO to Las Vegas, NV.• Managed the migration of production and development applications and infrastructure from multiple colocation and onsite data centers to Las Vegas, NV.• Directed hardware refresh activities at all sites along with all hardware decommissioning and/or relocations.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Managed all projects involving Storage and Backup hardware .• Worked with database and application teams to resolve all Unix and storage performance issues.• Interfaced with management and application teams to determine requirements SLAs for all business applications.• Led the planning and development of all DR solutions for all business-critical applications.

Led all Unix administrators and contractor personnel to resolve all OS, server, network, storage and database performance related issues.• Interfaced with all functional and application teams to plan annual forecasting for the Unix, storage and backup environments.• Migrated the production data center and application infrastructure from Santa Clara, CA to Austin TX.• Designed and implemented all DR solutions for mission and business critical applications using a variety of hardware and software replication technics. • Managed all projects involving installation, redeployment, or de-installation of SAN and SAN related hardware in the production, development, and regional data centers.

Austin, Texas, Us