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San Jose, California, Us

Evanston, Il, Us

Twenty plus years experience as Systems and Storage Lead on various system implementations projects. My expertise includes experience working with physical and virtual Enterprise solutions to include but not limited to VMware, Oracle, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, HP, Brocade and Cisco SAN and NAS solutions. Additionally, I possess working knowledge with a broad range of systems and storage applications to include Symantec/Veritas Backup, HA and Clustered Filesystems and applications, Oracle/Sun System, Disaster Recovery and Data Replication (NetApp, EMC, Oracle and Symantec)Systems and Storage Design Engineer - Virtualization and Cloud hosting• Experience Virtualized administrator High• Experience with VMware vCenter administration High• Experience with Software Defined Storage (vSAN), Data Centers (SDDC), and Network (NSX) High• Experience with documenting environments (Visio, etc…) High• Experience developing, validating, and implementing configuration standards High• Experience with cloud architectural strategies (preferred areas: storage and backup/restores) High• Experience working with public cloud gateway services (preferred: AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure) High• Experience with Linux RHEL6/RHEL7 Medium• Experience with HP C7000 Enclosure hardware Medium• Experience with HP SSMC, OneView, etc… Medium• Experience with Hitachi Storage (G Series and HNAS) and Hitachi Storage Viewer Medium• Experience with Pure, HPE 3PAR, and Brocade DCX design and implementation Low• Experience with Hitachi Tuning Manager / Data Center Analytics Low• Experience with Hitachi HCP/HDI Design and Implementation Low

Reston, Virginia, Us

Primarily responsibilities included but not limited to providing technical support (Tier 3 or SME) on Systems and Storage platforms, associated testing and performance tools. Supported platforms include but not limited to Cisco and Broadcom TCPIP, FCoE and Storage Area Networks, Dell and HP Blade chassis, Hitachi, HP and Pure Store storage solutions. Gather and analyze user requirements, in order to develop systems and storage solutions to meet those requirements. As a design engineer we are responsible for testing various vendor provided solution, documenting are findings and make recommendations based on the findings. Are current environment consisted primarily of: HP, Dell and Cisco UCS blade servers, HDS VSP and GX00, Brocade SANs, VMware ESXi, Windows and Red Hat Linux guest VMs. Additional responsibilities include troubleshooting virtual systems and storage related issues, provisioning logical and virtual devices, container and datastore. • Identifying and executing on opportunities for automation and efficiencies in operational activity• Ensuring consistent delivery of quality solutions that meet operational deadlines• Plan and execute tested and prevent migration processes and procedures • Ensuring that IT services meet and at times exceed customer expectations• Tracking all support and change requests through the Service Now application• Ongoing configuration and maintenance of IT supported hardware and software standards Extensive experience building scalable, highly available, mission critical virtual infrastructures• Ability to drive output in a highly collaborative environment with the ability to organize and coordinate teams towards a common goal• Recommends changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability and performance• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to interact positively with end-users and vendors on a daily basis

Hanover, Md, Us

Storage Lead - Provide advanced level system and storage administration, support and analysis including infrastructure development, software and hardware installation of storage solutions key to the support of Federal Bureau of Investigations

As the Infrastructure Storage, Backup and Recovery Specialist for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). I was responsible for the date to date support of USCIS storage environment, backup and recovery operations, disaster recovery and COOP operation and performing complex analysis used to determine data storage requirements and reports. Former duties included