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An IT professional dedicated to providing the highest level of support of SAN architecture design and implementation, leveraging industry best practices, in the most demanding environments. Significant accomplishments include:• Successfully planned and executed data center build-outs and relocations for several large corporations. The moves included extensive collaboration with client support teams, long distance replication of data, and hardware relocation, resulting in higher availability and significant reduction in operating costs.• Team Lead for technology refresh program at a large Telco corporation. As a resident to the customer, worked hand in hand with Team Leads, Storage Operations team members, and Sr. Management on a multi-year engagement to reduce overall cost of operation, improve reliability and performance, and streamline daily operational processes.• Team Lead for a storage consolidation program at a leading financial corporation. Leveraged a combination of methodologies (native LVM, VxVM mirroring, PowerPath Migration Enabler, EMC Open Migrator, SRDF, VPLEX DMM) to minimize or eliminate downtime of applications while reducing storage footprint from 23 to 5 arrays across 2 data centers.• Solution Architect and Team Lead of a data migration project for a prominent market research and intelligence firm. Leading a team of Implementation Specialists, successfully planned and executed the migration of client’s data from a shared infrastructure in a co-located data center infrastructure to their newly acquired dedicated SAN infrastructure, providing the customer the ability to gain valuable insight into their environment.Specialties include: • Storage - Pure FlashArray, Infinidat Infinibox, Dell VMAX/PowerMax, Unity• Management - Unisphere for VMAX, SYMCLI• Data Replication - ActiveDR, SRDF, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME• SAN Design - Cisco MDS, Brocade • Storage Virtualization, Provisioning, Optmization• Hardware and OS - HP-UX, Cisco UCS