John Murray Email & Phone Number

Black Mountain, NC, United States

Detroit, Michigan

• Led a team of onshore and offshore administrators to manage approx. 5 Petabytes of EMC storage in a highly dynamic and growing environment.
• Established and implemented operations guides and processes on all the storage, backup arrays and SAN switches in the environment.
• Provided a strategy and change cadence to upgrade the storage frames and switches in the environment. Reviewed the storage changes/projects with leadership, Business Units, Change Approval Board and the vendor.
• Directed the team to set up scripts to monitor the environment and notify the team of any issues.
• Collaborated with the engineering teams and the Business Units on the capacity and performance of the arrays.

• Developed engineering implementation guides, performed storage architectural assessments for clients and provided subject matter expertise, consultation and recommendations for the optimization and automation of the.
• Managed a development lab with approximately 15 3PAR StoreServ arrays and 30 Brocade switches. Set up the arrays, service processors, switches and provided support to ensure that testing was successful for the clients.
• Ensured tools and written procedures did not have gaps and provided direction on future sustainability of the procedures.
• Leveraged best practices from the storage vendors and colleagues to capitalize on learnings from prior projects.
• Documented the storage migration strategies for each host environment so future migrations would be successful.

• Developed engineering implementation guides, performed storage architectural assessments for clients and provided subject matter expertise, consultation and recommendations for the optimization and automation of the.
• Managed a development lab with approximately 15 3PAR StoreServ arrays and 30 Brocade switches. Set up the arrays, service processors, switches and provided support to ensure that testing was successful for the clients.
• Ensured tools and written procedures did not have gaps and provided direction on future sustainability of the procedures.
• Leveraged best practices from the storage vendors and colleagues to capitalize on learnings from prior projects.
• Documented the storage migration strategies for each host environment so future migrations would be successful.

• Responsible for managing a team of US and offshore storage administrators to ensure the delivery of capacity and performance of the required storage for the client.
• Ensured alignment between the US based and offshore team to avoid mis-steps.
• Leveraged expertise in lease expiry to support client with this change resulting in the team receiving positive recognition from the client.
• Migration time was reduced from several weeks to hours helping the client reduce the maintenance cost and man hours.
• Developed procedures and trained the team individually to successfully support the client.
• Provisioned storage and zoned servers based on the client requirements.