• Manages multiple IT consulting projects—datacenter conversions, flips, and moves—as single point of contact & subject matter expert regarding SAN for 10 global datacenters (United Kingdom: 3, United Arab Emirates: 2 France: 1, Canada: 3, India: 1, and Australia: 2; With 5 new sites in design and planning stages) • Performed and managed all SAN capacity planning for all global sites. Worked on trending and quarterly meetings to determine current and future needs. Followed through with… Show more • Manages multiple IT consulting projects—datacenter conversions, flips, and moves—as single point of contact & subject matter expert regarding SAN for 10 global datacenters (United Kingdom: 3, United Arab Emirates: 2 France: 1, Canada: 3, India: 1, and Australia: 2; With 5 new sites in design and planning stages) • Performed and managed all SAN capacity planning for all global sites. Worked on trending and quarterly meetings to determine current and future needs. Followed through with purchasing and project planning for implementation and expansion of environments.• Worked proof of concept for site-to-site replication with IBM (SVC), HP (Continuous Access), and EMC (Vplex). Implemented HP Continuous Access and Business Copy (DR). Also worked IBM XIV proof of concept for Tier 3/4 arrays.• Completed IT consulting project of environment analysis & issue identification within global client’s datacenter. (Australia)• Frontend troubleshooting including Citrix, VMware, Websphere, and Microsoft within various global datacenters.• Architects SAN datacenter environments, including working with vendors and clients to design and order hardware based on each global datacenter’s size, needs, and/or client requirements. Currently working on design and purchasing for 3 new global datacenters.• Worked multiple Datacenter migration/relocation.• Led Firmware upgrades of multiple SAN environments.• Worked to validate vendor work plans for all sites with respect to SAN, also helped out good faith troubleshooting efforts to help clients.• Installed, Managed, and upgraded multiple VM Farms. Including upgrades from vSphere 3.5 to 4.0 and 4.0 to 5.1.• Performed role as windows administrator for multiple data centers. Installed and configured Windows server 2003 and 2008, including ground up datacenter builds. Worked multiple high visibility trouble shooting events and outages. Worked with applications teams to resolution and root cause analysis. Show less

• Performance tuning & general administration of Cerner’s entire SAN environment spanning 30 Petabytes and well over 10,000 ports. • Worked as primary SAN on call to troubleshoot many issues, including issues escalated to the Hitachi Factory.• Build, tuning, and troubleshooting of DWDM links between multiple datacenters.• Led multiple issues to determine equipment failure on DWDM worked with Telco providers to resolution.• Led validation of buffer credit tuning and buffer credit… Show more • Performance tuning & general administration of Cerner’s entire SAN environment spanning 30 Petabytes and well over 10,000 ports. • Worked as primary SAN on call to troubleshoot many issues, including issues escalated to the Hitachi Factory.• Build, tuning, and troubleshooting of DWDM links between multiple datacenters.• Led multiple issues to determine equipment failure on DWDM worked with Telco providers to resolution.• Led validation of buffer credit tuning and buffer credit recovery interaction between DCX and Cisco Telco gear.• Worked closely with HP Backline Engineering with Fiber channel traces. Also used for speed testing on the taped backup environment when replicating across the DWDM.• Led investigation on multiple issues with HP and Brocade Backline engineering resulting in identification and resolution of issues in firmware and failing equipment in the routed network including fiber channel traces.• Led infrastructure team with HP and Brocade Backline to discovered issues with VMS on Itanium hardware. Working with a bug in the firmware where the HBA would randomly drop storage array connectivity.• Worked Firmware upgrades Environment wide for EVA, XP, and Switched and routed network.• Ran project to standardize many small SAN implementations on remote sites set up by numerous parties void the company standards.• Worked on Datacenter migration to vacate datacenter and move to a new Datacenter. Show less

• Installation & build of Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware servers. Includes troubleshooting hardware issues with HP blades and rack mount servers.• Led project to fix out of warranty servers for replacement for nonproduction servers.• Filled in for Frontend support personnel.• Promoted to SAN Storage Engineer after 6 months due to highly valued performance. Within this time I was able to gain the skill and managements confidence to train new personnel and new FE support personnel.