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Escondido, Ca, Us

Responsible for daily operations of storage environment, including automation, documentation, implementing best practices, troubleshooting issues, and monitoring of the storage infrastructure.• Automated permissions request completion on NetApp ONTAP and Access database using Python and Powershell• Established version control on all existing scripts• Improved team operational response times for customer service• Implemented best practices for Brocade and NetApp systems

San Diego, California, United States

Responsible for daily operations of storage environment, including automation, documentation, implementing best practices, troubleshooting issues, provisioning and reclaiming multiple protocols for clients, and monitoring of the storage infrastructure.• Automated system configuration and inventory collection using python for Dell EMC VNX and Unity, NetApp ONTAP and Solidfire, and Cisco MDS and Nexus Fibre Channel switches• Implemented best practices for PCI and SOC 2 compliance for NetApp, Dell EMC, and PureStorage by collaborating with multiple teams to configure LDAP, Syslog, DNS, and SSL

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for daily operations of storage environment, including documenting changes and best practices, troubleshooting issues, deploying equipment, provisioning and reclaiming NFS, iSCSI, and FC storage for business units, and monitoring availability and performance of the storage infrastructure.• Provisioned and reclaimed storage in 300 controllers containing 30PB+ of data for NFS, iSCSI, and fiber channel using NetApp, EMC, and PureStorage.• Slashed troubleshooting times and drove accuracy in environment/operational answers by creating wikis for each environment, run books for equipment, and striving to eliminate knowledge gaps.

Greater San Diego Area

Contracted to migrate NetApp 7mode data to NetApp cDOT using a custom script developed by vendor. Responsible for testing, modification, and use of script to migrate the data. Upon project completion, augmented staff to assist in daily operations• Migrated 30TB+ of NFS data from 7-mode to Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT).• Shaved prep time from several hours to just 25 minutes by scripting the collection and automation of storage information to prepare for the data migration.• Tested the mbatch NetApp tool to support the data migration and resolve production environment issues.

Gardena, Ca

Responsible for deploying, configuring, monitoring multiple virtual environments, troubleshooting incidents for clients, and working with vendors to implement best practices.• Developed and deployed portable Proof of Concept private clouds• Installation, management, organization, support, and operations of multi-tenant Cloud VMware Virtual Infrastructures