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• Customer facing representative for all ICD clinical applications - big Pharma.
• Conduct RCA (root cause analysis) for customers after an outage or performance issue.
• DevOps liaison as an infrastructure platform engineer.
• Work closely with Kubernetes and Docker Engineers to create a standard virtualized environment.
• RHEL (Red Hat) OS deployment via Terraform – IaaS – Infra as a service.
• Manage entire storage network including disk arrays, SAN switching and endpoints including ESX storage connectivity and pathing.

San Jose, CA, US

• Concentrate on deployment and remediation projects pertaining to compute and virtualization focusing on “customer 0” pre-release code, internal IT services and problem management. Drive key vendor partnerships to.
• Problem Management Process Remediation: Architect new policy for ITIL based PBI and Internal Problem Tracking procedures utilizing ServiceNow and Smartsheet records. Work with internal ServiceNow architects to create.
• UCS Infrastructure Testing Procedure: Developed infra testing procedure for UCS FI, B-Series and C-Series bare metal firmware for developing BU. Pre-release code tested and qualified for public release after passing.
• HyperFlex Hyper-Converged: Run Intersight utility on AWS powered deployment profiles for configuration and setup for new “customer 0” HX clusters to release into public domain along with deployment for internal IT.

Charlotte, NC, US

Provide operations team and project leadership for business-critical application and infrastructure implementations focusing on data center technologies including storage, network, compute, virtualization and server core OS. Responsibilities include deploying the release of new technologies as well as the design, installation, configuration, maintenance.

• Deliver solutions architecture providing project leadership for business-critical application and infrastructure implementations focusing on data center technologies including storage, network, compute, virtualization.
• NetApp / EMC / Tintri: Architected and built multiple cDOT 9.3 FAS8200’s with FlashCache and SSD flash pools into a switched 6-node FC/NAS cluster for required read/write performance and resiliency. Migrated all EMC.
• VMware vSphere/ Windows / Linux: Planned and engineered migration upgrade from HPE vSphere 5.5 to 6.0 to 6.5 on Cisco UCS B-Series with 6332 FI converged infrastructure. Configured 40Gb connectivity for ESXi core.

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Architected and engineered data center infrastructure, Cisco UCS compute platform, NetApp 40Gb NAS storage backend, VMware ESX 6.5U1 and Linux systems for Wireless Core Engineering development group. Worked with.
• Cisco UCS: Build-out of new infrastructure consisting of 6332 FI’s with 40Gb links southbound and redundant northbound uplinks. Consisting of B-Series blades and C-Series rackmount servers tied into UCS system for.
• NetApp FAS: Introduced FAS2650 with FlashCache and SSD flash pools for superior read/write performance and resiliency. Quad 10Gb target ports in cDOT v9.1 cluster with 4 nodes. NFS and CIFS SVMs. DS224C 12Gb SAS.
• VMware: Architected and engineered vSphere 6.5 on UCS infrastructure and upgraded to U1 post configuration. Utilized distributed vSwitches and dynamic port groups for network access. Configured 40Gb NFS links for.
• Linux: Designed, installed, configured and deployed RHEL 6.x and 7.x servers and converted into customized templates for quick spin up of guest VM’s. Configured subscriptions, updates and packages for services as.

Englewood, CO, US

Produce client architectural solutions for overall onsite presence infrastructure including integration of acquisitions/mergers. IT transformation projects include complete cloud based application initiatives. These disciplines include configuration of compute, virtualization, storage, security, network, Windows Server, AD organization, DNS, SCCM, SCOM.

Savannah, GA, US

• Provided “world-class” IT infrastructure strategy and create scope of projects to accomplish. Responsible for supporting and maintaining multiple enterprise data centers including all physical hardware contained..
• SAN and Array Technical Refresh: Lead Storage team with architectural strategy and provided engineering guidance to replace A/B side Brocade DCXs to Cisco MDS 9710s with port-channels to edge MDS 9148s. Configured pair.
• VMware Hardware Migration: Created plan for migrating over 1750 VMs from IBM H BladeCenters to Cisco UCS B series blades with unified SAN and IP network switching. Architected and implemented new VNX 7600s with dual.
• TSM Hardware Upgrade: Architected, engineered and coordinated MSP infrastructure teams for operational support to upgrade TSM hardware at main DC with IBM POWER s824 scalable compute platform containing LINUX on POWER.

• Defined requirements, recommend practical solutions, create scope of projects and conduct client post-sales implementations. Provide documentation along with full knowledge transfer to client IT staff in order to.
• Cloud Based Technical Expertise: SAN/NAS Systems – NetApp FAS 7-mode DOT 8.x and cDOT 8.x, V-Series E-Series, EF Flash Series; EMC VMAX, VNX, VNXe, Isilon NAS, VPLEX, Extreme I/O; Storage Networking – Brocade.
• Hardware Expertise: Cisco Data Center – UCS C-Series, B-Series, UCS Manager, FI’s 6100, 6200 series; HP DL and BL-C series servers; iSCSI segregation via cisco IP switching; Infiniband - Isilon backend network

Lafayette, LA, US

• Architected and managed enterprise private and public cloud environment consisting of VMware 5.5 - 770 VMs, UCS C-Series/B-Series and NetApp 3250’s along with Terramark public cloud hosting critical bank application on.
• NetApp Metro Cluster: Planned and implemented storage infrastructure architecture to support NetApp metro cluster along with storage interoperability and redundant system integration into corporate server.
• Public Cloud Migration: Planned and implemented public Terramark cloud migration into private Sabadell United Bank cloud utilizing VMware 5.5 and UCS B-Series infrastructure consisting of Lefthand iSCSI and NetApp NFS.

Chicago, IL, US

Procure, architect, deliver support for all enterprise storage systems while continually managing and proactively reporting against to provide key SAN and NAS deliverables – 8PB deployed. Work with project management, infrastructure and application teams to understand requirements for delivery of storage provisions that improve upon budget constraints.

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Architected and managed enterprise storage environment, RHE Linux OS platforms, VMware ESX infrastructure and Oracle ERP system storage integration. Delivered key initiatives surrounding high availability, performance.
• SAN Analytics: Facilitated continued proactive evaluation of environmental risk remediation, performance analysis for I/O constraint insight, system interoperability, provisioned capacity utilization and trending.
• SAN Environment: Procured, planned and implemented storage infrastructure architecture to support heterogeneous storage interoperability and redundant system integration into corporate server infrastructure via FC.
• ESX NFS Initiative: Engineered and migrated FC connected ESX system clusters to NetApp NFS backend storage configurations enabling data store flexibility, scalability, deduplicaiton, SMVI, flexclone and snapmirror.
• Oracle ERP R12 Upgrade: Integrated with Oracle technical architecture team to introduce and support newly acquired Dell Compellent disk subsystem with Fibre Channel along with NetApp NFS into new ERP R12 Clustered RHE.

San Jose, California, US

Provided best practice standards and consulting services for NetApp storage infrastructure, FC switching and resilient system integration for FAMS client. Implemented software and firmware upgrades for Cisco MDS 9513 collapsed core switching infrastructure along with FAS subsystem’s Data ONTAP operating system. Systems integration included RHE Linux, ESXi.

Deerfield, IL, US

• Determine needs, define scope of project(s), recommend practical solutions, implement post-sales installation and configuration, and provide documentation along with full knowledge transfer to IT staff in order to.
• SAN Technical Expertise: Disk Subsystems – IBM DS8000, DS4000/5000 (LSI OEM), XIV, N Series (NetApp OEM), SVC, NetApp FAS, V Series; Storage Networking – Brocade 48000/DCX/5000, FOS and DCFM, Cisco MDS 9000, Cisco.
• Systems Expertise: VMware – VI3, ESX 3.5, ESX 4 (vSphere); OS – Windows Server 2k, 2k3, 2k8, AIX, LINUX, VIOS, LPAR, LPC, HMC, SSPC; Cluster Technologies - MSCS, VCS, HACMP / POWER HA
• Hardware Expertise: IBM - pSeries POWER5 p550, p570, p595, POWER6 p520, p595, xSeries, IBM BladeCenter

Oakland, California, US

• Provided engineering support for 6 PB storage infrastructure consisting of IBM and EMC midrange to enterprise disk arrays, McData directors/switches to provide for over 6000 servers including AIX, RHE Linux, Solaris.
• SAN Management: Coordinated storage provisioning utilizing EMC ECC storage resource management suite for nationwide EMC Symmtrix DMX, IBM ESS and CLARiiON disk arrays
• Disk Array Migration: Executed data migration for Kaiser’s clinical application (HealthConnect) achieving a 30% increase in random I/O processing from IBM’s HP ESS 800 to EMC’s Symmetrix DMX arrays. Host multipath.
• VTL Implementation: Conducted EMC CDL VTL installations to back end TSM architecture, and engineered infrastructure utilizing McData i10K directors for a dedicated redundant tape SAN

Hollywood, Florida, US

Engineering duties included use of clustering technologies and redundant architectures, lead AIX/Linux administrator, lead TSM enterprise backup/restore system design and operations administrator, RHE Linux, VMware ESX and Windows Server system project builds, physical server consolidation, storage back-end consolidation and software upgrades along with.

Chicago, IL, US

• Managed core operational systems for Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Blackhawks, Bismarck Enterprises, At Your Service and United Center proper; implemented disaster recovery/business continuity plan utilizing Legato.
• SAN: Implemented SAN upgrade to 25 TB of storage. Installed and configured 3 Brocade FC switches. Installed EMC FC 4700 array with 6 DAE’s, zoned and configured server HBAs
• Microsoft Active Directory: Developed and prepared directory core services (AD, DHCP, DNS, WINS). Successfully led a deployment team of 5 for migration from Netware to Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange: Designed, installed and configured core services (MAPI, IMAP4, POP3). Successfully led a deployment team of 5 for migration from Iplanet to Exchange 2000
• Network Infrastructure: Collaborated with network analyst to design, install and configure coreLAN and WAN infrastructure for 3 locations participating in the United Center Joint Venture