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Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Managing a large NetApp Storage Migration Project for NOAA NWS Office of Water Prediction

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Storage Team Lead• Supporting the National Water Center - Office of Water Prediction. • Managing several petabytes of data across multiple storage clusters and computing environments. Architecting and managing a NetApp ONTAP Storage NFS to FCP migration project. • Providing storage for hundreds of VMWare hosted servers running RHEL, CentOS, and Windows Server.

Hoover, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama

Greater Nashville Area

Full time professional services resident for a large NetApp customer in the healthcare industry.

Greater Atlanta Area

Norcross, Ga

• Senior Architect/Strategist responsible for the implementation of data center solutions for ProSys Fortune 500 clients using NetApp, EMC, Data Domain, Cisco and VMWare. • Delivery of solutions within budget and time constraints providing current and projected environments, GAP analysis and transition plans. Provide SOWs and bill of materials of work for projects.• Coordinate with internal clients and external vendors to conduct requirements needs to establish existing environment.• Providing as-build documentation for solutions to customers for management and continuity.• Training of local IT staff personnel on delivered systems.• Projects include:o Large scale implementation for Fortune 50 Auto industry client. Migrated 150 servers from IBM Sharks to Net App V-Series controllers. Migration included multiple data centers (4+). Implemented large scale VMware environment.o Architected and implemented 2 datacenters for a large hospital including Cisco switches and UCS servers, NetApp storage, VMWare Servers, and Citrix VDI. o Performed a technology refresh of NetApp FAS 3040 series controllers at 4 datacenters to NetApp FAS 3270 controllers for a law firm serving 500 attorneys in 4 states.

Irving, Texas

• Architected, implemented and managed 800TB multi-tiered storage solution using NetApp FAS and EMC VMAX storage across multiple data centers globally (US and Australia).• Provided storage for SAP, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, Autocad and file services solutions on 1800 physical and VMWare servers across 240 global locations and 14000 employees. • Developed technical documentation and training for global storage team engineers used to provide 24x7 on-call support to meet customer SLA's and strict ITIL change management requirements.

Seguin, Texas

• Designed, implemented and managed a multi data center storage and data protection solution with 600TB of storage.• Monitored and managed EMC storage arrays, Clariion disk libraries, Data domain, and Storagetek tape library hardware in support of data protection solutions across all US locations. • Designed and managed large Netbackup master/media server environment.• Provided monitoring and reporting to meet internal and external audit requirements in support of Sarbanes-Oxley.

United States Air Force

• Managed computer systems in support of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Southern Watch. • Designed dBaseIII+ solutions for Security Police statistical reporting, analysis and Crime Prevention. • Installed, configured, maintained, and supported daily operations for all Dos/Windows based desktop systems and printers.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

A.S., Industrial Security