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Plainview, Ny, Us

Jericho, Ny, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Onsite resident at one of NetApp’s largest SLED customer’s in the NY Metro area, New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT). Interface with and assist customer’s various IT staff and teams to ensure smooth operation of their NetApp storage systems, including working tech support cases for hardware, software and performance issues on storage controllers and NetApp branded monitoring software systems.Assisted and aided the customer with standing up new hardware, repurposing older systems, maintaining and upgrading existing systems to acceptable code levels to alleviate possible system outages.Assisting customer with migrating data off aging, older NetApp systems onto newer platforms, performing both 7-mode to 7-mode and 7-mode to CDOT transitions via 7-Mode Transition Tool, Foreign LUN Import and manual SnapMirror transitions.Became the customer’s trusted advisor and first source for any situation regarding NetApp storage systems and related technologies.

Herndon, Va, Us

NetApp implementation engineer with a focus on designing, implementing and integrating NetApp storage system solutions into customer environments, varying in size and ranging from SMB to Enterprise.Experienced with all facets of the NetApp FAS and V-Series controller product line (FAS2000, FAS3000, FAS6000 & FAS8000) and associated disk shelf technology (DS4243, DS4246 & DS2246) operating in both traditional 7-mode and Clustered DataONTAP. In the past year the primary focus has been on integrating CDOT within customer environments running SnapManager for Exchange, SnapManager for SQL and VMware vSphere.Responsible for all new customer installs, upgrading existing customers systems via DataONTAP upgrades, system expansion via shelf and card installs & controller migrations via SnapMirror & Storage vMotion.Performed numerous FAS controller head swaps for customers seeking to upgrade systems that were outgrown and/or outdated.Solid background in VMware vSphere technology from version 4.x through 5.x. Performed VMware on NetApp installs, integrations, migrations, and upgrades, as well as Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions to retire aging customer hardware. Experienced with VMware Site Recovery Manager and its integration with NetApp hardware through Storage Replication Adapters (SRA) as well as the NetApp Virtual Storage Console plugin for NetApp integration directly within vCenter for host tuning, storage provisioning and Virtual Machine backup & recovery.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Farmingdale, Ny, Us

Senior NetApp & IBM NSeries storage engineer with experience architecting, sizing, implementing and integrating NetApp & IBM NSeries storage solutions into customer environments. Experienced with all products in the NetApp FAS & VSeries, and IBM NSeries & NSeries Gateway product portfolio, running DataONTAP 7.2.x, 7.3.x and 8.x, including FAS 2000 & 3000 series, and N3000 and N6000 series. Focus primarily on storage system integration and backup & recovery for Microsoft applications like Exchange and SQL Server, over both the iSCSI & FC protocol, and VMware 3.x and vSphere 4 over iSCSI, FCP & NFS protocols. Understands all facets of Multipath HA cabling, using both DS4243, DS14mk2 and DS14mk4 disk shelves, with ESH2, ESH4 & AT-FCX shelf modules, connecting over either FC loops or SAS cables.Well versed in advanced NetApp technologies like SnapManager for Exchange, SQL and Virtual Infrastructure for rapid backup and restore, Single Mailbox Recovery for single item restores of Microsoft Exchange information, SnapMirror for data replication and disaster recovery, SnapVault for data backup and archival, CIFS protocol for collapsing Windows file services, A-SIS/De-duplication, MultiStore, SyncMirror, RAID4 & RAID_DP. Also proficient in NetApp Operations Manager software for managing multiple NetApp Storage Systems.Trained on implementing Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenant environments using the FlexPod reference architecture (NetApp FAS, Cisco UCS & VMware)Highly proficient in installing & zoning all major SAN vendors FC switch technologies, including Cisco MDS, Brocade & QLogic.Very skilled on IBM DS3000, 4000 & 5000 storage platforms, System X rack mounted servers and BladeCenter chassis and servers.

Uniondale, Ny, Us

Responsible for firm-wide computer network, spanning 5 offices, including servers and desktop PC's. Desktop environment consists of Windows XP SP1 & SP2, Office XP & 2003 and DOCS Open document management system.Focus of server work included upgrading e-mail system from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 and eventually 2003. Along with Exchange, implemented instant messaging server running Live Communications Server 2005. Implemented and upgraded Blackberry Enterprise Servers for Exchange. Phased out older NT4 Domain servers with Windows 2000 & 2003, running Active Directory and related technologies (DNS, DHCP, WINS). Other network technology supported and well versed in include Mailsweeper for SMTP, SonicWall firewalls, Citrix Metaframe terminal servers, VMWare GSX server for virtual server environments, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Veritas BackupExec, Woodstone Servers Alive, Iron Mountain's LiveVault for online data backup and XOSoft for disaster recovery.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Conduct on-site work for various types of clients and small businesses, such as server installs, network setups, new PC and Macintosh installations, software installs, upgrades and troubleshooting.Resolve any computer related problem hindering client's work.

Ran company help desk and was responsible for day-to-day maintenance, repairs and troubleshooting of 50 network PC's running Windows 98 & 2000 Professional, 6 Mac's running OS 9, 3 servers running Windows 2000 Server, Novell Netware 5.1 and Mac OS X. Operated semi-independently as to allow senior staff members to complete their projects. Researched, tested and installed new technology such as web content filters and various PC hardware and software purchases.

Member of company wide Help Desk and was responsible for maintenance of network PC's, laptops, server and printers for approximately 200 users in Long Island and Manhattan offices. Server technologies included ISA, Exchange, SQL & SMS.Installed operating systems for new hardware implementations and corresponding business applications for standard image creation and duplication.

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