Technical sales representative for the RSA Dexter Avenue Data Center. Highly motivated sales professional possessing exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving, sales and communication skills. Site and facility services focused on assisting clients with data center migrations and consolidations to best fit their infrastructure needs.

Chamber Ambassadors are a prestigious group of volunteers who work for Chamber Member organizations, believe in the Chamber’s mission and support their community. Ambassadors have an opportunity to not only represent and promote the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce, but to meet and engage with other members, elected officials, key business stakeholders and promote their own business at various Chamber events.

We are a non-profit outreach organization that is positioning Alabama as a workforce leader in developing engineers and information technology specialists. All Officers and Board of Directors are volunteers and are focused on making the Alabama Technology Foundation become a recognized leader for Alabama in curriculum and workforce development within the high-demand and high-growth engineering and information technologies disciplines.

A Fortune 100 company, established in 1845, and headquartered in New York that employees 10,000+ with an additional 12,250 licensed agents• Enterprise Technology: Architecture, Engineering and Implementation Group.• Test and develop new applications/appliances/data environments to insure compatibility, security, and assurance of NYL data.• Work closely with upper level management, operations, project management, application development and infrastructure teams to develop data disaster recovery plans, performance analysis and backup/restore processes.• Serve as one of 6 Subject Matter Experts on the Architecture, Engineer and Implementation Team• Independently perform installation, maintenance and/or upgrades of storage infrastructure, and determine the most appropriate process to follow. • Supports administrative aspects of project work, such as tracking and reporting on project status and outcomes. • Serve as Storage Administrator for ESX VMware environment providing Datastores, VMDK, RDM when needed• Establish appropriate end-user access control levels for stored data. • Work with systems and database administrators to implement storage architectures that utilize industry best practices including Information Lifecycle. • Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.

The nation’s largest and most reputable title lending company that employees 3500+ • Work closely with upper level management, operations, project management, application development and infrastructure teams to develop data disaster recovery plans, performance analysis and backup/restore processes.• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the company’s entire SAN Environment managing 300TBs+• I presented TMX a detailed data analysis of the company’s infrastructure, the business acquired the VMAX 10K and Data Domain based on my recommendations• Deployed our tier 1 applications (TLPro and QFunds) using Thin Provisioning Pools• With a 4 member team, we moved the entire DR Data Center from Atlanta, GA to Phoenix, AZ in 4 days, with months of pre-planning.• Supported the organization’s technology infrastructure by effective provisioning, installation and configuration of the storage environment. • Manage long distance primary storage replication using EMC RecoverPoint for Disaster Recovery. • Ensure the technical integrity of corporate data by protecting against the loss or misuse of information and designing backup/recovery strategies using EMC Avamar and Data Domain.• Serve as liaison to vendors providing storage/switch requirements for procurement. • Establish appropriate end-user access control levels for stored data. • Work with systems and database administrators to implement storage architectures that utilize industry best practices including Information Lifecycle. • Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts. • Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage equipment performance, space allocation, and data growth to recommend enhancements. Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to storage appliances and software.

A Fortune 500 Company that delivers quality scientific and technical products and services contributing to the security and well-being of communities throughout the world that employs over 40,000 • Team Lead for the Backup group – managed 5 backup administrators• Storage Co-Lead on the UISS (Unclassified Information Sharing Service) Project. This is a Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) project for our warfighters throughout the world. Completed allocating roughly 15TB of storage to this project. Storage is provided by thin provision on a Hitachi USP-V HDP Pool. This enterprise is isolated from the entire infrastructure due to its vulnerabilities. • Lead storage administrator for the Virtual ESX Environment. Monitoring the use of storage within the ESX Cluster enterprise. • Technical Lead for the Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) & the Department of Defense (DOD) Storage Infrastructure• Maintained and managed the Data Storage Infrastructure on all storage arrays: USPVs, AMS2000, NetApp, 3PAR.• Brocade Switch Administrator – Multiple DCXs, 48ks, 5100s, 5480s. Manage using Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) or Brocade Network Advisor (BNA) in several remote locations throughout the US.• Troubleshooting – monitor and review logs – clear error logs – review daily logs

Implements industry-leading productivity solutions, built on the experience of global teams, ranging from advanced collaboration to converged remote infrastructure management• Technical Lead of a 6 member team for the Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) & the Department of Defense (DOD) Storage Infrastructure. • Maintained and managed the Data Storage Infrastructure on all storage arrays• Brocade Switch Administrator – Zone configurations• Troubleshooting – monitor and review logs – clear error logs – review daily logs• Utilized software applications to manage the storage infrastructure – Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Storage Navigator, USPV Storage Manager, Brocade DCFM, Brocade Fabric View, NetApp, EMC Control Center, Storage Data Mobility Manager, Celerra Manager, EMC Navisphere, EMC Centera Viewer and HP EVA Command View.

Fortune 200 company with 50,000 employees and worldwide presence.Customer Engineer (South Alabama Territory) • Engineer for Montgomery and surrounding areas: Baptist Health, Rheem Manufacturing, Hyundai, Montgomery County Commission, Unisys, DISA, Alfa, Russell Corp, Colonial Bank, Regions, International Paper and Wal-Mart• Maintained, monitored and managed 100+ storage arrays• Designed and configured complex storage array bins for all new arrays- including replication bin configurations• Added additional storage to arrays as needed and provisioned them according to customer specifications• Switch Administrator – managed McData and Brocade switches – created aliases, zone sets and zone configurationsCustomer Site Engineer (Bellsouth-Hoover, AL) 2001 – 2005• Onsite Storage Engineer for Bellsouth• Managed 65+ Storage arrays and switches• Monitored and maintained storage environment• Designed and configured complex storage array bins for all new arrays- including replication bin configurations• Added drives to arrays as needed and carved them according to customer specifications• Switch Administrator – managed McData and Brocade switches – created aliases, zone sets and zone configurations.• Replaced faulty storage hardware– drives, power supplies, batteries, fans, directors, cables and communication boards.

A small owner/operator IT Computer business that served the public, State and County agencies by providing sales, technical support and services for PCs and Servers• Managed 5 Technicians• Sold Personal PCs and Servers to individuals, small businesses, State and County agencies• Trained new technicians to build and troubleshoot hardware issues with personal computers and servers• Provided technical support for many businesses throughout the state of Alabama• Built PCs according to customer’s specifications• Awarded several State of Alabama contracts and county contracts – primarily school contracts• Managed and designed small local area network environments