Phillip Groff Email & Phone Number

Seaside, California, United States

Kansas City, Mo

CenturyLink• Developed methodology, move groups and migration matrices for Chicago, Washington D.C., Santa Clara, Dallas, and London SAN fabrics.• Designed SAN fabrics for London datacenters • Installed and configured BNA, reporting and monitoring for six datacenters• Conducted advanced fabric trouble-shooting and BNA classes Fujitsu America• Re-designed SAN Fabric Architecture in the Raleigh-Durham Datacenter • Developed and installed improved BNA reporting and monitoring for all environments• Installed and configured Brocade VDX 6740s in Dallas and Sunnyvale CADepartment of Defense, Pentagon • Participated in the Pentagon’s ITA Storage Services migration of the Classified and Non-classifiedInfrastructure from Gen 4 to Gen 5 as part of their BNS initiative• Developed and installed improved BNA reporting and monitoring for all environments• Participated in a pilot-project for advanced fiber channel monitoring and reportingEMC, First Data Corporation • Designed SAN Fabrics to support and facilitate migration to EMC’s VPLEX - 8 fabrics in Omaha and Chandler AZ. • Developed zoning templates and scripts for VPLEX Back-end fabricsEMC, Tulsa OK • Collaborated with Hewlett Packard and Brocade Communications Systems to provide advanced Storage Architecture services• Implemented monitoring and alerting of Brocade FICON SANJack Henry and Associates, Monett MO • Designed a 4000 Port 16-gig SAN Fabric consisting of 12 DCX backbones across 5 sites with remote replication.• Planned and designed the migration of 1000 servers and storage on 25 Cisco switches to Brocade Fabrics.• Implemented the successful migration of 500 servers and Storage at 3 sitesHewlett Packard Enterprise Services Plano, TX• Designed a 6000 Port 8-gig SAN Fabric consisting of 18 DCX backbones and remote replication to multiple sites• Planned and designed the migration of 2000 servers and storage on 42 Cisco switches to Brocade Fabrics

Herndon, Va

Johnson and Johnson, Raritan, NJ• Planned, designed and implemented the architecture of three 5,000+ Port HP/Brocade SANs (domestic and international) consisting of HP-UX, Windows, VMware operating systems and HP-XP, HP EVA storage arrays; provided recommendations according to Industry Best Practices; conducted phone consultation and customer training; provided technical documentation and in-depth knowledge transfer to audiences of varying technical proficiencies• Collaborated with Hewlett Packard and Brocade Communications Systems to provide advanced Storage Architecture services

Providing SAN professional services.