Ralph Harvey Email & Phone Number

Howes Cave, Ny, Us

Remote

Maintain, implement, tune, migrate data, and facilitate disaster recovery and solutions for mainframe storage environment at American Express.

Phoenix, Arizona

Administration of mainframe storage environment, managing DFHSM, tape data and provided training to tape operations and application teams.

Phoenix, Az

Configured and maintained the contents of 50 StorageTek Silos.Created and presented 4 hour Mainframe Storage training course to application programmers, providing information and tools to understand information life cycle and managing the retention and storage medium properly.Created and gave CA-1 tape management software training for tape operations teams to provide level 1 diagnosis of tape related issues.

Phoenix, Az

Put together and built 24x7 tape support team to meet demands of 14 separate mainframe complexes consisting of 1,000,000 tape data sets during 3 year standardization and consolidation project.Migrated, consolidated and standardized 9 mainframe tape environments to new data center for global data center migration project.

Phoenix, Az

Solutioned and implemented offsite tape strategy for disaster recovery and legal requirements.Created content management strategy for automated cartridge systems and implemented onsite logical tape vault process, reducing hardware costs by moving deep archive unreferenced tape data to less expensive rack storage.Replaced 100,000 flawed media IBM 3490 tapes , copying data to new tapes and implementing process to facilitate removal of corrupt media from the data center.