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Warren, Nj

Install, Design & Manage Dell-EMC Software products, including XtremIO X1 & X2,and VxRail. Assist customers in managing and troubleshooting their SAN Storage Network. Recommend Dell-EMC Software/Hardware products to fulfill customers Needs. Continually keep up to date on Dell-EMC products and Market trends.

Hopatcong, Nj

I am a freelance photographer that specializes in artistic photography. I also do wedding and special occasion photography. I also provide custom services for individuals such as portfolio and gift photography. My studio is located in my home or I can provide onside service if that is desired. Post processing, and photo printing is included.

Day to Day Administration of Corporate SAN for a large Pharmaceutical Company. Maintain critical systems, allocate and monitor storage systems. Secure and supervision of equipment installation and support. Design and Implement Storage & SAN Architecture.

Berkeley Heights, Nj

Design and implement custom EMC solutions to meet customers present and future storage needs. Including Qualifying and getting engineering approval of my designs. Assist customer in understanding his information lifecycle and how they can better manage their current data storage needs. Install EMC software infrastructure . Assist customers interfacing with EMC technical support, and supervise problem resolutions to their completion. Work directly with customer as part of EMC’s residency… Show more Design and implement custom EMC solutions to meet customers present and future storage needs. Including Qualifying and getting engineering approval of my designs. Assist customer in understanding his information lifecycle and how they can better manage their current data storage needs. Install EMC software infrastructure . Assist customers interfacing with EMC technical support, and supervise problem resolutions to their completion. Work directly with customer as part of EMC’s residency program, and assist customer with their day to day storage provisioning and monitoring tasks. Provide ECC Health check Services and use EMC provided tools to assure continued compliance with EMC support matrix. Provide customer training and knowledge transfer for EMC provided software & hardware. Recommend software solutions to customer to simplify their day to day storage management needs. Provide customer with Performance information and recommendations to maximize their storage performance. Assist customer in implementing and utilizing EMC Best Practices to improve their Total Customer Experience with EMC. Assist customers as an EMC Resident at such customers as Goldman Sachs, Citi Group, New York Stock Exchange to augment & train their on site staff, duties include Command line, customer scripts & GUI based storage provisioning, monitoring & alerting, SAN configuration & monitoring, Host path configuration, trouble shooting & HBA replacement coordination, storage decommissioning and free pool analysis. SRDF Data Protection and Failover. Acted as liaison between vendor support and customer to bring quickest possible resolution to problems. Worked directly with vendor onsite personnel to assist with failure resolution. Work with customer’s system administrators to insure 24/7 storage availability & respond to unexpected storage needs and outages. Coordinate customer host based storage migration. Monitor and respond to alerts to customers SRDF disaster recovery system. Show less

Administer 24 HP and AIX UNIX servers in a 24 by 7 corporate WAN environment. Assist DB administrators with Unix file system configuration. Actively involved with corporate wide ERP Oracle rollout, involved in all aspects of design, implementation, and support of a 58 module Oracle configuration. Setup and maintain corporate backup system using Tivoli's Storage Manager. Set up and Maintain corporate Tape Backup Units. Design, install, & administer EMC SAN Fabric & Symmetrix storage network… Show more Administer 24 HP and AIX UNIX servers in a 24 by 7 corporate WAN environment. Assist DB administrators with Unix file system configuration. Actively involved with corporate wide ERP Oracle rollout, involved in all aspects of design, implementation, and support of a 58 module Oracle configuration. Setup and maintain corporate backup system using Tivoli's Storage Manager. Set up and Maintain corporate Tape Backup Units. Design, install, & administer EMC SAN Fabric & Symmetrix storage network, including an online storage usage/request tracking system. Set up & configure EMC 8730 & DMX 3000 Storage arrays and McData Fiber switches. Configure and administer EMC NAS appliance. Install, configure & maintain central storage monitoring and configuration system using EMC’s ECC tools and applications. Setup and coordinate disaster recovery procedures and offsite data storage. Maintain and update HP and AIX OS systems with current revisions and patches. Maintain and install new and updated HP and/or AIX hardware. Hardware and software trouble shooting coordinated with outside hardware maintenance companies. HP-UX and IBM AIX system administration tasks such as, passwords, access rights, TCP/IP Ethernet configuration, HP and AIX configuration files and disk mounting tables. Coordinate and implement system Intranet and WAN access and security. Configure, implement and maintain corporate DHCP & DNS servers. Configure, maintain & secure corporate SMTP internet mail gateway. Write and maintain system description and procedure documentation. Coordinate UNIX services with corporate Help Desk. Document and coordinate database and file system recovery. Work with applications managers and provide and implement UNIX services as needed for application rollout. Show less

Education record

High School Diploma, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Member of the computer club, Photography Club