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Cincinnati, Oh

Responsible for architecting advanced business enabling solutions for GE teams consuming services from the core technology services division of GE Digital. Serves as an infrastructure solution architect for on premises compute and storage infrastructure, GE’s internal OpenStack implementation, as well as public cloud providersSelected projects:€ Provided the storage engineering direction and oversight for the SAN storage lifecycle management process to improve the overall Core Tech storage environment, migrating 500+ clients, over 1.5PB of data, and decommissioning 29 frames over the course of the year€ Headed the AWS pricing model evaluation to study the feasibility of using AWS to decrease our cost for storage or backup while increasing reliability and availability. The study determined that our internal offerings were highly reliable and available with a lower cost at this time€ Architected the Hitachi Content Platform object storage system design and build to quickly provide our customers with a low cost, reliable, secure, self-service alternative to external cloud based storage offerings provided by Amazon and Azure

Cincinnati, Oh

Identify and drive the implementation of advanced storage and data protection technologies like virtualization, thin cloning, encryption, deduplication, and replication technologies to further improve performance, reliability, and enhanced service operations of GEs core storage and data protection infrastructureSelected projects:€ Directed the SAN storage infrastructure project to design, build, test and deploy a virtual appliance based billing system, at a significant cost savings, responsible for over 3 petabytes of storage infrastructure with an annual budget of 100+ million dollars€ Managed the data protection environment conversion in our European data centers from Solaris and tape based infrastructure to Linux and deduplicated disk, resulting in faster, more reliable backups and enhanced disaster recovery capabilities, while lowering infrastructure costs€ Led the project to design, build, and implement a multiple site Linux based Netbackup data protection environment in our Canadian data centers to enable a migration of our infrastructure from an internally managed site to a third party managed facility

Cincinnati, Oh

Provide daily administration of SAN storage and switching, NAS storage, and backup support including allocations, capacity management, troubleshooting, and interfacing with customers and vendors to provide technical support as required. Drive projects related to backup technology development and innovation, maintain the technology roadmap, pursue continuous improvement, and transition and manage daily operations through an outsourced providerSelected projects:€ Led a project team through our annual backup system disaster recovery testing, resulting in the successful recovery of three distinct Stamford, CT based backup systems in the Cincinnati, OH data center and a successful SOx certification€ Performed storage tasks related to the Parkersburg, WV datacenter lift and closure resulting in significant up front savings and decreased capital expenditures in the future€ Ran a project to implement Veritas Netbackup in the Stamford, CT datacenter resulting in a multi vendor backup offering that helped reduce cost and increase backup performance for customers as well as provide GE with vendor leverage to further reduce costs

Master'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Management

Associate Of Applied Science - Aas, Computer Information Systems