Travel to stores in the Midwest to complete product relocation for 90 day projectsAssemble and disassemble counters, aisles, and steel beams

Assemble and build store infrastructure for Home DepotAssemble, lift, carry 100lb+ steel beamsUse power tools to drill and anchor 26ft beams into store concrete

Senior Dell/EMC Resident for Logistics Health Inc. driving migration from VNX to Isilon using SecureCopyInitial configuration of InsightIQ for 3 separate data centers monitoring metrics for entire enterpriseUtilize CLI to enable non native sftp connectivityCreate SyncIQ Policies for migrated Hosts including Bandwidth Throttling for workloads and peak/off peak usageAuthored documentation and runbook detailing Best Practices specified for LHI environmentCreation of initial SMB shares via CLI reducing total migration time

Senior Consultant for National Health Institute in charge of daily administration for 3PAR SAN arrayExecuted provisioning, zoning, maintenance, capacity planning and troubleshootingSolved 3PAR licensing issue enabling Adaptive Optimization and utilization of all tiers of disksAligned application performance to correct CPGs enabling increased disk efficiency and performanceResolved Linux Servers locked file systems issue

Consultant managing EMR (Epic and MediTech) storage environment across 7 sitesDaily Administration of multiple VMAX storage Arrays totaling 60TB including zoning, capacity planning, replication configurationConfigured permissions, ACL, Synthetic ACL, PID, GID, SSID troubleshooting on Isilon clustersDaily Administration of Isilon OneFS NAS Arrays including permission configuration, performance monitoring utilizing Insight IQManage Daily Backups using EMC Networker for SQL, Exchange, EMR applications, ESXi Hosts, and Windows Server 2K12; this includes Data Domain DD Boost deduplication

* Managing, configuring, and troubleshooting TSM backups* Install TSM or Veeam backup clients on Linux and Windows hosts * Use TSM CLI to resolve failed, missed, and misconfigured backups for Linux, Windows, and Virtual Hosts* Provision storage on 3PAR, HDS VSP, USPV, HUS, according to change management requests* Implement zones on redundant fabrics utilizing Cisco DCNM for Linux and vmWare hosts* Started as a contractor in Oct 2014; contract ended Dec 2014; March 2015 hired permanently

Remote Storage Engineer for Dell managing 3PB of data spanning 3 datacentersCentrally managed and administered 20+ Compellent Storage Arrays utilizing Compellent Enterprise Manager including installation, initial configuration, Virtual FC Port configuration, Firmware Upgrades, Initial Zoning, Replication ConfigurationManaged host and SAN connectivity via Brocade Network AdvisorTroubleshot switch issues via SSH utilizing CLI commands to resolve issues like Persistent Port ID, Port Enablement, and Bulk ZoningEnabled SAN based replication from West Coast datacenter to Midwest based datacenter for DRProvisioned storage to 100+ clustered Linux, Windows, and ESX based server environment on 15+ Compellent Storage Arrays

* Utilized IOmeter to execute comparison performance tests between Tier 2 and Tier 3 Complete analysis of Throughput, IOPs, and Response Time to determine the percentage difference in performance using a database workload profile* Install EMC Networker Clients on Ubuntu Server, add to backup Schedule, and restore data* Developed script to automate the installation and configuration of EMC Networker Clients on VMware based VMs; automate the creation of Client Definitions on the EMC Networker Server* Executed performance tuning tests to determine optimum HBA Queue depth levels for vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 hosts connected to EMC Clariion CX4, and VNX storage * Reduced storage array maintenance costs by coordinating data consolidation initiative, migrating data from CX3 array to another CX array in a data center on a separate continent* Ran CLI commands to verify system functionality of EMC Centera NAS following a Flare code upgrade * Provision, administer, and manage two Compellent arrays in two separate data centers serving 100+ VM Hyper –V Cluster in addition to SQL Server Clusters in separate environment* Design VSAN layout, manage SAN Fabric zoning and FC cabling for hosts on Cisco MDS 9500 including Cisco Device Manager * Enable FCoE connectivity and zoning via Cisco Nexus 5010 switches * Led installation, implementation, and initial system configuration of Compellent Series 40 Array

 Upgraded IBM laptops from Windows XP to Windows 7; migrated user data to external harddrive, restored user specific configurations, Favorites, then restored data to new OS environment Dell DataCenter RMA Technician skilled at diagnosing and repairing hardware for proprietary Tier 1 Dell servers Repaired and replaced server components including RAM, CPUs, MotherBoards, and HDDs Ran Linux and Windows based USB keys to update BIOS, firmware, and MAC address Imaged over 300 new desktops and laptops employing Norton Ghost, including client specific application builds

 Installed, configured, and deployed Tier 1-3 SAN solutions with a focus on HDS AMS 2100 and 2300 Designed pre sales storage architecture and Infrastructure layouts  Migrated Wisconsin County of Sheboygan’s VMware Windows based production SAN environment from EMC to HDS AMS 2300. Configured FC cabling and zoning for County of Sheboygan’s SAN environment utilizing CLI commands on a Brocade switch Utilized Hitachi Storage Navigator to create and map LUNs to Hosts including initial RAID group configuration