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Lenexa, Ks

Design, customize, and develop solutions. Conduct architecture, solutions, and design analysis to review and baseline solution definition and high level design. Analyzed business problems and solutions using conceptual models, operating scenarios, and solution views. Address and solve technical and business concerns.• Led international team of 8 developers to create a self service delivery application for customers, allowing customers to self manage server environments and reduce operational costs.• Created web interface to determine utilization for departmental cloud infrastructure and correlating utilization data with invoice data, enabling department to cut Cloud costs 30%.• Architected backend storage solution for upper tier IBM SmartCloud and worked with storage team using intelligent tiering strategy, implementing storage performance enhancements, and improving Cloud offering.• Developed IBM based storage and server solution centered on Nirvanix Object Storage solution, expanding IBM SmartCloud Enterprise offering to include Cloud Object storage. • Led 5 storage engineers that managed fortune 500 corporate storage infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, IBM), implemented multi-phase storage management system, deployed N-Series hardware, converted corporate hosts from Symantec NetBackup to Tivoli storage manager and developed 3 year storage strategy.

Manassas, Va

Sized, designed and implemented, storage solutions for customers. Worked on-site with customers to analyze storage environments, proposed process and design improvements, and analyzed and troubleshot issues.• Led 4 member storage team for fortune 500 company that designed corporate storage solutions and disaster recovery strategy reclaiming 40 TB of storage, improving manageability and consolidating SAN infrastructure. • Created standardized process and procedure documentation for migrating test and production data in to heterogeneous storage environment, allowing migration of data to new storage solutions with minimal downtime and completing project of schedule.• Designed and deployed storage virtualization with tiering strategy using IBM SAN Volume Controller, allowing customers to seamlessly manage and consolidate storage.

Orlando, Fl

Administered and managed corporate SAN and NAS infrastructure, Sun Enterprise Servers, and Veritas Netbackup Tape Backup infrastructure for multiple corporate locations.• Developed suite of Unix shell and PHP scripts to monitor and report state of SAN environment, allowing server and database teams to easily track storage utilization.• Installed and configured EMC Control Center Suite and EMC StorageScope, improving SAN capacity planning and application storage utilization. • Created automated Timefinder/SRDF scripts for Disaster Recovery and tape backup.

Tulsa, Ok

Mainted and configured the corporate production and test Storage Area Networks. Did troubleshooting of all SAN issues, provisioned storage , configured fibre channel switches, and did capacity planning of storage.• Designed and implemented new SAN infrastructure in newly built datacenter, migrated production data from old storage arrays to new consolidated storage array, minimizing impact to production applications.• Developed intranet interface and storage inventory database, improving tracking of storage capacity and utilization.• Developed intranet interface to automate storage requests, streamlining storage provisioning and internal billing process.

Tulsa, Ok

Tulsa, Ok