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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.
• 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.

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.
• 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