Thomas Hope has over 20 Years of experience in Microsoft systems administration, MS Active Directory design and deployment and 8 years of extensive enterprise experience as a senior Storage Area Networking / Storage architect and implementation engineer, with hands on experience working with the following platforms: EMC Symmetrix / VMAX, EMC VNX / CLARiiON and VNXe, EMC Isilon, EMC RecoverPoint, EMC VPLEX, HDS AMS/USP Modular and Enterprise class storage and the IBM XIV platform. Extensive SAN Fabric architecture experience utilizing Brocade and Cisco Enterprise and Workgroup class Fiber Channel switches in large enterprise distributed data-center, co-located private cloud, and small commercial environments.He has been employed as a Senior SAN engineer at JP Morgan Chase, performing remote and on-site assessment, infrastructure review and data-center fabric planning and implementation as well as 3rd Tier escalation support for 2nd Tier SAN production support personnel. He also has experience with performance tuning and troubleshooting on enterprise storage using EMC Control Center (ECC/WLA/SPA), Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade Network Advisor and Navisphere. He has deployed storage on various management application suites including, EMC Solutions Enabler (symcli), Navicli, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere for VMAX, VNX, RecoverPoint and VPLEX, HDS Device Manager, HDS HiCommand suite, HDS On-Array Enterprise Storage Navigator, HDS Storage Navigator modular, and HDS Storage Navigator Modular 2.
Listed skills include Brocade, Storage Area Networks, San, Clariion, and 39 others.
