I am an IT Engineer with twelve+ years of technical hands-on experience in the operations and support of Storage (SAN/NAS) platforms, including Data Protection, Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Networking, WAN optimization and COOP site deployments, and three+ years experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud architecture and deployment.  I have engineering experience with various NAS and SAN storage vendor technologies and am proficient in all aspects of operations and support on CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and FC platforms, and AWS console management.  Typical duties include troubleshooting and supporting features such as controller, volume, lun and share administration, high availability, redundancy, system performance optimization, and user data access.  I am also proficient in the architecture and daily administration of AWS cloud services.  All of my discipline expertise includes experience in requirements analysis, systems analysis, data integration, systems engineering, and overall storage and cloud administration in Top Secret, classified Windows and UNIX environments.  I am proficient in the MS Office Professional suite of products and I am a motivated self-starter, possessing strong customer service and technical problem solving skills.  I am very familiar and comfortable with working in both operations environments and customer-facing technical support environments.

 

I am a Storage and AWS cloud Engineering Consultant for various Federal IT contracts and am responsible for IT Enterprise Storage and cloud architecture, systems engineering, administration, performance monitoring, and technical support.  This includes working with end-user design and operations engineering teams to provide architecture and operations support for their onsite as well as cloud-based storage requirements.  My specific duties include ground-floor design and implementation of various NAS and SAN storage platforms and ensuing troubleshooting duties.  I am also responsible for designing and implementing AWS cloud-based solutions to provide for platform high availability, load-balancing, and data protection in the cloud.  I work hands-on with NetApp iSCSI and FC SANs as well as CIFS and NFS NAS platforms using the NetApp Storage Management Suite, as well as the AWS management console.  Hands-on experience includes:

·   Aggregate, Volume, LUN and Share configuration

·   NetApp OnCommand System Manager

·   CIFS and NFS

·   iSCSI and FC SAN confiuration

·   OCI platform monitoring and report generation

·   NetApp 2000, 3000 and 6000 series

·   NetApp V series heterogeneous platforms

·   NetApp Operations Manager

·   NetApp Private Storage (NPS)

·   NetApp CloudManager

·   NetApp Cloud OnTap

·   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

·   EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Cloudformation, ELB, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, Glacier

·   iSCSI and FC switch configuration and monitoring

·   NetApp OnCommand Insight

 

Contracted to the DOJ, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in Washington, DC. I supported the entire enterprise LAN/WAN.  Responsibilities included NAS and SAN Storage platform operations and support.  This included capacity, performance and technology requirements planning, server and SAN builds, configuration, testing and deployment of servers and NAS/SAN Storage and Data Protection systems using leading-edge snapshot, nearline storage backup and data mirroring technologies.  Exposure to various storage vendor technologies, including NetApp FAS 2000, 3000 and 6000 series, as well as Brocade and Cisco IP and SAN switch configurations, OnCommand System Manager.  These NAS/SAN platforms were used to host, protect, and mirror classified, sensitive mission-critical data to remote COOP site locations using snapmirror and mirrorview technologies.

Contracted to the U. S. Department of State Headquarters in Washington DC. I performed hands on support for the Command and Control messaging systems for all international and domestic US Embassies and Annexes.  Key role in architecting a new Command and Control messaging system that included the design and building of a 100-plus SQL server farm hosted by 4 180TB NetApp iSCSI SANS providing both local and COOP site production operations.  Responsible for building the new SAN platform to include capacity planning, LUN mapping, networking as well as configuration management and deployment.  The system design featured MSCS clustering of Exchange servers for High Availability on the front end as well as SAN snapshot backup technology within the Microsoft VSS framework, and full data mirroring and D/R solution at the remote COOP site.

Contracted to the U. S. Department of State Headquarters in Washington DC’s Network Control Center,  supported all Classified and Unclassified Email Communications as well as Command and Control messaging for all international and domestic US Embassies and Annexes, utilizing communications equipment, Firewall Security systems, Cisco Router networking systems, and 100+ W2K / E2K (Exchange 2000/2003) -based backbone, message-routing servers.  I designed, analyzed, configured, tested, installed, deployed, and integrated electronic messaging systems platforms and Storage and D/R platforms in the state-of-the-art communications/control center.  The platforms included W2K3 (Active Directory) / W2K / E2K3 / E2K / E5.5 Windows and Exchange database systems which comprised the hub for an 87,000+ user worldwide network.  I was also responsible for, and performed the following:

·   Design and construction of a 9000+ user W2K/Exchange 5.5 user messaging/NetApp NAS storage system.  Included a multi-domained and multi-server Exchange Site comprised of 30+ MS Exchange mailbox servers.  Responsible for designing, developing, testing and implementing a complete data storage/backup and disaster recovery NAS for this NT / Exchange messaging system, including local site Disaster Recovery (D/R), Data mirroring and D/R to a remote COOP site.

·   Design and construction of an 8TB NetApp iSCSI SAN solution.  Included hardware setup of storage devices, fiber channel cabling, Cisco Router gigE configuration, RAID configuration, kernel and OS configuration.  Installation and configuration of all SAN software to include local data backup/archiving, offsite data mirroring and local and offsite D/R.  The SAN was configured to provide local site data protection using block-mode database snapshot backup technology, offsite backend database mirroring, disaster recovery contingency planning, and local and offsite data backup/archival/retrieval systems.

·   Migration of the 9000 user MS Exchange 5.5 Site NAS to this new MS Exchange 2003 SAN solution.

·   Built, configured, and deployed an enterprise Tape Backup platform using a 130 terabyte robotic tape library deployed to perform daily backups of the 100+ Windows and Exchange messaging backbone server environment.

·   Performing overall project analysis and implementation of a large migration effort to transition the Dept’s entire unclassified email System from a “multi-platform” messaging environment - including Wang Office, CC:Mail, MS Mail - to a “single-platform” messaging environment of native Microsoft Exchange 2003 only.

 

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Bachelor of Science, State University of New York at Oneonta

·   NetApp NCDA

·   NetApp NASAP

·   AWS Certified Solutions Architect

·   ITIL Foundation V3

·   VMWARE-VTSP

·   Windows  Active Directory

·   Microsoft Exchange

·   MS Office 2010/13

·   Storage Networking Certification Program

·   IBM WebSphere SOA Fundamentals

·   IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

·   MS Access 2010 Advanced