Resume

Anastasios Papadopoulos (Tas)

Storage Architect

 

OBJECTIVE

My goal is to remain on the technical track in IS/IT Storage operations, integration and management, in a team leadership position.  In addition to Storage, I have working knowledge of Vmware, Windows, Unix, and look forward to becoming involved in Cloud Operations.  One of my goals to to learn PowerShell and Python to augment my Bash/CMD skillset.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Storage Architect - Team Lead

July 2004 - present

Discovery Communications, LLC | Silver Spring, MD

Broadcasting, Music, and Film

 

In the time at DCL, provided 99.9 unscheduled uptime, about 10 hours, and 99.7% scheduled uptime, 26 hours, for maintenance and upgrades, with 0% data loss.

 

Storage Operations, migrated from 100Mpbs Brocade SANs, DEC/COMPAQ DASD/FCP storage to NetApp and HP/Hitachi Lighting arrays. Over time retired HP/Hitachis' moved to 200 then 400Mbps Brocade SAN switches, and retired SAN in favor of NFS/SMB and iSCSI.

 

Utilized HP/Brocade San Management tools to zone and monitor SAN. Used NetApp server tools such as DFM/OCUM. Sent SNMP traps to Solarwinds facilities, and logs to Splunk for tertiary management. Primary management via vendor tools.
Used ancillary server storage tools to provision and de-provision storage, create snapshots, and kick off replica updates as required on server platforms without ancillary host tools. Used BASH to create hundreds of scripts based reports, and multi-host, multi-array, backup, cloning and presentation of databases to those hosts.
In process of self learning and architecting NetApp Clustered Data OnTap infrastructure, Standards and SOPs, learning PowerShell, and Storage Automation Work flows.
Investigating and (proponent) of VMware vVols. snapshots, SRM/SRA, snapmirrors/array replication.
Early investigation of cloud based technologies, such as Glacier, AWS, Azure.

 

Data OnTAP (7DOT), (ksh/sh/bash), cmd scripts, DFM/OCUM, Performance Manager, DR/Business Continuance, DFM/OCUM reporting and capacity planning, Inter-server file semaphore communications, NetApp SnapManager, NetApp SnapMirrors, MS Windows, Linux, VMware vCenter.

 

Storage Engineer III - Storage and Backups

March 2000 - April 2004

Digex, Inc. (MCI) | Laurel MD

 

Designed, documented and supported solutions in the following areas:
• Backups to tape and disc
• Storage products for clustered and non clustered systems
• DAS/SAN/NAS storage solutions
• High Availability storage systems
• Applications
Managed first of a kind project installations
Monitored and provided secondary level support
Worked with the following platforms and products:
• Windows Servers (all versions)
• MS Exchange
• MS SQL Server
• SPARC Solaris
• RedHat Linux
• HP StorageWorks
• Network Appliance (NetApp) Filers
• Clariion Storage (EMC)
• NetIQ Application Manager
• IIS, Apache, etc.
• IBM WebSphere/IHS

 

Project Manager LAN's

July 1999 - February 2000

Onsite Support, Incorporated | Baltimore MD

 

Supported, mostly legal clientele via telephone and onsite. Managed the installation project tasks for LAN/WAN’s with various flavors of NetWare and NetWare SB products, and MS NT 4.0 and NT 4.0 SBS. Used modular routers and firewall products from Lucent and FlowPoint, as well as analog modems to provide Internet Connectivity. Worked extensively with GroupWise and Exchange, and upgraded several sites through different versions of these products. Used GroupWise extensively for Document Management and indexing tasks, and PC-Docs to a lesser extent. Setup proofing MS IIS/Index server to take over document management indexing task. Worked with legal staffs to install several vertical market packages on networks. Was in process of setting up private network with vpn links and UniCenter management through NT and Linux.

 

Senior Network Engineer

June 1992 - April 1999

COMPUS Services Corporation | Rockville MD

 

Supported clients in solving their networking challenges, particularly those using Microsoft, Novell, IBM, COMPAQ, and Hewlett Packard systems and software as well as Messaging Systems. As a senior engineer, supported networks at several Fortune 1000 firms, associations, and institutes in the mid-Atlantic area. Major platforms supported include Novell NetWare, Microsoft NT, Unix, IBM-AIX and HP-UX, with PC based workstations.
 

·  Major Accomplishments include:

·  Pilot Migration project for HUD, NetWare 3.2 to NetWare 4/5 with NDS Directory services for the entire HUD national intranet made up of NetWare, Microsoft NT, and Unix servers.

·  Researched and wrote Rollout Procedures for UniCenter/TNG Response Manager Probes

·  Diagnosed major unaccountable network problems due to router/backbone segment saturation

·  Installed and tested various intra-networking components based on NT and NetWare technologies to support web sites, IP Services, Hubs/Switches/Routers and Firewalls.

·  Implemented Emergency backup at major DC area utility following failure of internal structure in backing up systems for over six months.

·  Assisted in planning the Migration from NetWare 3.x to 5.x. Utilized ArcServe COPY to migrate data quickly from the 3.x to the 5.0 servers.

·  Wrote Systems and Procedural documentation at Bell Atlantic in support of project to downsize and distribute accounting systems onto an HP-9000 platform using failsafe EMC2 based subsystems and ORACLE databases.

·  Wrote Systems and Operations procedures and operational documentation at MetroCall Paging.
Wrote DRS procedures

·  Supported just over 1500 users as a senior member of the Network Support team at the National Cancer Institute’s campus, at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda Md. Responsibilities included overseeing the daily operation of the system and staff, consulting, and system architectural and operational changes to better support the site. The team provided primary user support to the scientists and researchers working at the NCI campus and Hospital. In addition to other tasks, I provided support to the backbone routers, secondary and tertiary level support to other technicians and engineers and primary support to vip’s.

·  Consulted and sub-contracted with CSC-Intelicom and the Puerto Rico Telephone Company in the design, procurement, installation and training of the Force Management System. Job orders and inventories are issued and received by small hand-held devices attaching to local terminal servers by modem. The network is based at Telefonica headquarters in San Juan, with dual IBM RS-6000’s running in client server mode. An Informix database on the back end supports custom CSC front-end software. Over 40 remote sites have been equipped with terminals and printers. A Wide area Network was built to connect the three main sites in Puerto Rico, San Juan, and Denver Colorado (CSC-Intelicom)

·  Install and support of clustered NetWare.

 

System Management Engineer

January 1991 - June 1992

MICROAGE | Gaithersburg MD

 

Supported networks of varied sizes. Primary duties included pre-sales consultation, system design, installation, systems administration, software updates, software installs, and technology planning, as well as phone and onsite suppor

 

Project Manager-Downsizing and LANs

January 1990 - December 1990

Republican National Committee | Washington DC

 

Downsized front office and back-end operations from Digital (VAX) minis to LANs

 

Varied

June 1977 - December 1989

Alexander & Alexander, Incorporated | Owings Mills MD (AON Inc.)

 

Senior Micro Computer LAN Specialist
Micro Computer Technician
Senior Production Support Specialist
Junior Computer Operator to Senior Computer Operator

EDUCATION

Vocational,

May 1977

Eastern Voc-Tech | Baltimore, Maryland

Data Processing Operations

 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Honeywell mainframe Operations, systems programming, Honeywell DPS-6 mini, HP-3000 (MPE) Operations and systems, production support, including light COBOL troubleshooting, JCL/Batch. Micro based networking, LANMAN, NetWare, MS-Windows, NetApp.
Enterprise storage management and architecture, including FC-SAN, migration to ISCSI and NFS/SMB. Use of AD and SMB on Unix. Bash scripting for storage and storage application management.
Moving to PowerShell, Clustered DataOntap (NetApp).