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Summary              An Engineering Professional that has supported Federal, Commercial Enterprise Organizations, Financial Institutions and aggressive Startup Companies. Ability to operate in a dynamic environment with frequently changing priorities. A hands-on technical expert with experience managing engineering teams including architecture and deployment of storage solutions in heterogeneous Enterprise Data Centers and R&D Labs. Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions. Successful delivery of projects with demanding objectives and aggressive deadlines. Exceptional project management and effective written & verbal communication skills.

 

 

 

Architecture & Leadership Skills

 

Ø       Ability to “think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype.

Ø       Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.

Ø       Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders.

Ø       Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to take principled bets on new technology

Ø       Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements

 

 

Engineering Technical Skills

 

Ø       Storage Arrays: Hitachi VSP, Hitachi USP-V, Hitachi, SUN SE9990, Hitachi AMS2500, Hitachi AMS2300, Hitachi  Lightning 9910, NetApp V3140, V3240, V3270, FAS3020, FAS3050, R200, 960C, EMC DMX4, DMX3, DMX 1000, DMX 800, Symmetrix  3630, CLARiiON 700, 600, 500 & 4700 series, EMC CENTERA, EMC CELERRA, IBM XIV, IBM N5300, IBM ESS J20 Shark, IBM DS6800, IBM FastT 600, LSI E5600, LSI E4600, LSI E2600, StorageTek 6540, StorageTek B280 & D240 FC Arrays.

Ø       Fiber Channel:  Brocade DCX Enterprise Backbone,  Brocade 48000 Directors, Brocade 5300 SAN Edge Switches, Brocade Silkworm 3800/3200 Edge Switches, McData ED140, ED64 Directors & DS32 Edge Switches, CISCO MDS 9509/9506 Directors, CISCO MDS 9216, CISCO MDS 9120 & 9140 Edge Switches, IBM Blade Center Fiber Channel Modules, Emulex and QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs.

Ø       SAN Management Tools: Hitachi Command Suite v7.2.1, Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular-2, Hitachi Tuning Manager v7.2.1-00, Hitachi Hi-Command, Hitachi Device Manager, NetApp Data ONTAP v8.x, NetApp OnCommand System Manager 2.x, NetApp SnapDrive v6.x, EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), EMC Navisphere, EMC CENTERA Viewer, EMC Performance Manager, EMC Replication Manager, EMC Storage Scope, EMC SnapView, EMC MirriorView, EMC SANCopy, DMX SRDF, EMC SymCli, EMC Solutions Enabler, EMC PowerPath, EMC Symmwin, EMC SymmRemote, EMC Connectrix Manager, CISCO Fabric Manager, CISCO Device Manager, Brocade SAN Network Advisor v11.x, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager v10.x , LSI SANTricity, IBM FAStT Storage Manager, IBM XIV Storage Management, IBM Enterprise Storage Manager v2.4.4.

Ø       Virtualization & Operating Systems:  VMware vCenter v5.0, vSphere Hypervisor, ESXi v4.1, Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Windows 7, Windows XP Professional, UNIX, SOLARIS v10, AIX v5.3, RedHat v4, LINUX, CentOS v5.x, Ubuntu v11.x.

Ø       Database & Backup:  IBM DB2, Oracle RAC 11g, Microsoft SQL 2000 & 2005, EMC Legato Networker w/Disk Backup Option (DBO), VERITAS Netbackup, StorageTek L180 & L1400 Tape Libraries.

Ø       Networking Hardware, Protocols & Tools:  TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, SMTPS, POP3, FTP, DNS, DHCP, IMAP, SSL, VPN, WEP, WPA2-PSK, AES, FCoE, FCIP, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, SolarWinds, VisualRoute, Sniffer Pro diagnostic utilities, CISCO, Ascend, Nortel, NetGear, LinkSys, Apple, BayNetworks, Switches & Hubs, Fiber Optic & Copper Cabling, Routers, 802.11bgn Wireless.

Ø       Security:  Best Practices methodology & tools, DoD NISPOM Chapter 8 Information System Security Procedures, PGP Encryption, Configuration & Administration of CISCO PIX, Juniper, Netscreen, and Checkpoint, Firewalls.

Ø       Email:  Microsoft Exchange 2000 & 2003, Outlook Clients.

Ø       Virus Detection Tools:  Symantec Endpoint Protection, McAfee Virus Scan Active Defense, Trend Micro InterScan.

 

 

 

 

 

Project Delivery

 

ü       2012 / Present - Company Confidential:  Performed a comprehensive assessment of existing Enterprise SAN & NAS Storage Environment.  Delivered an architectural redesign of existing legacy SAN Environment with defined standards and best practices for storage operations.

ü       2011 / 2012 - Company Confidential:  Lead Engineer for Hitachi USP-V to Hitachi VSP Storage Arrays and Brocade 48k to Brocade DCX Fiber Channel migrations.  Hitachi AMS2500 Implementation & Configuration, IBM Blade Center Brocade Fibre Channel Module Implementation & Configuration.

ü       2009 / 2011 - Company Confidential: Combat Information Transport System (CITS) AFNet Inc I Program Architecture & deployment of strategic systems (Specific details regarding this project cannot be disclosed due to DoD classified security requirements.).

ü       2005 / 2009 - Company Confidential: Installation and configuration of Hitachi USP/SUN SE9990, EMC DMX3, DMX 4, DMX 1000, CLARiiON CX700, IBM DS6800 Storage Arrays. Brocade 48000 & 4900, CISCO MDS 9509, McData ED140 Directors, McData ED32 Switches for Open Systems multi-project deliverables.

ü       2004 / 2005 - Company Confidential:  Implementation of two CLARiiON CX700 Arrays and migration of 5TB of production data of two CLARiiON FC4700 using EMC SANCOPY & EMC Data Relocation Utility (DRU).

ü       1996 / 2002 - Company Confidential:  Developed High Performance Scalable LINUX Computational Cluster for Symmetrix microcode builds. Implementation of this hardware replaced an existing 40-node UNIX cluster running LSF.  The LINUX/MOSIX Cluster deployment resulted in code compilation build time reductions from 6 Hrs to less than 20 minutes.  Although the Hardware and software savings for this project exceeded $1.2 M.  Successful delivery of this project yielded significant decreases in R&D costs and rapid Time-To-Market product delivery of products and services.

 

 

Employment History

 

2012 – Present              Company Confidential

 

Infrastructure Architect – Storage

Ø       Aligned IT strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives.

 

Ø       Partnered with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.

 

Ø       Partnered with other solution architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution.

 

Ø       Delivered a comprehensive assessment of existing Enterprise SAN & NAS Storage Environment.

 

Ø       Developed a strategic roadmap and architectural redesign of existing legacy Storage Area Network (SAN) environment.

 

Ø       Socialized strategic roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs.

 

Ø       Developed clearly defined standards, best practices for storage operations and Build Engineering.

 

 

 

2011 –2012              Company Confidential

 

Principal Storage Engineer

Ø       Delivered Storage Area Network (SAN) Engineering Architecture & Design for Hitachi Storage Array and Brocade Fiber Channel switch implementation.

 

Ø       Daily SAN Device Management, Storage Allocations, Fiber Channel Zoning for (3) Enterprise Data Centers.

 

Ø       Lead Engineer for Hitachi USP-V to Hitachi VSP and Brocade 48k to Brocade DCX Fiber Channel migrations.

 

Ø       Storage Arrays:  Hitachi VSP, Hitachi USP-V, Hitachi, SUN SE9990, Hitachi AMS2500, Hitachi AMS2300, StorageTek 6540 Arrays, NetApp V3240, NetApp V3270, IBM N5300/5200.

Ø       SAN Management Tools: Hitachi Command Suite v7.2.1, Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular-2, Hitachi Tuning Manager v7.2.1-00, NetApp Data ONTAP v8.x, NetApp OnCommand System Manager 2.x, Brocade SAN Network Advisor v11.x, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager v10.x , IBM XIV Storage Management v2.4.4.

Ø       Virtualization & Operating Systems Support:  VMware vCenter v5.0, vSphere Hypervisor, ESXi v4.1, Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, SOLARIS v10, AIX v5.3, RedHat LINUX.

 

 

Employment History  (Continued)

 

2009 – 2011              Company Confidential

 

Sr. Principal Engineer / Architect    (Clearance:  Top Secret)

Ø       CITS AFNet Inc 1, Storage Architect that delivered expert level engineering design, evaluation, planning, testing and operation of highly complex computer components, equipment and systems for strategic military deployment.

 

Ø       SAN/NAS Storage Architecture, development of systems engineering & integration practices and methods including, systems concept of operations definition, requirements definition, design reviews, peer reviews, baseline control, performance analysis, and timeline analysis of resource allocation for systems deployment.

 

Ø       Proposal team Subject Matter Expert (SME) Storage Architecture translation of customer RFP requirements into systems integration specifications.

 

Ø       Developed Time Compliant Technical Orders (TCTO), Field Change Orders (FCO), Checklists (CL), Statement of Work (SOW) documentation.

 

Ø       Storage:  NetApp V3140, FAS3020, FAS3050, R200, Data ONTAP v7.3.4. SnapDrive v6.x, CISCO MDS FC Edge Switches, Emulex Fiber Channel HBAs, CISCO Fabric Manager, CISCO Device Manager.

 

Ø       OS & Application Support:  Windows 2003, Linux, VMWare ESXi 4.0, ArcSight, NIKSUN, SQL 2005, MS Exchange 2003.

 

 

 

2005 –2009              Company Confidential

 

Senior SAN Engineer

Ø       Open Systems Enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) Architecture design from concept to implementation.  Project execution of storage resource deliverables.  Storage Resource Management, Provisioning, Zonning, Masking, SRDF, Replication, Disaster Recovery and Capacity Planning of an Enterprise SAN/NAS/CAS production environment.  Technology review and evaluation of evolving storage products to include SAN, NAS, CAS and Fiber channel.

 

Ø       Storage Arrays:  EMC DMX4, DMX3, DMX 1000, CLARiiON 700, EMC CENTERA, EMC CELERRA, Hitachi USP, SUN SE9990, IBM DS6800, NetApp 960C.

 

Ø       Fiber Channel:  Brocade 48k Directors, McData ED140, ED64 Directors & DS32 Edge Switches, CISCO MDS 9509 Directors, Emulex and QLogic Fiber Channel HBA’s.

 

Ø       Tools:  EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), EMC Navisphere, EMC CENTERA Viewer, EMC Performance Manager, EMC Replication Manager, EMC Storage Scope, EMC SnapView, EMC MirriorView, EMC SANCopy, DMX SRDF, EMC SymCli, EMC Solutions Enabler, EMC PowerPath, EMC Symmwin, EMC SymmRemote, EMC Connectrix Manager, EMC, CISCO Fabric Manager, CISCO Device Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager, Hitachi Hi-Command, Hitachi Device Manager, IBM Enterprise Storage Manager.

 

 

 

2004 – 2005              Company Confidential

 

Lab Manager / Storage Engineer

Ø       Management and support of two R&D Labs including daily configuration of a heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN) and Server environment.

 

Ø       Storage Arrays:  EMC Symmetrix 3630, DMX 800/801, CLARiiON, Hitachi 9910, IBM FastT 600, IBM ESS Shark, LSI E5600, E4600, E2600, StorageTek B280 & D240.

 

Ø       Fiber Channel:  Brocade Silkworm 3800 & 3200, CISCO MDS 9506 w/SSM, MDS 9216 & MDS 9120, EMC McData DS32 Switches & ED64 Directors, APCON Fibre Patch Panel, Emulex, Qlogic and JNI Fibre Channel HBA’s.

 

Ø       Management Tools:  EMC Control Center (ECC), Navisphere, EMC Analyzer, EMC Storage Scope, EMC SnapView, EMC MirriorView, EMC PowerPath, Symmetrix SRDF, Anatmain, Symmwin, SymmRemote, HDS Hi-Command, LSI SANTricity, IBM FAStT Storage Manager, IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server Specialist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employment History (Continued)

 

2003 – 2004              Company Confidential

 

Storage Engineer (Contract)

Ø       Management of Enterprise SAN consisting of EMC CLARiiON FC4700, CX600 & CX700 Storage arrays.  Fibre Channel Zoning of Connetrix, McData DS32 Switches & McData ED64 Directors.  SAN Management Tools: EMC Control Center (ECC), Navisphere, Analyzer, Storage Scope, and SanCopy Connetrix Manager.  HOST to SAN connectivity configuration of Emulex & Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA’s and EMC PowerPath, NAVI & ECC Agents.

 

Ø       Verification of existing SAN implementation. Developed and documented procedures defining best practices of Storage Allocation, Hardware Configurations, Security and Disaster Recovery methodologies.

 

Ø       Installation and data migration of two production CLARiiON CX700 Arrays.

 

Ø       Implementation of backup to Serial ATA storage using Veritas Netbackup and EMC CLARiiON CX700 ATA for onsite rapid restores

 

 

 

 

2002 – 2003              Company Confidential

 

Director of Information Technology (Technical Hands-On)

Ø       Managed Corporate IT Services: INFOSEC, SERVER, DESKTOP, TELECOM services and provided Hands-On 24 x 7 administration, configuration and support for Windows 2000 Advanced server & workstation, Windows XP Professional, Active Directory Services, IIS, Exchange 2000, LINUX / UNIX Servers & Workstations, Network Layer 2 Topology, Switches, Hubs, fiber and copper cabling, VERITAS Backup Exec, Netscreen/Juniper Firewall & VPN Secure Access.

 

Ø       Negotiated price, service levels and purchases of hardware and software and initiate contractual agreements with Hardware & Software service providers.

 

Ø       Quality Analysis of “Instant I/O™” a high performance intelligent caching storage controller designed to improve the overall performance of servers, workstations and high-end PCs. 

 

Ø       The QA test-bed was designed for maximum flexibility using image technology for Windows (GHOST) & LINUX (KickStart) Operating Systems,

 

Ø       Performance testing of MS Exchange, MS SQL Server, NFS, using industry standard analysis tools such as MS Server Appliance Kit (SAK), SpecFS, Bonnie, WinBench, MS Exchange Load Generator (Loadsim).

 

 

 

 

1996 – 2002              Company Confidential

 

Strategy Planning & Design Engineer/Team Lead

Ø       Analysis, evaluation and deployment of cutting edge developments in technology for EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON host integration to support all OS platforms.

 

Ø       Team lead for Server, Workstation, Laptop and Hand Held evaluation of products from leading hardware & software manufactures (i.e., Adaptec, APC, Compaq, Dell, Emulex, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Plextor, Sony, Toshiba, etc.).

 

Ø       Negotiated price, service levels of hardware and software agreements with Value Added Resellers. Negotiations of equipment and software for YR2001 resulted in >$55M in cost savings.

 

Ø       Reduced R&D costs (1.8M) by proactively identifying, reassigning and redeploying unused equipment within Engineering R&D labs.

 

 

 

 

 

Employment History (Continued)

 

1999 – 2001              Company Confidential

 

              Engineering Lab Support Team Lead

 

Ø       Developed and Managed a Lab Support Team dedicated to Symmetrix Microcode Development, Host Integration, Regression and Quality Analysis.

Ø        The Lab Support Team provided 24 x 7 x 365 support for >4000 R&D servers and workstations throughout the Engineering lab environments.  The R&D labs consist of 32 variations of Operating Systems, Supporting Hardware & Software with Complex Configurations for Engineering Groups developing EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON SAN & NAS Solutions, CLARiiON & SYMMETRIX Microcode, SYMAPI, TimeFinder, SRDF-IP, EMC Control Center, EMC-Oracle-Loader, SYMM Enabler, WideSky and Enterprise Storage Management Solutions.

 

 

1996 –1999              Company Confidential

 

              Senior Systems Engineer

 

Ø       Provided dedicated 24 x 7 x 365 support for the Engineering Microcode Group Lab for SYMMETRIX development.

Ø       Built, deployed, upgraded and managed UNIX, SUN Solaris, MS NT4.0, Exchange 5.5, development Servers, McData FC switches and SYMMETRIX Service Processors running MS Windows NT4.0.

 

 

 

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

 

 

 

Additional Information

Ø       Sustaining Member - Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Ø       Open Systems (SYMMETRIX) Master Architect  – 1999, EMC Corporation 

Ø       Certified ITIL V3 Foundation

 

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