Senior Storage SME (Subject Matter Expert) with excellent technical and communication skills. Robust knowledge of datacenter procedures and industry best practices providing a distinct ability to manage enterprise compute environments from architecture to implementation, from day-to-day maintenance/operations to outage support, and from security hardening to performance tuning. Insightful ability to provide timely and innovative solutions offers rapid recovery from crisis situations. Independently motivated to identify hardening advancements that provide an increasingly robust environment, thus increasing the certainty of business continuity. Specialized in SAN/NAS storage implementation, administration and capacity planning. Veteran at designing, implementing, administrating and upgrading backup strategies.
Storage and Capacity: |
SAN (EMC, IBM), NAS (EMC, NetApp), DAS, iSCSI, SAS, SCSI, Spindle management, Traffic management and routing, Data migration and centralization, Capacity planning and management |
Storage Area Networks: |
Brocade FOS, Cisco NX-OS, WWPN vs Port Zoning, Aliases, WWPN, ISLs, Trunking, ASICs, Long/Shortwave, SFP, Initiators, Targets, Fibre, FCOE, FC-AL/SW |
Backup and Restore: |
Symantec NetBackup, SSO, VTL, ACSLS, CDL, SnapMirror, NDMP |
Disaster Recovery: |
SOX Compliance Planning/Documentation/Testing, Business Impact Analysis |
Enterprise Datacenter: |
Application and Database(Oracle, SQL) Server Environments, Virtualization through VMware, Rack Consolidation through Blade Servers, Datacenter layout and design (Managing Power/Heat/Space) |
Security: |
ISS Scanner, Tripwire, Activity logging, Root lockout, Sudo, RSA SecurID, Password requirements and compliance verification |
System Administration: |
VeritasCS, SolarisCS, VxVM, ZFS, Solaris Zones, UFS, EXT2/3, NTFS, PHP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, NTP, LDAP, FTP, sed, tar, dump, Remedy, NIS, Active Directory, NFS, CIFS, SAMBA, CUPS, Jumpstart, Kickstart, FLEXlm, CA Unicenter, Nimbus, Patchlink |
Operating Systems: |
Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows 7/Server-2003-2008-2012, Mac OSX |
Programming/Scripting: |
Powershell, UNIX Shell scripting (bash, ksh, sh, csh, tcsh), Python, PERL |
Senior SAN SME for government transportation client in the Global Services environment.
Senior Storage Engineer for multiple clients in the Global Services environment.
Systems engineer of a worldwide, 1100+ node, Solaris/Linux/Windows/HP-UX/AIX, multiple location data center.
Systems engineer of a 500+ node, Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/Linux, multi-department state government data center.
Systems engineer of a 380+ node HP-UX/Solaris global business data center.
Systems engineer of a 600+ node Solaris embedded processor design data center.
Directly responsible for all information technology administration duties.
Responsible for incoming support calls for Apple Computer Inc.