Skills, Experience, Certifications

OVERALL SUMMARY
  • Solutions driven Systems, Virtualization, and Storage Architect with expertise in backup & DR.
  • Broad-based, multi-vendor background, experience, and certifications, complementary skill set.
  • Experience includes work throughout the channel - manufacturers, distributors, and resellers.
  • Designs comprehensive, balanced, complete solutions that maximize value and performance.
  • Pre-sales design work and customer requirements gathering, post-sales services where needed.
  • Administration, setup, scripting, and install experience for UNIX, Linux, VMware, and Windows.
  • Projects include storage assessments and deployment; data consolidation and migrations; complex backup/restore issues; HA/DR clusters and assessments; server consolidation (VMware, Hyper-V, native OS zones, partitions, or similar facilities)
  • Effective communicator, ensuring client satisfaction through accurate requirement gathering, in-depth design work, training and mentoring customer IT staff, and end-to-end project support.
  • Flexible and adaptive, quickly learning new skills, products, technologies and technical details.
  • Many current and former certifications held on multiple server, storage, and software products from top-tier vendors, including VMware, Netapp, HP, SUN, EMC, STK, Symantec, Brocade, as well as a vendor-neutral SNIA SAN Architect certification.
AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

HARDWARE:

  • Sun Enterprise servers, workstations, blades; x86 (AMD and Intel) product family
  • HP 9000 & Integrity (UNIX), Proliant family, BladeSystem
  • Sun STK Storage lines: 3000, 6000, 7000, 99xx, USP
  • HP XP and EVA arrays, tape libraries, and optical product lines
  • EMC SYMM/DMX, Clariion, Celerra, Centera
  • NetApp NAS filer lines (FAS & Nearstore) and Data ONTAP
  • StorageTek, HP & Quantum tape libraries
  • HDS storage arrays (WMS, AMS, USP)
  • DR, SAN and NAS equipment (various)

SOFTWARE:

  • Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10, Admin & Networking
  • HP-UX 11.x, HP-UX 10.20, JFS (VxFS)
  • VMware 2.5 & VI3 ESX, VC, VCB, VMware Assessments
  • Windows and Hyper-V familiarity
  • Linux - RH and SUSE plus related variants
  • EMC Navisphere, Timefinder, ECC, SYM-CLI (enabler)
  • Netapp Data Ontap, Snapmanager, Snapmirror, Snapvault, OSSV
  • Symantec Enterprise Vault (formerly KVS)
  • Symantec Storage Foundation, including VCS, GCO, VVR
  • Symantec Netbackup, Puredisk, Backup Exec & BESR
  • Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
  • HP MC/Serviceguard HA clustering SW
  • HP OV Operations, Network Node Manager

NETWORKING and CONNECTIVITY:

  • Ethernet (all variants), TCP/IP, IPv6
  • DNS, NIS/NIS+, NFS, CIFS/Samba
  • SNMP & RMON reporting and monitoring
  • Network and enterprise backup, NDMP
  • Juniper WAN accelerators & secure access
  • Symantec NAC and SSIM familiarity
  • SNIA Fibre Channel Architect
  • Brocade, Cisco MDS & Qlogic SAN design/operation
  • IP/WAN replication devices & practices
  • iSCSI IP SAN design and optimization

OTHER AREAS:

  • Mentoring and OJT for junior engineers
  • Server consolidation best practices (VMware, Hyper-V, Solaris zones, XEN, etc)
  • Solution architecting and customer education, to balance all aspects of the environment and eliminate bottlenecks
  • Storage migration, consolidation, replication, thin provisioning, storage tiering
  • VTL best practices, including data de-duplication and replication for HA and DR
  • Operations automation (do more with less)
  • Capacity analysis and planning for systems, storage, and bandwidth
  • Growth & Trend monitoring and analysis
  • System, storage, application, and network monitoring and alerting
EDUCATION
  • Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
  • Associate in Applied Science, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ. Majored in Electronic Engineering Technology.