Field Storage Consultant - Global Infrastructure Delivery Services at Dell
Toledo, Ohio Area
Field Storage Consultant - Global Infrastructure Delivery Services at Dell
Toledo, Ohio Area
EMC Proven Professional Implementation Engineer (EMCIE) - CLARiiON Solutions Specialist, EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect (EMCTA), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Dell Equallogic iSCSI Storage Arrays, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), CompTIA Network+ Certified Professional, Windows Server Admin and Support, Data Center Management, Server / Network Consolidation
(Public Company; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Working as a field storage consultant installing and maintaining SAN's for a variety of clients. Primarily focused on Dell|EMC CLARiiON, Dell EqualLogic, and Dell PowerVault storage solutions, Brocade, McData and Cisco fibre switches, fibre and iSCSI attached Dell servers, and PowerVault tape backup solutions.
Also serving as Backup Technical Team Lead for the Midwest region.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HCR; Hospital & Health Care industry)
August 2001 — July 2007 (6 years )
HCR Manor Care provides short-term post-acute medical care, rehabilitation, and long-term skilled nursing care. They have a large IT staff located in Toledo, OH that manages 500+ WAN connected facilities around the country.
Since joining HCR's IT staff in 2001, I've done many things including: Customer / Technical Support, Senior Analyst and Team Leader, Web Content Administrator, and Systems Engineer.
In the capacity of Systems Engineer, I managed and implemented a 13,000 mailbox conversion from Exchange Server 5.5 to 2000, implemented an Enterprise wide anti-spam solution, and currently manage and administer an EMC based storage area network (SAN) infrastructure that has now grown to around 50TB.
The storage environment I manage includes an EMC CLARiiON CX3-80, a Symmetrix 8530, three CX-500's, a CDL 700 (now called EDL), a Celerra NS600 NAS, and an ADIC Scalar I2K tape library. I also manage two McData ED-64M fibre directors and two McData 4700M fibre switches.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1997 — August 2001 (4 years 1 month)
Worked as a IT consultant for several small, medium and large clients. Installed network wiring and equipment, servers, desktop PC's & laptops. Supported hardware and software, and did some programming.
(Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1995 — August 1997 (1 year 11 months)
FoxPro Developer and provided PC/Server/Network Support services.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Sarcom is a consulting company that provides technology services and solutions to clients of various sizes and in many industries. While employed there, I was outsourced to Owens Corning in Toledo, OH as a consultant to help support the field sales organization. I provided hardware and software support services over the phone and via email for sales personal who mainly worked out of their homes or traveled on a regular basis. I often traveled to various regions to perform hardware/software upgrades or new application roll-outs and training.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
August 1993 — September 1994 (1 year 2 months)
Took a sabbatical into operations after getting seriously burned out at Hilgraeve. :-)
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1992 — August 1993 (1 year 2 months)
Worked as technical support rep covering phones, online BBS, Compuserve forums, and did internal network support.
(Partnership; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1991 — July 1992 (10 months)
Provided technical support over the phone and via email for FoxPro (DOS & Windows), FoxBase, FoxGraph and a few other misc products.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
January 1987 — January 1989 (2 years 1 month)
Worked in Deck Division as a Boatswain's Mate on the USS. Fulton AS-11 which was the 2nd oldest submarine tender in the Navy. Responsible for small boat operations, cargo handling, cable swaging, and preventative ships maintenance.
Associates , Applied Business w/Major in Computer Programming , 1989 — 1990
Deans List, Graduated with Honors
Diploma , 1982 — 1986
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