Senior Storage Engineer at CDI
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Senior Storage Engineer at CDI
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
To work in a large Enterprise class storage environment utilizing my skills and background in helping clients achieve their goals. Looking for a position with heavy travel.
NAS storage with NetApp and EMC, SAN storage with EMC, SAN switches with McData and Cisco, Microsoft and Unix system administration.
(Public Company; CDI; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
Storage Engineer Contracting with IBM Global Services on the Hartford Account.
(Public Company; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 10 months)
Tenet Health Care Account - Research and Development
• Architect and test new products and ideas for Tenet.
• Tested Storage X from NetApp.
• Tested Acopia (F5) and Brocade FME for file level storage virtualization.
• Tested and deployed Kazeon from NetApp.
• Supported 20 NetApp filers, FAS3000 and FAS6000 Series (800+ TB)
• Supported SnapVault and SnapMirror relationships.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 3 months)
Leveraged Storage Team - Wolters Kluwer (WK) Account
• Implement and support two EMC CNS-14 Celerra servers to consolidate and migrate WK date.
• Implement and support a SRDF Farcopy configuration between Plano, TX and Woonsocket, RI.
• Implement and support NS502G and NS702G Celerra servers to seven remote sites.
• Implement and support Celerra replicator from remote sites to Plano, TX.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Enterprise Storage:
• Moved with the NAS servers into Lights On with the Enterprise Storage team (Lights On includes keeping systems running by regular patches, upgrades and maintenance.)
• Continue migrating out of lease File Servers to NAS
• Implemented NAS Clustering on NAS to maintain high availability for clients
• Implemented iSCSI on NAS to run SQL servers on NAS storage
• Implemented NDMP on NAS to get better backups with 90 Terabytes of data on eight NAS servers
• Working with XCalibur application team to migrate out of lease application servers to NAS using iSCSI
• Implemented system management and monitoring using Data Fabric Manager, What’s Up and Tivoli, along with Network Appliance auto-support
• Help UNIX Engineers with NFS for storage on NAS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXU; Utilities industry)
February 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 6 months)
XCalibur Project
• Assigned to XCalibur Team to consolidate File Server onto Network Appliance NAS servers
• Find data owners for all share points and migrate to NAS with little to no impact on clients
• Separate data by SB7 business units (Energy, Business Services and Utility)
• Write new procedures for storage allocation at TXU
• Migrate all Lotus Notes databases from DAS to NAS in a Disaster Recovery model
• Implement NFS for UNIX File Servers
Retail Server Team:
• Primary Lights On support for 28 Microsoft NT\W2K servers in five major applications
• Backup Lights On support for 40 NT/W2K servers in four major applications
• Working with application development as team to keep application running for the clients
• Responsible for Systems Management and Monitoring for the entire Retail Server Team using tools like What’s Up, ER Disk, Compaq Insight Manager and IBM Director to keep all systems running
• Asset Management for budget purposes
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 6 months)
TXU Senate Bill 7 Project:
• Assigned technical lead for a two-part domain consolidation project to meet the Texas Senate Bill 7 law
• Designed new NT Network Infrastructure for WINS, DNS and DHCP
• Migrated and consolidated sixteen domains, 18,000 users and 2,000 NT groups into one logon domain
• Locked down data required by law so that the Competitive side of the company cannot see the regulated side of the company
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — September 2000 (10 months)
TXU:
• Assigned to work with the internal Distributed Platforms Corporate (DPC) department, building and maintaining over four hundred NT servers throughout the State of Texas
• Assigned as the primary Engineer over twenty-plus servers in the Fossil Domain and fifty-plus database servers in the TU-MAIN Domain
• Completed a project building two separate labs for testing hardware and applications before going into the production environment
• Installed over thirty new servers (NT, Terminal Server/MetaFrame and 2000)
• Tested and implemented Windows 2000 Server/Advanced into production
• Instructed TXU staff on how to build and maintain Windows 2000 Servers
• Helped deploy Windows 2000 Professional/Server on DPC staff computers
• Tested and implemented Norton Anti-Virus 7.02 Corporate Edition
• Tested and implemented IBM Netfinity Director 2.12
• Helped in conversion process from PcAnyWhere 9.2 to Timbuktu 2000 Pro
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — December 1999 (8 months)
Dallas Cowboys:
• One of two Engineers assigned to rebuild the Cowboys entire computer network from the ground up
• Transitioned the old setup of one Novell server and one NT server (both non-fault tolerant and multiple network protocols) into an up-to-date Enterprise Network.
• Installed four new servers (PDC, File Server, SQL and IIS/Proxy)
• Migrated duplicated and unorganized user data files off of old servers
• Implemented a pure TCP/IP network (removed NetBEUI, IPX and Apple Talk)
• Implemented Microsoft NT DHCP, WINS and DNS
• Implemented enterprise backup solution with Veritas backup exec. (Seagate)
• Implemented enterprise virus solution with McAfee
• Converted old storage room into state-of-the-art server room
• Migrated from Microsoft Mail to Microsoft Exchange
• Implemented remote dial-up solution with Shiva
• Reconfigured and cleaned up all microcomputers (Windows 98)
• Analyzed, recommended, quoted and purchased all network-related systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACS; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — May 1999 (3 years 5 months)
• Team leader for LAN services, including 15 workstation technicians and LAN administrators.
• Served on the team that recommended and implemented Y2K fixes for LAN Services at local and remote sites. Constructed anti-virus solution. Served on the team that migrated Novell 3.12 to the Novell 4.11 network for over 1500 users.
• Administered 44 Microsoft NT Servers and 6 Citrix Servers
• Administered 31 Novell Servers
(Education Management industry)
February 1995 — January 1996 (1 year )
• Ran IT department for software training company
• Eight training centers nation wide
(Computer Hardware industry)
August 1993 — February 1995 (1 year 7 months)
• Built Intel desktop computer for DSC
• Built custom computers for the military
Bachelors of Arts , Computer Science , 1989 — 1993
Computer Science 1988 — 1989