John Talafous

Senior Consulting Engineer – IBM Storage

Email: ac0hpy@r.postjobfree.com

Telephone: 330-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-talafous-3053482

John’s expertise is in IBM storage hardware and IBM storage management software. John is accomplished at data backup and recovery, data compression, data encryption, data replication, redundancy and failover. His work ethic and attention to detail contributes to his ability to consistently deliver quality results.

Representative Accomplishments

IBM Spectrum Protect dual site implementation. Assisted with design and implemented net new install of Spectrum Protect in two sites (primary and DR).

Installed Spectrum Protect Servers at each site.

Installed Operations Center.

Migrated clients from TSM 6.3 to Spectrum Protect 7.1.

Implemented Spectrum Protect data deduplication.

Implemented Spectrum Protect server to server communication using SSL.

Implemented Spectrum Protect node replication between sites.

IBM Storage Team Leadership. Lead a team of storage engineers in a staff augmentation environment for a period of six months.

Administered and maintained IBM DS8300, IBM XIV, IBM SVC, EMC Celerra and IBM TS3584

Administered and maintained Cisco MDS9513 SAN environment

Administered and maintained IBM TSM, IBM TPC and IBM GMAS

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Dual site implementation. Implemented a migration from TSM 5.5 to TSM 6.3.

Installed TSM 6.3 in a Microsoft Clustering environment

Used EMC VPLEX to implement site failover

Implemented EMC Data Domain as TSM Storage

Implemented IBM TS3310

IBM Spectrum Virtualize upgrade and expansion. Upgraded and expanded an IBM SVC environment.

Upgraded IBM SVC node hardware in a non-disruptive manner.

Upgraded IBM SVC node firmware

Added IBM V5000 storage subsystem to IBM SVC environment

Professional Skills

IBM Spectrum Protect and Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation and administration.

IBM Disk DS8000, V9000, V7000, V5000, SVC, XIV, DSxxxx and A9000R implementation and administration

IBM Tape TS4500, TS3500, TS3494, TS3310, TS3200 implementation and administration

Cisco and Brocade SAN switch implementation and migration.

EMC Clarion and Data Domain.

Certifications and Education

IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional – IBM Service Management Storage Management V4

IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2

IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Tivoli Storage Fastback V6.1.1

IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1

IBM Certified Deployment Professional – Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2

IBM Certified Specialist – Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback V5.4

SNIA Certified Storage Professional

BS, Computer Science, Akron University

Work Experience

2005 - Present, Senior Consulting Engineer, Enterprise Storage – CDW

Job responsibilities required expertise with IBM Storage hardware and IBM Storage Management software. Implementation, configuration and knowledge transfer in customer environments.

2004 – 2005, Tivoli Storage Specialist, National City Bank

Job responsibilities included IBM TSM Administration and Disaster Recovery

1973-2003, Information Systems Technical Principal, The Timken Company (retired)

Job responsibilities ranged from application programming to enterprise storage configuration and administration on IBM Mainframe and Windows environments.

1969-1973, Sergeant, USAF, Inertial Navigation and Doppler Radar technician.

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