Theodore R. Pritchett IV

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Raleigh, NC 27617

Cell 917-***-****

Email:ac3fi6@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To secure a position in a dynamic organization as an Information Technology Professional utilizing specialized training and experience in (IT) computer hardware, software and maintenance with the incentive of working towards reaching companies goals and objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fujitsu America, Inc. (Volt) 06/2016 - Present

Raleigh, North Carolina

Sr. Storage Administrator

•Develop and maintain standards and procedures for storage systems and large OS and servers across a complex computing infrastructure.

•Work with Fujitsu personnel to coordinate the standards in their area so that they smoothly interface to other technologies and are fully supportable.

•Managed Blue Cross & Blue Shield VMware virtual Desktop infrastructure created user profiles along with creating writable volumes.

•Design and architected BNA multiple Brocade edge and core switches after designing and planning successful fabric migration from Cisco MDS in the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Datacenter.

•Review current hardware, software, product, test/certification, performance measurements, and configuration/management to ensure high quality of service for performance, availability, security and administration.

•Implementation of Horizon 7 integrated with VMware’s Software-Defined Data Center, which includes vSphere, vSAN and NSX along with data migration.

Hewlett Packard (HP) 07/2013 – 06/2016

Queens, New York

East Coast Region – Technical Storage Solution Engineer IV

New position as storage solution engineer supporting HP EVA’s and 3PAR technologies.

Full System Life Cycle including installation and configuration, patching, upgrading, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning of 3Par/HP EVA systems.

Maintain and administer FC SAN storage and associated upgrades/expansions.

Architect and lead implementation of various IT infrastructure initiatives off-hours and on weekends to accomplish infrastructure changes that cannot be performed during normal business hours.

Design and architected ALL FLASH 3Par array for optimum performance in a SAN/NAS datacenter environment.

Dispatched to carry out (SOW) such as Vmware 5 implementations and complex data migrations.

Peer motion and Peer Persistence migration between legacy HP EVA’s to 3Par StoreServ array’s

Brocade Communications Systems, Incorporated 10/2010 - 07/2013

Queens, New York

Service Delivery Consultant – Advanced

Responsible for projects spanning multiple technologies: Brocade FAN, SAN, FICON, Channel Extension, and DCFM solutions; FCIP and SAN solutions, Microsoft Solutions, EMC Storage Solutions, VMware Solutions

Developed fabric migration plans to support interop and zoning database migration from Mcdata director class switches to Brocade DCX Backbone for USARPAC G2 DEPUTY CHIEF STAFF

Responsible for performing fabric migrations from legacy Mcdata fabric’s, Cisco MDS fabrics to new Brocade DCX core environment.

Design and architect campus wide and state wide Brocade DCX infrastructure with dual FCIP links.

Pursue technical training paths and industry certification in order to enhance delivery capabilities and resource marketability

Designed a multitude solutions ranging from enterprise class fabric switch solutions on DCX backbone to small business solutions utilizing 7500 & 7800 edge switches examples include:

oLayout design to deploy 7500e’s between two sites to replace existing M1620 extension network for a major Telecommunications company

oSeveral SAN designs and assessments involving, FC Routing, FCIP, LSAN Zoning and ISL Trunking or various small and medium sized businesses

oISL Oversubscription layout designed for a high-performance fabric deployment for HBO

Strategic Business Systems – A Brocade Company 07/2004 - 10/2010

Union, New Jersey

Dell Enterprise Field Delivery - Team Lead

Knowledgeable on Fibre and IP Network topologies, protocols, network components, cabling, network operating systems, directories, security, installation, data backup and MS cluster migrations

Have experience implementing and architecting disaster recovery plans in addition to the configuration of tape libraries where the customer was archiving from SAN to tape

Involved with complex data migration in mix storage environment for commercial and DoD sites

Manage recruiting efforts and technical screening processes to ensure ideal candidates are provided for various business unites

Serve as point of technical escalation to ensure highest level of customer satisfaction in project delivery

Created NAS, CLARiiON, and Symmetrix Design Workbooks and other site architecture documentation for implementation engineers

Possess Host to SAN configuration knowledge on all Windows platforms and Vmware/ including; Host Bus Adapter configurations, file creation\modification, file structures, input/output controls, and shells

Administrative level knowledge of layered software components of EMC Storage Attached Networks, Content Addressed Storage, and Network Attached Storage equipment, including local and remote replication methods and best practices

Manage 100 TB across a primary and failover site for a major federal customer. The environment consisted of four HP EVA Storage Array’s, two 3PAR array’s, two CLARiiONs, two Celerras, 8 Brocade 12000 Silkworms, 150 Windows 2000/2003 boot-from-SAN hosts, and 50 Vmware 3.5 hosts split between the primary computing facility and alternate computing facility

Infrastructure Development Corp/Dell 10/2003 - 02/2004

Queens, New York

Dell Engineer Team

Technical Lead for large government IT project. Responsible for the implementation and configuration of servers,

windows 2000 and windows 2003 OS, Active Directory, Exchange Clusters, DNS Server configuration

Managing the Storage Area Network systems including SAN devices and Fiber Channel switches

Directing and supervising staff for multiple data center configurations and implementations

Armtec Defense Products 03/2003 - 10/2003

Palm Springs, CA

Network System Engineer

Built and design (DoD) networks to meet (DoD) Operational guidelines and heavy network security policies

Responsible for 800 users LAN and connections to a 2700 plus user WAN. Maintaining, upgrading and installing of network

servers running varying operating systems from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 (Active Directory) and Sun O/S

Document development including: SSAA (System Security Authorization Agreements) and SECONOPS (Security Concept

of Operations)

-S&E (Security Testing & Evaluation)

-Residual Risk Assessments

-RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix)

-SFUG (Security Features User's Guide)

-TFM (Trusted Facility Manual)

-CONOPS (Concept of Operations)

-Associated Appendices

PEC Solution Inc./N.M.C.I Strike Force Project 06/2002 - 02/2003

W2K Network System Administrator- (Transition Support Team)

Maintained Novadigm Radia servers as well as Microsoft ISA servers and print servers with over 2000 printers including

Exchange email servers with over 50,000 mailboxes

Operation and sustainment of: WINS servers as well as File Clusters, Veritas NetBackup servers, and Dell Powervault SANs

Performed monitoring and remote administration of over 400 Dell servers enterprise wide

Troubleshoot varying issues from lost Internet connectivity enterprise wide to downed cluster servers

Installed and configured Tivoli Firewall Toolkit solution to allow effective and efficient management of servers located

behind internal corporate firewalls

Customized and streamlined Tivoli Endpoint installation procedure (11,000 Endpoints), added reporting functionality to

meet customer’s needs and requests

American System Corporation/SPAWAR 03/2002 - 05/2002

San Diego, Downtown

Network System Analyst

Document development including:

-SSAA (System Security Authorization Agreements) and SECONOPS (Security Concept of Operations)

-S&E (Security Testing & Evaluation) and Residual Risk Assessments

-RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) and SFUG (Security Features User's Guide)

-RFM (Trusted Facility Manual) and CONOPS (Concept of Operations), Associated Appendices

Testing DoD Windows 2000 and Unix Networks IAW with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Field Security

Operations guidelines to include:

-System Access Controls and Data Access

-Identification and Authentication, Configuration Management

-Architecture Security and Security Testing

-Personnel Security, Procedural Security, Physical Security, and Administrative Security

-Scanned DoD Network with System Scanning Tools and documented software vulnerabilities

System Integration & Research, Inc./N.M.C.I Strike Force Project 03/2001 - 11/2001

San Diego, North Island/Navel Air Base

W2K Network System Administrator

Engage in and integral role of standing up the San Diego NOC under a Windows 2000 infrastructure that would support several server farms in the west coast region for the Navy&Marine Corp

Installed and configured Domain Controllers, Clustered Servers, and Dell SANs equipment that would ultimately service 720,000 Navy and Marine Corps users which will proved secure, universal access to integrated voice, video and data communications any where thought out the United States

Fixed numerous security issues found during government security scans conduced by SPAWAR before getting approval to connect to governments intranet, NIPRNET and SIPRNET

Performed security policy audits to ensure that host computer configuration remain in conformance with N.M.C.I security policy using Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)

Performed networking monitoring as well as information assurance (IA) thought out the San Diego NOC

Computech International 04/2000 - 11/2000

Great Neck, New York

Network Solution Engineer/Project Analyst

Performed extensive hand on assembly of customized IBM workstation (6868-92U & Z Pro) as well as

Compaq (AP200 & AP400) for digital editing (Matrox G-400 dual-head, Reeltime, DV-500, DV-1000) caption cards

Provided on-site technical an LAN support for CTI as well as network security using Checkpoint and Cisco VPN

software for their remote offices located in Florida, Colorado, and San Jose area

Lead project manager in the cutting edge 3M Volition Fiber optic gb switches running multiple benchmarks testing

Beta testing IBM & Seagates new 15,000 rpm drives with Mylex and Chapprael controllers for SAN an NAS uses

Power Group 11/1999 - 04/2000

Jamaica, New York

Senior Technician/LAN-Manager

Installation and Configuration of NT 4.0, Novell 5.1 Servers for up to 50-500 nodes

Performing on-site Lan Administration for multiple site’s

Analyzing & Sniffing out multiple networks for higher performance, over Cat-5 & Fiber Optic

Performing Migration from Novell to NT as well as from NT to Windows 2000 Advanced server

Jerry’s Computer Services 04/1997 - 11/1999

Valley Stream, New York

Computer Technician/ LAN-WAN Administrator

Configured a variety of Compaq, IBM, Dell and Gateway systems for Network connectivity using Windows 9x, Windows NT Workstation, UNIX and OS/2

Performed Administrative functions on Windows NT servers that consisted of Adding Users, Modifying user access to server resources, Defining TCP/IP Printers, HP Jet Direct Printers and print queues

Extensive hands on experience with installing and troubleshooting of modems, hard drives, video cards, motherboards, memory, cd roms, floppies (LS 100’s), Zip drives, Jazz drives, SCSI adapters, CD readers, writers and re-writers

Configured, Installed and Maintained Hubs, switches, and Rack Mountable modems

Immigration and Naturalization Service 04/1996 - 02/1997

Garden City, New York

Software Technician (GS-5)

Installed and configured Rayfax and Btrieve filing system software

Installed and configured centralized copy of contact management software that was accessible by all nodes connected to the LAN

Installed and configured Windows 9x, Windows NT Workstation, Window NT Server operating systems as well as TCP/IP design and troubleshooting

Installed and configured Microsoft Office 97 and WordPerfect v5.0 and proved training

Hardware End to End Solutions

Compaq rack mountable servers

IBM Nefinity and IBM Intellastations. Synoptics, Bay Networks switches & hubs, 3Com hubs, Volition 4000 giga bit switches, Motorola, Ascend, 3Com and Paradyne modems, Linksys DSL routers, and Sysconnect giga bit network cards. Brocade, McData fabric switch product line, and Cisco MDS switches Dell Equallogic systems, Dell 2950, 6950, 2850, 1855 and 1955, Dell Power App cache, Dell SAN P51F/P56 Fibre switches. Brocade MLX product line Dell PV660/650 storage array, Qlogic QLA2200/QLA2100 Fibre Channel controllers, Cisco 2501, 2503, 2514, 2507, 2610 series routers. PV 132T, PV136T, ML6000, PV160T, and Clariion CX Series, Data Domain, 3par Storage Systems, HP EVA 3000, 4000, P6000, 3PAR StoreServ V800, V400, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Storage ALL FLASH EMC VNX & VMAX, Eternus DX100, DX600, DX800, DX8700.

Backup Solutions

Dell PV132T, Dell PV136T, Dell PV160T, ML6000, LTO5, LTO6 drive, StorageTek SL500, StorageTek SL8500, Adic Scalar i500, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, CommVault.

Software

Open Migrator, PlateSpin Migration, Dell Openmanage, Dell Storage Consolidation, Cisco VPN solution, Sonicwall VPN solution, Veritas Cluster, Mirrorview and Snapview, Double-Take, Microsoft cluster platform (file/print/exchange), Brocade DCFM & Network Advisor, Replication Manager. Server, Veeam Suite, Tivoli Firewall Toolkit, Tivoli 3.6.1, HP openview, ESM, ITA, Power Path, Navi CLI, SRDF, Recover-Point, Peer-Motion, Peer Persistence Cisco DCMN.

NOS

Microsoft O/S Platforms, Citrix XP, O/S X, Vmware 2.5.2, Vmware 3.5, Novell 3.11,Vmware 5.5, ESXi 6.5

Protocols

TCP/IP, NetBEUI, NAS, NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, RIP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, NFS, ISCSI, EIGRP, IGRP, FCIP, and FCOE.

SKILLS

Network Engineer / Software, Hardware & Networking troubleshooting specialist.

EDUCATION

San Diego Community College District-CCNA Cisco Academy

Degree - Nov, 2003

Newton High School, Queens, New York

Degree-June, 1997

New York City College, New York

Degree – BS Information System - May, 2001

Computer Career Center (CCC) – Jan, 1998 – Apr, 2000/Grad

Certifications: A+ Certified Service Technician –May, 1999/ Microsoft Certified Professional-(MCP)-Oct,1999/3Com NPP-Sep,1999/Microsoft Certified System Engineer-(MCSE)-Aug,2000,(MCP2000)-Sep,2001/Dell Hardware Certified- May,2001/Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)-Oct, 2005/EMC Clariion Solutions Expert (EMCIEe)-Feb, 2006, Vmware (VCP3) – July, 2007, Vmware (VCP3-CP) – August, 2007, NetApp (NCDA) – Sept, 2008, Brocade (BCFP) – July 2009, Brocade (BCFD) – Feb, 2010, Brocade (BCNE) – June, 2010, Brocade (BCLE) – Sept, 2010, Brocade (BCFCoEP) – May, 2011, Brocade (BCEFE) - Aug, 2012

Clearance

Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Security Clearance-Received Mar, 2001.

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