Engineer Manager

JOSHUA GODWIN

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SUMMARY

Experienced enterprise level storage infrastructure consultant, specializing in installations, deployments, migrations,

and transitions to storage platforms. Extensive hands on experience with NetApp storage solutions and technologies

that integrate with 3rd party applications and technologies.

CLEARANCE

Top Secret/SCI, October 2007 – Present

EDUCATION

George Washington University, Washington, DC May 2010

School of Engineering & Applied Science

Masters of Science, Concentration: Systems Engineering

Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD December 2006

Bachelor of Science, Concentration: Electrical Engineering

BACKGROUND

• Virtualization (VMware vSphere 5); NetApp VSC and VAAI tools

• Storage Networking (CIFS,NFS,FCP,iSCSI,FCoE)

• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Specialist

• Networking (Switches, LAN Configuration)

• Databases (Microsoft Exchange 2010)

• TCP/IP networking

• Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server editions

CERTIFICATION/AWARDS

NSO-155 Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administrator

NSO-156 Clustered Data ONTAP Administrator

Security A+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NetApp Inc., Vienna, VA Sept 2011 – Present

Professional Service Consultant

Focus on assisting organizations implement, expand, transition, and manage their storage infrastructure on NetApp

Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) systems. This primarily included installing, configuring, and transitioning customers

to NetApp FAS cDOT systems; allowing customers to deliver integrated solutions that reduce operational downtime

while providing non-disruptive operations and scalability.

Recent Projects/Accomplishments

• Transitioned customer from legacy SAN HP storage to a 4-node cDOT via Data Transport Appliance (DTA)

using an offline block based migration methodology.

• Implemented intercluster SnapMirror solution that provided customer to asynchronously replicate data across

WAN between separate clusters at collocated sites

• Performed Heterogeneous CIFS migration of 7-mode legacy FAS3140 to 7-mode FAS3250 utilizing

Snapmirror

• Performed an Exchange 2010 migration from FAS2020 to FAS3270 that included Snapmirroring existing

Mailbox data to preserve existing backups via SnapManager for Exchange (SME).

• Deployed enterprise Exchange 2010 solution on cDOT system by assisting presales with properly sizing

storage systems, mailboxes, and logs given user profiles; then configured storage layout to best practices and

backup solution to meet customer RPO requirements to supplement DAG protection.

• Designed and configured cDOT system for customer hosting private cloud solution in VMWare VSphere

environment that enabled the customer to provide enterprise IT and business applications, collaboration and

desktops with the ability to non-disruptively expand their cloud space

• Assisted with a cDOT implementation of Citrix XenDesktop on FlexPod solution

• Implemented NetApp Windows feature, automatic home directories, that allowed customer to reduce

complexity of existing solution

• Performed physical controller upgrades of a large scale tech refresh deployment

Responsibilities

• Deliver on consulting tasks that includes design and installation of NetApp storage solutions hosting 3rd party

applications utilizing NetApp Best Practices

• Understanding customer requirements to deliver solutions that meet the design and operation needs

• Communicate and demonstrate NetApp technologies that integrate with hosting applications

• Assist presales with design and architecting solutions to meet customer requirements

• Solving individualized ad complex problems that requires in-depth analysis

Worldwide Information Network Systems (WINS), Seabrook, MD Sept 2009 – Sept 2011

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Enterprise Storage Engineer: Sr. Storage Systems Engineer responsible for Design, implementation, and tier 3

support for Netapp storage controllers in support of enterprise applications (Exchange 2010, VMWare,

Oracle). Responsible for implementing RBAC, domain authentication, and syslog for Netapp storage devices

for security auditing and unintentional/intentional operational disasters. Implement and Configure Netapp

Filers (FAS 3000/3100/6000) to best practices to meet the needs of customer’s enterprise application

requirements.

• Designed and implented a multi-site data migration strategy for terabytes of data utilizing various migration

tools: Snapmirror, Snapvault, and Veritas Volume Manager, CPIO, CP, VMWare cold/warm migrations with

limited downtime.

• SAN Architecture: Designed and implemented Brocade edge-core architecutre with Brocade DCX and HP

Blade enclosure switches in support of redundent SAN, enterprise servers and applications utilizing Brocade

DCFM software to centrally manage over 100 fibre channel switches across an enterprise.

• Write Brocade and Netapp Design and Implementation documentation for operational support

• Perform storage design and implementation test and verification of technical use cases and validate against

customer requirements

• Gather capacity, software, and hardware requirements for enterprise storage to meet current and future

customer needs

• Designed and implemented storage solution for Exchange 2010 DAG to meet resiliency, DR, performance,

and capacity requirement utilizing Netapp SME and Snapdrive software

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Herndon, VA Jan 2007 – Sept 2009

Systems Engineer, storage/systems administrator

• Disaster Recovery Architecture: Implemented datacenter disaster recovery strategy for internal customers to

protect mission critical data using Netapp’s data protection capabilities

• Lead project of enterprise storage migration of multi – terabyte data from FAS3050/3070 SATA attached

drives to FAS3050/3070 fiber channel drives via snapmirror, storage vmotion, and cold migration of ZFS,

NFS, and VMFS file systems

• Implemented VMWARE/Netapp best practices to increase data utilization and performance

• Setup Clusters in VMWARE 3.5

• Implemented Multipath High Availability (HA) to add resiliency/bandwidth to storage systesm

• Perform upgrades of Data ONTAP and Firmware

• Implemented DR solutions with snapshot technology: snaprestore, flexclone, and snapmirror. Familiar with

snapvault, syncmirror, and metrocluster

• Managed Netapp performance and storage allocation in Operations Manager

• Implemented Netapp Health Checks to discover Netapp issues

• Implementation of Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution for NFS and CIFS and Storage Area Network

(SAN) for FCP

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