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Manager Engineer

Location:
New Orleans, LA
Posted:
June 14, 2015

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Darryl Anthony Brickley

*** * ****** * *** Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124

412-***-**** Mobile

acp7yg@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

A Sr. Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience with emphasis on the solutions of SAN, NAS storage management for business critical enterprise applications.

Security Clearance: TS SCI FSP

CORE COMPETENCIES

10+ years of experience in Wintel and UNIX systems administration.

Manage a variety of DASD farms ranging in size from terabytes to petabytes.

Expertise in IBM, EMC, and HDS Enterprise SAN/NAS solutions and Silos and VTLs.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance Subject Matter Expert with TSM and Networker.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and extensive background in technical writing and documentation in addition to providing layman explanations of complex technical concepts.

EXPERIENCE

5/2014 – 1/2015 Solution Architect

EMC New Orleans, LA

Migration of VMAX 20K’s to VMAX 40ks utilizing EMC migration tools Open Replicator, SRDF, FAST Suite, RecoverPoint, VPLEX, SymCli, ViPR SRM and ECC

Monitored storage arrays in EMC Control Center for performance and data protection

Monitored storage arrays in EMC Prosphere, Watch4Net, SRM/ViPR for performance and data protection

FAST VP and Timefinder utilized on the VMAX

Cisco MDS switch migration from old to new switches. Able to utilize Cisco Cli

Centera to Atmos migration utilizing ViPRsync

Solaris/Windows/VMware ESX hosts in the environment

1/2009 – 1/2014 Sr. Systems Engineer

Lockheed Martin Corporation New Orleans, LA

Responsible for architecture, configure, manage and administration of SAN and NAS to IBM SVC, v7000, DSxK, EMC DMX, VMAX, RPA, NetApp FAS, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC), Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Networker, CommVault and Cisco fibre channel switches MDS 9000 and Nexus 5000 for the OCFO US Department of Agriculture, National Finance Center, US Southern Command, FDIC, EPA, USAF NETCENTS-2 and Australia DoD CIOG. Performed replication for disaster recovery initiatives using RPAs.

Provides technical expertise and consultation in storage and thin provisioning, mutli-pathing, failover, and load-balancing of various applications, databases Oracle, DB2, PeopleSoft and VMware, Wintel, UNIX operating systems and Citrix XenServer.

12/2007 – 11/2008 Senior Storage Data Migration Engineer

Comsys Washington, DC

Installed, configured and administered Brocade fiber channel switches, ISLs, ports, zones. Performed storage and thin provisioning on IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), IBM System z mainframe server, EMC Symmetrix DMX4, 8730, Celerra and Clariion CX500/CX700

Managed TSM and IBM Virtual Tape Library (VTL) backup recovery archival solutions

11/2006 – 11/2007 Senior Data Management Consultant

Infinite Computer Solutions Washington, DC

Pilot project to implement TSM, TPC, Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) on IBM N/series storage, Performed storage and thin provisioning, migrations and configured TPC to report quotas to tier storage.

8/2006 – 10/2006 Senior Consultant

Rigid Systems Washington, DC

Convert from EMC Networker to implement TSM for US Department of Defense.

Trained staff, provided documentation and knowledge transfer of TSM concept and facilities.

Administered SAN for TSM primary storage using XIO storage.

7/2006 - 8/2006 Senior TSM Consultant

Titan Solutions Richmond, VA

Planned, installed and implemented TSM for IBM outsourced by Capital One. Prepared disaster recovery and business continuity configurations and operation.

Trained staff, prepared test, documentation, configurations files and scripting.

6/2005 - 5/2006 Senior Solutions Engineer

Novus Consulting Group Manassas, VA

Converted from EMC Networker and planned, installed and implemented TSM. Administered host protocol on IBM Shark, EMC Symmetrix 8730, TS1120 tape drives. Consulted and analyzed backup and recovery for best practice with EDS and StorageTek clients.

Migration data to HDS TagmaStore USP V/VM for virtualization initiatives for Quest.

5/2002 - 6/2005 Enterprise Storage Manager

Allegheny County Pittsburgh, PA

Planned conversion installed and managed IBM Shark, AS/400, Brocade fibre channel switches, IBM Systems z mainframe, and TSM. Performed migration and replication using Copy Services, IBM SVC, Flashcopy, PPRC, TSM, DB2, and Mimix. Converted from NetBackup to TSM for backup recovery archival solution.

Defined storage requirement for geographical information systems (GIS) imagery and map-based solutions for the county.

8/2001 - 12/2001 Lead Project Manager

CPS/Comtech, Inc. New York, NY

Planned and designed SAN solution for data migration of new disaster recovery site for JP Morgan Chase.

Prepared assumptions, test data, scripts and configuration files for data mirroring / migration from remote data centers to DR site.

Defined routines to utilized EMC 8730 Symmetrix Manager using SRDF to create and store data locally while providing two copies of data at the remote sites.

1/1998 - 8/2001 Systems Programmer

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Bentonville, AR

Provided technical support on IBM mainframe s/390, EMC Symmetrix, HDS, and IBM storage to allocate databases DB2, CICS, IMS, and PeopleSoft. Wrote scripts, JCL for DFSMS ACS routines for group and data classification, operations of TSO ISPF, ISMF for storage assignments. Troubleshot problems of performance, inconsistencies, bottlenecks and break/fixes to resolutions.

Performed migrations using XRC, PPRC, SRDF, SDMF, True Copy, Shadow Image, and TDMF. Problem analysis and determination to troubleshoot issues, BMC, IBM utilities, and SMF and RMF some reporting tools used.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris, Linux, Wintel, HP-UX, AIX, and z/OS

Hardware:

Storage: EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX4, Atmos, Centera, Clariion, Celerra, IBM SHARK, XIV, SVC, Tape Libraries VTL, Data Domain, HDS TagmaStore USP 9990 V/VM, STK Silos, NetApp

Network: EMC, Brocade, Cisco MDS 9000 / Nexus 5000, fibre channel switch and director

Server: VMware, Wintel, Linux, AIX, Citrix, Solaris, Exchange, Domino

Software:

Languages: SAS, REXX, SQL, vi, Perl

Databases: DB2, Oracle, CICS, MSSqL, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft

Storage Specific:

EMC: Ionix Control Center, ViPR SRM, Unisphere for VMAX, RecoverPoint, TimeFinder, SRDF, SymCli, Networker

IBM: Copy Services, PPRC, XRC, TSM, TPC

HDS: Hi-Command, Shadow Image, True Copy

NetApp: Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault

EDUCATION

Loyola University, New Orleans LA, 1992

Bachelor of Science

Major: Computer Information Systems Applications

American University, Washington, D.C., 2007

Master of Science, Major: Information Technology Management

Some coursework completed.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EMC Symmetrix Architectural Configuration Management, Solutions Enabler, SMC, IBM Custom Enterprise Storage Server, Data Storage Subsystems, Storage Management, EMC ViPR SRM Fundamentals, Xtreme IO Fundamentals, Atmos, Tivoli Storage Manager, Hitachi Data System USP V/VM, NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode, IT Project Management, Data Protection Specialist.



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