James Kween Baker

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Summary:

• 10+ years of Storage and UNIX infrastructure services experience on Managed Services Teams

• Experience with applications, disaster recovery solutions for EMC, HPE, VMware, HyperV, Citrix, Windows Server,

Linux platforms

• Excellent Storage and UNIX expertise. Experience with DR solutions and providing SWAT analysis of DR tests.

• Networking experience in designing and deploying enclaves within a larger network

• Experience troubleshooting Storage and OS issues with operations and client architect/system administrators

• Experience driving problem resolution from problem identification through change mgmt/corrective action(s)

• Highly effective communication skills and experience on a service oriented team

• Performance analysis experience

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine)

• Infrastructure architecture DNS, Active Directory, other Identity Management and Directory Services

Implementations

• Strong writing skills for producing technical documentation

A.Awards & Recognitions:

Certified, NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer License NETAPP00048369

Certified, CISCO Data Center Storage Networking Specialist, ICSNS License CSCO12297094

Certified, IBM POWER6 Enterprise Technical

Certified, IBM Deployment Professional Tivoli

Certified, IBM System Expert DS4000

Certified, IBM Storage Professional OpenSystems

Certified, IBM System Admin AIX V5.1

Certified, IBM Systems Expert, AIX V4.1 System Administration

Certified, UNIX System Admin

Award, IBM / BHPBilliton Vice Presidential SAN Delivery Appreciation, March 2013

B.Experience Summary

SABRE Lewisville Datacenters 8/2015 - present

Sr. SAN Storage Administrator

HP 3PAR V7000 BLOCK Domain, Data Domain, AVAMAR, NetApp 3240 MPIO SFO, HITACHI G800 ARRAY and host-based Storage Migrations

Migration leader for HPE 3PAR models T400, V400, 7440C via PEER MOTION usingnon-disruptive VV IO request host data migration from source to destination 3PAR running MU3

BROCADE zone and zonset management 10PETABYTE TIER storage supporting and managing host QLOGIC HBA MPIO support for WINDOWS, LINUX, SUN and HPUX hosts.

PEER MOTION Online migration for decommissioning all v3.1.3MU1 3PAR to v3.2.1MU3 production infrastructure

Migration Tools via PeerMotion 3PAR, Intellisnap HDS, snapmirror NetApp, Data Migration Server (DMS) Infinidat and bash shell scripting ( host side )

Experience with Avamar v7.1 configuring policy-based replication, cron-based, on-demand and CLI replications. Also Monitoring replication and restoring replicated backup data

Netapp 3240s CLI VOLUMES allocations, aggregations &SnapMirrorand data migrations responsibilities. Provide CISCO9513 SAN Switch Administration via CLI including port allocation, de-allocation, zoning, monitoring, performance analysis, and capacity planning.

Provide services for Storage EMCDMX-4 storage device PATH with symcli for symcfg EMC LUN masking process implementions.

IBM/ DUPONT, SBY and RTP Datacenters 1/2013–8/2015

Lead IT Storage Specialist

EMC VNX CIFS Domain-Joins and Stand alone, NetApp 3240 MPIO SFO setup.

Also worked with VMWare RedHat el6 Operating System kernel, AIX 7 builds, compliance strategies, storage management.

Performed volumes migrations from NetApp 7-Mode to a NetApp 7-Mode viaSnapmirror Relationship

All configurations via SVC, Flash, XIV, and V7000 storage and ESX VCenter, HMC, IMM and OS tools, OpenStack, ORACLE RAC and SAP, EDL systems installations, manage BUR NIC and upgrade v3 & v4 NFS for ONTAP 8 7-Mode and C-MODE.

At Netapp 3240s CLI VOLUMES allocations, aggregations&SnapMirror responsibilities. Provide CISCO9513 SAN Switch Administration via CLI including port allocation, de-allocation, zoning, monitoring, performance analysis, and capacity planning.

Managed EMC SOLUTIONS ENABLER SOLUTIONS ENABLER LICENSEProvideall day-to-day storage operation support for CHEMOURS infrastructure.

IBM/BHP Datacenters, Lewisville, Texas 1/2009 –1/2013

Sr. Storage Systems Administrator

SAN Systems BHP Storage infrastructure leader/SMEresponsible for performance, infrastructure migrations CISCO9509 core-edge switch devices.

TSM backup 4-PETABYTES of onsite tape devices. Managed IBM 3954 VE target and initiators devices performance. Commvault backup solutions installing, configuring, and managing production backups.

Migrated cluster services with completed installation migration and configuration from SVC4 to SVC6. Perform migration services for EMCClaiironto EMCVNX with SanCopy. Experience with SVC, Flash, DSK8000/5000/4000, TPC Servers running TPC v5, XIV, and V7000 storage and migrate from EMC/Hitachi storage.

Global Mirror, virtualization, real time compression, ILM (tiered storage), and TKLM skills required. Experience with Disk Admin, storage refresh projects, EMC & Hitachi to IBM solution, EMC. Supported the Server RecoveryNetworker.7.6.

VMAX3Unispherework to include installing, setting event statistics, storage analyzer for DATABASEfor LINUX autostart, PostgreSQL, and eNAS LINK. I worked withRecoverPoint for Block and File, VMAX3 ( mod5760 ), Isilon, VPLEX Local and VPLEX Metro EMC.

Performed volumes migrations from NetApp 7-Mode to a Cluster Mode via NetApp Peer Transition and Snapmirror Relationship

Managing 3,200 MBps or more (11.4 TBph) VTL recovery performance. Provide day-to-day operation support for infrastructure.

IBM/MAXIM Datacenters, Addison, Texas, 1/2007 –1/2009

Sr. Storage Systems Engineer

Lead SAN Systems Administrator/SME responsible for deployment, VMAX2/3/DMX, Clariion array performance, infrastructure migrations BROCADE Devices switching port allocation design for XIV. Remote Proxy, phone home configurations, TSMv5 enterprise backup.

Firmware upgrade and management for NAVICLI, Navisphere, UNISPHERE for VNX

This environment runs 2PETABYTES of onsite tape and DISASTER RECOVERY implementation.

Provide services for Storage EMCDMX-4 storage device PATH with symcli for symcfg EMC LUN masking process implemented.

Managed CISCO IOS r3 and Brocade7.2 DCNM and SAN zoning and firmware upgrades

Managed EMC SOLUTIONS ENABLER SOLUTIONS ENABLER

LICENSE facility for infrastructure compliance. Experience with TPCv5, SVC, Flash, XIV, and V7000 storage andmigrate from EMC/Hitachi storage.

Global Mirror, virtualization, real time compression, ILM (tiered storage), and

Experienced Avamar v6.1 configuring policy-based replication, cron-based, on-demand and CLI replications. Also Monitoring replication and restoring replicated backup data

Installed and serviced SRDF installation for multiple hosts Licenses including TimeFinder / Symmetrix,

License for TF/CG / Symmetrix and DellEquallogic storage, Migrated cluster services with completed installation migration

IBM/PepsiCO Datacenters, Plano, Texas 1/2005 –1/2007

Sr. Systems Engineer

Lead SAN Systems Administrator/SME responsible for deployment, performance, infrastructure migrations including infrastructure BROCADE switching port allocation design for VMWare TSMv5 enterprise backup.

My access to management is via ESX VCenter, HMC, IMM and OS tools for ORACLE RAC and SAP. EMC Networker backup solution installing, configuring, and production management.

This environment runs 7PETABYTES of AIX, LINUX support for DISASTER RECOVERYimplementation.Pepsico uses XIV xCLI, ESX VCenter, HMC, IMM and OS tools, ORACLE RAC and SAP, EDL systems for all installations, management BUR NIC and upgrade v3 & v4 NFS for ONTAP 87-Mode and C-MODE. Installed and upgrades TPC Servers running TPC v5.

LICENSE facility for infrastructure compliance. Installed, managed SRDF replication hosts including TimeFinder / Symmetrix, License for TF/CG / Symmetrix and Dell Equallogic storage, Experience with HPE 3PAR T400, IBM SVC, Flash, XIV, and V7000 storage and migrating from EMC/Hitachi storage.

C. Professional, Awards & Recognition Summary

Education Summary:

BSc Mathematics / Computer Science – University of Texas Arlington (1989)

Affiliations & Associations:

Sr. Member, Coleman Research Group, New York 2010 - Present

Sr. Member, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ 1990 – Present

Sr. Member, the Computer Society of IEEE, Garden City, NY 1999 – Present

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