Lethaniel Harris, Jr

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Olympia Fields, IL 60461

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708-***-**** (cell)

acxgef@r.postjobfree.com

Summary An experienced Senior SAN Engineer, seeking an opportunity with a company that values hard working professionals.

Experience 7/2012 – Present Sidley Austin LLP Chicago, IL

Senior Storage/Infrastructure Engineer

Manage daily operations of SAN Storage Infrastructure including: storage provisioning, zoning, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, firmware upgrades, tape backup system, and hardware maintenance of Spectra Logic T950.

Manage EMC storage arrays and converged system including: VNX 5600 & 5800, Isilon, XtremIO, Data Domain, and VCE VBLOCK.

Manage EMC NAS and Windows file sharing.

Configure and support EMC file replication, checkpoints, and snapshots.

Schedule and perform code updates and drive replacements on EMC VNX series arrays.

Manage SAN infrastructure including Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors, cabling, EMC PowerPath, and server HBA configuration.

Develop scripts to simplify the process of creating NAS Filesystems, Checkpoints and Shares.

Installed and support Isilon and VNX storage systems.

Design and deployed ESRS solution for EMC remote monitoring.

Manage VMware vSphere. Creating, managing monitoring datastores, VMs.

Identify processes and procedures to improve operational efficiency and draft standard operation procedures for first level support teams.

Migrated tape backups to Data Domain disk backups.

Support and Administer CommVault backup software.

Performed analysis and redesigned the tape backup offsite process resulting in saving 20 man hours per week.

Support AppSync and snapshot technology on EMC VNX tier storage arrays.

Coordinate and work with vendors for needed support.

Utilize Remedy software for managing and tracking changes.

9/2004 – 3/2013 Discover Financial Services Riverwoods, IL

Senior Associate

Performed daily scheduled storage provisioning changes on EMC VMAX and DMX storage systems.

Implemented daily change tracking, providing high-level reporting to management.

Managed IBM storage arrays, StoredIQ, Clariion, EMC DMX and VMAX storage products, Celerra NAS filers, and SAN applications.

Managed Brocade SAN Fabric infrastructure, with zoning, hardware software and firmware upgrades, performance monitoring and analysis.

Implemented NetBackup to EMC Networker backup migration.

Documented Standard Operational Procedures for first level support and provided training for data center staff.

Provided tier-2 and on-call support.

Simplified and documented all storage allocation tasks in the form of Standard Operating Procedures.

5/2000 – 8/2004 Accenture Chicago, IL

Senior Analyst

Senior System Administrator supporting a heterogeneous multi-domain network, including Microsoft Windows, Novell, Linux and Unix.

Managed Networker deployed on Solaris platform, supporting Microsoft Exchange.

Developed internal training for management of backup system.

Managed IIS for research and development web sites.

Installation of Compaq Server hardware, Microsoft OS deployment, server performance tuning, process standardization and documentation, and cross team training.

SQL Database Administration tasks include; installation, creating databases, scheduling backup jobs and DBCCs, restores, Account Management, SQL upgrades.

1/2000 – 12/2000 Roosevelt University Chicago, IL

Part-Time Computer Science Instructor

Education Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL

Completed Bachelors of Science Degree

Roosevelt University Chicago, IL

Completed courses in Masters of Computer Science Degree program.

Technical Skills & Certifications

Linux, Windows 2012 Administration

Cisco and Brocade SAN

EMC Enterprise Storage Array, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, Isilon, Data Domain

San Copy, VNX Replication, PowerShell, and Bash scripting

vSphere 5.5, 6 Administration, Ceph Administration

Tableau software, SQL, Python

Microsoft Office and Technical Writing

CommVault Certified Professional

VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate (VCE-CIA) (VCE-CIA0011375)

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