Data Center Disaster Recovery

Randolph Richardson, Jr.

Accokeek, Maryland *****

Mobile Number: 301-***-****

**********@*******.***

Storage Area Network, Disaster Recovery and Data Recovery SME

Value Statement: I offer over 30 years of IT experience. 23 years of architecting, implementing, management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis of enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions using multivendor products. 15 years of implementing and managing solutions using DELL/EMC SAN products. Over 7 years of combination block and NAS deployments and management. Over 17 years of UNIX system administration, 15 years of backup solution configuration/management and 10 years of virtualization experience.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

San Hardware: DELL/EMC VMAX3, DELL/EMC DMX, DELL/EMC VNX, EMC Clarion, HP P9500, HP Primera, Hitachi AMS, USP Tagma 9990, Cisco, Brocade, Connectrix

Software: EMC Unisphere, HPE Management Suite and SSMC, Data Center Fabric Manager, Brocade Network Advisor, Data Center Network Manager, Netbackup, Hitachi Command Suite, DataDomain

High Availability: Racktop Brickstor, Datadobi, Recovery Manager Center, DELL/EMC VPLEX V6 Metro, VPLEX Witness, ESRS, Vsphere and VMware, HP Storage Essentials, Timefinder, SRDF, Celerra Replicator, Open Replicator, RecoverPoint

Server Hardware: HP Synergy, Cisco UCS, HP C7000, HP Servers, SUN Servers

OS: Linux, Solaris, HPUX, Windows

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Cloud Practitioner

EMCCSA Specialist VPLEX and EMCISA

ITIL v4 Foundations

EDUCATION

Bachelor Science - Computer Science

SECURITY CLEARANCES

Public Trust (Current)

Secret (Inactive), last active 2015

TS/SCI (Inactive), last active investigation 2016

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

I honorably served 10 years in the Army as a Reserve and National Guard Signal Officer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Storage Virtualization Engineer Ironbow

Jan 2023 – Present Herndon, Virginia

Manage a 5 PB Greenlake solution for the Department of Justice Criminal Division. Currently in the migration phase of moving data from Cisco UCS blades with Netapp storage to a new environment comprising HPE Synergy blades, HPE Primera storage and Racktop Brickstors as the Iscsi NAS heads. The environment is iscsi through Nexus switches. Recovery Management Center (RMC) is used as the backup solution. Datadobi and Komprise as being used to migrate data.

Key Achievements

Learned all the hardware and software contained in the environment. Working hand in hand with the sales and deployment teams on migration tasks.

Preparing the environment for production operations switchover and continued normal operations.

Troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance turning and task automation SAN, storage virtualization and migration assets.

Senior Storage Engineer Prism

Jan 2018 – Aug 2022 Reston, Virginia

Managed a 3 PB DELL/EMC VPLEX V6 Metro cluster, with VPLEX Witness, for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Performed storage management for VMware environment that supported Cisco UCS and HP C700 clusters hosting Windows and UNIX hosts. Capacity management for two DELL/EMC VMAX3 400K arrays and a VMAX3 100K array. Management of redundant Cisco MDS9710 multilayer director switches located at two datacenters. Backup solution using Netbackup and Data Domain solution. Troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance turning and task automation of all SAN and high availability assets.

Key Achievements

Successfully met the 100% uptime SLA requirement in managing the CFTC SAN environments totaling 3 Petabytes of raw storage. These consist of Core configuration using MDS9710 director switches to distribute FC network storage from two VMAX3 400Ks and a VMAX3 100K arrays at two datacenters.

Migration of RDMs connected to VMs from VMAX400K to VMAX100K using Open Replicator.

Achieved a smooth port configuration changes and zoning transitions in support of the Cisco UCS hardware refresh. This enabled a smooth refresh without hitch or delay due to SAN related resources.

Senior Storage Engineer Maerandar Tech Solutions LLC

Sept.2016 – Jan 2018 Alexandria, Virginia

I worked on several business development initiatives towards IT service solutions development. I continually refreshed on new products and solutions using EMC Education Services.

Senior Storage Engineer Sabre Systems

Sept 2014 – Aug 2016 Lexington Park, Maryland

Managed three HP9500 arrays in a, tightly constrained, thin provisioned environment. I also manageged Tagma 9990, AMS2300 and AMS2500 storage using Hitachi Command Suite. Environment required block and NAS configuration. We implemented Netbackup and DataDomain as a backup solution using disk and tape resources. Utilized HP Storage Essentials for trending and root cause analysis on performance issues. Configured and managed a DEV/UAT environment of HP EVA storage.

Key Achievements

Successfully met the 100% uptime SLA requirement in managing the NAVAIR ERP and Corporate SAN environments totaling 2 Petabytes of raw storage. These consist of Core-Edge configuration using Brocade DCX, 6510, Brocade 5300 Edge switches and Cisco NEXUS switches to distribute FC and converged network storage from HP P9500s, USP Tagma 9990, AMS2500s and AMS2300 storage arrays.

Achieved a smooth storage migration from Tagma 9990 to HP P9500. Orchestrated several phases of LDEV migrations using Auto LUN to move from RAID5 (5+1) to RAID6 (14+2). This gained the organization 20% usable storage in several over provisioned storage pools, along with high availability and performance gains.

Senior Storage Engineer Intelligent Decisions

Aug 2011 – January 2014 Ashburn, Virginia

Architected and managed the OJP DELL/EMC SAN environments at 3 DOJ datacenters. Advised and implemented strategies for DR, SAN migration, capacity management and performance for a combination block and NAS environment. I managed Netbackup, Networker, and DataDomain; for block and (NDMP) data backups. Duties included augmenting the UNIX team as a senior Solaris (9/10) administrator.

Key Achievements

Met SLA requirements in managing the DOJ OJP DELL/EMC SAN (NAS and Block) storage environments. This consisted of a development site hosting a Celerra NS-480, CX-700 and AX-4; a production site hosting a VNX 5700, Celerra NS-480 and CX-700; a DR/secondary site hosting a VNX5700 and Celerra NS-480. Total storage of 1.4 Petabyte raw. Brocade DS4100B, DS5100B and DS5300B switches were used in the environments.

Established a high availability configuration for the Local and remote DR solution using Celerra Replicator for CIFS data and RecoverPoint for block data.

Delivered executive level monthly performance reports and process improvement ideas.

Successfully migrated CX700 to NS480 at three datacenters and NS480 to VNX5700 at two datacenters with 100% uptime achieved.

Senior System Engineer Raytheon

Nov 2007 – July 2011 Riverdale, Maryland

Architected and managed the DELL/EMC SAN, VMware application infrastructure and backup solution for NDEX application development and test datacenter. Configured block and NAS storages resources for the environment.

Real Estate Investor Maeran Real Estate

May 2006 to Oct. 2007 Bryans Road, Maryland

Owned and operated a real estate investment business; focused on flipping houses. This required research and analysis of potential properties and sales skills of win win pricing to potential sellers. Worked with multiple contractors in achieving a finished product; ready for resale.

Senior Storage Consultant Northrop Grumman

Jan. 2003 to May 2006 Greenbelt, Maryland

Supported several client locations on engagements for DELL/EMC SAN management and UNIX system administration support. Served in a primary role as badged EMC Implementation Specialist for Sym 5 to DMX migrations and SRDF solutions implementations.

Senior System Engineer Telecorp/AT&T Wireless

Lead UNIX Administrator Arlington, Virginia

Jan. 2000 to Oct. 2002

Performed technical solutions development and implementations as required to meet customer needs. Managed EMC Sym 8700 Storage Frame and its many capabilities, such as TimeFinder, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Symmetrix Disk Reallocation (SDR) and SAN configuration.

Senior UNIX Administrator Electronic Data System

Jan. 1997 to Jan. 2000 McLean, Virginia

Lead administrator and onsite task lead over a junior administrator, Oracle DBA and 2 Oracle Developers. Authored a System Administration Plan, Disk Management Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.

Senior UNIX Administrator HQ, Air Force Office of Special Investigations

May 1996 to Jan. 1997

Achieved SLA requirements as the lead Solaris administrator for database servers.

Realtime Spacecraft Engineer -UNIX Administrator Allied Signal Technical Services

May 1993 to May 1996 Columbia, Maryland

Successfully launched SWAS and FAST as a member of the Flight Operations Team. Achieved operation status in configuring and managing the Command Management System.

Command Management Data Analyst Bendix Field Engineering

April 1991 to May 1993 Columbia, Maryland

Served as a member of the Command Management team for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Received a NASA award for an Ephemeris checker I co-wrote with a co-worker using DCL.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Assistant coach for the Bryans Road Soccer Association. Instructed and inspired elementary school level youth in soccer techniques, team play, a winning attitude and sportsmanship. Sensei teaching Shotokan Karate, Wing Chun and Aiki-jujutsu to youth and adults.

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