RYAN

ROTHERT

Woodville, OH ***** 419-***-**** ad2dpt@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Senior Systems Engineer with over 25 years of experience in Data Center technology . Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements and leading teams to exceed goals in pre-sales, post-sales, consulting, architecture, engineering and operational roles in data storage technology in enterprise environments.

SKILLS Data Center Storage & Infrastructure Architecture, Installation, Training, Selling. Data Migration, Project Management, Customer Success Management

WORK HISTORY

MARCH 2023 - Present

Storage Management Consultant - NetApp Professional Services Resident Entelligence Detroit, Michigan - Lead engineer for NetApp at Big 3 Auto Manufacturer in Detroit area - Leading all NetApp Ontap, Storage Grid and Ontap Cloud deployments, architecture guidance & customer education activities.

DECEMBER 2021 - JANUARY 2023

Account Technology Specialist NetApp Detroit, Michigan A As a presales technical engineer I worked with the Global Client Executive to understand the challenges customers face and crafted technology solutions to address business needs.

Driving successful sales efforts in global automotive accounts. Responding to RFPs, Quote creation became a trusted advisor to senior architects, business leaders, and operations staff. Demonstrated NetApp product portfolio benefits in presentations, demonstrations and dialogue with customers and partners. Help customers prove out and test technology solutions in their environment. Built strong relationships with customers, sales leadership, and product teams.

JANUARY 2019-DECEMBER 2021

Senior Storage Systems Engineer Rocket Mortgage (Rock Central/Quicken Loans) Detroit, Michigan

Lead and collaborated with internal technology teams on architecting, engineering and providing operational support tasks to drive successful team results in an Agile/OKR framework Responsible for management of 20+PB mixed vendor storage.

Business and Technical lead on Splunk ES project implementing IBM V7000 flash & hybrid storage platforms and Isilon NAS storage. Completed NetApp hardware refresh plan from over 100 legacy systems. Lead implementation and business continuity testing of multiple multi-vendor internal application, database, and storage systems including criteria definition, vendor selection, presenting business case and financials to upper management, technical cross team planning for implementation & migration and operationalization of selected solutions. Improved overall monitoring of VMware & Storage environment with multiple open source and commercial tools such as Grafite/Grafana, NetApp OCI, NetApp Cloud Insights.

Lead multiple Isilon remediation efforts and migration of CIFS shares from Isilon to NetApp arrays. Lead NAS migration Legacy EMC NAS to EMC Unity. Lead

NetApp Foreign LUN import migrations.

OCTOBER 2018-JANUARY 2019

Systems Engineer Susquehanna International Philadelphia

Responsible for operations NetApp FAS, and IBM Lustre & Spectrum FS scale out NAS backed by NetApp E-series arrays, and Pure Storage SAN arrays.

Lead Fiber Channel switch refresh project upgrading the Brocade switch infrastructure to Gen6 32Gb/s switches.

JANUARY 2017-OCTOBER 2018

QL Technology - SAN Engineer Quicken Loans Detroit

Responsible for management of 15+ Petabyte mixed vendor storage, virtual machine, backup environment consisting of on premises and cloud resources including Amazon AWS, VMWare ecosystem, NetApp, EMC Isilon scale out NAS, EMC ECS Object storage, IBM Storwize/FlashSystem, and Cisco MDS fiber channel infra structure. Lead implementation of Open Source Graphite & Grafana to provide granular performance monitoring of NetApp arrays.

Lead POC of NetApp OnCommand Insight and IBM Spectrum Control to provide centralized application capacity and performance data group by business application or

service.

Leading authenticated NFS v4 implementation via Active Directory, Kerberos and NetApp Ontap systems as part of effort to enhance security into every layer of the business where possible.

Leading CIFS share management automation using NetApp WFA, MySQL and Powershell.

Member of team implementing Morpheus to automate VM creation.

NetApp Transition Architect Clustered Ontap acceleration program.

DECEMBER 2015-JANUARY 2017

Senior Professional Services Consultant NetApp

Act as clustered ONTAP technical expert responsible for ensuring short term transition and planning success in strategic accounts, long term build out of strong technical depth across NetApp field and partner organizations, and identifying areas for efficiency gains while collaborating on a global level to drive standards and consistency worldwide, focusing on Clustered Ontap Transition, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Exchange and MS SQL deployments.

Lead many migration efforts in large enterprise accounts.

Experience with Brocade/Cisco SAN switches, QLogic san data migration appliance. Experience with Windows server platforms, Redhat Linux, VMWare vSphere, and XenServer.

Designing/architecting major components of storage infrastructure including storage, server, & management applications.

Scope projects & identify level of effort.

Engage in sales team activities to scope service deliverables with ability to translate business requirements or issues into NetApp deliverables.

Contributed to the improvement or enhancement of NetApp consulting best practices by training peer PSCs.

Expertise in VMWare vSphere, Windows Server, Exchange Server, and SQL server.

NOVEMBER 2006-DECEMBER 2015

Professional Services Consultant Ohio Valley East Enterprise

Plan, Design, Consult, Deploy & Operationalize technical architectures that deliver the high value add on NetApp solutions.

AUGUST 2004-NOVEMBER 2006

System Administrator Harbor Capital Advisors

System administration duties include but not limited to: Budgeting and procurement of hardware and software assets Project lead on the following projects:. Implementation of Oracle10g R2 RAC cluster for Business Objects.

Lead role design, implement, and test HCA's Business Continuity Plan (Disaster Recovery) which had ability to bring up all critical system located in Dallas, TX in 90minutes.

Implementation of Zantaz EAS/Singlecast email archiving system to facilitate compliance with SEC 17a-4, NASD 3010 rules.

Implementation of PGP Universal Desktop and Whole Disk Encryption. Implementation of SAN using NetApp FAS960c, Brocade 4100 Fiber Channel Protocol switches and IBM BladeCenter (boot from san).

Implementation of SecureComputing Sidewinder G2 clustered firewalls, Smartfilter, and Security Reporter, Safeword onetime password authentication.

Server consolidation utilizing VMWare ESX, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure. Migrate single node Exchange 2000 to clustered Exchange 2003 utilizing NetApp SnapDrive and SnapManager for Exchange.

Design and implementation of BGP and OSPF between Harbor and Sungard to facility circuit redundancy.

Lead role in design and implementation of BGP and VRRP to facilitate high availability of internet related servers.

Implement MailFrontier anti-spam/anti-fraud/anti-phishing appliances Provide ongoing primary support of all of HCA's system/network infrastructure.

EDUCATION

1994

Computer Science

Bowling Green State University, Bowling, OH

CERTIFICATIONS

NetApp NCIE-SAN

NetApp NCIE-Backup and Recover

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