SCOTT DUNLAP

Kaufman, TX ***** 469-***-**** ad4lzq@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR IT CONSULTANT / ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN CONSULTANT AREAS OF EMPHASIS: VMWARE, STORAGE AREA NETWORKING, REDHAT Senior IT Consultant with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology and 20+ years of IT experience, including 16 years in Professional Services Consulting, seeking a new opportunity. Extensive experience designing storage management solutions and multi-vendor networks and performing large-scale storage migrations and upgrades for IBM. Well-developed skills leading projects involving hardware and firmware upgrades and overseeing complex migrations of storage and cloud infrastructure (physical and virtual). Dedicated leader with outstanding communication skills and a proven track record of success building strong relationships with technology vendors and working cross-functionally with Project Managers, Architects, other Systems Engineers to successfully execute projects to specifications. Served as an Architect and Systems Engineer on a major project to migrate a large airline company into IBM Cloud (SoftLayer).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Storage Architecture & Design

Systems Engineering

VMware, Red Hat, & Windows

Storage Area Networking (SAN)

System Migrations & Upgrades

Networking & Cloud Technologies

Professional Services Consulting

Bash & PowerShell Scripting

Customer Relationship Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: EMC (PowerMax, VMAX, DMX, VNX, RecoverPoint, Clariion, Celerra); Netapp; Hitachi HDS; Brocade; Cisco MDS; McData; HP CX7000; VCE

Applications: EMC (Control Center, Unisphere, Solutions Enabler, Powerpath, Timefinder, SRDF, BCV, SNAP FAST, ViPR SRM); VMware [vCenter, ESX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX)] Operating Systems: Redhat; Windows Server; Solaris; AIX; Linux; HP-UX; VMware; ESX; vCenter Development Tools: Unix Shell Scripting; PowerShell; PowerCLI Additional Skills: Puppet; Veritas Cluster Service (VCS); Netbackup PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kyndryl, Lewisville, TX 2006 – Present

Senior Consultant

• Provide storage architecture, design, engineering, and implementation consulting services to clients.

• Act as lead systems engineer on client projects requiring a strong storage, VMware, and RedHat background.

• Perform large-scale storage migrations, including storage array hardware from DMX to VMAX, VMAX to PowerMax etc.

• Lead and manage various client projects, including migrations, storage and infrastructure upgrades, and DevOps environment rollouts.

• Work closely with clients to understand project objectives, goals, and requirements.

• Perform discovery of client environments to collect details, including number of virtual machines, networking details, and CPU, memory, and storage sizes.

• Analyze discovery findings and methods available for accomplishing goals to make client recommendations.

• Migrate data from older storage systems to newer environments, and physical/virtual machines into the cloud.

• Create and assign Oracle ASM Storage Devices (LUNs or VMDKs) for RAC cluster nodes running on VM’s.

• Perform storage tasks, including creating zones and assigning storage, setting up RecoverPoint and SRM for DR, upgrading infrastructure, and creating and maintaining VMware host profiles and templates.

• Develop and implement Bash/PowerCLI scripts to automate the creation of virtual machines, automate Network changes for SRM and vRA, and run reports.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with technology vendors, including EMC, Red Hat, and VMware. SCOTT DUNLAP

Kaufman, TX 75022 469-***-**** ad4lzq@r.postjobfree.com

• Work closely with Project Managers, Architects, and other Systems/Network Engineers. Key Accomplishments

• Multiple storage array migrations the latest from VMAX to PowerMax involving four RecoverPoint clusters and over 160 ESXi hosts.

• Successfully upgraded from vCenter v6.0u1to v6.7.u1, requiring ESXi upgrades on all of the ESXi hosts from v6.0.u1 to v6.0.3 to v6.7.u1, new install of SRM v8.0, and upgrade of vRA from v7.4 to v7.6.

• Successfully migrated a major airline’s ecommerce systems into IBM cloud (Softlayer); used HCX to migrate existing VM’s into one data center and PowerCLI scripts to build new VM’s in another data center, resulting in a smooth transition with minimal downtime to the environment.

• Performed 2 hardware upgrades and more than 6 firmware upgrades, including software and hardware upgrades of the RecoverPoint appliances in 2 data centers, resulting in better performance.

• Lead Systems Engineer on a project to increase the capacity of the vCenter infrastructure completed with no downtime and under budget; added new HP CX7000 blade chassis and 50 blades in both data centers.

• Lead Architect/Engineer on fibre channel switch hardware upgrade that was completed with no downtime and under budget; migrated off Cisco MDS 9509s onto Brocade DCX 8510-4’s.

• Lead Systems Engineer on project to migrate VMs to another data center using the VM Migrate utility.

• Developed a script with 1K lines of Bash shell code to back up Oracle databases with EMC BCV/Snap technology; the script took an hourly snap (BCV copy) of the database, mounted it on a verification server to validate the copy, and ran without any failures for more than 5 years. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Durham, NC 2003 – 2006 Storage Architect

• Architected and engineered storage solutions for the enterprise storage team.

• Performed storage management tasks, including designing redundant switched fabric network topology.

• Developed scripts to automate various tasks, including migrating data, storage provisioning, collecting data, report statistics, automating backups, and parsing output.

• Provided third-level support for all VCS clusters. Key Accomplishments

• Created scripts to automate BCV backups; synchronized Standard and BCV devices, put databases in hot backup mode, split the BCVs, checked for new devices, and mounted the BCVs on NetBackup media servers.

• Architected and implemented a Veritas NetBackup Shared Storage environment that took advantage of a tiered storage approach, using BCV technology for production backups, and was easily scalable for future growth and incorporation of new storage technologies. BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA 1997 – 2002 Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

• Oversaw storage management, storage allocation, performance metrics, and growth analysis.

• Installed and maintained GNU utilities for various OS versions to ensure access to the latest tools.

• Performed engineering software installs and managed software licenses to provide a reliable simulation environment for the engineering community.

• Managed Foundry network switches, Cisco AS5200 remote access server, and Ascend P75 ISDN routers.

• Setup and maintained NFS, NIS, DNS, AutoMounter, JumpStart, Samba, and License Daemon servers.

• Worked closely with vendors to provide robust, reliable storage solutions for the user community. Key Accomplishments

• Designed, implemented, and maintained the production SAN, spanning 2 data centers with 28 switches and 30 nodes; created flexible, highly available storage that increased performance for all systems. SCOTT DUNLAP

Kaufman, TX 75022 469-***-**** ad4lzq@r.postjobfree.com EDUCATION

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, College Station, TX

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology

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