Manager Engineer

Johnny Bozeman

CCNA, SCSA, BCFD

***** ********** ** • Wellington, FL 33414 • 561-***-**** • *********@*******.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

Technologist with solid technical experience in privately held and fortune 500 companies with extensive background in System integration, Network/System Engineering, Storage Infrastructure Design & DR/BCP. Proven ability to design and implement large-scale network and systems infrastructures at enterprise and global levels. Project management experience. Able to liaison between technical and non-technical persons. Adept at determining requirements, project scheduling, and technology planning. Outstanding communication, documentation & presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking: LAN/WAN design and architecture, FCIP, FCP, iSCSI, NDMP, CIFS, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SSL, IIS, WINS, FTP, SNMP, IPSec, IP Routing, T1/T3, ISDN, ADSL,& VPN, OC3, OC12

Applications/Tools: MS Office 365, Visio, MPIO, VMware, McKesson HBOC, Affinity, ANSYS, HP ISEE, HP Insight Manager, Active Xperts, AutoCAD Lite, MS SQL Server, Great Plains, Symantec Ghost, MS Project 2k/2003, MS Exchange 5.5/2000/2003, Veritas NetBackup, Adobe, VNC, Sitekeeper, Citrix, Symantec IDS, Checkpoint Firewall, McAffee/EPO, GFI/LANgaurd, & TrackIT

Hardware: Dell, HP, Brocade Director Class Switches, HP EVA 8100/5000, Nexsan SATABeast, Qlogic, wireless networks,RAID, Cisco routers/switches, 3COM Switches and NetGear switches, 10/100/1000 GB, PIX Firewall ASA, HP NAS/DAS/SAN, Nortel, Sonicwall Firewall/VPN & Sprint Wireless Modem Cards, Qualstar & Overland Tape Library

September 2018 – Present

Sr. Storage Engineer and Global Backup (IaaS & PaaS) Hertz Corportation, Estero, FL 33928

Design, document and facilitate implementation of AWS (S3, EC2, EC2 Auto-scaling, VPC, RDS, ELB, Glacier, EFS, EBS & WAF, AWS Shield, Cloud Front, AWS Back-up VMware Cloud & Storage Gateway.

Design, document & facilitate build of Azure (VM, Blobs, Archive Storage, Managed Disk, Data Box, VNet, File Storage, WAF, StorSimple, Azure Back-up & Azure VMware).

Overseen Splunk cloud infrastructure & application monitoring.

Lead, facilitate and provide direction to a team of six Cloud Engineers/Global Back-up Platform Engineers

Design & document Hybrid Cloud Environment

Design & facilitate migration of VMware on-prem to AWS VMware Cloud & Azure VMware

Design, document & overseen administration of on-prem IBM DS800 Storage Array; LUN provisioning & capacity planning.

Design, implement & overseen administration of on-premise Brocade DCX Director Fiber switches; zoning config & firmware upgrades.

Storage automation and configuration management concepts with NAS & SAN

Design/document/monitor Global Storage BUR using Rubrik - Hybrid Multi-cloud environment – AWS & Azure

Design, document & overseen testing of disaster recover/business continuity procedures for global infrastructure.

Performance optimization and converge/virtualization and storage assets to identify areas of improvement or issues as it relates to server & storage performance metrics.

Working with architecture in lifecycle management and supporting design

Consult with Project Management and LOB of deployment readiness

Governance and capacity management reporting for on-premise and cloud.

Mar 2010 – December 2017

Sr Professional Services SAN Delivery Consultant, Brocade Communications, San Jose, CA

Participate in engagements with FICON & Fiber connectivity

Perform advance configurations (Virtual Fabrics & Performance monitoring)

Perform POC, SAN Fabric Designs, SAN Assessments & SAN Encryption

Implementation of BNA (Brocade Network Advisor) SAN monitoring tool

Assist customer with zoning administration and review zoning best practices

Perform SAN Extension implementations with 7800's & 7840's (FCIP, xWDM & SONET); Block level data replication

Design & testing of disaster recover/business continuity procedures

Design & Implementation of VMware NSX

Assist with Hybrid cloud design & implementation of Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities such as IAM, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, Route53, VPCs, CloudWatch, etc

Assist with migration from on-premise to AWS Cloud

Knowledge of protocols such as NFS, CIFS, FCP and iSCSI

Perform SAN Fabric migrations and implementations for Open Systems & Mainframe with DCX Director Class & 6510/6520 switches

Work with storage vendors; Dell, NetApp, HP, Hitachi, IBM & EMC - Data Domain, VNX, VMAX, VPLEX & Isilon

Provide overall support for technical escalation(s) in core practice

Review/identify gaps in SOW and recommend necessary changes.

Keep abreast of technologies within identified products and markets.

Provide regular status reporting on projects and initiatives

Develop core relationships with key interlock groups: Pre-Sales, Engineering, & Product Management.

Storage Architect, eNeighborhoods Inc, Boca Raton, FL June 2005 – Mar 2010

Lead the development of long-term vision, strategy, and roadmaps for Storage Infrastructure for organization

Ensure IT adherence to service level agreements regarding storage allocations, limitations, and availability.

Design and implemented Brocade 48k fabrics using Interopmode 0 (Brocade Native) to improve locality.

Performed a fiber switch migration from McData 2/24 to Brocade 48k with no downtime.

Perform standard maintenance FOS upgrades on fabrics without any downtime.

Fabric zoning administration using the single initiator zoning.

Implemented the IPfilter security policy on fabrics to deny telnet access to the fiber switches.

Installed & configured DCFM (Data Center Fabric Manager) for reporting, monitoring, troubleshooting & diagnosing fiber switch issues.

Perform day to day LUN administration for 300TB of data in regards to creation, expansion & deletion of LUN’s housed on over (3) EVA 8100 using Command View management console.

Work closely with operations, project management, application/web development & network engineering to develop scaleable, maintainable, consistent, highly available storage architectures that meet business objectives and set relevant service-level agreements

Justify expenditures on storage solutions through business cases, and ROI/TCO calculations

Develop and maintain procedures for storage change management, availability management, backup management, incident management, and process documentation.

Define, communicate, and ensure adherence to data storage retention policies and create routines for end-users to facilitate storage best practices, including server storage administration.

Analyze/optimize storage systems performance, collect information, monitor and prepare monthly summary reports with SRM tool HP Storage Essentials

Oversee storage allocation to business units across the enterprise based on established requirements, available disk space, and storage forecasting.

Design, plan & implemented a file server cluster, using HP Polyserve Matrix Server clustering solution,

Design & implementation of Veritas NetBackup using a fiber attached Qualstar Tape Library with (8) fiber attached LTO4 tape drive technology.

Anticipate, identify, and oversee mitigation and response to storage access problems, retrieval issues, and storage device status issues

Design and executed data center virtualization using VMware vSphere4 and HP BLc7000 blades enclosures.

Configured, implemented & administration of Nexsan SATABeast 50TB array which was used for Tier II storage.

Plan & executed a 100TB data migration from an HP EVA5000 to EVA8100 without any downtime.

Plan, design, implementing & testing of replication of data to DR hot site using HP Continuous Access over FCIP.

Develop and maintain testing process for current, new, and modified storage appliances and software.

Conducts business impact analyses and assist business units to determine critical business processes, identify acceptable RPO/RTO and establish resources required for the successful resumption of business operations

Develop schedules for training/awareness program for business units

Evaluate & recommend recovery strategy options and coordinate the implementation of recovery preparations.

SAN/Network Manager, Florida Turbine Technologies, Jupiter, FL Jan 2001 - Dec 2004

Manage all IT functions, real-time network of 2500+ on and off-site users on LAN/WAN.

Responsible for all IT vendor management, negotiating, service contracts & purchasing/leases.

Expense line budget by 25% via vendor negotiations. Operations oversight for 2500+ employees

Research, evaluate, select & implement appropriate network technology and or HW/SW for current and future IT Operations needs.

Forecast and create a strategic plan for computer operations, ROI, cost/benefit, business case analysis, continuity and capital investment; Evaluate, develop & manage annual budget.

Responsible for developing strategic business plans along with technology architecture to drive organization for the next 5 years.

Led system migrations from Windows/Exchange 2000 to Windows/Exchange 2003 for 2500+ users with no downtime.

Connected the Corporate Data Center and remote office Enterprise network via dedicated fiber & VPN. This project allowed for centralized monitoring, backup and troubleshooting of all customers yielding consolidation of help desk staff and reduction of support staff.

Work closely with operations, project management & network engineering to develop scalable, maintainable, consistent, highly available storage architectures that meet business objectives and set relevant service-level agreements

Research and develop designs for storage infrastructure/storage devices and associated software and tools, ensuring enterprise-wide architecture consistency

Oversee storage allocation to business units across the enterprise based on established requirements, available disk space, and storage forecasting.

Developed plan to initiate Data Center wide centralized backups of all 250+ servers (SAN, Exchange, NAS, etc,) to centralized storage library and offsite storage facility.

Oversee plan, design implementation, testing & maintenance of Disaster Recovery hot-site using Continuous Access using Asynchronous replication over FCIP.

Designed/installed redundant server farm in Corporate Data Center to include HP SAN & clustered Exchange.

Responsible for vendor selection, network security, hardware selection, installation of hardware, hiring of focused support personnel & network redesign & documentation.

Overseen a Data Center of 250+ servers which included NT/W2k/Window 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2k, NAS/SAN, FTP, ANSYS, AutoCAD Lite, WINS, DHCP, MS SQL & DNS servers.

Lead, plan & execution of security needs for risk assessment, authentication, auditing, risk management, vulnerability assessment & defense planning, security standards for organization.

Team with Network Security Engineer on designing, implementing & maintaining IDS, GPO’s & Checkpoint firewall for corporate & remote site.

IT Project Manager/Network Engineer, Encore Development, Plantation FL Jan 2000 – Dec 2000

Designed/managed remote office project of floor build out, wiring (electrical, telecom, infrastructure) & contractors.

Created a strategic plan for computer operations, ROI, cost/benefit, business case analysis and capital investment

Designed/Implemented fully redundant fiber network connection between Corporate Headquarters & remote office.

Installed, configured & administration of 50+ Windows2k Servers

Developed plan for company backup, recovery and redundancy of major core components.

Provided weekly status reports to CIO project status using MS Project 2000

Provide support for HW/SW for 500+ software engineers.

Provide leadership & direction to (5) contract network engineers.

Served as liaison between technical/non-technical and executive management teams

CERTIFICATIONS

SNIA Certified Storage Architect) (SCSA)

Brocade Certified Fabric Designer (BCFD)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

AWS Solution Architect Certification – Associate (In progress)

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