Cloud and Storage Engineer

Stephen Pershing

Euless, TX ***** 972-***-****

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Versatile and Intrepid IT Professional

Information Technology expert with accomplishments in diverse roles, including; solutions architecture, solution deployment, infrastructure administration, and knowledge transfer. Proven track record of delivering knowledgeable, customer focused support for networked storage, disaster recovery and high availability solutions in support of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS cloud offerings.

AWS Certified / Storage Specialist / Disaster Recovery Specialist

AWS Training:

Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling

Database: DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, Aurora, ElastiCache

Management & Governance: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Systems Manager, AWS Config, Inspector, Trusted Advisor

Networking: VPC, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancer

Security: IAM, Cognito, CloudHSM, Directory Service, KMS

Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, S3 Glacier, Storage Gateway

Storage Hardware:

Spectrum Virtualize (SVC), XIV, V7000, Brocade DCX

Systems Management:

Brocade Network Advisor, Spectrum Control, TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R), SSH, Shell Scripting, YAML

Professional Experience

IBM Corporation, Euless, TX 2013 – Present

Storage Specialist/Disaster Recovery Focal, Managed Application Services

Deployed and managed a 10 site Global Mirror disaster recovery solution for IBM’s IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS cloud offering to replicate over 700 TB of customer data.

Worked with a cross discipline team to improve replication durability from 10% to 100% in order to achieve customer recoverability.

Created custom disaster recovery provisioning and testing procedures for DR offering fulfillment.

Planned and executed a project to double the Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) I/O capacity of a global banking customer’s private cloud environment.

IBM Corporation, Irving, TX 2005 – 2013

Networked Storage SME, Strategic Outsourcing

Performed ground up deployment and steady state administration of a highly available, multi-tier SAN environment to host a multi-national insurance company’s customer benefits application.

Achieved 100% compliance in all quarterly security audits for user validation, device security settings and appropriate authority on all managed customer devices.

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EMC, Livonia, MI 2001 – 2005

Solutions Architect

Planned, documented and deployed enterprise fiber channel networked storage solutions on the Symmetrix 5/5.5 and Clariion platforms.

Performed one of EMC’s first customer health checks and created a process subsequently adopted as the template for EMC’s health check service.

Additional Experience

IBM Corporation, Research, Triangle Park, NC

Contractor – Backup and Recovery SME

Deployed the first fiber channel-based backup and recovery solution in IBM Global Services hosting center.

Provided expert Tivoli Storage Manager solution deployment services for IBM Global Services customers.

Mentored an IBM new hire employee, who became IBM Global Service’s preeminent Tivoli Storage Manager support expert.

Compsat Technology, Southfield, MI

Backup and Recovery Expert

Met with customers to plan implementation of in-house backup and recovery solutions using IBM ADSM and Legato Networker.

Planned and executed customer projects including; hardware migrations, software upgrades and solution expansion.

Implemented backup and recovery solutions for enterprise customers, including; GM, Bayer Agricultural and Mead Corporation.

Education

Associate in Science, Northlake College, Irving, TX, 2015

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

IBM – Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction

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