Engineer - Storage/VMware/Backups

Matthew Edwards

**** * ********* **. ***** Point, IN 46410

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

Mobile: 219-***-****

Education:

Purdue University Calumet, Hammond IN

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology Skillsets:

Symmetrix DMX/VMAX

CLARiiON, VNX1/VNX2 BLOCK

XtremIO

RecoverPoint, SRDF

SAN Connectivity – Cisco/Brocade

Migrations – Open Replicator, SAN Copy, PPME

ViPR/CoprHD

VMware vSphere

DataDomain

Work Experience:

Senior Storage Engineer

IPsoft Chicago, IL 60606 July 2016 to July 2020

Major high-level tasks: Storage design/implementation/administration, backup implementation/administration, VMware vSphere implementation/administration, project design/implementation/testing/documentation Duties included: Monitoring, maintaining and administering storage arrays and VMware vSAN (v6.6.1-6.7), including but not limited to, patching, troubleshooting and documentation. Installing, monitoring and administering multiple Veeam Backup and Replication instances across multiple countries, including backups to cloud. VMware vSphere v6.5 environment build out, monitoring, cluster creation and administration, patching/upgrades, troubleshooting, and environment reconfigurations. Verifying environment supportability via multiple support matrices, planning/carving and configuration of RAID schemes and devices (including virtual provisioning), Fibre Channel zoning/iSCSI networking, presenting storage devices to ESX/ESXi, validating hosts can access/use the provisioned storage, performing troubleshooting to resolve issues and/or conflicts, performing array/storage performance analysis. Working directly with client/customer to document RFCs and project work, implementing and documenting proposed changes, validating and testing environment post implementation. Primary Platforms: HPE MSA & StoreVirtual, HPE FlexFabric, Cisco Nexus Secondary Platforms: Veritas Netbackup, CLARiiON/VNX/VNX2, Brocade/McData Implementation Delivery Specialist / Customer Facing EMC2 Lisle, IL 60532 April 2008 to May 2016

Major task: Integrating and maintaining storage arrays, infrastructure software, replication and backup appliances into customer environments, providing knowledge transfer to customers, keeping up with industry technology and product enhancements, maintaining communication between all parties involved. Certifications:

ITILv2

Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist

VCP 3 - VMware Certified Professional ID: VMW-00252024B-00034229 (Expired)

CLARiiON Specialist

SAN Specialist

Symmetrix Solutions Expert (EMCIEe v6)

Symmetrix SPEEDv2 Certification

Skills/Activities/Interests:

Computer skills:

o Windows 2008/2012/2016, some Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL), some HPUX, host & array based data migrations, storage array and backup appliance/application installation and configuration, VCP 3.5 (Certified [Expired]), ITILv2 international certification, 5 EMC specialized certifications, & virtualization.

Programming languages:

o KSH scripting, minimal Perl & REST API, Assembly, C/C++, HTML/CSS, MySQL, PHP, PLC programming (RS Logix 500)

Hands-on mentality:

o Automotive mechanic for 8 years, Joe Gibbs 1999 Top 10% National High School Competition.

Ability to work with others:

o Primarily Customer facing projects – working directly with customer, vendor and partner resources.

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