Manager Architect
Resume:
James O. Duffy
Metuchen, NJ. ****0
*********@*****.***
Summary
** ***** ** ******* / *** Administration, Open Systems, Project Management, Solutions Architect, and technical support experience in large-scale corporate environments.
10 years of Storage Architecture.
6 years data migration solutions using Cirrus DMS Appliance, Datadobi, and Open Replicator, and host based migration tools.
Backup technologies DataDomain
ECS
Demonstrated project management leadership, planning, and client interfacing skills, as well as technical and analytical abilities with VMware, UNIX, and Windows host environments.
Experience in evaluating, planning, implementing, and proof of concept testing, new technologies from EMC, RecoverPoint, VMware, NetApp, Brocade, Microsoft, HP, SUN, and other technology vendors.
Solutions experience with EMC PowerMax/VMAX/VMAXe/DMX/Symmetrix, VNX/VNXe/Unity, Isilon, and Clariion Storage, HP EVA Storage, Brocade and McData, and Disaster/Recovery (SRDF, SRDF/A, SRDF Metro, MirrorView, CA) and Open Systems Environments.
Strong hands-on resource with state-of-the-art SAN implementations using technologies and products from Cisco, and Brocade.
EMC Proven Professional, NetApp Certified Data Administrator, and Microsoft Certified Professional, CompTIA Security+
3 years Dell Compellent/Equallogic
18 years SAN switch environments including CISCO and Brocade using CLI and DCNM/Web tools GUI’s.
Professional Experience
Contractor – 03/20 – Present
Dell/EMC Unity implementation
Configuration
Documentation
Knowledge transfer
VSAN support.
SRDF, SRDF/A, SRDF Metro Support
Infinidat – 04/17 – 03/20
Onsite residency support.
Storage migrations from Dell/EMC VMAX, VNX, IBM, Hitachi, and XIV to Infinidat using DMS migration appliance.
Storage administration of Dell/EMC PowerMax.
Community Health Services – 05/16 – 05/17
Senior member storage engineering team.
Supporting design and concepts for storage solutions.
Administrator for Dell/EMC storage arrays including VMAX, Unity, and Isilon.
Nasscomm Corp 03/16 – 05/16 (Contractor for CHS)
Lead storage technician – Community Health Services
Daily storage allocation on VMAXAFA/10/20/40k, VNX/VNXe, DMX, Clariion, NAS Gateway, Unified Storage Arrays, Isilon, Unity, and Xtrem I/O, HDS, IBM v7000u, IBM SVC.
EMC Corp. 11/09 – 08/15
Senior Solutions Architect
Lead storage technician.
Daily storage allocation on VMAX10/20/40k, VNX/VNXe, DMX, Clariion, NAS Gateway, Unified Storage Arrays, Isilon, and Celerra
Senior implementation specialist in Abu Dhabi for VMAX, VG50, Brocade, and Isilon install.
Unisphere for VMAX implementation.
RecoverPoint implementation.
Resident architect for new VNX implementation.
Lead architect for new NS480 implementation.
Implemented Ionix Control Station 6.1 for FAST/VP storage reporting and monitoring of Thin Pools.
Implemented Symmetrix Management Console(SMC) for storage management of four newly installed VMAX/VMAXe storage arrays.
Resident architect for new VMAX/VMAXe implementation.
SoftNet 06/07 – 11/09 (Contractor)
Professional Service Engineer for NetApp
Technical lead for all NMCI sites.
Technical Lead for satellite site consolidation.
Currently designing and implementing VMware migration of Exchange servers.
Maintained proper provisioning standards and documentation.
On-call lead for scheduling and manning on-call schedule.
Technical lead for all firmware and code upgrades on fabric switches, and FAS3050 and FAS6080 filers.
On site lead for all physical installation of all storage solutions.
On site lead for initial configuration and start up of existing solutions as well as all new equipment.
EMC Corp. 07/05 – 06/07
Department of Defense, Pentagon, Alexandria, Va.
Storage Administrator, Implementation Specialist, Senior Solutions Architect/Storage and SAN Implementation
Primary Storage Administrator for several clients within the Pentagon.
Lead SAN administrator for internal Data Center migration/consolidation.
Technical lead of Major Data Center migration within the Pentagon wedges.
Technical lead expanding current SAN infrastructure including installing, configuring, upgrading all director class switches.
Maintained proper provisioning standards and documentation.
Technical lead for all firmware and code upgrades on fabric switches, Symmetrix, and Celerra.
K-Force 06/04 – 07/05 (Contractor)
United States Patent and Trademark Office, Arlington, Va.
Project Manager/Storage and SAN Implementation
Technical lead of major data consolidation involving 250 servers and 20 storage arrays.
Technical Architect of designing Core/Edge SAN environment.
Responsible for setting provisioning standards and documentation.
Proof of concept tested NetApp for possible Tier3 solution.
Lead for project status with the client.
Deutsche Bank, Parsippany, NJ
Associate Vice President, Storage Engineering/Major Projects Team/Storage and SAN Implementation
11/98 - 06/04
Technical lead of Major Project’s team that qualified and implemented 200 TB of replicated EMC Clariion storage using Navisphere and MirrorView. Provisioned storage to support multiple data center migrations. Allocated storage, lun masking, zoning, and set up replication in a redundant SAN environment for both the production and remote side of the solution.
Set new service level agreements within Storage Management by bringing Symmetrix, Clariion, and EVA provisioning in-house, substantially reducing both the cost and turn around time of storage requests resulting in increased user satisfaction.
Designed, configured, and implemented a redundant, multi switch Brocade 12000 Silkworm Enterprise Storage SAN installation with separate 3800/3900 replication SAN.
Worked with EMC’s Widesky management software ECC 5.1and 5.2 distributed solution and EMC SAN Manager, Solutions Enabler 5.3 to provision, configure, monitor, manage, and increase productivity of the Storage Management Team.
Worked with both Windows and UNIX Engineering teams to qualify and deploy new Storage and migration solutions. Documented minimum requirements for the different storage and host platforms. Developed new provisioning request forms and procedures.
Coordinated with multiple venders for installs, firmware upgrades, delivery of projects, and resolution to technical issues related to the Storage Management infrastructure.
Provide second level support to the business units for day-to-day operations, migrations, and configuration issues for existing SCSI. Attached storage to a new replicated SAN for Solaris, Veritas Cluster Server, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 servers.
Sole member of storage engineering that developed, qualified, and implemented a custom end to end user storage provisioning application. This manual process of allocating storage from a storage array, lun masking, and zoning through a SAN to a host for both the production and remote side of an EMC SRDF solution.
Designed, configured, and implemented a redundant, multi switch Brocade 12000 Silkworm Enterprise Storage SAN installation.
Set policies and provisioned storage to support specific business needs and service level agreements to deliver the highest levels of storage performance and availability.
Built and implemented a remote data replication (EMC SRDF) infrastructure for all tier 1 critical applications to provide the highest levels of data protection and recoverability using SRDF solutions. Implemented separate redundant Brocade 3900 SAN configuration to ensure the highest levels of performance, security, and reliability.
SAN Administration duties included all aspects of zoning, lun masking, HBA replacement, problem resolution, and storage placement using EMC Symconfigure, Volume Logix, Solutions Enabler 5.0, and ECC/ESN manager software.
Proactively evaluate storage performance and capacity needs with EMC Work Load Analyzer.
Provide day-to-day support to end users for various projects, migrations, D/R testing and qualification, satisfying corporate compliance for recovering applications, hosts, clusters, and business units.
Responsible for maintaining project delivery schedules.
06/80 – 08/97 NON-IT WORK
Managed various auto repair facilities from 1980 through 1997.
Owned and operated successful auto parts store with sales in access of $750K from 1993 through 1995.
Duties included staffing, sales, computer diagnostics, and inventory management.
Education
Chubb Institute, North Brunswick, New Jersey
08/97-03/98, Diploma, Computer Programming
Professional Training
EMC Training: ECC Open Edition/Solutions Enabler; Open Systems Host; Basic Unix; Multi Vendor Open Systems Hosts; ESN Management Software; Advance Fibre Channel Troubleshooting; SAN Design and Administration; Brocade Enterprise Storage Directors; Open Symmetrix Manager Tools; DMX/Symmetrix & Windows 200/2008; Clariion CTX600, MirrorView.
Certifications
EMC Proven Professional
NCDA Certified
NCIE-SAN Certified
CompTIA Security+
Microsoft Certified Professional
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