Emmanuel P. Cruz

Glendale, California

818-***-**** (cell)

E-mail adgsi0@r.postjobfree.com

ABSTRACT:

I am an approachable, proactive, technical, business minded individual who is eager to meet new challenges head on while properly using resources. I have been a lead, supervisor, and manager in many of the companies. I can identify and resolve incidents/issues rapidly.

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

I have 25 years of experience in large enterprise environments from research and development, NASA, media and entertainment as a Project Manager and Engineer. I am self-motivated individual who enjoys learning and thrives on challenges and welcomes the opportunity to work in a cross-functional team environments. A strong team leader or project manager and maximizes available resources to perform tasks in order to meet operational objectives in a timely and cost effective manner. Has helped several organizations define and implement disaster recovery and business continuance plans. Lead many swat and tiger teams at several companies to quickly bring issues and problems to resolution and to help improve processes to remove and/or mitigate similar issues from re-occurring. Small and large problems are investigated in great detail and on occasion bringing cross-functional teams to scrutinize the issues or problems at hand.

I have lead, supervised and managed technical teams globally. I have managed CAPEX and OPEX budgets. I have managed teams of 6 direct reports and up to 25 matrixed to me. TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Subject matter exert for Storage SAN/NAS .

• Worked with various operating systems: Linux- RedHat, Centos, Debian and Suse, Solaris, Windows Server 2008/2012R2.

• Working knowledge of backup software: Commvault, Symantec NetBackup, BackupExec, EMC Legato, Avamar, Veeam, and HP Data Proctector.

• Hands-on knowledge of HP EVA and 3PAR, Brocade SAN switches and directors, Cisco MDS, Quantum, BlueArc, Isilon, Hitachi, IBM Shark, Quantum/ADIC/STK/Spectalogic tape libraries, Rubrik, and Network Appliance.

• Scripting capabilities in bash, csh, ksh, perl and python.

• Experience prototyping Ceph version 0.68 for an archive storage platform.

• Experience working with a pharmaceutical company to optimize performance on infrastructure databases, server, and storage.

• Worked on health care applications to help to bring high availability to the environment while minimizing cost.

• Introduced and installed a manufacturing framework to help reduce cost and waste but yet retain quality.

• Deployed a large archival system for storing electronic designs which was also used to file for patent rights.

• Directly worked on four space mission by NASA and managed a science computing facility for an Earth Observing Mission.

• Windows 2008/2012, VMware, Wintel, CASE, CAD, databases, operating systems, ILM, EMC ECC 5.2.

• Experienced with storage protocols and technologies such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NetApp Filers, XFS, and ZFS.

• I have extensive experience with performance tuning storage for databases – Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, Hyperion, and MS SQL. I have tuned storage arrays for VMWare, VDI, and Citrix.

• I have a green belt in Six Sigma and trained on Lean. Professional Experience:

Employer name: Robert Half 12/2019 to 07/20

Client: Hospital IT Enterprise Services Group

Role: Systems Engineer

Location: Pasadena, California

• Evaluate storage configurations for VMWare. Remediate issues with performance and capacity.

• Examine performance of virtual machines and storage vmotion virtual machines to the appropriate tier of storage.

• Validate SAN configuration and performance. Tune storage arrays when needed. Tune storage platforms to deliver low service response time and high IOPS throughput.

• Run daily performance metrics and health checks on 3PAR storage,

• Configure remote copy groups between the 3PAR storage platformss for high availabilityVMware Project.

• Provision storage as need for the infrastructure projects.

• Participate in the evaluation and implementation of infrastructure products.

• Troubleshoot system configurations with regards to hardware and software issues.

• Examine Commvaullt backup up policies. Manage backups for the facility.

• Remediate failed/ completed with errors backup.

• Work with CNAPS team members to develop a strategy for business continuance and disaster recovery.

• Present configuration management changes for backups and storage to CAB review board.

• Vendor management with regards to storage and backups. Environments: VMware, Windows, Linux, HP 3 PAR, HP C7000/ HP Synergy, NetApp, Cisco Ethernet,, Multi- Datacenter, Brocade DCX,5300 and G620.

Employer name: Robert Half 07/2019 to 10/2019

Client: Credit Union

Role: Systems Engineer

Location: Manhattan Beach, California

Project name: Migration

• Install and configure OnGuard Server for badge entry system for corporate location and branch offices.

• Configure and install virtual machines for Symantec Altiris, Solarwinds, security servers.

• Baseline the performance of NetApp traversing the WAN from Las Vegas to Manhattan Beach.

• Build and configure ESXi server.

• Create and test template for virtual machine.

Environments: VMware, HP 3 PAR, HP C7000/ HP Synergy, NetApp, Cisco Ethernet,, Multi-Datacenter, Cisco MDS SAN

Employer name: Lanair Group LLC 03/2019 to 05/2019 Client: Various SMB

Role: Principle Engineer- Storage and Virtualization Location: Glendale, California

Project name: Infrastructure sustaining and troubleshooting various SMB clients

• As a member of the LANAIR Group principal engineering team, my primary responsibilities are to provide expert subject matter support to our managed services and project team engineers.

• My consulting experience includes design architecture, and implementation of the following: VMware vSphere, Horizon View, vRealize Operations, VSAN, Cisco UCS. Dell EMC Isilon, Compellent Environments: VMware, Avamar, Data Domain, Dell Servers, Compellent, Brocade Ethernet, Brocade SAN, EMC Isilon, NetApp, Cisco Ethernet, Kaseya, PRTG, Connect Wise, Multi-Datacenter, Cisco MDS SAN Employer name: Skechers 08/2018 to 12/2018

Client: Corporate

Role: Systems Engineer- Storage and Compute

Location: Manhattan Beach, CA

Project name: Infrastructure sustaining and troubleshooting Primary Responsivities: Maintain the performance of compute and storage environment. Validate Rubrik backup appliance for functionality, performance, and reliability. Troubleshoot issues with VMware and the Dell servers. Determine and resolve issues with regards to storages/applications/servers. Project tasks:

• Integrate Rubrik backup appliance into primary and secondary datacenters with cross-replication. Report SLA backup compliance.

• Troubleshoot issues with VMware.

• Configure affinity and DRS rules to balance VMware cluster.

• Troubleshoot issues with ESXi physical hardware.

• Troubleshoot VMware replication between primary and remote datacenters.

• Configured Brocade switches in Belgium to enable a new build out of business services.

• Analyze performance/capacity of Dell Compellent and Pure storage arrays.

• Analyze Solarwind configuration for monitoring performance of storage devices. Determine licensing cost of SRM.

• Creates and implemented a NFS datastore for VMware cluster to help augment capacity issues with block storage devices.

• Run Brocade SAN Health program and analyze the output for any issues.

• Provided consulting advise to remote offices on future systems upgrade. Environments: VMware, Commvault, Pure –Flashblade M Series, Dell Servers, Compellent, Brocade Ethernet, Brocade SAN, Emc Isilon, NetApp, Cisco Ethernet, Rubrik, SolarWind, Multi-Datacenter Employer name: VegaNext (Contract) 03/2017 to 08/2017 Client: Ernest Packaging

Role: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Commerce, CA

Project name: Managed Services Infrastructure assessment and upgrade Project tasks:

• Audit infrastructure processes and components – servers, network, applications and security practices.

• Audited Cisco Meraki placed at Corporate Ernest as well as the 12 divisions.

• Evaluated Solarwinds NPM, NTP tools to automate network monitoring and application latencies and well as security of “hardwired” and Wi-Fi connectivity.

• Worked with VOPs and internal ESXi tools to determine performance issues with VSphere 5.5 and VSphere 6.0 clusters.

• Worked with external professional services provider to plan for implementation of redundant WAN connectivity.

• Project storage and performance capacity of infrastructure components from network, to servers to storage and applications.

• Design an on premise infrastructure to grow with current capacity and performance needs of the organization including backup.

• Make recommendation for security, and infrastructure needs.

• Assess application performance and make recommendations.

• Determine storage performance needs for the infrastructure and make recommendations.

• Determine network baseline latencies to and from Ernest Packaging corporate and the 12 remote divisions.

• Determine performance issues regarding Citrix Xen Desktop.

• Planned the upgrade of VMware 5.5 to VMware 6.0.

• Made strong recommendations to cluster core applications.

• Create a roadmap to bring the current infrastructure to 2017 data center standard.

• Developed a plan to upgrade infrastructure to a supportable posture.

• Evaluate current infrastructure needs with regards to connectivity, performance and security needs.

• As Ernest Packaging shifts from a Citrix environment to standalone compute device, determine the impact to the corporate infrastructure and make recommendations.

• Planning a migration from Active Directory 2003 to Azure AD and AD 20016- FS.

• Investigating tools to shore up security issues.

• Creating a road-map of products (hardware and software) to determine end-of life for replacement of next generation solutions.

• Deployed SolarWinds n-central product for endpoint monitoring, patch management and anti-virus.

• Configure SolarWinds Standalone cloud based backup for 130 servers. Test recovery of file system, database, and Citrix server. Report estimated recovery of systems.

Environments: VMware, Citrix, Hitachi HUS, Veeam, SAN, Multi-Datacenter, Cisco UCS, Cisco Networking, Palo Alto Firewall, Microsoft Office and Microsoft SQL Employer name: Vology 04/2016 to 09/2016

Client: Santa Ana Data Center

Role: Service Delivery Manager

Location: Santa Ana, CA

Project name: Managed Services – Storage and BUR

Project:

• Managed a staff of 3 highly trained engineers in the support of the storage and backup infrastructure for the Orange County Data Center.

• Responsible for storage, backup and restore for over 500TB of data.

• Assessed backup licensing for Veeam and Data Protector.

• Capacity and resource forecasting for tape library resources, Data Domain replication.

• Participated in problem resolution with vendors.

• Project storage and performance capacity of infrastructure components from network, to servers to storage and applications. Ran tunesys on primary and secondary 3PAR arrays to compact the CPGs. Design an on premise infrastructure to grow with current capacity and performance needs of the organization including backup.

• Managed SLAs with the customer.

• Validate that hardware and software licensing would meet deliverable expectations of customer. Re-aligned licensing.

• Contributed to the architecture and deployment of SolarWinds Orion.

• Instrumented SolarWinds application to determine storage resource latencies and performance issues between application servers and the storage platforms.

• Participated in the planning of migrating data from one storage platform to another.

Environments: AIX Servers, Windows server, Linux, MainframeVMware, HP 3PAR, Veeam, HP Data Protector, EMC, Data Domain, SAN, Multi-Datacenter

Employer name: HealthNet 09/2015 to 05/2016

Client: HealthNet

Role: Senior It Specialist

Location: Woodland Hills, CA

Project name: IT Infrastructure oversight for storage, servers, applications and network.

Project:

• Audit storage and application deliveries from 3party vendors (IBM) and application support Cognizant to assure what is being requested is what is being delivered.

• Assure proper trending of storage and backup resources to meet application demands in order to provide un-interrupted capacity and performance.

• Manage vendor relationships to maintain open lines of communications.

• Review work orders to validate the proper levels of detail are in the documents to avoid misconceptions and incomplete deliveries.

• Act as a cross-functional liaison between third parties' storage, backup and recovery, applications, network, and security.

• Participate in the development of new architecture for new storage and backup strategies which will align the best practices for applications, HIPPA, SEC, Environments: UNIX/Linux Servers, VMware, HP storage, Hitachi storage, IBM SVC, TSM backup, NetApp, Storage, SAN, Oracle, SAP Hana, MS SQL, Pega, Multi-Datacenter. Employer name: Premier Digital Services 03/2015 to 09/2015 Client: Premiere Digital Services

Role: Sr. Storage Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Project name: Support of Isilon and Private cloud storage Project:

• Ran quarterly health checks on EMC Isilon. Applied patches and gathered performance statistics as need.

• Managed vendor relationships and POCs regarding storage platforms and architectures.

• Configured and deployed NFS and SMB servers with transfer capabilities between 3.5Gb/s and 4.5Gb/s.

• Created storage standards and reference architectures.

• Installed S3/DS3 Black Pearl and T950 Library for long term archive usage.

• Architected and deployed GlusterFS.

• Prototyped Ceph .68 release on Ubuntu platform

o Decide on JBOD chasis – how many drives, what type of disk expander units, how many drives per JBOD, type of drive interface, and erasure coding. o Made decisions on the number of MDC and SDS server – how many physical and how many virtual.

o Ran performance test on block and file storage

o Attached 3 virtual nodes of Gluster to the block (Ceph) o Re-tested performance and redundancy of Gluster

• Troubleshoot storage performance for MAC, Window and Linux systems Environments: UNIX/Linux Servers, MAC, Windows servers, VMware, EMC Isilon, SAN, Pre and Post editing support.

Employer name: TekSystems 12/2014 to 03/2015

Project name: Latin America Storage CDN Analysis and HP 3PAR upgrade Client: Directv

Role: Sr. Storage Engineer (Contract Position)

Location: El Segundo, CA

• Validate Isilon configure for Latin American deployment of CDN Validate redundancy of proposed systems

Ensure Capacity

Determine replication capabilities

Report on above and make any recommendations if necessary

• Determine all of the applications running on HP 3PAR storage. Map the applications to CPGs

Access performance requirements of applications versus current configuration With the growth projects of the applications; justify recommends for disk upgrade or upgrade to a new platform.

Environments: UNIX/Linux Servers, VMware, EMC Isilon, HP 3PAR, NetApp Storage, SAN, Multi-Datacenter. Employer name: Insight Global 10/2014 to 12/2014

Project name: Managed Services

Client: DST STO

Role: Sr. Storage Operations Engineer (Contract Position - Remote) Location: Multi-State

• Provision storage as stated on ServiceNow tickets for new or existing servers/application. Validate that backup resources were available for the additional storage allocated to the server/application.

If the application warranted replication, confirmed that the replication target storage had enough capacity and bandwidth.

Allocate the capacity requested for the server and notify the server engineering/administration group.

• Analyze the performance and capacity of all of the storage arrays within the St. Louis data center. EMC – 4 DMX

NetApp 3-6700 series

HP 4-7400 HP 3PAR

Hitachi 2 VSP, 6 HUS150

Brocade SAN

Cisco SAN

Environments: UNIX Servers, VMware, EMC, Hitachi, HP 3PAR, NetApp Storage, SAN, Multi-Datacenter.

Employer name: Kaiser Permanente 04/2014 to 09/2014 Client: Kaiser Permanente STO

Role: Infrastructure Architect (Contract Position) Location: Pasadena/Corona, CA

Project name: Right sizing

• Determine performance requirements of patient care applications and storage capacity. Ascertain the performance requirements to keep up with upwardly trending requirements.

• Investigate if existing servers, network or storage can be optimized for re high availability and critical applications. Ascertain if any of the IBM platforms can be combined. Environments: AIX Servers, VMware, EMC and NetApp Storage, SAN, Multi- Datacenter

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Employer name: TekSystems 06/2013 to 12/2013

Client: ABC Disney DATG

Role: Storage Engineer (Contract Position) Oversight Location: Burbank, CA

Project name: Data Migration/Storage Consolidation Project;

• Analyze ABC Disney SAN Infrastructure and make recommendations for maintaining and modifying the SAN to accommodate higher performance storage arrays while trying to maintain or exceed customer expectations.

• Oversee the data migration of 560TB of data from 7 HP EVA storage arrays to one EMC VNX storage array while maintaining the integrity of several StorNext file systems.

• Design and implement disaster recovery plans environments.

• Determine the proper size and number of LUNs for the migration of above data.

• Analyzed Brocade/server infrastructure to determine the impact of migrating 560 TB over the SAN.

• Consulted with numerous companies regarding their data center infrastructure on how the data center can be environmental friendly by using virtualization technologies.

• Analyze VNX capability to maintain performance during extreme workflows.

• Point person with regards to bringing the EMC VNX to operational readiness.

• Created appropriate storage pools, LUNs and storage groups to accommodate the data from the HP EVA storage arrays.

• Evaluated and reviewed the capabilities of Vicom appliances to replicate data from the HP EVAs to an EMC VNX. After 2 failed attempts to replicate the data, Sat on a planning committee to determine options for the replication of 560TB will maintaining uptime for customers.

• Evaluated the standby migration plan via StorNext.

• Create and assign LUNs to hosts in preparation for StorNext migration.

• Help diagnose performance and reliability issues with the NetApp E series.

• Ran Brocade health checks which pointed issues with the ATTO HBA.

• Received an upgrade to the ATTO drive and the problem was resolved. Environments: EVA Storage, EMC VNX, StorNext, SAN, MS Office Suite, MAC OS, Linux and Brocade SAN.

Employer name: Marvel Entertainment 11/2012 to 02/2013 Client: Marvel Entertainment

Role: Storage Engineer

Location: Manhattan Beach, CA

Project name: Thor, Ironman 3, Avengers 2, Captain America 2, Relocation of data to new data center.

Project:

• Managed vendor relations with Hitachi and BlueArc which resulting in the upgrades of all Hitachi and BlueArc platforms bringing proper support back into alignment from best effort to fully supported.

• Responsible for designing backup and recovery systems.

• Design and implement disaster recovery plans environments.

• Manage production data storage for feature movie, and animation assets.

• Tune Storage Arrays and BlueArc NAS to achieve performance requirements of pre and post productions.

• Understand the resources required for VMware and Exchange to architect the appropriate LUN configuration.

• Analyze customer data to determine performance bottlenecks and make recommendations on how servers, applications and storage can be transformed to meet performance requirements.

• Consolidate 50TB-120TB onto a transportable pod for post –production containing Hitachi HUS storage and BlueArc servers.

• Migrate file systems from one BlueArc cluster to another to balance the I/O load across the NAS environments.

• Maintained and upgraded all of the storage arrays to a common code set.

• Upgraded all of the BlueArc Mercury has heads to minimize SMB 2 performance and SMB 2 disconnects from MAC running and O/S.

• Worked with Hitachi support to upgrade, Hitachi AMS, Hitachi HUS and Hitachi VSP systems.

• Debugged Hitachi HCAP performance and resiliency.

• Monitored the performance of storage arrays and BlueArc Mercury systems to trend performance requirements.

• Responsible to a replication plan for moving all of the storage 890 TB from Manhattan Beach to Burbank.

• Improved the relationships between Hitachi Service and Marvel – SEV 2 and SEV 3 cases were appropriately addressed.

• Supported and maintained 400TB of Hitachi storage at Marvel’s UK Shepperton facility.

• Tracked and closed all Hitachi cases for the entire Marvel Hitachi owned hardware

Environments: MS Office Suite, Hitachi Storage Arrays, BlueArc NAS/Mercury, Hitachi HCAP –archive storage, VMWare, Exchange, LUN, SMB2, MAC, O/S 1.7, Hitachi AMS/VSP, SEV2/3. Created a

“runbook” for storage for the storage environment

Employer name: Presidio / INX Inc 05/2011 to 11/2012 Project name: Sales

Client: Presidio / INX Inc Customers

Role: Sr. DCV (Data Center Virtualization) Consulting Engineer Location: Woodland Hills, CA

• Sales engagement selling enterprise clients hardware and software to meet their processing requirements

• Conducted high level data center audits of customer data centers to gather needs requirements.

• Post-sales project manager for build of materials sold by Presidio/INX. Environments: Sales, MS Office Suite, SAN, various other software, EMC and NetApp Arrays

Employer name: LiveOffice LLC 07/2009 to 02/2011

Client: LiveOffice LLC

Role: Project Manager & Senior SAN/NAS Engineer

Location: Torrance, CA

Project name: email/email archive and indexing for SOX compliance for customers Projects:

• Stabilized and managed a 1.7PB storage infrastructure deployed in 6 data centers in Europe, South Africa and the continental US. Managed NetApp, BlueArc, Isilon, 3PAR, Hitachi, Shark, Quantum/ADIC tape libraries.

• Upgraded 3PAR storage array to support the indexing and archiving of 220,000 email boxes.

• Created new CPGs and tuned existing CPGs.

• Upgraded SAN from Brocade 4500 switches to Brocade DCX directors.

• Analyzed the ability of the storage infrastructure to support SOX requirements for data backup and retention. Analyzed the ability of the storage platform to support 220,000 email boxes and well as online backups and archive of all critical data.

• Managed projects to move NAS data that was on a NetApp filer to Isilon (150TB of data Migrated). Consolidated Windows based file servers on Isilon (400TB of data migrated).

• Managed and coordinated the service of all Isilon hardware in 6 datacenters with different datacenter providers from Amsterdam to South Africa as well as from El Segundo, CA to Culpeper, VA.

• Managed replication of 350TB of NAS data to a disaster recovery site for worm data residing on BlueArc file systems. Responsible for developing a disaster recovery planning n to protect our customer’s data. Configured and monitored the replication and data protection of all critical information.

• Managed multiple islands of SAN storage. Installed Brocade DCX4 in the main datacenter to stabilize and increase performance of the SAN fabric. These enhancements allow WORM file systems (with authorization) to resized without corruption.

• Patch management of all of the storage platforms and SAN components.

• Manage all vendor relationships with all of the storage vendors.

• Provision and maintain Storage Arrays.

• Maintain SAN availability/reliability

• Provide SAN troubleshooting. .

• Define SAN/switch configurations.

• Monitor Event Logs, and security-related tools.

• Manage Disk and File Systems performance and tuning.

• Troubleshoots highly complex data network and hardware problems; research and analyze significant, complex network problems that require evaluation of intangibles, such as downstream effects on client satisfaction; assesses and evaluates current and future systems.

• Analyze and install, configure, troubleshoot and administer Windows servers.

• Participate in testing and recommending various hardware and software technologies that will improve performance and reliability.

• Evaluate and install new software releases, system upgrades, patches, and resolve software-related problems.

Environments: MS Office Suite, NetApp, BlueArc, Isilon, 3PAR, Hitachi AMS/HUS, Shark, Quantum/ ADIC tape libraries, NAS data, Windows, SAN storage/switch, Brocade DCX4. Employer name: Quantum 03/2008-01/2009

Role: Systems Engineer Deduplication Products.

Location: Irvine, CA

Support Sale Executives in determining the best solution for Quantum’s customers. Developed and delivered presentations which were used for customer engagements.

• Analyzed customer environments and presented possible solutions. Knowledge of Quantum’s physical, virtual library and software products were used to present cost effective backup and recovery solutions for customers.

• Discussed the benefits of disk based backup technologies versus traditional tape with customers.

• Discussed StorNext for data management and archiving needs with customers whose data growth was exploding as a way to help lower their TCO.

• Presented new technologies such de-duplication to customers to make backup and recovery to mitigate some tape’s shortcomings.

Environments: Quantum/ADIC enterprise tape products, VTL, Deduplication storage devices. Isilon, 3PAR, Hitachi AMS/HUS, Shark,

Employer: NBC Universal 04/2006 – 03/2008

Role: Senior Storage Engineer/Architect; Project Manager Location: Studio City, California

• Developed a tiered storage strategy for NBC Universal reducing the overall TCO for storage across numerous business groups. Standardized storage platforms down to three major lanes of storage minimizing the order to delivery time by working with our major storage vendors to develop standard SKUs for ordering new equipment and upgrading existing equipment. Worked closely with finance and my management to prioritize numerous projects. The strategy lifecycle had a pre-determined planned birth to expiration of data which in turned defined retention policies and archiving methods used.

• Minimized downtime for SAP/Oracle applications by implementing storage guidelines, a standardized LUN layout and file system design. The SAP ecosystem was two 50TB; one for domestic and one for overseas. These guidelines made the production, development and test environments more efficient resulting in fewer bug reports in the production environment.

• Project manager for RecoverPoint continuous data protection and replication of NBC Universal’s business critical data. Because of SOX requirements and the inability to use traditional backup and recovery methods, we selected RecoverPoint for the data protect of critical data.

• Doubled the performance of a large DB2 database environment by working in a cross-functional group to determine and eliminate bottlenecks. As a result 30% -40% more transactions were processed per week.

• Developed high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity plans for the protection of NBC Universal’s business critical systems. Designed a replication strategy for replicated broadcast, data audio and movie assets. Established a replication methodology to protect NBC’s SAP/Oracle and DB2 systems in case of a datacenter disaster and for SOX and other regulatory compliance testing. Business critical data was replicated 2500 Miles away to a GE disaster recovery facility.

• Deployed EMC’s ECC product to help determine the trend for growth of the storage infrastructure as well as to quickly determine “hot spots” within the SAN infrastructure. After deploying ECC, ECC identified almost 80TB of orphaned storage and identified storage platforms that were in need of firmware upgrades.

• Ordered, deployed, and configured NAS, SAN storage, SAN switching and backup library for NBC Universal’s co-location site which served our external facing web sites in preparation for expansion of NBC Universal’s web servers and in support of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Consulted with the other IT organizations to rapidly deploy the storage infrastructure which supported the webcast of 2008 Summer Olympics.

• Responsible for capacity planning, backup and restore process design, performance analysis, and developing data disaster recovery plans for the different tiers of storage which reduced downtime and reduced penalties by not meeting our service level agreements. Planned for the capacity growth of all of the storage platforms across NBC’s SAN and NAS storage environments globally while taking into account the availability of the local facilities to accept more storage capacity. Planned, deployed, and managed over 200TB of Tier1 SAN, 200TB of NetApp NAS, and 400TB of Isilon NAS Storage according NBC Universal’s storage guidelines. With the guidelines in place, the deployment of tiered storage was reduced from 3 months down to 2 weeks. Procurement to installation process was reduced to 2 weeks or less.

• I was NBC Universal’s subject matter expert on storage, I participated in number proof of concept evaluations using Six Sigma and Lean processes. VMware evaluations on NAS versus SAN performance were performed to determine the operational and business viability of replicating guest operating systems to NBC Universal’s disaster recovery site. Developed separate plans for NAS and SAN deployments for existing and new deployments of VMware. Long distance, large volume replication testing was conducted across the WAN to determine the loading on the network. Host based and storage platform replication was also tested.

• Worked in a multi

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