Joe Saucedo, Jr.

Senior Lead Storage Engineer/Architect Consultant

Information Storage Associate Version 2

Certification Date May 2015 – Present License EMC551403 Certification authority Dell EMC

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For the past 15 years I have had the opportunities to Lead Teams of Storage Engineers successfully executing various Projects within Corporate Infrastructures. EMC Storage Array Technical Refreshes, HP Storage Arrays, DataDomain, Physical and Virtual Tape Silos, Cisco SANs, Brocade SANs, upgrades and migrations to existing Arrays and Director SAN Switches for hundreds of physical servers, i.e. DELL and HP. Hosting thousands of Virtual Servers running Windows, Linux, Solaris, operating Systems. Data Center Migrations, Data Center Builds company owned and or leased Colocations.

Absolute Vendor relations and coordination’s of 3rd party and contractors. Consolidating Arrays, creating Release, Test, QA, R&D, and Production environments withing the infrastructure.

Many Projects were led as a Project Manager/PMO with coordination/participation of other Teams assigned to the projects, i.e. Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Storage Engineering, Data Center Hardware Services, Systems Developers, and Quality Management Teams where I was the Lead Storage Engineer representing the Storage Engineering Teams. Projects I coordinated had a range of $75k to $1.3 Million dollars in storage, SAN, and hosts interfaces budgets.

Executing Storage Engineering disciplines and procedures, following Best Practices, Corporate Standards and PMO requirements.

Providing Architecture Designs and documentation for Storage Environments for the infrastructure and Client Facing dedicated environments using Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, delivering the Storage Engineering solution to the PMO, Technical Writers, and Change Management Teams. This is my work experience and passion.

Experience

Sr. Storage Engineer Contractor – TEKsystems

8/1/2016 – 01/31/2020

Storage engineering and architecture

(block and object) using XtremIO UNITY VNX5700 (NAS/NFS), VNX5800 (NAS/NFS), EMC CX4, Cisco 9148s, Brocade 5300, Technical Refreshes of Arrays and SAN Switches, Upgrades for Arrays and SAN Switches both hardware and software, PowerPath/PPME. Completed VNX Upgrades to Vendor Target Levels

Maintaining Performance of SAN Storage Environment Appling approved configuration changes, Creating and provisioning Storage LUNs, Pools etc.. Weekly and Monthly Capacity and Performances reporting Sr. Storage Engineer - Fiserv

2000 - 2016

Storage engineering and architecture (block and object) using EMC VMAXs, VNX5700, NS960

(NAS/NFS/CIFS), DMX-4, EMC CX4, Cisco 9513, 9509 SAN director switches, Brocade 48000, 5300, tape silos including STK L700, i500-Scaler, EMC ISILON clustered storage/NAS, VNX5300 Unified Storage Frames, Technical Refreshes of Arrays and SAN Switches, Upgrades for Arrays and SAN Switches both hardware and software, PowerPath/PPME.

Completed VSPHERE V5.0 training for VMWARE'ESX, VMAX w/DARE and FAST/VP. Project leader for storage engineering representation and support for many projects spanning the United States at various business model sites.

Present standard storage offerings that utilize enterprise platforms where hosted environments are presented stand-alone solutions using due diligence of vendor solutions, technology, support, cost, and implementations.

Also provided the hands-on technical resources required to implement the accepted solutions using my skill sets and knowledge of said solutions.

Data Center Migrations/Consolidations, Data Center Build-outs, and Co-Location build-outs. Storage Operational Support for 22 Data Centers.

Strong in Visio and PowerPoint for technical documentation and presentations utilizing WebEx and other tools to present and share information across the internet when practical. Education

Texas Institute of Technology

Certificate in Programming/Operations, Computer Science, 1981 Honors and Awards

Hustle Award "October 1987" for designing an online backup/restore menu-driven system that reduced 3-hour down times to 30 minutes using CISC/Clist/Macros 5,000+ lines of coding. Interests

Leading-edge storage solutions, future data center designs, training younger technicians to take on the present challenges for our future.

Technical Schools and Professional Networks.

Languages

English

Spanish

References upon request.