Aws Cloud Information Technology

Richard Brown

Arlington, VA 571-***-**** *******.*****@******************.***

SUMMARY

Over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology industry as Storage, VMware, Cloud, Windows, UNIX & Linux Professional with hands-on IT experience. Have advanced experience in enterprise-level systems and Storage Area Network SAN & Virtualization design, implementation, integration and support. Expertise in Storage Area Network Management Architecture, Administration Testing, Production & Development (24x7) environment, experienced in managing a team which provides support of Cisco and Brocade switches. Provide effective communication at all levels of management, peers and customers through clarity of expression and the ability to organize thoughts both written and oral. Possess advanced analytical & problem-solving skills, a committed team leader and player as well as an independent worker, able to work with minimum supervision and to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

Securing Your AWS Cloud (2020)

AWS Cloud Practioner Essentials for US Federal Government (2020)

AWS Cloud Practioner Course (2020)

AWS Certified Developer – Associate Course (2020)

Introduction to Google Cloud Platform (2020)

AWS Cloud Architecture course (2017)

VMware Vsphere 5.5 to 6.0 What's New, VCloud/vRealize Administration (2015)

Nimble Storage Certified Administrator (2015)

Vmware ESX 5.5 Installation and Maintenance (VCP candidate 2014)

EMC2 SAN copy & Snapview (2011)

EMC2 Certified Proven Professional Associate (2008)

BigIP F5 LTM Essentials and Advanced Topics v9.x (2007) F5 Certified Product Consultant (2008)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage: Dell EMC2 ViPR SRM 4.6, PowerMax 8k & 2k, Unity 880F, 600 & 400, XtremIO, Isilon/Powerscale f200, h500, a2k & a3k, VNX 5400, VNXe 3300, Nimble Storage HF60&40, CS260,1000, Nexgen N5-100, Clariion CX4, CX300/500/700, AX4, Symmetrix DMX 800/1000, AX150i, Netapp

Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, FTP, WAN protocols iSCI, ISL, VLAN, FCIP, SAN Switches, Brocade 200 Series, SilkWorm 4100b,5100, EMC7420 & 6520, Radware WSD-PRO & BigIP F5 3400,1500,6900 Load-balancers, Cisco Nexus 5596, MDS 9713, 9710, 9513, 9506 & 09, OSI model.

OS / Products Windows 2016, 2012; Solaris (10, 9, 8, 7, 2) RedHat Linux (4,5,6,7)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Justice Intellidyne/Ironbow Technologies, Washington DC Nov 2022 – Present

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Operations and Maintainance for all Storage and VMWare infrastructure. VCenter, ESXi, vROPS

Dell EMC Storage Center & Fluid FS Compellent, XtremIO, Isilon PowerScale, PowerVault, Unity 880F

Managed Brocade 6520, Cisco MDS Switches

Veeam backup and Site to Site replication, Zerto & Veritas

Library of Congress Zolon Technologies, Washington DC Feb 2019 – Aug 2022

Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

EMC ViPR-SRM Subject Matter Expert, Arhitecture, operations, management & reporting

Created systemwide health check of architecture used by team of Engineers

Planning and migration of multiple departmental NAS shares between Datacenter and storage devices using rsync, EMCopy & Robocopy

Support Storage Operations & Maintenance daily

Ensure operations & maintenance of all Library EMC, RAID Inc/Netapp, HP Nimble, Cisco storage infrastructure.

Managed snapshots via VPLEX and Recoverpoint.

Migrated Library data from onsite to AWS cloud using AWS Snowballs, Snowmobile & Snow family devices.

Datapipe/Rackspace Federal Cloud Services, Reston, Va Dec 2017 – Feb 2019

Senior Systems Engineer

Managed & Architected client cloud-based infrastructure with concentration in Backup & Replication

Responsibilities:

Managed backup and replication for COOP and Disaster Recovery of all cloud based clients

Provided leadership and strategy for present and future client infrastructure needs

Implemented test & pilot AWS infrastructure.

Lead SME for EMC VMAX, VNX, NetAPP, 3Par, EMC Data Domain, Nimble Storage

Worked on Cloud based VMware 6.5, SAN/NAS Storage, Windows/Active Directory, RHEL for various public & private sector clients daily.

Worked with clients to architect viable cloud solutions.

Energy Information Administration/Transportation Security Administration,

Washington, DC & Arlington, Va Jan 2011 – Oct 2017

Storage Manager/Virtualization Operations

Managed Storage Area Network Infrastructure and VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Ensured VM operations for entire EIA using VMware vSphere 6.0

Created Visio engineering design document of xRays vCloud project.

Created architectural design of EIA cloud

Debated business and technical aspects of private vs public cloud offering.

Worked on new enterprise SAN switch planning & justification.

Worked on all-flash storage justification for Virtual Desktop Initiative.

Provided financial, technical and business justification for legacy upgrades.

Negotiated deals to for technical infrastructure while adhering to organizational financial constraints.

Created project plans to upgrade end of life infrastructure.

Reviewed and provided approval of all purchases for virtualization and storage infrastructure.

Contributed to architecture modernization planning for EIA as related to increasing eff

Designed EMC Unity and all flash XtremIO based on application performance requirements

Reviewed and recommended purchase order for accuracy based on IOPs Storage calculator

Reviewed and approved purchases based on multiple price offering from various storage vendors

Responsible for VM site to site replication using Veeam

Implemented ViPR SRM, Unity and XtremIO

Migrated entire EIA storage environment from Cisco MDS to Brocade with minimal downtime

Designed, architected & implemented storage solution to significantly improve EIA VDI performance

Migrated the storage of 200+ Physical and Virtual end hosts from Clariion CX4 to VNX 5400 to Unity

Implemented and maintained Nimble Storage, Nexgen &VNXe NAS devices

Researched and arranged demonstrations of new storage & vitualization technology for possible client use.

Migrated the storage of 100+ end hosts from Symmetrix DMX to Clariion CX4 to VNX5400

Architected and designed Disaster Recovery site – Veeam VM Replication Admin.

Managed and maintained all storage and Net Backup Recovery infrastructure.

Managing storage team that monitors CX3,4, Netapp V3240 using EMC Control Center & NetIQ.

Monitored and maintained virtualization environments with VMWare ESX 6.0, 5.0, 5.5, Vmware View for VDI, Vrealize/VCAC/VCloud

Break/fix & Monitored TSA storage systems for entire United States airports

Department of Justice/Office of Justice Programs, Washington, DC May 2009 – July 2011

Senior Storage Area Network Engineer

Manage Storage Area Network and web-based load-balancing devices.

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented EMC Recover Point & Mirrorview SAN replication.

Administered and managed all EMC Clariion CX4, CX700 & AX4 SANs.

Implemented, managed and zoned Silkworm and EMC Brocade switches.

Installed, configured and maintained all BigIP F5 Load-balancers.

Administered Standalone, Blades, VMWare, MS Windows 2003,2008 Servers

Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 2006 – 2009

Senior Engineer

Managed dc.gov web portal, which includes all internal and external infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Provision Dell/EMC AX150i storage for web back-end.

Integrate Google search appliances into existing intranet and dc.gov.

Installed, configured and maintained BigIP F5 Load-balancers

Scripted Sun Solaris UNIX commands to start up and shutdown systems daily.

Implemented system wide security policies on Windows 2003 servers.

Monitored and administered Red Hat Linux based appliance systems.

U.S. House of Representatives, Rochester, NY; Manassas, VA 2002 – 2006

Senior Systems Engineer (Consultant)

Lockheed Martin, maintained a Datacenter with Windows, Solaris servers, Networking and Storage infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Automate and script backup of EMC Symmetrix mirrored volumes using Navicli and command line.

Lead a team of 2 to 5 in installation and configuration of new servers on to the Datacenter racks.

Implement hardware such as Emulex & Q-Logic HBA and connect to storage.

Adding new LUNs from EMC to the host systems.

Install, configure and maintain Windows OS and updating patches.

Perform Tape Library maintenance such as cycling and replacing the faulty media.

Perform Daily System Checks by monitoring all Windows servers and report to logging system.

Framework Incorporated, Tarrytown, NY 2000 - 2002

Systems/Implementation Engineer

Provided enterprise software implementation services for a leading e-business company

Spearheaded automation/scripting of proprietary installation package using Unix C shell scripting, Visual Basic, Perl, Vi, Pico, Sed & Awk.

Administered and maintained quality assurance, analysis, production and Forte multi-tiered environments for clients internally and externally.

Performed vulnerability assessments for communication between application, database and web server (n)-tier architecture.

Developed and maintained training on proprietary software system utilized by other system engineers on-site and in the field.

Ensured scalability, partitioning, fail-over and load-balancing features of proprietary software.

Worked with senior management to identify a reasonable, phased implementation process for projects.

Consulted with clients to develop required use-cases, workflows, system designs, configuration resources and test plans.

The American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC 1999-2000

Information Technology Manager

Served as main point-of-contact for database/IT management and development.

Designed databases and enhanced system performance.

Provided desktop support to all staff levels by diagnosing and resolving hardware, software issues.

Coordinated data processing workflow and system operations.

Supervised several data entry personnel.

Liaison with service providers and vendors for support.

Assisted with technology planning.

The American Society of Travel Agents, Alexandria, VA 1998-1999

Database Analyst 1999

Provided customized, ad hoc extracts of data from membership database to staff. Responsible for understanding database structure and business processes in all departments to translate requests from non-technical personnel into database processes necessary to provide needed information.

Maintained data structures in a LAN-based relational database management system.

Delivered highly targeted information products to end-users quickly and accurately.

Served as technical point of reference for data exchanges.

Developed, maintained and documented procedures to enable non-technical end-users to retrieve information on demand through a simple, point-and-click user interface.

Maintained data consistency by conducting database searches for improperly entered records.

Records Representative 1998-1999

Processed membership applications, distributed membership materials, and maintained membership database.

Managed, maintained, and updated company’s intranet.

Produced weekly national and international reports to executive staff.

Help desk administrator for Windows 98 & NT 4.0.

Communicated and supported potential and existing members via telephone, mail, e-mail and fax.

Processed applications via Imis through MS Access backend.

Maintained the ODBC stability between Imis and Access db.

University of Maryland Computer Science Center 1995 – 1997

Help Desk Support

Configured Windows, Unix, and Macintosh Computer Systems

Provided user support to staff and students

Automated daily desktop maintenance tasks

EDUCATION

The University of Maryland, College Park

Bachelor of Arts, 1999

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