Data Systems Aws Cloud
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KELLY CARPENTER
Saint Charles, Illinois 60175-8521
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COMPUTING HARDWARE
Conventional and blade servers from Cisco Dell, IBM, Sun and HP,
Hyperconverged servers Nutanix, Simplivity on specific hardware.
NETWORKING
Cisco routers, switches, PIX firewall (CatOS / IOS), wireless, TCP/IP, Ethernet, ATM, Fibre Channel,Mellanox NVIDIA Infiniband switches, Voltaire Infiniband switches, Infiniband, Xsigo/Oracle Infiniband Directors, Acopia switches, Rainfinity.
STORAGE
Bluearc, Cohesity,Hitachi Data Systems USP, VSP,G1000,DELL ECS, EMC Symmetrix 3700, Symmetrix DMX, Symmetrix VMAX, Symmetrix Powermax, Clariion/VNX,Unity,Powerscale/Isilon, Powerstore and Xtremio, NetAPP, LSI / Engenio, STK/SUN, Lustre, GFS, GPFS, Powerscale/Isilon, Pillar Data, HP XP7, HP 3PAR 200850, Brocade switches, Crossroads storage routers, Cisco / Topspin Infiniband switches, Emulex, Qlogic, LSI and JNI Fibre Channel HBA's,FICON directors, IBM DASD on various IBM arrays, IBM Cleversafe, ICOS,Falconstor Appliance, Data Domain, IBM Storwize SVC, DS8000, DS3X00, Flashsystem 820,Pure Storage, Rubrik, Solidfire, Nimble Storage, Storsimple, Panzura, Nasuni, Caringo, Scality, Amazon AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Services, Cloudian, Hadoop, Vast, Infinidat.
SOFTWARE
EMC Powerpath, Navisphere Suite, Soultions Enabler..Timefinder/SRDF, SYMCLI, Symantec Storage Foundation Suite, Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM), Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) and Veritas filesystem (VxFS), Netbackup,,Symantec Cluster Server, Sun Cluster Server, NetApp OCI Suite, OCUM, NetApp Snapmanager for SQL,Exchange, Cloud Volumes Ontap, AWS FSXN for NetApp ONtap, Virtual Infrastructure,VMware Vserver Suite,Hitachi Storage Navigator/Device Manager,Tuning Manager,Replication Manager,Tiered Storage Manager, HDLM, Dynamic Provisioning, HORCM/Raid Manager, Sun Grid Engine, PBS, IBM Spectrum LSF job schedulers. IBM Global Mirror, IBM Metro Mirror, Double Take, Hitachi.Universal Replicator (HUR), NetApp Snap mirror, vSphere SRM Powerscale/Isilon SyncIQ, Zerto, SAN Copy, SRDF-A,Timefinder, Terraform, AWS Console, EC2, S3.
OPERATING SYSTEMS
UNIX, Solaris, Linuxes (Redhat, Rocky,Debian,Oracle, Suse, Ubuntu and others), SCO, DGUX, Unicos, Cray Linux, Mac OSX, Windows (NT, XP, 2003 Server,2008 Server, Server 2012, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10).
CERTIFICATIONS
Riverbed RSCP 2008, NetApp NCDA 2009,NetApp NCSA SAN 2009, NetApp NCIE SAN 2009.
Recertifications in progress. Datadobi Certified Professional 5 V2 2022, NVIDIA/Mellanox Infiniband certification in progress. 4/2023
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CG/Hamilton Barnes/Tego Data/XPO Logistics
Storage, Backup and Data Migration Engineer
February 2024 to September 2024.
Performed data migrations between data centers using Zerto as the data migration approach/tool.
Created and edited Zerto VPG’s verified connectivity with vCenter’s, VLANS/IP subnets, VSANS.
Administered changes and patching on Windows servers, AIX servers with GPFS filesystems, RHEL, Rocky Linux, Debian Linux and Ubuntu Linux.
Performed test cutovers with DNS/Infoblox updates, troubleshooting any issues.
Performed backups and restores with Rubrik RSC and local Rubrik CDM.
Rearchitected Rubrik backup and DR strategy for Normal VM’s, SQL Server and Oracle Databases.
Verified function and performance of backups and recovery in both normal and failover configurations.
Manage multi storage arrays from IBM, HP 3Par, Hitachi, EMC Unity, EMC PowerMax, and EMC Powerstore
Backed up and restored vSphere backups and virtualized SQL server and Oracle databases.
Cut over and created new SLA Domain Policies and replication as the data was relocated to new data centers and Rubrik clusters. Cleaned up and deleted old SLA Domain policies that were no longer needed. Performed vMotions and Storage vMotions to free up old servers and storage arrays.
Purestorage configuration and information gathering with purestorage scripts including REST API calls, Python and Powershell.
Performed data migration using VMware.
Imported block data from PowerMax and Vmax to PowerStore
Isilon/Powerscale, DELL Powerstore arrays.
Performed CLI SAN Zoning with Brocade FC switches.
Worked on test migrations and POC’s from on premises storage and compute to AWS, Azure, and google cloud servers and storage including blob storage services in cloud.
Upgraded Data Ontap clusters in the 9.X code range.
Utilized NetApp Cloud IQ for issues diagnostics performance and planning.
Upgraded Purestorage clusters in a lab setting to 6.5.X code range.
Utilized Pure1 Manage for tech support cases.
Utilized Rubrik support for Rubrik cases.
Utilized Dell support for Dell cases.
CG/Cynet/HCL/State Farm
October 2023 to August 2024
Storage Engineer
Monitored ticket queues for issues with storage arrays.
Performed or assisted with upgrades and configuration changes on IBM ICOS, Infinidat, DELL Isilon/Powerscale, DELL Powerstore arrays.
Assisted in clean up and deletion of old object data on IBM ICOS.
Configuration, administration and troubleshooting of EMC Powerstore, and Isilon Storage systems.
Assisted with Cisco SAN FC based zoning.
Utilized IBM support for ICOS related cases.
Monitored ICOS to cloud data migration for issues and progress.
CG/Nasscomm/Ahead/Humana
Storage Engineer
October 2021 to June 2024.
Perform troubleshooting on NAS and SAN issues utilizing both Netapp and NetApp AFF, Powerscale/Isilon,VMAX and Purestorage arrays and FlashBlade with a Cisco SAN. To Cisco UCS blades and HP blades. Help troubleshoot Powerscale/Isilon and NetApp issues.
Configure migraate and combine NetApp CVO volumes on Azure and AWS.
Migration of data from Netapp, Powerscale and Windows file servers to new file and compute servers in GCP
NetApp environment monitoring with NetApp Cloud insights.
Data Ontap/cDOT software upgrades utilizing upgrade advisor.
Implementation and monitoring of DR with Netapp Snapmirror and SnapVault, Powerscale/Isilon SyncIQ and Supera Eyeglass. Purestorage ActiveDR.
Migrated NetApp SAN data to Purestorage SAN.
POC Netapp NFS and SMB share migration to Pure storage Flashblade.
Backed up replicated data and recovered data with redundant Rubrik clusters.
Object storage monitoring and configuration with IBM ICOS, NetApp StorageGrid, Dell ECS.
Dell Powerstore POC with vSphere 6.7 and 7.X and 8.0 U1.
Configured and performed backups and restores of virtual machines and Physical Database servers with Cohesity.
Dell Power Protect Data Manager (PPDM) administration, Avamar Administration Data Domain administration.
Performed POC data migrations between data centers using Zerto as the data migration approach/tool.
Created and edited VPG’s verified connectivity with vCenter’s, VLANS/IP subnets, VSANS.
Performed test cutovers with DNS/Infoblox updates, troubleshooting any issues.
Assist with Terraform and Ansible Vast POC planning.
Troubleshooting Docker /Kubernetes, and other container related issues.
Assisted in migration of volume replication loads from VPLEX to Purestorage Active/Active replications.
Configured and assisted with IBM Hyperswap, and Global Mirror, Metro Mirror configuration on IBM Z Series.
Configured and assisted with HUR and Shadowimage configuration on for open systems replication.
StorageX migration POC for migration of Isilon, NetApp and Unity demonstrating products capabilities for this environment.
Migration of DELL VNX to UNITY, NetApp and Isilon/Powerscale.
Preparation of VNX for cold storage (powered off), environment used for possible future emergency data restores.
Administered RHEL Linux and AIX / GPFS systems, with patching troubleshooting
Perform troubleshooting with vendors, IBM, Purestorage,Cisco,Hitachi,Dell and NetApp and create Servicenow change controls as needed for changes.
Decomissioning of storage arrays and servers
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CG/Clearbridge/Dell/Northwestern Medical
May 2023 to August 2023
Powerscale/Isilon Resident.
Perform data migration followed by decommissioning of old storage nodes to newer Powerscale/Isilon clusters.
Utilized SyncIQ for data replication/migration between Powerscale/Isilon clusters.
Utilized treedelete to delete data on old Powerscale/Isilon clusters to decrease time to decommission old storage nodes.
Create or modify SMB shares and NFS exports as needed.
Assist with migrating data to a new smartlock configuration.
Creation and resolution of Dell support cases.
CG/Planet/Morton Salt
Senior Storage EngineerF
October 2022 to February 2023
Assist in designing global migration process from file servers and Nasuni filers to MS Sharepoint.
Utilized Sharepoint Migration Tool (SMT) for migrate file shares to sharepoint. Updated DFS entries during migrations to make the project function properly. Performed both granular sub share level and full share level migrations to prove proof of concept on the migration process.
Performed traditional fileshare based home drive migrations to MS OneDrive to prove proof of concept on the migration process.
CG/Ulta Beauty
Senior Storage Engineer
July 2022 to January 2023
Performed troubleshooting and maintenance on Purestorage, Powerscale/Isilon, XtremIO,VMAX, 3PAR storage arrays.
Performed troubleshooting with Nasuni and Actifio storage services and associated virtual machines.
Prepared plans for future data migrations and decommissions from VMAX to purestorage.
Created and edited VPG’s verified connectivity with vCenter’s, VLANS/IP subnets, VSANS.
Performed test cutovers with DNS/Infoblox updates, troubleshooting any issues.
Configured new Cisco UCS/ Purestorage environment.
Zoned and added purestorage LUNS to vSphere 7.0.
Migrated data from multiple vCenters using Zerto and Storage vMotion.
Cleaned up SAN and NAS Infrastructure.
Assisted with migration of data to Azure and AWS via Nasuni gateways.
Assisted Terraform team with configuration of new cloud resources.
Troubleshooting issues with NetApp Ontap Select.
CG/Teksystems/Ulta Beauty
Senior Storage Engineer
April 2022 to June 2022
Performed troubleshooting and maintenance on Purestorage, Powerscale/Isilon, XtremIO,VMAX, 3PAR storage arrays.
Performed troubleshooting with Nasuni and Actifio storage services and associated virtual machines.
OneFS maintenance and upgrade, SyncIQ maintenance,Superna Eyeglass maintenance.
Prepared plans for future data migrations and decommissions from VMAX to purestorage.
Data migrations with Zerto
Configured new Cisco UCS/ Purestorage environment.
Zoned and added purestorage LUNS to vSphere 7.0.
Migrated data from multiple vCenters using Zerto and Storage vMotion.
StorageX migration of NetApp and Isilon based CIFS/SMB file shares.
Cleaned up SAN and NAS Infrastructure.
Assisted with migration of data to Azure and AWS via Nasuni gateways.
Assisted Terraform team with configuration of new cloud resources.
Troubleshooting issues with NetApp Ontap Select.
CG/Fountain Group/Abbott
Senior Storage Engineer
February 2022 – October 2022.
Performed data migrations from servers to MS Sharepoint using Microsoft Sharepoint Migration tool (SMT) and the Sharepoint Migration accessment tool (SPMT)
Performed data migrations from home drives based on file shares to OneDrive.
Performed data migrations from servers to MS Azure using Azure File Sync
Performed data migrations from file servers and storage arrays to new storage arrays using, a variety of different tools, beyond compare, robocopy
Verification of file systems using treesize,
Performed permissions remediation with secure copy
Performed troubleshooting and maintenance on Purestorage, Powerscale/Isilon, 3PAR storage arrays.
Performed troubleshooting with Nasuni and Actifio storage services and associated virtual machines.
Prepared plans for future data migrations and decommissions from various storage platforms.
CC/VTG/DELL/EMC/Icon Health
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
November 2021 – December 2021
Performed network and Powerscale/Isilon cluster performance troubleshooting with video workflows .
Upgraded of Powerscale/Isilon Clusters to OneFS 9.1.0.12.
Upgraded Secure Gateway to 5.0.0.10,
Upgraded InsightIQ to 4.1.4.57 then to 4.1.4.60.
Performed netastat, wireshark (TCPDump) and and Atto Thunderbolt captures for analysis of network traffic for SMB protocol.
Optimized Powerscale/Isilon, Mac OS X V11 and Network switch configuration for video optimized workflow with Apple Mac OS X V 11 and Windows 10 clients.
CC/VTG/DELL/EMC/CVS
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
April 2021 – October 2021
Data migration with Data Dobi,
Assist with design and execution of data migrations and related activites.
Data migration with Datadobi, emcopy, SCP and UNIX/Linux shell scripts.Active Directory troubleshooting.
CG/Infosys/Sydata/Daimler/Broadcom
Sr Storage & backup Engineer
March 2021 to Jun 30 2021.
Designed data migration plans from NetApp, Hitachi,EMC and various object storage platforms to HPE 3PAR and various public and private cloud solutions.
Assist with environment verification and preparation for infrastructure upgrades, and related activites.
Assist with planning and configuration new Purestorage arrays for servers with FC and iSCSI SANS.
Planning and designing backup architecture and overall data protection strategy for Postgres SQL databases with Cohesity.This includes designing cohesity views and data retention levels with replication to another Cohesity cluster in a DR site.
CG/Nasscomm/Netapp January 2021 to August 2021
Server as the escalation point for customer, case initiation, management and NetApp escalations.
Data migration with Snapmirror, Data Dobi, SAN FLI, 7MTT, SVMDR, StorageX, Komprise, UNIX/Linux shell scripts, and Windows/ powershell scripts.
Planning and executing Data Ontap 8.X and 9.X upgrades, including both firmware and software.
Implementing NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) and NetApp Aggregate level encryption., (NAE)
Assisting with upgrades on Ontap 9.6 through Ontap 9.8
Implementing NetApp storage efficiency terchnologies, dedup and flash based efficiency terchnologies.
Performance tuning with OCI, formerly OCUM, perstat, iostat and netstat.
Assisted with metrocluster troubleshooting of both FC and IP based metroclusters.
Assisted with Data Ontap seleet, Cloud Volumes Ontap, NetApp cloud sync, and other NetApp related cloud issues for customers.
CG/Panzer Solutions/Beermann Law
Jan 2021 – April 2021
HP Nimble Storage resident.
Install and configure HP Nimble storage array and integrate it into a Hyper-V virtualization environment. Configure networking, iSCSI datastore LUNS
Perform live migration of virtual machines.
Patching and firmware upgrades of all hardware and client computers.
CC/VTG/DELL/EMC/Citadel
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
June 2020 – Aug 2020
Assist with data migrations and related activites. Assist with upgrades of Powerscale/Isilon Clusters to OneFS 8.2.2.0.
Migration of VNX arrays to Powermax arrays.
Verification of multipathing on SAN hosts using powerpath in migration of data to Powermax arrays.
Upgraded and implemented additional InsightIQ VM’s to monitor clusters
Assist with data restructuring and reengineering for best practices with an existing Powerscale/Isilon clusters in a physical and VSphere virtualized environment. Assisting the customers in new 8.2.2.0 features that would be useful in their environment.
Changing of file and directory tree permissions or Windows ACLs from within OneFS as needed.
Assisted with proof of concepts for All Flash Powerscale/Isilon clusters in various compute configurations.
Assisted with proof of concepts for All Flash NetApp clusters Utilizing Data Ontap 9.X in various compute configurations.
Data migration with Data Dobi, emcopy, SCP and UNIX/Linux shell scripts.NIS maps and netgroups.
The Computer Guy (CG)/ Multiple Customers
February 2020 to May 2020
Storage Architect
Migration of Vmax array data to Powermax arrays, and Powermax to Powermax arrays migration using DELL Non Disruptive Migration (NDM)
Verification of multipathing on SAN hosts using powerpath.
Migration of VNX and Unity NAS arrays to Powerscale/Isilon clusters using separate smart connect zones for each customer.
Assist customers with HP3PAR clusters for both VSphere virtualized clusters and physical machines.
Creating LUNS and daily administration.
Assist with data restructuring and reengineering for best practices with an existing Powerscale/Isilon clusters in a physical and VSphere virtualized environment.
Changing of file and directory tree permissions or Windows ACLs from within OneFS as needed.
Assisted with proof of concepts for All Flash Powerscale/Isilon clusters in various compute configurations.
Assisted with proof of concepts for All Flash NetApp clusters Utilizing Data Ontap 9.X in various compute configurations.
StorageX migration for migration of Unity, Isilon and Windows file server based shares.
Perform day to day maintenance for customer NetApp Data Ontap 9.X clusters and EMC arrays.
Perform firmware upgrades.
Initiate tech support cases with NetApp and EMC and Cisco.
Day to day administration on Powermax,VNX/Unity arrays for both SAN and NAS applications.
Zoning of Cisco MDS and NXOS and Brocade SANs.
Performed firmware upgrades and maintenance of Cisco UCS systems.
The Cisco SAN zoning used for the migration utilized cisco smart zoning technology to minimize switch memory utilization.
Administration of powerpath on all EMC platforms,LUN provisioning and decommissioning on Powermax arrays.
Administration of storage on Linux hosts with Powermax, Unity and NetApp arrays.
Diagnose transient network issues on specific SVM’s and LIFS.
Working with customers and multiple vendor teams to find root cause of issues.
Nasscomm/DELL/EMC/Illinois DoIT
Powerscale/Isilon and ECS Resident
August 2019 – February 2020
Assist with transitioning to new cluster nodes and data restructuring and reengineering for best practices with an existing Powerscale/Isilon cluster in a physical and VSphere virtualized environment. Assist with transitioning off older cluster nodes after new cluster nodes are added. Assisted in data migration planning, scripting and assisting new Powerscale/Isilon users in features that would be useful in their environment. Designed and implemented a security issue validation procedure to help identify the users in question for a potential security issue. Maintaining, migrating, consolidating and decommissioning multiple Veritas Cluster Server instances for file serving and application services. Access zones POC.
Assisted in troubleshooting with AIX/GPFS storage related issues.
Assisted with migration of data from VMAX to Powermax arrays
Administration of powerpath on all EMC platforms,LUN provisioning and decommissioning on Powermax arrays.
Assisted with Zoning of Cisco MDS and NXOS and Brocade SANs.
Performed firmware upgrades and maintenance of Cisco UCS systems.
Teksystems/Allstate
Storage Resident
October 2018 – September 2019
Assist with issues as they arise on the weekend.
Monitor enterprise storage arrays/clusters consisting of NetApp, Hitachi, EMC, Purestorage, Scality and IBM V500 and V700 arrays utilizing flashcopy and global mirror.
Fixed backup issues with Netbackup and Rubrik. Creating reports using splunk and working with automation team on scripts. Utilized NetApp CLI and OCUM administration, Assisted with Data Ontap 9.X (Cluster Mode) upgrades. Performed NetApp cluster failovers and application testing for DR.
Responsible for internal level 3 support on weekends and was responsible for NetApp tech support calls and tickets. Implemented and handled issues with Cloud Volumes Ontap.
Worked on ansible playbooks for storage automation, worked with REST API’s and CLI commands to retrieve information from storage arrays to assist in creating automation scripts. Assisted with Zoning of Cisco MDS and NXOS and Brocade SANs.
Nasscomm/DataBlue CHS
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
May 2019 – July 2019
Assist with data migration for an existing Powerscale/Isilon cluster in a VSphere virtualized environment. Assisted in data migration planning, scripting and verification of new data locations and associated security policies.
Utilized DELL/EMC CloudIQ to monitor storage array performance and health.
Migrated data with emcopy,robocopy,SFTP/SCP and powershell scripts.
Nasscomm/DELL/EMC/Caleres
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
April 2019 – May 2019
Assist with Implementation and best practices for a new Powerscale/Isilon cluster in a VSphere virtualized environment. Assisted in data migration planning, scripting and assisting new Powerscale/Isilon users in features that would be useful in their environment.
Migrated data with emcopy,robocopy,SFTP/SCP and powershell scripts.
Utilized DELL/EMC CloudIQ to monitor storage array performance and health.
Nasscomm/EMC/Rush University
XtremIO Resident
September 2018 – February 2019
Assist with Implementation and best practices for XtremIO X2 in a VSphere virtualized environment optimized for Epic Medical Records Software. Configured XtremIO X2 native replication.
Ran failover/failback tests to verify validity of replication.
Utilized DELL/EMC CloudIQ to monitor storage array performance and health.
Ranstad Technologies/Brightstar
July 2017 to December 2018
Storage Architect
Troubleshoot issues on existing SAN
Capacity upgrades and maintenance on VMAX, XtremIO, VNX,
UNITY, Powerscale/Isilon, IBM and QNAP storage Arrays.
SRDF/A for replication to remote VMAX.
VSphere data unmapping to free unneeded data back to the storage arrays.
Reclaimed 150TB of Vmax capacity.
Design strategies and perform data migration from previous generation storage to new arrays and clouds.
Administration of powerpath on all EMC platforms, LUN provisioning and decommissioning on Vmax arrays.
Performed Cisco UCS firmware upgrades and configuration, this was done in conjunction with VSphere upgrades to guarantee compatibility with both UCS and VSphere.
Backups with Commvault Simpana, EMC Avamar and various snapshot technologies.
Backups rearchitecture long term proof of concepts with Cohesity and Rubrik
Policy migrations from Avamar to Cohesity and Rubrik, and performance testing of the migrated policies
Avamar backup migrations to Cohesity and Rubrik and performance testing of the of data restores
Use NetApp OCI for monitoring, reporting and planning for specific portions of the environment..
Perform upgrades of Data Ontap 8 to 9, disk drive and shelf firmware upgrades.
Traffic reengineering with SVM’s and Lifs.
Data Ontap 9 NDU upgrades.
Rengineer storage environment for future, including networking modifications, storage platform changes.
Assist with AWS cloud architecture and implementation.
Assist with Azure cloud architecture and implementation.
Assist with Google cloud architecture and implementation.
Migration of existing applications to the respective cloud platforms for performance and function testing in multiple geographies.
StorageX migration for migration of Unity, Celerra NetApp and Isilon NAS/File based data.
PowerMax POC
XTremIO X2 POC
Purestorage X series POC
VPLEX maintenance and upgrades
NetApp Data Ontap 7 mode major upgrades to Data Ontap 8 C mode utilizing 7MTT.
+Data Ontap 8 C mode minor version upgrades.
Perform upgrades of Data Ontap 8 to 9, disk drive and shelf firmware upgrades.
Traffic reengineering with SVM’s and LIFS.
Migrations from VBlock/VNX to VMAX.
Netapp OCUM and System Manager and CLI for day to day management of NetApp.
VNX to VMAX
VNX to Unity.
VMAX to XtremIO
Celerra to Powerscale/Isilon
VNX to Powerscale/Isilon
Netapp to Powerscale/Isilon
Any platform to AWS
Any platform to Azure
XTremIO to Purestorage
VMAX to Purestorage
VNX to Purestorage
Unity to Purestorage
Implemented Purestorage WFS on Purestorage arrays with SMB 2 and SMB 3 with transparent failover and NFS 3.
Verified SMB3 transparent failover with Purestorage WFS on Windows Server 2016 application test environments.
VSphere cluster maintenance upgrades and and troubleshooting.
Help with installation and configuration of vSphere clusters including configuration of VMFS formatted LUNS as datastores, and RDM LUNS on databases.
Implemented Dynatrace and AppDynamics performance monitoring proof of concepts.
Assisted with Zoning of Cisco MDS and NXOS and Brocade SANs.
Cisco SAN and LAN troubleshooting.
Utilized DELL/EMC CloudIQ to monitor storage array performance and health.
Performed upgrades of Oracle RAC systems /Server hardware/firmware.
Storage migrations for Oracle RAC ASM LUNS using LVM.
Patching and firmware upgrades of all storage, network and client hardware and computers.
Manage engine,SCCM,BladeLogic
Performed upgrades, patching and troubleshooting on Windows file servers.
Performed upgrades, patching and troubleshooting on RHEL, Oracle Linux and AIX/GPFS
Clearbridge/EMC/Transunion
March 2017 to July 2017
Powerscale/Isilon Resident
Troubleshooting issues with,CIFS share and NFS exports, cluster performance issues.
Day to day troubleshooting of issues with OneFS 8.X.
Creation, monitoring and resolution of tickets with EMC support.
Testing, validation and QA of approved solutions to an Powerscale/Isilon environment with 5 clusters..
Optimized Powerscale/Isilon environment including networking, firmware version, OneFS patches and instructed customer on Powerscale/Isilon Best Practices for administration, configuration, and usage of the Powerscale/Isilon clusters.
CG/Pyramid Consulting/Capitalone
October 2016 to December 2016
Storage Architect
SAN zoning of Brocade and Cisco environments.
Assist with planning and execution of data migrations from older platform to newer platform.
Allocations of the new storage to the servers.
Assisted in setup and verification of local and remote replication.
Migrations
Symmetrix VMAX 40K to Symmetrix VMAX 400K.
Hitachi VSP to Hitachi G1000.
Netapp to Powerscale/Isilon.
Powerscale/Isilon to Netapp.
Planning and execution of Netapp Data Ontap 7 Mode to of Netapp Data OntapCluster (8) Mode, utilizing 7MTT.
Planning and execution of Powerscale/Isilon ONEFS 7.X to ONEFS 8.X upgrades.
Creating scripts for pure storage for process automation and reporting.
Customizing event notification and alerting for Powerscale/Isilon clusters.
Creating test scripts for use with Powerscale/Isilon PAPI .
Scripting and automation of ONEFS 7.X and 8.X environments for process automation, performance diagnostic reporting and customized event management.
Creating scripts to integrate into Apache web services.
Training of other team members on these tasks and processes.
Maintain and troubleshoot Data Domain\Avamar backup environment.
Backups with Commvault Simpana.
TekSystems/United Airlines
June 2016 to October 2016
Storage Architect
Decomissioning of legacy storage from existing infrastructure.
Allocations of storage on new HPE XP7 /Hitachi G1000, HP 3PAR 200850 and Netapp storage arrays, .
SAN zoning of Brocade and Cisco environments.
Netapp Data Ontap OS upgrades, .
Troubleshooting of storage issues on HP/Hitachi, HP 3PAR and Netapp arrays.
The Computer Guy/ SCM
June 2016 to September 2016
Storage Architect
SAN zoning of Brocade and Cisco environments.
Removal of existing infrastructure and installation of new infrastructure.
Removal of old Servers, LAN switches, SAN switches, Storage array.
Installation of New HP Servers, Cisco LAN switches, Brocade SAN switches, EMC VNX and XtremeIO storage arrays and VSphere 6..
Upgrading of existing NetApp filers from Data Ontap 7 to Data Ontap 8 in 7(non clustered mode).
Conversion of Data Ontap 8 in 7 (non clustered mode) to Data Ontap 8 in (clustered mode.)
Day to day management with System Manager and CLI.
Rearchitecture of SVM’s and network traffic with LIFS.
Configuration of arrays snapshot and backup policies.
Configuration and integration of the new infrastructure.
P2V migration of existing servers to VSphere 6 VM’s.
Data migration to the new infrastructure.
Reconfiguration and validation of the Backup environment with Commvault Galaxy and Netbackup.
CRG /CDW/Yancey Brothers
June 2016 to December 2016
Storage Architect
Perform performance and best practice verification and adherence to best practices on their Avamar /Data Domain environments.
CRG /CDI/ Xcentric
May 2016 to June 2016
Storage Architect
Rearchitecture of existing environment to reflect newer corporate strategies.
Configuration of SyncIQ for migration from old Powerscale/Isilon cluster to new Powerscale/Isilon cluster.
Executed OneFS 7 to OneFS 8 upgrade in 7 (non clustered mode).
Conversion of Data Ontap 8 in 7 (non clustered mode) to Data Ontap 8 in (clustered mode.)
Rearchitecture of SVM’s and network traffic with LIFS.
Testing and validation of new architecture.
Customer training on new configuration.
Scripting and automation of ONEFS 7.X and 8.X environments for process automation, performance diagnostic reporting and customized event management.
CRG /CDW/ Vidant Health
Storage Architect
March 2016 to April 2016
Rearchitecture of existing environment to reflect newer corporate strategies.
Install Powerscale/Isilon cluster including rack and stack, fiber optic cabling for LAN.
Configuration of SyncIQ for migration from old Powerscale/Isilon cluster to new Powerscale/Isilon cluster.
Testing and validation of new architecture.
Customer training on new configuration.
Panzer Solutions/ Sears Holdings
Senior Storage Architect
February 2015 to May 2016
Senior Storage Architect
Performing Proof of Concept testing with Storsimple, Nimble Storage, 3PAR storage arrays.
Troubleshooting,
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