Manager Engineer

Mike A Robinson

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TECHNICAL SUMMARY

- Control Center -CLARiiON -UNIX(HP-UX,Solaris,AIX)

- SRDF -SYMMETRIX - Windows

-SAN Copy -Invista -Powerpath

-Open Replicator -Brocade -SYMCLI(Solutions Enabler)

-Navisphere Suite -McData -DMX

-San Manager -Cisco -Timefinder

-FC/IP

-VMWare/vSphere

-KSH Scripting Expert

-Perl

-VNX

-Active Directory

-Netapps -Optimizer

-VPLEX

-Veritas Volume Manager

-Visual Basic

-CIFS/NFS

-DNS/DHCP

-Linux

-VMAX

-IBM DS8000

-C++

-VMware vSphere 5

-VNX Replicator/Snapsure

-Windows 2008 Cluster

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of America March 23,2012 – Current

Contract

Senior Storage Engineer

• Reviews customized storage work queue to develop daily tasks.

• Manages end-to-end process of installing new storage hardware and upgrading existing storage hardware confirming to the Bank standards.

• Working with vendors such as EMC, IBM, NetApp, HP to complete end to end installation of the hardware.

• Creates and implements storage systems configuration designs of high complexity.

• Provide timely project updates to Management and Project teams.

Asurion/EMC January 2011 – March 2012

Contract

Senior Storage Architect

• Provide Architecture guidance for migration efforts to new VMAX into Data Center

• Support and maintain new VPLEX hardware/software for migration purposes

• Document and implement migration efforts using VPLEX and Veritas Mirroring methods

• Heavy scripting to automate the data capture of I/O performance on all arrays (Clariion,DMX,VMAX).

• Heavy scripting to automate the collection of user capacity on new Virtual Lun Pools used in the VMAX

• Provided 24X7 support for all SAN activities

Time Warner Cable August 2010 – December 2010

Contract

Senior Storage Engineer

• Provide tier 2 tier 3 support for current and future SAN and Enterprise storage infrastructure at TWC’s TSG Data Center.

• Support and maintain all Aspects of the SAN and storage Allocations, including managing FC switches, drive Arrays, and installing and managing all fiber cables for the infrastructure.

• Support and configuration of EMC hardware VMAX, DMX, CX-4, IBM DS8000 and Hitachi AMS1000 line including Brocade fiber switches.

• Proficient in supporting both UNIX and windows operating systems.

• Used Veritas Volume Manager to allocate storage on Solaris, AIX, and Linux.

Alexander Open Systems, Overland Park, KS October 2009- April 2010

Storage Design Architect

• Pre-Sales Engineer with responsibilities in providing technical expertise for customer product solutions. Current industries represented include: Healthcare, Communications, Legal, and Education

• Provide Sales assistant via technical sales presentation and participate in the end to end sales cycle.

EMC Corporation, Overland Park, KS March 2006- October 2009

Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect , EMC

• Lead Solutions Architect and Lead Implementation Specialists for massive server migration over FCIP for Sprint from Kansas City to Dallas. Involving SAN design for Cisco switches 9509 and 9216’s configuring FCIP over extended distance. Lead Architect for SRDF/DM migration method from Kansas City to Dallas. Also lead Architect for Open Replicator migration from XP512’s to DMX2000.

• Support implementations of multiple backup to disk environments on CX700 series CLARiiON. Including configuring Navisphere management environment, Raid Group configurations, ATA technology and host connectivity.

• Lead Solutions Architect for massive storage migration. Responsibilities include Core/Edge SAN design for Cisco(9509) directors. Storage design for CX700 and DMX3000/2000. Create Method of Procedure(MOPs) for storage migration for Windows, HPUX, Solaris and AIX. Migration methods: SanCopy, Host Level Mirroring.

• Solutions Architect and implementation specialists for mass storage migration on Windows and Solaris platforms. Including skills of planning, design, and implementation using ECC 5.1.2, Solutions Enabler 5.4 on DMX2000. Also including TimeFinder implementation and scripting for automation.

• Solutions Architect and implementation engineer for migration from Symmetrix 8430 to DMX2000 for multiple Solaris servers. Implementation and support engineer for SRDF (Adaptive Copy disk mode) for DMX2000 and Symmetrix 8430 including scripting.

• Multiple TimeFinder implementations and scripting.

• Support engineer for ECC 5.2. Tasked with knowledge transfer of ECC 5.2 and StorageScope functionality in a multi-switch and array environment. Tasked with upgrade of Service Pack 1 on ECC 5.2.

• Implementation of SnapView Clones and scripting in a CX600 and Windows environment.

• Multiple implementations of Brocade and McData switch SAN environments.

Yahoo (Migration Resident) EMC

• Designed & Implemented migration solution from 9 Clariion arrays down to one DMX array involving 1 Solaris host with Oracle. (180 TB)

• Tested and design first PPME(Powerpath Migration Enabler) implementation in the U.S.

• Developed detailed procedures for implementation to be used.

CTS (Professional Services Consultant) March 2003-2006

• Clariion Installation and configuration at NASD.

• Assisted efforts EMC Invista Proof of Concept.

• Creation of Virtual storage across DMX, CLARiiON, HDS hardware platforms to all Open System OS types.

System Programmer III/Storage Engineer III, Sprint PCS March 2001 - 2003

• Support and provide input for all storage configurations to ensure the optimum performance and highest levels of availability are maintained in a Sprint enterprise environment of over 500 TB of usable data.

• Designed storage solution for billing application of 18 million subscribers. This design included replication using TimeFinder with multiple copies of data. Also configured PowerPath for failover. Configured storage solution for clustering services.

• Designed storage solution for call path high availability application. Engineered storage for optimal performance using caching algorithms.

• Work directly with EMC sales/engineering team to obtain knowledge of latest software updates and technology.

• Learned UNIX file system administration skills to define and configure storage hardware to the server using Veritas Clustering and Veritas Volume Manager. Operating systems include HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and NT.

• Managed and supported storage software including HP LUN Configuration Manager XP, HP Secure Manager XP, Business Copy XP, Continuous Access XP, Performance Manager XP, Command View XP and Performance Adviser XP. Also managed and supported EMC Symmetrix Manager, TimeFinder, SRDF, ESN Manager 2.0, Optimizer, PowerPath 3.0, SDR and Config Manager.

• Gained a hardware level understanding of the XP256, XP512, EMC 8730, CLARiiON FC4700, CX600, EMC 8830, DMX2000, Hitachi 7700.

• Provided storage management support for open systems processing environments, including development, test, training and production processing environments.

• Demonstrated engineering skills by designing and implementing SAN solutions using latest fiber technology solutions from Brocade, McData, HP and EMC.

• Demonstrated UNIX installation, configuration and support skills using Linux Red Hat 7.0 as internal Web Server.

• Designed and coded Perl and CGI programs using data extracted from HDS and EMC storage arrays. These programs displayed a visual look at the physical layout of the arrays.

• Developed Korn Shell programs to improve group communication and scheduling needs.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

EMC Enterprise Storage Network Planning & Design

Open Systems Advanced Unix(TimeFinder)

HP System Administration I

Cisco Troubleshooting & Configuration

EMC Proven Specialist Business Continuity Professional

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