Professional experience and career objectives: Focused, dedicated, and highly motivated professional offering ten plus years solid contributions and a diverse background in SAN / Storage / UNIX / Veritas Administration & Engineering. Combines “hands on” technical qualifications with consistent success in achieving challenging goals within project timeframes. Possesses strong leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills.
Skills and areas of expertise: Brocade SAN Switches Cisco SAN Switches EMC Storage Arrays HDS Storage Arrays HDS HiCommand Software NetApp Storage Arrays Isilon Clustered Storage Arrays SUN Servers, Software & Storage Arrays Veritas Software Stack VMWare
Current Employment
Senior Storage Systems Engineer
DigitalGlobe, Inc.
(Spatial Imagery) - United States
- Lead the implementation of storage projects. - Design, purchase and implement/deploy all storage related equipment. - Work with the other IT teams to discuss, plan and coordinate activities related to upgrades and other maintenance on the storage infrastructure.
Former Employment
System Engineer
Dewpoint, Inc.
(Technology Reseller) - United States
Performing systems implementations (usually lasting 1-3 weeks time at each customer), performing systems maintenance and support, performing pre-sales systems design work, and writing implementation plans.
- Manage a team whose responsibilities include Backup/Recovery, Linux/Solaris, SAN/Storage and Veritas Administration. - Administer 34 SUN Solaris servers or various sizes, running Solaris 8/9/10 and Veritas Volume Manager and/or Veritas Clustering. - Manage 330+ TB of multi-tiered storage.
Education
Purdue University United States (Indiana)
, august 1992 - december 2000
Bachelor of Science, Computer & Information Systems Technology