Storage Architect Resume

Title
Storage Architect

Primary Skills
Storage, EMC, Falconstor, Cisco, Mcdata, SAN, NAS, Unix, Linux

Location
US-OR-Portland (will consider relocating)

Posted
Dec-29-08

Storage: EMC, Symmetrix, Clariion, SYMCLI, ECC, Timefinder/SRDF, Navisphere, JBOD, FC, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS, SRM, SAN, NAS, VTL, Cisco MDS, Mcdata, FalconStor, Veritas, Openfiler

Unix Type Platforms: Solaris 2.x+, Redhat Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu

Languages: Perl, PHP, C, Pascal, Ada, Javascript, Assembly, Cobol, KSH

IT Tools: Quest Foglight, Nagios, Big Brother, DotProject, MySQL, Oracle

IT Skills: Automation, Capacity Planning, Monitoring, Project Management, Peer Training, Documentation, Architecture Design, Configuration Management, Change Management

EXPERIENCE
01/2005 -- Present Smotis Inc. Portland, OR
Owner/Vice-President. Project Management, software development (web + PHP/Perl), managing technical resources, and storage contracts. Fulfilling various storage administration rolls (primarily, but not limited to, EMC) for various larger contracts, including but not limited to: design, deployment, documentation, monitoring, training, and maintenance.
Senior technical resource for the company providing direction for sub-contractors in various fields including software development, infrastructure operations, desktop support and system architecture.

11/2004 -- 02/2005 Darwin Partners Varied (Travel)
EMC Implementation Specialist
Sub-contracting to EMC through Darwin. Project based contracts that have included DMX Symmetrix deployment and Tiered Storage Architecture/Planning/Implementation. Primary resource for hardware/software installation (not including initial BIN file on Arrays Provided documentation/training to local resources developing migration plans for movement from a single tiered storage approach to multiple tiers.

10/1999 -- 10/2004 Mentor Graphics Corp Wilsonville, OR
Senior Storage/Unix System Administrator
Managed, automated, documented, reported the following technologies: EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage lines with a wide variety of EMC software, FalconStor (IPStor and VTL), Mcdata 4500 switches, Netapp Filer (FAS 250), Dynamic Network Factory Sanstorm (JBOD), SUN Raid devices and 5210 NAS.
Core team member of SAN/storage solutions for the business systems.
Capacity planning and system monitoring of the Data Center with Big Brother and Quest Foglight
Managed initial implementation of both Big Brother and Quest Foglight. Documented entire roll-out project and mentored staff (12 team members)
Performed Solaris 8/9 System Administration on 90+ servers
Performed Redhat Linux System Administration (limited) on 10+ servers
Developed scripting librarys utilizing Perl/PHP for automation and reporting of tasks

04/1998 -- 10/1999 The Regence Group Portland, OR
Senior Unix System Administrator
System Administration duties for over 150 Unix servers ranging in size from Sun IPX workstation to Enterprise 6000 servers. The environment includes Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and AIX 4.2.3. Veritas management tools used also. Workstations are located primarily in Portland, Seattle, and Salt Lake City.
Web based application design to manage the Intranet for the Unix shop. Things from automated hardware tracking to network status to historical machine data. Solaris, Apache, Perl used.
Administration of the internal and external web servers. (Netscape 3.40 and NCSA 1.4.2)
Y2K compliance and testing.

04/1997 -- 04/1998 Wang Government Services Honolulu, HI
Systems Integrator/Administrator
Worked as a contractor on Top Secret systems for the Joint Pacific Military Headquarters. (50+ Unix boxes, Solaris and HPUX, Veritas) Solaris and application support specific to the Command and Control operations. Direct support to applications such as Oracle and various internet services. Provided training for various applications and monitoring services to staff and customers.
Web based application design and training for various projects (Perl, Javascript and Vbscript) to include - Intranet management, Network management, and Database Access

12/1995 -- 08/2004 Maserith Information Systems, LLC Roseburg, OR
Partner / Developer / Admin
Full partner. Our focus was program development and project management for integrating technology with education and sports. Our customers included the Dept of Education (Oregon and Alaska), Special Olympics, and various smaller non-profit organizations. These efforts still exist on a voluntary basis, but not in a commercial sense.
Provided expertise as a developer (PHP/Perl), system admin (Linux), database admin (MySQL), and application administration and training. (various open source products) Heavily involved in all aspects of software design, rollout, customer support, and integration with non-technology ideas.

12/1992 -- 11/1996 United States Air Force Hickam AFB, HI
Computer Programming Specialist
Computer Programmer for the USAF. Experience with a variety of languages to include COBOL, ADA, C, C++, and Perl. Support of Oracle databases (7.x) and Unix (Solaris) systems for the Command and Control support infrastructure. Support of internet type services. Migrated into a System Administration role.
Instrumental in the implementation of the Global Command and Control System (wartime planning) throughout the Pacific Theatre. Including deployment at 7 major military installations. (Sun Sparc, PC, Mac)
UNIX System Administration (Solaris 2.x); established and lead a team of four, providing direct user support and system administration, automated many standard office procedures and cut the number of man hours involved doing day-to-day work; trained users on use of present and new systems used to track equipment; provided basewide PC troubleshooting (mostly software).

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