Experience

VCE

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Advisory Solutions Architect, Product Development & Engineering Data Protection

  • Apr 2013 - Present

  October 2014 - now Advisory Solutions Architect, Product Development & Engineering Data Protection ➢As part of the PD&E Data Protection Team I architect, design, build, and document the Data Protection products that are sold by VCE for all VCE Systems sold. ➢My primary focus is EMC VPLEX, EMC RecoverPoint, and EMC RecoverPoint for VM's. ➢My secondary focus is EMC Avamar and EMC DataDomain. ➢Work closely with our EMC counterparts to release VCE products as close as possible to EMC's GA dates. April 2013 - October 2014 Advisory Solutions Architect, Corporate Engineering ➢Provide architecture level pre-sales for complex deals/solutions. ➢Create, deliver, and train VCE, partners, and parent field on technical demos. ➢Deliver POC's and customer briefings. ➢Provide strategic account and trade show support. ➢Provided key support for migration of all Corporate Engineering lab equipment from EMC datacenter to VCE datacenter ➢Rebuild multiple Vblock systems through the logical build process. ➢Implemented an Isilon cluster, an eight node Avamar/DataDomain grid, dual engine/ dual cluster VPLEX, and dual brick EMC XtremIO in the lab. Show less



TierPoint (formerly Windstream Hosted Solutions)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Architect - Data Center Ops - Storage

  • Jun 2012 - Apr 2013

  ➢ Collaborate with Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to design and build new products for our Managed Services practice. ➢ Assist Sales with specialist support on complex opportunities and provide key account support through technical demonstrations and proof of concept testing. ➢ Provide training for internal teams on monitoring and tuning performance of EMC arrays. ➢ Analyse performance on EMC arrays in our Public, Private and Shared space and provided recommendations regarding performance tuning, upgrades, and replacements. ➢ Developed SOP’s for the Storage Operations Team to effectively manage the large number of Public, Private, and Shared EMC Storage arrays. ➢ Architected and designed infrastructures powering large scale public cloud infrastructures running VMware vCloud Director on Cisco UCS. ➢ These designs included everything from VNX Storage using Fast Cache and FAST-VP pools, FC SAN with Cisco MDS switches, Backup and Restore with VNX Snapshots, Veeam, DataDomain, and VMware Data Protection, to replication (Array based with RecoverPoint, Hypervisor based with VMware Replication), and Disaster Recovery with SRM. ➢ Architected and designed solutions to migrate Shared Storage customers from Clariion arrays to VNX arrays with as little customer downtime as possible. ➢ Architected a Managed Backups product based on Avamar and DataDomain. ➢ Working closely together with EMC on Beta programs, customer councils, and usability studies to primarily provide feedback on current and new products, and secondary to gain first inside on new EMC products and how they can be utilized to create new products for our customers. Show less



RegEd

• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Enterprise Systems Architect

  • Feb 2012 - Jun 2012

  ➢ Architected, designed, and implemented a new virtual environment that increased uptime, performance, and growth for the Company’s fast growing SaaS products. This was partially accomplished by moving from Hyper-V and EMC Clariion arrays, to VMware and EMC VNX arrays using Fast-Cache, and Fast-VP pools ➢Worked together with application owners to analyse and tune the storage arrays to maximize performance. ➢Implemented EMC DataDomain as a backup replacement for the tape environment. ➢Designed and implemented a DR solutions for the EMC Centera that is used for storing content long term that required governance and compliance. ➢Architected and designed a robust network for both the production and the office environments by replacing the aging equipment with Cisco Catalyst switches and Cisco ASA’s. ➢Collaborated with all IT teams in designing, developing, implementing, and documenting Enterprise Systems Architecture solutions. ➢Developed standards for effective management of infrastructure, including systems metrics. ➢Worked together with the Infrastructure team to ensure alignment with these standards and best practices. Show less



Liggett Vector Brands

• Tobacco Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Manager Network Services

  • Aug 2002 - Feb 2012

  ➢ Architected, designed, and implemented a 200 server, 100% virtualized environment , using VMware vSphere with vCenter management, DRS, HA, and vMotion, to support Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and our Cisco VOIP environment. ➢ Designed and implemented a Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity solution with the use of VMware ESXi, EMC RecoverPoint, and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). ➢ Architected and implemented EMC Clariion SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere. ➢ Designed and Implemented a VMware Lab Manager environment for SharePoint 2010 development. ➢ Implemented a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment with VMware View to aid in testing our custom applications. ➢ Architected and designed a replicated DataDomain environment to facilitate the transition away from tape for backups. ➢ Project Lead for the construction of a state-of-the-art datacenter which included managing the project plan, schedules, contractors, and financials. ➢ Architected the relocating of the old datacenter to the newly build datacenter, with minimal downtime by utilizing EMC SAN replication technologies. ➢ Designed and implemented a fully redundant voice and data LAN and MPLS WAN infrastructure. ➢ Reduced corporate communications costs by 60% through effective vendor management, contract negotiations and convergence of technical solutions. Show less



Global Knowledge

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Manager

  • Feb 1997 - Jul 2002

  ➢ Project manager for the integration of 13 locations and 500 employees from multiple acquisitions within the Global Knowledge infrastructure. This integration was completed in a record 6 months. ➢ Designed and implemented the North America infrastructure with over 55 servers, 35 sites, and over 1000 end-users. ➢ Promoted to Infrastructure Manager for North America, and managing 8 people. ➢ Designed and implemented a fax solution with 1000 users and multiple Fax servers throughout North America. ➢ Promoted to World Wide Exchange Manager. Responsible for the Microsoft Exchange environment for the company with 15 e-mail servers in 7 countries, 2000 end-users, and more than 5000 mailboxes/distribution lists. ➢ Implemented a disaster recovery plan for the corporate network, systems, and the main phone switch in Cary. ➢ Architected and implemented a new infrastructure throughout our European locations. This included installing routers, servers, and reconfigured the existing LAN to connect to the WAN. We connected 16 sites and 1200 users in less than 3 months. ➢ Designed and implemented the Cooperate Microsoft Exchange environment. This expanded in 2 years to 8 servers in 6 countries. Show less



DuPont

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Engineer

  • Jun 1995 - Feb 1997

  ➢ Designed and implemented the First Windows NT domain for DuPont in the world. Due to the success of this implementation, the remainder of the company followed suite. ➢ Implemented the multi-master NT-domain for DuPont worldwide. ➢ Designed and implemented the First Windows NT domain for DuPont in the world. Due to the success of this implementation, the remainder of the company followed suite. ➢ Implemented the multi-master NT-domain for DuPont worldwide.