Solutions Architect

• Apr 2011 - Present

Datacenter Transformation Advocate Datacenter Transformation Advocate

Member

• 2006 - 2020

Director of Engineering

• May 2016 - Jul 2017

Servicing the Carolinas for IT Staffing, Professional Services, Information Security, and Data Center Innovations Servicing the Carolinas for IT Staffing, Professional Services, Information Security, and Data Center Innovations

Storage Principle

• Aug 2004 - Apr 2011

Technical lead and principle architect for company-wide storage and virtual architecture; responsible for design, support, forecast planning, and budgeting. Working, hands-on knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESX/ESXI, Site Recovery Manager , Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, EMC storage and Cisco fabrics .Chosen to head systems consolidation effort, utilizing VMware virtualization products across multiple sites, resulting in reduction of operating costs, simplifying systems management and accelerated end-user experience.Engineered multi-tiered storage area networks with EMC, Cisco and IBM technologies to increase business efficiency and reducing storage total cost of ownership by 40%.Designed and maintained EMC Clariion and Celerra storage for administrative, manufacturing systems and end-user support. Solutions include multi-site replication and centralized administration.Integrated EMC Centera and a variety of archiving products for better information lifecycle management and reduced storage costs and systems management.Architected and implemented Cisco MDS and Nexus switch gear for integrating storage and network access.Planned and implemented storage replication strategies including RecoverPoint, Celerra Replicator, and SANCopy for disaster and systems recovery, providing higher storage infrastructure integrity.Responsible for systems management and monitoring with NetIQ AppManager, Quest vFoglight, and Quest Spotlight. Duties include root cause analysis, performance alerting and capacity planning.Project lead for backup consolidation and tape elimination strategies utilizing NetBackup, Data Domain, and Avamar. Efforts centralized backups into a single solution and point of management while providing more efficient disaster recovery.Resource for manufacturing systems SQL design and implementation. Project includes consolidations, systems specification, implementation, and performance tuning.Systems administrator for Windows, Linux and VMware ESX

Sr. Systems Engineer / SAN Architect

• Aug 2001 - Aug 2004

Promoted to provide expert hardware and software consulting in heterogeneous environments, with a primary focus on Sun Microsystems, VMware and SAN solutions.Major contributor to increasing sales and services to over $15 million in Unix Solutions focusing primarily on Sun Microsystems hardware, VMware and Symantec Data Protection solutions. This included customer needs assessments, systems design, integration, clustering, backup/restore, and disaster recovery design and testing. Major clients were Higher Education, State and Local governments in North and South Carolina.Developed and promoted VMware solutions to expand hardware and service opportunities.Designed medium and large SAN/NAS solutions involving EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance, and Sun StorEdge arrays utilizing Qlogic, Brocade, HP and Cisco Switches.Extensive working knowledge of Symantec NetBackup, SANPoint Foundation Suite, Cluster, Volume Manager and File System, improving customer business continuity strategies.Assisted the North Carolina Community College System in state-wide system security strategy and implementation pertaining to college financial system .Researched and integration of new technologies into existing environments in order to reduce total cost of ownership, systems management overhead, and promote end-user satisfaction.Planned and implemented data protection strategies with various backup products resulting in higher levels of data integrity, ease of management, and fewer customer outages.Provided hardware specifications for environment rollouts involving Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows 200x, Vmware and various third-party products.Performed troubleshooting and diagnostics on Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Dell, and IBM hardware in order to determine cause of outage, warranty, and on-site repair services for strategic partners.

Corporate Systems Architect

• Aug 1999 - Aug 2001

Systems Administrator

• Jun 1997 - Jul 1999

Network Administrator

• Jan 1994 - Jan 1997