Joel Bossard

Sr. Consulting Engineer at Experis Technology Group
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(386) 825-5501
Location
The Plains, Virginia, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Sr. Consulting Engineer
      • Jun 2011 - Present

      Sr. member of the Experis Professional Services Team, provide pre- and post- sales customer support for systems, storage, and backup products. Work with customers to develop storage, backup, and DR solutions. Specializing in HPE Storage and Backup technologies, can work with many others. Sr. member of the Experis Professional Services Team, provide pre- and post- sales customer support for systems, storage, and backup products. Work with customers to develop storage, backup, and DR solutions. Specializing in HPE Storage and Backup technologies, can work with many others.

    • Data Management Team Lead
      • Mar 2007 - Apr 2011

      MANAGER, DATA STORAGE AND BACKUP Manage engineering team specializing in SAN and Backup technologies on multiple projects. Provide SAN storage and Backup configuration consulting and implementation to all Federal Systems Services Delivery Group customers. Design, implement and manage SAN-based storage solutions using EMC Clariion & Symmetrix, and NetApp storage arrays. Designed and implemented SAN fabrics with Brocade, McData, and Cisco MDS switches. Implemented backup solutions using Veritas Netbackup and Legato Networker software, using numerous tape library subsystems from Scalar, Storagetek, Overland, Sun, and Dell. Provide operational Tier 4 support, documentation and staff training for all data storage and backup environments designed and built by the team. Show less

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • SYSTEMS ENGINEER
      • Apr 2003 - Dec 2006

      Storage consultant, performed short-term and long-term onsite engagements doing storage design, installation & management. Provide SAN consulting for large and small customers, design, implement and manage SAN-based storage solutions using EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix DMX, IBM ESS (Shark) and HP/Compaq StorageWorks MA and EVA products. Implemented Storage Area Networks using products from Brocade and McData switches. Implemented backup solutions using Veritas Netbackup and BackupExec software, numerous tape library subsystems from Compaq, Scalar, Storagetek, Dell. Show less

    • SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
      • Dec 1996 - Dec 2002

      Provide consulting support for multiple large enterprise customers. Extensive VMS systems management, including large cluster configurations. Supported international systems, networks, and performance support for VAX/Alpha systems. SAN installation and configuration, backup configurations, and ongoing capacity upgrades. Provided ongoing operations support for customer sites including systems, backups, and communications. Also supported Windows NT and Novell networks, and WAN network infrastructures. Consulted on multiple large and small computer room and infrastructure designs, upgrades, and buildouts. Spec'ed power, cooling, communications, security, and floorplans for these projects. Provide CODA IAS (accounting/financial system) support on VMS platforms to clients Show less

    • United States
    • Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • NETWORK SYSTEMS MANAGER
      • Jan 1995 - Dec 1996

      Responsible for the ongoing operation of the Corporate Network, including all LANs and WANs, including installation and configuration, congestion and performance problems, expansions and relocations. Managed all network servers, primarily VMS, including maintenance, backups, performance, configuration and capacity. Responsible for the operation of the corporate VMS multi-user administrative system, which supports all corporate finance and administration functions. Maintained a 99.99% availability record throughout.Extended deployment of a company-wide client-server e-mail system, including access to all 16 networked offices and modem-based dial-up access. This included an Internet gateway for internet e-mail using TCP/IP e-mail conversion gateway. Show less

    • COMPUTER CENTER MANAGER
      • Jan 1990 - Dec 1994

      Designed and deployed a corporate computer center and installed a multi-user, VMS-based system for finance and administrative functions. This system supported corporate accounting, financials, e-mail and file serving (on one box).Designed and deployed a corporate LAN and WAN, this network included the corporate HQ office, providing file, print, e-mail, and terminal-host services. Based on a Frame Relay network of 16 offices and 600 users.Designed and deployed a corporate client-server e-mail system, based on Digital client and server products. Using VMS servers running Mailworks MHS and Message Router, provided all the features of MS Exchange, before Exchange existed, on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Implemented interconnectivity to UNIX-based GIS workstations in multiple offices using TCP/IP, allowing seamless sharing of application files. Show less

    • COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER
      • Jan 1985 - Dec 1989

      Managed a 1400sq. ft. corporate computer center, supporting a Digital VAX and Unix systems, supporting multiple government (DOD) and commercial customers. Managed WAN with 10 remote sites. Installed and managed the LAN and a 400-port RS-232 port-switching system. Relocated this computer center to a new corporate office with 1 business day of downtime.

    • PROGRAMMER
      • Jan 1982 - Dec 1984

      Participated in all aspects of design and development of a two relational database projects, using Ingres and INFO DBMS. Supported mainframe project using ADR/Librarian in an IBM/IMS/TSO environment.

Education

  • Northern Virginia Community College
    AAS, Computer Science
    1978 - 1982

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