Experience

Yale Univeristy

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Enterprise Storage Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  Assess the storage requirements of Yale's multi-discipline environment. Working directly with vendors to design, purchase, implement, and support the storage strategy. Leading a team supporting a multi-protocol NetApp CDOT infrastructure, providing VMware NFS datastores, Oracle/SQL capacity, and centralized file sharing (Storage@Yale). This includes primary storage with QoA and chargeback mechanisms plus full data protection from onsite snapshots through offsite protection/recovery. Use… Show more Assess the storage requirements of Yale's multi-discipline environment. Working directly with vendors to design, purchase, implement, and support the storage strategy. Leading a team supporting a multi-protocol NetApp CDOT infrastructure, providing VMware NFS datastores, Oracle/SQL capacity, and centralized file sharing (Storage@Yale). This includes primary storage with QoA and chargeback mechanisms plus full data protection from onsite snapshots through offsite protection/recovery. Use of hybrid, "private storage" with high speed connections to cloud providers so compute can run in the cloud and utilize in-house storage for lower cost and higher security. Providing onsite server and cloud instance Backup & Recovery through NetBackup media servers teamed with NetApp AltaVaults. Show less



Yale University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Storage Architect

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  New Haven, CT Assess the storage requirements of Yale's multi-discipline environment. Working directly with vendors to design, purchase, implement, and support the storage strategy. Currently working on Data Life Cycle infrastructure to provide an active data tier along with a deep archive tier of storage to meet demands ranging from High Performance Computing through general file sharing capabilities, using a mix of onsite and hybrid technologies. Completing a 900 volume NetApp 7-mode to Cluster… Show more Assess the storage requirements of Yale's multi-discipline environment. Working directly with vendors to design, purchase, implement, and support the storage strategy. Currently working on Data Life Cycle infrastructure to provide an active data tier along with a deep archive tier of storage to meet demands ranging from High Performance Computing through general file sharing capabilities, using a mix of onsite and hybrid technologies. Completing a 900 volume NetApp 7-mode to Cluster OnTap migration, including various levels of data protection and business continuity.

• Storage Administration

  • May 2009 - Oct 2014

  Managing Storage Administration team utilizing NetApp, XIV, Isilon, TSM, and Cisco MDS SAN infrastructure.



Bank of America

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• VP; Midrange Storage Engineering

  • Oct 2007 - Feb 2009

  Testing and certification of Cisco MDS and Brocade DCX hardware. Ensure interoperability with EMC, HDS, IBM, NetApp, and Sun VTL. Design and implementation of new Cisco MDS infrastructure to replace existing McData infrastructure.

• VP; Storage Operations

  • Dec 2003 - Oct 2007

  Managed a team of 16 members supporting the storage infrastructure for a trading environment. This included allocations, troubleshooting, engineering/testing, implementation, capacity planning and purchasing of hardware from EMC, Brocade/McData, HDS, NetApp, Sun/STK, and Symantec's NetBackup.

• AVP; Windows Server Manager

  • Jan 1999 - Dec 2003

  Managed a team to support the Windows server environment in four primary data centers and 80 remote locations. Performed day-to-day support along with testing and implementation of new equipment.