Jeff Brown

(770)314-5805
jbd03de4@westpost.net

Summary
* Twelve years of Storage / SAN Administration, Open Systems, Project Management
, Solutions Architect, and technical support experience in large-scale corporate
environments.
* Expert class of NetApp HA clustering implementation.
* Expert class Data OnTap upgrades as well as shelf firmware.
* Demonstrated project management leadership, planning, and client interfacing s
kills, as well as technical and analytical abilities with UNIX, and Windows host
s environments.
* Experience in evaluating, planning, implementing, and proof of concept testing
, new technologies from VMware, EMC, NetApp, McData, Brocade, HP, SUN, and other
technology vendors.
* Solutions experience with NetApps, EMC Symmetrix, DMX and Clariion Storage, HP
EVA Storage, Brocade and McData, and Disaster/Recovery (SRDF, MirrorView, CA) a
nd Open Systems Environments.
* Strong hands-on resource with state-of-the-art SAN implementations using techn
ologies and products from Cisco, McData, and Brocade.
* NCDA, NCIE-SAN, MCP, VCP, and EMC Proven Professional.
Professional Experience
Avery Partners Consulting 11/09 - Present
SAN Administrator
Department of Interior
* Lead storage technician.
* Daily storage administration
* Daily SAN administration.
* Supporting EMC based storage solution.
SoftNet 06/07 - 11/09
Professional Service Engineer for NetApp
TS Clearance.
* Technical lead for all NMCI sites.
* Technical Lead for satellite site consolidation.
* Currently designing and implementing VMware migration of Exchange servers.
* Maintained proper provisioning standards and documentation.
* On-call lead for scheduling and manning on-call schedule.
* Technical lead for implementation of HA cluster configuration of FAS3050 and F
AS6030 filers.
* On site lead for all physical installation of all storage solutions.
* On site lead for initial configuration and start up of existing solutions as w
ell as all new equipment.

EMC Corp. 07/05 - 06/07

Department of Defense, Pentagon, Alexandria, Va.
Storage Administrator, Implementation Specialist, Senior Solutions Architect/Sto
rage and SAN Implementation
TS Clearance.
Primary Storage Administrator for several clients within the Pentagon.
Lead SAN administrator for internal Data Center migration/consolidation.
* Technical lead of Major Data Center migration involving within the Pentagon.
* Technical lead expanding current SAN infrastructure including installing, conf
iguring, upgrading all director class switches.
* Maintained proper provisioning standards and documentation.
* Technical lead for all firmware and code upgrades on fabric switches, Symmetri
x, and Celerra.
K-Force 06/04 - 07/05
United States Patent and Trademark Office, Arlington, Va.
Project Manager/Storage and SAN Implementation
* Technical lead of major data consolidation involving 250 servers and 20 storag
e arrays.
* Technical Architect of designing Core/Edge SAN environment.
* Responsible for setting provisioning standards and documentation.
* Proof of concept tested NetApp for possible Tier3 solution.
* Lead for project status with the client.
Deutsche Bank, Parsippany, NJ
Associate Vice President, Storage Engineering/Major Projects Team/Storage and SA
N Implementation
11/98 - 06/04
* Technical lead of Major Project's team that qualified and implemented 200 TB o
f replicated EMC Clariion storage using Navisphere and MirrorView. Provisioned
storage to support multiple data center migrations. Allocated storage, lun mask
ing, zoning, and set up replication in a redundant SAN environment for both the
production and remote side of the solution.
* Set new service level agreements within Storage Management by bringing Symmetr
ix, Clariion, and EVA provisioning in-house, substantially reducing both the cos
t and turn around time of storage requests resulting in increased user satisfact
ion.
* Designed, configured, and implemented a redundant, multi switch Brocade 12000
Silkworm Enterprise Storage SAN installation with separate 3800/3900 replication
SAN.
* Worked with EMC's Widesky management software ECC 5.1and 5.2 distributed solut
ion and EMC SAN Manager, Solutions Enabler 5.3 to provision, configure, monitor,
manage, and increase productivity of the Storage Management Team.
* Worked with both Windows and UNIX Engineering teams to qualify and deploy new
Storage and migration solutions. Documented minimum requirements for the differ
ent storage and host platforms. Developed new provisioning request forms and pr
ocedures.
* Coordinated with multiple venders for installs, firmware upgrades, delivery of
projects, and resolution to technical issues related to the Storage Management
infrastructure.
* Provide second level support to the business units for day-to-day operations,
migrations, and configuration issues for existing SCSI. Attached storage to a ne
w replicated SAN for Solaris, Veritas Cluster Server, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 serve
rs.
* Sole member of storage engineering that developed, qualified, and implemented
a custom end to end user storage provisioning application. This manual process
of allocating storage from a storage array, lun masking, and zoning through a SA
N to a host for both the production and remote side of an EMC SRDF solution.
* Designed, configured, and implemented a redundant, multi switch Brocade 12000
Silkworm Enterprise Storage SAN installation.
* Set policies and provisioned storage to support specific business needs and se
rvice level agreements to deliver the highest levels of storage performance and
availability.
* Built and implemented a remote data replication (EMC SRDF) infrastructure for
all tier 1 critical applications to provide the highest levels of data protectio
n and recoverability using SRDF solutions. Implemented separate redundant Broca
de 3900 SAN configuration to ensure the highest levels of performance, security,
and reliability.
* SAN Administration duties included all aspects of zoning, lun masking, HBA rep
lacement, problem resolution, and storage placement using EMC Symconfigure, Volu
me Logix, Solutions Enabler 5.0, and ECC/ESN manager software.
* Proactively evaluate storage performance and capacity needs with EMC Work Load
Analyzer.
* Provide day-to-day support to end users for various projects, migrations, D/R
testing and qualification, satisfying corporate compliance for recovering applic
ations, hosts, clusters, and business units.
* Responsible for maintaining project delivery schedules.
06/80 - 08/97 NON-IT WORK
* Managed various auto repair facilities from 1980 through 1997.
* Owned and operated successful auto parts store with sales in access of $750K f
rom 1993 through 1995.
* Duties included staffing, sales, computer diagnostics, and inventory managemen
t.
Education
Chubb Institute, North Brunswick, New Jersey
08/97-03/98, Diploma, Computer Programming
Professional Training
EMC Training: ECC Open Edition/Solutions Enabler; Open Systems Host; Basic Unix
; Multi Vendor Open Systems Hosts; ESN Management Software; Advance Fibre Channe
l Troubleshooting; SAN Design and Administration; Brocade 12000 Enterprise Stora
ge Director; Open Symmetrix Manager Tools; Symmetrix & Windows NT server 4.0; Cl
ariion CTX600, MirrorView.
Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional
EMC Proven
NCDA Certified
NCIE-SAN Certified