Scott Brightwell dot Org

Summary

An Advisory Technology Consultant for EMC Corp. with ten (10) years experience supporting enterprise computing infrastructure and applications; a diverse background with emphasis on enterprise storage, UNIX, and connectivity issues; known for being the “go-to guy” when clients are faced with new technical challenges; A dedicated professional who demonstrates strong ethics, excellent written and communication skills along with excellent customer relation, consultation, and knowledge training and transfer skills.

Overview

• Three (3) years experience as lead Systems Engineer on HP and Sun integration projects focused on analyzing customer’s environments, their storage requirements, connectivity needs, and providing hardware systems analysis and implementation
• Two (2) years experience as Sr. Technical Architect for EMC Enterprise Storage Networks; multiple project experience installing and configuring Volume Logix, PowerPath, ESN Manager, EFC Manager, ECC Symmetrix Manager, SRDF, Celerra Software Tools, Workload Analyzer, and Resource View.
• Five (5) years experience resident Storage Engineer supporting ESN design, implementation, and management of 80+ Symmetrix and 20+ Connectrix with hundreds of UNIX and Windows clients.
• Multiple project experience installing and configuring EMC Business Continuance, performance tuning, EMC Control Center implementation, and EMC Celerra network attached storage (NAS) solution for NFS and CIFS.
• Designed and implemented WAN solutions utilizing Cisco, HP, and Chase equipment with redundant routing and dial on demand.
• Advanced shell programming experience.

Hardware

• EMC Symmetrix 3000, 5000, 8000, DMX product lines, CLARiiON, Centera, Celerra
• EMC Connectrix (McData and Brocade)
• HP 9000 (H-Class, K-Class, I-Class, N-Class, R-Class, L-Class, V-Class, A-Class, RP-8400, SuperDome)
• Network Appliance File Servers
• HP / Hitachi XP Storage Arrays
• STK 9840 Tape / Powderhorn Silos
• Cisco, HP, Chase WAN equipment

Software

• EMC TimeFinder, Clone and Mirror
• EMC SRDF
• EMC ESN Manager / Volume Logix / Fibre Zone / Connectrix Manager
• HP OpenView Network Node Manager
• HP OpenView IT Ops Center
• HP Omniback lI
• HP Glance / PerfView / MeasureWare
• HP Ignite/UX
• CheckPoint Firewall
• TCP/IP networking and configuration of SNMP, SMTP, NIS, NIS+, DNS, NFS

Operating Systems

• SUN/Solaris
• HP – UX
• IBM – AIX
• Linux
• Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003

Project Specifics

Sr. Storage Engineer Resident, Delta Air Lines

• Disaster Recovery Architecture: Designed and implemented multi-datacenter disaster recovery strategy for the airline to protect mission critical data using EMC’s Concurrent SRDF capabilities.
• Enterprise Storage Engineer: Lead engineer in implementation and support of EMC Symmetrix disk arrays (80+ frames, 300+ Terabyte) in support of OLTP, batch processes, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Internet apps in three data centers (SRDF, Timefinder). Implemented the automation of custom storage capacity, utilization, and performance reporting using EMC Control Center and custom scripting
• SAN Architecture: Designed SAN and managed 30+ EMC Connectrix (McData) fibre channel directors in support of redundant storage network topology for HP, Sun, AIX, and NCR enterprise servers using EMC ESN tools (ECC, Connectrix Manager, Volume Logix) and customized scripting.
• Project Management: Team lead of enterprise storage migration from direct attach to ESN; installation and upgrades of Symmetrix and Connectrix equipment; Administered project plan and maintained team leadership responsibilities.
• Technical Architecture: Consulted constantly with the customer on the application of best-in-class solutions for enterprise storage needs. Involved in product development of ECC Open Edition management software; Researched and tested new system and storage architectures in support of 7×24 operations environment and multiple data centers.
• Data Migration Architect: Performed discovery, analysis, and implementation of multi-terabyte data migration strategies using various data movement tools: LVM mirroring / moving, Symmetrix SRDF, SofTek TDMF for Open Systems, dd, tar, cpio

Sr. Systems Engineer, Nextel

• International projects in Argentina, and Peru; Designed, managed, and implemented HP MC ServiceGuard clusters attached to EMC Symmetrix array, Oracle OLTP environment failover; In-country datacenter architect and manager, trainer of permanent System Administrators, post production performance analysis and tuning; Documented configuration for turnover to Operations Support staff
• Domestic projects include: Custom installations of HP 9000 (D’s, T’s, K’s, and V’s) servers and ServiceGuard clusters on EMC Symmetrix; Y2K testing; Performance analysis; Documentation of configurations and procedures

Sr. Systems Engineer, CTS Systems Integration Projects

• Supervised hardware, operating system, and software installation and support calls on entire HP 9000 server product line, designing and integrating with customer networking, DR, and management procedures
• Implemented nation wide Frame Relay and ISDN WANs for Atlanta based furniture retailer to connect 32 stores to headquarters HP-UX environment.
• Planned and supervised physical move of corporate datacenter for fiber optics manufacturer including HP MC ServiceGuard clusters, EMC Symmetrix, Frame Relay, T1, and Shiva dialup connections with no business day down time.

Education

• BA, Southern Polytechnic State University

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