Objective

To enjoy being retired.

To obtain a storage administration position in an environment that encourages growth and excellence. I would like to combine my technical skills, my ability to learn new and diverse technologies, my project management abilities and my understanding of how information technology can enable an enterprise, to provide and support business solutions.

Systems Experience

• Hardware:Cisco 9509;  EMC Symmetrix 3430, 3830, 8730, DMX 800, DMX-3; XIOtech Magnitude; Hewlett Packard: EVA 3000, EVA 5000
• Operating Systems: Cisco Fabric Manager; EMC: Enterprise Control Center & Command Line; XIOtech GUI
• PC Applications: Microsoft: Project, Word, Excel, Front Page
• Other Applications: EMC Optimizer, EMC Workload Analizer, HP OpenView, MC Service Guard

Education

• University of Minnesota M.B.A 2000, Concentration in Information Decision Sciences
• Mankato State University B.S. 1982 Interdisciplinary Computer Science and Business Administration
• Brocade Certified Fabric Professional (1 Gb & 2 Gb)
• Brocade Certified SAN Designer (1Gb & 2 Gb)
• Numerous conferences and vendor supplied classes educatin.xls

Professional Experience

Retired 2008 - Present

Retire

• Administrator for www.peacelight.org and www.cudamn.com
• Treasurer for Boy Scout Troop 113
• Advisor for Boy Scout Venture Crew 113
• Riding my bicycle over 1000 miles per year

Andersen Corporation 1983 - 2008

Senior Storage Administrator - 1999 - 2008

• Participated in a Tier 2 storage evaluation, involving the review of 7 storage environments.
• Performed in depth analysis of EMC Symmetrix performance and Optimizer effectiveness, to improve performance of a Microsoft Exchange environment.
• Responsible for design, implementation and growth of both a production and a disaster recovery, dual fabric heterogeneous Storage Area Networks (SAN) connecting HP-UX and Microsoft operating systems to EMC Symmetrix and XIOtech Magnitude storage. (a total of 4 fabrics)
• Responsible for life cycling several EMC Symmetrix storage arrays including data and physical movement.
• Responsible for maintaining 7 x 24 availability of Storage Area Network (SAN) environment, including monitoring for bottlenecks.
• Work with HP-UX, AIX, and Microsoft System Administrators (SA's), Database Administrators (DBA's) and key users to develop storage forecasts for 5 years.
• Work with UNIX SA's to configure disks into HP-UX native and M.C. Service Guard clustered environments.
• Work with Microsoft SA's to configure disks to several Windows 2000 and Microsoft Clustered environments.
• Provide on call support and technical consultation to the UNIX Administration team.

Senior System Administrator - Fulfillment Team 1998 - 1999

• Lead System Administrator for the hardware and software installation and configuration of a BaaN ERP environment running on a MC Service Guard cluster.
• Provided HP-UX system administration support for the installation and configuration of numerous BaaN IV and BaaN ERP environments.
• Managed two EMC disk servers, purchasing and allocating disks and coordinating maintenance with minimal impact to the customers.

System Administrator - Technical Currency Team 1994 - 1997

• Provided technical integration skills to the installation and configuration of HP OpenView, including integration of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps generated by other monitoring tools.
• Developed corporate wide web pages in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), providing the Technical Currency Team corporate visibility.
• Refined my HP-UX and Sequent system administration skills by participating in numerous trouble shooting and support situations.

Technology Integrator - Technical Support Group 1992 - 1994

• Responsible for maintaining software and hardware currency, system tuning and other administration tasks on several Sequent UNIX machines.

Software Analyst - Technical Support Group 1987 - 1991

• Responsible for maintaining software and hardware currency, system tuning and other administration tasks on two Sperry / Univac mainframes.

Database Administrator - Database Group 1985 - 1986

• Enhanced and supported DMS 8 databases on a Sperry / Univac mainframe.

Programmer Trainee / Programmer - Applications Development / Application Support 1983 - 1985

• Wrote and maintained COBOL programs and ECL on a Sperry / Univac mainframe.

Awards and Honors

Outside Interests

Last updated 08/21/2012