1. JOSEPH PEARLMAN
SENIOR STORAGE ENGINEER
OVERVIEW:
Objective: Performance-driven Storage Management professional, equipped with well-developed
qualifications acquired from vast experience in various Storage systems. Strongly inclined to a challenging
position as a Storage Administrator to gain and effectively utilize knowledge, experience, in achieving career
advancement. Currently administrating and implementing NAS technologies by providing strong technical and
analytical skills. Driven to completing tasks on time and in an effective manner and having an awareness of
technical issues; listening to developers and team to apply my experience to resolve problems and provide
solutions.
Storage Experience: Clustered Data OnTap - CIFS, NFS, ISCSI (security/virtualization), Netapp 7-mode,
Snapmirror, SnapProtect, Oncommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Performance Manager, Data migration
(CDOT, EMC, HDS VSP, D8000, SVC), Symmetrix- SRDF replication (Syncronous/Asyncronous), Fabric Manager
- Cisco DCNM, Brocade EFCM/DCFM/BNA, Webtools, Active Directory, Tivoli Manager – (TPC-R, TPC Disk),
DS8000 - PPRC, SVC (global/metro mirror), (Limited) Python, bash, CSS, HTML5.
OS/Platforms: Windows Server, HP-UX, AIX, Vmware (Vsphere, Vmotion), Linux redhat, AWS (EC2, RDS,
Cloudformation, S3).
Specialties: Migration planning and execution of 7-mode to CDOT infrastructure, Configuration of 8-node
Cluster and network, Configured and manage SnapProtect backups for AIX, SQL, VMWare and Oracle
Databases, Major Incident Management & Problem Management, Backend migration and planning for HDS
VSP, Backend DS8000/XIV migration and planning behind SVC, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
Planning, Switch migration planning and execution.
Certifications: NetApp NCDA Certified, Cisco 642-359 Advanced Storage Networking Solutions Certified
WORK EXPERIENCE: 8 years
Senior Storage Engineer at IBM | remote | 1.5 years (2015-current)
Worked on migrating legacy 7-mode environment to Clustered Data OnTap
-Design and Implementation of CDOT.
-On sight assistance building Cluster network and infrastructure
-Upgraded both 7-mode and CDOT ONTAP versions.
-Manage Aggregates, Volumes, Vlans, LIFS, igroups, SVM’s, CIFS Shares and NFS Exports.
-Experience in troubleshooting the performance issues
-Experience in building, maintaining and upgrading data management tools (OCUM, OPM, SnapProtect, OCI)
-Created volumes and snap mirror relationships for disaster recovery planning/testing.
-Experience in installation, configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows, UNIX and
VMWare environments.
-Decommissioned legacy 7-mode controllers.
Storage Technical Lead at IBM | Boulder, CO | 2 years (2013-2015)
Worked as technical team lead; managing and implementing storage migrations from EMC to Hitachi.
-Provided supervisory support and direction to the customer business unit in managing the architecture and
infrastructure in the SAN and NAS environment.
-Assisted in data migration of 1000+ server’s legacy storage to IBM XIV to EMC VMAX.
-Performed administration tasks for storage capacity and planning across multiple accounts.
-Worked with customers and peers during storage outages and downtime determining root cause of the issue.
-Created CIFS shares and NFS exports for customer accounts.
-Planned and executed DR testing for multiple vendors including EMC DMX, HDS VSP and IBM DS8000/SVC.
-Successfully implemented data migration of 100+ server’s legacy from EMC VNX/DMX to Hitachi VSP.

2. -Coordinated efforts within my team and customer to effectively migrate all servers without incident.
-Perform regular hardware maintenance and upgrades of customer environments.
-Configured HUS VM environment using CISCO UCS.
Storage Engineer at IBM | Boulder, CO | 1.5 years (2012-2013)
Worked on the Campbell's Account and managed as the technical lead.
-Implemented DS8000 pprc and flashcopy along with SVC global mirror and metro mirror.
-Developed technical documents and manual for SAN,
-Analyzed legacy storage systems to derive required business function needs.
-Provided storage projections for future server application needs.
-Provided quarterly review of security standards to meet IBM compliance.
-Implemented storage microcode updates on a needed basis for SVC's and Brocade switches.
-Migrated client from DS6000 to IBM SVC.
Storage Analyst at IBM | Boulder, CO | 3 years (2009-2012)
Worked with peers to manage Ameriprise and Disney accounts to migrate clients to new
technologies
-Configured new connections for Cisco Device manager.
-Migrated servers from Connectrix Manager switches to Cisco switches
-Design changes for the environment and made ready for execution by peers
-Successfully completed migration project for the transition from old I10k switches to new Cisco fabric
-Mentored and trained over 20 employees combined on multiple storage teams.
Storage Specialist at IBM | Boulder, CO | 1.5years (2008-2009)
-Monitored SAN connectivity of CISCO 9513's using Cisco Fabric Manager, and Cisco Device manager.
-Experience in resolving incident management tickets of Storage Environment.
-Work with Customer engineers to replace failed hardware as needed.
-Monitored SAN environment through Tivoli monitoring system.
EDUCATION:
B.F.A. in Illustration, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, May 2008
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Peggy Burcin (IBM, Lead Storage Administrator)
Contact will be provided on request
Fintan Kiernan (IBM, Technical Storage Administrator)
Contact will be provided on request
Jason Dodds (IBM, Technical Storage Administrator)
Contact will be provided on request
CONTACT
jcpearlman@gmail.com
734-972-1998