From 10/2008 to 2/2010, the individual worked as a contractor for the United States Department of Agriculture in St. Louis, MO. Their role was a SAN/EMC/VERITAS NETBACKUP STORAGE CONSULTANT. They were responsible for SAN, EMC storage and NetBackup environments across multiple cities, including managing various storage arrays, tape libraries, over 2,100 servers and 5,000 clients. They also configured SAN switches, replication scripts, and tested database backup scripts while troubleshooting SAN issues for various operating systems.