The document provides details about Michael Myrick's expertise and experience in disaster recovery solutions architecture and senior storage architecture. Some key points include: - Over 19 years of experience leading project teams in data protection, availability, data center transformation, server consolidation, and disaster recovery. - Technical expertise in storage systems, replication technologies, virtualization, clustering, and backup/recovery solutions. - Experience architecting and implementing solutions using technologies from vendors such as EMC, IBM, VMware, and Microsoft. - Seeks a technical strategist or hands-on role ensuring business resilience and meeting recovery objectives through automated data replication and custom scripting.

1. Michael A. Myrick
210-268-8778
michael.a.myrick@hotmail.com
Disaster Recovery Solutions Architect – Sr. Storage Architect
San Antonio TX area Remote preferred light travel Open to Relocation
OBJECTIVE: Technical strategist, design & lead/hands-on role as a Disaster Recovery Solution Architect; ensuring
business resilience through automated, custom script development & tuning for data replication management within &
across co-located sites; using host-independent array or appliance based consistent replication to protect your business
critical application availability & accessibility; meeting business critical application RTO Recovery-Time& RPO Recovery-
Point Objectives.
Enterprise Systems (Compute) & Storage; Consistent data protection; scripted, automated Data Replication between co-
located data center infrastructures using array & OS based Disaster Recovery, High Availability technologies.
For the job(s) you need me to perform; provide me with a simple explanation of the complexities needing a solution, I will
architect & engineer solutions to complex problems & I will always get the job done; right; on-time; the first time!
I am looking forward to meeting with you in person, to discuss at length & in detail, your business critical project needs, &
how we might work together to satisfy them. Thank you!
SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:
 19 Years IT experience, leading & managing diverse project teams for Application Data Protection & Availability, Data
Center Transformation, Relocation, Server Consolidation, Rationalization, Relocation, HA/CA & Disaster Recovery.
 Technical strengths: (CSRA) Current State Reference Architecture (D&A) Discovery & Assessment; &
Validation; building, upgrading, migrating/cloning; mapping transition & transformation to interim, future, &
aspirational DR state.
 Leader, trainer, mentor; managed & contributed to business EPMO, technical operations migration deployment teams.
 Drove large scale application tech refresh/upgrade/re-platform; design, build, install, configure & deployment..
 Deep, strong & extensive knowledge/experience managing business critical application re-platforming & data migration
to new co-located data center environments.
 Backend VMware ESX, virtualized boot/data, vCenter SRM Site-Recovery-Manager (RA) Replication Adapters.
 Backend IBM AIX PowerVM APV Advanced Power Virtualization, Live Partition Mobility, Power HA SystemMirror &
HACMP ES for high availability solutions architecture; Data Storage high availability & replication; LVM management.
 Application datastore/VG LUN decomposition; mapping VM vmdk, source array to target array for LUN replication.
 Collaborating with directing, guiding, teaching & mentoring, Engineers, Architects & Specialists though planning,
design, validation, setting up Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity; Continuous & High Availability solutions.
 Strong cross platform/OS (Windows, Linux/AIX/UNIX), database (Oracle, SQL, DB2, Sybase) experience.
 Project focus; large scale enterprise co-located (DR) Disaster Recovery & (HA) High Availability Enterprise
Systems (pSeries, iSeries, Sun & HP, ltd. Z System); advanced level Power System technology IBM AIX/Linux,
business critical application re-platforming, re-engineering, re-architecture; plan, build, deploy, migrate/relocate & run.
 Worked successfully on many large scale projects as a data storage transformation Enterprise Solution Architect,
Technical Architect Data Center Migration, Senior Solution Architect; Application Data Protection, Replication &
Storage; Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity & Backup-Recovery as Managing Consultant, technical or team
lead.
 Researching to rapidly understand & apply new technologies, best practices solutions thru flow modeling & business
process analysis to solve complex business technology problems, to build solutions.
 I will demonstrate proficiency; develop technological systems that aid smooth functioning of business processes; to
keep the business running in the midst of potential disruptions & managing disruption response, recovery & fallback.
 Extensive IT experience, spanning a variety of IT disciplines across all facets of data center infrastructure, Enterprise
Storage, Operating System LVM Logical-Volume-Managers, (SAN) Storage Area Networks, Storage Server
consolidation, Disaster Restart Recovery, Backup Recovery, Networking; vCenter SRM Site-Recovery-Manager
Replication Adapters.
 Primary enterprise storage focus is EMC storage technologies (VMAX, DMX (Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VNX); EMC data
replication technologies such as SRDF, Open Replicator, PowerPath ME, EMC SAN Copy; CLONES, SNAPS, etc..);

2. VMware virtualization Storage vMotion & site-to-site data replication; with IBM DS8300DS8700, DS6000, DS4000,
V7000.
 Strong working knowledge of the other data center components including AIX, Solaris, LINUX Windows operating
systems; Brocade Cisco storage networking; Disaster Recovery; Backup Recovery; Continuous & High Availability;
Database Technology (Oracle, SQL, UDB, Sybase, ADABAS) architectures.
 Design, build, implementation of future state data center infrastructure, data migrations storage server consolidations.
 Worked as a high level EMC Resident Solutions Architect Storage consultant on several storage consolidation
migration roles; lead capacity over the recent 8 years, adhering to GRC Disaster Recovery constraints & requirements.
 Strategic planner who leads the migration teams, by putting together the high level plan as to how they are going to
move or consolidate the data what methods technologies will be used for implementation.
 Project roles: EMC Lead SAN SME Transition, EMC Sr. Solutions Architect DC Storage Migration, EMC Solutions
Architect Storage Migration, Sr. Storage Ops VMware, Sr. Storage Engineer BC DR Migration, Sr. Systems Engineer
(DC Consolidation, Migration, Relocation); (BC, DR, BMR, HA); (ITM-TEC); (TCO-ROI), BC DR Consultant, Sr.
Professional Services Consultant; Sr. AIX UNIX System Engineer Admin; Engineer in Charge; Technical Project lead.
 SAN Data Storage Migration Solutions Architect specializing in Data Center SAN Server Storage Consolidation
Relocation Virtualization Migration; Symmetrix Asymetrix (VMAX DMX), CLARiiON Symmetrix (CX VMAX), CLARiiON
VNX (CX VNX), Celera NS VNX (NS VNX), Brocade, CISCO MDS CISCO MDS, Brocade CISCO MDS.
 EMC Symmetrix (SRM) Storage Resource Management using (ECC) EMC Control Center v6, v5, v4; (SMC)
Symmetrix Management Console, (SPA) Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Unisphere for VMAX & VNX..
 EMC Symmetrix Data Replication Migration software SRDF, TimeFinder, SNAP, Clone, Open Replicator, Open
Migrator, PowerPath ME, (FLM) Federated Live Mobility.
 Develop, implement, maintain a comprehensive staff training program; especially knowledge transfer during the closing
phase of the project life cycle.
 Supervised development, maintenance of system documentation, including user manuals, FAQs, help files.
 Strong background in Backup Recovery tools, e.g. EMC Avamar, EMC Networker, & EMC (DPA) Data Protection
Advisor for Replication Analysis, (TSM) Tivoli Storage Manager, & VERITAS NetBackup DC SSO.
SKILLS/TOOLS:
 Operating Systems Volume Managers: VMware ESX, IBM AIX 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x; Oracle Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8; HP-
UX 10,9; RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Microsoft Windows 2003 2000 NT 4.0 Server.
 EMC Replication Migration Applications: TimeFinder (Mirror, Snap, Clone, BCV); SRDF s, SRDF a; Open Replicator;
Open Migrator; PowerPath ME; SAN Copy; SnapView; MirrorView.
 EMC (SRM) Storage Resource Management Applications: Symmetrix Management Console, Symmetrix Performance
Analyzer,; ControlCenter, SAN Manager; StorageScope; Connectrix Manager; SYMCLI Solutions Enabler (v7,6,5,4),
Symmetrix Optimizer; Unisphere, Navisphere, Navicli Naviseccli.
 (BUR) Backup Recovery Applications: EMC Avamar, Legato Networker, Data Protection Advisor Replication Analysis;
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM ADSM); VERITAS NetBackup Data Center; Bare Metal Recovery.
 Virtualization: vCloud, VMware Virtualization Suite, VMware ESX, vSphere, PowerVM.
 Logical Volume Manager (LVM): AIX, VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0 on (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Red Hat LINUX).
 EMC MPIO, DMP: PowerPath UNIX & Windows.
 High Availability Cluster Managers: IBM POWERHA (HACMP ES v6,5,4,3); Microsoft Cluster Manager, VERITAS
Cluster Manager, VMware vCenter SRM Site-Recovery-Manager; LUN resource group mirror volume management.
 Other Applications: (TSM) Tivoli Storage Manager v4 v5, VERITAS (NetBackup 5.1 4.5 3.4, Volume Manager, Cluster
Server); VMware; Sun Volume Manager, Solstice Disk Suite,; HP OpenView; Oracle; Microsoft Project, Word, Excel,
Visio; Microsoft Hyper-V.
 Languages: UNIX shell (ksh, csh, bsh); PERL, PHP, VBA, C C++, Visual C++,
 EMC: EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX4, DMX3, DMX2000, DMX1000, DMX800, 8530 configuration, management, data
replication & protection EMC CLARiiON CX4, CX3, CX700, CX600, CLARiiON Disk Library; VNX8000/7500 Unified
p(Block + File); VCE vBlock 720 with VMAX 40K, VCE vBlock 340 with EMC VNX8000
 FC Switches: Brocade DCFM, switches, directors, Fabric Manager; McData ED1032 ED140 ED64 switches directors;
Cisco MDS 9000 Multi-Layer Fabric switches; QLogic HBAs; Emulex HBAs
 HACMP ES POWERHA SystemMirror (10+): V7,v 6,v5, v4.4 IBM POWER pSeries (10+years): POWER7, POWER6,
POWER5, ..., POWER3, POWERPC
 MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio & MS Access, Project SDLC integration with client EPMO, & 3rd party vendor teams.

3. EXPERIENCE:
IBM, Remote Office, Light Travel Client: AIG and MetLife Oct 15 to Apr 16
IT Architect -Storage Data Center Migration Consultant SME - IBM Cloud/CMS Cloud Managed Services
 Worked closely with the Lead IT Architect, Sr. IT Architect/Engagement Leader, Managing Consultant, Senior Project
Manager & off-shore remote team Migration Engineers to get migration data moving.
 Data migration Columbus to IBM Softlayer Cloud CMS BLDR/RTP; 3 PowerHA clusters, ~31 servers.
 Lead member of the DMS data migration team managing “Migration Factory” kit data transfer to Softlayer.
 IBM AIX 6.1, IBM PowerHA-SystemMirror 6.1 configuration, test, performance troubleshooting.
 AIX LVM VG/LV/FS integration with Vormetric Encryption software & PowerHA scripting.
 Scripting to automate data movement, start/in-process/completion, of 1500+ filesystems.
 Collaborated with team SME, Migration Engineers in Mexico, India, Romania & Poland.
 Collaborated with other SME to automate data migration, filesystem migration status tracking.
 Recommended direct attachment of Migration kit to CMS SVC.
 Recommended changes to future migration factory kit, to improve remote accessibility & performance.
 Perform analysis of data migration requirements, approach, strategy, migration factory kit, source legacy & target
Cloud reference architecture, Application (db2, MQ, Vormetric), Operating System.
 Recommended next migration kit storage array LUN’s be built to ensure better r/w I/O performance.
 Provided training to remote resources to enable their support of the client DC migration effort.
 Design EMC RecoverPoint Solution to be used for a portable “Migration Factory” kit.
 Kit is to be used to replicate active/static app data to a remote IBM Cloud/CMS DC.
 Kit is to be installed/integrated with client source data center, & target DC RecoverPoint.
 Design build plan, Bill of Materials, Default configuration, remote/local access, source/target implementation.
 Design enabled EMC array data migration from ~6 data centers to IBM EMEA Regional PROD/DR DC & CMS with
EMC VPLEX/VNX2.
IBM, Kalamazoo MI Area Jun 15 to Jul 15
Data Center Relocation Architect – Managing Consultant
 Assisted with application remediation, engineering, migration, & Disaster Recovery, GRC team activities.
o Application discovery & decomposition.
o Affinity & dependency mapping for move group planning.
o Evaluate business & technical requirements.
o Target architecture design & migration strategy planning.
o Remediation strategy, planning, implantation, Scope of Work, Scope of Effort 10 move day timeline.
 Provide midrange infrastructure in-depth technology expertise across the pillars.
 Leverage leading practices supporting the migration planning & design.
 Assist in the development of the midrange strategy, plans & architecture documents supporting the migration.
 Leverage leading practices supporting migration planning & migration solutioning design, followed by authoring the
Discovery & Assessment documentation, managing Disaster Recovery GRC Governance, Risk & Compliance.
 Lead application data collection, creation of affinity groups, & leading migration move event activities.
 Lead storage & network data collection project, providing guidance, promotion of best practices & process
recommendations.
 Lead the migration data base & processes required to store & keep the data elements collected current.
Wipro, Ithaca, New York Area Aug 14 to Apr 15
Sr. Storage Architect - Principle Engineer - Lead Consultant
 Application Image Migration.
 Consolidate 6x Symmetrix VMAX/DMX arrays to VMAX40K & VNX8000; 3x DC to 1x DC.
 VCE Vblock Systems 720 w/VMAX40K & 340 w/VNX8000.
 RecoverPoint vCenter SRM Replication Adapter for Data Migration, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.
 (AN) Approach Note, (HLD) High Level Document, (LLD) Low Level Document, (PID) Project Initiation Document.
 Validated VCE Vblock 720 LCS, VMAX40K bin file array drive config, pools, FAST profiles, VMware clients.
 Mapped VMware Cluster, ESX Node, VM, allocated GB, Business Criticality Service Level, Source to Target .

4.  Validated SMTD documentation on master inventory, capacity distribution, utilization, waste, for Target TBu sizing.
 Designed, documented, RecoverPoint System, Cluster, Source environment SAN/LAN architecture integration.
 Defined Use Cases requiring configuration, methods, SOP, for Source LUN to Target LUN replication pairs.
 Created work flow diagram, with integration to Remedy for assignment to BAU OPS team for execution.
 Executed (POC) Proof-of-Concept Remedy tickets to engage the BAU OPS SAN, Storage, Wintel & UNIX Towers.
 Created customer, draft “Migration Factory” Source & Target infrastructure configuration work flow diagram.
 Created Master Storage Map VMware VM to Array LUN’s, GBu, Source to Target LUN pairing, pre move groups .
 Created WBS for “Migration Factory” to begin analysis of resource requirements, skill level, & timelines.
Catholic Health Initiatives Remote - Virtual Office Apr 13 to Jan 14
Enterprise Solutions Architect - EMC-SAN-POWER7-BC-DR-BRS-HACMP-PowerVM-PowerHA-vCenter SRM
 On Demand Self Service provisioning/allocation or release of billable, chargeable "Compute, Storage, Network or
Software resources"; provide rapid elasticity, measured service, provisioning, monitoring, controlling or reporting &
transparency to services consumer & provider
 Introduced new (StaaS) Cloud architecture - VMAX Symmetrix Cloud Edition using VMware vCloud Director, vCenter
Chargeback Manager; vCenter SRM Site- Recovery-Manager; Dual T4 redundant failover sites; SRDF & RecoverPoint
SRM Replication Adapters; Legato Networker & Data Domain for backup/recovery
 Collaborated with the (PaaS) & (CaaS) teams to establish & define current reality steady state reference architecture &
future business requirements to meet CHI 5 year Cloud plan; future state infrastructure architecture roadmap.
 Developed strategies to deliver “in-depth knowledge, understanding & documentation of all CHI Enterprise & MBO data
stores across all sites”; Identify, classify, categorize, locate; managed infrastructure, storage tiers ($/TBu cost,
performance, resiliency & availability)
 Implemented strategy using outsourced (IT) team resources, performing due diligence discovery, interpretation &
documentation of current steady state infrastructure thru data gathering, interpreting data into usable reports, also
aiding in their day to day reporting duties. I used the reports & data to build detailed design documentation of steady
state in all three primary data centers.
 Developed in partnership with EMC a consolidation strategy VMAX-20K, DMX3, DMX4, DMX3000 into a single FAST
enabled array, fewer engines & disks; to provide capacity planning data for target migration to dual site failover BC-DR
model in alignment with EMR (Epic, Cerner) production relocation projects.
IBM - State Street Corp Quincy, MA (Partner) Jan 12 to Sept 12
EMC SAN SME Focal Transition Transformation
 Lead core L3 L2 L1 team to adopt & evolve best practice, standard operating procedures planning for provisioning on
VMAX DMX storage for physical & virtualized environments.
 Install, configure, test, & manage SRDF replication between production & disaster recovery sites.
 Storage provisioning on Symmetrix VMAX DMX, CLARiiON CX for IBM AIX VIOS APV-VIOS-POWERVM, VMware,
Solaris 10 9 8, RHEL, Windows server 2K0, 2K3, 2K8
 Used SYMCLI Solutions Enabler, (IONIX, ECC) & (SMC).
 EMC functional & best practices Knowledge Transfer (KT) to storage team members during the engagement, allowing
the team to execute independently, accurately & with confidence.
 Lead, support, cross trained storage team on BAU CMR best practices for SAN EMC to mitigate risk.
 Developed SYMCLI, Naviseccli Navicli script to use for Symmetrix CLARiiON automated assessment, analysis,
provisioning, monitoring management, in addition to (IONIX, ECC) & (SMC).
 Provisioning on Brocade & CISCO MDS 9000 fabric switches
 Translated adapted aligned client current (CMR) best practices with GDF (BAU) (SOP) standards.
 Assessed BAU (SOP) execution of SAN CMR infrastructure (CMR) ITIL process automation alignment.
 Advocated openness, transparency, accountability to balance strategic vision pragmatic need.
 Encouraged open communication, questions & how to use them as a primary tool for increasing collaboration,
knowledge & awareness to build team spirit of cooperation.
 Consulted to team on EMC Storage & SAN tools, technology methodology related to SAN design & architecture for
maximum availability, business continuity, & reliability.
 Lead manage operational risk identification, documentation & assessment, tracking & risk remediation, working with
responsible teams, to resolve issues.
 Analyzed team work flow process execution to mitigate SLA risk of outage, & drive efficiency.

5.  Design (SOW) Scope of Work, (SOE) Scope of Effort, Work Flow, & Work Breakdown to produce repeatable or
automated asset sub tasks, methods, processes or procedures for L3 L2 L1 resources.
 Translate business requirements into functional technical requirements for automation of BAU CMR work flow
breakdown strategies.
 Develop standard operations procedures, strategies associated operations architecture for Customer BAU CMR based
on business needs.
 Audited storage infrastructure, collaborated with vendors to assure alignment.
 Developed & managed technical solutions to complex challenges, problems, processes, procedures, methods to
enable team to perform work more efficiently.
 Build relationships, trust, & comradery within multicultural virtual teams of varying technical expertise.
 Virtual team formation, building, motivating, & management.
 Worked motivating team, staying ahead of them during transition entitlement activities.
 All hands on work was executed to satisfy a CMR, while also capturing all methods processes into repeatable,
reusable approved (SOP) Standard Operating Procedure documents, meeting or exceeding ITIL, & best practice
recommendations requirements.
American Express Phoenix, AZ Jul 11 to Dec 11
EMC - Contract Consultant (Partner)
Technical Architect - Data Center Storage Migration Architect
 Technical consultant to EMC SMS team for Data Center migration, relocation, consolidation, virtualization methods,
strategies & EMC best practices.
 Validated POD POA Design Architecture documentation content aligned with EMC Compatibility Matrix.
 Validated processes procedures for server OS, SAN Driver firmware remediation meet expectations.
 Validation of storage device group alignment with application logical volumes, mount points & drives.
 Verified BAU SAN processes meet ITIL Six Sigma best practices.
 Verified EMC SMS "Migration Factory" CMR, runbooks, workflows, processes, exception handling, milestones, & time
lines align with best practice recommendations for operational readiness.
 Verified HW SW FW compatibility with EMC support matrix for SRDF LUN replication & data migration to EMC VMAX.
 Validate move group operational readiness for SRDF Host based data migration activities.
 Wrote program macros to interpret extract process EMCGrab EMCReport data to validate move group.
 Verified translation of business & vendor requirements meets functional requirements.
 Wrote program macros to extract process EMCGrab EMCReport data to validate move group device group &
ownership.
 Wrote Test Strategy Test Plan for new SAN infrastructure components to validate operational readiness.
 Wrote POA SAN SRM Storage Infrastructure component test plan templates for SMS & CE delivery.
 Validated Point of Arrival cable & build plan, verified documentation aligned with design requirements.
 Performed in a lead high level role to collaborate with other client, solution architects, disaster recovery, & delivery
engineers to assure design meet or exceed client expectations & requirements.
 Assessed functional requirements plan that defined the operational methods, processes, procedures the
implementation teams will execute to move consolidate the data & what technologies they will use to implement the
migration, assuring alignment with expectations.
T Rowe Price - Baltimore, MD - EMC Resident Jun 10 to Feb 11
Sr. Solutions Architect - Data Center Storage Migration
 Provided senior level skill as a backup to client lead architect during pre-migration phase, to allow this resource to
focus on the complete SAN Storage infrastructure ground up design.
 Provided solution to client, unexpectedly, that allowed them to make their window of opportunity to complete the
migration in time & complete relocation of DR data center, & SRDF load testing.
 Managed all aspects of Source to Target data & array migration of existing infrastructure to new DR DC.
 Used SYMCLI batch script, macros, driven by input from XML Source Target Symm data to build automated system to
configure new DR DC VMAX SRDF & CLONE move group device pairs.
 Automated mapping Source R1 to Target R2, Target R2 to CLONE, SRDF CLONE establish; for disaster recovery
testing, DC roll out. The team simply had to execute scripts to build SAN fabric & VMAX.

6.  Assess current build, design implementation plan for SRDF S to SRDF A four site array data migration.
 Plan, guide implementation of migration of AIX Windows Solaris server LUN's from DMX4 to VMAX.
 Migrate DMX3 to VMAX; SRDF s between DMX3 frames to SRDF a on VMAX.
 Automate storage provisioning, new LUN add, for decommission, migration, virtualization, consolidation.
 Analyze team process efficiency to enhance productivity. Instruct team on migration plan best practices.
 Research & plan implementation of EMC FAST VP on VMAX.
 Assist EMC client migrate off current SRDF s target DMX3 to new SRDF a (MSC) DR target VMAX.
 Used Unisphere, Naviseccli navicli for CX provisioning of internal Hyper-v based UCS Cloud Solution.
 Define manage complex data center infrastructure technical project implementation strategies.
 Lead core L3 L2 L1 team to adopt & evolve best practice, standard operating procedures planning for provisioning on
VMAX DMX storage for physical & virtualized environments.
 Created I O stress tests to discover, & identify CX4-480 performance issue, affecting their internal cloud.
 Assess internal cloud UCS CX4-480 Hyper-V MetaLUN disk group configuration to prepare for diagnosis.
 Diagnosed configuration, produced plan to reconfigure CX improving on HYPER-V performance.
 Deconstruct CX4 MetaLUN's, reconstructed them with proper disk group spindle alignment to obtain expected,
required performance. Problem Solved.
The Home Depot - Atlanta, GA - EMC Resident Feb 10 to May 10
Sr. Solutions Architect - Storage Migration
 Tech lead architect for array based data migration from DMX3 to VMAX.
 Provisioned on VMAX using SYMCLI & (SMC, IONIX, ECC) to capture & document client BAU SOP.
 Captured client BAU SOP, translated to EMC Best Practice work flow methods, & practices aligned with client
expectations.
 Build plan to train EMC (COE) Center of Excellence team in India to assess migration requirement, collect source &
target data, & translate into a work plan compliant with client CMR, & execute while producing auditable proof of
proper, complete execution.
 Provided guidance to India team, to use script, Excel macros, & VBA templates I supplied for the work.
 Lead core India L3 L2 L1 team to adopt & evolve best practice, standard operating procedures planning for
provisioning on VMAX for physical & virtualized environments.
 EMC IONIX, EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), EMC Symmetrix Performance
Analyzer.
 India team was able to take over THD future migrations after I had trained them on the process.
Dell Computers - Austin, TX - EMC Resident Oct 09 to Jan 10
Sr. Storage Solutions Architect - Storage Migration
 Assess, plan, & implement complex multiple LPARs, pSeries nodes, data centers, BCV DMX migration.
 Mentor & train resources in EMC Migration Best Practice, methods, & processes.
 Symmetrix Array Migration across multiple data centers, IBM POWER frames, DMX arrays, & BCV's.
 Completed complex multi LPAR node, data center, BCV, DMX assessment, plan, exec ute, during end of year
moratorium, while other resources were benched with failed migrations.
 Produced detailed high level assessment, design execution plan, considered a model of excellence.
 Thoroughness of design gained trust & business approval for change during end of year moratorium. When all other
resident resources were benched with failed migration attempts.
 Provisioned EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON storage using EMC (SRM) Storage Resource Management.
 Provisioned on Symmetrix (VMAX, DMX4, DMX3), CLARiiON (CX4, CX3)
 Provisioned using EMC IONIX, EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), EMC
Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA)
 Created a functional requirements plan defining operational methods, processes, procedures that the implementation
teams can execute to move consolidate the data & what technologies they will use to implement the migration,
assuring results aligned with expectations.
 Used EMC Open Replicator & SYMCLI to do data migration.

7.  My plan was so complete & detailed, that DELL Financial Systems management approved a multisite OR migration, 13
BCV copies, during an end of year moratorium, when all other infrastructure migration & rework was put on hold for two
months during end of year moratorium.
 Produced a complete roadmap for the data migration, as well as a complete rollback script set in the event there was a
need to roll back the migration. The incorrect device IOPS required a roll back.
 Existing plan SID & device list was changed in plan, all scripts & instructions were auto updated making that plan
reusable, & repeatable.
 Dell Financial Systems Senior Manager comment, "Finally, Someone with a well-defined migration plan a Get it done
attitude!"
State of Florida Dept. of Revenue - Tallahassee, FL - EMC Resident Oct 09 to Oct 09
Solutions Architect
 Train client staff on EMC Control Center (ECC) & SYMCLI, validated ECC EMC built config operations ready.
 One week special emergency project to help client recover from a major loss of Storage & System knowledge
preventing storage provisioning activity. Provided the strategy & tactical roadmap enabling provisioning again.
 Collaborate with EMC account team to obtain initial build plan of ECC, Solution Enabler.
 Collaborate with client team to establish EMC (ECC) Control Center server location, network access, connectivity, login
credentials to enable provisioning by the replacement team resources.
 Validate current ECC configuration aligned with the initial build plan; identify variations, or changes post
implementation by EMC Consulting.
 Mentor & train client teams on EMC Best practices, ECC & SYMCLI use to manage their storage provisioning tasks.
 Client teams were fully functional; caught up on 6 months backlog work in 3 days with only 1 training day.
E*TRADE - Atlanta, GA - EMC Resident Mar 09 to Sept 10
Solutions Architect - Storage Migration
 Lead DMX3 to DMX4 open replicator migration using client team for 100% of migration work.
 Created work plan to create a plan to train the team lead, to train the next person, using the team to execute 100% of
the migration plan.
 Provide knowledge transfer to the team enabling them to repeat migrations, with precision, after I had left for the next
client, enabling them today, to do all migrations today without additional guidance.
 Design, implement scripted SNAP & CLONE proof of concept solution for client Sybase IQ, on RHEL for BUR, Test,
QA, & Development.
 Lead core L3 L2 L1 team to adopt & evolve EMC Data Migration best practices, standard operating procedures
planning for DMX to VMAX for physical & virtualized environments.
 Completed initial array migration ahead of schedule. Client extended my contract for an additional three months to
expand the teams scripting abilities, & build the Sybase IQ SNAP CLONE solution.
US CENTCOM - Tampa, FL - EMC Resident - (Partner) Jan 09 to Feb 09
Sr. Storage Operations - VMware
 Assessed current project delay to identify root cause problem causing 6 month schedule slippage.
 Troubleshoot VMware ESX farm, Dell Blade, Brocade Silkworm, & EMC CLARiiON configuration; Identified root cause.
 Designed solution to deconstruct initial build; rebuilding infrastructure to meet project requirements.
 Successful at bringing the General's pet Thin Client project back on schedule.
 Brought project, six months behind schedule, back on target, with three days of effort.
 Rewarded by payment for full 160 hours of contract. & a job with EMC as a Solution architect.
Humana Health Care - Louisville, KY - EMC Resident - (Partner) Oct 08 – Nov 08
Sr. Storage Operations DC Storage Migration
 Project scope – EMC DMX3 to DMX3 to DMX4 Data Center AIX server Oracle database storage migration. Migrate
storage inter-site using EMC Replication Tools (SRDF/A, SRDF/S, Open Replicator, Open Migrator); Support c lient
AIX support team with volume group migration during scheduled Change Management & business objective window.
EMC lead on site inter-site storage migration engineer for AIX-DMX.
 Define & develop custom migration process Runbook, SYMCLI scripts & MS Project plan for each server VG migration.
Migrate data from DMX3 using SRDF/A, SRDF/S across dedicated link to DMX3 at new data center, then migrate data
to DMX4 using Open Replicator. During the OR process 64 GB meta volumes formed from (8) 8 GB hypers are
migrated to a DMX4 with 64 GB meta volumes formed from (2) 32 GB hypers.

8.  Majority of symconfigure work performed using SYMCLI. Storage utilization, performance, distribution & trending work
performed using ECC 6.0. StorageScope, Performance Manager, WLA, & custom SQL queries into the repository.
Windows/UNIX shell scripting for migration management, provisioning, & automation.
 Additional tasks supported the Storage team with performance & I/O problem analysis, determination, & escalation to
EMC engineering support channels, review/interpret EMC grab outputs & Performance Manager files. Troubleshoot
SRDF replication, TSM & Lotus Notes storage I/O & performance latency issues. Knowledge transfer of EMC
replication processes, procedures, & Best Practices to AIX team members.
Christus Santa Rosa Health - San Antonio, TX Mar 08 – Sept 08
Sr. Enterprise Storage Engineer
 Project scope – Team Lead for EMC DMX, EMC Control Center 6.0. Reverse Engineer vendor implementation of 5
DMX, 8 copy using SRDF/A, SRDF/S for inter-site replication to Disaster Recovery site, Open Replicator for local
frame to frame snapshots. Document processes with screen shots using MS Visio, Project, Word, Excel.
 Build 14 new MS Cluster servers, Form 448 metas, 5 DMX, 2 DR sites, 8 time spaced DR copies of data, Create
SRDF pairs, sync site to site, create Open Replicator copies Local/Remote site, map LIDR to local host for backup,
map remote host RIDR for DR, map/mask/zone local OR FA ports Control/Remote arrays, establish all mirrors,
scripting was used heavily & added to documentation. Before I reverse engineered the vendor implementation, the
process was a high charge item from the vendor.
 My recommendation to use Open Replicator or HPUX host level LVM instead of a Viacom device for LUN replication
from the DMX800/HP EVA to the CX3-80, saved CHS $84,000. Migrate HP-UX storage between DMX800 to
CLARiiON CX3-80 & HP-EVA to CLARiiON CX3-80 online with Host LVM mirroring. Extend Striped metas across 8
copy SRDF/OR replication & not impact normal DR.
 ECC improvements, upgrades,/updates, agent deployment, event management, Symmetrix & CLARiiON agents to
improve StorageScope accuracy, trending & utilization reports, repairing CommandView SMI-S, importing HP EVA
8000 into ECC, enabling full SAN switch & Storage discovery into the repository. During my analysis, I uncovered a
very large quantity of unused 2-way BCV devices I was able to reclaim for emergency shortage.
BCBS Florida, e-ETechServices Jacksonville Jan 07 – Oct 07
Sr. Systems Engineer – Services Consultant
 Project scope – TCO analysis of entire BCBSFL mid range business IT infrastructure covering pSeries, SAN, & EMC
storage configuration & utilization. Automate the generation of Web & Visio format visuals of enterprise resources,
utilization, trending from daily samples of the environment, resulting in a savings of several million dollars & postponing
budget adjustments to expand the existing 2 year old data center. Support BCBSFL AIX & Storage team with LPAR
POWER4 to POWER5 LPAR migration, provisioning, validation, problem determination, solution implementation;
document & provide advanced AIX knowledge transfer to client AIX, Storage, Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery
team members.
 Environment consisted of 130 pSeries frames, p595, p570, p550, p520, p510, MMA-570 (p6-570), 410 AIX images,
APV, VIOS, Dynamic LPAR, multiple HMC consoles POWER6, POWER5, & POWER4 pSeries frames. SAN was
Brocade/McData core/edge configuration, Storage was EMC DMX4, DMX3, DMX2, CLARiiON.
 Defined LPAR’s, configured Virtual I/O, assigned virtual devices to LPAR’s, configured DLPAR/LPAR PROC, Memory,
micro-partitioning loaded via NIM with Web Sphere Application Front End, multiple instance Oracle, SAP stress test on
MMA-570 (p6-570) Proof of Concept.
 Developed per customer request a custom suite of scripts to query each HMC, & LPAR image for image utilization of
entitlement, resource allocation & utilization & generate HTML docs & Visio drawings in real time of the infrastructure.
 Data center infrastructure analysis uncovered nearly $1 million in cabled & unused HBA & NIC adapters.
Recommendations for AIX virtualization, consolidation, & upgrade from POWER4 to POWER5, reduced data center
footprint 28%, cooling & power costs by another 26%, accompanied by reducing yearly maintenance by $1 - $1.5
million. Basically show them on demand what they have powered on & the utilization.
Gwinnet Hospital Systems, Infinium Systems Atlanta Sept 06 – Nov 06
Sr. Systems/ITM Engineer
 Project scope – IBM ITM 5.x cleanup previous three failed attempts to provide value from operational Tivoli Monitoring
& Management, TEC Tivoli Enterprise Console. Not really relevant to SAN & Storage, but contact them today, & ask if
they were happy with my 200 hours, I was granted to repair previous three attempts to bring their ITM/TEC
environment online & present accurate enterprise alert & status. Very happy client. With my 200 hours, I resolved all
known operational/configuration errors including several hundred unknown errors across several hundred hosts. I used
this project to demo to IBM BP my ability to study a technology for several days, & then be a primary resource for
business requirements gathering, writing a statement of work, & implementing a corrected solution. I was invited back
to implement their ITM 6.

9. RMC Industries UK LLC - Atlanta, GA Feb 05 – Jun 06
Sr. Unix/SAN/EMC Storage/DR Architect
 Project scope – Follow-up to initial 24 months contract May 2002 – May 2004 below. When I left I was replaced by 4
engineers. Five months after I left CEMEX bought RMC, & all enhancements, technology refreshes were put on hold.
 Architect the environment, wrote the system of inter-system scripts that monitored & managed the operational
environment of all servers. I was on call, 24/7/365, I brought to the attention of CEMEX management, where planned
actions would cost CEMEX millions of dollars in losses, & provided a solution with process changes. Was engaged to
oversee the migration/relocation of the CEMEX/RMC DR environment from Atlanta to Houston. Team lead for
migration from EMC to IBM DS4000 storage, migration from VERITAS DataCenter to TSM.
Piedmont Natural Gas - Charlotte, NC Jan 05 – Aug 05
Sr. Unix System/SAN/EMC-IBM Storage
 Repaired the problem, in a few days, recovered partial backups from tapes that had been corrupted, putting full tapes
into service.
 During project discussions discovered the client was migrating from EMC Symmetrix to IBM FAStT, from VERITAS to
TSM, & Oracle from HP-UX to IBM AIX. The client discovered that I had similar migration project experience, I was
kept on contract to assure that the business objectives, & time lines were not delayed, & if possible reduced.
 Very intuitive, have a very broad base of experience & knowledge, system, SAN, storage, & LVM across multiple
vendors, & operating systems.
COX Communications - Atlanta, GA Nov 04 – Jan 05
Sr. SAN Storage Administrator EMC/DR/BC
 Backup EMC SANS/Storage team lead during data center consolidation, planning & implementing EMC
DMX/Symmetrix consolidation, data migration from smaller data centers to the new corporate primary data center, &
new EMC DMX4, & CLARiiON storage.
 Form, map, mask, zone DMX4 meta LUNS & present to SUN, HP-UX, AIX, & Windows system administrators for new
server rollout, & normal file system expansion allowing team lead to focus on design meetings.
 Sit in on design & implementation meetings during bin file specification & analysis.
RMC Industries UK LLC - Atlanta, GA May 02 – May 04
Sr. Unix System/SAN/EMC Storage/DR/BC
 Completely re-architect the entire RMC HACMP, Oracle & Web Tier DR infrastructure, develop detail project plans for
migrating to the new architecture, sold it to management, then lead the implementation of the plan. All subsequent
quarterly tests of failover & failback were easily implemented by the DR team. The results were a very tunable, flexible,
load balanced, highly available, easily scalable DR Infrastructure
 Implement ECC 4.1, upgrade several2 times to 4.3, then to ECC 5.1, up to ECC 5.3. Solutions Enabler v4, & v5.
PowerPath AIX & Windows. EMC-Brocade SAN switches
 Implement IBM HACMP multi site DR integration with the SRDF/TF scripts controlling mirror replic ation refresh state
Miscellaneous- Atlanta, GA Jul 96 to Feb 02
BC DR BUR BMR HA Systems Engineer Administration
Miscellaneous- Atlanta, GA Apr 84 to Jul 96
Embedded Systems Senior R&D Design Engineer,
Specializing in reverse engineering, design, development of proprietary complex state machine waveform hardware,
microcode, firmware; of IBM communication protocols; Graphics BitBlt, RIP Raster Image Processing (GPU); creating
custom HW & SW emulation in custom discrete MPU/microcode, RTOS Kernel, Multi-Processor (Intel, Zilog, Motorola; 32,
16, 8, 4 bit processor technologies. I built multi-processor embedded systems with discrete, Zilog, Intel and Motorola
CPU/MPU integrated with custom PAL Programmable Array Logic (Gate Array gen 1); development of custom compiler &
assembler of Boolean algebra to PAL bitmap, decompilers, disassemblers… to facilitate reverse engineering &
development
EDUCATION/ CERTIFICATION/ TRAINING:
 High School Diploma, W. J. Woodham High School, Pensacola, FL
 Some College degree
 Double Major (CSS) Computer Science Statistics (EET) Electronic Engineering Technology from University of
Southern Mississippi
EMC VILT Live Training

10. Foundations Solutions:
 Symmetrix; TimeFinder; SRDF; Open Replicator; Open Migrator; Business Continuity; Control Center; SAN;
PowerPath; SANCopy; MirrorView; SnapView; NAS; Visual SRM; Visual SAN; CLARiiON; Centera; Connectrix;
StorageScope Reporting; Celerra; Celerra Replicator.
Integration Management:
 Symmetrix, SRDF, TimeFinder; CLARiiON Host; MirrorView; SANCopy; Connectrix (B-Series, MDS-Series, M-Series),
Control Center
IBM Live Training:
 AIX 5L Implementation, Management Administration
 TSM Tivoli Storage Manager v5