RAY C.

PEL
Surprise AZ 85388 602.410.9062 raycpel@gmail.com

STORAGE CONSULTANT

Results driven and strategic professional with extensive hands-on IT experience focusing on customer satisfaction.
Knowledgeable leader highly skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams, successfully adapting to diverse technical
backgrounds to problem solve. Strongly adept in providing technical solutions to clients, in accordance with an agreed
technical design. Demonstrated achievements in leading complex projects, effective communication, and leadership.

Technical Support | Risk Assessment | Problem Solving | Flexibility

Project Management | Quality Assurance | Customer Service | Coaching & Mentoring | Teamwork

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Surprise, AZ June /2013 – Nov/2021

Storage Delivery Consultant, Remote
Lead as Storage Migration Engineer (Role: Data Migration 3PAR, Primera and Nimble, Non-HPE Storage (Hitachi, IBM and
EMC) implementing part or all the technical solution to the client, in accordance with an agreed technical design.
 Occasionally assist customers to upgrade VMware environment clusters (7.0) and deploy a basic Veeam infrastructure.
 Provide a detailed technical design for enterprise solutions. Understand a broad spectrum of HPE technology to illustrate
some/all detailed technical design which, meets customer requirements.
 Often oversee small to medium technical projects. Work with and under the direction of the Project/Technical Manager,
and with customer nominated representatives, and liaise with Solutions
 Attend pre-migration meeting to ensure data migration readiness.
 Perform data Due-Diligent includes data gathering, LUN allocation, HBA firmware, and version control.
 Create server checklist and validate data integrity and accuracy
 Build migration waves, runbook, and execute on the waves.
 Perform data migration according to the execution plan and guarantee the assignment deliverables, with deadlines
clearly defined, meet the time window.
 Provide post migration and evidence document as required.

Hewlett-Packard\Unilever, Trumbull, CT Dec/1999 – June /2013

Service Delivery Storage\Backup, Unilever Account
ITO Service Delivery III
Assisted as a Backup Delivery Lead managing Onshore and Offshore teams. Participated on the migration project between
Unilever and HP Data Centers.
 Performed data migration using backup/restore and/or utilizing CA/BC processes between EVA-to-EVA disk arrays.
 Participated as part of the data migration team, moving over 800 TBs of data from the Trumbull Data Center to the
centralized HP center.
 Supported the Data Centers migration Project (Migrate 1000 clients + from US – UK).

Backup
 Daily administration, performance tuning, monitoring, integration and maintenance of EMC Legato backup systems on
Cisco and Brocade fabrics.
 Designed and implemented new standards, procedures, and processes related to backup technology and assisted the
team on best practices in backup and recovery.
 Helped implement and maintain a new backup and recovery solution and created a support manual that covers: Break-
fix, implementation, monitoring, and support of the new environment.
 Managed and optimized the enterprise monitoring system to maintain a proactive approach to systems management
and a consistently high level of uptime.
 Collaborated with the Infrastructure team in the troubleshooting and resolution of backup, server, and application related
issues with respect to the tape environment.
 Developed and maintained proper monitoring and reporting of utilization of the backup environment, including installing
Networker software, performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and throughput analysis, and media handling.
 Worked with the OS Support teams to resolve any O/S, hardware or network-based issues that could impact optimal
performance of backup.
 Tested and implemented new releases or maintenance fix packs of EMC Legato Networker software installation and
upgrading, client, and server.
 Provided off hour supports 24/7 with rotation schedule.
 Troubleshot issues related to backup integrity and participated with on/offsite Disaster Recovery Testing.
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Storage
 Configured and administered Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays and NAS devices and associated components
including Fiber Channel switch administration; configured and administered data restore and disaster recovery and data
backup clients and servers. Maintained storage aspects of new server integrations, storage allocation, and change
management. Setup procedures to consolidate storage of data from different platforms (i.e.: Windows, UNIX, and
Linux). Troubleshot and fixed storage issues.
 Performed routine equipment checks and preventative maintenance. Storage analysis, capacity planning, and
performance planning of storage components. Documented the policies and procedures to support the operational
storage environment and participated in the design and ongoing refinement of procedures and policies. Prepared
reports on storage administration best practices, new technologies, etc.; and recommended enhancements and
configuration changes to improve and optimize storage.
 Daily administration of NAS filers, monitor disk utilization and problems Create CIFS share and user account
 Assigned lun, aggregate, volume, and share. Set up NDMP backup using dedicated tape drive.
 Established NDMP backup using dedicated tape drive and Monitor Tape Fabric switches to ensure alleviation of any
problem. Administered daily EVA array disks, monitored disk utilization, and problems. Escalated any hardware or
software issues to HP support group, as needed.

EDUCATION & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

 Linux Advance System Administration for Support.

 VMware vSphere Install\Configure V7.0 (Currently pursing VMware VCP6).
 Primera and HPE 3PAR- Install and Service.
 AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials.
 Linux Container Based Virtualization and Docker.
 HPE Nimble Storage Installation and Configuration.
 Veeam Backup and Recovery.
 Commvault Basic.
 3PAR Administration I,II, and III.
 3Par, MPX200, EVA Peer Copy, Vicom DMA.
 EVA, EMC and XP Online Import.
 Understanding of ITIL methodology and SOX requirement.
 Managing HP Storage Work Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA).
 Fundamental of NetApp data ONTAP 7.xx.
 Fundamental and install\configure of Cisco MDS Family.
 Advanced Administration of EMC Networker 7.xx.
 ITIL Foundation training.
 Intro to System Administrator I, of Redhat AS 4.xx.
 University Of Connecticut, Stamford, CT.

TECHNOLOGIES PROFICIENCIES

 Systems: Working knowledge AIX, HPUX, Windows Desktop/Servers 2000-2019, RHEL, SUSE, CentOS, NetApp,
VMware 5.X-7.0, vSphere and vCenter 6.5-7.0, Veeam Backup & Replication 9.x-11.
 Hardware: HP 3PAR Primera and Nimble array, HPE ProLiant and Blade system servers. EVA(5000, 8000, 8400),
Cisco MDS(9509, 9216i, 9120, 9140), Brocade(5100, DCX), IBM Tape Libraries(3583, 3584), StorageTek (L180, L700),
HP ESL 712e, Actifo Data Migration.
 Software: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, CISCO SAN OS, Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade Fabric Manager,
Softek/IBM TDMF, SSH, Telnet, (S)FTP, NCP Tools, EMC Networker 6.xx and 7.xx, EMC Networker Management
Console, Command View EVA, Command View XP, Command View TL, XP Remote Web Console, Actifio Desktop
migration App.
 Storage/SAN: Administration/Troubleshooting – EVA,XP,3PAR,Nimble and IBM storage; Hitachi Array – basic
Administrator; DMX/VNX/VMAX familiarity; Brocade/Broadcom Directors 16/32 GB switches understand able to work
on Virtual Fabric; Directors and Edge switches firmware upgrades; Brocade and Cisco Fabrics.
 Migration: General Data Migration Experience; Cirrus Appliance, MPX200,Vicom DMA, Double Takes, Peer Motion,
Remote Copy and VMware Storage vMotion; EVA, XP and EMC. Online Import HPE Utility.