Resume of

Donald W. Royer
SAN / Storage Engineer / Administrator
Symantec Netbackup Engineer / Administrator
824 Summer Meadow Ct.
St. Louis, MO 63125
314-544-5345 - Home
314-703-7155 - Cell
- Email
SUMMARY
Don is an Information Technology professional with more than 16 years of SAN exp
erience. He has very strong EMC and NetBackup experience and was credited the be
tter than 99.9% up time on his system.
Skill
# Years Used
Last Used
SAN
15+
02/2010
EMC
15+
02/2010
Clariion
10+
02/2010
DMX (2X, 3X, 4X)
10+
02/2010
Brocade switches
15+
02/2010
NetBackup
9
02/2010
UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX)
20+
02/2010
Windows Servers
15+
02/2010
VMware ESX
5+
02/2010
EXPERIENCE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, St. Louis, MO (10/2008 to 02/20/2010)
SAN/EMC/Veritas NetBackup Storage Consultant
* Responsible for all SAN, EMC Storage and NetBackup environments in St. Louis
and across the NITC SMB area that includes DMX2000, DMX3000 and DMX4000 arrays a
long with Clariion CX700 arrays with both Brocade Departmental and Director Clas
s switches.
* Responsible for all Veritas Netbackup procedures and backup polices, setting
up Master, Media, SAN-Media and clients servers.
* Setup, configured and managed Sun/STK L700e and SL8500 Tape Libraries.
* Managed over 2,100 disk storage attached servers and over 5,000 Netbackup cli
ents. Included local and remote servers spread across 5 cities.
* Was able to telecommute to support all cities from remote office at my reside
nce and provide 24x7 support.
* Setup, configure and manage all Brocade SAN switches.
* Maintain EMC Control Center Console and Software, Navisphere Off-Array Manage
r, and SanVergance software to manage Nishan IPS3300 switches used for replicati
on between cities.
* Responsible for troubleshooting all parts of the SAN including OS issues. OS'
s include AIX, Solaris Linux, VMware, HPUX and Windows.
* Install and configure all software required.
* Responsible for setup of Replication scripts, Netbackup Cold Oracle Database
scripts and Informix On-Line Database scripts and testing of same.
* Load all code and firmware required for all the SAN equipment.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, St. Louis, MO (01/2005 to 10/2008)
SAN/Storage Consultant
* Responsible for SAN, EMC Storage and Backup environment.
* Included DMX2000, DMX3000 arrays and Clariion CX700 Arrays across 3 cities al
ong with approximately 4,200 Veritas Netbackup Clients.
SYLLOGISTEKS * UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, St. Louis, MO
(08/2003 to 01/2005)
SAN/Storage Consultant
* Responsible for SAN, EMC Storage and Backup environment.
AMEREN SERVICES, St. Louis, MO (02/2001 to 03/2003)
Operating Systems Administrator
* Primary responsibilities were to finish the implementation and support of the
Customer Service System (CSS), from a mainframe environment to a MC/Service Gua
rd clustered environment using HP V2600 and V2500 servers; the system handles Am
eren's' entire Customer Billing, Gas Meter Reading, and Customer Call Center act
ivity.
* Planned, implemented, and supported the installation of a new SAN environment
for all of Ameren Services.
* This was a switched fabric environment using EMC's Connectrix product utilizi
ng 4-32 port Connectrix switches (McData), and 2-16 port Brocade Silkworm switch
es that connected 6 HP servers, 21 Sun servers, 7 NT/W2K servers and 4 Novell se
rvers. An IBM Mainframe was also connected using ESCON channels.
* EMC frames included Symmetrix series 8730 (20TB), 8530 (14TB) and 3930 (8TB).
* Installed and configured and EMC Clariion CX600 series array.
* Symmetrix series arrays were in an M1/M2 (Raid 1) configuration and the Clari
ion was setup as a Raid 5 configuration.
* All servers and FA's to storage arrays were zoned and had full redundancy to
avoid a single point of failure.
* Installed and utilized EMC Control Center 5.1.
* Responsible for installing all software and agents onto all of the above ment
ioned platforms and assisted in configuring any system files requiring changes t
o support the EMC drives and SAN environment.
* Kept administrators advised of new HBA drivers and firmware changes as needed
.
* Configured BCV's (Business Continuity Volumes) to support quick recovery of t
he Customer Service System.
* Wrote scripts to take production snapshots twice a day on the production serv
er.
* Set up a second set of BCV's that ran weekly to create a snapshot of the CSS
production database that was then mounted to the Support and Development server.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC., St. Louis, MO (06/1995 to 10/1998)
UNIX Systems Manager
Responsible for all UNIX platforms in company. The majorities are HP 9000 series
 (21 total) running HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00. HP 9000 platforms include V, K, I, H,
G, and D series and 700 workstations.
* Installed a Stratus Model 620 Continuum running FTX (Stratus's UNIX) for clai
ms adjudication processing and carrier access for our Canadian office.
* In March of 1998, converted this system to a Stratus 428 running HP-UX.
* Responsible for DNS architecture and server.
* Managed backups of all UNIX platforms, NT and Novell servers using OmniBack a
nd DLT Tape backup subsystems.
* Managed the Data Warehouse which consisted of HP K and V class -series using
EMC disks arrays utilizing over 1TB of data (Oracle database).
* Installed and managed CheckPoint 1 firewall and set up all rules associated w
ith internet, intranet and DMZ areas of the firewall architecture. This included
a public Web server, 3 ftp servers and 1 intranet server.
* Responsibilities also included looking at and presenting new technologies and
the planning of installs and upgrades to IS Directors and Managers.
ST. LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, St. Louis, MO (07/1992 to 06/1995)
UNIX, VAX-VMS, Network Administrator
* Administrator responsible for VAX/VMS platforms, UNIX platforms, (HP, Sun, Di
gital, and Silicon Graphics), Pathworks file server, and SNA gateway.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH, St. Louis, MO (04/1992 to 07/1992)
Consultant
* Worked as a consultant for Anheuser-Busch companies setting up and standardiz
ing installations of RS6000 computers on a nation-wide rollout. Installed system
in Merrimack, NH.
CITICORP MORTGAGE, INC., St. Louis, MO (04/1989 to 04/1992)
Technology Support Analyst
* System/Network Administrator in charge of Treasury Department's UNIX (Sun, HP
), Vax, Ultrix and PC platforms.
QUOTRON SYSTEMS, INC. (SUBSIDIARY OF CITICORP), (07/1979 to 04/1992)
Regional Technical Support Engineer
EDUCATION
Basic Institute of Technology - St. Louis, Mo
Associate Degree in Computer Engineering - 1979