Kingsley
knwaolis@yahoo.com
708-690-5614
Chicago, IL 60655
System Administrator - Storage
15 years experience W2
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Over 9 plus years of IT experience who is a result-driven, solution-oriented, competent in storage administration. Highly skilled in planning, configuring, administering, and maintaining Storage systems with solid understanding and experience of storage design, with a personal drive for continuous self-improvement. Responsibilities include configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and reporting. Over 9 years of experience with replication between NetApp appliances. Over 9 years of experience working with Virtual Netapp appliances.

STORAGE HARDWARE AND TOOLS

EMC VMAX 20k, 40K and VMAX3 (EMC Solutions Enabler SymCLI, Unisphere), EMC VPLEX EMC UNTY, 450F, 650F, VNX 5300, 5700, IBM SVC Web GUI, IBM Storewise V7000 & V9000, Brocade DCX – CLI and Brocade Network Advisor, Remedy Ticketing System, Service Now Ticketing system, EMC RecoverPoint, IBM Storage XIV Management Console/XCLI, XIV Top, NetApp FAS 8060, AFF Series, OnCommand system manager, OnCommand unified manager OCUM, DS8K Storage Management Console, Pure storage management console, FS900/9100 Management console, HP Nimble

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Ability to plan, manage, and coordinate projects as well as run activities.
  • Exposure to Incident management, configuration management, and capacity management.
  • Exposure to developing and maintaining standard metrics for service performance analysis, component reports and service reports, based on Customers’ requirements.
  • Applied knowledge in the administration of windows and Linux servers.
  • Exposure to ticketing tools like Remedy, Service Now.
  • Good knowledge of ITIL.
  • Incident/change/problem on a regular basis.
  • Technical Documentation and design process and standards.
  • Expert knowledge of Critical incident management and SLA management.
  • Experienced SAN Management for Sun Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Windows operating systems.
  • Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host-related issues.

Experience
Education
Bachelor's in Physics
University of Cape-Coast 2007
Skills
Desktop Support
2014
5
Help Desk Management
2014
5
SAN
2021
5
Provisioning
2019
4
Brocade
2021
3
Dell
2014
3
Disaster Recovery
2021
3
EMC
2021
3
HP
2014
3
NAS
2021
3
NetApp
2021
3
NFS
2021
3
Windows
2014
3
Capacity Planning
2019
2
Data Recovery
2019
2
Database Backups
2019
2
Diagnostics
2019
2
Storage Administrator
2019
2
Change Management
2016
1
Cisco
2016
1
Data Integrity
2011
1
Database Maintenance
2016
1
Incident Management
2016
1
Problem Solving
2011
1
Storage
2016
1
Switches
2016
1
AIX
0
1
BMC Remedy
0
1
Configuration Management
0
1
Data Replication
2021
1
iSCSI
2021
1
ITIL
0
1
Linux
0
1
SAS Management Console
0
1
SLA Management
0
1
Solaris
0
1
Storage Management
0
1
Sun
0
1
System Administration
2021
1
Virtualization
2021
1