Ned Logan

Experience

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  Siemens

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2006

  Responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining of all lab systems and subsystems in Microsoft SQL Labs. Racked and cabled equipment, configured SAN’s and disk arrays, setup and maintained Microsoft Failover Clusters. Lab equipment consists of: Dell, Compaq, HP, IBM, Unisys, Clariion, EMC, XIOtech, Toshiba, and Intel Itanium 64-bit servers. Operated and support six EMC Clariion Infrastructure SAN’s. Microsoft SQL Labs consists of seven labs containing over 420 racks, 140 benches and 4300 machines. Performed multi-vendor bulk hardware purchases performed once a quarter, orders were $400k-$800k per bulk order. Procured, received and installed all of the equipment ordered for SQL Labs.• Microsoft SQL Labs consists of seven labs containing over 420 racks, 140 benches and 4300 machines. • Performed multi-vendor bulk hardware competitive bid purchases performed once a quarter. Typicaly ordered $400k-$800k per bulk order. Procured, received and installed all of the equipment ordered for SQL Labs. Show less

  • Lab Engineer for Microsoft SQL Server Product Unit

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2006

  • Executive Support for Microsoft Corporation

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2001

  • Senior Customer Engineer for Microsoft Corporation

    Jan 1997 - Jan 2001
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  Microsoft

  May 2006 - Nov 2014

  Service Engineer

  Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SAN, storage, file share, data protection (Backups), KVMoIP, hardware, Infrastructure, Azure IaaS, Lab Electrical & HVAC. Managed tier2 vendors in the operation of test lab equipment and infrastructure equipment. EMC & Brocade certifications and extensive experience (10 years) designing, deploying and managing EMC FC/FCoE SAN’s (clariion & VNX). Experience operating EMC SAN’s & NAS, XIOtech & 3PAR SAN’s and Brocade & Cisco FC switches. • Managed the moving of seven test labs comprising roughly 3,000 rackmounted servers from on premise labs to offsite datacenters with minimal downtime and no loss of service while maintaining a rigorous product ship cycle for Microsoft SQL Server.• Collaborated with cross-platform team, redesigned the SQL build share management system to an automated share management system. Provided technical expertise on storage and performance of storage systems for this new system.• Implemented Windows deduplication to reduce the amount of SAN storage needed to store builds. The storage savings was 80% when compared to not using this technology. Expanded Windows deduplication to non-build data to reduce SAN storage needs across the business units file shares.• Managed the procurement and replaced seven EOL SAN’s, consolidating down to two new SAN’s. Migrated 600TB of data from EOL SAN’s to new SANS’s all “online” with zero data loss and minimal down time of engineering systems• Led the prototyping of Microsoft Azure IaaS file sharing in the cloud while maintaining on-premise access to the file shares using Express Route.Extensive experience: Windows Server | Storage Spaces | PowerShell | Hyper-V | Hyper-V vFC | Microsoft Azure | Windows Deduplication | Windows Scale-Out File Server & Windows Failover Clustering technologies. Show less

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  Lighthouse

  Apr 2015 - now

  Sr. Storage Engineer