Sean Northcutt

Experience

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  Microsoft

  Sept 1997 - May 1999

  Systems Engineer

  Provided support of Enterprise NT4 servers in Irving call centerSupported Exchange 5.0, 5.5 Server and Small Business Server 4.0 offeringsCreated and technically edited tech articles for Microsoft Knowledge base

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  Nokia

  May 1999 - Aug 2005

  Provided operational support of Unix servers consisting of HP-UX 11.0 11i, Sun Solaris 2.8,2.9 and Linux platforms. Host SAN allocations including LUN device creation, masking, zoning in an EMC environment.Participated in quarterly disaster recovery exercises to verify environment documentation and configuration. Responsible for replication of twenty nine Oracle databases between Finland Data Center and Dallas Data Center. Duties also included backup support of disaster recovery environment using HP Omniback 4.0 Show less

  • IT Specialist IV

    Oct 2001 - Aug 2005

  • Network Systems Engineer

    Jan 2001 - Oct 2001

  • Network Systems Administrator

    May 1999 - Jan 2001
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  AIG Global Services

  Aug 2005 - Sept 2007

  Sr. Systems Engineer

  Open Systems Storage EngineeringProvide fourth level support of 100TB+ Multi-Site Enterprise Open Systems Storage Environment made up of Multiple EMC DMX, DMX-3 Hardware, McData Enterprise Director fiber switches. Implementation and support of Tier2 SAN Enterprise Environment consisting of multiple EMC CLARiiON CX-700 frames. Creation and review of SAN/Storage design proposals for external and internal business customers.Implementation of new SAN environments for production, QA and disaster recovery solutions.Provide consultation for development and implementation of new and existing disaster recovery environments located within the data center.Participate in ongoing Disaster Recovery exercises for external and internal business units and clients.Support Storage Operations team as escalation point for operational SAN issues that require additional help and competencies.Interact with various Open Systems Engineering teams (Solaris, Wintel and Linux) internal to AIG to provide solutions and support of their respective environments and SAN configurations.Work closely with external vendors for hardware acquisition as well as design support in project related tasks.Participation in and coordination of storage frame migrations as new equipment is introduced/refreshed. This includes providing all new storage to Solaris, Linux and Windows hosts and supporting the OS teams in host migrations. Show less

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  Michaels Stores

  Sept 2007 - Aug 2008

  Sr. SAN Administrator

  Provide Enterprise support and administration of 400-600 TB of SAN storage for a UNIX AIX environment on EMC DMX 2000, 3000 and DMX-3 frames. Perform the data migrations and new request allocations of the primary retail environments from IBM FASt-T arrays and SSA arrays to an EMC DMX-3 array. Perform and define data refresh processes, via Timefinder cloning and mirroring, for all production systems to lower development and test environments that make up the retail, human resource and financial environments.Document and define standardization policies for storage related requests and processes as well as define tiering strategies.Maintain all data center SAN equipment with regards to firmware/microcode updates.Evaluate and provide feedback to management with regards to new storage technologies/practices that have been identified as a potential area of business need. Show less

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  IBM

  Aug 2008 - Jul 2010

  Storage Solutions Engineer/Associate IT Architect

  Successful deployment and integration experience within large corporate storage environments ideally from both a project and operational perspective.Installation and integration experience of Enterprise Storage subsystems, into heterogeneous server environments.Ability to develop detailed architecture plans and perform requirements analysis.Provide delivery support for infrastructure solutions from initiation through to completion.Ability to document problems and solutions that address technical issues.Contribute to the development of consulting service offerings and solution sets.Proven, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Able to communicate technical points to others at all levels including users and management.Superb customer relations and the ability to interact with customers at all levels.Excellent creative, analytical, relationship building, and problem solving abilities.Ability to work closely within and with other project teams.Strong ability to work independently when needed with proven ability to manage time, communications and workload. Show less

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  VCE

  Jul 2010 - Oct 2014

  Sr. Solutions Architect

  • Deployment of storage solutions for Vblock private cloud offerings• Vblock storage technologies include EMC Clariion, Celerra, VNX and VMAX platforms• SAN switching technologies include Cisco MDS product offerings• Ability to determine best practice configurations and recommendations for customer storage environments• Excellent creative, analytical, relationship building, and problem solving abilities • Provide delivery support for infrastructure solutions from initiation through to completion • Ability to develop architecture plans and perform requirements analysis • Documentation of problems and solutions that address technical issues • Strong ability to work both independently when needed and among teams with successful results in managing time, communications and workload Show less

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  Virtual Instruments

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

  Sr. Resident Consultant

  • Perform analysis and monitoring of customer open systems architecture with emphasis on performance, health and utilization.• Identify and recommend actionable items based on proactive analysis to help improve performance, lower risk and find balance in the customer IT infrastructure.• Perform weekly reporting on identified areas of concern within the environment.• Recommend process and procedural strategies to help improve service delivery to the business customer

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  RoundTower Technologies, Inc.

  Oct 2015 - Apr 2019

  Sr. Solutions Architect - Converged/Hyperconverged Systems

  Helping customers with their digital transformations in the infrastructure space. Hands on design and deployment experience with hyper converged platforms including VxRail, VxRack and Nutanix. Experience with converged environments mostly with industry leading VxBlock platforms. Experience with multiple hypervisor platforms to include ESXi, AHV and Hyper-V.

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  ClearSkyData

  Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

  Sr. Solutions Architect

  • Provide technical Pre-Sales activities and support Account Executives in developing and implementing specific account penetration strategies for Hybrid Cloud Storage offering.• Take ownership of technical/solution sales cycle within customer accounts including product demos and whiteboard sessions, assisting customers with design/ architecting, system configurations and installations.• Help staffing Marketing events and trade shows

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  AHEAD

  Feb 2020 - now

  • Delivery Manager

    Mar 2021 - now

  • Sr. Technical Consultant - Modern Data Center

    Feb 2020 - Mar 2021