Bartosz Palasz

Experience

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  Redstone

  Mar 2008 - Nov 2010

  • Main point of contact for SAN at client site in the City of London, overseeing new installs and fault resolution, from disk arrays to servers, • Supervising and organizing all Data Centre access for external contractors, maintenance works, repairs and parts shipment.• Assisted the SAN Migration project; created separate SAN network for trading servers with racking and stacking, installed structured cabling to disk arrays, logically transferred servers to new SAN network.• Key member of the Brocade Upgrade project team; replaced Brocade switches, planned and patched over 120 server moves, increasing capacity.• SAN connection database maintenance; London and Camberley in Surrey. Show less

  • SAN Support Engineer

    Jun 2009 - Nov 2010

  • Support Enginner

    Mar 2008 - Jun 2009
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  Bank of America Merrill Lynch

  Nov 2010 - now

  • SAN and NAS Storage Administrator BAU duties: o Allocation, deallocation of NAS and SAN storage (VMAX, ISILON, NetApp), zoning and fabric configuration (Brocade and Cisco directors). o Simplified and improved BAU processes to make sure service is provided with minimal time and effort to achieve fast and professional service to customerso L3 support for SAN and NAS, including connectivity issues, performance, permission issues, hardware and software problems.• Admin Duties: o Onboarding and mentoring new starters sharing the knowledge and experience gained on the job and on training courses, o Person to go for seeking information assistance and team logistics, key person for decision making regarding weekend storage changes and activities. o Created and maintained Team Knowledge Process and Procedure database to provide faster and more efficient support in searching for solutions to problems arising while providing On Call cover and day to day activitieso Design, implementation and regular updates of SAN capacity management• Project Work:o Key part in various SAN projects fulfilling different functions, from planning, implementing to supervising: SAN storage migrations cross sites and within site (VMAX to VMAX, HDS to VMAX), using Open Replicator, SRDF and SRDF STAR, o Active participant part in NAS migration projects (NetApp to NetApp and NetApp to ISILON), preparation and implementation roleso Key part of various SAN fabric projects: hardware refresh for SAN and SRDF / SRDF STAR replication fabric, SAN Fabric migrations, upgrades and configuration changes (TACACS implementation) Show less • Storage Administrator role performing BAU and admin duties at primary site Camberley, Surrey, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (MLFC) in London City.• Managing Storage allocation and De-allocation queue, using Masters Tool or performing manually to provide or remove storage. • Member of SAN Refresh project; migrating off 9 DMX-2 arrays to DMX3 and VMAX using host data copy and Internal Data Replication Tool (Masters) – project ongoing.• Planning, preparation and coordination of DR exercises and Annual Datacenter Powerdown.• Responsible for fault finding and fault resolution, involving mapping, masking, zoning and connectivity problems.• Supporting NAS environment in BAU activities: capacity issues, exports Show less

  • Midrange Storage Lead (VP)

    Dec 2021 - now

  • Storage Administrator (Assistant Vice President)

    Feb 2014 - now

  • Storage Administrator (Senior System Analyst Engineer)

    Nov 2010 - Feb 2014