Kirk Wettschreck

About Kirk Wettschreck

Resident Consultant who seeks to deliver expertise and experience in designing, implementing and maintaining Enterprise fabricsSpecialties: SAN, IP, Channel Extension. ESCON and Fibre Channel and Ethernet Fabrics.Brocade Distinguished Architect (BDA) Brocade Certified Professional Converged Networking (BCPCN)Brocade Certified Professional FICON 2013 (BCPF 2013)Brocade Certified Professional Data Center (BCPDC) Brocade Certified Professional Internetworking Track (Premier level):Brocade Certified Network Engineer 2012 (BCNE)Brocade Certified Network Professional 2012 (BCNP)I also volunteer my time and I.T. skills for my church. In the past year I have become the unofficial volunteer Director of I.T. and have helped them refresh all of their 10 computers and implemented a network migration from a Windows work group to a more secure network with a primary Domain controller, church database and file server that the staff can now access on site and via the VPN server I set up.

Experience

1. Brocade Resident Consultant

   Brocade

   Jul 1999 — Present

   Working with large Enterprise Fortune 100 companies to design, impliment and maintain multiple enterprise fibre channel, FICON and FCIP fabrics utilizing Brocade hardware and technologies.

Education

• University of Minnesota

  B.S. Computer Science, Computer Science

  1993 — 1999

• Johnson High School

  Diploma, General

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Storage Virtualization
• Ficon
• Network Architecture
• Fcoe
• Storage Solutions
• San
• Network Security
• Ip
• High Availability
• Lan-Wan
• Storage Management
• Networking
• Troubleshooting
• Vmware Esx
• Routing
• Storage Architecture
• Network Design
• Storage Area Networks
• Unix
• Hardware
• Switches
• Replication
• Nas
• Fcip
• Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
• Tcp/Ip
• Enterprise Storage
• Ethernet Fabrics
• Servers
• Iscsi
• Enterprise Software
• Cisco Technologies
• Snmp
• Ethernet
• Solaris
• Vmware
• Vpn
• Brocade
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery