Larry Shepard

About Larry Shepard

I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and specialize in storage…

Experience

1. Senior Federal Consulting Engineer

   Commvault

   Sep 2013 — Present

   Design and implement enterprise data management storage solutions for federal and commercial customers with various and unique hardware/software environments both on-premise and in the Cloud (mainly AWS and MS Azure). Interact daily with all versions of operating systems and software, such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, MS Active Directory, MS Exchange On-Prem and O365, MS SharePoint, MS Hyper-V, VMWare, Nutanix AHV, MS SQL, Oracle, DB2 and SAP. Interact daily with various brands and models of storage arrays and storage networking hardware, such as Dell/EMC, Cisco, HP, IBM, HDS, NetApp, Nimble, Nutanix and PureStorage. Expert knowledge of Data Deduplication, Replication, Disaster Recovery, Archiving, fiber SAN/LAN/iSCSI connectivity, Virtual Tape Libraries, LTO Libraries, Disk Libraries, Data Encryption and throughput values via LAN/WAN connectivity. Troubleshoot to resolve software and hardware configurations while working on-site or remotely with customer. Ensure client expectations are exceeded while conducting solution designs, consulting services, creating documentation and providing support. Train and provide knowledge transfer to all new PS engineers hired within Commvault.

Skills

• Security
• Networking
• Enterprise Storage
• San
• Dhcp
• Vmware
• Data Management
• Enterprise Software
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• System Administration
• Storage Area Networks
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Center
• Commvault
• Servers
• Virtualization
• Storage