Mark Owen

WORK HISTORY

SKILLS

ABOUT MARK OWEN

Skills: I am a Cloud specialist with AWS and Azure experience, also Private and Public Cloud design principals, underlying architecture design for storage and compute being storage agnostic and FCoE and FC trained with IP networking experience. Excellent customer focus with good presentation skills. Public sector, Commercial and central government liaison skills. I am adept at selling, designing and implementing all aspects of Private Cloud, Public Cloud Migrations, On-Premise Hybrid Cloud design principals, SANs, Enterprise Backups, Hierarchical Storage Management, SAN Management Applications, iFCP, FCIP, FC and FCoE, replication technologies.I have a good awareness of the companies within the Storage and Enterprise industry with excellent contacts throughout the industry.Experience to date, Designed and implemented a private IaaS infrastructure as the chosen Private Cloud for all existing and new in-coming clients. Based around VMware front end, Two Petabytes of HDS VSP/AMS/HUS, EMC Clariion and IBM XIV virtualised tiered storage with Quantum DXi De-Dupe protected systems utilising Commvault Simpana Backup for VADP and traditional backups, stretched between two sites utilising a Brocade DCX backbone architecture allowing for Synchronous and aSynchronous replication technologies.Designed and implemented various EMC (Symmetrix and Clariion and VNX), HDS (VSP, USP-V, AMS, HUS), HP (EVA, MSA, XP), IBM (DS and XIV) Storage Area Networks utilising Brocade, QLogic and Cisco, switch Architecture. One of the UK\'s largest Greenfield data-centres with Oracle, Dell, Hitachi storage with synchronous and asynchronous replication to multiple sites. Implemented Enterprise Backups featuring Commvault Galaxy (Trained), EMC Networker (Trained) and Symantec Netbackup Datacentre encompassing Quantum Enterprise libraries and DXi De-Dupe devices, also experienced with IBM and Overland Libraries and Data-centre design priniples.