T. J. Somics

About T. J. Somics

Solution oriented professional system engineer with notable success and extensive experience in the information technology field, emphasizing storage solution designs that manage enterprise data and ensure information is always available for the customer, when and where it is needed.• Accomplished: As a Storage Architect, successfully provides services in design, deploying, consulting, managing, and maintaining enterprise storage, server consolidation, data migration, high availability and business continuance solutions.• Skilled: As an Engineering Manager, I am discipline and flexible. I excel in fast-paced environments, supervising and motivating staff to increase productivity and profitability, while ensuring the highest-level of customer service to the client, whether work is independent or as part of a team. • Successful: As a Technical Project Manager, I have organized and lead large vendor engineering teams that were successful in the implementation turnkey storage solutions thru project planning coordination to deliver goods and services seamless to ensure a successful mission as one complete unit. • Enthusiastic: As a Technical Writer I have produced hundreds of technical/configuration/test guides/manuals, design architecture papers, deployment checklists, survey guides, SOW\'s, client sales proposals, and best practices guides for the IT enterprise environment.• Trained: As a Certified Professional, I have completed over 300 technical courses that spanned more than 835 weeks of classroom training over my 48 years career, with over 400 hours as a Certified Instructor.Specialties: DOD Active Top Secret ClearanceDHS Active Security ClearanceA+ Certified SE/InstructorCisco SECommVault SE Data Domain Certified SEEMC Certified SEEqualLogic SEHP Certified SEMicrosoft MCP / InstructorNCR Certified FENetApp Consultant/EngineerNovell Certified Admin & InstructorSun StorageTek Elite SESymantec/Veritas Certified SEUSMC Certified Avionics EngineerVMware Engineer

Experience

1. Professional Services Consultant

   NetApp

   Jan 2008 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Providing Data Storage related consulting to NetApp Commercial and Federal customer base.

Education

• Lane Community College

  Infomation Technology

  1980 — 1981

Skills

• Netapp
• Nfs
• Raid
• Mscs
• Aix
• Fcoe
• Tape Libraries
• Vmware
• Cloud Computing
• Server Architecture
• San
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Management
• Cisco Technologies
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Business Continuity
• Storage Area Networks
• Professional Services
• High Availability
• Storage Architecture
• Windows Server
• Hp-UX
• Clariion
• Servers
• Iscsi
• Netbackup
• Brocade
• Emc Storage
• Hp
• Storage Solutions
• Vdi
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Commvault
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage