Duane  Farrington  Park	8057 Centrebridge Drive • Longmont, CO 80503
(720) 278-9537                                                                      dfarrington.park@gmail.com

Objective:	I am currently looking for a full time or contract position with a great company where I can apply my knowledge and expertise as a SAN System Engineer, System Test Engineer, Technical Trainer and Course Developer.

Experience:       Sabbatical 2010-2013
	• Taking care of am ailing family member 
	• Looking forward to getting back to work

 	CDI Corporation (Contracted to IBM) Glen Allen, VA
SAN Administrator onsite/remote for Capital One 9/15/2008 - 8/28/2009
• Performed all SAN Switch administration on the TSM Backup SAN
• Maintained over 1,000 port fabrics on Brocade switches in 2 locations
	• performed all the zoning for TSM LAN Free backups to VTLs & Tape
	• Allocate drives on VTLs for the LAN free Server’s Storage agents
• On Call 24/7 

Artech Information Services(contracted to IBM)                                                                                         SAN/Storage Admin working at Xcel Energy’s Data Center in Golden, CO  6/16/07 – 10/26/07
• Responsible for cabling, zoning, configuring and maintaining all SAN switches (Brocade) and storage boxes (DS4800, DS4500, DS8300) IBM FastTs
	CDI Corporation (Contracted to IBM) Boulder, CO
TSM/SAN Administrator remote to Poughkeepsie, NY -2/20/2006 - 2/7/2007
• Performed all SAN/TSM operations on equipment in Poughkeepsie, NY - remotely from my home in Niwot, CO
• Monitored & Configured TSMs, Servers, Libraries & Storage boxes
• IBM 3494(IBM Lib), ADIC Scalar 24 Libraries, FastT (DS4200, DS4700, DS4800 & DS8300(enterprise Storage)
• Wrote all the Scripts for the UNIX /TSM Servers for all the DR operations and health checks
• Monitored & Configured  SANs with McDATA 10K Switches
• Multiple FastTs & IBM DS8300s Enterprise Storage 
• On Call 24/7 15min response time 

TEK Systems (Contracted to IBM ) Englewood, CO
TSM/SAN Administrator at the Nissan Data Center 5/2005 - 1/2006
• Monitored & Maintained 6 TSM Servers & 8 IBM Libraries with over a 3,000 Servers
• IBM 3494, 3583, 3584(IBM Libs) ITL & LTO LTO2, LTO3 (IBM Tape Drives)
• Wrote UNIX Health Check Shell Scripts for the UNIX /TSM Servers 
• Monitored & Maintained Multiple large SANs with 
• McDATA & CISCO Switches
• FastT (DS4200, DS4700, DS4800) DS8300(Enterprise Storage) & IBM Shark Enterprise Storage 
• Rotated On Call Pager 24hrs/day 15min response time 
• Worked both hands on locally, & 4 remote sites around the country
• Worked backup tape program TSM to back servers up to tape

CTG Corporation (Contracted to IBM ) Boulder, CO
Senior SAN Analyst 9/2004 – 2/2005
Working in the IBM’s E Business Storage Operation Center monitoring SANs all over the world & coordinating repairs
• Monitored, Configured & Maintained multiple 1,000 + port SANs
• McDATA Switches and Directors
• IBM Enterprise Storage (Sharks), IBM FastT Storage
• Monitored with Tivoli Netview 

	Copan  Systems	Longmont, CO
	System Test and Integration Engineer                               6/2003 – 10/2003	

•	Tested Copan storage products in a fabric using Linux and Solaris clients
•	Captured and analyzed Fibre Channel Traces
•	Wrote test procedures and test plans for testing Copan storage products.
•	Installed Linux and Solaris operating systems.
•	Installed Emulex and Qlogic HBAs and drivers
                                 
                                                  McDATA Corporation	Broomfield, CO	
Staff Technical Training Specialist                                  1999 – 2002

•	Developed and conducted programs to train in the installation, maintenance and repair of McDATA Fibre Channel Switches Conducted stand up lecture and created CBTs (Computer based Training)
•	Wrote, designed and produced a program to (assist in) analyzing Fibre Channel Traces.                                            
•	Developed and conducted classes on SANs and Fibre Channel Protocols
•	Worked in the System Integration Lab maintaining large fabrics of servers, switches and enterprise storage from different vendors.   

	Peripheral Services Corporation	Broomfield, CO
	President/Co-Owner/Founder                                             1984-1999	

•	Directed department operations, through subordinates, resulting in improved production techniques and test procedures.
•	Conferred with company staff to plan business objectives, to develop organizational policies, coordinate operations between departments and to establish responsibilities and procedures for attaining objectives.
•	Designed, built and maintained the company’s Novell LAN.
•	Taught Training classes for NASA engineers and other customers.
•	Wrote company internal programs for inventory, invoicing, Rma’s and accounting in dbase.
•	Designed and implemented company Web page

Additional Relevant Experience
•	Senior OEM Product Support Rep, Storage Technology Corp, Louisville, CO
•	Field Engineer Instructor & Course Developer, Storage Technology Corp, Boulder, CO
•	Senior Field Engineer, Storage Technology Corp, New York, NY
•	Customer Engineer, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY
•	Technician, Con Edison, Nuclear Power Plant at Indian Point, NY
	
Accomplisments/Awards
•	IBM award for designing a test fixture and software for testing system 360 consoles.
•	Storage Technology Field Engineering Excellence award.
•	Designed a Fibre Channel Trace Tool for McDATA
•	McDATA certified: Storage Network Implementer, Storage Network Designer, Storage Network Expert
•	Wrote a Perl script to extract Linux system information.
•	Started a million dollar company with 5 employees, built a 20,000 sq ft building and ran it with my partner for 14 years.

Operating Systems, Server Applications, Programming Languages and other Environments:
•	DOS, Windows 97, 98, ME, XP, 2000, NT, Solaris 8, Redhat Linux 8, 9, Novell
•	McDATA EFCM (Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager), SANavigator
•	Dbase, Macromedia Authorware, MS Office, PowerPoint, Visio, Corel Office Suite
•	Perl, Vi, Emacs, bash shell, Frame Maker, TCP/IP, SCSI, Fibre Channel

Education:                   Edgemont High School	Scarsdale, NY
                              Penn State University	State College, PA
                              Westchester Community College	Valhalla, NY
A.A.S. degree in Electronics