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Gregory Grimes
Storage Engineer, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/KFORCE
Location: Bowie, MD United States
Joined: Feb 21st, 2011

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Norfolk State University class of 1986

Undergrad Major: Electronics and Computer Technology

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Omega Psi Phi

High School: Patrick Henry High School in Ashland , VA class of

Experience

I currently work with Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/KFORCE as Storage Engineer
I have 15 years of experience working in the Military industry.

Storage Engineer | Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/KFORCE
From March 2019 to Current • 7 year(s)
Manage installation, operations and maintenance of SAN hardware, software and utilities. Responsible for designing, planning, implementing, supporting and administering all aspects of SAN Storage, Dell Enterprise Storage Servers/Arrays and Storage Area Networks.

Infrastructure Engineer/Project Engineer | Freddie Mac/DISYS
From April 2017 to September 2018 • 1 year(s)
Manage multiple projects simultaneously working with client, architects, management while building infrastructure solutions. Provide planning, engineering, and delivery of business infrastructure solutions to meet project timelines.

Sr. SAN Lead Engineer/Backup | Department of Justice/ManTech International Corporation
From October 2016 to March 2017 • 1 year(s)
Functional Technical Lead/Manager handling all incoming Storage/Backup requests for migrations, and storage recovery and monitoring. Supervise all provisioning of storage, Block, CIFS, NFS protocols to Windows, VMWare and Linux servers.

Sr. SAN Lead Engineer/Technical Project Manager | U.S. Pentagon/CKA, LLC/Open San Consulting (OSC)
From September 2011 to October 2016 • 5 year(s)
Senior SAN Engineer and Technical Project Leader for Joint Service Provider - Storage Services Branch providing data storage and data backup for Department of Defense multi-layered tenants. Lead six person Enterprise Storage team for requests for capacity and Fibre channel connectivity.

Systems Engineer/SAN Admin | U. S. Census Bureau/Wyle Information Systems
From October 2008 to June 2011 • 3 year(s)
SAN Team Systems Engineer for Telecommunications Enterprise Systems Branch supporting over 10,000 users. Responsible for configuration, monitoring, provisioning, preventive maintenance, repair on multiple SANs in multi-datacenter environment.

IT Specialist Consultant | Independent Consultant
From January 2008 to October 2008 • 0 year(s)
Independent consultant performing technical tasks such as supporting and managing IT needs of enterprise sized clients including The Computer Merchant, Ryno Network Services, and Barrister Global Services.

Professional Services Consultant | Compsat Technology
From October 2007 to December 2007 • 0 year(s)
Responsible for meeting expert support service level expectations and furthering business information needs of challenging clients. Advise clients with accessing, storage and recovery of mission critical information.

Senior Customer Engineer | MTI Technology Corporation
From October 2005 to October 2007 • 2 year(s)
Provide technical and operational support to enterprise systems and work as project management and consultant/specialist to ensure clients get proper use and management of EMC storage hardware, software, and storage backup solutions.

Contracting Consultant -Technical Support Engineer | EMC2 Corporation
From March 2005 to September 2005 • 0 year(s)
Technically support EMC/Legato DX Software by assisting clients with installing, upgrading, patching, and operating Data Storage Software and Hardware.

Technical Support Customer Engineer | Oce North America
From August 1996 to March 2005 • 9 year(s)
Successfully managed service and critical response calls throughout Metropolitan area on a 24/7 basis. Provided increased level of technical advice to operators on appropriate use of available features menu driven diagnostics.

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