John R. Stone

Mobile: (303) 810-4245 | Email: jrstone100@gmail.com | Connect with me on LinkedIn

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Hello, and thank you for visiting my resume website. I'm John and I'm a Technical Specialist with extensive experience in building and maintaining high-performance infrastructure,
with skills across multiple genres of the corporate infrastructure, including DevOps, Security, Unix, and Storage Administration. I have a proven ability to optimize infrastructure for
efficiency and data integrity, while delivering stable and secure production and development environments using both traditional and DevOps best practices. Successfully implemented
immutable backups for enhanced cyber resilience and disaster recovery. Track record of exceeding team expectations by delivering solutions that meet business needs.

I have worked as an I.T. Administrator for private companies and as an I.T. Consultant for business partners and directly for some of the largest I.T. companies in the world.
My career has included UNIX, DevOps storage, virtualization, switches and everything in between. A specific focus has always been on integrity and corporate technology ethics.

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Brocade Technical Support Specialist - Level 3 support (03/2024 - Current)

• Full understanding of Fabric Operating System (FOS) troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting SNMP, SSH, Certificate, firewall, FOS, SAN Navigator

• Detailed documentation of troubleshooting procedures and account communication

• Technical knowledge base creation for internal and public consumption

IBM Client Technical Specialist - Storage and Software Specialist (04/2020 - 03/2024)

• IBM Software Portfolio Specialist • Storage Scale • Storage Virtualize • Storage Protect • Storage Defender • Copy Data Manager

• Delivered detailed documentation to leadership on all sales opportunities

• Created current and future state slides to show exposures and improvements

• Results driven through increased sales and new customer accounts

Dell EMC - Data Protection Specialist (06/2019 - 04/2020)

• Deep product knowledge of Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA)

• Direct customer support with new server installations

• Design and configuration of complex data resiliency

• Customer demonstrations and direct customer traiing on data protection portfolio

VMware - Technical Support Engineer (06/2017 - 06/2019)

• Sev-1/Critical Situation ESXi Troubleshooting

• On-call rotation, weekend support

• VMDK, Snapshot support

• Storage Connectivity Support

Realogy/Anywhere - Sr. UNIX and SAN Administrator (07/2010 - 04/2017)

• Responsible for Production, DevOps, and Backup Infrastructure

• Linux on AWS and Azure

• Maintained Storage environment; Brocade, NetApp, Pure Storage, VNX and 3Par

• ITIL Service Team Manager for UNIX and SAN across multiple state datacenters

Skillset Keywords

• AIX   • Redhat   • Linux   • Unix  • DevOps  • Docker   • Kubernetes   • Flashsystem   • EMC  • Data Domain   • Brocade   • Broadcom   • Cisco   • Tivoli Storage Manager
• TSM   • Avamar   • Networker   • AWS   • Azure   • HTML  • CSS   • C++   • Storage   • Scale   • Virtualize   • GPFS  • DR  • Disaster Recovery   • Data Resiliency   • VIO
• Commvault  • Cohesity   • IDPA   • SAN   • 3PAR   • Pure Storage   • IBM  • Dell   • VMware

What code and changes I've made learning to build this website
November 19 - Parallax, paragraph, headings, bold, underline, adding an image
December 5 - wrapper
December 7 - text-box
December 21 - Modified the Parallax so the bottom line aligns with top image
December 22 - Learned how to code for the dot used in the keywords, code for the space between the dot and the text
December 26 - Added the menu bar for easier navigation
February 5 - Honing my previous DevOps experience with KodeKloud and added Docker, Kubernetes and soon Terraform skillsets to my list
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Connect with me on LinkedIn