Zac Lin
Sammamish,WA
Summary
Highly experienced Enterprise Storage Engineer with 20 years in SAN/NAS architecture, engineering, operations. Proven expertise in storage data monitoring, performance tuning, process automation and data protection.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Systems Engineer
STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY
Seatt, WA
02.2012 - 02.2025
- Designed, implemented, and managed enterprise storage solutions
- Design, implement and support data center storage area network(Cisco MDS)
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage arrays
- EMC SRDF/A data replication design and implementation.
- Storage provisioning automation with shell scripts and ansible
- Storage capacity planning, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Data migration implementations from VNX to Unity, to PowerStore, from VMAX to XtremIO, to PowerMax.
- Storage snapshot/clone implementations and automations on Vmax, XtremIO and NAS platforms
- Evaluate new enterprise storage platforms and provide technical recommendations
- Environments: Dell/EMC VNX, Unity, XtremIO, Vmax, PowerStore, PowerMax storage platforms, Cisco MDS SAN switches, and NetApp AF-FAS storage arrays. Linux, Windows, IBM i, VMware, Dell, and Cisco UCS servers.
Sr. Storage Architect
Nordstrom
Seattle, WA
11.2011 - 02.2025
- Design and implement storage solutions
- Design and implement storage area network
- Performed capacity planning for existing and new storage arrays.
- Storage platform evaluations
- Environments: Dell/EMC DMX2, DMX3, CLARiiON, Cisco MDS directors and switches, Windows, Unix, IBM-i
Sr. System Engineer
STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY
Seattle, WA
10.2000 - 11.2011
- Delivered system and storage solutions for various projects.
- Designed and implemented a data center storage area network.
- Designed and implemented enterprise backup solutions.
- Unix/Linux system deployment and administration.
- Implemented data center migrations via data replications.
- Implemented data migrations between different storage platforms.
- Storage capacity planning, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Storage management and automation via shell scripting.
- Environments: EMC Symmetrix 8730, DMX 2000, Vmax, CLARiiON arrays, Netapp filers, Cisco MDS directors and switches, Unix (Solaris/HP-UX), Windows, VMware, Linux, Netbackup
Systems Engineer
Boeing
Bellevue, WA
09.1996 - 09.2000
- Unix (Solaris and HP-UX) system deployment and implementations
- Unix system administration, monitoring, backup and troubleshooting
- Environments: Sun servers and workstations, HP servers.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China06-1995
Skills
- Storage Systems: Dell EMC (PowerMax, PowerStore, XtremIO, Vmax, Unity, VNX, CLARiion), NetApp
- Storage Area Network: Cisco MDS directors and switches
- Scripting & Automation: Bash/Ksh, Ansible
- Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Dell/EMC Unisphere, CloudIQ, Splunk, NetApp OCUM
Timeline
Lead Systems Engineer
STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY
02.2012 - 02.2025
Sr. Storage Architect
Nordstrom
11.2011 - 02.2025
Sr. System Engineer
STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY
10.2000 - 11.2011
Systems Engineer
Boeing
09.1996 - 09.2000
Master of Science - Information Technology
Tsinghua University
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