Darin C. Fast

8391 174th Street West, Lakeville, MN 55044
612-325-5034 (Cell)
Darin.Fast@gmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcfast

Experience

 

Software Quality Principle Engineer, Dell EMC                                                                          February 2011 – Present

Perform VMware ESXi Certifications of Dell EMC Storage Center

·         Experienced using various versions of VMware Workbence for certification and unit testing.

·         Certified Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, SAS & NAS.

·         Implemented, operate & maintain 18 ESXi certification hosts & required infrastructure.

·         Responsible for many “Day 0” certification entries.

Perform OS compatibility testing for support matrix entries of Dell EMC Storage Center

·         Dell EMC Storage Center & zNAS.

·         Various switches from Cisco, Brocade, Force10 & Dell.

·         HBAs, CNAs, Mezz & NICs: QLogic, Emulex, Brocade, Broadcom, Intel.

·         Storage protocols: FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SAS & NAS.

·         Multipath I/O & clustering functionality.

·         Implement, operate & maintain 38 ESXi hosts for compatibility testing.

·         Experience with VMware vSphere Update Manager

·         Experience with Puppet, assisted with troubleshooting of deployments.

·         Experience with Dell OpenManage Ingration for VMware vCenter.

·         SME for ESXi for Storage QA.  Assisted with Windows & Linux.

·         SME for Dell Blade servers and infrastructure (M1000e, FX2, FX2s, MX7000)

·         SME for Dell PowerEdge Servers (11G-14G) for Storage QA

·         Scripting: PowerCLI, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, Python, DOS Batch and CompCU.

·         Experience with Helix, JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint.

Responsible for testing of SCALE testing for Sync Live Volume – Auto Failover (SLV-AF) with ESXi

·         Designed, operate & maintain 8 ESXi SCALE test hosts & required infrastructure.

·         Scripted automation of VM deployment and RDM configuration.

 

Principle Engineer, Xiotech Corporation                                                                                        April 2000 – March2011

Perform Certification testing for the Xiotech Storage family:

·         Windows Logo Kit with MPIO for Fibre Channel, FCoE & iSCSI.

·         VMware ESX using VMware Workbence for Fibre Channel, FCoE & iSCSI.

·         Citrix XenServer for Fibre Channel, FCoE & iSCSI.

·         Quantum StorNext for Fibre Channel.

·         Novell YES CERTIFIED for Fibre Channel & iSCSI.

Perform compatibility testing for support matrix entries with the Xiotech Storage family.

·         Magnitude 3D 3000/4000, Emprise 5000, Emprise 7000, Emprise 9000, ISE NAS.

·         Cisco FC & FCoE switches, Brocade FC switches, QLogic FC switches.

·         Operating Systems:  ESX, Windows, Linux, UNIX, NetWare.

·         QLogic HBAs & CNAs, Brocade HBAs, Emulex HBAs

·         Multipath I/O & clustering functionality.

Experience / Tools

·         Storage Area Network technologies (Fibre Channel, FCoE, FCIP, iSCSI).

·         Fibre Channel switch technology (Brocade, Cisco, QLogic).

·         Multipathing functionality in Windows, Linux, ESX, NetWare.

·         QLogic Fibre Channel & FCoE HBAs, chipsets, BIOS & drivers.

·         Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs, BIOS & drivers.

·         Brocade Fibre Channel HBAs, BIOS & drivers.

·          iSCSI protocol and technologies.

·         Core Team member of Xiotech’s ISE NAS Core product team (WSS 2008 R2).

·         Image creation & deployment for Xiotech’s Magnitude Storage Server Gateway (MSSG).

·         Microsoft's Windows XP, W2K, W2K3, W2K8, W2K8 R2, WSS 2008 R2.

·         Linux (SLES, RedHat, CentOS).

·         IBM’s eServer BladeCenter, HP’s BladeSystem, & Dell's Blade Servers.

·         PERL and Python scripting.

·         NetWare 3.x – 6.x, NetWare Cluster Services, NSS, MM, NWPA, & BCC.

·         Various replication/data migration/business continuity tools: Portlock’s Storage Manager, Avanti's TaskMaster, Rsync, Topio’s Data Protection Suite, Kashya’s KBX5000/EMC RecoverPoint, InMage's DR-Scout suite.

·         Responsible for Xiotech’s demonstration systems at Novell’s BrainShare (2000-2006).

Senior Network Analyst, Seagate Technology, Inc.                                                                         April 1998 - April 2000

  • Design, maintain and troubleshoot NetWare Directory Services for Seagate worldwide. Charter member of Seagate's Global Directory Services Core team.
  • NetWare resource engineer in Minnesota. Assist all groups with design, installation and troubleshooting.
  • Maintain NetWare Directory Services diagnostic tool for Seagate (DS Expert from NetPro).
  • Research, implement and maintain NetWare and server monitoring tools.
  • Design, test and implement redundant server strategy for NetWare servers.
  • Evaluate DS Expert v.3, DS Analyzer, and all Novell products, etc.
  • Extensive experience with Compaq servers and Compaq Insight Manager.

Communications Network Analyst, Computing Services, SDSU                                                 May 1994 - March 1998

  • Designed, implemented, manage and maintain NetWare Directory Services at SDSU.
  • Support of NetWare Servers, Microsoft Mail gateways, NetWare clients (Dos/Win/Mac/NT) at SDSU.
  • Responsible for network of campus computer labs.
  • Supervision of staff responsible for tracking and billing of new network installations at SDSU.
  • Administration of Novell's Master License Agreement for the South Dakota Board of Regents' institutions.
  • Microsoft Mail Postmaster for SDSU.
  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of network hubs, routers, and switches.
  • Installation and configuration of WindowsNT Server 3.51 (for specialized SMTP mail gateway).
  • Installation and configuration of IntraNetWare, NetWare 4.11, NetWare/IP, NetWare Web Server.
  • Installation and configuration of BorderManager and it's components.
  • Configuration and troubleshooting of IP, IPX, and AppleTalk on Ethernet and Token Ring.


Education

South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
BS in Computer Science and a minor in Technical Communications
Completed May 1994

 

Certifications

CompTIA:   IT Project+

Novell:   CNA, CNE, MCNE, CLP, CDE

VMware                :  VCP3 (lapsed), VCP4-DCV (lapsed), VCP5-DCV (lapsed), VCP6-DCV (in progress)