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Wayne Rippy

@waynerippy

Storage Solutions Architect and Manager at Virtual Service Operations Inc. who designed a centralized West Virginia State datacenter and led storage migrations.

United States
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At Virtual Service Operations Inc., I manage corporate storage and backup operations while supporting customer infrastructure. I also deliver Rubrik nodes for Raytheon’s global backup infrastructure and provide runbooks for backup, restore, and disaster recovery.

For West Virginia State, I designed a centralized datacenter to support IT as a Service for state agencies. I led the migration initiative to consolidate agency datacenters into the new facility.

For Raytheon, I supported storage infrastructure and led enterprise storage migration work across multiple data centers. I coordinated migration planning, replication, cutovers, validation, and runbooks with technical and customer teams.

At Dell-EMC, I deployed VxRail for the U.S. Air Force and architected EMC Avamar deployments for U.S. Embassies. At Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, I helped restructure the primary datacenter and engineered an “All-in-a-box” platform later adopted by Health.Mil as a standard deployment model for military hospitals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

VSO Rubrik Delivery Implementation Specialist

Virtual Service Operations Inc.

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Perform pre-site identification and qualification for the deployment and installation of Rubrik nodes as part of a global Rubrik backup infrastructure for Raytheon across 370 data centers worldwide. Deliver and install Rubrik nodes and bricks, collaborating with onsite personnel across the continental United States to implement storage virtualization and backup solutions.

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Current

VSO Internal Corporate Storage and Backup Manager

Virtual Service Operations Inc.

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Supervise personnel dedicated to VSO contracts and manage daily enterprise storage administration and backup operations for VSO customers. Conduct performance reviews, manage customer interactions, and provide employee training on storage area networks, storage provisioning, and backup operations.

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Current

Solution Architect West Virginia State

Virtual Service Operations Inc.

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Design and develop a centralized datacenter for West Virginia State, enabling IT as a Service for state agencies through the utilization of VMware, Dell-EMC VNX/VXBlock, Vxrail, Cisco MDS Switch infrastructure, Avamar, and RecoverPoint. Lead the datacenter migration initiative, overseeing the consolidation of outlying West Virginia State Agency datacenters into the newly developed Centralized West

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Current

Global Solution Architect Storage Engineering for Raytheon

Virtual Service Operations Inc.

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Provide daily support for Raytheon's storage infrastructure, managing data replication across 370 datacenters worldwide, encompassing Dell-EMC Vblock, VxBlock, VNX, PowerScale, Vmax, Powermac, Unity, Isilon, NetApp 7 Mode, and NetApp C-dot arrays. Serve as a dedicated Subject Matter Expert (SME) for specialized projects, contributing to data center migrations as part of a global consolidation init

VI
Current

Storage Migration Lead for Raytheon

Virtual Service Operations Inc.

Feb 2020 - Present (6 years 8 months)

Led end-to-end enterprise storage migration initiatives across a global environment spanning multiple data centers, coordinating discovery, planning, migration waves, cutover activities, validation, and project closure. Developed and maintained detailed migration project plans covering milestones, migration events, dependencies, resource assignments, technical prerequisites, cutover windows, valid

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Global Deployment Solutions Architect U.S. Airforce

Dell-EMC / EMC

Oct 2012 - Oct 2020 (8 years)

Functioned as the Global VxRail Deployment Specialist for the U.S. Air Force across multiple countries for over 50 active U.S. Air Force active duty bases. Executed the deployment, installation, configuration, and training of onsite personnel worldwide for an EMC Architected Solution.

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Global Storage and Backup Principle Engineer Customs and Border Protection

Dell-EMC / EMC

Oct 2012 - Oct 2020 (8 years)

Served as Solution Architect for EMC/Dell-EMC infrastructure, managing storage, disaster recovery, and data replication across 190 sites worldwide in an infrastructure consisting of EMC Vmax, EMC Recover Point, SRDF, EMC VNX, EMC Vblock, NetApp Cmode, NetApp 7mode, Commvault, Cisco and Brocade CNA switches. Developed a comprehensive training program for subordinates to cultivate expertise and cert

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Northern Virginia Community College logoNC

Northern Virginia Community College

NA, Architecture

1990 - 1992

Completed 36 credit hours in Architecture at Northern Virginia Community College from 1990 to 1992.

Northern Virginia Community College logoNC

Northern Virginia Community College

NA, Computer Science

1990 - 1992

Completed 24 credit hours in Computer Science at Northern Virginia Community College from 1990 to 1992.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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