Larry Strain

Manager, Data Center Services

Sandpiper Data Systems

Larry has provided high-end sales, project management, and consulting services for small to large corporate data centers for over twenty nine years. He has extensive business and technical experience in the Information Technology industry, with twenty five years in data center operations. Larry specializes in supporting Sandpiper's premier Data Center Relocation service offering, along with Asset management, Asset Disposition and Data Eradication. He is the current Subject Matter Expert for Media conversion migration services including Mainframe, VTL, VTS, VSM, and Open Systems.

Experience:

  • Providing project management and consulting services including data center relocations, consolidations, asset management, environmental audits, fire suppression, and cabling.
  • Provided online and offline media conversion solutions for customer hardware tape conversions.
  • Designed and implemented various tools for use in diagnosing storage hardware.
  • Designed and implemented large hardware asset management tools.
  • Provided engineering technical support for numerous storage devices.
  • Account Coordinator North American field of a fortune 1000 company; responsible for installation, and service for their entire mainframe and server environment.
  • Software/Applications: Microsoft Project, Office, Visio, Aperture Data Center Manager, Obtain, AutoCAD
  • Solutions: Fire Suppression, Hardware Relocation, Asset Management, Data Center Audits, Data Center cabling, Media Conversions, VSM VTS implementations.
  • OS: HP-UX, Windows 2000, NT, 98 and 95, MVS
  • Hardware: StorageTek tape libraries, STK9840/9940/ DLT/LTO Titanium tape drives, fibre switches, access hubs, SCSI bridges, fibre HBA’s, IBM Mainframes, HP Servers, Compaq Servers.
  • Databases: Access, Oracle

 

Key Skills:

  • Data Center Relocation Project Management
  • Subject Matter Expert in Media Conversion Services
  • Interface with customers and other service vendors to gather data center business requirements.
  • Design and install large cabling infrastructures
  • Design and deliver data center fire suppression solutions.
  • Implement project management solutions and processes.
  • Manage large relocation and data center engagements/projects
  • Provide asset and change management to improve existing customer processes
  • Provide Data Eradication on Tape and Disk products
  • Provide Data Center Asset Disposition and Scrap Services