Boars Head Provisions

•	Deployed new HP 3PAR V800 and IBM XIV Gen3 Storage to migrate 10 plus legacy HDS and EMC SAN storage for scalability and reliability. 
•	Successfully Migrated 200 plus virtualized UNIX hosts as well as 350 Plus Windows/VMware hosts from 3PAR F & T Series storage to 3PAR V800 utilizing HP 3PAR peer motion technology to reduce downtime which was running SQL, Cache`, DB2, as well as ERP Environment. Keeping reliability as number one goal.
•	Implemented and documented 3PAR remote copy replication solution and point in time recovery between sites utilizing newly purchase four V800 3PAR array’s to provide synchronous and Asynchronous replication to deliver zero data loss and save higher maintenance cost of NetApp replication solutions. 
•	Based on past performance usage, meticulously evaluated storage requirements and configured new storage to gain improve reliability with help of 3PAR System Reporter, adaptive and dynamic optimization technology to support various applications.
•	Based on past capacity usage, setup autonomic host and volume groups, shared and standalone mapping, implemented thin provisioning with zero detect feature and 3PAR snapshot technology to reclaim300+TB wasted allocated but unused storage space to efficiently attain maximum scalability, minimize backup and restore time and most importantly reduce per unit cost to keep lower Storage TCO.
•	Installed and configured 3PAR system reporter software to manage aggregated performance and capacity usage data for HP3PAR V Series and T Series Storage Array.
•	Full management of SAN environment composed of IBM DS4000, IBM XIV, EMC VNX storage subsystems and 4 node IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with more than 200 terabytes of data.
•	Creating backups and coping data using vendor specific tools such as Snapshot.
•	Performed migration from SVC to SVC using Global Mirror and metro mirror on various OS platforms.
•	Configured Source and Target (SVC) arrays for establishing Flashcopy/Global Mirror/Metro mirror.
•	Migrating data to a newer hardware to improve reliability, availability, and serviceability 
•	Administration of Cisco MDS Director 9513 SAN switches, utilizing Cisco’s Fabric Manager and Device Manager.
•	Worked on Cisco MDS 9513 directors and created aliases, zones, Zonesets and also VSANS in order to provide completely isolated fabric topologies using Cisco CLI and Fabric Manager.
•	Troubleshooting various “SAN not seen by host” issues related to zoning, path failures, disk failures etc.
•	IBM XIV Gen3/2, and IBM V7000 administration through GUI and CLI

It is a very nice place to work, would recommend for out of high school or freshly out of college candidates to gain experience or if you’re retired and you just want a decent job to do with some perks. This is a great spot for you, but just be mindful if you have a bad back because there is going to be bending and climbing ladders throughout your day. Benefits are very fair, but can be a little tricky, depending on what location you go to, but that’s up to the facility accepting the insurance. The overall coverage was good. You will gain a lot of knowledge in this field, you will gain a lot of friendship in this field. Just be careful how drawn into the business you get because it could either go in a very good direction opening doors that will a et you up for great success, or overtime you honestly might get burnt out and not wanna pressure this path which is perfectly ok. Not gonna sugarcoat it, just keeping it fair and honest and sharing thoughts that will cross your mind overtime or right now as you consider employment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part about boars head in Forrest city arkansas is the only part that makes me get up and go and that’s that it’s a job! This place is horrible, if I could take a physical beating everyday and get paid for it, I would choose the beating

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The question is what’s not stressful about it but mostly that if someone else doesn’t want to do their job, the ones of us that work has to do it for them and they get to go home and we gotta stay til it’s done, even if it’s late at night 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The devils living quarters! Mostly because of leads, supervisors and managers

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Anxiety hits the roof when I walk through the gates, get to the locker room, greet and converse with fellow employees eases the anxiety, then to the huddle meeting where the bull starts, then go into do our jobs, not knowing if we will get to go home when we finish our product or stay there for 12 hours to do somebody else’s work and won’t know til we get done

Decent pay. Good discounts on food products. Give employee gifts often like Christmas, Mother's day, Thanksgiving, etc. Plenty of overtime opportunities, just ask. Generous attendance policy. Very clean. You're expected to work a lot of Saturdays, yet you get very little vacation time or PTO. The ratio of days worked to days off is unfair, especially to those with kids. Day shift supervisors and managers on the RTE side were great! However, the leads would play favorites allowing some to take it easy while the others picked up the slack. Overall decent place to work and you do adjust to the cold, don't let that be a deterant. Repetitive work can be hard on your hands. They do promote from within. It's very safe. No one gets in the gates without ID or management approval. Public schools should have security like Boars Head. Your lunch bags are looked into upon entry and leaving. 



If you try to give new ideas and suggestions, they will not listen to you and tell you about “tradition.”  If you push  back towards management, be prepared to have a target on your back! Trust me! They preach the definition of insanity daily, and live by it. 

Worked with some really cool people and it was very close knit at times. Everyone isn’t lazy, but there are a lot of employees here who don’t deserve the roles they’re in. Boar’s Head is big on seniority. They’ll give the position to someone who’s been with the company for 20 + years and knows nothing about the position over someone that’s been with the company for 5 years and knows everything about the position. 

Management will be the downfall if y’all allow them to be! 

You are basically told in orientation to not become subject to the drama you will encounter on the production floor. Once you start production in your department no one really helps train you, however everyone wants to know your business. If you don't kiss up to certain general employees who are friends with management you will not advance within the company. Retention rates are extremely high. The solution for Boars Head Petersburg should be demote/fire 90% of management replace them with more mature non bias hard working employees. Stop allowing your management and seniority general employees bully new hires because they fear growth.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Even though we worked a lot of hours we were like family and I really miss that

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part about the job was not having what you need to push production out. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Cold but dressing for it wasn't so bad. But the culture was awesome. Everyone worked together, we knew what needed to be done so we just did it. I really miss working there.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Going in setting the lines up first and foremost so when everyone else get there we go ahead and start our day. Look at the schedule to see what we need to push the schedule out. Get everything ready. We start up and we don't stop until it's done.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part about working for this company is that the Provision owners are dedicated in keeping the value of service to our customers and to the legend itself up to the highest standards.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Sometimes the weather, or road conditions can interfere with deliveries and store visits but this doesn’t happen often. We let our customers know about delays and get their safely.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very traditional style family. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Traveling to the stores and speaking with managers, staff and customers. Educating all about our products and values.

It' s a wonderful place to work even with the short coming in management. I love my job and sometimes it could get stressful, when you were the only one trying to do everything. The head office really need to do hands on visiting and communicating with their employees. I have nothing bad to say about the company. We would eat free every Friday, they would have catering to come in for the holidays. In the first few years, our company representatives would be there to support and make sure everyone was okay and would meet with the employees to let them know that the company care about them.

Boars Head is not a bad place to work but the management team sucks they are never wrong and they do whatever it takes to save there own jobs and managers mess u and keep their jobs while others who work hard and know the job get punished for making one mistake. They also sneak and hide certain information employees need to know and the open door policy isn't what they say it is.If you have confidential info everybody is going know coming from the managers down to supervisors and general employees. When holidays come all you get is a luncheon at work under a tent when every one else besides the general associates get separate parties and bonuses its really an unfair prison if you ask me.

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