WORK HISTORY

Employer: Confidential

• Using my strong and well rounded cross vendor SAN, NAS and storage technology experience with heavy emphasis on business continuity data replication, DR planning testing , storage implementation architecture SAN NAS , storage administration support to provide service to IBM enterprise datacenter, storage and cloud technology customers.
• Providing technical expertise in terms of proof-of-concept, technical hands-on white-boarding presentation to support the IBM sales team which have yielded multi-million dollars in revenue from customer hardware, software and technology solution purchases.
• Providing software and hardware support for direct sales and channel partners, in defining and proposing storage solutions that placed storage vendors' HDS, IBM, EMC, NetApp, HP, Oracle and Dell products and solutions in front of customers to yield revenue and profit objectives, while driving the highest level of satisfaction to the customers.
• Continue to play a key role in the customer solution for architecture process of SAN, NAS, backup, VTL and archive based systems.
• Responding to technical and sales target of RFP and RFI, and providing pre-sales software and hardware technical expertise, including product specification presentations.
• Serving as Subject Matter Expert SME for storage performance and tuning, architecture, implementation for HDS, IBM, EMC, NetApp, HP, Oracle and Dell storage products and solutions
• Designing and implementing the IBM Storwize V7000, V7000 Unified, V3700, PureFlex and FlashSystems as IBM bare-metal infrastructure for IaaS customers.
• Designing and implementing data migration solution from CLARiiON CX4-480 to VNX5100 with VPLEX and SAN Copy for ESX hosts.
• Designing and implementing a distributed solution by presenting a VPLEX Metro Virtual Volumes to VMware via Storage View objects that comprised Registered Initiators and VPLEX ports .
• Installed, configured and used the VPLEX Management Console to manage VPLEX cluster, provision storage and manage/monitor system performance for distributed devices and virtual volumes that are accessed via VPLEX Metro
• Qualified potential Clients for VCE Vblock Private Cloud infrastructure solutions opportunities and oversaw the delivery of the Vblock infrastructure solutions.
• Planned and implemented Vblock 300 and 700 - performed the architecture and onsite configuration and remote storage logical builds for Vblock VNX5500,5700,7500 VNXe 3100 3300 VMAX and Cisco MDS 6148s and 9500s
• Implemented and configured the RecoverPoint CDP/CRR/CLR as RTO/RPO solution for a DR customer. Designed a remote replication methodologies using RecoverPoint SRDF Vblock storage , TrueCopy, Global-Mirror and HUR for multiple datacenter customers as part of managed services.
• Designed an IaaS cloud infrastructure and compute service with the Vblock 100 300 and Vblock for public cloud customers.
• Presented, won and closed several enterprise storage deal with storage virtualization IBM SVC, VCE Vblock, Hitachi USPV VSP through power point to the executive team and proof-of-concept, bid, white boarding to the operation team using UIM provisioning, Device Manager
• Provided technical hands-on and expertise to a team of storage engineers and administrators in implementing eight 8 PureFlex System for an IaaS project.
• Through proof-of-concept, bid proposal, technical presentation and white boarding sessions, won a multi-million dollar sales deal for the IBM PureFlex System, PureApplication System and PureData System.
• Currently leading the effort in implementing and configuring the IBM PureFlex System, PureApplication System and PureData System for an enterprise customer in preparation for end of a 5-year refresh from multi vendor storage, compute and networking infrastructure.
• Provided the design, schedule and all technical hands-on expertise in cutting over a customer environment from CISCO UCS to the IBM PureFlex System including data migration from UCS to PureFlex System.
• Planned and cutover a customer NetApp platform from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode using a pass-through device for data migration across modes
• Support for EVA/ Ibrix/ San Switch/ 3PAR and StorServ support. I find issues with the various arrays/ switch by reviewing log files per product.
• Provided application and database performance solution by implementing the IBRIX Global File system yielding 75 increased data retrieval on heterogeneous storage area network
• Provided product proof-of-concept and implementation kick-off for the HP EVA, 3Par StoreServ 7000 and served as the Subject Matter Expert for the HP IBRIX OS v6.1, IBRIX X9320 and X9730 Storage systems.
• Planned, installed and configure the Datacore SANsymphony v9.4 for multi-vendor storage array virtualization and also for migrating 1.7PT of legacy storage.
• Utilized the advanced features CDP, Snapshots, Copy-on-First-Write etc. of the SANsymphony-Management Console to manage the new storage environment with the Datacore Servers located at two separate locations.
• Continue to provide services for IBM clients and have successfully delivered, completed the following project/engagements for IBM customers:

Confidential

• Designed, configured and managed rapid recovery solution for Write Dependent and Write Consistency applications with the HUR Hitachi Universal Replicator 3-datacenter multi-target DR configuration
• Architected and designed a Point-in-Time data duplication solution within the Lightning 9900/9900 V series for ShadowImage and TrueCopy
• Migrated Legacy storage IBM DS8000, EMC DMX/Symmetrix, CLARiiON to Hitachi VSP and USPV using Command Suite 7 Storage Navigator / Setup and configured dynamic pools within the Hitachi USPV and VSP/Replicated data using HUR, CoW and TrueCopy features of the Hitachi Command Suite 7
• Setup consistency group and PVOL selection and used the CoW advanced feature of the Command Suite 7 to create snapshot within a USPV for backup, test and development update
• Setup the Thin Image HTI advanced feature of the Hitachi VSP for snapshots using the raidcom HTI pool, SVOL, PAIR, creation
• Post migration cleaned up of legacy storage migration pool and released old legacy LUNs back to customer/Setup VMAX FAST Policies for Standard Devices, FAST VP for Thin Devices Sub-LUNs.
• Provided leadership for EMC architects and engineers in implementing and configuring the CISCO MDS9500 Multi-layer directors and MDS9513 MDS9500 series .
• Upgraded the production fabric software from CISCO Fabric Manager to DCNM Datacenter Network Manager and all 2480 zones came up with no errors
• Implemented and configured the Storage Media Encryption, SME-for-Disk and SME-for-Tape on MDS 9000 18/4-Port MSM , MDS 9000 16-Port SSN , MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch MMS
• Installed and configured SME, cluster node corresponding line cards and CISCO KMC/turned-on SME services in CISCO DCNM SAN
• Through proof-of-concept, recommended Cloud Services for datacenter customers in delivering a leading edge innovations in cloud infrastructure, platform services and open source-based cloud solutions to enable them make dynamic and scalable cloud initiatives in their enterprise.
• Qualified midrange and enterprise datacenter customers for private and enterprise cloud solution and engaged fully in the transformation from beginning to end.
• Implemented Symmetrix Optimization with Virtual LUN for Standard Devices and Virtual LUN VP for Thin Devices
• Activated licenses for VMAX DCP Dynamic Cache Partitioning , Priority Controls and Dynamic Provisioning
• Virtualized a 2-Engine VMAX, an XIV, an EVA8100 behind a 4-Node SVC Cluster and migrated 980TB of data to the VMAX MDISK. Removed the XIV, EVA, SVC Cluster, initiated SRDF/Async between VMAX and another VMAX at Collocation
• Implement and deliver a BCRS customer's first FCoE architecture with the Nexus 5010 and Nexus 7010 in a Linux RHEL, Windows 2003 and CLARiiON CX4-960 backend storage environment.
• Implemented and configured FCoE on the Nexus 5020 for ESX server access to a DS8700 with a segregated VLAN for storage traffic.
• Re-architected and cut-over a financial Datafort encryption to the DARE Data At Rest Encryption in a newly implemented VMAX
• Successfully externalized and migrated 800TB of data from eight 8 EVA8100, one 1 USP and two 2 DMX1000 to three 3 brand new USPV RAID6000 in a 3D configuration environment using the UVM Universal Volume Manager and Tier Storage Manager features of the HiCommand Suite
• Setup and implemented a segregated LAN for iSCSI data storage and backup traffic between Open Systems and multivendor backend storage
• Architected and deployed the EMC BRS Portfolio as a suite of DataDomain, Avamar, NetWorker, DPA, Atmos Cloud, Source one, VMware, VCE, and eDiscovery suite at Verizon Wireless Technology
• Implemented, supported and maintained the Brocade SAN Fabrics, EMC VNX, V-MAX, DMX, and NAS Storage, EMC Atmos and Centera archive devices, and DR RPA and SRDF replication from Florida to Tempe
• Implemented and configured a multivendor SAN DS8000, DMX-4, AMS2500, EVA8100, Equallogic PS6500E back-ends storages CISCO MDS 9513 using the iSCSI technology Host iSCSI Initiator and iSCSI Adapter .
• Implemented and configured FLM Federated Live Migration for migrating AIX, Solaris and WINDOWS hosts from two 2 DMX4 to a VMAX.
• Installed, configured and utilized the SofTek TDMF to convert a DS4800 storage platform to CX4-960 and CX4-480 platform. Following conversion, setup CLARiiON FAST Policies, CLARiiON Host Encryption, CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning. Setup MirrorView for remote replication to a Collocation CX4-960. Setup Snapview clones and snapshots in the primary DC CLARiiON.
• Setup and configured the HP StorageWork Continuous Access replication between EVA8400 and EVA6400 and developed the technical details involved in the Source to Target storage allocation, bandwidth calculations and the actual replication exercise.
• Implemented, configured the an HP P10000 with the Thin Suite, migrated flat devices over from the 3PAR H and F class and initiated replication between the new P10000 and a remote P10000 with the Peer Motion tool.
• Implemented, configured and supported six 6 3PAR StoreServ7000/7450 storage arrays totaling approximately 2PB of raw storage capacity and performed all zoning exercises in a MDS 9148 fabric
• Utilized the System Reporter, Adaptive Optimization and Dynamic Optimization advance features to support and maintain HP 3PAR storage arrays
• Migrated over 700TB of data from eight 8 HP EVA to 3PAR StoreServ 7000 using the Online Import feature of the HP CommandView
• Hired by HP as a proctor and SME for implementing, administering, maintaining and providing technical training on HP-3PARF200, F400, S400/T400, S400/T800 V400/V800 and EVA P6300
• Planned and installed the HP 3PAR Inform Management Console, Inform management CLI and Host Explorer agent for a 3PAR and EVA customer shop
• Provided expertise and mentoring in creating Common Provisioned Groups CPG , Virtual Volumes VV , creating Hosts, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR.
• Provided HP 3PAR storage administration with heavy emphasis on 3PAR Thin Technologies for space management and Autonomic groups VVSet and HOSTSet .
• Implemented a disaster recovery between 2 remote 3PAR arrays solution by creating Virtual Copy for snapshots of physical/virtual data copy and Remote Copy to allow mirroring data between two remote arrays.
• Architected and completed block level data migration from several legacy storage arrays to the HP 3PAR/P10000 and HP XP/P9500 using MPX200 Multifunction Router
• Installed, configured the Celerra Replicator for NAS Synchronous Replication. Created local and remote copies of filesystems in the NS-120 and between two NS480 NAS architecture.
• Implemented and configured a VNX5100 Unisphere Consolidated Architecture with CX4-960 and Celerra NS-480.
• Setup, configured the VNX VG2 and VNX VG8 NAS Gateway and created file access to the existing CX4-480 and DMX-4
• Implemented the iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, Hyper V and VMWare datastore, Snapshots on VNXe3300 and created a runbook for the environment.
• Architected a storage virtualization solution the IBM SVC SAN Volume Controller with EMC VNX, VNXe, CLARiiON, Celerra as managed disks and Cisco MDS9513s as fabric switches.
• Designed a VMWare storage Vmotion solution for migrating over 650TB from four 4 EVA8100, six 6 HP MSA1500, one 1 Inserv T800
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• Configure the VNXe3100, VNXe3300, VNX5100, VNX5300, VNX5500, VNX5700, VNX7500. Use EMC Unisphere to consolidate the existing CLARiiON CX4-960/CX4-480 and the newly installed VNX/VNXe architecture.
• Designed and architected the EMC VNX VNXe storage controllers by planning and creating pools, workload profiles, FAST Cache Setting, Journal LUNs and De-duplication.
• Provided VNX VNXe performance monitoring, tuning and overall health by drilling down on the Storage Processor before progressively diving to RAID/LUN layout, Cache etc.
• Installed and configured the Celerra Filemover, setup storage tier movement and asynchronous replication respectively.
• Setup, configured and provided file sharing with the Celerra Multi-Path File System MPFS .
• Installed and configured Open Replicator for data movement between Symmetrix DMX-4 and VMAX control devices and the IBM DS8300 remote volumes. Prepared documentation and Runbook for the OR methodology Cold Push, Hot Push, Cold Pull, Cold Push as a project deliverable..
• Implemented and configured the HDT Hitachi Dynamic Tiering for the VSP and P9500 volumes with the CommandSuite.
• Implemented and configured CLARiiON FAST CX4-960 volumes for a BCRS customer and gained a 79 increase in Response Time.
• Racked, stacked, configured, virtualized three 3 DS4800, two 2 CLARiiON CX4-480 controllers behind a four 4 node Storwize V7000 and the Zero-Write Reclaim functionality against the image-mode virtualized MDISKs.
• Installed and configured a Centera CEP and GE file archiving architecture for a 64 bit WINDOWS 2008 clustered Exchange server.
• Designed Business Continuity solutions and roadmaps for the BCRS Business Continuity and Resiliency Services customers with storage capacity planning, Bandwidth calculation based on WRITE activities, disaster recovery plans, quarterly disaster recovery tests.
• .Converted enterprise PiT solution from the IBM FlashCopy on S/390 to the Hitachi S/390 Database Replication for z/OS.
• Upgraded Solution Enabler to Version 7.1.1, installed and configured SYMCLI and Symmetrix Management Console
• Installed Remote Web Console for managing the XP24000 and implemented Continuous Access Replication between the two 2 XP24000. Created, configured Journal and Data Volumes in this effort and provided an online DR documentation for the Client.
• Implemented and configured the V-Max Systems and V-Max SE with SMC and SYMCLI.
• Implemented an XP24000 storage solution for LDAP and Microsoft Exchange servers Windows 2003 server and Windows 2000 .
• Planned, designed and implemented a Celerra NAS architecture with the NSD Network Storage Designer tool.
• Implemented and used the Celerra Quickstart to configure interfaces, Filesystem for the NS-480 and NS-960 series.
• Used the SMC, FAST LUN Migrator, RFMA/VE to configure FAST on V-Max Systems.
• Implemented and configured an Extended Dynamic Loop Configuration with four 4 V-Max Engine with dedicated tiers across V-Max System, segregated tiers within V-Max System, segregated tiers by DAE within a V-Max System.
• Installed the Hitachi HiCommand Suites Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tier Storage Manager, Dynamic Provisioning Manager to manage USPV StorageWorks XP 24000, StorageTek 9990V , USP/VM StorageWorks XP 20000, StorageTek 9985V , AMS2500.
• Used the HiCommand Suites Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tier Storage Manager, Dynamic Provisioning Manager to manage the daily storage operation in an enterprise environment. Daily operation like storage provisioning, allocation, performance tuning, hierarchical storage classification

Confidential

• Implemented two 2 CISCO MDS9513 at the primary data center and four CISCO MDS9513 at the remote site, implemented four 4 CISCO ONS15454 as core MPSS platform for both local and remote site, implemented and connected the local and remote site with two DWDM links per fabric for SRDF traffic.
• ovided leadership for EMC architects in VSAN and its corresponding Zone implementation.
• Implemented and connected each CDL path with five DWDM links putting each set of ISLs its own port which was configured with the allowed-lists set for only specified VSAN traffic and the default SAN for datacenter migration between two IL cities.
• Designed Metro-Global Mirror, SRDF/A, SRDF/Synchronous, Global Copy, Flash Copy as copy services for Business Continuance and DR customers using DMX-3, DMX-1000, DS8000, DS6000, USP for data storage. Provided the technical procedure and script for configuration and implementation of the architecture. Documented the design, configuration and runbook for as part of customer deliverables.
• Designed a VMWare storage Vmotion solution for migrating over 650TB from four 4 EVA8100, six 6 HP MSA1500, one 1 Inserv T800
• Designed the Cisco UCS compute cluster with ESX 4.1 and ESX 5.0, Cisco 1000v VSM within Vsphere 5 and architected IaaS solution with EMC IONIX UIM/P
• Designed the configuration of the Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5 and and ESXi 5 clusters using the EMC UIM/P
• Implemented and configured the Cross-System Copy/HiCopy functionality of the UVM Universal Volume Manager to make bidirectional copies between the internal volumes of the USP RAID500 and external volumes from CLARiiON CX4-120, CX4-240, DS8300, DMX4, DS4000, DS6000.
• Implemented and provisioned NAS architecture that comprises of N6040 FAS3140 , N7600 FAS960 , N6060 FAS3160 , N7800 FAS980 , N5600 FA3070 as entry, midrange and enterprise environment.
• Installed and configured the Hitachi HNAS and HCAP as BCRS customers' file manager and archiving infrastructure.
• Installed, converted and cutover migration/replication effort from monotonous controller software to open migrator between DMX-4 and DS8300 / Developed UNIX script to migrate Linux Volumes to AIX Volumes using the TDMF for UNIX Host Based migration tool.
• Migrated and cutover a virtualized SAN from an eight 8 node cluster SVC Inserv F200, F400, T400, T800, Compellent Storage Center managed, USP -RAID500, DS8300, DS4000 managed disks to a Hitachi USPV -RAID6000 platform. Old SVC managed disks became the USPV externalized disks.
• Implemented and configured the 3PAR Inserv Array with data Wide Stripping across multiple RAID levels
• Formatted three 3 brand new turnover from Hitachi CE Hitachi USPV in preparation for externalization and migration of data from eight 8 EVA8100, one 1 USP and two 2 DMX1000. Preparation comprised of system disk creation, command device creation, and using the HDP Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning feature to prepare LUNs for intended migration.
• Provisioned the HDP volumes in the USP/VM, analyzed and ran the ZPR Zero Page Reclaim operation against the existing volumes in a storage refresh effort yielding a total of 46 ROI from this ZPR exercise.
• Implemented, provisioned and configured the NetApp Gateway FAS960 and FAS980 for high transactional application.
• Setup, configured the Datafort Decru FC1020, E515, FC520, S110 security systems for financial customers using LKM and encryption Key policies. Used the DecruOs to create, segregate, manage a NAS Gateway CIFS and NFS cryptainers.
• Recommended a replacement of a major airline billing servers from IBM xSeries to Cisco UCS
• Implemented a NAS architecture with FAS600 gateway, DMX3 backend storage FC protocol , and configured RAID-DP and volumes with Data Ontap for Wintel and UNIX Clients NFS and CIFS protocols
• Provided daily storage administration knowledge transfer to IBM BCRS customer in the capacity of VCM database, DSstorage extentpools, DataOntap WAFL, CoW Copy-on-Write/QuickShadow and FlashCopy for Space Efficiency.
• Manage volume usage and cleanup for daily remote replication and Point-in-Time copy operations with special scripts.
• Provided training and mentoring with the HiCommand Database Validator and Data Retention Utility Open LDEV Guard .
• Installed and configured the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center TPC for managing storage capacity, availability, event and performance. Manage daily operation of the Metro/Global Mirror multi-target solution with the IBM TPC for Replication.
• Designed, configured and managed rapid recovery solution for Write Dependent and Write Consistency applications with the HUR Hitachi Universal Replicator 3D multi-target DR configuration
• Configured and used PPME CLI and SMC GUI for Open Replicator to migrate 600TB of data in WINDOWS 2003 environment
• Configured and trained BCRS customers on the use of SymmCLI for Symmetrix Control exercises.
• Virtualized UVM externalization HTSM data migration 16 HP EVA8100, four 4 EMC DMX-1000 and two 2 IBM DS8300 behind a new USPV.
• Converted an EMC Invista virtualized storage environment to an IBM SVC 4 node cluster to meet storage end of support timelines and later converted the SVC environment to a USPV virtualized environment supporting two 2 XIV, two 2 DS6000 and one 1 DMX1000.
• Installed, configured the Open Migrator/LM for Open System Volumes migration between the IBM SVC Volumes HP EVA, HDS AMS externalized volumes and the Symmetrix DMX-4 Volumes.
• Use the HvPM software to logically partition the USP/V to multiple Virtual Private Storage Machines and use the DScli to create two LPARs from DS8300 9A2 and 9B2 models
• Implemented, configured and used the non-disruptive PowerPath migration PPME to 360TB of data migration on WINDOWS 2000/2003 hosts.
• Architected the EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 HA Management Cluster configuration for several healthcare and financial customers

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• Led the EMC and ERCOT SAN and Storage administrators by providing technical leadership during migration and cutover of two DMX-1000 to a DMX-3 using SRDF Adaptive Copy between cities.
• Working with the Juniper Networks DCBG, Storage Vendors and SNIA in acquiring FCoE and FC Certifications for the Juniper QFX3500 Lexington Avenue
• Diagnosed, recommended and provided resolution for client's latency issues in their iSCSI data and storage networks by physically segregating both networks with the EX4500 switches.
• Continue to provide FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SAN liaison for Juniper Networks customers in complex engagements and projects
• Developed and provided iFCP and FCIP recommendations for a customer's complex SAN island issues
• Continue to provide leadership for all VMWare, Fibre Channel, SAN and Storage related engagements.
• Continue to provide leadership for the Juniper EX4500 as an FCoE transit and QFX3500 as an FCoE gateway switches
• Led a cutover from WINDOWS 2003 server native MPIO attached EVA810 to WINDWS 2003 server Powerpath attached DMX-4.
• Upgraded SDD, HDLM, Powerpath, MPIO to the newest version in an Open System environment WINDOWS, UNIX, LINUX in preparation for Datacenter migration to a brand new architecture
• Implemented and configured the VNXe snapshot, replication and NDMP, data protection for open systems.
• Installed and configured the EMC Replication Manager for Microsoft Exchange Storage on VNXe3300
• Built a complete virtual server and storage infrastructure that comprised of nine 9 Linux ESX server with sixty three 63 WINDOWS 2003 guest hosts and two 2 Hitachi USPV, one 1 EMC V-Max.
• Migrated a TPC TotalStorage Productivity Center environment to Replication Manager managed platform. Installed and configured the Open Replicator as the first step,
• Evaluated the Juniper Networks Account teams' Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, SAN, Storage technology proof-of-concepts expertise during their sales pitches
• Deveoloed and provided FC, iSCSI, FCoE and SAN technical trainings and learning paths to the Juniper Networks Juniper Sales Account teams
• Implemented, configured and used the Storage Vmotion SVmotion feature of VMware to migrated 650TB ESX Guest VM storage from four 4 EVA8100, six 6 HP MSA1500, one 1 Inserv T800, one 1 Eternus 8000, one 1 Eternus DX8000 datastore to a fully V-Max datastore.
• Provided technical leadership for cutover of enterprise Operating Systems environment from eighty 16 WINDOWS 2000/2003 and seventy 20 Linux Redhat to six 6 Linux ESX servers with thirty 36 guest hosts.
• Implemented, configured, managed Point-in-Time and Remote Replication with ShadowImage, FlashCopy, Business Copy, BCV and TrueCopy, SRDF, Continuous Access, Metro Mirror, Global Copy, Mirror Global Mirror for the Hitachi USP/V, EMC DMX-4 and IBM DS8300 managed replication customers.
• Provided DR Disaster Recovery initiatives bandwidth and volume sizing, developed online failover/failback runbooks, remote replication scripts SRDF, CCI, DCli , failover/failback scripts and procedure.
• Implemented, configured and provisioned the ThP for V-VOLs in an XP24000. Subsequently virtualized two 2 EVA8100s behind the XP24000, installed and used Business Copy to migrate the external volumes to the XP24000. Implemented and configure Continuous Access between the XP24000 and a remote XP24000.
• Architected, implemented and provided mirroring, backup and business continuity roadmap for the Network Attached Storage environment with SnapShot, SnapRestore, SnapMirror, SnapSync, FlexClone and SnapMover
• Using the EMC DiskXtender, designed, implemented and provided all technical expertise behind Cloud services migration, IaaS for the Atmos CE/VE/LE
• Confidential Implemented a Softek TDMF Unix/Linux IP Host Based Replication for Solaris 10, Linux RedHat, WINDOWS Server2000 and migrated 88TB of data using the TDMF functionality
• Installed, configured, provisioned the CLARiiON CX4-480, CX4-960, CX3-40, CX3-80 for Windows, 2000, 2003 severs, Linux RedHat, Solaris and setup SnapView Clones for Windows and Linux.
• Implemented data migration using TDMF for z/OS and managed mainframe z/OS and OS/390 daily Metro-Mirror, Global Mirror data replication across multiple cities and provided daily storage and SAN related support for database, WINTEL, Unix, Application Administrators
• Providing Fibre Channel, iSCSI and FCoE consulting as related to Clients' Storage Area network
• Developed and publish several FC, iSCSI, FCoE, SAN and Storage technology Technical Notes in the Juniper Matrix Systems to help Sales and Account groups succeed in their day-to-day tasks.
• Successfully implemented and configured a laboratory demo of the FCoE feature of the Juniper QFX3500 Lexington Avenue with the IBM DS8700 using a Nexus 5010 as the FC switch
• Implemented buil and configure new sets of EMC VNX and VNXe's and migrated data over to them from CLARiiON and HP EVAs
• Implement and configure the IBM high end disks like DS8300, DS8000, DS6000 and provided hand-on taks to support DR initiatives between primary and remote sites using PPRC, MetroMirror, GlobalMirror.
• Provide daily storage administration operations with the IBM Storage Manager software DSStorage Manager .
• Evaluated and profiled a BCRS customer's DS8300 and Celerra NS-960 environment with the DSQtool and NSD 1.5.0.0. Generated a report in preparation for a new DR facility.
• Provide architecture and daily administration in a large IBM storage environment with over 4PT of data. Daily operations involved storage allocation to System Administrators Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX,VMWare .
• Celerra Unified Storage Platform Gateway VG2, NX4, NS-120, NS-480, NS-960 provisioning and management with Unisphere.
• Implemented solution and provided storage/SAN advisory technical leadership for cutover from IBM SDD on WINDOWS 2000 server attached DS8300 to Powerpath on WINDOWS 2003 server attached DMX-3
• Migrated 890TB of Open Systems Linux RedHat, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2002, Solaris 10, AIX 5.X, HP-UX Volumes with the IBM Softek/TDMF tool. Developed a Softek/TDMF host based migration runbook as part of the Client's deliverables. Trained the Client's storage administrators on the use and operation of the TDMF technology as part of their day-to-day storage management and administration exercises.
• Installed, configured the Celerra N-120, N-480 headers with CLARiiON CX4-960 back-end and implemented MPFS Multi Path File System for Linux RedHat, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2000 access in a Fibre Channel environment.
• Installed, configured the Celerra N-960 header with CLARiiON CX4-480 back-end and implemented MPFS Multi Path File System for a two 2 ESX servers with thirty two 32 Guest OS' in an iSCSI access environment.
• Developed UNIX and WINDOWS scripts to implement a host-based migration architecture using the OpenMigrator
• Configured and applied the Thin Provisioning, Dynamic Provisioning, Thin Copy and Thin Move of the Hitachi USP/V HDP for performance.
• Installed, configured Compellent and used the Instant Replay, Compellent Live Volume, Snapshot features of the Compellent storage controllers for daily administration tasks
• Installed and configured the ISILON x200 X400 and managed the OneFS distributed Filesystem with OneFS Storage Administrator GUI
• Setup the automatic migration of data and application from one storage tier to another in the Compellent FS7600, FS7610, FS8600 and built variable-block dedupe and LZPS compression.
• Architected and implemented EMC's Atmos and Cloud Delivery Portal solutions and other third party applications for Object Based Cloud Storage
• Designed, configured, documented and supported EMC Atmos cloud storage IaaS and architected Atmos/CDP solution at Verizon Wireless
• Designed IaaS as virtual DR infrastructure for storage, network and compute for test, backup and later as an active production site for testing active-active workload.
• Provided detailed infrastructure planning review and overview including an in-depth whiteboard sessions, proof-of-concept, development of Visio network diagram, logical diagram and detailed documentation of IT environment.
• Setup and lead executive presentations discussing cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, SaaS within the context of ROI, CapEx and business continuity
• Designed the Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure and configured VMware SRM for as part of business continuity initiative deliverables
• Presented IaaS Cloud services to financial and healthcare Clients as a solution for a complex and difficult-to-manage storage platform while they focus on their LOB Line of Business .
• Architected, implemented and configured the Cloud IaaS platform using data from solution architecture meeting to determine the right storage capacity, compute power and, data network infrastructure.
• Presented IaaS Cloud infrastructure to Clients as an option for Disaster Recovery colocation, presented all exercise behind the design and architecture and initiated the professional services daily exercises for the cut-over
• Designed and started Clients' Initial Copy replication operation of from primary to the new Cloud IaaS platform and handed over daily operation to Clients' operations team following successful cut-over

Confidential

• Provided technical leadership for the tesm in an effort to migrate the EMC CLARiiON CX700 storage array to the IBM DS3400 storage controller.
• Re-evaluated the data storage platform in preparation for the migration plan.
• Implemented a four 4 node IBM SVC model 8F2 for block level virtualization.
• Provisioned and presented Managed and Vdisks to the virtualization engine and host respectively.
• Re-engineered and re-architected the IBM DS4000 and AIX storage and UNIX environment for the new SVC virtualization platform.
• Planned and implemented SVC FlashCopy data migration
• Provided capacity planning liaison between Wal-Mart and storage/server vendors.
• Provided mentoring to IBM storage administrators at Wal-mart's site for daily storage administration of DS8000, DS4000, DS4800, DMX-3, DMX-1000, CLARiiON CX3-10, USP, USP/V, EVA, StorageWork, , FAS3100, FAS3000, FAS2000, FAS200, V6000, V3100 using the StorageManager and DSCLI, ECC and SYMcli, HiCommand and Storage Navigator, DataOntap respectively.

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• Implemented and configured the DS8100, managed VCM database.
• Performed host-based data migration using TDMF and volume management using VxVm VERITAS Volume Manager and AIX .
• Migrated the fabric from two 2 silkwork 3200 managed with Enterprise Fabric Manager EFM to two two Brocade DCX-4 backbone managed with DCFM Brocade Datacenter Fabric Manager
• Implemented and configure four 4 DS4800 storage array with eleven 11 EXP810, provisioned and presented DS4800 LUNs to several AIX hosts with qLogic HBAs.
• Provided senior storage administration expertise to the Viacom SAN team in Storenext file systems host-based data migrating of 350TB of data from the IBM DS4000 to the Data Direct Network DDN/DCS9559 storage arrays. Developed a UNIX Shell Script to automate the Stornext Data Migration.
• Lead and provided technical expertise during legacy arrays DMX3000, DS4800, CLARiiON CX3-10, CX3-80 migration to the IBM XIV Grid systems
• Analyzed the CLARiiON CX4-120, CX4-240 storage for performance and I/O latency using Navisphere Analyzer.
• Profiled the application and database I/O behavior and made recommendations to enhance the storage area performance by re-organizing disks layout, RAID level configuration in the CLARiiON CX4-120, CX4-240 using Navisphere manager.
• Installed, setup, and configured of the IBM DS4700 Express storage with the DSstorage Manager. Implemented a 2 Brocade switch fabric, trained the storage administrator.
• Installed and configured a DS3400 storage array connected to the Fabric via two 32-port McData switches.
• Provided storage implementation in the new storage and presented the volumes GPFS to AIX hosts.
• Provided a benchmark of the new storage array against the existing EMC Symmetrix arrays for I/O performance comparison.
• Configured the Open Migrator for WINDOWS and Linux for a DR Client/Performed and provided technical leadership for HBA, SAN switches and Fabric Management software upgrade in preparation for WINDOWS 2000/2003 migration and cutover.
• Recommended and deployed several Fabric topology with Brocade, McData, Connectrix, CISCO, Emulex, qLogix switches.
• Implement and configure the CISCO Nexus 5010 and Nexus 7010 FC and IP access respectively for a Client's UCS and Converged Network solution/Built, supported and handed-off new Cisco UCS Blades at a disaster recovery datacenter for a collocation company.
• Implement and configure a NAS virtualized architecture by externalization using the NetApp V6280, V6240, V6210, V3210, V3240, V3270 storage virtualization engines/Provide Disaster Recovery solutions for the IBM Storage environment by creating remote replication initiatives for failover and failback.
• Plan, architect and deliver an IBM SAN environment by installing the IBM DS4000, DS4700, DS4800, DS4800 Express and setup two SAN fabrics with the Brocade and McData SAN switches.
• Confidential Provisioned, peformed replication and DR operations with the HP EVA8100 using the CommandView GUI.
• Provisioned, implemented and performed daily storage administration role for the HP MSA Modular Smart Array using the ACU Array Configuration Utility .
• Installed, configured and performed daily backup administration role with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite.
• Implemented and configured a SAN boot architecture with an IBM DS3400 and IBM H Class Blade Chassis with fourteen 14 blades running WINDOWS server 2000/2003. Configure the 14th blade as a failover blade in each chassis.
• Developed and implemented a host based migration script Stornext/UNIX for the MTV for migrating 350TB of data from CLARiiON CX3-10 to DS4800
• Installed and configured the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center TPC for managing storage capacity, availability, event and performance. Manage daily operation of the Metro/Global Mirror multi-target solution with the IBM TPC for Replication.
• Racked, stacked and installed AIX5 on two 2 brand new p510 servers. Racked, stacked and provisioned a DS4800 with fully populated EXP810. Presented LUNs from the DS4800 to the two 2 AIX servers. Migrated the client's architecture from HP True64 UNIX with MSA1500 to the newly configure AIX and DS4800 architecture. Mentored the client's storage and server administrators on how to run and support the new environment, documented the architecture's run-book, presented a VISIO diagram of the environment to the end as part of deliverable
• Implemented and configured a SAN boot architecture with an IBM DS3400 and IBM H Class Blade Chassis with fourteen 14 blades running WINDOWS server 2000/2003. Configure the 14th blade as a failover blade in each chassis.

Confidential

• Designed, configured and implemented Metro-Global Mirror, SRDF/A, SRDF/Synchronous, Global Copy, Flash Copy using UNIX scripts for automating array to array replication and Poin-in-Time duplication for DMX-3, DMX-1000, DS8000, DS6000, USP.
• Configured and provisioned the Hitachi Lightning 9900 and 9900 V Series for DR Disaster Recovery customers in a mixed Windows, LINUX and UNIX operating system environment.
• Setup and carried out PiT Point-in-Time data duplication within the Lightning 9900/9900 V series with ShadowImage and data migration between the Lightning 9900 and 9900 V with TrueCopy.
• Installed and configured the CLARiiON CX200, CX400 and CX600 for Bellsouth Affiliate DR Disaster Recovery testing in a Windows 2000 server, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX environment.
• Installed and configured the CLARiiON CX300, CX500, CX700 to replace the CX200, CX400 and CX600 as part of I/O performance enhancement effort.
• Installed and configured the CLARiiON AX100 and AX150 as target volumes as part of an effort to migrate customer's redundant data email and archives from the IBM shark's FC volumes.
• Provided volume management role using VxVm Veritas Volume Manager , Solaris Solstice Disk Suite, HP-UX AIX Logical Volume Manager..
• Built, configured 210 Solaris and Linux with Jumpstart and Kickstart respectively , configured and provisioned storage from SUN9990V and DMX-3 for Windows 2000 servers, Linux RedHat, Solaris 8.0, Hp-UX and AIX.
• Trained the entire 122 EDS Midrange Staff under Bellsouth Account on UNIX Solaris, AIX, Linux, True64, Digital UNIX and storage administration. Also, provided educational roadmap for the entire team towards achieving Solaris Certification
• Built and supported Solaris Cluster on a two-node E10K running Oracle Parallel server, built and supported HACMP on a 2-node PowerSever, built and supported a four-node HP ServiceGuard enterprise cluster
• .Cutover Alltel architecture from HP-UX to Solaris on E10K with BCV and SRDF storage environment for the V2 Legacy System.
• Managed z/OS storage replication for SunGard DR customers.
• Implemented the NetApps FAS and V series storage systems, setup the IBM N-series and NetApp NAS devices segregating Windows CIFS from Unix NFS traffics.
• Installed multi-path power-path, SDD, RDAC, MPIO, SDDPCM, DLM, DMP for all Bellsouth/EDS open systems.
• Built and rolled out PPRC, SRDF, True Copy failover/failback scripts for Bellsouth DR test environment.
• Configured, provisioned and presented 700TB of LUNs from the first Bellsouth Affiliates' DMX800 and DMX1000 for EDS support.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

• Started here as Unix administrator and was promoted to senior Unix administrator whose daily role was setting up, configuring and administration of Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Digital and SCO Unix.
• Later joined the SAN and storage administration group and was exposed to implementing and configuring storage arrays from different manufacturers like EMC, IBM and HDS.
• Managed and provided daily administration for inherited Hitachi Freedom Storage 5700E and 5800.
• Configured and provisioned the Hitachi Freedom Storage 7700 and 7700E for Windows, RedHat, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
• Lead the cut-over effort by migrating data from the Hitachi Freedom Storage 5700E and 5800 to Freedom Storage 7700 and 7700E. The 5700E and 5800 were de-commissioned following a successful migration.
• Setup and configured Solaris, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Tru64 and SCO UNIX in a 100 UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy and DOSEMU DOS Emulator environment for node-to-sub-node/email polling for pioneer ISP customers. I played an important technical role in a new team that introduced TCP/IP architecture to the ISPs till the fourth quarter of 1996.
• Configured and provisioned the Hitachi Thunder 9200 and 9500 for Windows, Linux RedHat, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
• Used the EMC Volume and Access Logix software to manage storage volumes for several customers whose IT infrastructure had been outsourced..
• Performed as a UNIX/SAN and Storage administrator and started to gradually handover the UNIX administration role to other group members until I finally took over all SAN/Storage related tasks in late 1996.
• Setup and configured several direct-attached storage arrays to UNIX and Windows hosts, added four new hosts to the existing FCAL fabric using a model 10XX 7-port fibre channel hub and muxes.
• Installed, configured and provisioned the first Ross Clayton's Data Center's Fibre-Channel CLARiiON FC5000 and FC5700 in FC-AL environment.
• Install and configured two 2 additional CLARiiON FC4500 and FC4700 as part of data storage capacity expansion / Migrated data off old Symmetrix 3930,/5700 to newer storage devices using UNIX Solaris, RedHat, HP-UX LVM tools