SUMMARY:

• Talented and hardworking Confidential Proven Specialist with over 14 years of IT architecture and implementation, operation and troubleshooting experience.
• Extensive technical experience in advanced technical and/or business consultative services. Setting up, optimizing and troubleshooting Cloud Infrastructure, Virtual Infrastructure for SAN, NAS & heterogeneous network of customers primarily as a Solutions Architect, Implementation and Administrator specialist.
• Reputation for a team player with strong work ethic and commitment to customer service by following ITIL process & procedure.
• Taking active part in running successful Sales campaigns for new products and services thereby engaging all stake holders to close sales deal, SOW (Scope of work) creation, RFP (Request for proposal) review
• Amazon Web Services administration and operational support.
• Confidential Proven Specialist for VPLEX solution
• Confidential EHC Cloud Engineer
• Providing SAN solution to Cloud, VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, XtremIO, Isilon and Hitachi storage
• SAN Data Migration specialist with impressive track record of completing various migrations within timeline
• Brocade & Cisco switches configuration, operation & troubleshooting specialist
• VCE Converged Infrastructure Administration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Storage Array systems: Confidential Clarion, VNX7500, Celerra NS120 DMX 4 VMAX20K,40K, VPLEX, VNX, NAS, Hitachi VSP, SE9900 and SE9985V, VPLEX, XtremIO, RecoverPoint, SAN Fabric: Cisco Switches & Brocade Director switches 4100, 48K, DCX 8510, 4S, 8S.

SOFTWARE & Development: NaviSphere Manager 6.x, PowerPath, Unisphere, Mirror View, SANCopy, SnapView, Confidential Control Center, SymCLI, Confidential SRDF, Time Finder, Symmetrix Performance Analyzer, Unisphere Analyzer, Unisphere, Replicator Manager, Open Replicator, Hitachi (HDLM), VMware Virtual Center, HORCM for Hitachi storage based Replication, Hitachi Command Suite, Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade SAN Health Professional & SAN Health Diagnostics

Operating Systems, Utilities & Virtualization Tools: Windows 2008/2010/NT/XP, Solaris, VMware ESX & VSphere 6.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implementation & maintenance of Confidential SAN storage VMAX series, VNX, VPLEX, Isilon for NAS solutions.
• VCE Vblock 300/500//700 series design, planning & configuration
• VCE Vblock BOM verification, LCS document preparation & RCM version upgrade (storage only)
• Designing VMAX storage with FAST Policy, FAST VP, storage tier optimization.
• Design & implemented Data Migration strategy for storage refresh which includes VPLEX Data encapsulation, OR, SRDF, NDM, PPME & various other technologies.
• Design & implemented VSAN setup for vSphere 6.0 server farm.
• Administration of Isilon H, S and NL Series, Smart Pool creation, SMB/CIFS shares and data migration using native tools and Robocopy.
• Extensively Analyzed the VMAX3, VMAX and DMX Performance
• Modeled the New Target VMAX as per the Customer Workload, using Tier Advisor
• Worked on AWS EC2 instances, S3, Glacier, Snowball and VM migration and various other AWS services
• Worked on Confidential ViPR for storage Virtulization and Confidential ViPR SRM for various reports
• Working knowledge of Vblock, ECS & ScaleIO.
• Administration of VCE Vblock series Converged Infrastructure and Cisco UCS management
• Brocade and Cisco Fabric Management, troubleshooting and operation.

Confidential

Senior Delivery Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Architecture design and implementation of Confidential EHC Hybrid Cloud solution. EHC is hybrid cloudplatform which is implemented using converged and hyper converged infrastructure which allows organization to deliver IT as a service by automating traditional IT operating through self - service catalogue
• Enterprise Hybrid Cloud is one of thehybrid cloudplatform using converged and hyper converged infrastructure which allows organization to deliver IT as a service by automating traditional IT operating through self-service catalogue
• Implemented VMWare vRealize suite of products to provide complete automation of IT operation thereby providing service catalogue to end users
• EHC cloud can be integrated with vCloud Director as well as public cloud like AWS or VMWare vCloud thereby providing both in premise or public cloud from single catalog using vRealize Suite of products like vRealize Business, vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestration, Log Insight & vRealize Operation Manager
• Design, administration and troubleshooting of Confidential SAN & NAS storage VMAX3 series, VNX Unified, VPLEX, Virtual Recoverpoint, XtremIO storage
• Confidential ViPR 3.0 configuration and administration for software defined storage
• Report generation using Confidential ViPR SRM 3.7 for storage utilization, capacity planning & forecasting and operation.

Confidential, New Jersey

SAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Goal was to consolidate Data Center by migrating data from 25 heterogeneous storage to VMAX3 storage thereby migrating more than 500 servers to new storages by using PPME migration and various other migration technologies.
• Performed complex data migration involving data migration on cluster environment
• Performed data migration using Open Replicator, PPME tool and VPLEX local for migration.
• VMAX2 to VMAX3 data migration using SRDF and NDM (Non-Descriptive Migration)
• Worked with Bloomberg Engineering Team for daily SAN and NAS break fix issues
• Working knowledge of Bash script creation and support.
• Worked on Storage Performance issues from storage end, hands on experience checking FA utilization, read/write response times, Identify Least utilized FA pairs, high I/O latency, IOPs on FA level/Device level and I/O utilization issues

Confidential, New Jersey

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Confidential EHC Hybrid Cloud solution. EHC is hybrid cloudplatform which is implemented using converged and hyper converged infrastructure which allows organization to deliver IT as a service by automating traditional IT operating through self-service catalogue which helps users to deploy Infrastructure As Service (IaaS), Storage As Service (SaaS), Backup As Service (BaaS) .
• Confidential EHC Cloud consists of various Confidential & VMware solution including vRealize Suite of products like vRealize Business, vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestration, Log Insight & vRealize Operation Manager.
• Implementation of VMware NSX for network Virtulization.
• Confidential ViPR controller & ViPR SRM implementation for providing Storage as Service and reporting within EHC cloud framework.

Confidential, New Jersey

Hybrid Cloud Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Confidential EHC Hybrid Cloud solution 2.5. EHC is hybrid cloudplatform which is implemented using converged and hyper converged infrastructure which allows organization to deliver IT as a service by automating traditional IT operating through self-service catalogue which helps users to deploy Infrastructure As Service (IaaS) & Storage As Service (SaaS)
• Business, vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestration, Log Insight & vRealize Operation Manager.
• Implementation of VMware NSX for network Virtulization.
• Confidential ViPR controller & ViPR SRM implementation for providing Storage as Service and reporting within EHC cloud framework.

Confidential, New Jersey

SAN Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implementation & maintenance of Confidential SAN storage VMAX series, VNX, VPLEX, recover point devices & FAST policy, FAST VP, storage tier optimization
• Confidential VMAX 2 Virtual Provisioning from VMAX 40k/10k arrays to various hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to the pool, using SymCLI. VMAX frame Audits, Creating Thin pools, rebalancing Thin pools, creating Data devs, Set Thin Pool Subscription percentage and adding Gatekeeper devices
• Designed, implementation & operation of Hitachi VSP,9900 storage, VNX2 series storage, XtremIO, Recover Point which includes Configuring RPA’s into cluster, set up Consistency groups, configure replication from PROD to DR sites.
• Designed, implementation & operation of Confidential VPEX which includes configuring the storage views, creating extents, set up consistency groups, virtual volumes and initiators. Performed storage provisioning from VPLEX discovering available storage, creating extents from storage volumes, creating devices from extents, virtual volumes on the devices, register initiators, creating storage view, adding initiators, ports and volumes to storage view.
• Designed, implementation & operation of Virtual Fabric infrastructure using Brocade DCX 8510, 4S, 8S Director switches and Cisco MDS 9000 switches
• Designed, implementation & operation of Brocade MAPS, Fabric Vision policy for Alert and creating customized dashboards for monitoring entire data center
• Data Migration for 500+ servers from Hitachi storage to VMAX using VPLEX for data encapsulation & migration. Setting up Data Mobility Jobs in VPLEX for seamless data migration

Confidential, New Jersey

SAN and Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as VMAX SAN and Confidential Networker Backup Administrator
• Administration of SAN and NAS which includes Confidential Symmetrix DMX4, CX4-120, VMAX1 and NAS Celerra NS120
• Administration of Cisco MDS 9000 series and Brocade 48K fabric switches
• Reports for capacity, resource and utilization planning, Business Impact Analysis & Cost/benefit analysis
• Firmware upgrade, storage expansion, storage allocation of different storages as per client requirement.

Confidential

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage Allocation for NAS NS600 & Symmetrix/DMX arrays and Hitachi 85 storage including RAID Group creation, LUNs bindings and Implementing Volume Access Configuration using ECC Control Center and SymCLI Commands.
• VMware 3.5 ESX host administration and management
• Troubleshooting of SAN, NAS, Brocade & Cisco Fabric switches, performance and DU/DL issues
• Reports for capacity, resource and utilization planning, RCA, Business Impact Analysis and Cost/benefit analysis of downtimes

Confidential

L2 Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Providing Confidential L2 Confidential support to troubleshoot potential DU/DL situation which includes LUN un-owned, Storage Processor Faults, Backend LCC/Cable/Enclosure Issues, Loss of Server connectivity, coordinating with Confidential Sustaining Engineering Team for problem resolution
• Monitor, review and troubleshoot Storage Processor Logs and Hosts System Logs, switch logs and perform Health check of Storage System also review the performance of the array.

Confidential

Desktop and Mainframe Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting Desktop and Mainframe RUMBA support problems
• Troubleshooting network congestion of various mainframe control region

Confidential

Back office Loan processing officer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Back Office Junior Loan Processing officer thereby preparing loan documents for foreclosing Citibank loans.