SUMMARY

• Over 7 Years of IT Experience in SAN & Storage Administration of EMC & Dell Product Lines which includes Storage Administration, Technical design, Implementations and Integration.
• Experience in implementing Migration solution using VPLEX device and extent migration, Open Replicator, SAN Copy, SRDF, and Host Level migration like PPME, Open Migrator and LVM Mirroring.
• Experience in evaluating and designing SAN policies and procedures to help customers improve their existing SAN infrastructure.
• Expertise in SAN, NAS and storage based on customer performance requirement.
• Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.
• Good knowledge on EMC local replication products like Time Finder/Mirror, Time Finder/clone, and Time Finder/snap for Symmetrix arrays.
• Good knowledge on CLARiiON Replication Applications like Snap view (Snapshot & Clone), Mirror view (Synchronous and Asynchronous remote mirroring)
• Proven experience in installing and configuring Unisphere manager for VMAX, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI.
• Well versed in using GUI management tools like SMC, EMC IONIX Control Centre (ECC), unisphere & navisphere.
• Experience in design and implementation of remote replication techniques and disaster recovery solutions using SRDF/S/A/AR on VMAX arrays.
• Experience in implementing tiered SAN solutions using FAST and Virtual Provisioning on Symmetrix, VNX and CLARiiON arrays.
• Good Knowledge of virtualization (VMWare), Install, maintains, and supports VMware (ESX Servers).
• Worked with host - based software like Power Path, Grab Utility and Host qualification process.
• Experienced with Windows Active Directory design, installation and deployment of Enterprise-wide Group Policies using Active Directory components.
• Involved in scheduling tasks, assigning policies and creating domains.
• A good Team player with excellent technical and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Solutions: SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), Data centre Migrations, Storage Consolidations & Virtualization

Storage Hardware: EMC VMAX, VMAX20K, VMAX40K, VMAX3, DMX Series, SYMMETRIX, VNX, CX-4, CX-3, CX700, Emulex & Qlogic HBA.

Storage Tools: EMC Solutions Enabler (SE), Unisphere, SRM, Thin Provisioning, FASTVP, ECC, SPA,WLA, Navisphere, NaviSecCLI, Operations Manager, SANScreen, Storage Navigator, raidom, XIV XCLI.

Migration tools: Open Replicator, SanCopy, Storage vMotion, VERITAS VM, Solaris ZFS &LVM

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Sybase & Microsoft SQL

Cisco: DCNM-SAN, Device Manager, Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager.

DR & Business Continuity: SRDF (S/A/AR), TimeFinder (Mirror/Clone/Snap), Mirrorview, Truecopy, Shadowimage, Snapmirror & snapshot.

Protocol: FC, NFS, CIFS, FTP, Ethernet, TCP/IP RIP, OSPF, IRGP, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VLAN, STP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, VOIP.

OS & Multipathing: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Linux, Windows, ESX, VMWARE, OpenVMS, PowerPath & Native MPIO.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston, VA

SAN Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintain stability and availability of enterprise class SAN fabric, storage arrays, backup and archive systems, encryption and eDiscovery appliances
• Architecture, implementation, management and support of business continuance solutions with EMC Open Replicator, Recover Point, SAN Copy, SnapView, SRDF and TimeFinder in very large heterogeneous environment.
• Oversaw development and maturation of SAN technology from infancy to current service offerings.
• Responsible for managing different kinds of FAS series 6030/6240/3270/30250 in SAN/NAS environment.
• Monitoring the SAN environment with EMC Control Centre and Navisphere Manager.
• Responsible for managing VMAX3/VNX/VMAX/XtremIO arrays on daily basis using SMC/Unisphere/Symcli/NaviCLI management tools.
• Performed Mapping, Zoning and Masking for Clariion/VNX/VMAX in Cisco fabric environments.
• Created RAID groups and Storage groups, assigned LUNs to Hosts using Unisphere, ECC/SMC and Navisphere.
• Created Auto provisioning Groups using SMC and CLI following the standard procedures and operational runbooks.
• Implemented Inter Virtual San Routing (IVR) on Cisco between two VSAN for data migration.
• Created the Time Finder disk groups, establishing and splitting the Business Continuance Volume (BCVs) for different purposes.
• Data Migrations on VNX to VNX using San Copy/ host based LVM/PPME Migration depending on the requirements.
• Created snapshots in required intervals of time like hourly, nightly, weekly and monthly for maintaining the backup and recovery in case of accidental deletions and data corruptions.
• Respond to failure and alert event notifications and incident management tickets 24 x 7 to help ensure data availability.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

SAN Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Identified business/application requirements of different business units to Create, Configure and fine tune Consistency groups for replication.
• SAN Administration including creating aliases, Zones, in Brocade Switches and trouble shooting of SAN connectivity.
• Extensively Worked on SYMCLI to implement and Setup the SAN environment for disaster recovery test procedures.
• Designed and implemented DR replication and recovery architecture to meet SLA business requirements.
• Provided capacity planning, storage expansion, storage creation and presentation as well as all zoning activities on the Brocade Fibre Channel switches.
• Add switches into current production SAN fabric. Monitor and response to SAN related issues, escalate to vendors if needed.
• Responsible for managing VMAX/XtremIO arrays on daily basis using SMC/Unisphere/Symcli/NaviCLI management tools.
• Migrated data successfully from CX600/CX700 to CX4-240 using Mirror View/S and SAN Copy and CX600/CX700 to DMX-3 to DMX-4 using Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
• Use CISCO fabric manager for VSAN, Zone, creation, management and performance monitoring. Creating required Meta LUN's mapping and masking to servers as it required
• Created Storage groups, Port groups, Initiator groups and Masking views on VMAX40k
• Configured and managed EMC SRDF, SanCopy and EMC Replication Manager based DR replication infrastructure.
• Performed DMX SRDF/A replication sessions and symclone local sessions (TimeFinder/Clone).
• Successfully tested the backup with little or no outage for the SAN environment.
• Troubleshoot SAN connectivity issues, performance and capacity monitoring of SAN switches and storage arrays.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured new clients for data protection and created policy for full/incremental automated backups.
• Configured/Administered and responsible for daily basis operations of Recover Point (CDP/CRR).
• Operated Symmetrix Performance Analyser (SPA) for identifying the root causes of performance issues, monitoring to for efficient utilization of the Environment.
• Implemented array-based splitter on VMAX arrays and Recover Point Appliance to provide continuous data protection.
• Involved as SAN systems engineer for Dozens of customer accounts in switch installations and configurations (Fabric Support), Storage provisioning and capacity planning at the data center.
• Created aggregates, volumes, Qtrees and LUNS in SAN and NAS environments and provisioned storage to different teams as per the requests.
• Responsible for Planning, Installation, Configuration, Support and Maintenance of AIX and Linux based systems
• Encapsulated VMAX/VNX arrays under VPLEX and performed data migrations using VPLEX local mobility.
• Masked Recover Point cluster initiator group with the host port group and host storage group, to include production volumes, replica volumes, journal volumes, repository volumes and gatekeepers.
• Extensively worked on the Snap mirror technology and created the connection entries to use the specific interface based on the network traffic go perform the migrations.
• Installed and configured SAN with EMC Director Switches/Edge switches and zoned all Servers.
• Worked on Clarion CX3 series and allocated Storage to SP ports for mapping the LUN's.
• Worked on Snap Manager for Virtual infrastructure, did backups/restoring of VMs and also did P2P and V2V migrations using VMware VMotion technology.
• Participate in planning and implementation of storage array changes including firmware version, and storage virtualization.
• Optimizing the resource utilization through periodical trend analysis of incidents.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups and troubleshooting the failed backups.
• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.

Confidential

Storage/System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed a host script to generate a relationship between the PowerPath devices and the veritas devices.
• Generated customized capacity reports using Storage Scope, Control Centre for EMC arrays and conducted capacity meetings monthly to discuss.
• Several generic/customized Clariion reporting tools have been developed based on the environment and the requirement.
• Performed a product evaluation on VNX in the test lab for the Clariion to VNX migration project.
• Implementing Policies for client data and scheduling operations for client nodes.
• Performed dual installation on a fail-over server, provided effective and efficient solutions to production issues.
• Performing zoning on Cisco director class switches with Fabric Manager.
• Choose the appropriate RAID level for high performance and High Availability.
• Created hourly, nightly, weekly and monthly snapshots to maintain online backups to recover from accidental deletions.
• Perform daily management activities of Storage Provisioning, performance monitoring and reporting of both storage and SAN environments.
• Install and configure Power Path software on identified hosts.
• Maintained the servers' system performance, install patches and customized the application to fit business needs.
• Wrote shell scripts to automate the restarting of the application servers, archive and clean log files.
• Prepared and presented the different tiers of Storage Capacity reports for Storage Consolidation.