SUMMARY;

• EMC Certified Professional with Over 11 years of strong IT experience in the areas of systems deployment, configuring and troubleshooting with extensive expertise on EMC Storage in Windows,VMware,Linux, Solaris, IBM environments.
• Experience in Datacenter Migrations and managed all alone (SPOC/SPOF) Entire Petco Storage Infrastructure comprising of around 2PB.
• Practical expertise in SAN deployment, and management of EMC Connectrix switches, McData, CISCO and Brocade Directors.
• Experience with deploying and configuring EMC ViPR to Manage all the EMC and HP 3PAR storage arrays.
• Symmetrix Migrations from DMX to VMAX,Vmax to Vmax 3, XIO.
• Coordinating with Offshore and responsible for Maintaining, configuring and Supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which has above 70 ESXi 5.0 Hosts which are in Production and Non - Production environments connected to San storage with 600 Vm’s running Windows & Linux and over 2000+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Experience in administering, maintaining, implementing NetApp Storage Systems FAS8000 series, FAS2240,FAS6040, FAS3070, FAS3040, FAS3020, FAS270, FAS980 and R200
• Played a Major role in designing the Datacenter in Dallas to migrate the Physical and Virtual machines from San Diego Datacenter
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1 to vSphere ESXi 5.0 without Downtime.
• Deployment of Recoverpoint, Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitters.
• Experienced in Installing and Configuring Recoverpoint and setting up Replication between sites.
• End-to-end Storage provisioning expertise with Clariion CX300/500/700 and CX3,CX4,VNX5700,VNX5300,VNX 5800,VNX8000 Symmetrix 8830 and DMX 1000/2000/3000 and DMX3, DMX4 and V-Max 20/40, Vmax 3,XtremIO,ISILONsystems.
• Experience in EMC Celerra NAS NS350, NS704 Arrays, EMC Centera and VNX File.
• Experience in IBM DS6000,DS8000
• Administration experience in storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment
• Experience in Migrations from Clariion to Clariion /Symmetrix, DMX to V-Max.
• Experienced in EMC SAN configuration with SRDF/S/Semi/A/ Adaptive copy, TimeFinder BCV/Clone, EMC Snap, SAN COPY, Snapview, Mirror view, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, ECC, EMC Powerpath, Storage Scope.
• Extensive experience with Solutions Enabler (Symcli).
• Experienced in HA design implementation, Disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Experienced in interacting with Client solutions, IT operations and management of teams, clients and vendors.
• Very adapting at utilizing resources and integrating EMC best practices and leading edge technologies while being aware of business requirements.
• Experienced with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies and the accompanying enterprise class software solutions
• Strong understanding of HP Helion and Openstack cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with TSM/NetBackup
• AWS backups on Commvault Simpana.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Arrays: EMC V - Max 20/40, ISILON, XtremIO, Clariion CX 300/500/700, CX3-10, CX3-20, CX 3-40, CX 3-80, CX4- 120, CX4-240, CX4-480, CX4-960, VNX 5700,5800, VNX 5300Symmetrix 8830, DMX 1000/2000/3000 , DMX3, DMX4, V-MAX, EMC Celerra, NS40g, NS 80G, NX4,501, NS350.IBM DS6000, DS6800, DS8000.EMC Centera. NetApp FAS8000 series, FAS6000 series, FAS3070, FAS3040, FAS3020, FAS980, FAS270 and, Hitachi USP-V.

Storage Software: EMC ViPR, Prosphere 1.7, Unisphere for V-MAX, ECC 6.1 UB14, Navisphere Manager, EMC Powerpath, Fabric Manager, SMC, Solution enabler, Recoverpoint, Open Replicator, SRDF/A, SRDF/S, TimeFinder, Snapview, SanCopy, Powerpath migration enabler, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Connectrix Manager, HBA anywhere, Sansurfer,VNX, VNX-Monitoring and Reporting, Unisphere for Recoverpoint, Connectrix manager converged network edition 12.03, Ontap 8.2.1

San Switches / Directors: Brocade DCX4S, 8510,B6520 B5300, B7600AP, McData ED-140M/64M, DS-32M/16M, Brocade ED-24000B/ED-12000B, 48K, Cisco MDS-9509/9513

HBAs: Emulex LP 9002, 10000, LP11000/2, LPe11000/2, Qlogic.

Operating systems:  Solaris 9/8, Windows 2k/2003, Windows2008/2012. HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

S/w Application: VERITAS Foundation Suite

Backup:  EMC Networker, IBM Tivoli 5.5, Commvault Simpana 10, Data Domain.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Washington DC

 Administrator

Environment:VNX1and2Series,XtremIo,Vmax40,VMAX3,Isilon,3PAR7400,Lefthand4530,NetappFAS8000,BrocadeDCX8510,Recoverpoint,VmwareSRM,vRPA,Mirrorview,ReplicationManger,DataDomain,Avmar,Networker,Commvalut Simpana.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Storage environments across multiple sites across South America and Europe.
• Day to day storage allocation on V-MAX, XtremIO, Vmax, VNX, Isilon, Netapp, HP3Par and Lefthand systems.
• Performance monitoring and troubleshooting using tools like VNX M&R, Unisphere VMax SPA.
• Planning and Migrating application to AWS cloud.
• Working on backups to cloud using Commvault Simpana.
• Storage Capacity Planning and forecasting.
• Coordinating with the teams for quarterly Disaster Recovery Tests.
• Managing Recoverpoint replication and Integration with VMware SRM.
• Mirror view and SanCopy replications and automating using Replication Manager.
• Storage provisioning and adding nodes on Isilon.
• Storage provisioning, migration on Netapp both Clustered and 7-Mode.
• Managing CIFS/NFS shares, Replicating on VNX File.
• Troubleshooting mixed mode permissions on Isilon.
• Migrating from VNX to 3par using HP Storage serve online import tool.
• Manage Networker, Data Domain and Integrate with vRanger.
• Manage AWS backups on commvault Simpana.
• Configuring CommCell data agents.
• Troubleshoot WAN bandwidth issues and assist network team on Riverbed wan optimizer.
• Configuring AO on 3PAR and Lefthand systems.
• Configured Peer Motion and Peer persistence on Lefthand and 3par arrays.
• Brocade DCX switch firmware upgrades, setup notifications and configuring alerting.
• Assist Backup team in troubleshooting Networker, Data domain, Avmar systems, configuring NDMP from VNX and Isilon.

Confidential, NY

 Lead /Consultant

Environment: XtremIO, VNX8000, VPLEX, Recoverpoint, HP 3Par 7400, Brocade 6520, Data Domain DD4500.

Responsibilities:

• Deployed 6 Brick XtremIO, Configured, upgraded from version 3.0 to 4.0.1
• Deployed VPLEX, configured and upgraded from 5.2 to 5.4
• Deployed VNX8000 and configured.
• Deployed Brocade 6520.
• Deployed Reoverpoint.
• Host Remediation of the hosts under HP 3par and HP servers.
• Encapsulation of 3PAR hosts and Migration to XtremIO using VPLEX.
• Setup Recoverpoint Replication between sites for DR.

Confidential

Consultant.

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX 20,DMX-4,DMX-3,VNX 5800,VNX 5600, Clariion CX-480,NS480,EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB12,SMC 7.3,SPA,Recoverpoint,SRM,FAST/VP,HP-UX,EMC Networker 8.0HP 3PAR 7450, HP Storage:3PAR,lefthand 4500, HP Helion - Openstack..

Responsibilities:

• Day to day storage allocation on V-MAX, extreme IO, Dmx, VNX, Clariion, Celerra, Isilon and HP3PAR.
• Migration production hosts from DMX to V-max.
• Understanding of HP Helion Cloud solution.
• Strong understanding of Openstack CEPH, Cinder, Neutron.
• Migration of file shares from old Celerra to VNX files, Isilon Arrays.
• Manage DR using Recoverpoint and VPlex .
• Enguinity upgrade on VMAX to the Latest code.
• VNX flare code upgrades.
• Deployed and configured ViPR SRM and ViPR Controller.
• Provisioning of storage to CDCR and HP clients, chargeback using ViPR .
• Use Ionix control center, VNX reporting tool for capacity planning, generating reports and alerts.
• Re-architected DMX array to fix the performance issues.
• Assist backup team in networker upgrade to the latest version.
• Setup and configure brocade 6000B 16 gig san fabric.
• Setup and configure HP 3par 7450 all flash array.
• Assist with Wintel and UNIX team in server builds.
• Adhere to the SLA requirements of the Client.
• Follow emc best practices in storage planning, deployment.
• Coordinating with EMC sales representatives on available upgrades/enhancements from EMC.
• Upgrade the recover point to the latest version 4.0.3

Confidential,San Diego, CA

 Administrator

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX 20,XtremeIO DMX-4,VNX 5700,VNX 5500, Clariion CX-480,CX3-80,NS480,Netapp Fas, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8,Brocade DCX,Brocade b5300,McData 140-M,Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitter, Connectrix Manager DCE10.4.5, SMC 7.3,SPA,VPLEX,Recoverpoint,SRM,Zerto,FAST and FAST/VP,IBM-AIX,EMC Networker 8.0,DataDomain dd860,prosphere 1.6,Unisphere for V-Max,Unisphere for V-Max 20.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day storage allocation on V-MAX, Dmx, VNX, Clariion, Celerra, Netapp.
• Performance Monitoring of all the VNX using VNX monitoring and reporting tool.
• upgraded recover point from 3.2 to 3.5 and currently to 4.0
• Dmx to Cx 480 Migration of 2.4 TB using Powerpath Migration Enabler Host copy.
• Recoverpoint setup on both the sites and configured Replication.
• Setup and configure SRM for VMware replication.
• Installed and configured Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitters on the both the sites.
• Upgraded firmware on Brocade switches and fabric splitters to Version 7.0.1a
• Migration of Core applications using Recoverpoint.
• Switch Migration from DCX to B5300.
• Backup’s maintenance using Networker and Data Domain.
• Performance tuning on Dmx,
• Installed and Configured Connectrix Manager Datacenter Edition 10.4.5.
• Nas upgrade on NS704
• RPA upgrade to 3.3 sp2 from 3.2
• New Rpa deployment for datacenter migration.
• upgrade firmware to 3.4
• Deployed DCX-4S.
• Upgrade firmware and sas versions on DCX and Brocade 7600ap.
• setup domain id on switches
• Install and configure Connectrix manager datacenter edition.
• Deploy Brocade fabric splitter, setup and configure blade processor.
• Configure the fabric splitters.
• Run fiber, setup and configure V-Max.
• setup gatekeeper devs, Install solutions enabler
• Install and configure SMC.
• Installed and configured Watch4net(SRM 3.0) for reporting.
• Upgraded to ViPR SRM
• Performance monitoring using SPA. (Add luns to a group and monitor its performance.)
• Deploy Ionix control center 6.1 ub4 and update to update bundle 14.
• Install oracle security patches.
• Migration using Recoverpoint replication from San Diego to Dallas and cutover.
• Thin provisioning and FastVP policy setup on V-Max 20.
• Followed EMC best practices in storage provisioning-complete balance of performance across all the FA's.
• Full provisioning for VMWARE as we faced performance issues.
• Flare upgrade on cx3-80 to install clarion splitter.
• upgrade ns480 to the latest code.
• Migrate hosts from NS480 to VMAX Using Recoverpoint.
• Migrate hosts form DMX-3 to V-Max using Recoverpoint.
• NS480 power down and moved to Dallas.
• Power on NS480 in Dallas and configure the Ip address.
• sp port layout for ns480.
• Netapp FAS2240 Deployment configuration.
• upgraded ONTAP TO 8.1 RC3.- rc3 is the fix for random reboots of the filer. Bug 537666 is fixed
• Upgraded enguinity microcode to 5876 on V-Max.
• Upgraded SMC to Unisphere for VMAX.
• Coordinating with Offshore and responsible for Maintaining, configuring and Supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which has above 70 ESXi 5.0 Hosts which are in Production and Non-Production environments connected to San storage with 600 Vm’s running Windows & Linux and over 2000+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Played a Major role in designing the Datacenter in Dallas to migrate the Physical and Virtual machines from San Diego Datacenter.
• Configured Confidential Power edge M710HD blade serves / HP ProLiant DL 360/380 with ESX 4.0/4.1/5.0, where the redundancy is maintained all over the chassis by grouping blades form different chassis in to one cluster.
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1 to vSphere ESXi 5.0 without Downtime
• Upgraded Recoverpoint to 3.5 to support VMAX Splitter.
• deployed and configured EMC PROSPHERE 1.7
• Deployed V-Max Splitter.
• Configure ESRS.
• Configure V-Max Acl for Recoverpoint.
• Configured VNX file and block based storage.
• Migration of VMware esx hosts using Recoverpoint.

Confidential,Oak Brook, IL

Storage Administrator

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, Clariion CX4-960, CX3-80, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8,, Cisco95xx series, Fabric Manager, SMC 7.3,SPA, Recover point,FAST1 and FAST/VP,HP-UX.

Responsibilities:

• Storage provisioning on Symmetrix V-Max, Dmx-4 and Clariion Arrays.
• Thin provisioning on V-max.
• Hyper to meta conversion of tdev’s on V-max 5875.
• Consistency group setup and maintenance on V-max.
• Daily sync/split operations using Symclone.
• Storage provisioning on windows, HP-UX and IBM-Aix hosts.
• Recoverpoint setup and Maintenance for Clariion arrays.
• Symcli and SMC upgrade to 7.3.
• Storage provisioning using symcli and symmetrix management console.
• Configuring alerts on ECC and SMC.
• Performance monitoring and reporting using SPA and EMC performance manager.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels
• Support backup team on commvault backups.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Symmetrix 8830,DMX 3,DMX 4,Clariion CX-4-120,Hitachi USP-V,CX 3-80,CX-3-40C, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8, Emc Celerra NS 40G, NS120,NS 960, NX4,CDL 4400,Cisco 9500,Fabric Manager, SMC, Recover point. Commvault Simpana 8,EDL,CDL,VTL,Data Domain. IBM Aix 5.3

Responsibilities:

• ECC Ionix control center upgrade to UB 8.
• Symmetrix Bcv disaster recovery testing.
• Storage provisioning on IBM Aix servers.
• Storage scope reporting with crystal reports.
• Storage provisioning on Hitachi USP-V.
• Hitachi Global Link Manager, Tuning Manager,
• Hitachi replication using Replication Manager and Universal Replicator.
• Celerra lease replacement and migration of older Celerra to NS120.
• Clariion Flare code upgrades.
• Celerra Replication.
• Day to day Storage provisioning tasks on Clarion and Celerra and DMX.
• Resolving Latency issues using reports from Emc Performance manager.
• Managing commvault Simpana backup system..
• Day to day Backup scheduling and Restoring Backup’s using commvault.
• Worked with EDL, VTL and Data domain on backups.

Confidential,CA

Storage Administrator

Environnent: V-MAX, Celerra NS-G2, Brocade, Data Domain 690, SMC 7.1

Responsibilities:

• Implement Celerra NS-G2 in to production.
• Install DART OS on Celerra.
• Setup Celerra NS-G2 Gateway.
• Configure Celerra network setup.
• Configure Celerra for V-Max storage.
• Configure Celerra CIFS Server and shares.
• Configure snapsure checkpoints.
• Configure 3-way Ndmp backup for data domain 690 .
• Provision storage on Celerra and V-Max.

Confidential,OH

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Clariion CX-4-120,Hitachi USP-V,CX 3-80,CX-300,CX-500,CX-700, DMX 3,DMX 1000,2000,3000,DMX 4,V-MAX,EMC Control Center 6.1 ub5, Emc Celerra NS 40G, 702G,NS480,NS 960, NX4,CDL 4400, Brocade 48k,McData and Cisco. Connectrix manager,SMC.Replication manager, Recover point,Powerpath Migration Enabler host copy.

Responsibilities.

• Provision storage that includes Array selections, Fiber connections, Zoning, LUN presentation from Clariion, Celerra and Symmetrix arrays to Windows, AIX, Linux, HP-UX hosts.
• Performed Migrations of DMX-3 to V-MAX using Open Replicator.
• Performed migrations from CX-CX and CX-DMX 3 and DMX 4 using SanCopy.
• Performed migrations for Dmx 3 to Dmx 4 using open replicator.
• Celerra to DMX 4 migrations.
• Storage allocations from Hitachi USP-V
• Experience with Hitachi Command Suite.
• Performed upgrading Solutions enable and SMC to 7.1.
• Symclone setup and activations of weekly database backups of production and test databases.
• Creating scripts (command/Perl) for cloning activities.
• Performed host based migration using powerpath migration enabler.
• DR Setup between regions, DR testing.
• Performed windows 2008 server migration using open migrator.
• Performance monitoring on Symmetrix DMX using Symmetrix performance analyzer(SPA).
• Worked on Recover point for DR setup and testing.
• Used replication manager with recover point for CX-CX
• Administering EMC Clariion CX and CX3 series, DMX 3000/DMX3 in Cisco based fabric environments.
• Performed EMC Time Finder BCV Establish and Split operations on production data.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, VVM, VCS and VXFS.
• Installed and Configured HBA driver, Firmware and EMC Powerpath.
• Performed migrations on Celerra using Robocopy,emcopy.
• Worked on Centera node setup, maintenance, archiving and backups.
• Clustering setup on windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Upgraded EOL Powerpath on Hosts to the latest version.
• Responsible for upgrade of the ECC infrastructure to the latest version of the software (ECC 6.1 ub5) and configured storage scope for Reporting .
• Emc license management and Documentation.
• Day to Day storage Provisioning on DMX using Symcli.
• Configured and Monitored ECC alerts and performed ECC zone cleanup from old arrays.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels.
• Coordinate installation and maintenance of all SAN cabling, host bus adapters (HBAs), and associated drivers and link management software.
• Manage storage pools, volumes, LUNs, LUN mappings and security.
• Performed problem determination, resolution, and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms

Confidential, Providence, RI

Storage Administrator

Environnent : EMC Clariion CX500, 700, CX 3-40, 3-80, DMX 3000, DMX3, DMX4, EMC Control Center 6.0,

Powerpath 4.5.1, VCS, VXVM, HBA Anyware, LP11000/2, LPe11000/2, IBM DS8000.

Responsibilities

• Design, Implement and administer enterprise SAN environments which include EMC Clariion and Symmetrix storage arrays, multi-vendor switches, software, Tape Library, scaling over 1PB of storage capacity for storage provisioning, load balancing, high availability, replication and disaster recovery.
• Provision storage that includes Array selections, Fiber connections, Zoning, LUN presentation from Clariion and Symmetrix arrays to Windows hosts with SQL databases, Linux hosts with Oracle ASM, VMware environments. HBA configuration, software installations and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for assisting in new Datacenter built and Migration of existing EMC SAN environment using Open Replicator, SRDF/A for Symmetrix and SAN COPY for Clariion to DMX migration.
• Administering EMC Clariion CX and CX3 series, DMX 3000/DMX3 in Cisco based fabric environments.
• Performed EMC TimeFinder BCV Establish and Split on production data.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, VVM, VCS and VXFS.
• Installed and Configured HBA driver, Firmware and EMC Powerpath.
• Responsible for upgrade of the ECC infrastructure to the latest version of the software (ECC 6.0) and configured storage scope for Reporting .
• Configured and Monitored ECC alerts and performed ECC zone cleanup from old arrays.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• hands-on experience with Hitachi storage systems (VSP, HUSVM).
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels.
• Coordinate installation and maintenance of all SAN cabling, host bus adapters (HBAs), and associated drivers and link management software.
• Centera archiving and node health checkup.
• Manage storage pools, volumes, LUNs, LUN mappings and security.
• Performed problem determination, resolution, and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms.

Confidential,  

Systems Administrator

Environment: Windows 2000,Windows NT,Novell, Compaq Servers. Exchange server 3.Cisco 1700 series switches, Cisco Pix, Checkpoint.

• Manage all aspect of Active Directory Administration, DNS/DHCP Administration, Back-up administration utilizing appropriate procedures, and software and hardware configuration.
• Created and managed the weekend on-call list and escalation contact list for local and remote offices.
• Assisted application developers in trouble shooting and problem solving network application errors; provided level II help desk support with Novell and Windows Active Directory.
• Oversaw and managed software development lab.
• Configured Cisco routers and switches for software development lab.
• Installed and configured Citrix Metaframe XP presentation server.
• Provided desktop support to software/application developers .
• Administration of Windows NT, Novell NetWare.
• Administration of EXCHANGE Server, IIS Server 3 & 4 version.
• Worked on all COMPAQ Servers 7000 / 3000 / 2500 /1500 etc.
• Configuring RAID5 on NT Server & Novell Servers.
• Installing & Configuring Backup Software Veritas and Arc Serve.
• Creating Backup Que. & Scheduling the Job.
• Restoring of Files & Database / Disaster Recovering.
• Ability to deal with difficult client tactfully.
• Supporting Power user calls if necessary for hardware & software problem.
• Installation of Server like, Proxy, DNS, Web Servers, Exchange server 5.5.
• Installation & troubleshooting of Lotus Notes 4.5 on Desktop & Server.
• Designing of Network Cabling and installing Repeater & Hub.
• Installing & Administrating Windows NT 4.0 Server & Workstation.
• Creating users account and assigning different Login Script.
• Creating Network printing Queue using HP JET Direct Admin Utility.
• Perform routine maintenance such as diagnostic testing and optimization.
• Provide telephone support for software and hardware to user.
• Troubleshooting & maintenance of Laptop & Notebook.
• Training end user on the new software and hardware.