CAREER PROFILE

• EMC Certified Proven Professional Storage Administrator
• HP Post-Sale Certified: System and Network Administration
• HP Star Certified: System Administration
• HP Certified HP OpenView Integration Expert Application Management
• HP Certified HP OpenView Consultant: OmniBack II, NNM, ITO, PV/MWA
• HP Certified High Availability Consultant: MC/ServiceGuard
• SUN Workgroup Certified Consultant: Solaris System Administration
• SUN Enterprise Certified Consultant: Solaris System Administration 2.7, 8
• SUN Competency 2000 Certified
• IBM Certified Professional: AIX System Administration
• CheckPoint Certified System Administrator CCSA
• Certified Training in HP, EMC, NetApp, SUN, Veritas, Oracle, CheckPoint

SKILL SET

• Storage Platform: EMC Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON, Celera, Centera NetApp FAS6280, FAS3270, Data ONTAP 8.x 7-Mode Hitachi 7700E, 9900, IBM DS4000, HP EVA 4000/5000/8000, HP XP 10000/12000 Hitachi USP
• SAN Switch: Cisco MDS, McData, Brocade
• Backup: Data Protector, Veritas NetBackup, Legato NetWorker CDL, STK and Quantum, Data Domain, NetApp VTL
• Storage Management: ECC Control Center, SAN Manager, Performance Manager, StorageScope, Navisphere, SYMCLI, PowerPath.
• System Administration: 12 years system administration 12 years HP-UX, 4 years Solaris, 4 years Linux, 4 years AIX, 4 years Windows
• System Management: Multiple implementation of HP OpenView OVO/NNM, CiscoWorks 2000, Concord NetHealth
• Disaster Recovery: SRDF, TimeFinder, SNAP/Clone, SAN Copy, OpenMigrator
• High Availability: MC/ServiceGuard, Red Hat Linux Cluster Suite 4
• Open Source: Redhat, Qmail, Apache, Ubuntu

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

Confidential

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage OCC's storage environment which consists of 3 VMAX, 1 VNX5500, 1 CLARiiON CX4-80, 2 Centera, 8 NetApp Filers in three data centers with VMware virtualized Windows and Linux/Solaris environment.
• Conduct monthly DR recovery practice per OCC and industry regulation with EMC's SRDF/Star NetApp NAS filers.
• Manage the NetBakup backup environment and daily system administrations.
• Extensive SRDF and clone maintenance and activities.
• Storage allocation for EMC's VMAX, VNX, CX and NetApp Data ONTAP

Confidential

Sr. SAN Engineer/Team Lead via IBM

Responsibilities:

• Manage CNA's storage environment managed by IBM Global Service which consists of 3 V-MAX, 3 DMX, 6 CLARiiON, 3 Celerra and 2 Centera and multiple data centers and field sites 8 Cisco MDS 9513 switches and 40 Cisco 9216 Blade Switches.
• Serve as the team lead, account focal and SME for all storage related operations.
• Manage and participate in all aspects of hands-on day to day storage operations, management, problem solving, and storage migrations, in a large enterprise environment consists of over 2000 servers running Mainframe, AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Windows, VMware, with over 1.7 PB storage.
• Manage a team of 4-person later 10-people team of SAN engineers. Train and move work to India team members and Columbia team members to move day-to-day work to those sites.
• Lead from IBM side to work with customer CNA and vendor EMC for SAN Refresh projects to retire 3 DMX and 3 CLARiiON and migrate to 3 new VMAX and upgrade Cisco switches migrate NAS and manage host data migrations.
• Retired RecoverPoint SANtap and went back to SRDF technology for DR.
• Manage 20-30 special projects for CNA from storage perspectives produce reports and capacity planning and reporting, and various reports required by IBM and CNA.

Confidential

System Architect

Responsibilities:

• With two other engineers, manage Wrigley's global Unix and storage engineering and operation.
• Manage all areas of Unix system administration HP-UX , backup and recovery Openview Data Protector , scheduling BMC Control-M and implemented system management HP Insight Manager and Blade-based C7000 enclosure.

Confidential

Sr. SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained timely delivery in team spirit, willing to share the knowledge and help others
• Worked well with various teams to resolve issues and meet deadlines.
• Involved in the Data Center Move project and consolidated 12 Symmetrix frames 9930, DMX2000 to 3 DMX, 4 CX3-80 CLARiiON frames, migrated over 3000 McData ports to 6 Cisco MDS 9513 switches, two Celera NAS NS40 and NSX , two Centera
• Performed day to day storage provisioning for Unix AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Redhat and Windows servers, from Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, Centera, over McData and Cisco fabrics
• Maintained the ECC 5.2 environment and later ECC 6.0 operations.
• Involved in Data Center Move project and assisted in multiple migration efforts
• Deployed the SNAP, Clone, SRDF/A technology for data protection and replication
• Allocated over 100 TB storage and reclaimed over 50TB storage.
• Support Netbackup 4.5 MP4 operation and trouble-shooting and later the new Legato NetWorker 7.3 environment.

Confidential

System Engineering Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Implemented OpenView Performance Manager and developed intelligent rules to quickly detect performance bottleneck
• Audited OpenView Operation environment and performed gap analysis.
• Consolidated Data Protector backup policies to streamline operation.

Confidential

Unix/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supported HP Integrity Superdome server and other HP-UX servers which host the ASP system for over 2000 users. Perform system administration duties in all areas.
• Migrated HP DataProtector to NetBackup 6.0.
• Migrated production database from V2600 to Superdome.
• Managed over 80 TB storage in an EMC Symmetrix 8830, 8530, DMX3000, CX700, FC4700, CDL virtual tape library, Celerra NAS, Cisco 9509, 9216, McData EDM64 switch environment, maintained and resolved all issues and created procedures to improve working process and reduce administration overhead.
• Provided storage using ECC ControlCenter 5.2, Zoning, LUN Masking DR replication with SRDF, TimeFinder.
• Maintained DR site using SRDF, Timefinder, PowerPath, and solved ongoing problems.
• Performance tuning and trouble-shooting related to OS, Database and Storage systems.
• Managed backup and recovery of a mixed Unix and Windows system of over 250 servers. Designed and implemented enterprise backup system using HP OpenView Data Protector OmniBack in a multi-celled MoM environment.
• Migrated Symmetrix 8830/8530 to DMX-3 successfully with record speed and minimal interruption to production, over 30 TB data moved.
• Deployed EMC virtual tape library CDL 720, along with StorageTek L700 tape library.
• Deployed Cisco MDX switches into the SAN environment.

Confidential

SAN Engineer/System Administrator/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed over 40 Brocade 12000, 3900, 3800, 2800 switches with multiple EMC DMX 800, DMX2000, Symmetrix 8830, Hitachi 7700E, 9960, HP XP256. Managed over 60 terabytes of data in both shared and dedicated hosting environment. Use EMC Widesky to assign build and assign disks, lun masking, Brocade zoning for host to storage security, and host level configuration for HBA.
• Migrated data from 8830 to DMX2000 for 60 Sun servers for CCC.
• Duplicated SAP instance through EMC SYMCLI for REXAM.
• Built a SAN lab with 6 Brocade Switches and Hitachi 7700E
• Provided storage provision on a day to day basis using ECC, SYMCLI, Lun masking, zoning, along with HBA installation and configuration, etc.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed design, capacity planning, purchasing, installation and deployment of 4 new HP Unix servers, EMC Symmetrix, Brocade Switch, HP SureStore tape library and deployed a SAN to migrated Oracle Financial/Manufacturing system onto the new platform. Performed zoning for Brocade, integrated OmniBack II in the SAN environment.
• On a day-to-day basis, managed 4 - 6 HP-UX servers running Oracle Financial, Manufacturing, and Express Server managed 16 NT/2000 Servers running Lotus Notes, IP Phone, Websense, ADP, EDI, FedEx, Shipping supported 120 desktops and 2 remote sites, 2 Cisco routers and PIX firewall.