Summary of work experience:

• Dedicated, result-oriented Storage Tower Administration and Project Management with 9 years of progressive real-world experience and leadership.
• Highly effective IT Technologist with strong Customer Service and Project Management experience relating to the implementation of Storage and Server technologies that meets the customer's requirements.
• Extensive Knowledge of NAS and SAN Storage, including managing major migrations and deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting solutions.
• Assigned to important US accounts such as Mattel Inc, Intel Corp and Northwestern Mutual and Indian accounts like ITC Limited, Ericsson India Limited, BSNL and Reliance.
• Worked extensively on organizing, manage, expand and optimize multiple client Storage and Server environment allowing them to reduce cost and complexity in their environment.
• Manage all aspects of projects, including project plans, scheduling, and task management from the planning and design stages to the documentation, training, and transition stages.
• Technical skills include Netapp Storage Technologies, EMC Storage Technologies, VMware, Sun Servers and Storages, VeritasVxVM and Filesystem, Veritas Cluster, Solaris and Solaris Volume Manager, Sun Cluster, Hitachi AMS storages, Brocade SAN Switches etc.

Storage and Server Technologies:

• Netapp Storage: FAS 6200 Series, FAS 3200 Series, FAS6000 Series, FAS 3000 Series, FAS 900 Series and FAS 270c. Worked on Data Ontap7.2.x , 7.3.x, 8.1.x, 8.2.x 7-mode and Clustered Data Ontap.

• EMC Storage:VPlex,VMAX 20K, VMAX10K, VNX 5100, VNX 5300,Clariion CX 300, CX 500, CX 700, CX 3-20, CX 3-40, CX 3-80, RecoverPoint, SAN Copy and EMC Control Center.

• Veritas: Veritas Storage Foundation 4.x, 5.x
• VMware : ESXi and vSphere
• Sun Storage: SUN Storage T3/T4 disk array, SUN Storage 3310, 3510, 3520, 6140, 6540.
• Sun Servers: SUN Fire 15000 / 12000, SUN Ultra Enterprise 10000, SUN Fire 6800/4800/3800/2900/1280, SUN Fire V220, V240, V440, V480, V490, V880, V890. 280R, 220R, Sun X4100, Sun T2000, T5120.
• Brocade Switches: Brocade DCX and Silkworm SAN Switches.

Customer and Projects:

Confidential

Role: Manager Storage Tower

Brief Description:

• Managing and leading an 8 member team responsible for administration, up gradation, migration, configuration and performance monitoring of Netapp Storage Technologies, EMC Storage Technologies, Hitachi AMS storages, F5 devices and Brocade SAN Switches.
• Responsible for incident management, problem management, change management, Knowledge management, capacity and configuration management.
• Point of escalation in troubleshooting the complex technical issues in analyzing the root cause of storage issues and providing solutions.
• Maintaining contact with customers on a daily basis ensuring high level of customer satisfaction.
• Constructive mentor and manager with a consultative posture and a successful track record of building and developing a strong team as well as fostering vibrant work environment.
• Project Management of project teams composed of internal and 3rd party engineers to design, plan and implement new storage technologies, Hardware Refresh and SAN Migration and fix difficult SAN issues.
• These projects typically ran from four weeks to multiple months and required project management skills to keep the participant's level of effort high and on track.
• Efforts include close coordination with the client for minimizing application impact and downtime.

Major Projects:

1. Confidential

Planning and execution of the project which involves the migration of EMC, Netapp, Hitachi, F5 and Brocade Storage Devices across 6 different Data Centers in USA. As part of this project, 3 EMC Symmetrix DMX array, 7 EMC Calriion Array, 4 Hitachi AMS Arrays, a Netapp HA Pair V6240 and 32 old SAN Switches were migrated and decommissioned.

Confidential

Planning and execution of the project which involves configuration of ESI Management Pack for SCOM for EMC arrays and OCPM Management Pack for SCOM for Netapp arrays to manage Storage Arrays in Mattel environment for sending alerts through mails and auto-ticketing through remedy. Creation of a Storage Dash-board.

1. Confidential

Project Manager for the Scripts Project. As part of phase one of the project, Shell Scripts was created to automate reporting from EMC and Netapp Arrays and Brocade SAN Switches. As part of phase two of the project, repetitive tasks are identified for automation.

1. Confidential

Part of the project which involved migration of the Tier 2 applications from VMax/Netapp to VNX/VPlex.

Confidential

Role: Project Lead for EMC Control Center Project

Brief Description:

• Installation and configuration of EMC software: EMC Control Center for Asia, Europe and US region.
• Discovered all Storage Arrays, ESX Servers, VMware, Physical Servers and Switches under ECC .
• Up gradation of ECC to bundle 11
• Maintenance and daily report generation using ECC Storage Scope

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Brief Description:

• Provide daily administration and support. Responsible for incident management, problem management, change management, Knowledge management, capacity and configuration management.
• Working on installation, up gradation, migration, configuration and performance monitoring of Netapp Storages
• Working on day today storage requests and project management.
• Managing file access on NetApp systems for NFS and CIFS protocols.
• Managing the iSCSI and FCP protocols for NetApp SAN environments.
• Working extensively on Netapp FAS 6000 series, FAS 3000 Series, FAS 900 Series.
• Configure, perform and maintain Netapp active/active cluster configuration.
• Create Aggregates, volumes and QTrees and work on aggregate and volume space management And QTrees quota Management

• Perform capacity planning, workload modelling, and prediction.
• Configure and perform Snapshot and Snaprestore management.
• Configure and perform Snapmirror and snapvault management using DFM and DPM tool.
• Configure and perform data de-duplication on filers in VMware environment.
• Configure and manage NetappVfilers in production environment.
• Troubleshoot warning and alerts and maintain Netapp filers using DFM and DPM Operations Manager tool.
• Involved in configuration and management of Netapp network management.
• Work on Data Ontap up gradation, motherboard and other firmware up gradation when required.
• On daily basis review logs to identify any failures or issues in the storage boxes
• Work on both Windows and Unix hosts Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.