SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of IT experience in designing, implementing & supporting block & file level storage solutions on UNIX, Windows and vSphere (ESXi) Operating systems.
• Protected databases, file systems and NAS shares with industry standard backup solutions, snapshots & replication technology.
• Implemented Storage using Virtual Provisioning, Compression, Data De - Duplication and Cloud computing to achieve higher storage utilization, lower capital investment and operating costs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Devices: Confidential Confidential, DMX, VMax, VNX, VBlock, Confidential, Hitachi VSP/G1000, IBM SVC, DS8x00, Confidential, Brocade DCX, Cisco SAN-OS/NX-OS and Data Domain VTL.

Bigdata: Hadoop Pivotal, Python/Django, Apache/Php, Postgres SQL, Tableu and Splunk.

Storage Resource Management Software: SMI-S, Confidential ViPR, Prosphere, Unisphere with Performance Module, IBM TPC and Brocade DCFM, Confidential Performance Analyzer/Unified Manager, Hitachi device manager.

Server Hardware: IBM p Series, RS/6000, Oracle Cloud, HP servers and Blade Center.

Databases & Languages: Oracle RAC, Grid, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, C/C++, Java, Perl and shell scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement solutions
• Mentoring on storage technologies and management tools to junior engineers.
• Analyze performance of IT Operations using Bigdata: Hadoop Pivotal/Cloudera, Python, Postgres SQL, Tableu and Splunk.
• Developed ETL Jobs in Python to extract data from storage management consoles and load to BigData Hadoop using Pivotal HAWQ, RabbitMQ, Talond, RestAPI and Cloudera Impala to Operational Analytics.
• Consolidate Inventory, Capacity and correlate with Confidential, Confidential 7-mode/cDot and HDS storage system performance to gain advanced insight into complex application issues.
• Provision storage to iSeries, AIX, vSphere, Windows, and Linux hosts.
• Monitor and Tune ESXi and Storage systems for performance and capacity.
• Migrated data using various tools: Confidential Confidential, SnapMirror and Host based utilities.
• Write Perl and Power-shell scripts to Migrate data and simplify management of environment.
• Generate capacity and performance Reporting and setup alerts as per Business SLAs.
• Upgrade firmware on Cisco MDS Switches, VNX, VMAX and IBM XIV.
• Mentoring Junior Storage Administrators on Confidential Technologies.

Confidential

Lead Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and mentored team of 3(Two storage and One backup) engineers.
• Reviewed s and created employee development plan for team members.
• Worked on Cloud Technologies (Amazon EC2), AIX, Windows, Linux & ESXi SAN space allocation, reporting and trending.
• Implemented data domain VTL with Confidential Networker and IBM TSM.
• Configured Confidential VMAX, DMX, Confidential, Celerra, DS8300 and IBM SVC.
• Implemented Confidential Replication Manager for Exchange 2007 and resolved product problems.
• Migrated 150 hosts from DMX to VMAX using Confidential Open Replicator and Migrator.
• Configured IBM XIV and SONAS systems and categorized & migrated data to Storage Tier 1/2/3.
• Validated Confidential FAS/IBM N, Netbackup 7.1, Puredisk, Confidential Ionix ECC and IBM TPC solutions.
• Resolved performance issues with PeopleSoft/Oracle 11G and EPIC/Clarity DB.

Confidential, NY/NJ

Sr. Storage Engineer, Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Designed complex storage solutions & implemented at various Confidential customers.
• Worked on MS Project/Visio to deliver storage projects & ITIL practice to streamline IT processes.
• Supervised team of 2-4 engineers at various customers involved in storage admin tasks.
• Managed Confidential, Celerra, Centera, Confidential, CDL, SAN Directors (Cisco & Brocade/McData)
• Wrote Korn scripts to provision & reclaim LUNs on DMX, Confidential & Confidential storage.
• Performed Split & synchronization operations on Composite groups (CGs) for Confidential & RDF devices.
• Completed successful Disaster Recovery test on Confidential /A & Mirror view devices using DWDM technology.
• Installed & Configured Confidential Confidential Control Facility (ResourcePak Base, EMCSCF) on z/OS. Wrote JCL scripts.
• Provided technical product support including response to userquestions, installation, system monitoring, testing,problemdiagnosis, tracking, resolution, & routine maintenance.
• Communicated status to the appropriate support groups & management on high profile problems & issues.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implement & troubleshoot Confidential Storage systems in distributed environment with more than 4 PB of data primarily on Confidential Confidential / Confidential & Confidential clusters within Confidential, Confidential & Confidential locations.
• Managed Confidential Data ONTAP/snap mirror & operations manager.
• Provisioned fabric ports/zone sets on Confidential Connetrix Manager, CISCO device manager, fabric manager & IVR.
• Maintained Confidential filers by upgrading Data ONTAP, firmware on motherboard, shelf & disks.
• Provisioned Storage using ECC and Solutions Enabler to MS Exchange, MS SQL, and Oracle applications on Solaris 8/10, Red hat Linux & VMware ESX Servers.
• Developed shell scripts to provision storage, split & synchronization operations on Confidential / Confidential devices.
• Migrated UNIX systems from Confidential to DMX using LVM Mirroring & Open Replicator/SAN Copy.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed AIX 5.3/6.1 on p595, p570 & p550 systems using NIM in LPAR, DLPAR & HACMP environment.
• Tuned AIX and GPFS for Oracle RAC configuration.
• Architected & Implemented TSM Server Storage Pools for 3,750 TSM clients in multi-site environment.
• Configuration of TSM Environment to support Confidential Filers. Troubleshoot NDMP issues.
• Worked on MS Project to deliver storage solutions for new implementations & upgrades to existing infrastructure.
• Conducted for system administrators on TSM server/client Functions & configuration.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Management of Confidential Confidential, Confidential, Confidential /S, Confidential Confidential, Confidential Confidential & ESN Manager.
• Configured Confidential filer Shares/Qtrees to support 500+ users.
• Designed IBM Shark 8100/800/2105 flash copy DR solution for IBM Red Brick Warehouse
• Replacing failed disks in VSD/GPFS & HACMP environment.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage software development team of 4 people on UNIX & IBM i OS/400 platform.
• Developed API to access application repository stored in RDBMS using C/C++ language on UNIX systems.