SUMMARY

• I have about 8 years of experience in Storage Administration and have undertaken several roles that included Planning, Designing and architecting storage solutions on SAN and NAS technologies.
• I have been able to gain expertise in several heterogeneous environments including IBM, NetApp, EMC etc. through hands on data center experience.
• My objective is to secure a dynamic position as Storage Engineer where my technical and analytical skills will be utilized to the utmost level and provides enough scope to explore my knowledge to serve the organization to the best of my ability and skills.
• Innovative professional with proven ability, mitigating risk, analyze and solve problems.
• Organized, take - charge professional with exceptional follow through abilities and detail-orientation, able to plan and overseas projects from conception to successful conclusions.
• Outstanding communication skills; interfaces effectively with upper management, clients, staff, peers & users.
• Extensive industry knowledge; keen technical assessment aptitude; client focused approach that fosters trust and allegiance; highly trustworthy, ethical and discreet.
• Participated in various required mandatory trainings ( Incident Management Training, Problem Management Training, Change Management Training).
• Experience on IBM DS8000 series, IBM XIV and Storwize on provisioning and configuring storage to Windows hosts and clusters.
• Expertise inNetApp FAS models (viz.,FAS 3000 & 6000 series) with experience in storage planning, data management and disaster recovery.
• Proficiency in NetApp proprietary products (viz., DATA Ontap, SnapMirror, SnapShots, SnapVault, Deduplication, Flexclone and Flexvols).
• Expertise on EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX and VNX storage arrays administration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Configuring new drives in VNX5400 and IBM DS8000 storage for business requirements. Adding new hosts and Storage Groups for end-to end storage visibility.
• Experience in Host and Array based replication technologies by EMC such as SRDF and VPLEX.
• Proficiency in handling various types of protocols like CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC etc.,
• Hands on experience in various complex Migration projects across storage platforms performing Host Based Migrations, and setting up Tape Libraries, Host connectivity etc.
• Strong experience with management tools includes SYMCLI, and CLARiiON Navisphere.
• Extensive Backup Management experience on EMC Networker, Avamar Backup Agent and Veritas Netbackup suits.
• Expertise with the installation and maintenance of Backup software (Networker) for UNIX, Windows. Linux systems.
• Experience in Problem, Incident and Change management processes for storage and backup across platforms.
• Experience in Knowledge management and runbook creation for storage hardware infrastructure to hand over to support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database Systems: Ms SQL, Oracle, good understanding of RDBMS concepts.

Operating Systems: WindowsXP, Vista, NT, HP- UX, AIX and Solaris

ITSM Tools: Remedy, HP Service Manager.

Other management: PuTTY, WinSCP, Citrix, XManager Recovery

Languages: C/C++,Visual Basic, Perl & PL/SQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Clearwater

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and Monitoring of IBM DS 8000(DS8870 & DS8700) and XIV storage boxes.
• Expanding pools and Volumes based on day-to-day business requirements.
• Configured Zones for new IBM-I Series deployment which also included cabling the box to IBM DS8870 and Brocade Switches.
• Creating new volumes on the pools for business expansion requirements.
• Maintenance and Configuring Replication of copysets through Tivoli Productivity Center - Replication.
• Expanding new drives on DR site by suspending and reinitializing replication.
• Managing datastores in Vcenter and v-motioning VMs for better space utilization.
• Configured and Allocated storage on VNX5400 through Unisphere.
• Expanding data stores and maintaining space thresholds across them.
• Maintained EMC Data Domains which carried backup data below maximum threshold and worked on deleting recyclable savesets in order to reclaim space.
• Troubleshooting and Reinitiating Networker failed backup job on the host/clusters and resolve them.
• Performed Host-based Restore through Networker User on to desired locations.
• Configured and monitored VM backups through VBA on to the Networker.
• Extensively Worked on Avamar Backup and Restore. Monitored and reinitialized backup jobs as per the requirement.
• Restore from Avamar to Networker backed up client by taking care of the requisites.
• Performed Tape Backups for Legal Data requirements from Networker to IBM TS3310 Library.
• Worked with different teams to get an action plan based on production environment.
• Worked with EMC and IBM support teams for resolving hardware and software issues in the environment.
• Performing daily health checks for Storage Boxes, Switches and Routers in the environments.
• Prepared various documents listing the steps and procedures for various activities in the storage environment.
• Performing Robocopy on request for Windows based systems.

Environment: IBM DS8000, IBM XIV, EMC VNX 5400 Unishphere, EMC Networker 8.2.2, Avamar Backup Agent, IBM Tape Library TS3310, EMC Data Domain, Brocade Switches, ServicePRO.

Confidential, Tampa

Storage/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and Monitoring of NetApp FAS 6240/6140 and FAS 3070/3170 series filers.
• Proficiency in maintaining and Configuring Aggregates, volume, snapshots, FlexVols and FlexClones, Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp.
• Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment.
• Managing Snap Mirror and Snap Vault backup in Netapp.
• Responsible for OS upgrades, Snapmirror configuration, volume provisioning, Site to Site replication and enablement of automation for Disaster Recovery.
• Worked with the clients in creating the customized backup schedules using Veritas Netbackup specific to the clients data protection needs by implementing Snapshot and SnapRestore.
• Configured different types of RAID Groups.
• Performed various duties which included supporting the Enterprise storage arrays, storage provisioning, and maintenance and diagnosis.
• Supported the storage which included SYMMETRIX DMX, VMAX and VNX.
• Implement thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers using SYMCLI.
• Prioritize and maintain adherence to strict change management guidelines in conducting storage configurations.
• Implementation of industry best practice storage solution in line with business requirement. This includes engagement with customer to gather requirements like existing architecture and future vision strategy.
• Create/update/maintain all storage related documentation and diagrams of the storage hardware infrastructure. This includes operational run books, detailed server/switch/LUN topology.
• Establish productive and efficient business relationship with all vendors for support and procurement.
• Giving valuable suggestions and solutions for various ongoing tasks.

Environment: Netapp FAS 3000/6000 series, VMAX 40k/20k/10k, VNX 5200, Netbackup, Snapmirror, SnapRestore, Snapvault, SymCLI, Unisphere and HP Service Manager.

Confidential, Tampa

Storage/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured/implemented the new VMAX in the environment and migrated the data from DMX to VMAX.
• Created DG, Pairs, added R1-R2 and establish relationships with SRDF.
• Configured and managed the SRDF sessions for DR and migration
• Responsible for monitoring and resolving issues like zoning/masking/storage allocation, HBA failures, and performance issues.
• Performing regular health checks of Symmetrix arrays in the environment.
• Creation of Meta LUNs or allocating additional LUNs for additional storage depending upon the host’s request created and decommissioning unused storage to improve resources availability, based on Thin Provisioning.
• Managed and configured Fiber Channel Switches such as Brocade in the environment
• Configured and Allocated storage from the VNX 5200 as per the requirement.
• Configuring and managing snapshots on a daily basis on Netapp boxes.
• Change requests management for Backup requirements and proactive reduction of redundancies.
• Monitor, Reinitiate and Trouble shoot on backup failure jobs using EMC Networker.
• Reporting and analyzing Daily /Monthly backup success rates.
• Configuring different RAID groups and LUN allocations to storage groups using Navisphere Manager as specific to business needs.
• One time implementation project included:
• Migrating NFS data from standalone servers to NetApp Filers.
• Implementation and Deployment of Complete Redundant Solution through cluster Storage Using Netapp Filers
• Creation, disks addition and decommissioning aggregate using Data Ontap.
• Creating volumes, quotas and space allocation for different file systems.
• Preparing work instructions (WI) and various project documentations for support team.

Environment: Netapp FAS 3000/6000 series, EMC DMX 3, VMAX, VNX 5200, EMC Networker 8.2, Navisphere Manager, Symcli, TimeFinder, SRDF, Brocade Switches.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Symmetrix, ClaRiion and Celerra systems, monitoring regular updates and reporting vulnerability if any.
• Maintenance and management of the Datacenter Storage environment (Symmetrix DMX-3, Brocade Switches and Routers).
• Coordination with EMC to resolve hardware failures in case any.
• Mapping, masking the devices to the FA ports on Symmetrix.
• Sync-Split for BCVs for RDF1/2 devices.
• Performing Networker Upgrade on Backup Clients.
• Extensive backup management through Networker Legato.
• Responsible for recovery of requested data through XManager.
• Supervision of STAR SRDF configuration across sites.
• Implemented SRDF/A for production systems including creation of dynamic RDF groups, creation of dynamic RDF pairs, enabling SRDF/A for the group of devices.
• Performed SRDF Failover /Failback /Update.
• Responsible for external audits of Backup DR drills with onsite vendors.
• Supervision of Tape loads and tagging in HP Tape Library.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX 3, Celerra, Clariion cx3-40, EMC Networker 8.2, XManager, Navisphere Manager, SRDF, Brocade Switches.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Netapp Storage Administration for Confidential through Netapp CLI (DATA ONTAP 7.3), Operations Manager/DFM.
• Performing Robocopy and ndmpcopy on request for Windows based systems.
• Maintaining and managing Snapvaults and Snapmirror for Tier 1 storage environment.
• Creation and maintenance of Volume, LUN and Aggregates, perform health monitoring of the systems in terms of threshold limits and analysis of trends.
• Handling L2 and L3 Incidents, Change Requests and Work Orders related to storage and backup.
• Perform Restore on critical Virtual Machines, Exchange systems and storage log systems on request.
• Creating DFS Namespace and links between several systems clusters to enable file sharing on organization level while maintaining server anonymity.
• Performing Volume Migration between Aggregates/Filers and Volume Close-off cases.
• Provisioning Thin Flexclones LUNs and Flexvols on NetApp systems through NetApp VSC.
• Maintenance of Netbackup VTL systems. Monitoring of daily backups and confirming the batch job run status.

Environment: Netapp FAS 3000 series, Snapmirror, SnapRestore, Snapvault, Flexclone, Remedy and Veritas Netbackup.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience on live projects of C++ and JAVA core.
• Creation and maintenance of scripts on UNIX using PERL.
• Maintenance and updation of Database using Oracle.
• Basics of Storage Management involving Snapvaults and Snapmirror for Tier 1 storage environment.
• Understanding of Restore Management through cifs shares.
• Handling L1 and L2 Incidents through Remedy.
• Understanding of Change Requests and Work Orders.