SUMMARY

• A dedicated Professional with high moral ethics, strong team player, able to work independently and produce results in a timely manner, has strong interpersonal, communication and problem - solving skills with over ten years’ experience in Storage and Backup engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in Storage/backup engineering, NetApp, EMC, IBM XIV, System X and the pSeries, HP, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM) & System Administration in heterogeneous environment which includes System Integration, installation of Peripherals, configuration and troubleshooting of different storage arrays and backup services across multiple OS.
• Knowledgeable in deployment, administration and troubleshooting of Storage and backup services, i.e. NetApp, EMC, IBM XIV, System X and the pSeries, Tivoli Storage Manager (Spectrum Protect) on Linux, AIX, and windows environments.
• Solid knowledge on installation, configuration and maintenance of TSM, NetBackup and Avamar on AIX and windows servers.
• Storage Array zoning and configuration on Cisco, Brocade, etc.
• Good knowledge about IBM 3570, 3582, 3583, 3584, SUN SL8500, Spectra and Quantum libraries.
• Participated in Disaster Recovery tests.
• Provided 24/7 on call (onsite and remote).
• Experience in the installation of ESX servers, vShpere clients and Vcenter Server, creation of datastores
• Configuration and maintenance of Virtual Tape Servers (VTS)
• DR/replication and support for disk, tape, and virtual/physical servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Minneapolis

Storage/Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and maintenance of multiple storage arrays i.e. EMC Vmax, vBlock, vPlex, NetApp, and IBM products.
• Configuration and maintenance of Cisco and Brocade SAN Switches
• Administration and configuration of multiple VMware ESXI Hosts under high availability cluster environment
• Implementation of power-path and nfnic drivers software patches and updates on several Hosts servers
• Design plans as well as lead initiatives for optimization and restructuring of data center operations.
• Maintenance of up-to-date knowledge and administration of firmware upgrades
• Troubleshoot hardware drivers related issues and worked with vendors to effect replacement of failed disk
• Administering IT solutions to ensure that servers, hard drivers and data center equipment function efficiently.

Confidential

Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained NAS and SAN environment on NetApp, Hitachi, and EMC Vmax.
• Provisioned share drives and LUN on Hitachi VSP G1K, and NetApp,
• Configuration of Replication process using universal replication on Hitachi VSP G1000
• Configuration and maintenance of NetBackup on Windows and UNIX Servers.
• 24x7 on-call support rotation for emergency storage issues, failed equipment, etc.
• Upgraded of NetBackup Servers v7.7.3
• Upgraded of NetApp 7mode to CDOT code
• Data migration using DataDobi and robocopy, zoning, Storage array configuration changes, creation of volumes, shares, resizing and increasing volume/share quotas.
• Maintenance of storage libraries on Solaris Storage Teck
• Participates in disaster recovery planning, testing and of the Storage environment.
• Configuration and maintenance of Brocade Switch

Confidential, New Haven, CT

Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN) on IBM XIV and pSeries, NetApp and EMC vMax
• Provision of IBM DASD disk array in Enterprise storage environment
• Deployed vms, created datastores and use of clones, snapshots, and templates in Vcenter environment.
• Configured and maintained Virtual Tape Servers (VTS)
• Supported 24x7 on-call rotation, emergency storage issues, failed equipment, etc.
• Maintained Multiple Backup services and ensured successful completion of daily backup jobs.
• Installation and maintenance of NetApp Oncommad Insight, governance and change management.
• Upgraded of NetApp CDOT environment
• Performed Data migration using DataDobi and robocopy, zoning, Storage array configuration changes, creation of volumes, shares, resizing and increasing volume/share quotas.
• Maintained storage libraries i.e. IBM 3584, Spectra T950, and Quantum
• Weekly update to management on Storage performance and new road maps.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing and of the Storage environment.
• Documentation of standards, processes & procedures to be adhered by the team.
• Provided extensive support and training for the Storage and Operation Team.
• Worked on Brocade and Cisco Switches configurations.

Confidential - Pennsylvania

Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of TSM Servers, clients on multiple OS.
• Storage Array zoning and configuration for EMC Vmax, Isilon, NetApp
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing and maintenance for the enterprise NetBackup, CommVault and TSM environment.
• Monitored and maintained components of TSM, including databases, logs, tape libraries, and backups.
• Defined and managed storage pools in line with standards.
• Defined and managed retention policies, management classes and copy groups.
• Administration of TSM, and NetApp storage environment(s) ensuring overall system performance and stability.
• Enhance DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.
• Maintenance storage libraries including IBM 3584, SpectraT950, and Quantum libraries.

Confidential

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained of IBM TSM on Windows, AIX and Linux Servers.
• Provision of IBM DASD disk array in Enterprise storage environment
• Deployed vms, created datastores and use of clones, snapshots, and templates in Vcenter environment.
• 24x7 on-call support for problems, emergency storage issues, failed equipment, etc.
• Maintained storage libraries including IBM 3584, 3570, 3582, and 3583
• Configuring TSM TDP such as Tivoli Data Protection for SQL, Lotus Domino, MS Exchange and Oracle.
• Weekly update to management on Storage performance and any new road maps.
• Enhance DR environment by providing additional solutions to address any short falls.
• Maintained on-off site tape rotations and tape inventory for Disaster Recovery.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, testing and maintenance for the enterprise storage environment.
• Maintained proper documentation for standards, processes & procedures to be adhered to by the team.
• Worked with other Storage Administrators for Installation of Hitachi Device Manager and Hitachi Tuning Manager software’s on each data centers
• Performed all required server patches and upgraded.