SUMMARY

• Senior IT professional with more than TEN years of Design, Analysis, Automation and Operational experiences on multiple Petabyte SAN storage environments.
• A highly motivated, result oriented team player with excellent design and problem - solving abilities, capable of objective analysis and skilled at making quick decisions based on wisdom, experience, and judgment. Demonstrated success in architecting, implementing and maintaining software and systems management solutions for clients, delivers on time. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills exhibited when dealing with clients, CIRT calls and executive management.
• Over TEN years of Experience in Design, Implementation, automations and Maintenance of Multiple SAN storage hardware Including EMC Symmetrix VMAX AF, powermax, PURE storage, VMAX2/3, IBM SVC, V9000, CISCO MDS switches and DCNM.
• Developed multiple self-service portal and APIs for daily storage operational tasks - capacity analysis, reports, Cisco Fabric alerting, Host Performance Analysis and SRDF/snapvx status reporting.
• Created Multiple APIs related to SAN storage reporting, snapvx and SRDF operations using Python/nginx/uwsgi and flask.
• Experienced in Script bug fixing, enhancements and other tasks schedulers/crontab.
• Strong knowledge on data replication activities as EMC SRDF ASYNC and Snapvx setups.
• Experienced in Arrays migration and decommission activities.
• Performed storage administration functions including storage allocation/reclaims, zonings. utilization reporting, performance analysis, monitoring/Load balancing, break fix trend analysis and capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge in CISCO MDS Switch VSAN, Port channels, port configurations, ISL and VSAN topology.
• Experienced in End to End CORE switch, SAN TOR switch design and migrations.
• Good knowledge on ITIL standards and Agile.
• Experienced in Support activities include On-call rotation and SAN Alerts handling, vendor management., Disaster recovery.
• Design and Installed the new EMC SAN arrays to the staging/Production environment.
• Experienced on Open replicator migrations, ASM migrations to migrate the data off the old array to new arrays.
• Technical writing of Engineering standards, process and procedures - SOWs.
• Experience in Vendor’s coordination on Firmware upgradations and Hardware issues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written, including the ability to Communicate with non-technical customers and to understand their business priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays/Software: Symmetrix VMAX20k&40K, VMAX250F,950F, powermax, PURE, Symmetrix Unisphere, SYMCLI, Violin cli, IBM SVC Management console, CISCO DCNM & Device Manager, IBM Spectrum control suite.

Automation SW/Tools: Python3.6, Pycharm, RESTAPI, nginx, flask, uwsgi, postman, ansible, bitbucket, GIT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Storage Design and Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automated the daily operational jobs and reports.
• Automated the EMC SAN storage add to the existing SAN attached servers using OOPs, python and Flask-restful/uwsgi/nginx.
• Executes and provides feedback for operational policies, procedure, processes and standards.
• Designed, installed new EMC SAN storage arrays and supports until the decomm.
• Provides subject matter expertise in cross-functional strategic and tactical efforts.
• Provides subject matter expertise and leadership in triage for escalated production incidents.
• Partners with key vendor providers to escalate and troubleshoot severity issues.
• Assist in developing engineering and operational service metrics with actionable plans to improve operational efficiency, enhance service quality/SLA, and optimize delivery.
• Propose, design, and implement enhancements and additions to current environment.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support on rotating schedule.
• Lead the development and execution of scripts focusing on the enhancement and efficiency of day-to-day tasks executed by the platform operations team.
• Collaborate with team members to provide feedback on the enhancement of operation.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAN Storage Admin - IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• LUN provisioning using SYM CLI and Unisphere and for VPLEX host.
• Proficient in FA ports migration for the live ESX/Windows host.
• Configuration of storage group, initiator group, port group and masking view group.
• Implementation of Time Finder (Mirror & Clone) for local replication which includes creating groups and adding devices into groups and establishing link between the devices.
• Configuring Meta Volumes as per customer requirement.
• Establishment of BCV’s to Production volumes.
• Performing mirror operations using EMC Time finder Application.
• Knowledge on remote replication technique SRDF in Synchronous and Asynchronous modes.
• Actively involved in performing day to day operational tasks like storage provisioning and monitoring the health of SAN.
• Troubleshooting on Storage level issues like Performance degradation and LUN invisibility issues.

Confidential

San Storage Engineer - Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and performed online Microcode upgrades, Registered & Special Build Loads on Symmetrix DMX & VMAX Boxes.
• Experience in zoning and Troubleshooting of ports, hardware failure and performance related issues on cisco switches with collaboration with vendors.
• Worked extensively in troubleshooting of EMC SYMMETRIX hardware and Configuration in V-Max and DMX.
• Exposure to the Local replications like BCV and clone and Migrations using Open replicator.
• Loading a New Bin file (Configuration)(SRDF Changes, Add Drives &Volumes, Global & Director Flag Changes, etc) on Symmetrix DMX & VMAX Boxes.