SUMMMARY:

• 8+ years of Strong experience in Storage (SAN/NAS/Converged Storages) and Backup Analysis, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, Maintenance and Administration.
• Experience in implementing, administering and maintaining NetApp FAS 8000, 6200/6000, FAS3200/3000 & FAS2000 series.
• SME - Dell Compellent SC8k Series, SC220’s.
• SME- NetApp Backup Appliances (AltaVault, SteelStore).
• Extensive and in depth Knowledge on CommVault, Veeam, Cohesity backup solutions.
• Extensive and in depth Knowledge on Brocade Fabrics.
• Experience in EMC, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Pure and Nimble storages.
• Experience in EMCVMAX administration, migration, and replication.
• Experience in Designing and Implementing HP Storage arrays, XP, EVA a MSA & 3PAR.
• Data Center migration support for USP.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS.
• Experience on Digital command Language(DCL) scripting.
• Conducted data analytics for all SAN and NAS platforms.
• Implemented remote replications using True Copy, Remote Copy, virtual copy, Snapmirror, SRDF and Hitachi Universal replicator.
• Suggested improvements for NetApp storage systems for data availability.
• Participated in understanding of implementation and productivity.
• Good experience in Performance and capacity management.
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade Switch Zoning Changes.
• Implemented Primary & DR environment by Storage & Backup Technologies.
• System administration experience on Windows, UNIX, HPUX or Sun Solaris, and VM ware.
• Managed Data center Consist of HP Blade, EMC, HDS & NetApp Storage, Symantec, IBM Storage and Backup technologies, Brocade and Cisco Devices.
• Hands on experience on Cisco MDS multilayer switches.
• Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
• DataCenter Transformation, DataCenter Green field project implementation, Consolidation, DataCenter Migration and Cloud Implementations.
• Build and administer Linux, Solaris and AIX environments.
• Good experience in ITIL Process and 24x7 support environments.
• Extensively experienced with the performance tuning and planning for consolidation of storage.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new Technologies.
• Storage hardware (HDSSAN disk arrays, HDS HNAS) andSAN switches (CISCO, Brocade).
• Configuring and troubleshooting Fabric environment constituting Brocade, Mc Data and Cisco switches.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Storage/Backup/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include but not limited to
• Capacity Planning for the Confidential to satisfy its Storage Needs.
• Dell Compellent SC8000, SC220 Series Deployment, Administration, Troubleshooting and maintenance.
• SCOS upgrades on multiple Dell Compellent Storage Controllers.
• Upgrade of Dell Enterprise Manager to Dell Storage Manager
• DSM upgrades to the latest version 2016R3.
• Controller Card Replacements for Compellent Controllers.
• Deployed New Disk Shelves for the existing controllers.
• Disk Installs for the existing Enclosures.
• Disk replacements in the events of disk failures.
• Helped in Configuration and administration of VSphere 5.5, ESXi hosts and VMs.
• Created LUNs, META LUNs, Storage Groups, and RAID groups and recovering data using the SAN replays if necessary.
• Administered VMware ESXi Servers on HP C7000/Cisco UCS Blade Server Environment.
• Created and used Active Directory groups to assign desktops to end users.
• Worked on Group policy management to restrict users to have limited access on their desktops.
• Maintained Microsoft Active Directory 2012 R2 and Group Policies
• Created thin provisioned VMs as per client application requirements and expanding Hard Disk sizes as requested.
• Vast experience in setting up DNS, DHCP servers on Windows Environments.
• Experience working with monitoring tools like Solrwinds Server and Application monitor(SAM).
• Created templates for users, application servers for faster VM deployments.
• Hands on experience in updating /upgrading ESX servers, V center servers and windows.
• Created templates for users, application servers for faster VM deployments.
• Brocade Switche’s Administration and maintenance.
• Zoning Configurations on Brocade switches.
• Daily health checks of the Brocade Switches.
• AWS S3, Glacier administration.
• Prepared SOW’s for different projects handled for different agencies in the Confidential .
• Deployed NetApp SteelStore Physical Backup Appliance.
• Replacing Faulty Hardware ( Disks, I/O modules etc. )
• Deploying NetApp Virtual SteelStore Backup Appliance.
• Deployed NetApp Alta Vault AVA400 Backup Appliance.
• Firmware upgrade to latest version 4.2.2P2 on AVA400 Backup Appliance.
• NetApp SteelStore Decommissioning.
• Installation and configuration of Drobo B810i.
• Installation and configuration of Drobo B1200i.
• Hardware replacements for Drobo in cases of failures.
• Firmware Upgrades to 1.3.5 on Drobo B810 and B1200 Models.
• Cohesity 3 node cluster Installation, Configuration and administration.
• Backup of Several critical virtual Servers Using cohesity software.
• Backup using Cohesity Agent for servers that have RDM’s attached and also for physical servers.
• Microsoft Exchange Databases level and mailbox level backup using DPM.
• Extensive and In depth knowledge of Veeam backup and replication software
• Conducted POC for Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam One for the Confidential
• Veeam Backup & Replication v9 Installation, Configuration and Administration.
• Backup and recovery of over 1000VM’s distributed over different agencies in the Confidential using Veeam Backup and Replication.
• Veeam one 9 installation, Configuration and Administration.
• Upgrade from Veeam B&R 9 to 9.5.
• In depth Knowledge on the recently launched Veeam Agent for Windows and Linux
• In depth knowledge and hands on experience on maintaining CommVault v10,v11 SP9
• Conducted POC for CommVault Data Protection Software.
• Installed, Configured and deployed Comm Serv and media agent for protecting the city’s on premise exchange, SQL and SharePoint environment.
• In depth knowledge of Commvault backup software.
• In depth knowledge on P->V conversions using commVault Virtualize me/ 1 touch recovery.
• Extensive and In depth knowledge on Exchange, SQL and SP IDA’s.
• Hands on experience on Exchange Management Console administration.
• Maintained and administered BMC foot prints ticketing tool for Mayors office of information technology.
• In depth knowledge of Exchange DB backup and granular mail box recovery using CommVault.
• Manually patched over 50 critical revenue generating servers for the Confidential during WannaCry Ransomware attack.
• AD Full/ Incremental/Differential backups using CommVault.
• Attended Nutanix 3 day workshop and .NEXT conference In Washington DC

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Storage Admin.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include Monitoring, coordinating and fixing the Global Storage Admins channel where 4 teams globally provide storage support, 24*7 to the customers.
• L2, L3 support for NetApp SAN/NAS filers.
• Resolving issues that can possibly cause an outage to the production environment.
• Setting up alerts on DFM (data fabric manager) for notifications on capacity and critical events.
• Responsible for updating the Line manager about capacity issues.
• Fixing snaplags and snapvault lags and making sure that data is replicated to the backup and DR arrays.
• Installing new Arrays and cables.
• Rack and stack the hardware
• Storage provisioning on both VNX and Celerra by creating file systems, quotas; NFS exports; Configured CIFS server and created CIFS shares for Windows and Linux servers.
• Storage provisioning on Extreme IO storage arrays.
• Product support and implementation for EMC cloud products like ViPR, ViPR SRM monitoring and reporting.
• EMC storage Admin, VNX solutions specialist version 8.0(EMCSA)
• Replication of data using True Copy, Remote Copy, virtual copy, Snapmirror, SRDF and Hitachi Universal replicator.
• Responsible for working with NetApp and respective teams which involved in DC migration.
• Responsible for coordinating with storage vendor CE’s in DIMM and disk replacements.
• Responsible for all post checks after any Activities in the DC.
• Disk shelf additions and upgrades.
• Triggering ASUP on the nodes for finding if there are any issues.
• SAN Fibre Channel switching for Cisco MDS9000 series multilayer switches.
• Worked on ONTAP upgrades from 8.1.4 to 8.2.4.
• Configuring storage- created volumes, Qtrees, CIFS shares and NFS exports.
• Migrating the volumes to different aggregates if the aggregates are filled up.
• Thin and thick provisioning.
• Working after business hours on specific tasks and changes when there is a down time required.
• Decommissioned 15 old NetApp filers.
• Designing and Implementing HP Storage arrays, XP, EVA a MSA & 3PAR
• Creating CIFS shares, creating NFS exports and modifying the existing paths.
• Coordinating with change management and working off hours for changes.
• NETAPP filers FAS 6250 and FAS 6080 Installation and support
• Day to day monitoring, maintaining and troubleshooting of NAS/SAN production environment.
• On call support during critical situations.
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
• Responsible for doing daily health checks throughout the environment.
• Preparing Health check reports on a daily basis for reference.
• Preparing run book for the NAS/SAN environment.
• SAN administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC symmetrix, VMAX/DMX4 and VPLEX.
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• IBM DS 8800 series Arrays installation, troubleshooting and support
• Configured NAS backups using NDMP Local method.
• Configure and Schedule DR backups and Perform quarterly DR exercise for Netbackup
• Configure VMware image level backups both in Netbackup and Commvault.
• Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and Administration of CommVault Simpana environment which includes CommServe, MediaAgent and iDAs (Simpana 9.0 / 10.0)
• Isilon to Isilon Migrations and from Celerra to Isilon, Celerra to VMX and VNX
• Migrations from Celerra to Isilon, Celerra to VNX, and Isilon to Isilon
• IBM XIV to EMC VMAX
• Helped design, rack, wire, and implement FlexPodinstallations (Cisco UCS/Nexus + NetApp)
• Implementation of CiscoFlexPod(VMWare vSphere 5.5, NetApp Storage and Cisco UCS Servers), replacing our IBM Blade Farm.

Confidential, CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Employ exceptional management and technical skills in administering 6 PB of storage covering NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, HP, EMC and IBM storage arrays across Data Centers.
• Analyze and manage Storage Area Network using Brocade and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
• Parallel DR Test Activities.
• Responsible for overall command and control of storage and backup related projects and production issues.
• Responsible for administration of storage hardware and implementation of new equipment.
• Responsible for coordination of upgrades to equipment. Perform steady state storage administration.
• Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Fabric environment constituting Brocade, Mc Data and Cisco switches.
• Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
• Daily administration and maintenance on Celerra integrated and gateway models and VNX (file & block) level arrays.
• Experience on Access Control List, QoS and CoS.
• Deployed DirectNFS on NFS volumes to improve and optimize Oracle database performance.
• Storage provisioning on both VNX and Celerra by creating file systems, quotas; NFS exports; Configured CIFS server and created CIFS shares for Windows and Linux servers.
• Storage provisioning on Extreme IO storage arrays.
• Involved in the migration of NS40 to NS700 and NS80 to VNX Series: data mover pre-migration checks, creating Virtual data mover and data mover failovers
• Configured anonymous File Sharing on Isilon to connect clients to the cluster via SMB/NFS for Windows and UNIX operating environment using Smart Connect.
• NETAPP filers FAS 3070, 6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• SAN Fibre Channel switching for Cisco MDS9000 series multilayer switches
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
• IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
• Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
• TSM Policy domain, policy set management class and copy groups and configured Fiber Channel Switches such as Brocade and Mediate in the environment
• DRM using Tivoli Storage Manager.

Confidential, CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and manage 2200 port Storage Area Network using Brocade, Cisco, and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
• Parallel DR Test Activities.
• NETAPP filers FAS 3070, 6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
• Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
• Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
• IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
• Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
• Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
• Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
• Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
• Symmetrix Storage provisioning: Create the Meta luns from the available hypers, Map the LUNs to FA ports, Check for available address list in the FA ports and Mask the LUNs to the host.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting of multifarious computer equipment; RAID, JBOD, SAS2, SATA3, SFP+ and 10G Base-T NIC.
• day-to-day responsibilities include managing, maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting various issues related to High availability SAN and NAS environment.
• Physical installation, Configuration and maintenance of Cisco/Brocade SAN Switches with fiber cabling from EMC Frames through the various servers connected to SAN.
• NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
• Data center Migration support for NetApp, IBM attached hosts.
• Administer and configure a virtual storage environment that utilizes IBM SVC with more than 200 hosts using approximately 500 TB of storage on highly redundant SVC clusters
• Remote configuration and maintenance of EMC McData SAN Switches including Domain configuration, zoning etc.
• RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.

Confidential, IN

Storage Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NET APPS filers FAS 6080, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 270 Installation and support
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
• Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
• Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
• Data migration from DMX3000 to DMX-3 and data migration from CX600 to DMX-3
• Executing prep work for host analysis and working with support matrix
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• Cisco 9506 / 9513 Director installation and configuration
• SAN administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC symmetrix, VMAX/DMX4 and VPLEX.
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager, Brocade zoning, storage allocation
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Manage an EMC SAN/NAS environment with Mirror View implemented for replication between two distribution centers as well as an IBM DS4300 SAN, HP EVA 6000, and EMC/Dell AX150 JBOD’s
• Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support.
• NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
• NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• IBM Shark and IBM FastT (DS4500) Installation and support.
• Flash Copy, Snapshot and SnapMirror Installation and support
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
• Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups.
• 24/7 Support and On-call Support.
• RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.