SUMMARY

• Around 14 years of total experience in the field of Information Technology including nine years in Storageimplementation, administration of SAN, NAS and Virtualization.
• Extensive experience in administration, configuration and troubleshooting EMC: DMX,VMAX/10K/20K/40K, VMAX3, XIO, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, ViPR,Clarion CX, VNX - File/Block, UNITY, ISILON. HDS: AMS, USP/USPV, VSP. IBM: DS8000, XiV, SVC, NetApp FAS in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Hands on experience in storage provisioning per performance requirement and administering multi-vendor operating systems which includes Windows, UNIX and Linux.
• Excellent experience with SYMCLI,NaviCli and Vplexcli.
• Experience in using HiCommand suite, Tuning Manager.
• Experience in Data Center Migration, Consolidation and migrating data from one storage platform to other.
• Strong experience with Implementing Business Continuity Solutions using TimeFinder (Mirror/Clone/Snap/Snapvp/Snapvx) and SRDF/A, SRDF/S, Cascaded.
• Strong experience inData Center Migration and Consolidation..
• Experience with NetApp FAS, configuring NFS, CIFS, Snapmirror, Snapvault on NetApp FAS.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade and CISCO MDS switches.
• Zoning and Firmware upgrades on Brocade and Cisco Switches.
• Excellent experience in Installation and configuration of EMC PowerPath on UNIX and Windows servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing.
• Good working knowledge ofInstalling and Configuring VMware ESXi 5.x, vCenter and configuring VM’s, Clones, Templates, HADRS, Fault Tolerance, and VMware Clusters, VMFS and NFS Datastores.
• Experience with VM Vmotion and Storage Vmotion.
• Good working knowledge of Cisco UCS.
• Install, configure and administer IBM TSM Server.
• Install and configure TSM BA client, TDP for MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle DB, igure TSM LanFree backups.
• Knowledge on Shell Scripting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in project team meetings and taking the business requirements like IOPS, bandwidth, throughput and disk sizing, RAID levels.
• Deploy new arrays, make initial configurations, assign Gatekeeper devs to management hosts and Perform Operation readiness checks.
• Install Solutions Enabler, Unisphere, Cisco Device Manager, DCNM
• Plan Firmware/microcode upgrade and keep environment at recommended code level.
• Experience in Provisioning Thick/Thin LUNs to hosts with wide range of OS from VNX, VMAX-2/3, UNITY, VPLEX.
• Zoning and code upgrades on Cisco MDS 9000 series switches.
• Implement SRDF/A, SRDF/S and configure DSE.
• Configure Data, Thin, DSE, Snap, Save pools.
• Extensive experience in performing host migration readiness checks, remediating and migrating from DMX-VMAX, VMAX-VMX3, VNX-UNITY and using VPLEX data mobility and across Multi vendor arrays.
• Troubleshoot performance issueson VNX, VMAX.
• Implementing FAST/FASTVP policy on VMAX.
• Create, expand and migrate Storage Pools on VNX.
• Monitor and Configure alerts on VNX, VMAX, VPLEX, UNITY.
• Experience in configuring the EMC RecoverPoint CRR sessions between the locations for disaster recovery, CDP for local replication and CLR.
• Implemented VPLEX for storage virtualization and data mobility.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers, storage arrays, directors and switches.
• Configure NFS, CIFS, Quotas/SmartQuotas on ISILON/VNX-File.
• Add new nodes to ISILON and monitor with InsightIQ.
• Configure ISILON and VNX-FILE Networking.
• Configure ISILON Data protection per client requirement.
• Configure File servers, VDMs and quotas
• Prepare storage utilization report, forecast and recommend appropriate storage procurement.
• Experience in replacing FRU, running FC/Ethernet cables over Patch panels, cable managers and updating cable/port database.

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design storage solution architecture, system integration, and implementation strategy to meet business requirement.
• Designing Storage Resilience Architecture for Data Center consolidation and migration.
• Stay abreast with new and emerging technology trends, assess and evaluate their impacts, and develop Proof-of-Concepts to determine feasibility.
• Conduct technical evaluations and proofs-of-concept to evaluate software and hardware products from external vendors.
• Design solution to meet Business/Application specific RPO and RTO.
• Initiate and implement architecture and design changes, while ensuring that existing infrastructure services are not negatively impacted.
• Develop, implement, and maintain procedures for Infrastructure change, availability and incident management.
• Analyze application performance by collecting performance reports from all the dependent components and find bottle necks.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Lead Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in administering EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX, VNX, VPLEX.
• Experience in creating and provisioning thin and thick luns.
• Experience in Implementing FAST/FASTVP policy.
• Implement and administer remote replication using SRDF.
• Implement and administer Local replication using TimeFinder Clone, Snap and BCV.
• Develop storage architectures to meet RPO and RTO
• Analyze storage performance, collect performance reports and prepare summary reports.
• Capacity management including provisioning, reporting and dashboard development.
• Troubleshooting complex Storage problems and determining root cause.
• Participate in application and server consolidation efforts.
• Participate in the planning and execution of Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Troubleshoot storage issues working closely with the System Administrators and product vendors to obtain a long-term resolution.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers, storage arrays, directors and switches.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support.
• Experience in encapsulation and migration of LUNs from DMX to VMAX, legacy to new arrays using VPLEX.
• Provided subject matter expertise and represented as the highest level of technical escalation for enterprise storage technologies.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience on FAST VP /Implementation. Worked on VLUN migration based on the client requirements/performance considerations.
• RecoverPoint implementation/configuration for performing replication of data to and from remote sites.
• Experience in configuring the EMC RecoverPoint CRR sessions between the locations for disaster recovery, CDP for local replication and CLR.
• Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Successfully led the Brocade FOS upgrade Project for entire fabric switches.
• Configuring FCIP tunneling on Brocade switches.
• Configure NFS and CIFS on VNX File and Isilon.
• Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.
• Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Lead StorageEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in the project team meetings and taking the business requirements like IOPS, bandwidth, throughput and disk sizing, RAID levels.
• Architecting SAN and storage solutions as a part of the Virtual Engineering (VE), meeting the hardware and software requirements and SLAs.
• Procuring the equipment and facilitating the vendor groups in installing and configuring it according to the requirements.
• Creating and provisioning Thick/Thin disk to hosts.
• Zoning hosts to appropriate storage arrays and tape drives/VTL
• Implementing FAST policies on VMAX arrays.
• Migrating data to VMAX from DMX arrays using SRDF/A.
• Experience in Migrating data using Storage Vmotion.
• Involved in replications using TimeFinder and SRDF technologies on symmetrix.
• Manage HDS arrays with Hitachi Device Manager, Storage Navigator2 and Storage Navigatior Modular 2.
• Configure replications using TimeFinder and SRDF technologies on symmetrix.
• Make performance reports using HiCommand Suite, Tuning Manager.
• Have experience configuring Hitachi HUR/Truecopy remote replication and Hitachi ShadowImage replication.
• Planning and coordinating with array vendors for adding raw storage and firmware upgrades.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support
• Studying performance metrics and storage usage trend for planning future storage purchases using ECC storage scope and performance manager.
• Managing and administrating NAS storage on NetApp FAS.
• Managing CIFS shares and NFS exports on NetApp.
• Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.
• Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Confidential

Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating/deleting the devices and mapping and masking to/from the FAs and HBAs.
• Setting/Un-setting the SCSI-3 cluster bits on the symdevices.
• Forming/dissolving the metas, resizing the devices in SAN environment.
• Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
• Preparing the activity plans to meet the customer requirements.
• Configuring, maintenance and trouble-shooting the Fabric environments.
• Perform Local and remote replication operations.
• Managing Time Finder/SRDF and Flash-Copy/Metro/Global-Mirror.
• Successfully migrated over 1.2 PB of data from DMX to SVC using Image-Mode Vdisk
• Deployed new SVC clusters and Backend storage (XIV & Clariion).
• Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Installing and configuring the Brocade switches and upgrading the code, updating the licenses.
• Configuring FCIP tunneling on Brocade switches.
• Monitor and administer TSM, administrative processes such as expirations, migration, reclamation and collocation, offsite vaulting, tape/media rotations.
• Detect/diagnose and resolve hardware issues (server, tape library, etc) and interact with vendor, manufacturer for H/W and S/W as necessary.
• Ensure Backup server,tape library and software are maintained to current levels, including system firmware code.
• Periodically scheduling for planned implementation of upgrade activities.

Confidential: Decherd, TN.

System Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, manage and report day-to-day backup and recovery support activities.
• Check Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths.
• Perform Health Check, and Scheduling backups on TSM Client for Windows & Unix servers.
• Restore the backed up data according to requirement.
• Check TSM DB, recovery log size and extend or create as required.
• Perform Health Check of TSM servers.
• Monitor and administer TSM, administrative processes such as expirations, migration, reclamation and collocation, offsite vaulting, tape/media rotations.
• Provision and Reclaim Storage.

Confidential

System Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Installing Windows 2000, Windows NT, 2003, Windows XP Operating Systems.
• Managing Users, User Profiles, User Rights and Creating home folders for the users.
• Applying Disk quota’s, Security Templates, System Policy and Group Policy.
• Installing and Configuring Printer, Print Pooling and Printer Properties.
• Managing Backup and Recovery.