OBJECTIVE:

• To acquire a challenging position in the field of Information Technology where there would be equal opportunity to develop and grow with the organization.

SUMMARY

• Six years of progressive experience in the information technology field and four and half years hands - on experience with Storage Area Networks (SAN), Outstanding oral and written communications skills with ability to translate business needs into information technology solutions to fit those needs significant to EMC CLARiiON SAN implementation and administration expertise
• Hands-on experience and solid understanding of Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Veritas Netbackup, MS Clustering, SAN, NAS and DAS
• Experience in many facets of information technology, including network analysis and design, data migration, project and IT personnel management, performance, and capacity planning.EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, enterprise storage arrays.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: WINNT/ server, Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Unix/Linux, AIX 5L.HP-UX 10.2/11.

High end disk systems: FAS3240/3140,FAS2040/2020,FAS270, V-MAX, DMX 3-950, 2000,1000, Clariion, CX 3-40/20/480/960 , CX 700, CX 600, CX 500, and Cisco 9509, 9506, MDS-9134, Brocade Silkworm 4900, DS-5100B and ED-48000,Silkworm 4100 and 24000, Qlogic and Emulex HBAs, Solaris SUN FIRE systems, Dell Power edge 1950, 2950, HP DL 360, 380.

SAN switches: Brocade DS 16B/32B2, CISCO MDS 9506/9513, Cisco SAN switches(MDS9513), Mcdata Switches (MD6140).

SAN Management: EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Navisphere, Snap view, Mirror view, Power Path, Connectrix Manager, SANCOPY, Replication manager,IMT (Interoperability Matrix Tool), RVtools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• MASKING of migrating hosts to the end storage, MAPPING of the devices to the swing server and the DTA
• DTA jobs for the hosts to be migrating on to NetApp storage
• RECLAMATION (worked on EMC Vmax and utilize it for migrating data from 3par to EMC) nSANity pull on the hosts for pre Migration work
• Microcode Upgrades on EMC VMAX
• Provisioned storage on EMC,3par and Netapp actively performed migrations between EMC VMAX-NetApp 6840 and 3PAR-NetApp 6840 performed EMC GRAB on EMC hosts
• Worked on cisco and brocade switches
• Configured Snapshot scheduled for volumes and aggregates in NetApp filers.
• Creating and administering aggregates, volumes, Qtrees, Flexvol, Snapshots.
• Performed data replication using Snap Mirror between FAS series filers.
• Performed data Migration from NetApp filers using SnapMirror.
• Served as SAN Administrator for all Network Appliance filers, EMC DMX and CLARiions.
• Performed DataOntap Upgrades from 6.5.x to 7G which included disruptive and non-
• Disruptive implementations.
• Worked on remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data availability using SnapMirror, MetroCluster.
• Worked on Data Replication using SRDF and MirrorView on EMC DMXs and Clariion CXs.
• Scheduled daily, weekly, monthly backups using SnapShot.
• Worked on Zoning, Firmware Upgrading, and Trouble shooting in Brocade and Cisco MDS switches.
• Implemented NetApp technology within customer’s business and IT strategy requirements.

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SAN Administration in a storage environment with over 500 TB consisting of DMX 3-950, DMX 2000, DMX 1000, Clariion CX 4-960, CX 4-120, CX 700 Cisco MDS-9134, 9506 and Brocade DS-5100B and ED-48000 switches, Enterprise directors.
• Performed Auto Provisioning tasks (Device groups, Storage groups, Port groups, and Initiator groups), Time Finder, Remote Replication (SRDF/S, SRDF/A) on VMAX system through Symcli 7.0.
• Migrated Data successfully from DMX 1000 and DMX 2000 to DMX 3-950 using SRDF/S and provided storage to hosts using suitable switch fabric.
• Implemented Disaster Recovery using SRDF/A for testing systems and tested disaster recovery preparedness.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration of NAS device EMC Celerra NS501G, NS700 NS480.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra Systems for Local and Remote replication.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Monitor, replace, and reconfigure disk drives, FC HBAs (Host Bus Adapters), Compact Flash Card, tape drive/libraries.
• Experience in implementing Netapp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Periodic audit of storage sub systems, Health monitoring of SAN components. Collect the data for trending. Create daily logs, perform capacity planning and monitor Backup storage utilization and performance.
• Backup and restore data from Tape Libraries using ndmpcopy, dump, restore in Netapp NAS Environment.
• Designing, architecting, and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies. Estimating RPOs, RTOs, and bandwidth requirement for mission-critical applications.
• Using SRDF created pairs, device groups and added devices to the device groups.
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices, Clones and Snapshots as per the business needs on DMX and Clariion.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning technique with creation of Thin Devices on DMX using Symcli.
• Storage Provisioning (Lun Creation, Mapping, and Masking) on Clariion/DMX arrays through Symcli, Navisphere/Navicli and ECC tools.
• Successfully allocated Storage for open systems storage environment from Clariion, Symmetrix to Windows, Solaris, Linux, IBM-AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Created BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) using EMC Timefinder on SRDFs to offer workload compression, performing backups, increase productivity, etc.
• Installation and management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Perform monitor and generate reports using ECC and extract file lever reports using storage scope.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Configuration of Open Replicator for 50TB data migration between Symmetrix 2000 and Symmetrix DMX-3 using the EMC Solutions Enabler SYMCLI.
• Configuring Powerpath and Access Logix for dynamic load balancing, making system redundant of power failures and Masking the LUNS for providing security to the SAN.
• Assign storage from Clariion CX600/CX700 using Navisphere Manager.
• Level 1 and Level 2 support tasks included performing daily system health checkouts, HW/OS installs/upgrades.
• Analyzed and Troubleshot host connectivity problems with the storage arrays.
• Used VMWare ESX 3.0 to partition physical servers in multiple virtual machines for sharing of physical resources.
• Configured storage units for NDMP backups.
• Configured and installed various QLogic, Emulex model HBA cards, providing server SAN access.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade 5000 and 49000 and McData 3232 fibre channel fabric switches.
• Trained in managing/monitoring Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN switches.
• Supported EMC NetWorker for backup and recovery operations across an enterprise.
• Created, allocate storage for Linux, AIX,solaris and windows hosts from VMAX/DMX/NS960.
• Perform first level Troubleshooting of Problems / Errors in NAS and SAN Storage Systems
• Experience on Performance Analysis and fine tune the Overall Storage Performance
• Experience on configuring the quotas, User mapping, snapshot and remote copy (DR facilities) of EMC Celera / VNX NAS serve
• Created and managed backups on DellML6020 using EMC Legato networker.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX on Dell Power edge 2900 and 2950.
• Created and Configured Virtual servers. Migrated servers using Platespin power convert and VMware converter.
• Installed and upgraded hardware on Dell Power edge 1950, 2950,2900 and R 900.Installed Enterasys Ethernet switches, upgraded the firmware and configured Brocade silkworm switches.

Confidential, Simpsonville, SC

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) on Symmetrix, DMX and CLARiiON CX 700 to Windows and Solaris hosts, according to business needs.
• Installing the storage Frames EMC frames. Performed and configured the Fibre Channel components/features into a production SAN.
• All issues regarding Cabling and connectivity in SAN. Install and configure Host HBA and Drivers. Resolve the issues related to all aspects of FC SAN.
• Worked with backup team in scheduling, monitoring and performing regular backups using Veritas Netbackup.
• Installed and configured the EMC Control Center (ECC) and SMC to monitor and manage hosts, EMC Clariion and Symmetrix, Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Involved in Setup of NAS device, EMC Celera NS501,NS20
• Installation, Configuration and integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX environment, experience with CIFS, NFS, LUN management, Managing Quotas and permissions, managing disks.
• Used Data fabric manager (DFM), Filer view and ONTAP command line, Snap drive in monitoring, managing, reporting and provisioning storage to the users.
• Performed Data ONTAP 7.0 Data protection online backup and recovery using Snap mirror, Snap Vault and disaster recovery using Snap Restore.
• Worked on Snap Manager of SQL server for backup and instant restore.
• Experience with Vfiler configuration and Managed 150 Vfiler units using MultiStore to the research cluster, assisted in migration using Snap mover software.
• Upgraded the filers from ONTAP 7.0 to ONTAP 7.2 as a process of flexvols migration.
• Worked with the system administrators and network administrators to troubleshoot NAS related issues
• Migrated the NASfilesystems from stand aloneNAS server to netapp arrays.
• Configured snapshots schedules on the Netapp volumes in the environment.
• Prepared procedures for client to ECC Master/ Host Agent Install and knowledge transfer.
• Responsible for Planning Storage migration and assisting new Datacenter built.
• Created gatekeeper devices in the storage array.
• Creating meta luns in DMX and LUSE in HP-XP 1024 arrays.
• Regular Storage provisioning from DMX-3, CX-3-80 to HP-UX and Windows hosts using ECC/SYMCLI/Navisphere Manager and storage deallocation from older arrays
• Installed and Configured HBA, HBA drive, Firmware, Powerpath.
• Monitored ECC alerts and performed ECC zone cleanup from old arrays.
• Audit the Symmetrix storage arrays and HP-XP storage arrays.
• Enabling the lun security for the chipports in HP-XP 1024 storage array.
• Creating host groups in XP1024 array.
• Allocating the devices from XP1024 arrays to VMS servers.
• Following best practices for lun sizes those were allocated to ESX servers.
• Upgraded the flare codes for Clariion (to 2.26) and microcode upgrades for Symmetrix (to 5.72) Confidential the sites tx11, tx30, az84, az34, az50.
• Audit the DMX frame in terms of mapped but not masked devices.
• Legacy merging of M series and B series SAN fabrics.
• Audit the billing sheet discrepancies.
• Attend team meeting with storage and application personals to discuss DR solutions, possible use of Time Finder BCVs, Clones, EMC Snaps, explain SRDF concepts, discuss appropriate ECC alerts
• Knowledge transfer SRDF concepts
• Created SAN Infrastructure Documentation and Storage Infrastructure diagrams
• Created reports on all servers in the infrastructure that require Firmware and Drivers updates
• Day to Day responsibilities include monitoring SAN infrastructure, work on incidents created on BMC Remedy 6.0 (reporting tool) and perform root cause analysis on the incidents.
• Performed configuration and resolved all cable, switch and port issues.
• Worked on trouble shooting single path failures.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments. Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software problems on Aix, Windows platforms. Design the solution for storage issues.
• Created and updated the storage Documentation. Test the solution designed. Conduct the Storage meeting. Problem analysis and Capacity planning. Monitor the storage environment. Set up the user accounts on storage devices.
• Periodic audit of storage sub systems. Health monitoring of SAN components. Collect the data for trending. Create daily logs, perform capacity planning and monitor Backup storage and utilization performance.
• Integration of SAN management tools into operation. Updated SAN configuration inventory and installation documentation. Technical review of the hardware, software, mitigating risk and the deployment process.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Administrated and maintained Symmetrix DMX 2000/DMX 3000 & CLARiiON CX600/CX3-80 which also included tuning and optimization of Storage Arrays.
• Day-to-day administration included storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting, taking daily & weekend backups & maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.
• Created Raid Groups & Storage groups assigned LUNs to Hosts using Navisphere manager, NaviCLI on CX Series.
• Provisioning LUN’s to expand the existing file system on Solaris, Windows and ESX servers.
• Managing DMX series using ECC, SymCLI and responsible for device masking.
• Installed Navisphere Agent on Host.
• Administrated data migration between CX600 to CX3-80 series using SAN copy and also between CX600 to DMX3000 using Open replicator.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX in a multi hosts shared storage environment.
• Configured and maintained several VMware DRS clusters.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Installed TimeFinder and configured Symmetrix Disk groups for BCV operations.
• Implemented SRDF for Disaster recovery and have tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links.
• Migrated data across the data centers using the SDRF functionality.
• Use Symconfigure to perform configuration changes on the DMX/Symmetrix arrays. Create/dissolve Meta Volumes, Change device configuration

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of more than 20 servers & 250 Workstations. Servers included are FTP server, SQL server, IIS server, Exchange Server, Domain server, Print server, VPN server, Linux server, VMware ESX server .
• Installing and administrating of EMC Storage arrays CX 500/600.
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of Cisco 2800 router/2960/2950 switches & 1240AG Access point for WLAN and Lease line management.
• Performed patch management and installing third party software.
• Installed and configured TSM server and installed TSM agents in most of the workstations.
• Created and modify backup policy creation and Restore Operations.
• Monitored and troubleshooting all the Net backup jobs from the Activity monitor.
• Created RAID (RAID 0, 1, 5) and RAID groups on EMC storage arrays.
• Performed addition of new storage space to servers, increasing the existing storage space and maintaining the Fabric’s.
• Adding new storage includes creation of new LUN’s, storage groups, binding LUN’s and making the storage volume available to the server’s by zoning the Fabric.
• Created and configured volumes using Solaris volume manager (SVM) and Veritas volume manager (VxVm).
• Performed Performance monitoring, file system management and performed security audit.
• Maintenance of Data Storage devices for Backup & Data Collection like IBM 3590/3480/3490 , Fijitsu 3480.
• Prepared Business continuity and DR Process for the company.
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of DNS, DHCP, RIS, Active Directory.
• Given Remote support for managing and troubleshooting server using Putty, Telnet, Remote desktop, VNC.
• Created documents for Backup procedures, Schedules, Failures and plan for improvement of backup strategies.

Environment: EMC CLARiiON CX500/600, IBM 3590/3480/3490 , Fijitsu 3480, Cisco 2800 router/2960/2950switches/1240AG, TSM, Veritas Volume Manager, SVM, Solaris 8/9, Red-Hat 3.5, Windows 2000/2003 Server.