SUMMARY

• SAN and backup architect with more than 8+ year’s expertise in storage sub system provisioning, monitoring, consolidation and reporting of Enterprise Storage.
• Extensive Experience on Design and architect of Open system disaster recovery processes and set up.
• Experience working on Large data center with corporate data centers
• Expertise in EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX2/VMAX3/VMAX (FLASH)/VNX/Unity series Storage Products.
• Experience in EMC XtremIO.
• Experience in Hitachi USP/USP - V/AMS/HDP
• Client interface management for capacity planning and daily reporting of monitored storage systems.
• Expertise in HP EVA, HPXP 24K,12K, Business copy, data migration, remote replication products
• Experience in IBM SVC, XIV, and DS8XXX series.
• Experience in EMC ViPR SRM, workload analyzer, Performance View, access Logix, SnapView.
• Experience in EMC VPLEX, RecoverPoint
• Experience in migration technologies such as LVM, Veritas MIRRORING, replicator, PowerPath migration enabler, Open Replicator, EMC NDM (non-disruptive migration), Hitachi external storage, VPLEX, IBM SVC
• Architected Isilon cluster deployments, X410 nodes, NL nodes, S nodes
• Architecting Isilon internal network and external network with SmartConnect, link aggregation
• Experience in SAN, NAS, and storage based on customer performance requirement.
• Knowledge and experience in AIX/VIO, Solaris, HP UNIX and SAN management using EMC products.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of storage management, Storage area Network products from EMC.
• Expert in RecoverPoint installation and configuration
• Experience and knowledge of high-end storage disk sub systems with NAS and SAN based Backup solutions.
• Integration expertise for AppSync or Replication Manager with SRDF/TimeFinder/RecoverPoint
• Expertise in PPME based data migration
• Expertise in SAN migration
• File migration using EMCopy or Robocopy
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to translate the business request into system solutions.
• Perform on-call duties and support the team 24/7 for any first level escalations.
• Team-spirited, highly motivated individual with emphasis on team goal over personal goal.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide broad technical expertise in the Architecture, Strategy and Design aspects of SAN Storage related solutions
• Support high risk, large scale and highly complex storage systems; Perform Storage Data Migrations and Data Center relocations
• Measure technology impacts in the environment and the larger organization utilizing advanced knowledge on metrics
• Work independently to drive the transitional activities related to Storage Data Recovery
• Utilize long term, collaborative and strategic relationships with clients to improve service delivery
• Drive activities towards larger strategic goals

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implement and Administer EMC SAN/NAS systems based on requirements
• Design Implement and administer backup solutions based on Veritas NetBackup and EMC Avamar
• Design storage migration in SAN and NAS environment
• Design NetBackup Upgrades and Migration
• Oversee errors in SAN/NAS storage systems and backup solutions
• Plan and implement critical projects in the storage SAN technical environment
• Work with Incident Management, Change Management, and Problem Management
• Act as lead and liaison between technical and storage team members
• EMC Isilon NAS with SyncIQ.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN storage environment
• Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
• Worked with various operations team during the design phase to deploy new storage hardware and software and provide knowledge transfer
• Architected VMAX/VNX, VSP, USPV, HP 3PAR, VPLEX,
• Implemented VMAX3/VMAX2, VNX, VNX2, UNITY STORAGE ARRAY
• Architected VMAX Fast deployments
• Implemented SRDF, TimeFinder, RecoverPoint
• Integrated with VMware, Oracle etc.
• Architected and implemented EMC XtremIO
• Provisioning storage on VMAX3/VMAX2/UNITY/VNX/3PAR storage array various tools and best practices provisioning
• Best practices implementation of FAST, FASTCACHE on respective array
• Implementation of TimeFinder SnapVX, SRDF Metro, VPLEX metro
• Integration of VPLEX and RecoverPoint
• Creating pools, tiers and fast policies storage groups
• Creating masking views on VMAX, create storage groups and host registrations on VMAX, VNX, 3PAR
• Creation of VMAX/3PAR/VNX storage allocation procedures
• Configuring and creating Aliases, Zones etc. and monitoring SAN through SAN health reports.
• Client interface management for capacity planning and daily reporting of monitored storage systems.
• Perform on-call duties and support the team 24/7 for any first level escalations.
• Manage problem tickets and change requests in accordance with the respective management process.
• Successfully helped planned and executed complete data center relocation with minimal customer downtime.
• Storage allocation on VMAX, 3PAR and VNX arrays
• Provided storage to various applications like Oracle, Exchange, SQL
• VMAX Best practice creation and documentation
• Data migration from VMAX TO VMAX2 using open replicator or PPME
• Data migration from VMAX2 TO VMAX3 using NDM (non-disruptive migration).
• Setting up hot pull open replicator sessions by making VMAX a control frame.
• Installing and configuring Unisphere for VMAX
• Implementing VNX for NFS/CIFS
• Integrating VNX with Active directory/DNS
• Performance monitoring of I/O throughput on various arrays.
• Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
• Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
• Architecting Vmware stretch cluster using VPLEX METRO and witness
• Deploying VPLEX campus solution with replication using RecoverPoint.
• Architecting and Implementing RecoverPoint / VMRecoverPoint SE, with replication manager
• Architecting and integrating RecoverPoint with VPLEX metro
• SAN design for the VPLEX, RecoverPoint deployments
• Architecting and deploying Isilon environment, data migration from NetApp and CX to Isilon
• Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netbackup, HP data protector for very complex technologies like Oracle RAC, Exchange, SharePoint, and SAP.
• Implemented and upgraded Avamar and Data Domain

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creation of VMAX/VNX storage allocation procedures
• Storage allocation on VMAX and VNX arrays
• Storage allocation on Hitachi arrays.
• VMAX/VNX Best practice creation and documentation
• Performance Analysis of existing hosts for Migration
• VLUN Migrations on VMAX
• Implemented FAST and FASTVP on VMAX.
• Storage provisioning on VNX, VMAX, and VPLEX configuring FAST, thin provisioning.
• Configured zoning, masking, mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
• Implemented FASTCACHE on VNX
• Setting up hot pull open replicator sessions by making VMAX a control frame.
• Planned, Implemented server/storage Consolidation Migration.
• Problem analysis and Capacity planning.
• Performance analysis of VMAX, CX, VNX, DMX
• Implemented SAN director class switches
• Migrated from Brocade switches to CISCO switches
• Zoning on Brocade and Cisco switches
• Performance monitoring of I/O throughput on various arrays.
• Implementing NFS/CIFS on NS960 and VNX
• Data migration on VNX from Celerra
• Worked with RecoverPoint on implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Used RecoverPoint with the use of consistency groups, monitoring replications remote and local.
• Implementing and upgrading RecoverPoint.
• Installing and configuring replication Manager
• Expertise in installing the SYMMETRIX MANAGEMENT CONSOLE.
• Understanding and maintaining the best practices and Standard Operating Procedures of the SAN related activities implemented in the Data Centre.
• Mapping, Allocation and Deallocation of Luns on UNIX and Windows systems through ECC and SYMCLI.

Confidential, Maumee, Ohio

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning of new Datadevs and thin devices on VMAX arrays using ECC and SMC.
• Design/creation of new Masking Views for host migrations using SMC.
• Zoning on Cisco and Brocade SAN Fabrics
• Configured Open Replicator and PowerPath Migration Enabler on Host
• Creation of VMAX storage allocation procedures
• Storage allocation on VMAX and VNX arrays
• VMAX Best practice creation and documentation
• Performance Analysis of existing hosts for Migration
• VLUN Migrations on VMAX
• Implemented FAST and FASTVP on VMAX.
• Setting up hot pull open replicator sessions by making VMAX a control frame.
• Planned, Implemented server/storage Consolidation, Migration
• Performance analysis of VMAX/CX/VNX/DMX
• Performance monitoring of I/O throughput on various arrays.
• Worked with Recover Point on implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Used RecoverPoint with the use of consistency groups, monitoring replications remote and local.
• Implementing and upgrading RecoverPoint.
• Working in a team to provide 24/7 support for the Storage related issues in a demanding global telecom production environment.
• Mapping, Allocation and Deallocation of Luns on various systems.

Confidential, Metuchen NJ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creation of DMX/CX storage allocation procedures
• Storage allocation on DMX and CX arrays
• DMX and CX best practice creation and documentation
• Performance Analysis of existing hosts for Migration
• Configured zoning, masking, mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
• Planned, Implemented server/storage Consolidation /Migration.
• Problem analysis and Capacity planning.
• Performance analysis of CX/DMX
• Implemented SAN director class switches
• Zoning using Cisco switches
• Performance monitoring of I/O throughput on various arrays.
• Data migration on DMX from DMX
• Implementing and upgrading RecoverPoint.
• Installing and configuring replication Manager
• Expertise in installing the SYMMETRIX MANAGEMENT CONSOLE.
• Understanding and maintaining the best practices and Standard Operating Procedures of the SAN related activities implemented in the Data Centre.
• Mapping, Allocation and Deallocation of Luns on UNIX and Windows systems through ECC and SYMCLI.
• Create, modify, prioritize, and apply architectural principles for assigned projects
• Build and transform the data migration strategy and take ownership of the function as required; Develop and implement customized Atos MSS framework to meet client needs
• Employ strategies to show superior service to business clients and investigate and analyze external indicators to project clients' future needs
• Anticipate and adapt to changing trends and in corporate changes within the Atos Storage solution framework
• Enable innovative thinking and results and enable the organization to translate innovative activity into tangible performance improvements and outcomes
• Exhibit strong project management skills when leading storage related projects and drive and/or supervise various technical teams who participate in the project
• Envision the future and act as a catalyst for organizational change
• Present information persuasively, with skill and power, influencing an audience of the critical importance of the idea; and develop the required documentation in-line with Atos standards and help operations teams to create the supported documentation necessary to successfully manage the infrastructure