SUMMARY:

• Almost 20 years of expertise in IT field and had excellent skills in managing, administrating, performance tuning and Capacity Management in the heterogeneous storage and VMware Infrastructure that included EMC VNX, Isilon, IBM XIV, IBM V7000, Confidential EqualLogic and Compellent Storages in the fabric and Ethernet network.
• Managed VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and implemented VMware VCenter Environment with HA, DRS and DPM for multiple sites and designed to migrate Data from existing or unsupported storage to newer.
• Designed Datastores and LUNs according to the application’s acceptable latency and IOPS. Configured iSCSI and FC switches such as PowerConnect, F10, Cisco MDS and Brocade in the Enterprise level Cisco UCS, Confidential Blade and IBM server environment to access storages.
• Excellent knowledge and remarkable s with professional s in Avamar, NetWorker, Data Domain, RecoverPoint, VPLEX, ViPR, XtremIO products and had proficiency to provide presentations and demos to team and management for the storage infrastructure road map.
• Almost 10 years of experience in implementation of EMC, Confidential Storages and Datacenter projects on the VMware and Windows Platforms. Involved in complex projects such as Storage Platform Conversion, Replication and Migrations between storages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

STORAGE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:s:

• Implemented Storage and Data Center projects that involved Cisco UCS servers, EMC VNX & VNXe, Isilon storages with the VMware Clusters.
• Troubleshot and did performance turning in SAN/VMWare environment to support the application requirements and then presented the solution/plan after collecting and analyzing the logs from the storage, servers and switches.
• Configured several EMC VNX SAN with Storage Tiering polices, VMFS, NFS datastores and Replication that included Synchronous and Asynchronous MirrorView with VMware SRM Solutions and provided knowledge transfer.
• Responsible for the Data center Solutions that included proposed Configurations, Architectural Diagrams and Presentations for clients. Had proficiency to keep up the technology to improve the storage infrastructure.

SAN ENGINEER

Confidential, Cheshire, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managed storage infrastructure that included heterogeneous storage platforms such as EMC VNX, Isilon, Clariion, IBM XIV and V7000 Storages to support business applications with optimal performance.
• Designed and managed fabric area network with Brocade switches for storage and Netbackup environments with EMC Isilon Backup Accelerators.
• Designed and provisioned Datastores and LUNs for VMware and Windows environment to meet the application needs. Troubleshot storage and network issues which was escalated from the business units and users.
• Implemented Storage Tiering (Fast VP/ Fast Cache) for VNX and File Pool Policies for Isilon to archive cold data.
• Deployed EMC VNX in multiple remote sites for Virtual Machines in remote offices and EMC Isilon Storages for users and corporate data with disaster recovery solutions.
• Configured and performed data Migration from unsupported EMC Clariion to IBM XIV storage.
• Checked compatibility matrix for the latest firmware of storage & switches and managed production downtime and upgraded switches and storages operating system.
• Responsible for Capacity management and setup user quota for files and virtual machines files.
• Configured and managed Array based VMware Site Recovery Manager between the block storages and clusters with HA and DRS.
• Planned and Configured data protection by setting up MirrowView, Snapshots, Sync - IQ between the storages.
• Worked with vendors to comprehend the functionally of EMC ViPR SRM, VPLEX and IBM SVC products for the Datacenter relocation and to manage heterogeneous storages.

Sr. SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ADVISOR

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Led on projects for Confidential ’s Global Service Delivery team and responsible for the delivery of Enterprise level services to the clients in complex environment.
• Configured SAN Copy Data Migration and storage platform conversion. Planned Datacenter relocation projects for enterprise and public size levels customers.
• Specialized in EMC VNX and Clariion, Confidential EqualLogic, and Compellent SANs and successfully delivered projects which included replications over the Brocade and McData FC Switches, and Force 10 and PowerConnect iSCSI Switches to multiple sites resulting in high customer satisfaction.
• Designed and implemented High Availability and Failover solutions in VMware and Windows environments and optimized the LUN/Datastore performance by deploying multipathing applications.
• Involved in escalations with support to troubleshoot hardware, software and performance related issues.
• Responsible for designing Fabric Area Network to help clients’ access storage from servers including boot from SAN and to secure Fabric network. Designed backup solutions with ML series tape library over the Fiber and troubleshot robotic and library hardware issues.

NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential, Lyndhurst, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked with EMC sales team and led EMC Storage projects, and then managed storage infrastructure to ensure and secure fabric network with better performance. Monitored storage capacity and administered to use the storage LUNs with high availability.
• In-charge of host connectivity to access storage volumes and zoning on the Brocade switches. Deployed new LUNs and Storage Groups for the hosts and performed LUN resizing and migration.
• Led project to screen various enterprise level backup solutions such as SonaSafe, NetBackup and EMC NetWorker to help company select the best backup solution. As a result of my work, EMC NetWorker backup software was bought by my company to serve as a backup solution for all company production servers. Managed Backup and restore jobs for the users, and performed the tape rotation.
• Led Microsoft Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 cluster implementations. Handled projects such as office integration, moving and setting up new sites.

SYSTEMS ADMINSTRATOR

Confidential, Paterson, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Promoted from IT Administrator to ERP system administrator (Chempax CS) in Jan. 2006.
• Responsible for Windows 2003 Active Directories for Lipo and Ruger. Contributed to Networking team to build DNS servers with replication between the zones and DHCP servers.
• Designed backup system by using VERITAS Backup Exec 10d with Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint and Open File Technology agents.

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential, Teterboro, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed networks between multiple office locations supporting up to 300 users. Managed and upgraded router and Watch Guard Firewall (X700, 1000 and SOHO) configurations, DNS and DHCP, snap, and file servers.
• Migrated from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Domain Controller,. Managed Exchange server 2003 with 350 mailboxes and Exclaimer software. Managed Backup Assist for Exchange mailbox level, SQL Database backup and restore, and NT Backup for disaster recovery. Managed tape rotation and stored for disaster recovery.

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Responsibilities:

• Designed LAN & WAN infrastructures from small to medium size business such as hotels, food & merchandise stores with point of sales systems which included SQL Server, P.O.S display, scanner-scale, cash-drawer, credit card and receipt printer.

COMPUTER SPECIALIST

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for IT related projects involving upgrading, implementation, maintenance, and end-users. Managed projects involving Cisco routers, SonicWALL Firewall and View Point Servers. Migrated domain users from Windows NT 4.0 DC to Windows 2003 DC. Managed Application and Database servers, Terminal and Web servers, Print Server, and desktops. Managed external Exchange and MacAfee Protection Pilot Servers.