SUMMARY:

• Eighteen Years of IT experience in premier company like UN, EMC, Amazon, Pfizer, Nextel, PPL, CSC company with medium and large scale 1000+ servers/ 5PB storage environment.
• My role includes job duties like Technical / Solutions Architect - Team Lead - Server & Storage Admin in Production Support level 3 and Engineering Team for more than 7 years in Design Group (Server and Storage) and 5 years in Team Lead - Project Management role with complete hands on day to day basis work.
• My primary technical skills include expertise in following areas:
• EMC storage (VMAX/DMX/Clariion/Celera /ECC/Navisphere/SYMCLI etc)
• UNIX (Solaris, Linux, AIX,, HP-UX) and VMware, Windows as well.
• VERITAS: Volume Manager, VCS - Cluster, VERITAS Netbackup, Some RAC
• NAS (Netapp / Celera) Administration
• Cisco switches, Brocade & McData with command line.
• Migration: SRDF, Open Replicator, San Copy, Robocopy, Rsync, Mirror view
• Remediation: Server/ HBA/Veritas/PowerPath/Firmware/OS Patch level and expert in processing of EMCgrab on EMC E-lab Navigator with San Summary.
• Worked on several Projects as Architect with complete picture in VISIO and define the project scope and capacity planning with maximum details as well as high level for management.
• Work with business team & key stakeholders, project managers of customer drive projects to determine overall storage requirements for both primary storage and data protection type and explain pros and cons associated with it.
• Extensive experienced in storage migration like SME - which covers any tools, Remediation, upgrade, FC Design, Storage Design, Server and Storage Migration.
• Extensive knowledge in Upgrading, Migrating & Replication of data using EMC products like Time Finder (Mirror/clone/snap), SRDF (Sync-Async).
• Using the best practices for storage implementation and detailed design, Defining storage standards associated with product and company standard.
• Defining project SR (work book) describing primary storage needs and backup data storage retention needs of each project including storage types and hyper/meta /standard/bcv/gatekeeper/file system type as well.
• All of my experience covers extensive Project Management Methodology based Documents with heavy focus on process like Problem Management and Change management using tickets on Peregrine or Remedy, Gira.
• Execution of large turnkey projects and Proficiency in independently handling Corp. Clients.
• Finished several projects independently right from design to implementation to production on Unix, EMC Storage and Netapp covering complete infrastructure/ Data Center.
• Received number of appreciation letters from the clients and managers for excellent project.
• Extensive people management skills since last 8 years managed the team.
• Details plans in Microsoft Projects for project plan and detailing well focused on documentation of each task in corporate into the Master Plan - Subtask etc.
• Write scripts and operating guides for team including outsourced teams.
• Mentoring of junior staff and senior staff as well for technical side and assign the tasks appropriately to the team of 20 Server and Storage Admins junior to Team Leads & PM.
• Manage outsourcing team, - Onsite/ Offsite model, pushing for the task and manage their timelines of task with projects.
• Manage vendors (RFP) and pressurize as needed and still keep the relationship Healthy and use do-diligence to get the delivery of projects item on time.
• Overall I can be goof fit into any role in techno-commercial side in Infrastructure capacity space from architect to project execution and management.
• Providing variety of options to customer with complete business case with Six Sigma & PMP.
• Use some Gartner s for multiple tasks, documentation, process etc.
• Expert in converting simple documents to give better shape and articulate clearly in Microsoft Word, Visio, Excel for pivot table and more layout of documentations in presentable format.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: SUN E25K, 15K, 12K, 10K, 6800/6500/4500/3500, Enterprise 450/420/250

SUN V880/480/280 fire Server, Sun Ultra 80 and various Sparc platforms plus HP RP8400, 7450,5450 series, HP 9000/6000 (D, G, K, L, N, V Class 700/800 series), IBM RS6000 and 650,690 P series, Dec 3000 (Alpha), Cisco Routers, Switches, HP Net Infinity Compaq Server, IBM P Series P770, Linux servers, ESX servers and Dell servers.

SAN: VMAX, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion, EMC Celera, Centera, Connectrix, ECC software, Brocade, McData Switches, Hitachi 9960, SUN Storage, Time Finder, PowerPath, San Manager, Configurator, and SNAP utilities, Navisphere, SRDF, EMC Control Center, mirror view, San copy, Fiber Channel Drivers.

NAS: NetAPP Filers FAS9XXX, 3XXX series, OnTap NFS, CIFS, Snap-shot, snap-mirror, Qtree, CLI, FilerView, VolCopy, CIFS NFS, NDMP, Dump, Backup and restore. Quota and Status, FC loops, MK4-DS14, ESH modules, RAID-DP, iSCSI, DFM VFM, Operation Manager etc

Operating System: Solaris (Version 10 9, 8, 7, 2.6)), HP-UX (11.11/11.0/10.2 ), AIX (ver 4.3) Digi-Unix (Tru64), Windows XP/2000/2003, SCO UNIX (ver 5.0), MS-Dos, Redhad Linux & Suse.

Networking: NFS, DNS, DHCP, NIS, WINS, and X.25, Proxy, Exchange Server, TCP/IP, Ethernet, FDDI, and different type of protocols, structured cabling.

Tools: Microsoft: Visio, Office, Projects, Peregrine, Remedy, Gira, Open Sources

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Environment: VMAX 2500 with FAST/VP DMX3-DMX4, Clariion CX4-480/960, CX-3 series 6xx/7xx, Celera NS60/80, HDS AMS/USPV, Data Domain - DD880, CISCO - UCS, CISCO 9513/9222 series SRDF- Sync- Async, Mirrorview, San copy, Recoverpoint, Open Replicator, Windows AD, Unix ( Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux hosts with VERITAS Volume Manager and VCS, PowerPath, Emulex, HP and Qlogic HBAs, VMWare, NETAPP, Mysql/ SQL server, Active Directory, Exchange, Backup - DR etc

Responsibilities:

• Working as Solution Architect for Storage & Servers for Technology refresh, Migration Project and giving design and solutions from beginning and execute the complete server and storage migration.
• Define IOPS requirement, compare with SPEC.ORG for several business units like SAP, HR, Heavy loaded Apps, Oracle Databases and understand performance requirements.
• Involved in the implementation 700+ storage migration in short duration & replication of 100 TB of data from different symmetrix DMX3000 to VMAX.
• Defining new standards for VMAX define bin file configuration with FA Ports, RAID group layout, hyper size, lun size and port standard.
• VMAX - Virtual LUNS, Thick & Thin provisioning with FAST rules and policies.
• CISCO - Created VSAN & Zoning by GUI Tools & Command line.
• Support pre-sales on RFP for Infrastructure contract of more than 25M revenue and Defining technical aspect of RFP and give help on costing like per GB and per server pricing.
• Giving presentation to large audiences for Server and Storage and Won the multiple RFPs.
• Driving the complete project and building team together, identifying onshore and offshore team including hiring and firing of resources.
• Managing and assigning work to the team, taking overall reporting of 20 people including managers and team leads, working with multiple manager environment.
• Run EMCgrab against HEAT and ESM tools and parse the information into spreadsheet by extraordinary tools with recommendation for Remediation.
• Storage Migration of Hosts using Open replicator for Sym and San copy for Clariion storage.
• Travelling to multiple site and keep project flowing in fast paced migration schedule.
• Defining complete project plan in Microsoft Project defining detail resources and dependencies and articulate the management key points summary.
• Helping on backup software and tape library and CDL configuration.
• Con-current SRDF with multiple R1/R2 relationship and doing SRDF in acp mode/sync/Async mode.
• VERITAS Cluster Failover, Deport - Import volume, service group and cluster resources with VERITAS agent configuration, freeze the cluster as required.
• Taking care of VERITAS fencing device and gatekeepers during the migration or tech refresh.
• Capable of reading Symapidb and EMCgrab, navicli, defining migration relationship.
• Generate complete FROM-TO list for both side, not only migration but technology refresh and array upgrades
• Switch firmware upgrades and defining ISL relationship on Cisco switches.
• Define RAID layout, DISK layout, and data transfer capacity, capacity planning and managing all the aspects of the project.
• Working with FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) & VP (Virtual Provisioning) technology.
• Enterprise recovery images on DD880 and using as storage archival.
• Managing backup environment, defining backup solutions on Quantum i6000 scalar Tape library and Data Domain for archival purposes.

Confidential

Technical Architect

Environment: VMAX 2500, DMX3-DMX4, Clariion CX4-960, CX-3 series 6xx/7xx, Celera NS60/80, CISCO 9513/9222 series SRDF- Sync- Async, Mirrorview, San copy, Recoverpoint, Windows AD, Unix ( Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux hosts with VERITAS Volume Manager and VCS, PowerPath, Emulex, HP and Qlogic HBAs, VMWare, NETAPP, Mysql/ SQL server, Active Directory, Exchange, Backup - DR etc

Responsibilities:

• Working as EMC SA - Architect for Migration Project and giving design and solutions.
• Migration Project Design with Core-Edge with CISCO 9513/9222 series.
• Involved in the implementation 200TB Migration & replication of 100 TB of data from different symmetrix DMX3000 to VMAX.
• Defining new BIN file request to EMC for VMAX and put together configuration with FA Ports, RAID group layout into EMC Change Management process - CCA.
• Create CCPF (Clariion Configuration Product Form) for LUN size and RAID group, N/W etc
• Designing complete switch layout between NY, NJ with what kind of link and plan layout of Storage Fabric port details for each devices considering future growth and redundancy.
• Running EMCgrab against HEAT and ESM tools and pass to server team with recommendation for Remediation.
• Storage Migration of Hosts using Open replicator for Sym and San copy for Clariion storage.
• Giving right level of VERITAS and Powerpath for each operating system and compare with EMC Support Matrix.
• Gathering information from vendor, admin and covert into vision diagram and provide documentation for technical and management team.
• Preparing project plan and keeping track of host with pre & post migration activity- cleanups.
• Extensive knowledge in installing, configuring and troubleshooting multi vendor HBA’s like QLogic QLA 2460 and QCP 2342, Emulex LP952L, LP1050, LP10000ExDC and JNI FCX-6562, FCC-6460 & FCC2-6560.
• Performed Storage provisioning on V-Max by symaccess command.
• Established and monitor SRDF/A on V-Max between the two datacenter for business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Putting scripts together with Matrix to execute tasks during the migration.
• Plan, Prep-work, Execution, Migration, Cleanup and all the tasks associated to each category in tasks and scripts.
• Define the test and acceptance plan and get it execute and deliver in timely manner.
• Extended hours of work in weekdays and weekends with lot of work with multitasking.
• Helping them on their TSM environment for DR effort and guide them on key aspects.

Confidential

Systems Manager - Server and Storage

Environment: Solaris 10, Cisco Switches and Linux server with Oracle and SUN Storagetek 6140, SUN Fire V880/480 and SUNV210 servers with Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup. NetApp Filers, Storage Migration. Lot of Web applications includes mysql,JBOSS, BROADVISION, RSUITE, JAVA, CDL, KVM switches and ILO

Responsibilities:

• Working as Technical Architect Lead - Storage and Systems more like Technical architect with HANDS ON with command line in UNIX Operating System and SAN and NAS administrator on several projects.
• Designed the complete Jumpstart server for Solaris 10 setup in such a way that it can be easily restore when Disaster Recovery situation with snapshot and snap mirror.
• Well versed with understanding of hardware platforms such as FAS9XXX, 3XXX series, FC loops, MK4-DS14, ESH modules.
• Used mix match protocols such as NFS for UNIX and CIFS for WINTEL is used.

  Worked on Disk array planning and capacity planning and management on large platform environment and executed project successfully.

• Mentor team for all the technical assistance, guide them and help them in their day to day needs, improving process and control on regular basis.
• Compiling the FastCGI and other C libraries on Solaris 10 and T2000 servers with 64 bit.
• Migration of system and application to Amazon network without impacting production in given timeline includes Solaris to Linux operating system.
• Approving Weekly timesheets for contractors and employee’s timesheets, manage multiple project with given budget and project revenues.
• Approving vendor Invoices and manage vendor support.
• Oracle client and server setup on SUN 6140 and migrating the complete Database with FSFO and ASF Features with Oracle Data guard.
• Hardware Installation and setup, racking and server settings with multipathing of networks in Data Center.
• Identify the right vendor and right product which will work for company’s benefit considering compliance and environment.
• The recommendation plan using Industry best practices and creating scripts for server compliance level and pushing it to production box and block remote execution and unwanted daemons and services with proper security.
• Defining DR methods working with Data Protection Architects on documenting and testing new storage technologies and define standards.
• Working with multiple teams & individuals to resolve any issues and defining short term and long term solution to the issue.

Confidential

Technical Lead (Architect/Admin) - UNIX/SAN/NAS/HP

Environment: Solaris, AIX and HP-UX server includes SUN 15K, SUN 12K, SUN 6800, SUN Fire V 1280/880/480 and SUN E420/250 along with multi domain, Veritas Global Cluster Manager along with Veritas Volume Manager, SYMCLI, NetAPP Filers, and EMC Connectrix, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Celera, Powerpath, McData and Brocade, Storage Migration, HBA up gradation, Unix authentication through Active Directory

Responsibilities:

• Working as Team Lead cum Technical architect on Operating System and SAN administrator on several project works
• Upgrade of old server HBA project and give support for complete Infrastructure, Irrespective of Unix, SAN /NAS, network or application.
• Server Remediation of each old server and take them to new latest software with right hardware.
• Major Data center migration which includes server and storage array by several mechanisms like forklift or parallel with host or san copy options plus operating system from Solaris to Linux and Solaris to Solaris as required.
• Build Veritas Cluster Server on the entire major cluster by myself with 60TB volumes, with 300 resources of Mounts points, Oracle, Listeners and Application in few hours.
• Design and developed the complete solution along with complete documentation of expect script for user creation, user removal and password changes regularly.
• Installation of EMC ECC clients (5.x), PowerPath, Timefinder and SYMCLI.
• Completed several storage migrations with basic utilities like Veritas mirroring as well tar, rync, as well as Array migratory like EMC Open Replicator or with SAN copy and other replicator.
• Worked on NetApp Project, with NetApp Filers, OnTap CIFS, Snap-shot, Qtree, CLI via Filer View, VolCopy, and CIFS & NFS mount points.
• Firmware upgrade on Fiber Switches with EMC and Brocade Engineers and executing the project successfully.
• Allocating disks, defining redundant alternate paths and file systems via SYMCLI, ECC, and Veritas VVM.
• SRDF using Time finder, setting up BCV, splitting R2 and establishing as needed
• Defining proper LUN security and LUN masking generate performance reports, making scripts to automate several tasks.
• Scripting the each jobs and maximum work to be automated as required by ksh or expect script.
• Taking interview for L2 and L3 level teams and selecting candidates, Maintaining 6 persons in L3 team and 16 having persons team in L2 level.
• Preparing Documents for each process and redefining the process and updating the doc as necessary.
• Proper line of communication with senior management and address the any critical issues and handle incidents of server and OS related issue.
• Create or approve RFC and manage problem management and change management queue for OTS Americas (US & Global).

Confidential

Infrastructure Specialist

Environment: 500 SUN Servers includes SUN 15/12/10K, Sun Enterprise 420/250, SUNV880/480/280 fire Server, EMC Symmetrix, ECC, CLARION, Storage, Brocade HP9000 & new rp8400 on HP-UX ver 11.i / 10.2, with MC Service Guard, Linux, and EMC Storage

Responsibilities:

• Working as Infrastructure Specialist cum Team Leader for 16 SA with Problem Management, Change Management and Installation of new projects and give support as well for problems concerning level 3 support.
• Support On Call rotation 24/7 alone for more than 500 servers and SAN environment plus work with builds team on regular basis and executing projects in given time frame.
• Managing proper line of communication with client and managers and update him about the issue and document complete steps for project report.
• Installation and configuration of fiber-channel switches, EMC Clarion storage devices, enterprise class storage tape libraries, EMC Navisphere and EMC Powerpath
• Good knowledge of Storage Area Network, Network Attached Storage and backup and recovery technologies in switched and non-switched fabric environments, creation and maintenance of scripts
• Security Project, starting from looking into the basic details of security on Unix platform and put the recommendation plan using Industry best practices and creating scripts for it and pushing it to production box and block remote execution and unwanted daemons and services. And implemented like sudo, Ssh other expect script.
• Define standard of disk layout and tuning of existing Installation Standards and improving the process for Install as necessary in each project by Jump start Install.
• Carving LUN masking, storage allocation, storage scope reporting, and alerts.
• Reviewing resumes and then takes technical interviews for new Candidates and given recommendations to management.
• NFS, CFS, iSCSI, VLD, setting up clients from scratch so systems can access data, McData and Brocade Directors/Switches Legacy FC-AL fabric.
• Developed new Solaris standard for Installation which includes complete disk layout and disk architecture of OS Solaris (2.6, 8 and 9 version) with post install korn shell scripts which installs company defined security policies, banner, logo and standard users accounts and pre defined patches and specific software packages.
• Always try to compare with the "Best Practices" for particular project and made proper procedure with proper documentation.
• Mirroring the disk with Solstice Disk Suite and restore, Implementation and documentation or Veritas Volume Manager
• Quarterly working for Patch Cycle, doing patch analysis and put the Patch bundle.
• Design TREND Server & Installation of TREND 4.0.1 and Sybase in Enterprise range of SUN Server with Solaris 8 Operating System and supporting it.
• Server Order right from budget to Initial analysis of Specifications & detailed CPU analysis for new server with respect to FP's (Floating Points) and than ordering servers and verifying specs and recommend for order.
• Updating the Scripts and kernel parameters as necessary in system as per project.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator -AIX/ HP-UX

Environment: RS6000 (AIX) HP9000: E/D/G/H Class (700/800 series), HP-UX ver11.0

Responsibilities:

• Started with make Recovery of Disk/Operating systems with restored system.
• User and Group account administration with security and space management
• Worked with Memory and Disk Management with Logical Volume Management.
• Total around 40 Servers and 1500 user environment, most my work includes scripting and day to day operations support.
• Redundancy consists of RAID dual mirrored operating system and dual CPUs.
• Sybase support and close co-ordination with DBA and resolving daily issues.
• Responsible for working with engineers and customers to evaluate, recommend and implement new technologies for the UNIX environment as well as develop high availability, backup/recovery and capacity planning.
• Installed and configured DR Server again, this time I took make recovery in HP which helped a lot to us in server crash situation and successfully restored it.
• Upgrading and updating of patches and new version of software.
• Worked with Veritas Netbackup for regular backup of the systems.
• Ensure UNIX Systems operations to maximize trading systems availability.

Confidential

Sr.Engineer- Customer Services

Environment: IBM RS6000 Server, AIX (3.2/4.3), HP9000 HP-UX (10.2/11.0), SUN Solaris, Send Mail Server, web server, Omni Back, DEC 3000(alpha), Digi-Unix

Responsibilities:

• Resident Customer Support Engineer at Client site called PRL on behalf of CMC Ltd. as "Sr.Engineer-CS" for System administration of Server & Network.
• Install & Config NIS, NFS and DNS and Send mail in HP 9000 / RS6000 Server. Maintaining and Administration of HPUX and AIX servers and operating System.
• Complete testing of systems & network with respect to operations, system tuning and performed the customer acceptance tests.
• Giving Pre-sales and post sales support for different products, Updating to recent concepts like ADSM disk management and backup system & data management by Tivoli which is one of the latest in backup and data store management.
• Installation, Configuration & User management in HP-UX 10.x, Solaris & Win NT.
• Configuration of the different peripherals & N/w equipment on HP, Sun & NT system.
• Right from Design, Planning, and Implementation of system and commissioned up to acceptance of client with satisfaction. (With appreciation letter).