SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of IT experience in Enterprise SAN Storage and Recovery environment.
• Excellent hands on experience using HP 3PAR, HP P2000 G3, Dell Equallogic, Hitachi VSP series, IBM SVC, XIV, Netapp FAS series, VMAX3, V - MAX, DMX-4 and DMX-3, VNX, VPLEX, XtemeIO, Isilon and CLARiiON, Centera.
• Experience in migrating over a PB of storage across various platforms.
• Experience in storage management, configuration, allocation, reclamation and troubleshooting using Management tools including Solutions Enabler, Symmetrix Management Console, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere and NaviCLI, 3PAR Management Console, One FS Hitachi Command Suite.
• Experience in implementing virtualization and FAST optimization technologies across EMC, 3PAR and Hitachi subsystems.
• Experience working on Fibe Channel, iSCSi and FCoE connected SAN.
• Experience in analyzing grabs, heat reports and recommending the required remediation and patch level for OS.
• Experience in configuring switches using Connectrix Manager, Web Tools and Brocade Network Advisor for Brocade Switches, and Fabric Manager and Device Manager for Cisco switches.
• Experience in managing and administration of storage as a Service using ViPR SRM
• Experience in implementing block level array based migration and host-based migration using EMC technologies.
• Experience in working on various storage platforms connected to Microsoft Windows, Linux, SUN Solaris, AIX and ESX.
• Experience in managing and supporting Veritas Netbackup.
• Adept at closely working with different customers in planning strategies and executing them.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Symmetrix VMAX3, V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX-3, VNX, VNX 2 series, CLARiiON CX4 Series, CX3 Series, Centera, 3PAR StoreServ, Hitachi VSP series, Hitachi Unified Storage, IBM SVC, Dell Equallogic, HP P200G3, Cisco MDS directors, Brocade DCX, Brocade 48000/12000 directors, HP Storagework 8/8.

Management Software: Symmetrix Management Console, Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI, HP Storage Management Utility, Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Command Suite, 3PAR Management Console, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Brocade Web Tools, Brocade Network Advisor, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Recoverpoint, ViPR controller, MirrorView, SnapView, Time Finder, EMC Control Center, Navisphere Analyzer, Symmetrix Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Open Replicator, SAN Copy, Open Migrator, PowerPath Migration Enabler, NaviAgent, PowerPath.

Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2003/2000, SUN Solaris 10/9/8/7, VMware 5.5, 4.5, 4.0, 3.0, AIX 6.0, 5.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, 5.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Conshohocken, PA

Sr. Storage Engineer

Environment: 3PAR, VMAX3, VMAX 20K/40K, VNX, VNX-2 series, 3PAR Management Console, Centera, Symmetrix Management Console, EMC Monitoring and Reporting, Replication Manager, Recoverpoint, Brocade DCX, Windows, Linux.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management and administration of 3PAR, EMC VMAX and VNX arrays spread across several global data centers.
• As a part of Operations team, worked as level III support in trouble shooting SAN related issues and providing on call support
• Responsible for documenting array based and host based migration techniques for migrations off VMAX to Netapp
• Worked on performance analysation and on the storage infrastructure.
• Worked on creating weekly reports on storage utilization using Monitoring and Reporting tool.
• Involved in firmware code review and thus determining the targeted firmware and driver versions across VMAX and VNX systems
• Involved in dynamic optimization and adaptive optimization on 3PAR.
• Worked extensively with EMC support in upgrading the VMAX and VNX firmware

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

System/Storage Engineer

Environment: VNX5200, CX4-240, CX4-120, CX-300, HP P2000-G3, Dell Equallogic, Navisphere, Unisphere, Unisphere Service Manager, EMC Monitoring and Reporting, Robocopy, HP Storage Management Utility, Dell Management Console, Vsphere Client, HP Storage works 8/8 switch, Veritas Netbackup, Brocade switch, Windows, VMware Vsphere 4.5, 5.5.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the storage-engineering project focusing on data encryption and security.
• Depending on the needs of the client, designed and installed storage infrastructure
• Responsible for managing mid tier storage environment consisting of VNX, CX4-120, CX4-240, HP P2000 G3 and Dell Equallogic.
• Responsible for upgrading firmware on HP P2000 G3 storage system and code upgrades on CX4-120 and CX4-240.
• Worked with EMC vendors in finalizing the purchase of VNX storage subsystem, installing and configuring VNX5200 hardware.
• Responsible for installing ESRS work station and configuring EMC subsystems through ESRS.
• Responsible for configuring Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE) on VNX and there by providing security from data loss.
• Installing and maintaining the Monitoring and Reporting tool on EMC sub-system, thereby monitoring and load balancing the I/O throughput.
• Responsible for monitoring and managing backup devices using Veritas Netbackup.
• Responsible for managing VM resources in a virtual environment connected through SAN using Vsphere Client.
• Responsible for providing Level III support for Storage hardware and software.
• Document operational procedures and hand-off to the operations group, while providing knowledge transfer on the best practices.
• Responsible for vendor relationships for Storage related software and hardware.

Confidential, Warren, MI

EMC Implementation Engineer

Environment: HP 3PAR, EMC VMAX3, VMAX, VPLEX, VNX, XtremeIO, Isilon, Recoverpoint, ViPR SRM, Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Symmetrix Management Console, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, Cisco MDS directors, Brocade 5300 SAN Switch, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, HP 3PAR Management Console, Open Replicator, SRDF, Mainframe, Solaris 10/9/8, Red Hat Enterprise AIX, Windows 2012/2008, VMware 4.0, 3.0.

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed 3PAR, EMC VMAX3, 3PAR, VMAX, VPLEX, VNX, XtemeIO storage arrays across Windows, AIX, Solaris and ESX servers.
• Responsible for allocating about 150 TB of storage across diversified environment.
• Responsible for migrating storage from VMAX to 3PAR storage systems using Open Replicator.
• Involved in upgrading the Unisphere and Solution Enabler.
• Analyzing various host stats and grabs for I/O throughput and planning the migrations accordingly
• Extensively using MiTrend and Iostat for Workload profile assessment on VMAX, 3PAR arrays and various hosts.
• Documenting the source and target array analysis, Raid configurations, LUN analysis, R1/R2 devices and planning accordingly for storage migrations.
• Worked with the System Administrators in creating the LPARs for migrating storage from VMAX to VMAX arrays using SRDF.
• Migrated about 70 TB of storage from VMAX to 3PAR.
• Responsible for Monitoring, Reporting and Configuration management using ViPR SRM
• Hands on experience in implementing Recoverpoint for replication on VNX and VPLEX subsystems.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

EMC Sr. Implementation Specialist

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-3, DMX-4, CLARiiON CX4-960, CX4-480, CX3-80, CX3-20, CX400, CX300, Centera, Hitachi VSP, Netapp 8020, IBM SVC, IBM XIV, Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Symmetrix Management Console, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, Hitachi Device Manager, Cisco MDS directors, Brocade 5300 SAN Switch, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Connectrix Manager, Webtools, MirrorView, SRDF, EMC Control Center, Open Replicator, PPME, SAN Copy, VMotion, AIX 6.0, 5.0, Solaris 10/9/8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0,5.5, Windows 2008/2003, VMware 4.0, 3.0.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing migrations in moving over 1 PB of storage on more than 2000 hosts from CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX,Netapp and HDS to Symmetrix VMAX.
• Analyzed over 4000 grabs and provided minimum upgrades required on the hosts including Windows, AIX, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HP and ESX to migrate the storage to VMAX.
• Responsible for De-allocating over a PB of migrated/un-used data on CLARiiON, DMX and Hitachi subsystems and thereby decommissioning the storage arrays.
• Performed mapping and masking on DMX for storage allocation using Solutions Enabler.
• Implemented, administered and maintained EMC CLARiiON Arrays using Navisphere and Unisphere.
• Performed storage allocation on VMAX arrays and assigned FAST policies for the Storage Groups using Solution Enabler.
• Creating Business Continuality Volumes (BCV’s) for the LUNs on VMAX for redundancy.
• Performed zoning on Cisco switches with Interop/Production VSAN using Fabric/Device Manager.
• Configured the zones, adding to and activating the zone configuration on Brocade switches using Brocade Connectrix Manager/Webtools.
• Involved in designing several migration related strategies depending on the host environment.
• Worked closely with System Administrators and Oracle DBA’s in migrating storage on hosts with ASM and non-ASM volumes, assisted DBA in ASM Disk Rebalancing.
• Involved in assisting System Administrators for copying data using Logical Volume Mirroring.
• Responsible for setting up Persistent Binding by editing lpfc.conf and sd.conf file on Sun Solaris.
• Performed auto provisioning on V-MAX by creating Initiator, Port and Storage groups using Solution Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Created and mapped gatekeepers to hosts for SYMCLI.
• Performed several array based migrations from CX, DMX, HDS and IBM XIV, SVC arrays to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Involved in planning the FA port utilization for migrations and closely monitoring the ceiling and throttle while performing the migrations using Open Replicator
• Performed migrations using PowerPath Migration Enabler.
• Configured business continuity solutions using SRDF Synchronous / Asynchronous.
• Involved in monitoring and analyzing weekly performance through put on VMAX arrays using Unisphere and EMC Control Center.
• Involved in live migrations on ESX virtual machines using VMotion.

Confidential, Marysville, OH

Storage Administrator

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, DMX3000, CLARiiON CX4-960, CX3-40, CX300, Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI), Symmetrix Management Console, Unisphere, Navisphere Manager, Cisco MDS 9506 and 9513 directors, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, MirrorView, SnapView, SRDF, Navisphere Analyzer, Open Replicator, PPME, SAN Copy, AIX 6.0, Windows 2008/2003, VMware 4.0, 3.0.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day administration involved managing the SAN environment consisting of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4 and CLARiiON CX4-960 storage systems connected to Windows, AIX and VMware.
• Performed auto provisioning on V-MAX by creating Initiator, Port and Storage groups using Solution Enabler and Symmetrix Management Console.
• Used Unisphere and Navisphere Manager to create Raid groups, Storage groups, LUN and Meta LUN and assigned them to Windows, UNIX, AIX and Solaris servers.
• Performed thin provisioning on CLARiiON storage arrays using Unisphere and Navisphere Manager.
• Performed data replication on Symmetrix for disaster recovery between two VMAX using SRDF/Synchronous.
• Created device groups and added devices to device groups to manage SRDF/Synchronous.
• Implemented migration on CLARiiON storage arrays without any downtime and no application impact, using host based migration tool Power Path Migration Enabler.
• Created local point in time snapshots and complete data clones for local replication on CLARiiON using SnapView Snapshots/Clones.
• Monitored and analyzed performance on CLARiiON storage system using Navisphere Analyzer.

Confidential

System AAdministrator

Environment: Windows, Solaris Servers, PowerPath.

Responsibilities:

• Administered and configured Solaris and Windows Servers.
• Performed system maintenances according to the requirements.
• Installed and upgraded the existing software packages.
• Involved in monitoring system security, network traffic, and network connections and adjust system parameters to increase system performance.
• Created user accounts and assigned privileges and reset passwords.
• Installed applications on servers and workstations required by the product development team.
• Performed complete and incremental file system backups and restores points in case of failure on disks.
• Conducted daily backups and restored as need basis.
• Participated and supported multiple remote site installations.
• Installed applications on servers and workstations required by the product development team.