SUMMARY:

• Seeking Storage Architect, Design, implementation and administration assignments in IT Infrastructure Industry with a technology driven organization of repute
• Technologist with 15+ years of experience in enterprise level Infrastructure Management.
• Comprehensive understanding of Storage products of Confidential Data Storage, Confidential Storage, Confidential 3PAR, NetApps, DELL and Hitachi Data Systems, Fiber Channel switches of CISCO, Brocade and Mc. Data.
• Contributed towards academia in the field of SAN/ Confidential /UNIX Analyst/Architect/Administrator position.
• Strong experience in Virtualization - VPLEX, SVC, Confidential Storewize, XIO, XIV, Netapps Virtual Provisioning, FAST VP,Easy Tier, Netapps DP, Flash, HDP, HDT and UVM.
• Worked as Storage and System Administrator/Implementer/Designer/Architect for some of the giant in large enterprise infrastructure environment.
• Proven ability to work in a team environment whilst being resourceful, self-directed and self-motivated.
• A keen planner, strategist & implementer with demonstrated abilities in IT infrastructure planning and management for streamlining business operations.
• An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Product category Confidential products Storage Arrays Confidential VMAX, VMAX3, Xtreme IO, DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX, Isilon, vBLOCK, HDS G1K, VSP, USP V, USP VM, HUS, HDS HUS130, AMS 2500, Confidential XIV, V7000, DS8000 Series, DS 4K/5K, Falsh System, NetApps FAS Series, 2500,8000, E Sries, V Series (3700), Confidential -EVA, Confidential -XP, 3PAR Inserve Series, Oracle ZFS,
• Virtualization VMware, VPLEX, Confidential SVC, Easy Tier, Protect Tier, Storage Vmotion, SDS(Software Defined Storage), Virtual Provisioning, FAST VP, FAST Cache, FLASH Cache,HDP, HDT and UVM
• SAN CISCO MDS 9513, 95xx, 9148, Brocade DCX 4, DCX 8, DS Series and Director class switches
• Data Protection Confidential SRDF, Time Finder, RecoverPoint, Confidential Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and Flash Copy, NetApps Snapshots, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault for both 7 and C-Mode, 3PAR Rcopy & HDS True Copy, Universal replicator (HUR), Shadow Image, Copy On Write, Thin Image, CCI, Veritas Netbackup, RMAN backup and TSM.
• IT Storage Management Confidential ECC, Unisphere, Navisphere, SYMCLI, SMC, SPA & HDS HiCommand Suite, Tuning Manager, Tiered Storage Manager, Storage Navigator, SNM2, SMU, RAIDCOM, Confidential TPC/TPC-R, DS Manager, DS-CLI, Data on-command manager
• High Availability Confidential SRDF STAR (Concurrent & Cascaded), SRDF A & SRDF S (VMAX & DMX), TimeFinder (VMAX & DMX), SnapView, CloneView & MirrorView
• (VNX & Clariion).NetApps Sync Mirror, Metro-Mirror for Confidential SVC and V7K
• Fabric Administration Fabric building, Zone administration, Brocade switches, Brocade Network Advisor, VSAN administration, ISL administration, Trunking using Cisco MDS switches and Director Class switches. Manging Fabric with BNA,Connectrix Manager, DCFM, Fabric Manager and Device manager
• Migration Open Replicator, SRDF, PPME, Open Migrator, Piper Migration appliance, SVC Migration Tool, TDFM, IP Replicator & HDS UVM and Tiered Storage Manager
• Service Management Tools Peregrine, Plan IT, Maximo, Remedy, Service center, SMARTS, HOBBIT & UNITY.
• Operating Systems Windows 2000 Server Family 2003, 2008 and 2012 Standard & Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Professional/ 9X/ XP, Solaris 8/9/10, Confidential AIX 5.2 / 5.3, Red Hat Linux ES ¾ and Confidential Unix.
• Confidential NetApp 7-Mode and C-Mode Administration, CIFS and NFS creations,
• ISCSI SAN solution for hosts, SVM Configuration, LIF configuration, VNX File Creation and provide Design a solution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Morrisville, NJ

GSME/Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• The scope of the project is to manage and consolidation of various legacy storage arrays to Confidential SVC and V7000U, with externalizing the source volumes and migrating the data with Tiered Storage Manager (TSM) and managing both Hitachi Data Systems and Confidential Data storage to provide better performance.
• Implementation of SVC (Dynamic Provisioning) to create storage pools in SVC arrays and
• Administration of SVC
• Implementation of Easy Tier (Combination of SSD, SAS and SATA) for load balancing in SVC and V7000.
• Performed NetApp FAS models DR activity as a SAN solution.
• Completed consolidation of Non Confidential technologies like DELL, Confidential and Confidential to Confidential Products using storage and host based migration.
• As part of migration I build Customer Data Center with design and implementations.
• Creation of Data ONTAP 7G Aggregates,Flexvols, VIFs and VLANs
• Allocating storage through iSCSI, NFS, FCP
• Part of migration Integrated Customer Applications to Cloud solutions like Amazon web services.
• Performing online performance data analysis.
• Establishing SRDF relationship between PROD & DR environments.
• Established Confidential Metro Mirror and Global Mirror between Production and Disaster recovery environment.
• As part of DR drill I implemented Flash Copy/Golden Copy for SVC.
• Administration of ECC for Capacity Management of Storage Devices and SAN switches - CISCO MDS and Brocade
• Configure CISCO MDS - VSAN, Port-Channel, Standard Aliasing, Zonesets and zones.
• Implementation of Confidential Easy Tier to create storage pools in SVC/V7000 arrays and
• Administration of Mdiskgroups/Storage pools
• Implementation of Dynamic pools (Combination of SSD, SAS and SATA) for Dynamic Tiering in
• Hitachi VSP and administration of Hitachi Dynamic Tie ring Pools (HDT)
• Performed migrations between pools using Tiered Storage Manager and Volume Migrator.
• Implemented remote migrations using True Copy and Hitachi Universal replicator.
• Performed In-system level replications using Shadow Image and Copy on Write Snapshot.
• Evaluating the performance of the storage frames using Tuning Manager, Performance Manager
• Configuring and creating Devices, Mapping & Masking them at PROD, DR & UAT environments.
• Establishing Replication relationship between PROD & DR environments.
• Configuring HDS Shadow Image and Time finder operations on PROD & DR environment.
• Execute Data Migration using HDS UVM/HTsM and Confidential Open Replicator.
• Configuring, Managing, Administering and Troubleshooting of Issues.
• Act as a Global Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.
• Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets.
• Reactive and Proactive Performance analysis
• Coordinating and working with all Vendors
• Ensuring all Standard documents are updated correctly and reviewing with Client
• Preparing the Root cause analysis documents for all major issues
• Identification of Scope of Improvement, planning and executing
• Preparing the Process and procedure documents for internal team
• Handling of RFS/project requests
• Planning and implementing the Micro code/Firmware upgrades
• On call support and weekend changes planning & implementations.

Environment: Confidential, DELL, Hitachi, Confidential EVA/XP, NetApps and Confidential storage.

Confidential

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Primary Goal: Data Center build on private cloud environment with consolidation of Disaster recovery solution at Confidential UK Warwick and Birmingham locations.
• Summary: The Co-operative Bank has various legacy environment like Confidential, DELL, Confidential 3PAR and Confidential storage devices at five data centers across UK. As part of technology refresh we have provided solution to move their infrastructure to Private Cloud on Confidential devices which consolidates five data centers into two data-centers at Confidential UK premises in Warwick and Birmingham locations as a primary and disaster recovery solution. It took six months to complete the build and start migration.
• During the implementation phase I have identified that there were four extra devices that were ordered to establish the link between sites. As an implementation specialist I have highlighted this with senior architects. They agreed with the solution of Virtual fabric instead of traditional fabric. This solution has been arrived at by consulting Brocade. Finally customer and Brocade has agreed to build Virtual Fabric. This led to savings of 80,000 Pounds to Confidential UK.
• Tasks preformed during Build and Migration:
• Configuring and creating Devices, Mapping & Masking them at PROD, DR & UAT environments.
• Configuring Time finder operations (Clones & Mirror) on PROD & DR environment.
• Create Zones and communicate between Source Symmetrix/Hitachi to Target VMAX.
• Execute the OR, TDMF and Piper Migration sessions.
• Administration of HDS Storage platform and SAN switches.
• Administration of HDS VSP, USP V, AMS 2500 family & HiCommand Suite.
• Configuring, Managing, Administering and Troubleshooting of Issues.
• Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.
• Act as a Subject Matter expert for production support team for any day to day operational issues.
• Performing online performance data analysis.
• Configuring Citrix and ESX 5.5 Clusters with High Availability and Storage V-motion.
• Configuring Storewize with private cloud solutions.
• Recently implemented private cloud infrastructure.
• Consolidating Legacy Data center to Private cloud infrastructure
• Configured various tools to make automation of the storage tasks and various monitoring tools for performance and reporting purpose.
• Part of Build and solutioning configured TPC and TPC-R for reporting and calculating various accounts.
• Configuring BNA and performing trouble shooting tasks.
• Configuring Confidential Cloud storage devices like Spectrum Accelerator and Spectrum Scale.
• Configuring Open Stack cloud solution to perform disk provisioning.
• Integrating Confidential Cloud solution with various Operating systems.
• Providing migration solutions using Confidential SVC.
• Configuring Hyper-V on Vmware environment for Production and Test applications.
• Configuring Hitachi USP-V and VSP Storage with True copy and Shadow image technologies.
• Configured Brocade V-FAB for DCX-8 series as part of DR site build.
• Integrated Confidential XIV Gen2 and Gen3 with SVC as a virtualization solution.

Environment: Confidential, DMX, 3PAR, Hitachi, VMware & Confidential SVC/V7000/FS900/DS8870/XIV

Confidential, Palmyra, IL

Global SME -Storage

Responsibilities:

• Working on Confidential project, I had faced many challenges and issues as a part of disaster solution due to network bandwidth proposed for an increase of bandwidth, but customer was not willing to increase bandwidth due to budget constraints. So i have tested few volumes replication instead of entire storage then customer disaster drill has been achieved 4 hrs before Schedule timings.
• Considering timelines to achieve disaster customer has agreed to increase bandwidth which was improved over all replication process due to this entire site recovery drill has been completed 18 hrs prior to predefined schedule timings.
• So customer was so happy with this solution since their disaster solution/disaster drill test also come up with very minimal production loss.

Environment: Confidential DS8300, PPRC, Global Copy, Network and Linux

Confidential,

SME

Responsibilities:

• Confidential customer was charged for mid-range Confidential on “per GB used” basis. Confidential was unable to measure storage usage and was charging based on baseline agreed. This solution to implement NMC (N Series Management Console) was aim to give a tactical capacity report so that Confidential can charge on actual storage usage.
• I played a major role in helping Technical solution writer to write down this solution. My contribution in the document was to analyze and narrate the environment details, provide end to end technical configuration setup and generate the usage report for billing purpose. With NMC implementation Confidential is able to get the usage report and bill customer on correct data usage. This shows Confidential value to customer and has helped in gaining extra business. Confidential has got new business to support SAN infrastructure of Confidential .

Environment: Confidential N6040, NMC, SnapMirror, Network and Linux

Confidential

Sr. Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade DCFM, CLI and Webtools, EFCM manager and
• Confidential Connectrix Manager for management of SAN director, core and edge switches.
• Configuring and creating Devices, Mapping & Masking them at PROD, DR, and BUNKER Site Environments.
• Establishing SRDF Star (Cascaded) setup in the entire environment.
• Execute the SRDF Synchronous setup from Prod to Bunker Site.
• Execute the SRDF Asynchronous setup from Bunker to DR Site.
• Model changes with Tier Advisor tool and capture data.
• Configure FAST VP policy and Enable it on the pool.
• Virtual Storage Provisioning from VMAX3/VNX and allocating it to VPLEX Masking views.
• Discovering the Storage array and devices in VPLEX and Creating Storage view to present it to ESX clusters.
• Executed the Open Replicator (Cold pull) sessions for SYMM to VMAX and Host based and SAN copy from CX 700 to CX4 series for successful data migration.
• Co-ordinate between business groups to drive the migration smoothly.
• Configure the thin pools based on drive technology and enabled the FAST VP and FAST CACHE.
• Configure and layout of Storage infrastructure for participating hosts/applications. i.e. (Provisioning with Unisphere and UIM).
• Configuring Open Replicator for migration from Non Confidential to Confidential devices.
• Configured FLM (Federated Live migration) for migrations.
• Install hardware components of the MDS Switch 9148.
• Install the SFP's in each empty port and setting up the network.
• Install FMS service and performance manager discovery and CDP installation and discover.

Confidential, New York

Sr. Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed the remediation work to cross check compatibility matrix to migrate the data from existing frame to new frame.
• The Data Migration Event was done in two phases. They were as follows.
• This phase involved the replication of data from Customer owned Storage to Confidential Loaner Storage and tech refreshes for increased performance and capacity. In this phase we moved the Customer's SAN infrastructure to Somerset Data Center
• To achieve that I undertook the following activities:
• I did a VMotion of 125 VMs from VNX5300 to VNX5500L. This did not involve Downtime because I used extra HBA with new DCX loaner and zoned to DMX, VMAX.
• The hardware was upgraded from VNX5300 to VNX5500U. This was done to enhance the performance and capacity.
• SAN Copy migration of 20TB of data on 8 hosts from CX3-20 to VNX5500L (LUN sizes remain same) was performed
• MirrorView from VNX5500L to VNX5500U (with Promote @ PH2)
• SRDF migration of 40TB of data on 10 hosts from DMX to VMAX, Personality swap (VMAX)
• VNX (Celerra) Replicator was used for File systems < 1TB of 2 FS
• Personality Swap (VMAX), Fracture Session (VNX)
• This phase involved the actual movement of the customer owned Server infrastructure. As part of that the tasks needed were as follows:
• Post Relocation of the server infrastructure we had to Re-zone, re-establish relationship, Fail over and run Incremental Synchronization.
• Confidential loaned VNX5500 had to be Reverse Synchronized to VNX5500U.
• SRDF replication had to be Setup. This involved VMAX to DMX4 Synchronization.
• Brocade 48000 (2) SAN switch required setup of zoning.
• Return of Loaner Equipment after Certified Data Erasure on VMAX, VNX5500. Then Pack and return the loaner equipment.

Environment: VMAX, Symmetrix, VNX, CX SRDF Sync, Async, San Copy and OR

Confidential

Advisory Technical Services Professional

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Storage Technology Activities:
• Configuring Confidential DMX and CX with all flavors of Operating Systems. (SAN) with ECC and SMC.
• Working on Brocade 12K and 47K series.
• Configuring Device mapping and masking with different flavors of operating systems.
• Configuring Confidential boxes with backend of DMX Series.
• Confidential Storage Technology Activities:
• Working on Confidential Storage models - DS8300, DS5100, DS4700, & ESS
• Configuring SVC, XIV storage with different flavors of OS with the backend storage of DS Series.
• Working on Creating and managing Arraysite, Array, Rank, Extent Pool, Volumes, Volume groups, host connects, LUN Masking/Mapping, Performance Monitoring, capacity planning.
• Having hands on experience on IN range and CISCO MDS 9000 Series switches
• Netapp Technologies Activities:
• Creation of Data ONTAP 7G Aggregates, Flexvols, VIFs and VLANs
• Allocating storage through iSCSI, NFS, FCP
• Working on Qtrees, Sanpshots, Snap Mirror and Snap Restores.
• Knowledge on OPS manager

Environment: Windows Server 2k/2k3, Solaris OS, Brocade 12K, 47K switch, DMX 1000/2000 & DMX4

Confidential

System Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an Engineering L3 Team Lead (India Operations), managing Confidential (France Telecom) Storage design and provide optimum solutions to the clients. Where all storages are centerally located in Orange Data centers across the globe.
• Creation of Data ONTAP 7G Aggregates,Flexvols, VIFs and VLANs
• Allocating storage through iSCSI, NFS, FCP
• Working on Qtrees, Sanpshots, Snap Mirror and Snap Restores.
• Configured Confidential DMX and CX with all flavors of Operating Systems. (SAN) with ECC and Connectrix Manager.
• Configured Device mapping and masking with different flavors of operating systems.
• Configured and manging Netapp filers like Fas960C, R200, F810C, Fas940 and Fas270.
• Configured and maping ISCSI luns using Netapp filers.
• Configured Share Movements on different file systems.

Environment: Windows Server 2k/2k3, Solaris OS, Brocade 12K, 47K switch, DMX, NetApp 200, 270, FAS 3020, FAS 940, 960C

Confidential

Storage systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a L3 Team Member, managing Confidential Storage Operations and provide optimum solutions to the clients.
• Configured Confidential DMX and CX with all flavors of Operating Systems.(SAN and DAS) with ECC and Connectrix Manager.
• Worked on ED140 and ED 1100 series.
• Configured VERITAS Net Backup policies and monitoring the job status.
• Configured Confidential boxes with backend of DMX Series.
• Configured Confidential file systems and user as well as group quotas.
• Configured Share Movements on different file systems.
• Collected VERITAS reports.
• Added clients in to the different netbackup policies.

Environment: DMX, CX400, CX700, CX600, ED140, ED1100, Veritas Net Backup, RMAN backup

Confidential

Executive- Professional Services Group

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a Team Leader, managing Confidential Storage Operations and provide optimum solutions to the clients.
• Configured Confidential CX and CX3 Series with all flavors of Operating Systems.(SAN and DAS) with Power path, Navisphere Manager, Navi cli, navi analyzer and navi analyzer
• Worked on Brocade Silk worm, 3250, 3850, DS8B2, DS16B3, DS32B2 McData 4400, DS24M2 and 4700.
• Configured Snap shot, Snap View, Mirror view and San Copy.
• Configured Tape library eg. SCALAR I 2000 with Bright star backup
• Configured Storagetek L40 drive for VERITAS Net Backup.
• Configured and managing Web Server, DNS and Mail Server with SGI IRIX.
• Configured and managing 4 Node Centera Cluster for Remote Replication and Exchange archival.
• Configured Confidential boxes with back-end of CX Series.
• Apple FC RAID and MAC Work Stations Configured and maintaining.
• Configured Altix Series servers for Number Crunching.3

Environment: CX200, CX300, CX400, CX500, CX600, CX700, Brocade Silk worm, 3250, 3850, DS8B2, DS16B3, DS32B2 McData 4400, DS24M2 and 4700, SCALAR I 2000, L40, SGI IRIX,Altix, Centera and Octane.