SUMMARY:

• As a Storage Consultant, engaged primarily in Confidential Implementation and Support with a focus on various subject matter areas using Confidential Solutions.
• Experienced in deploying Confidential Storage Systems for both SAN and NAS and setting up DR sites taking advantage of Confidential Data Protection Solutions.
• Strong knowledge and solid working experience of Confidential Data ONTAP (7 - Mode/CDOT) and Storage Network Protocols including FCP, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and CIFS
• Competent Technical Expert with proven experience in Systems, Storage, Backup Management and Capacity Management
• Involved in many Storage upgrade projects in production environments.
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills combined with strong customer service attitude
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and as a team player, willing to share knowledge and train co-workers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Engineer

• Involved in Data Migration Project of moving CIFS shares data off Confidential to Microsoft OneDrive Cloud
• Monitoring migration process and troubleshooting migration related issues

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Storage Consultant

• Perform day-to-day Confidential Clustered Data ONTAP storage administration tasks with Command Line Interface (CLI) and OnCommand System Manager
• Monitoring system health and performance with OnCommand Unified Manager, Performance Manager and RESTful API Server
• Storage Capacity Management with Apache Zeppelin (data analytics and visualization tool)
• Scripting using Python, PowerShell, Confidential SDK, Confidential PowerShell Toolkit and Bash with emphasis in storage platform/systems automation
• Work to define standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics around shared storage
• Working with various operating systems in physical and virtualized environments such as VMWare
• Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to other support resources

Confidential

Storage Management Engineer

• Implementation of Clustered Data ONTAP storage systems with Confidential /Cisco cluster switches
• Configuration of SVM (Storage Virtual Machine) for data services
• Configuring the storage network protocols including SAN (FCP, iSCSI, FCoE) and NAS (NFS and CIFS)
• Configuring the data protection and storage efficiency solutions (SnapMirror, SnapVault, Snapshot, FlexClone, Deduplication)
• Implementation of FlexPod data center solutions and Cisco UCS
• Expanding a cluster by adding an HA pair to an existing cluster
• Plan, design, forecast, communicate and enable deployment of standard storage systems and architectures
• Consulting with the customer on potential configuration changes to their environment in order to improve utilization and efficiency as well as the daily operational tasks and best practices
• Provide day to day storage management activities including configuration, provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving storage-related services to support end users

Confidential

Storage Specialist

• Managing Confidential /Nseries systems at Manulife site (Toronto, Markham)
• Involved in CIFS Data Migration project (200TB, EMC to Confidential /Nseries)
• Implementation of Confidential /Nseries solutions (Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault, FlexClone and OnCommand Unified Manager)
• Planning, proposing and managing complex Nseries storage and backup environments
• Design, implementation and adjust storage configurations for optimal performance
• Provide storage and backup capacity analysis and requirements
• Excellent analytical skills for troubleshooting failures, performance issues and capacity anomalies
• Integration Nseries with reporting and alerting systems like Tivoli

Confidential

Professional Services Engineer

• Installation/Configuration of Confidential FAS/AFF storage controllers, Disk shelves, E/EF-series and Confidential N-series
• Configuring the storage network protocols including FCP, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS and CIFS
• Head Swap upgrade
• Data ONTAP upgrade, Motherboard/Shelf/Disk/RLM/SP firmware upgrade
• System Analysis for all kinds of upgrades
• Data Centre relocation support
• Confidential best practices implementation and Capacity Management
• Customer support including troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Establishes/recommends policies on storage use and services

Confidential, Toronto, ON

S torage and Backup Analyst

• Managing Confidential storage systems, Volumes, LUNs, RAID disk array
• Implementation of Data Protection using Snapshot, SnapVault, SnapMirror and Open System SnapVault (OSSV) solutions
• Backup system migration based on disk-to-disk solution
• Backup and restore with Veritas NetBackup and Legato NetWorker
• Design, deployment and provisioning of storage and backup solutions
• Monitor daily health of storage, servers and backup environments
• Analyzes and resolves complex performance problems and outages of storage facilities

Confidential, Toronto, ON

Unix /Linux Systems Administrator

• Solaris JumpStart installations, Systems level software installations, Server configuration, updates, patch apply and implementation support
• Experienced with Solaris/Red Hat Linux
• Monitoring systems to detect degradations and outages and track performance
• Backup and restore with Veritas NetBackup
• Implementing and configuring SAN disk LUN’s for Hitachi disk array
• Managing the logical volumes using Veritas Volume Manager/Solaris Volume Manager
• Shell programming for process automation using Unix shell script and Perl
• Deploying advanced systems management solutions based on Solaris technology
• Systems capacity planning and resources usage analysis using MRTG

Confidential

S ystems Engineer

• Business requirements analysis, architecture reviews and the subsequent solution recommendation based on the collected data
• Provided optimum configuration of servers and networks for ISP (Internet Service
• Provided Sun solutions related to Next Generation Network and Softswitch to Telco and Internet Service Providers as a Telco Solution Architect
• Implementation and ongoing hardware/software support for Sun platforms
• Installation and configuration of Sun products (Solaris OS, Enterprise Server, Workgroup Server, Workstation, Netra Server and iPlanet Packages)