San Administrator Resume

SUMMARY

Hardworking and highly motivated professional with strong analytical skills and ability to lead or work for a team.
An accomplished Information Technology professional with over 5 years of experience in a multi-site, multi-host environment.
Strengths include solid communication and problem-solving skills and adapting to change.
Goal-oriented, innovative individual who has an excellent sense of teamwork to get results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Experience in:
DMX, Symmetrix EMC Control Center, Symcli.
Clariion EMC Navisphere Manager.
San Connectivity MDS, Connectrix M Series, Brocade.
Replication Software TimeFinder, San Copy
Monitoring / Reporting Performance Manager, Storage Scope

Professional Experience

Confidential,Pasadena, CA 2008 to 2009
San Administrator

Provisioned approximately 6 to 10 Terabytes of storage per week for multi-vendor host environment using symcli for several different projects.
Generated list for thousand of hosts attached to DMX Arrays which were candidate for Micro code upgrade and made all hosts redundant.
Created Aliases for hundreds of hosts when preparing for Micro code upgrade for EMC Array which made whole environment easy to troubleshoot.
Reclaimed devices from existing hosts or completely decommissioned hosts to add storage to Array’s free pool and later used those resources to other projects.
Involved in San Knowledge transfer for new hired or existing transferred employees on the change process and mentored them on standard KP provisioning techniques.
Resolved Remedy incidents by providing 24x7 support to KP-IT infrastructure during on call rotation.

Confidential,Pasadena, CA 2008 – 2008
San Administrator

Worked closely with EMC engineers assisting in firmware upgrade on Cisco MDS switches from San OS 3.0 (2c) to 3.2(3a).
Led the effort to remediate the hba driver and firmware for 500 servers and completed the task on schedule, which enabled a smooth firmware upgrade.
Discovered any single path hosts in an environment and had it redundant.
Allocated storage from DMX-3 to windows servers using ECC 5.2 SP5, zoned hosts to DMX FA ports, dissolved Meta devices and created Metas according to business unit need.
Provisioned storage from Clariion CX3-80 and CX700 using Navisphere that included host initiator registration for new boxes, creation of Raid Groups, Storage Groups, binding luns, Zoning hosts to Clariion sp’s using Fabric Manager.
Performed zoning according to EMC best practices standards.
Managed day-to-day function in SAN environment. Troubleshoot production outages and resolved single path failures. Installed Master Agent for ECC, PowerPath, StorageScope and Solutions Enabler as needed for new servers builds.

Confidential,Waltham, MA 2007 - 2007
San Administrator

Teamed with Senior Solutions Architect to design and implement Open Replicator for disaster recovery. Project tested successfully and completed ahead of schedule.
Responsibilities include devices for upgrading production hosts from 500GB to 1.2 TB. Created new relationships between production devices and clones. Maintained and updated scripts to allow necessary changes.
Increased the number of gatekeepers to a total of 6 from 2 on the designated host.
Managed day-to-day jobs in the SAN environment. Installed Master agent and Powerpath on host and performed zoning using Fabric Manager, swapped the devices from one host to another.
Installed and configured new fully loaded DAEs on an existing CX700. Set Bus and Enclosure address and verified.

Confidential,New York, NY 2003- 2007
San Administrator

Experience in Zoning using ECC 5.2, Fabric Manager/Device Manager, Connectrix Manager for Cisco MDS/Mcdata Director ED-140M. Experience in migrating fabric from Mcdata to Cisco MDS.
Provision storage for Solaris & Windows Servers on Clariion using Navisphere, Create RAID groups, Bind luns create Storage groups, register hosts
Experience in migrating arrays using Sancopy (clariion to clariion) Migrated 2TB from CX600 to CX700
Supported the environment for day-to-day operations for internal applications.
Assisted in managing LAN/WAN installation/configuration/support for Windows 2000/NT and Solaris Hosts.
Installation of Windows 2000/NT and Solaris on new Dell and Sun servers, setting up LAN connections with workstations using switches.
Assist in day-to-day operations of Sun Solaris development /production team.
Installed Symantec Firewalls and Anti-Virus on Windows servers and workstations.
Installed upgrades for applications and updates to Windows 2000 servers and workstations.
Installed upgrades and patches on Solaris servers.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce