SUMMARY:

To obtain a Storage Solutions: Manager or Director of Storage Infrastructure, Storage Architect, position with a progressive company where advancement and personal growth is encouraged

SKILLS:

• Perl scripting
• Confidential Control Center (ECC)
• Confidential TimeFinder Suite (Mirror/Clone/Snap)
• Confidential SRDF - Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
• Confidential Open Replicator / Open Migrator
• Confidential Solutions Enabler: SYMCLI
• Confidential Symmetrix: From Symm4 to VMAX
• Confidential Clariion: All CX series, Confidential
• Confidential Celerra
• Confidential Avamar
• Confidential Performance manager
• Confidential Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA)
• Confidential Symmetrix management Console (SMC)
• Confidential Storage Scope
• Confidential Navisphere Manager
• Confidential Unisphere
• Confidential SMC
• Confidential SPA
• Prosphere
• Watch4Net
• FLASH drives, NL-SAS, SAS, FC, SATA
• Change Management
• Confidential MirrorView/SnapView
• Confidential NaviCLI
• Confidential PowerPath
• Confidential Connectrix Manager
• Confidential NAS and SAN
• Confidential FAS8020, 8040, 8060
• Flexpod
• Confidential CLI
• Confidential System Manager
• Data Ontap 8.x
• Pure Storage
• Cisco FC / SAN Switch—Fabric Manager and CLI
• Brocade FC Switch Management—CLI and Webtools
• McData FC Switch—Connectrix Manager
• Unix: SUN Solaris, AIX, Linux, VMware ESX, HP-UX
• UCS C-series: 220 M3
• VMware
• Windows
• Macintosh OS
• FCIP, iFCP, Gig-E
• FCOE FC cisco switch
• 3PAR InServe E200, S800
• 3PAR InForm
• IBM DS4500, IBM DS6000, FastT series
• IBM Storage Manger / TSM
• VERITAS Storage Foundation
• VERITAS CLI & VERITAS Enterprise Administrator
• NetBackup Administrator Console, BAR (Backup Archive Restore), NetBackup CLI
• Avamar Backup
• TSM Backup
• Microsoft Excel

WORK - EXPERIENCE:

Manager of Storage & Backup Infrastructure

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed the migration and refresh of storage from a VMAX 20K to VMAX 950FX with SRDF STAR replication
• Refreshed and migrated from legacy Cisco SAN switches to new MDS 9710s 64G
• Did performance review for all my team members
• Built goals and roadmaps for the storage and backup team
• ECS cloud management

Storage Solutions Architect / Migrations Expert

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Migrated over 500TB of data from the Confidential VMAX to a new PURE m70 array successfully
• Setup remote replication for PURE storage
• Designed the destination PURE storage array
• Performed initial and post setup of PURE m70
• Built a migration matrix, and detailed technical implementation plan
• Configured, setup and used Confidential Open Replicator for storage level migration
• Used PPME for non-pure LUNs migration
• Automation with Perl Scripting
• Performed a storage economics research and discovered stranded storage that didn’t need to be migrated - saving 100TB of space
• Worked on VMAX3, VMAX 40K, 10K PURE m70, HP 3PAR, Cisco MDS and a heterogeneous OS

Manager of Storage & Backup Infrastructure

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed a team of 7 persons—technical leadership: training, coaching and administrative
• Storage Economics - Did an extensive research on storage presented, storage actually used and identified stranded storage of over 500TB across a 3PB SAN
• Helped re-architect the Backup area network: TSM backup utility
• Storage and backup strategy development
• Helped the storage and backup team with day to day storage duties: provisioning, deployments, capacity reporting, performance analysis
• XtremeIO, VPLEX, VMAX, Confidential, Cisco MDS witch and Brocade SAN switch management
• IBM V7000, XIV provisioning, TSM Backup
• Data Domain Management
• Automation with Perl Scripting
• Confidential RecoverPoint Management

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Cluster mode deployment
• Confidential Cluster Mode design, implementation and management
• FlexPod management
• Brocade SAN switch management
• Confidential and Confidential Storage Implementation and refresh (Unified, Block and iSCSI)
• Confidential Storage design and capacity management
• Cisco Nexus 5K management (unified)
• Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning.
• VMAX management
• SRDF and Timefinder Management
• NAS Management: VNXe, Celerra NS120, Confidential
• Some NetBackup 7.1 Management
• Some Avamar 7.0 backup/restore management
• Veeam Backup
• Design and Architected Nimble storage and Confidential
• ESXi build on UCS 220 M3 servers
• Virtualization

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

Responsibilities:

• Confidential and Confidential Storage Implementation and refresh
• Confidential Storage design and capacity management
• Cisco Nexus 5K management (unified)
• Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning.
• VMAX management
• SRDF, Timefinder Management
• NAS Management: VNXe, Celerra NS120, Confidential
• Some NetBackup 7.1 Management
• Some Avamar 7.0 backup/restore management
• Confidential RecoverPoint Management

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Created Storage Allocation Policies, Processes and Procedures
• Designed a Storage Demand Forecasting Mechanism for predicting growth and continues storage usage
• Storage Capacity Management
• Storage Economics
• Re-architected environment to efficiently use storage: preventing situation of High-dollar storage arrays serving low-value applications and vice versa.
• Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning.
• Storage Migration with Confidential Open Replicator/Migrator
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC, Unisphere, Prosphere, Watch4Net and Symcli /Symaccess (VMAX)
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning ( Confidential, CX, VMAX, NAS Celerra, Isilon, Confidential )
• Adding Isilon Accelerator Nodes and configuring them to cluster
• OneFS code upgrades
• SRDF data replication management
• Automation with Perl Scripting
• Some NetBackup 7.x Management
• Some Avamar 7.x backup/restore management

Lead Solutions Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of three persons—technical leadership: training, coaching and administrative
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Storage Migration with Confidential Open Replicator and open Migrator
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC, Unisphere and Symcli /Symaccess (VMAX)
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning
• SRDF data replication management

Sr. Storage Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC and Symcli /Symaccess (VMAX)
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning
• Storage migration using Confidential Open Replicator/Migrator
• Migrated storage from IBM SVC, Hitachi, CX, onto Confidential VMX infrastructure
• SRDF data replication management
• Host level migration using Open Migrator, Veritas, Unix native tools
• TimeFinder Snap clone and Mirror application management
• Confidential Clariion and Symmetrix Management
• NAS Management: Confidential, Celerra
• IBM DS8000,
• Automation with Perl and bash shell scripting

Sr. Operations Manager

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed a team of 16 persons—technical leadership: training, coaching and administrative
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Provisioning storage with SMC and Symaccess (VMAX)
• Day to day storage administration
• Storage migration using Open Replicator
• Training junior storage administrators on SAN best practices
• SRDF data replication management
• Timefinder Snap clone and Mirror application management
• Confidential Clariion and Symmetrix Management

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential, Deerfield Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Building new Windows and ESX servers and adding them to the SAN. Configuring VERITAS Volume Manager and DMP etc.
• Running performance analysis on Oracle DB, SQL DB and DB2 performance issues.
• Configuring newly purchased Clariions, adding new DAE’s etc. Configuring NAS data movers and cge’s to replicate across data centers.
• Creating VM farms, adding ESX to new farms and provisioning storage to VMware ESX servers from CX-level to the creation of datastores.
• Architecting a new Data Center for disaster recovery and migrating all servers and storage arrays from old DR facility to newly developed DR center.
• Building Brocade LSAN on Brocade 7500 for FCIP between multiple data centers.
• Regular day-to-day storage request and increase in storage requests across multiple OS types: AIX, Linux, ESX, Windows, Solaris.
• As part of Confidential ’s recommended best practice, converted all hard zones to soft zones.
• Replicated data asynchronously across multiple Clariions with MirrorView/A, used SnapView for local replications.
• Re-architected storage layout for multiple Oracle DB servers
• Decommissioned server /storage on multiple server OS types.
• Creating File system on NAS. Creating CIFS and NFS shares etc.
• Provisioning storage from Confidential Clariions, IBM DS4500, IBM DS6800 and Confidential Symmetrix.
• Creating and building Windows Cluster, both physical and logical build.
• Migrating LUNs, mirroring LUNs at host level with smit for AIX servers and VERITAS for Solaris, Linux and windows OS.

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Responsibilities:

• The bulk of my job here was to assist in designing a better solution for their data center. I taught the Confidential SAN personnel the use and functionality of Confidential Control Center, Performance Manager and Storage Scope.
• I implemented the installation of Control Center to centralize management of their SAN. The Confidential SAN, implements the SAN virtualization technology. They have IBM SAN Virtualization Controller, behind which is an Confidential storage array: Symmetrix-DMX3, DMX4, and DMX 3000. The meta-devices on the DMX are virtualized into MDISKs and eventually presented to servers in the form of VDISKs. I assisted in the design architecture and operational administration of SVC.
• This environment had only Cisco switches: two MDS 9513 and several Cisco New Edge Blade servers. Embedded in these 9513’s was Generation 1 SSM cards, which we used for Recovery Point data protection. As a certified SAN specialist, I assisted in maintaining their SAN effectively.
• I did lots of performance analysis on their environments to ensure efficiency.
• I designed and set up alert notifications within ECC to aware the Confidential personnel when vital incidents happen to their SAN like disk failures, FA failures etc.
• This was a Team project. And I worked closely with my team to accomplish all assigned goals.
• Designed the redirection of VMware ESX Servers access to storage via SVC instead of from the Symmetrix directly.
• Provisioning storage from Confidential Clariions, IBM DS4500, IBM DS6800, FastT series and Confidential Symmetrix.

Lead Storage Engineer

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• In lieu of the then need to have all island storage accessible to all MSS servers I designed and implemented the consolidation of multiple island SAN’s within Cox’s data center successfully.
• In late 2007 Cox DPS came up with the intent to migrate most of their data from Confidential arrays to 3PAR arrays. I designed and analyzed both array vendors and developed a Performance Analysis report detailing the performance statistics of the then current Confidential against the tested 3PAR array. Saving Cox close to ninety thousand dollars in expense from the alternative of using Confidential professional services.
• Successfully migrated from McData SAN switches (64M2 and 24M2) to Cisco SAN switches when they reached their EOL/EOSL.
• Designed and presented quarterly performance analysis on the entire SAN.
• Worked extensively with Confidential local Replication software: TimeFinder/Mirror and Clone suite.
• Configured SMTP server for ECC email alerting.
• Executed to successful completion with zero down time, the de-commission of Sun 480/280 servers.
• Designed, installed and architected a Development lab environment to mimic the operational production environment as a SANDBOX.
• Executed to successful completion with zero down time the cleanup of VCMDB database to promote ease of troubleshooting
• Executed to successful completion with zero down time the cleanup of Zone database.
• I have an expert level knowledge with Confidential Connectrix Manager troubleshooting and functionalities, as well that of Cisco MDS 9000 series and Brocade.
• Facilitated in the rebuild of MSS DirMaster servers for RMAN
• Designed, architected and implemented a plan to switch from RAID1 0 to RAID 5(3+1) data protection to save cost.
• As part of my job as the Lead I thought all the junior members of my team Confidential storage technologies to comprehension in the form of knowledge transfer.
• General SAN monitoring of alerts, drive replacements, connectivity port issues, supervise Symmetrix Microcode and clarion Flare upgrades etc.
• Working experience with Confidential Symmetrix, Clariion, McData switches, Cisco MDS, SUN Solaris OS, 3PAR E200, S800, 3PAR InServe, 3PAR InForm.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and deliver results on target.
• Provisioning storage from Confidential Clariions, IBM DS4500, IBM DS6800, FastT series and Confidential Symmetrix.
• Extensive knowledge in Storage design, architecture and implementation
• Designed, architected and implemented disaster recovery with the implementation of iFCP and FCIP.
• Provided continuous afterhours support for storage and backup systems, working close with other teams in the organization to avoid any business or service impact.

Sr. Storage Administrator

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• De-commissioning of server storage to make efficient use of FA-ports on the arrays.
• Experience with SRDF migrations: Both host based and Array based migrations.
• Experience with TimeFinder/Mirror/Clone/snap functionalities and troubleshooting to locally replicate data.
• Designed architected and implemented the installation of new servers to the SAN. From physical cabling to the SAN switches to zone creation, mapping, and masking of storage.
• Worked extensively on Confidential Symmetrix DMX series, Clariion CX3-80, CX 700, Cisco MDS 9000 series, McData 64M and 32M2.
• Experience creating clusters with VCS and provisioning to clustered servers.
• Designed and implemented the migration of storage local to a server to a tier 2 SAN storage.
• Experience with Confidential NAS filer. Creating NAS volumes, expanding File systems on a need to basis.
• Experience with initial configuration of clarion and Symmetrix storage arrays to work in the respective environments placed.
• Extensive experience with zoning, mapping and masking via ECC
• Experience configuring CIFS and NFS protocols to publish file systems over IP to servers connected.
• Experience with Emulex, Qlogics and Sun Leadville HBA Adapters.
• Provided continuous afterhours support for storage and backup systems, working close with other teams in the organization to avoid any business or service impact