SUMMARY:

Seasoned and highly accredited EMC, VMWare, Microsoft and Cisco Certified Professional seeking career advancement within a dynamic, high growth organization that welcomes innovation, dedication, and experience.

STRENGTHS:

• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Software - defined Storage
• Storage Architecture
• Rollout / Implementation
• Security
• Team Leadership
• Data Backup
• Systems Engineering
• Vendor Management
• Data Center Management
• Upgrade / Migration
• Recruitment / Mentoring
• Virtualization
• Network Design / Planning
• Contract Negotiations
• Disaster Recovery
• Maintenance

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

SAN: EMC PowerMax 2000,EMC VMAX 200K, 100K, EMC DMX-3 950, DMX-1000, EMC Symmetrix 8830, EMC VPLEX VS2

NAS: EMC Unity600F, 450F and 400F, EMC Isilon, EMC VNX 5200/5400, EMC eNAS, EMC VG2, VG8, EMC Clariion, EMC NS80G

Network: Cisco-Nexus 5596, 56128 Cisco MDS-9396t,9513,9509, Cisco Catalyst 4000/5000,19xx, 24xx, 29xx

TECHNOLOGY:

HARDWARE:

SAN: EMC PowerMax 2000,VMAX 200K, 100K, DMX-3 950, DMX-1000, Symmetrix 8830, VPLEX VS2

NAS: EMC Unity600F, 450F and 400F, EMC Isilon, EMC VNX 5200/5400, EMC eNAS, EMC VG8, EMC Clariion, EMC NS80G

Archive: EMC Centera, EMC Rainfinity File Managemnet

Switches: Cisco-Nexus5596, Cisco- Nexus56128, Cisco- Nexus5628, Cisco MDS-96395t/9513/9509, Cisco Catalyst 4000/5000, 19xx, 24xx, 29xx, Confidential

Intel Based Servers: Dell, Compaq, IBM

Backup Technologies: EMC Data Domain 690/860/4500 , EMC Avamar, Symantec Netbackup, Exabyte, Storagetek, LTO, DLT, DAT

Hardware Technologies: Fiber, CNA, HBA, iSCSI, RAID, SCSI, IDE, Fast Ethernet

SOFTWARE:

EMC: Solutions Enabler, Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VPLEX, ViPR Controller GUI, Unisphere for Unity, Isilon Insight IQ, OneFS GUI, Unisphere for NAS, Data Domain Systems Manager, Avamar web console, EMC Rainfinity.

Cisco: Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), Cisco Device Manger, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco CLI

Server Software: EMC Power Path, EMC Solutions enabler, EMC Storage Scope, EMC Control Center, Clariion Disk Library Console, EMC Time Finder, ESX 3.5, Symantec Endpoint Protection, MS SUS, Dell IT Assistant, Dell Server Administrator, Site Scope, Checkpoint, MS SQL, LanDesk, MS Proxy, IIS, CA’s Arc Server, Backup Exec, Legato, EDM backups, Netbackup 6.5/6.0, SyncSort, MS Exchange, SnifferPro, WhatsUpGold, WebNM, Config Safe, Site Keeper, Symantec GHOST, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee.

NETWORK PROTOCOLS: FCoE, FC, NFS, SMB, TCP/IP, NDMP, DDBoost FTP, TFTP, TELNET, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, DDNS, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, RAS, WINS, L2TP, NWLINK, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX

CAREER PATH:

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Played instrumental role in saving the society $3 million over the course of 5 years by refreshing the storage hardware instead of paying monthly maintenance.
• Saved society over $500k annually in power, cooling and HVAC maintenance costs by playing an integral role in Data Center re-location project.
• Increased Storage and Backup environment uptime from 99.99% to 99.999%.
• Saved the Society 20%-40% in vendor SOW negotiations.
• Reduced storage allocation time by 75% by deploying Software-Defined Storage using EMC ViPR Controller. Additionally, this allowed the storage environment to grow at 40% a year without increasing the head count.
• Planned and led several SAN array migrations (DMX-1000 and DMX-3 950 to VMAX 100K and VMAX 200K to PowerMAX 2000) at the primary datacenter as well as at the disaster recovery (DR) site. This resulted in significant savings in professional services budget.
• Developed a strategy to exceed Oracle RAC, MS-SQL and VMWare/VDI Disaster Recovery (DR) Service Level Agreement (SLA) by deploying EMC VPLEX technology in metro configuration. Not only the risk of running the primary application in only one data center was mitigated, the performance was increased by 100% as well.
• Reduced the cost/TB by 25% by segregating development and staging workloads from Tier-1 storage to Tier-2.
• Led 15+ NAS migrations; EMC NS80G and Clariion to EMC VG8 to eNAS to Unity at multiple datacenters.
• Mitigated malware/ransomware threat by playing a key role in air gapping the backup environment.
• Reduced annual maintenance cost 30% by switching from Symantec Netbackup to EMC Avamar.
• Planned and moved Society’s mission critical application to an all-flash Unity device across two data centers without an outage.
• Supported 40% annual Storage and Backup data growth.
• Manage over 1.4 Petabyte of SAN and NAS Storage across three 24x7x365 production data centers.
• Evaluate on-going tasks and set priorities for the team on daily basis.
• Negotiate new procurements and Scope of Work (SOW) contracts with the vendors. Saved the Society significant cost in projects over the years.
• Manage highly visible Storage migration projects. Responsibilities include, identifying the best solution that meets the Society needs, assist in negotiating vendor contracts, create an internal project team, communicate the changes to the business units, manage vendors, schedule, migrate to the new platforms and decommission the legacy environments.
• Coach junior members of the team and help them increase productivity.
• Assist Society’s budget planning by providing storage and backup trends.
• Coordinate with IT managers, enhancement and business teams and develop strategies to ensure achievement of data center capacity.
• Deploy, Document, and Automate the implementation of technologies and platforms supporting a complex corporate data infrastructure
• Responsible for understanding on-going business challenges, architecting storage and backup solutions and leading the implementation to ensure all project requirements are met.
• Technical administration includes management of EMC PowerMax, VMAX3, eNAS, Unity, Isilon, VPLEX, ViPR, VNX5200/5400, Data Domain 690/860/4500 and Avamar platforms. Additionally, responsible for managing Cisco SAN fabric.

SAN Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Increased server security by implementing Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 on 300+ serves.
• Developed, documented and implemented server build procedures which reduced human error by 30%
• Increased Operating System patch management efficiency by 50% by deploying WSUS.
• Played an instrumental role in re-organizing the Data Center to mitigate hot spots and increase airflow.
• Supported 300+ Wintel servers.
• Responsible for SRDF replication between local and remote DMX in synchronous mode.
• Built Windows/Linux servers on the EMC DMX-3 and configured them to boot from SAN.
• Provisioning responsibilities included zoning, mapping, masking, forming Meta’s, creating device groups and BCV’s using Solutions Enabler SYMCLI and EMC Control Center 6.0 (ECC).
• Used EMC Clariion Disk Library Console to mange EMC Virtual Tape Library DL4100.
• Configured each SAN attached host for dual path using EMC Power path.
• Used Open Replicator (OR) SYMCLI for data migrations.
• Installed, supported and managed VMWare - P to V, V-Motion, Clones and deploying machines using templates.
• Assisted in building VMWare Disaster Recovery Environment.
• Infrastructure systems management - Windows 2003 Active Directory, DNS and DHCP
• Coached junior team members and periodically encouraged them to expand their skill set.
• Strategized and upgraded Symantec Netbackup 6.0 to 6.5 in a complex environment. Reduced production impact significantly by creating the snapshot of a production LUN and backing up the snapshot. Additionally, reduced backup window by 50%.

Network Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained Operation Engineers to troubleshoot Tier-1 and Tier-2 systems related issues
• Automated backup reports.
• Monitored production, staging and development servers using BMC patrol.
• Escalated production outages to appropriate teams.
• Monitored backups on SyncSort, Netbackup and Legato systems.
• Applied windows security patches using WSUS.
• Day to day operations included, but not limited to, monitoring UNIX/Windows servers and backups, UNIX based Control-M jobs, and Data center environment using Hawk system.

NOC Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Increased server security by hardening the Operating system.
• Ensured 99.99% Data Center uptime.
• Configured Windows 2003/2000 servers as boot from SAN on EMC Symmetrix 8830. Configuration included cabling, zoning, mapping & masking and setting up R2 devices for SRDF.
• Ordered replacement hardware for faulty HDD’s, RAM, etc. from vendors like Dell.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for production environment.
• Led Symantec Anti-virus upgrade project from version 8.x to 10.01 in a highly complex network.
• Resolved hardware as well as Operating System issues.
• Performed daily operations like, periodic Datacenter Walkthroughs, monitored event logs, performance and system availability checks using WebNM and WhatsUpGold.

SR. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to a Lead Sr. Server Technician after high-performance in Server Technician role.
• Reduced maintenance cost by migrating backed servers to Windows NT 4.0.
• Developed network/server availability and performance optimization strategies.
• Reduced desktop re-imaging time by 75%
• Assisted in planning disaster recovery strategy.
• Evaluated and provided feedback on team members performance reviews.
• Led responsibilities included assigning tickets to the helpdesk staff, maintain on-call schedule, configure and maintain new servers and set task priorities.
• Planned and lead a team of 7 technicians during Novell 4.11 migration to WinNT/Win2000. Documented the new network and system configurations.
• Administered systems within WGRS training lab. Participated in software testing / implementation. Hand-picked by management to lead several networking projects.
• Successfully standardized server environment and implemented inventory control system.
• Provided Tier3 support to internal and external customers for WySuite application. Heavily involved in distribution of WySuite update releases to clients. Developed cutting-edge scripts to ensure server security.

LAN Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, integrated, and supported systems and classroom networks.
• Installed and configured RAS services for Sylvan Prometric and VUE testing networks.
• Served as primary contact for high visibility clients to ensure one-call resolution of Level 2 technical issues.
• Introduced Symantec Ghost imaging software, which reduced desktop configuration time to one fourth. Performed consolidated updates for patches and firmware.
• Led integration of Win 2000 with existing NT 4.0 infrastructure.
• Implemented Windows NT Terminal Server. Chosen as a Team Lead on numerous projects.
• Supervised team of 15 interns for Network and other support tasks. Interviewed technical candidates.