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SUMMARY

• SAN professional with over 8 years of experience in EMC Storage Arrays, Confidential, Cisco MDS & Brocade Switches and Open systems,
• Extensive experience in administration and maintenance of EMC storage products including EMC V - Max, EMC DMX, EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra,
• Performed storage allocation for Symmetrix VMAX storage arrays using SYMCLI/SMC
• Experience in implementing virtual provisioning for CX 4 and DMX-3/4 storage arrays
• Expertise working with San switches including Cisco MDS and brocade switches using Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric manager / device manager, brocade web tools
• Upgraded Netbackup 5.1 environment to 6.5.4, and then to 7.0.1
• Well conversant with EMC Management tools including EMC Solutions enabler, SMC, Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, NaviCLI, EMC Control Center and Celerra Manager
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions including Time Finder (BCV/Clones/Snap), SRDF, MirrorView, and Celerra replicator

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Storage: Symmetrix V-Max, DMX 4/3/3000/2000/1000, CLARiiON CX 3-20, 4/3-80, 3-40/700/600/500/300, Brocade DCX, Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506/9216, Qlogic, Hitachi and Emulex HBA’s, NetApp Filers(6000 series, 3070, 3020), NetBackup,
• Solutions: Solutions Enabler(Symcli), EMC Control Center, Navisphere Manager, EMC Symmetrix management Console (SMC), Confidential Navigator, Netapps Operations Manager,EMC Control Center 5.2/6.0/6.1,
• Storage Scope, Performance Manager,
• NAS: Celerra N Series/NSX, Celerra Manager, Netapp Filer View, Data ONTAP,
• Replication Software: Open Replicator, PPME, SRDF,SRDF/A, TimeFinder, Mirror View, Snap Mirror, Snap View, Device Manager, Fabric Manager, Powerpath,
• Multivendor Platforms: Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5.x, 6.0, HP-UX, RHEL, VMware ESX 3.x, 4.0 UNIX/LINUX and Windows 2000/2003/2008,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Duncan, SC,

Responsibilities:

• Implemented EMC Open Replicator for creating point-in-time copies of Symmetrix and also for migration from DMX-4 to VMAX.
• Installed and configured ECC infrastructure agents, monitored SAN environment using ECC, configured ECC alerts and set up management policies
• Performed various administrative tasks on the DMX/SYMMETRIX, CLARIION, VNX storage systems using GUI and CLI, includes day-to-day operational and migration support for the customer on VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON storage arrays
• Planned and Implemented migration of data from Symmetrix DMX to VMAX thin devices using SRDF/S. Implemented disaster recovery for performance critical hosts using SRDF/A.
• SAN Administration in a storage environment consisting of DMX, Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Cisco and McData switches.
• Allocation and Decommissioning of storage to open system environment hosts from storage arrays using ECC, SMC console, Symcli, Navicli and Navisphere/Unisphere Manager.
• Maintaining ECC for SAN environment and troubleshooting the same including discovery of new objects (Storage Arrays, Switches and Hosts), Configuring alerts and for creating new users to access the storage environment.
• Day to day provisioning of storage (Storage device selection/creation, Zoning, LUN Masking). Managed day to day HDS Storage using the Confidential Navigator

Confidential, Marysville, OH,

Responsibilities:

• Configured, managed and monitored SAN environment which included VMAX, DMX 4/3/3000, Clariion CX 3-20/ 4/3-80/ 3-40/4-120 storage arrays using Cisco 9513/9509/9506 switch directors. EMC software tools used included SMC, Fabric/Device Manager, Navisphere Manager
• Performed Storage allocation from Symmetrix VMAX arrays using Auto-provisioning groups and DMX arrays to Windows servers, UNIX/LINUX which involved both Thick and Thin provisioning
• Performed various administrative tasks on the DMX/SYMMETRIX, CLARIION storage systems using GUI and CLI, includes day-to-day operational and migration support for the customer on VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON storage arrays
• Configure data storage on NetApp FAS filers by creating Volumes, QTrees and Quotas in NFS and CIFS environments to provide storage to different business groups.
• Data Fabric Manager (DFM), Snapshot & SnapMirror Administration, Space & quota management among various volumes and qtrees. Performed firmware upgrade on Filer’s from ONTAP 7.2.3 to 7.3.2.
• Maintain and update Space & quota management among various volumes and qtrees.
• Used NDMPcopy and SnapMirror for Migration b/w Netapp Systems. Also used vol copy and aggr copy.
• Performance tuning of Solaris and Netbackup
• Configuring NFS exports and CIFS shares for the UNIX and windows clients NetApp accessibility.
• Support Netapp Data ONTAP OS systems 7G, GX, VMware, Flex Volumes,and Data Replications based upon best practices and company standards.

Confidential, Washington, DC,

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect the new VMAX for operations purpose. Design and configured Virtual Pools according to best practices. Implemented FAST VP on the new VMAX array and document best practices. Created FAST Virtual pools, TIERS and policies.
• Used SPA to investigate and analyze performance issues on VMAX.
• Design and develop the migration plans for migrating data from various platforms storage arrays and documenting the process. Provide day to day operational and migration support for the customer on VMAX, CLARiiON storage arrays.
• Involved in configuration of NetApp FAS systems including qtree, volume, aggregates, Snapshots, flex clones.
• Maintain and update NAS Volumes/Qtree business database Maintain NAS architecture documentation, policies & procedures. Space & quota management amoung various volumes and qtrees.
• Snapshot & snapmirror Administration.Handling various issues and escalations with NetApp storage devices.Migration of storages from DataONTAP 6.5 to 7.0.
• Maintain and update Space & quota management among various volumes and qtrees.
• Perform Pre-Migration procedure involving, gathering Storage information like, Luns numbers. Storage size, LUN Ids, Raid Protection level etc using SYMCLI, ECC and SMC

Confidential, Houston, TX,

Responsibilities:

• Administration in a storage environment consisting of VMAX, DMX/SYMMETRIX, CLARIION, CISCO AND BROCADE enterprise directors.
• Responsible for Storage allocation and used SMC, ECC, Symcli and Navisphere for the entire open systems storage environment.
• Planned, Commissioned and Configures new VMAX and deployed all the agents for ECC administrators.
• Creation of luns and configuring iSCSI initiators for SAN based storage requirements on NetApp storage box.
• Configure data storage on NetApp FAS filers by creating Volumes, QTrees and Quotas in NFS and CIFS environments to provide storage to different business groups.
• Maintained and updated NAS Volumes/Qtree business database Maintain NAS architecture documentation, policies & procedures.

Confidential, Seattle, WA,

Responsibilities:

• Performed various administrative tasks on the DMX/SYMMETRIX, CLARIION storage systems using GUI and CLI.
• Managed SAN capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools. Proficient with daily tasks, which include Lun mapping and masking, setting symmetrix port flags. Knowledge on viewing Symmetrix configuration data using Solutions Enabler and ECC.
• Responsible for day-to-day storage provisioning on CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX and VMAX systems in production, test and development environment. Has exposure to viewing Clarion and Symmetrix DMX errors and hardware failures.
• Knowledge on CISCO and BROCADE enterprise director switches.
• Installation, administration, integration of NetApp Filers (FAS 2000/3000/6000 ) in UNIX and Windows environment.
• Data ONTAP Administration that involves good understanding of native Snapshots, SnapMirror, FilerView.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Provided day-to-day operational support for CX and DMX environment,
• Involved in the planning and implementation of the current SAN upgrade from 128 ports to 280 ports, complete with Brocade switches CX600/CX500/ECC5.2,
• Decommissioned completely a Symmetrix, after migrating the data and connected host to a new DMX 1000,
• Managed and Administered Symmetrix DMX2, 1000, 2000 using EMC control center and SYMCLI.
• Provided day-to-day operational support for CX and DMX environment,
• Implemented SnapView and MirrorView technologies for backing up data on Clariion,
• Implemented storage provisioning on Clariion CX (400, 600) with Navisphere Manager Created RAID groups and LUNs on CLARiiON systems to windows hosts,