EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Sr. Solutions Architect Cloud and Storage with more than Fourteen years dedicated to expertise in Architecture, Design solution, Administration in AWS Cloud, Enterprise Storage - EMC, Netapp, Pure hardware and software, Datacenter and Data Migrations. Successfully performed multiple consulting roles during his/her career including Engineer - System Admin, Senior - System Admin, Storage Lead SME, Sr. Solutions Architect.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

AWS Cloud Design and Solutions: EFS / S3 / EBS /DataSync/Storage Gateway/Snowball/EC2/EMR

Terraform: S3/EFS/EMR

Zerto: Design and Administration

EMC Solutions Design and Administration: PowerMax/950FX/850FX/VMAX3, ECS, VPLEX, Recover Point, XtremeIO, ScaleIO, Vblock,VMware, ECS Array

Netapp: Solutions Design and Administration - Block and NAS - Cloud Volume Ontap in AWS, Virtual Ontap Select, 7 / C-Mode - 7.x to 9.6, FAS Series 60xx,25xx,26xx, AFF300, Metro Cluster, NetApp Operations Manager, Unified Manager, Performance Manager

VNX: Solutions Design and Administration

PURE: Storage Solutions Design and Administration

Replication Technologies: EMC TF/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR, SRDF/STAR,Mirrorview, SANCopy, celerra replicator, NetApp - Clone / snap / SnapMirror

Solution Design Tools BCSD, Tier Advisor, SNAP calculator, Open Replicator:

Tools: SYMMERGE, EMP, Tier Advisor, Symmwin, BCSD

Design Data Center Migrations: Open Replicator, SRDF, VPLEX, RP, PPME, Host based, Vmware

SAN Switches: MDS-9710/9148

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Systems Engineer Cloud and storage

Responsibilities:

• Working under Cloud Design & Engineering group at Toyota Headquarters, Plano, TX.
• AWS Cloud Design and Solutions - EFS / S3 / EBS /DataSync/Storage Gateway/SnowBall/EMR/EKS
• Enhance Cloud Storage Strategy and Roadmaps
• Worked under Agile methodology and scrum practices.
• Interface Application teams, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Storage, Database, Network and DevOps team to design, develop and prototype/POC Storage Solutions.
• Vendor Management - New purchases, Maintenance - EMC,Netapp,Pure,VMware,AWS
• Cloud Volume Ontap in AWS design and implementation
• Zerto design and implementation.
• Virtual Netapp - Ontap Select - Design and Implementation
• Plan Design and Implementation for EMC, NetApp Pure Storage Solutions
• Plan, Design and Implementation - Data Center migrations
• Plan, Design and Implement the Disaster and High Availability, Storage/Backup, Cloud and Recovery Solution(s).
• Plan, Design and Implement the Monitoring Solution(s).
• Install & design new Storage infrastructure and Upgrade Storage Code
• Works closely with the customer on Best Practices; ensures solutions work as intended in the customer's environment.
• Actively contributes to the configuration, layout and performance tuning of storage products.
• Design, Implement and enhance the company's Compute & Virtual Infrastructure and Storage and Backup Technologies Solutions.
• Standardize the storage management process with documentation, deployed scripting to increases productivity of storage resources.
• Work on Storage enterprise uplift project to design/install & configure VMAX/PowerMax array.
• Provides operational support to customers for implementations and management of Storage and Backup solutions. Works closely with the customer on Best Practices; ensures storage solutions work as intended in the customer's environment.
• Provides proactive recommendations to the customer for improving their use of storage solutions to help maximize their satisfaction. Actively contributes to the configuration, layout and performance tuning of storage products.
• Participates in the design and operational execution of the customer's disaster recovery process as required. Performs necessary storage infrastructure maintenance and necessary data migration, as required. Provides assistance to technical teams in the development of custom solutions and implementation preparation.
• Responsible for performing daily operational tasks and maintaining availability at the customer site(s). Provisions solutions based on standardized procedures as outlined by best practice documentation.
• Installs software products in a Open Systems hardware environment. Performs complex and/or extended-stay software implementations per the specifications in the Statement of Work, Scope document, Architecture Design Document or Project Manager direction
• Successfully manages relations with Customers utilizing negotiation and influencing skills to acquire the internal and external resources necessary for optimal results. May occasionally be called upon to act as a backup to the Project Manager or to provide team technical leadership on specific implementations.
• Seeks advice or assistance from management and/or Technical Support as required during difficult customer situations. Works in conjunction with colleagues to ensure effective resolution of technical issues encountered during implementations.
• Stays current on technical specifications and hardware requirements of storage software products, including new and soon to be released products.
• Successfully Delivered Solution Architect Projects EMC - PowerMax/950FX/850FX/VMAX/RP/VPLEX/ Replication and BC Design//Vblock
• Successfully Delivered Solution Architect Projects for Netapp - Cdot Cluster - 80xx/82xx, Ontap Select,cloud volume ontap in aws,metro cluster
• Lead Data Ceneter and data migration Projects - migrate DR datacenter to Cloud, unencrypted to encrypted storage arrays.
• Ran mutiple POCs and prepared stanadards, design documentations and deployed as a services .
• Awarded with spotlight employee award from Toyota Financal Services- 2019 .

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Delivered Solution Architect Projects for Enterprise EMC Products - VMAX/RecoverPoint/VPLEX/DataCenter Migrations/ Replication Design/XtremIO/EHC/Vblock/VSPEX.
• Contributed in Symmetrix / VPlex Core Practice Group.
• Contributed in various initiative at EMC Center of Excellence .
• Hosted Boot camp to provide Knowledge Transfer sessions on EMC Technologies.
• Develops strategies, policies and best practices for the customer.
• Develops and cultivates strong customer relationships ensuring a 'customer for life' relationship. Holds responsibility for achieving the EMC Bar of Excellence as the highest level of Customer Satisfaction for every customer..
• Adheres and utilizes proper Escalation and Change Control procedures.
• Stays current on technical specifications for hardware/software requirements of EMC and industry products through professional associations, trade journals, networking and associated training and seminars. Responsible for sharing information and best practices with others. May be required to support and instruct less experienced co-workers, through classroom training sessions or on-the-job mentoring.
• Provides technical leadership during the implementation of an engagement. Participates in the installation, customization, and integration of an EMC solution. Maintains awareness of existing or potential customer software/hardware situations. Proactively alerts project management and sales team of potential problems and solutions.
• Supports the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work. Designs the EMC solution and supports the installation, customization and integration of the solution. Prepares technical architectural and implementation design documents and works with the Project Manager to develop the implementation plan. Works closely with the Project Manager to define project deliverables and schedules. Helps to identify and leverage EMC and Partner Resources to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.
• Lead technical expert in the pre-sales qualification and is responsible for the delivery of the technical architectural design, strategizes and plans that will be delivered in the engagement. Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements. Develops and articulates solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements
• Leads requirements gathering for project engagements
• Leads project quality assurance activities, including performing technical QA reviews on components for a team and performing QA reviews of code documentation
• Supervise staff on project engagements in large projects where many technical people may be involved.

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Lead Consultant - System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Storage and Backup Storage Team Lead of 8 resources, supporting Confidential from Torrance, California from Feb 2010 to Jun 2012.
• Expertise in Architecture, Engineering and Design solution in EMC, NetApp, Cisco hardware and software.
• Data Migration from Clarrion/Celerra to NetApp Array, ONTAP Upgrades from 7.x to 8.x, firmware Upgrades from 3.x to 4.x, out of family NDU Microcode upgrades from 5772 to 5773.
• SAN Solution Design and Implementation - Cisco Line Card/SUP Modules, Cisco 9513 SAN directors Implementation, fabric merges.
• EMC Symmetrix solutions Design and Implementation: EMC DMX-2/3/4, VMAX - Data Migration from DMX to VMAX, Performance and Capacity planning, capacity upgrades, code and Firmware upgrades .
• CLARiiON solutions Design and implementation: EMC CLARiiON CX600/CX700/CX3-40 series arrays.
• Expertise in Replication Technologies Design and implementation - EMC TF/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF/AR, SRDF/STAR, Mirrorview, SANCopy, Celerra replicator, NetApp - Clone, Snap / SnapMirror,SnapRestore, Flexcache, FlexClone .
• Worked on NDMPcopy, vol copy and SnapMirror Migrations - VSM and QSM between different NetApp Arrays .
• Storage Management solutions design:: EMC Control Center, NetApp Operations Manager .
• NAS Solution Design:: EMC Celerra NS600/NS702/NS704/ NS600G / NS40G, NetApp .
• SAN Solution design and implementations:: DS32M2/ ED-64M, Connectrix Manager, MDS 9509/9513 / 9222 i, Fabric Manager .
• Data Archiving solution - Centerra, Centera Performance and capacity Planning, code and firmware upgrades .
• NetApp Solutions Design and Implementations:: FAS 2020/3140/3160/6080/6210/6250 - Performance and capacity Planning, capacity Upgrades, Code and firmware upgrades.
• Design and implement NetApp Deduplication, Thin provisioning to save cost, providing storage requirement forecasting analysis .
• Storage provisioning and reclamation on/from EMC Symmetrix /Clariion .
• Storage provisioning and reclamation on/from NetApp FAS 60xx series and 30xx series.
• SAN Switches Design administration and troubleshooting on Cisco Switches
• Planned / executed several complex changes, SRDF migrations, Storage solutioning for the account,

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as an L3 Resource for the GE Storage offshore Team, Member of RRT ( Rapid response Team) for solving sev1/sev2.
• Trouble shooting of storage based issues and providing RCA’s for non-repetition of issues
• Storage Migration Project: Planning & executing Storage Migration from one EMC frame to other EMC frame.
• EMC solution enabler, EMC time finder.
• Configuring BCV.s, Creating Symmetrix Disk groups. Sync / Split of BCV with the production.
• Establishment of BCV’s to Production volumes.
• Creating / Expanding SRDF volumes, adding the SRDF devices in SRDF Disk group.
• Storage Deallocation Activity and returning back to free pool.
• Installed and configured EMC solution Enabler, adding solution enabler Licenses
• Emulex Fiber Channel HBAs Replacement, Installing/ upgrading drivers, firmware using HBAnyware utility.
• SUN Branded Fiber Channel HBAs Replacement, Installing/ upgrading drivers
• Data Centre support operations for connecting new servers to SAN
• Performed symconfigure operations to create Metas, to map Meta volumes to FA ports.
• Performed Masking operation for different Hosts
• Creating Disk groups, Creating / Expanding File Systems using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Creating / Expanding Mirrored volumes, renaming disk group, logical names.
• Registering the File systems using Veritas cluster service.
• Creating / Expanding File Systems using HP Logical Volume Manager on standalone & cluster environment.
• Troubleshooting the Veritas volume manager issues,
• Veritas Dynamic Multi Pathing.
• Worked with EMC/Veritas/ vendors on any issues that can affect the operation/performance of the Servers. ran emcgrab and explorer (EMC, Veritas) administration.
• Handling daily calls with business leaders with status updates on previous