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SUMMARY:

Over 18 Years of professional experience comprising of Enterprise Storage, Storage Architecture, Storage Area Networks, Strong Confidential Storage, Solution engineering, Confidential Control Center, Replication Technologies,Storage Consolidations and Migrations, Automation,Disaster Recovery, Performance Analysis, Capacity Planning, Troubleshooting, Allocating,Alerting and Monitoring,Change Management, System Administration, Strong UNIX, Networking, Delivery Management, Application Support, Implementation, System Design, Process Improvement, Systems Management, Incident Management, Software Development, Recruitment.

SKILL:

Control Center (4.1 - 6.0), WorkloadAnalyzer/ Performance View, StorageScope

PowerPath (1.3 - 4.x)

Solutions Enabler (4.2 - 6.x), SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SAR, Timefinder, Confidential Open Replicator, Confidential snap, Clone, ESN Manager (1.2- 2.2)

Navisphere Manager, NaviCli, NaviAnalyzer, Snapview, Mirrorview, SancopyCentera Tools, CSG ReplicatorEMC Celerra, Celerra ReplicatorConnectrix Manager(4.0 - 9x),Cisco Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Fiber Zone, DS-M Connect, Brocade Native Management Tools/CLI.

Veritas Volume Manager(2.5,3.x), Solstice Disk Suite,Veritas Cluster, RedHat LVM, HP LVM.

9XX, FAS 30xx, 2xxx Series, Ontap 6.x-7.x, Aggregates, Flex Volume, Snapshot, Snapmirror, Flex Clone,VSM/QSM, NDMP, NFS, CIFS, ASIS (De-Duplication), and Operations Manager/DFM, Acopia (Virtualization), VDI

TSM Infrastructure, Storage Pools, Disk Pools, NDMP

SunOs(4.1,4.2,4.3), Solaris(1.2,2.4,2.51,2.6,7,8,10).

UX(7.x,8.x,10.x), AIX, MsWindows, Redhat Enterprise Server 3 and 4Data Ontap 6.x/7.x.

Java, Perl, SQL,C, Shell Scripts ( ksh, sh ),HTML, MsOffice, Remedy.

Symmetrix 8530/8830/ DMX 800/ 1000/2000/3000 , DMX-3,DMX-4 Confidential: CLARiiON FC 4500/4700, CX 300/500/700, CX3-40Brocade FC Switches (DS 16b/32b ED 12000B).

McData Directors/Departmental Switches (ED-1032, ED-64M,DS-24M, ED140M).

Cisco MDS Series Directors 9506, 9509,9513.

NetappFilers (FS 380,FS740, FAS940, FAS 3020,3050,3070).

ADIC 2k and 10K, IBM Blade center, NS702G/704G, Centera, Acopia ARX 6000/1000, IBM 3592.

Oracle (7.x, 8.x), Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.x, Sybase 11.9/12.5, DB2 (UDB), MS-Access

Fiber Channel, SCSI, TCP/IP, NFS, CIFS, SNMP, NDMP

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate, Architect, Implement and support the storage solutions across the Global enterprise.
  • Lead Storage Team carrying out up keeping of the Storage Equipment, Maintaining Software Levels, Prioritizing and Storage Provisioning to meet the BAU needs, Deploy New Equipment (DMX/CLARiiON/SAN Switches/Centera/Netapp Filers), build the New data centers from ground up, Consolidation (Migration using SRDF), Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis, Storage Optimization, Drive the Utilization identifying and reclaiming unused storage. Managed the whole operations team effectively at critical times.
  • Solution Engineering: Architect and Implement the Storage solutions to meet the application requirements. Design Build Docs for storage administrators process docs for support teams.
  • Project Management. Manage the projects from conceptualization through inception to implementation. This involves Ground up activities including Data-center Planning and co-ordination, infrastructure build out, Installation/Configuration, and handing over to support team.
  • Storage Infrastructure Performance Analysis, Consolidation and Migration planning and implementation.
  • Test and Certify Storage HW and SW for deploying in production.
  • Identify the Tasks for First line team, Design and Document the process and develop Documentation for First line team.
  • Migration Design, Planning and Execution. SRDF/Time Finder Scripting, SRDF based Migration for Consolidation.
  • Confidential Control Center and SanAdvisor.
  • Evaluate vendor solutions. Carryout proof of concepts.
  • Manage the existing Infrastructure, Break-fix, Vendor management, Planning and scheduling upgrades etc.
  • Consolidation of the SAN Infrastructure to improve the efficiency, Migration of the Data among Various tiers.
  • Manage the TSM Infrastructure.
  • Provisioning and incorporating storage in Solaris/Linux/Windows environments as per the BAU requirements.
  • Develop SAN Configs (SRDF Pairings, Metas, Mappings, Masking and Zones and Zonesets) for SRDF based Storage Migrations using detailed scripting to prevent Manual errors.
  • NAS Virtualization using Acopia ARX systems.
  • Refreshed the TSM Infrastructure with Newer libraries and re-architect storage pools to meet the growing demand.
  • VDI using Netapp Storage. Infrastructure

Hardware: Confidential Symmetrix 8830/8730, DMX 1000/2000/3000 , DMX3, DMX4, CLARiiON CX600/700, CX3 Series,Netapp Fas940,FAS3050, FAS3070,ADIC 2k, 10K, Mcdata ED64M, IBM Tape Libraries,ED140, Brocade Silkworm 2900,Cisco MDS 9506, 9513, IBM Blade centers with Brocade modules, Centera GEN 3/4, Sun/Fujitsu Servers running Solaris, Intel/AMD Processor based servers running Windows 2000/2003, Redhat Linux Enterprise Server 3/4, Acopia ARX 6000/1000

Software: Confidential Control Center, SAN advisor, Storage Scope, Performance Manager, Connectrix Manager, Brocade tools, Ontap 7.x/6.x, Netapp Snap, Snapmirror, Confidential open Replicator, Timefinder, SRDF, SYMCLI (symconfigure,masking etc), Navicli, Navisphere, NaviAnalyzer, Sancopy, DFM (Netapp), TSM Backup server, ADIC management tools, Centera monitoring tools, Centra star, Centera CUA, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Redhat Linux LVM, Vmware ESX server

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Architect, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy and support comprehensive storage Management software for the whole enterprise. This product handles Accepting Requirements, Request Approval, Resource selection (Symmetrix, FAs Devices), scheduled execution of the tasks in the environment (Carrying Out Building Meta Devices, R1/R2 relationships, Mapping them to the Front End FA ports, Masking the devices to host HBAs, creating Device Groups), Provide data feed for charge back process, Generate various reports for resource utilization, Usage trending etc. User interface is developed in Java and tasks in the environment are handled by software developed in Perl. Used Sybase 12.5 for hosting the repository.
  • Replication Management tool. End user usable tool to manage Fail overs and BCV splits. The web based interface allows create user perceived logical groups of devices (set of device Groups) and request for Splits/Fail overs, Approve thru Email. And split /query using web interface powered by Perl scripts.
  • Tech Refresh: Evaluate various migration options (Array based, Host based) with the customer, identify the methodology on case to case basis, Generate and migration map for validation, Generate device map for CEs to to be used with concurrent RDF, Do device allocations (Carrying Out Building Meta Devices, R1/R2 relationships, Mapping them to the Front End FA ports, Masking the devices to host HBAs, creating Device Groups).
  • Architect, Design and Implement Confidential Control Center 5.2 to monitor all Confidential Storage Arrays. Configure DCPs and, customize ECC alerts by setting appropriate thresholds by establishing base line of performance statistics. Compare Pre/Post migrations Performance to make sure the effectiveness of consolidation.
  • Infrastructure: Symmetrix 8830, DMX 800,1000,2000,3000, Brocade ED 12000, ED24000, Solutions Enabler 5.4/5.5/6.0,Time Finder, SRDF, wide range of Sun servers running solars 2.6/8, Ms Windows 2000/2003 servers, AIX4.x/5.x and Linux.

Software: Solutions Enabler, Fabric OS, Confidential Control Center 5.2,Java, jBuilder X, Perl, ksh, Apache, Sybase Enterprise edition 12.5.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Evaluate the existing storage Infrastructure monitoring environment Architect, Size the ECC Infrastructure.
  • Install ECC infrastructure, Agents, configure Data Collection Policies, customize alerts, Configure ECC Oracles agents, Discover various Oracle, Develop custom Storage Scope Reports, Train the customer on using the product.
  • Audit the SAN environment for multi path configuration, potential single point of failures etc.
  • Storage Performance analysis, Tuning DMX back end with Symmetrix Optimizer, Consolidation planning.
  • Work with the SAP Basis/Oracle DBAs to reorganize the data on DMX 3000s to enhance the performance.
  • Architect and Implement SAR solution for SAP and other TierI applications.
  • Develop strategy to protect the data with BCVs during Drive outages. Implement Confidential snap for backups.
  • Developed scripts to monitor save area utilization

Infrastructure: DMX 1000/3000, ED 64M, sunfire 6800/4800/480 , Time Finder, SRDF/A, Veritas Netbackup

Software: Confidential Control Center 5.12, Solutions Enabler 5.x, Oracle 8,ksh, sqlPlus, MsAccess

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Installed and maintained ECC environment managing over 100 Symmetrix units, 60 CLARiiON units and over 100 FC Switches. Upgrade the ECC to subsequent versions to fix various problems.
  • Installed and configured Navisphere on Management hosts for off the Array Management to eliminated the overhead on the storage Array.
  • Installed ClarAlert for Clariion Dial Homes on Management hosts running off Array Navisphere Management server.
  • Evaluated the needs to upgrade ESN manager as we moved from volume logix to solutions enabler based masking. Analyse the dependencies and Install ESN Manager 2.1/2.2 and create the units (discover)in the ESN manager.
  • Symm Optimizer: Configured Symm Optimizer to collect the data, analyze the data to derive optimization windows and run optimizer swaps on specific intervals.
  • Analyze and provide solutions for Performance solutions train customer on using WLA/performance view to understand and fix the performance problems.
  • NaviAnalyzer
  • Developed Custom Reports using Storage Scope and storage Scope API. Augment STS reports with MsAccess by Connecting to the ECC Repository (STS API) and importing data from ECC Console.
  • Integrated ECC alerts with netCool and HpOpenView Infrastructure management Applications.
  • Provide technical insight with analyzing requirements for PowerPath, SAN host Connectivity, providing technical guidance on various Confidential Technologies including Confidential Control Center,powerpath,navisphere,ClarAlert(DialHome for CLARiiONs), Time Finder,SRDF,Performance Analysis,ESN Manager etc. Designed and Implemented the biggest ECC infrastructure then to monitor the whole environment, configure the various data collection policies and alerts to suit the environment. Augmented ECC/StorageScope functionalities

Infrastructure: Symmetrix 8530/8830 DMX 1000, Mcdata ED1032,ED64M, Brocade ED12000,Ciscos MDS Switches, ClARiiON CX 500/700, whole range of SUN servers, IBM RISC servers, Compaq/Dell/IBM Intel servers/Blade Servers, Egenerea, Celerra, Netapps Filers.

Software:Control Center Open Edition /5.1,5.12, Navisphere 5.x/6.x, Connectrix Manager, Fiber zone, Fiber zone Bridge, Solutions Enabler 4.3/5.x, control Center 4.3, ESN Manager 1.2/2.1/2.2, SymmOptimizer, Workload analyzer/Performance view, Navi Analyzer, SNMP with custom reporting for resource utilization and chargeback.

Confidential, New Jersey

Sr Solaris System Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Worked as senior Systems Administrator for Confidential Managed Various Enterprise Class Solaris systems(ES 4500/6500/450 ) running Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/7, Veritas Volume Manager, NFS, Informix, Oracle, samba and Confidential Native applications.
  • Symmetrix Direct Attach
  • Made All the System Y2k Ready and managed the transition
  • Implemented and Managed Jumpstart for Various servers and desktop Installation environments.
  • Managed Netapp filers (Intel and Alpha based). Managed CIFS/NFS /Qtrees.
  • Did Sun Solaris .

Confidential

Software Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Project Manager/Team leader for various Software and Integration and Implementation Projects.
  • To enlist few major Projects where I played Major Role.
  • Study the Requirements, Software Requirement Analysis, Design, Develop, Testing and Deployment of Software applications. Lead SW development teams and managed the Projects through out complete life cycles.
  • Online Games Management Projects. Successfully carried out various important roles in a time critical environment as Lead Developer, DBA, Unix Admin and Team leader for a development team.
  • Managed from inception to delivery of Inventory management and Financial Application for a state department. The responsibilities ran thru Requirement Analysis, Documentation, Design, Manage Development/ and Implementation.
  • Implemented Inventory Management of Indian Postal services various Depots
  • Implementation Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition for State Electricity board comprising various power plants and distribution grids all across the state.
  • Worked In various Capacities including Unix System Administration (Solaris, Hp-Ux, SCO Unix, and Svr 4.2), Software Development (Pl/SQL, Informix 4GL, C, and Visual Basic), DBA (Informix), Project Leader / Software Architect (System Study, Analysis, Prepare SRS, Design, Manage Development Team, Train, and Deploy. Whole SDLC).

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