SUMMARY

• 15 years of experience on Systems Engineering/ in that 7 years as Confidential SAN Storage Solutions Architect Configuring Confidential Symmetrix, Storage Provisioning for, DMX - 4, VMAX-40K, VMAX AF 850 and AF 250. SRDF, Unity storage ECS Object Storage, SRDF Confidential 3par, VNX, recover point, open replicator, Confidential SVC/Migration from Confidential EVA to Confidential XIVs, Zoning, installing Confidential -MDS /Brocade Switches, configuring disks at the OS side.
• UNIX/LINUX and Windows, troubleshooting.
• DCNM, BNA.
• Usage of Symm commands for adding disks, zoning, Time Finder operations, and SRDF Migration.
• Nutanix NPP Certified Engineer, Confidential AWS/ MSAzure cloud configuration with Nutanix.
• AWS-cloud, Azure cloud, Confidential ECS private cloud.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Storage Analyst Engineer

Confidential, Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• Designing Implementation and planning of Nutanix HCI solutions for DHTS.
• Nutanix NPP 5.0 certified Engineer. POC for Azure cloud, and AWS cloud.
• Implementation of VMAX All Flash for the EPIC Cache Database.
• Implementation and configuration of Confidential Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).
• Testing the same with AWS S3 protocol for the object storage use of DHTS.
• Setting up network for MS Azure Cloud storage---creating Resource groups with Vnet and creating Windows Linux VMs and assigning appropriate storage.
• Migration of P4500 storage to Confidential 3par
• Re-configuring Confidential Isilon and upgrading Isilon to 8.0.0.5 from 7.2 version
• Subject matter expert, with a high degree of proficiency in storage/backup/archive technologies.
• Strong knowledge base in Virtualization, Networking, Operating Systems and other relevant technologies.
• Working with DHTS/DUHS leadership to define technology strategic directions.

Storage Engineer/Architect

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Hitachi VSP, G1000 & G600 configuration, Installation and configuration of Hitachi Tuning Manager, & Command suite, Supporting SAN network and Replacing Brocade 48000 to Brocade DCX-8 and DCX-4 in Bethesda Data Center and Sterling Data Center.
• Upgrading Solarwinds SAN performance tool 5.72 to 6.0, Azure cloud POC
• Proof of Concept for Open Stack and HCP (Hitachi Cloud Platform) Object Storage. supporting Storage side for the migration from Windows Hosts to VMware and Unix physical hosts to Solaris Ldomes.
• Confidential VMAX 20K architecture design for NIH environment.
• Day to day trouble shooting.
• Working on a POC on Avere System for NAS Netapp cloud integration and also Kaminario cloud services.
• Employee of SSinfotek Inc - CA working as a consultant for below clients.

Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential SVC virtualization, using Metro Mirror, Flash copy, Migration from Confidential EVA to VMAX, Confidential EVA(image mode) to Confidential SVC/ Confidential XIV and Confidential EVA to VMAX and Confidential 3Par migration as backend storage.
• VMware/Windows/Linux ESX server Storage allocation from Confidential and Confidential SVC.
• Zoning using Setting up Access Gateway switches on Enclosures.
• Upgrading firmware on Brocade Switches.
• Configuring Brocade Fabric watch on BNA.
• Storage Provisioning and zoning, port allocation.
• Performance analysis.

Storage Engineer

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning Storage, to Confidential VMAX, DMX-3, DMX-4, Symmetrix, on Sun Solaris10 Unix, using Symcli and also ECC 6.0, Unisphere around 600 TB of Data Storage.
• Migration from ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.0 Bundle 7 and eventually to SMC & Unisphere 1.0 Setting up V-Max (virtual provisioning) and testing it on development environment.
• Zoning using Confidential DS-9222i and DS-9509 Switches, Change Management for Production & Development Storage allocation, using Confidential Service Manager 7.

SAN/Storage Administrator

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities:

• Zoning for the new hosts, Navisphere installation and configuration.
• ISL level Zoning and configuration.
• Identifying HBA’s and connecting it to McData Switches, and zoning through Connectrix Manager as well as ECC.
• Configuration of DMX 2000, DMX 3000 Firmware up gradation, Addition of Disks through FA and DA, Firmware upgrade on McData Switches.

SAN/Storage Administrator

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Home Depot Data Migration project with SYMM to DMX 2000 Implementation and installation of Symm DMX 2000 and migration of data from Symm 800 and Hitachi Data Systems.
• Host based migration of 100 Servers using SRDF, Planning and architecture of the same.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential, Silverspring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Configuring the HA Cluster with Confidential Symmetrix Clarion disks, SSA disks. with RS-232 Heart beat cables between Two AIX Unix boxes.
• Testing logically & physically. Configuring Confidential Symmetrix, Confidential Celera, for the Storage Management.
• Supervising the Implementation and planning strategy for Data warehousing Micro strategy products.

UNIX System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead system administrators that were responsible for Operating System/Patches installation, Upgrades, System Admin/Support/Configurations & trouble shooting of Confidential 0 (3nos) Confidential Open View, ITO 4.0 glance plus & SUN Ultra Sparc Enterprise2 (2nos) servers.