SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience in Information Technology helping clients achieve their goals.
• 19 solid years of SAN experience, including managing large UNIX data centers.
• Extensive expertise in management of following systems and technologies:

SKILL:

SAN: Brocade 24k, 48k, DCX, Mcdata 6064, Cisco 9000, Zoning, lunmasking, QLogic and Emulex HBAs.

Storage: Confidential clariion, DMX, V - max, VNX,, UNITY, Vmax3, powerMax Vplex(6), Isilon, F800, XtremeIO 4.0 replicator 8.1, DD9800, DS8870, HP P9500, EVA 8k, Hitachi uspv, 9960, 9990, HUS 150, Tagmastore, VSP g1500, HUS VM, HUS110, F1500, HNAS 4048,4100. Netapp 6k,20k, AFF 700, DAS, PURE/M, F800, 950F

Software: HDS device manager, command suite 8.5, Navigator 2, HDLM, shadow image, True copy, UVM, TSM, HUR, Performance monitor, HP Command view, Confidential ECC 6.1, SMC 7.1, Navishere, unisphere 8.4 for Vmax, Solutions enabler 8.4, open replicator, open migrator 3.13, ppme, FLM, NDM, emcopy, robocopy, isi vol copy, isi vol copy vnx, hypermax os 5977, DD OS6.1, SM8, Onefs 8.0, SM4, SVC, TPC, SUN common array Manager, Brocade and Cisco dcnm, Ontap 9.3, DFM, snapvault, oss, oncommand, cdot, 7mode, netbackup appliances 5220, 5240

Backup: Netbackup 7.7.3, 8.0, netbackup replication. networker 8.2, 9.2, Avamar 7.5, TSM 7.1, Data protector 8.1, Backup Exec, data protection advisor (dpa 6.1).viper 4.1

Libraries: Sun, StorageTek Tape Libraries with DLT Drives L700, HP tape library ESL 9000, IBM TS3500

Volume managers: Symantec, SUN, IBM, HP volume managers

LPARS: VMs, IBM DLPARS, Vpars

Protocols: DNS / BIND / NIS / Send mail / FTP, Exchange, SSH, Sftp, TCP/IP, putty, scp smb3, nfs 4.1

Databases: MSAccess, SQL, Oracle, Sybase, mysql

Shells and languages: Perl, Korn shell, C, ASP, Java, JSP, Java scripts, PHP, BasicCobol, Fortran

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington heights, IL

Responsibilities:

• Data center migration
• Worked migrating the storage and backup systems from Arlington heights data center to Forsyth data center
• Worked on netbackup replication.
• Planned and installed 5240’s
• Added and deleted clients.
• Added and deleted policies/
• Fixed the failing backups.
• Fixed the replication.
• Migrated the applinces to the new datacenter.
• Planned for the replication of backup and lift and shift os the backup appliances.
• Planned for the networking and the physical connections of backu appliances.
• Planned and installation for the migration of 5020 and migrate the clients to 5240
• Worked on the tickets for backup, centera, Vmax and VBXes.
• Troubleshoot bacup failures and policy changes.
• Worked on the pools and file shares and nfx exports.
• Worked on replication and failover, failback of replication on VNX
• Worked on planning for the lift and shift of VNX, MDS switches and Centeras.
• Worked networker and troubleshoot the backups on networker.
• Worked with the Vendors to solve complex issues.
• Created and expanded the storage and file pools.
• Worked and planned for the powerMax to replace VNXes.
• Worked on the VMAX issues to fix them
• Planned for the merging of breaking and merging the VMAX pools..worked on the Vblock
• Worked on Hyperflex converged cisco HX nvme M5
• Allocate storage to hyperflex and Dell blade servers.
• Planned and on the fileshares on Isilon and ECS cloud pools.
• Worked with Confidential support on centera replication issues and resolved the issue with team.
• Worked with the migration of PACS.
• Worked on UCS5108 and vce720.

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Vplex and vmax architecture
• Planning for data migration and infrastructure building in the new data center
• Planning for consolidation
• Work with different teams including storage and server teams for performance analyzing and suggest solutions for bottleneck problem resolution
• Creating, analyzing grabs for performance troubleshooting and for migration purpose.
• Plan and design the migrations under different conditions and use different methods for that
• Including SRDF, RPA, VPLEX, open migrator, open replicator veritas mirroring LVM and FLM for block and robocopy for NAS migrations.
• Used SRDF and netbackup for disaster recovery and testing.
• Worked on RPA setup and replication
• Used Cisco MDS 9718 for zoning.
• Planned and used isilon A2000, F800 series
• Led a team of engineers and application owners for architecting storage solutions.
• The 8 people team consisted of vendoer representatives.
• This team worked together to resolve the complex issues, performance issues and root cause analysis
• Planned and architected the networker. Used networker for backup and restore
• Planned win and unix servers for migration to isilon
• Patched the storage,back and servers.
• Used robocopy to migrate data from celerra.
• Used onefs 7.2 for administration
• Planned for upgrade to onefs 8.0.
• Patched and started testing the performance of F800 isilon. Worked on could pools for ECS.
• Created storage pools and used smb and nfs
• Cleanup recheck everything pre and post migration for the other team members
• Creating run books
• Planning for cluster migration and consolidation on to few clusters from many source clusters
• Plan and setup the infrastructure for remote data centers including floor planning, electricity, storage and racks
• Architected the netbackup 8.0
• Planned the upgrade fro 7.6 to 8.0
• Planned the upgrade to new policies and schedules
• Planned for all the upgrades to clients
• Planned the poc for the upgrade.
• Worked on avaamar 7.2.
• Created the schedules aed the client.
• Worked on moving winows clients to avamar and datadomain
• Working on Migration from dmx to vmax using SRDF, open explicator, open migrator
• Worked on VMAX3 with hypervisor 5977
• Created Luns and file systems using eNAS.
• Used the hybrid 400k and all flash 950F systems
• Working on the testing of VMAX3 in the lab for production systems
• Evaluating the different types of loads
• Using XtremIO at the back for high performance loads
• Testing the 3rd party arrays for migration.
• Planning all the devices on sun clusters and sun zones
• Planning and creating zones using
• Working on remedy tickets and CRs for sync of SRDF and creating pairs and srdf groups
• Creating links
• Doing queries and splits
• Using flm and vplex migrations
• Creating zones
• Creating vplex zones
• Creating extents and devices
• Creating virtual luns
• Doing production allocations using bmc remedy
• Creating devices and allocating them to storage groups and vplex storage views
• Planning for the new builds and migrating vplex devices from the source to the destination clusters of, Aix, Sun vmware and windows
• Add new servers to the clusters on vplex
• Plan for the removal of old Confidential hardware and bring new one
• Using netapp file shares and HNAS export and file shares and vnx 8000
• Using nfs and cifs on netapp, hnas and VNX 8000 and unity for file and block both
• Used SNAP and VNX replicator on UNITY.
• Planned and setup replicator ON UNITY
• Working on oncommand, unisphere and SVOS
• Allocating storage to Unix, Windows, vmware and compute platform for vce vblock 740
• Vmware sizing on the Blade systems and using cisco nexus 7000 and 5000 series. used ucs central for setting up the Vmware
• Used layer 1 and 2 network switches and fiber channel and fcoe protocols
• Used nexus 9513 switch
• Worked on pure architecture, deployment and operation.
• Host groups adding hosts and Luns.
• Allocated LUNs to AIX, Linux,WIN and VMware.
• Setup the UCS and allocated to luns to UCS.
• Worked on replication of pure arrays and designed the replication for snaps.

Confidential, Scottsbluff, NE

System Administrator and VMware

Responsibilities:

• Working on Avamar.
• Upgraded server and client agents to7.1
• Troubleshooted failing backups
• Created and modified groups policies and schedules, data sets and clients
• Added and removed clients
• Used clariion and vnx
• Architected and used migration from clariion toVNX using SANcopy
• Designed and setup the replication between the 2 VNXs
• Applied patches to windows systems and proxies
• Worked on the allocation from XtremeIO with X-Brick20
• Designed Vplex local to migrate data from clariion toVMax and xtremeio
• Upgraded the vcenter from 5.5 to 6.5 planned the server cards and the VMs. used the storage for esxI.
• Added the storage toVMware datastores.
• Designed the UCS VMWARE
• Designed the vcpus and vnics, VMs.
• Used image backup for vims
• Used nexus switches for UCS
• Mentored the client staff for AVAmar and VNX

Confidential, Van Buren, AR

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architectected replication son solution using VNX.
• Used best practices for VNX. Designed and created pools and Luns
• Designed recoverpoint solution and implemented using Vmax for disaster recovery.
• Used Unix windows and vmware luns to replicate. used consistency groups and deployment manager.
• .used replication sets.
• Used zoning with cisco MDS 9513.
• Worked on VNX all flash and Xtremeio usin X-brick10
• Designed RPAs and replication links
• Setup the data domain using networker
• Used nexus 5548 switches for making zones used vblock 720, ucs5108 designed chassis, servers, VMware clusters and VMs.
• Designed vhbas vnics and FIs.
• Created templates and profiles for blade servers
• Used vnics to migrate vcenter from 5.1 to 5.5
• Designed and created vlans.
• Installed and setup SRM,
• Setup boot luns and installed the OS on the VMs. Used ucsm for management.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collected the customer data and detected the problems in the hardware setup
• Made recommendations to the client for short term and long term fixes.
• Worked on Avamar backup and resolved issues in duplicate setups and long time in some backup
• Created policies
• Wrote scripts for timefinder, provisioning, migration and backup.
• Worked on universal access centera
• Created pools
• Worked with the team to gather requirements,
• Worked as a senior architect
• Lead a team of 12 people from different teams (vendors, app owners network, servers, facility and storage Worked on lift and shift servers
• Setup backup for the servers on tsm
• Restored them at new site with tsm and then setup the backup on commvault
• Created new policies and schedules on commvault simpana
• Worked with the client for best practice Confidential VMAX.
• Planned and migrated AIX and HP servers using lift and shift method. Also migrated HP and Aix servers using native LVM utilities
• Helped in solution architecture using VMAX and ISILON. Used snapshotiq, synciq, smartpools, insighiq, superna eyeglass.
• Patched the storage and servers and backup environment
• Used smartdedup
• Helped them cleanup client schedules
• Used mds9710 for zoning
• Planned and migrated zones from brocade to cisco MDS 9513 and 9710
• Migrated the servers from brocade to Cisco
• Planned and implemented VMAX frontend ports for redundant performance.
• Used Unisphere for VMAX and Vplex
• Mentored junior members about the use of Vplex and VMAX
• Used Viper SRM for monitoring and performance.
• Migrated luns from XIV to VMAX
• Worked on vsp using device manager
• Created Luns and found wwwns for migration to Vmax
• Used volume mirror migrations for no disruptive migrations
• Collected information for fabrics and provided solution to fix issues with the fabrics.
• Provided a solution for easy allocations of luns by designing a smaller groups of different luns
• Designed a solution and implemented fastvp for faster backups by migrating the luns on a faster tier during heavy backup times.
• Worked on planning and implementation of Vplex local and metropoint.\Planned and migrated the shares from netapp to isilon using robocopy and also isi vol copy
• Created the procedures trained the client and prepared runbooks for them.
• Planned and used synciq, snapshotiq, insightiq for monitoring performance
• Set up UCScluster and installed VMware on UCS5108.
• Installed venter, VMs, and added the storage on them
• Planned and migrated VMs from one to the other datacenter using VMconverter.
• Wrote scripts for timefinder and snaps for backup
• Used Microsoft hyperv
• Setup and tested SRDF

Confidential, Denver, CO

Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working on migrations from HNAS to VG2 NAS
• Checked the NAS NFS and CIFS on HNAS
• Created the NFS and CIFS on VNX
• Planning for Migrations using EMCcopy and Rsync or RoboCopy
• Setup Celerra replication
• Checking the interconnects between Denver and Lisle VG2
• Planning the replication setup and implementation of replication
• Working on migrations from AMS2500 and XIV to VMAX
• Used VERITAS volume manager for migrations to VMX
• Checking the size of the LUNs and their WWNS on the AMS2500
• Did Performance fine tuning for high Availability
• Did Reporting and Capacity Management
• Planning to create the new LUNs on VMAX
• Creating zones on the Brocade switches 7800
• Used Lsans on the switches
• Used fcr export configuration
• Using OpenMigrator and open replicator for migrating the Luns from AMS2500 to VMAX for Linux, Win and VMware servers
• Checking VMware data stores, creating new data store LUNs and planning for VMotion and implementing the migrations
• Working on Unisphere installation for VMAX and configuring it
• Cleaned up storage zones and luns from VSP
• Migrated Luns from vsp to Vmax
• Working on RecoverPoint setting and replication
• Planning for consistency groups and replication Luns
• Planning for replication links and implementing replication
• Setting up RPA clusters
• Planned, setup and cabled the HBAs
• Planned, created and allocated luns to the vm servers
• Installed the UCS
• Setup and installed ESX on 4 modules.
• Planned for storage and Ethernet connections to nexus 18) switches and brocade SAN switches.
• Allocated LUNs to UCS ESX servers
• Created CPGs and luns on 3par and exported them to win and VMware servers
• Set up VCE vblock
• Planned, all the migrations and allocated Luns
• Created LUNS with best practices
• Setup fastvp using symcli
• Helped the customer use the best practices and made the comfortable in using Confidential hardware
• Wrote and modified scripts for timefinder clone and snapshots

Confidential

Senior SAN Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed all planning and implementation for the VNX
• Used mirrorview SRF for migration
• Created file shares and migrated the old fileshares from Celera.
• Used Confidential SMC, unified tools control center and unishere, NaviSphere, and solutions enabler CLI on V-MAX.
• Migrated storage from XIV, DMX, Clariion to VMAX.
• Migrated storage using OM and OR, FLM on UNIX, Windows and VMware.
• Used Vplex for migrations.
• Planned for the virtual LUNS, front and backend ports, devices and extens for the Vplex to physical storage
• Created luns, pools ranks for IBM ds8300 for Unix servers
• Created raid one devices for the migration
• Virtualized the LUNS for migration
• Used GeoSynchrony 5.0. 1
• Planned and created storage Luns on VMAX and virtualized the storage to Vplex for migration from Clariion
• Encapsulated the clarion LUNs
• Planned and created storage Luns on VMAX
• Made zones, lun masking on Cisco and McData switches.
• Used Cisco 9000 for making zones.
• Planned, prepared and tested for the migration, DR and BC.
• Worked on mapping and masking of devices.
• Helped the SAs for their storage needs.
• Grab analysis and plan migration based on the grab info
• Performance analysis on the VMAX ports.
• Used Symcli to automate the provisioning and migration of storage.
• Used Unisphere for Clariion and VMAX also NaviSphere.
• Used Prosphere for VMware performance.
• Used VSIi on VMware. Set up FAST VP.
• Installed VSI on VMware used VAAI for Clariion and VMAX storage
• Used Symcli to provision storage, create provisioning groups and set bit settings on the initiator groups.
• Analyzed the data stores, and linked them to the LUNs through the grabs.
• Kept documentation for the VMAX port and switch port assignments for the allocation and performance.
• Keep tracks of failed and disconnected HBAs.
• Architected different solutions for SRDF and implemented
• Created the devices for SRDF migration to different data centers.
• Wrote BCV scripts and modified already written scripts
• Tested new SRDF solution with symcli
• Setup vice vblock and installed VMware on that

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior SAN Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved with planning of allVMAXstorage for Windows, VMware and Solaris
• Zoning and masking for Cisco MDS and Brocade.
• Wrote Macros and formulas for extraction of data from STS tables for planning.
• Used power GUI for getting data from VMware VMs.
• Used VMAX for planning the devices for migration.
• Planned for PPME and SVMotion.
• Planned for SRDF devices from one data center to another.
• Used planning to move the data from Clariion and DMX
• Planned for swing VMAX swing arrays on the source and destination for data movement.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Senior SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved with planning of allVMAXstorage for Windows andVMware.
• Handled all the storage for replication throughRecoverPoint.
• Planned the storage and migration process for PPME.
• Responsible for migrating fromClariiontoVMAX.
• Involved with setting up ports on the MDS 9513 and 9506.
• Planned forSANTAP for theRecoverPoint.
• Planned the Dedup forCelerra960.
• Created snapshots for backup.
• Planned for policies of snapshots.
• Migrated Celerra from one Celerra to the other using Celerra replicator
• Responsible for all the storage for backup and Deduplication for AVAMAR
• Did configuration of Avamar and planned the backup through AVAMAR
• Used Netbackup and DataDomain for backup.
• Used DPA for reporting
• Did the planning and troubleshooting and setting up of DataDomain and Netbackup7.6
• Resolved tickets. used DR for the backup recovered the client backups frm thetapes.
• Chaged policies ad schdules
• Achitechted and planned netbackup 8
• Migrated and setup netbackup to 8
• DoingVMAXlun creation and masking.
• Working on PPME for migration from Clariion toVMAXusing PPME.
• Migrating SQL cluster LUNs fromClariion380 toVMAX.
• Involved withRecoverPointinstallation and operation usingSANTap.
• Working on cisco routers for zoning purposes.
• UsingVMwareand windows for data migration toVMAX.
• UsedSVMotionforVMwaremigration
• Working onRecoverPointforVMwarebetween 2VMAXusing CRR.
• Using MirrorView between local and remoteClariion.
• InstallingSANTap, deployment manager.
• Setting up consistency groups for migration and setting up RPA initial configurations.
• Planning for all the migration using PPME, open replicator and OpenMigrator.
• Working on DR and BCP.
• Researching for the solution to SRDF.
• Created devices and luns on xiv for use on win system
• Involved in the planning for FAST and thin provisioning also for the thin pool forVMwareLUN provisioning.
• Planned for 3 tier storage system onVMAX.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned Confidential and IBM storage, Cisco and brocade switches.
• Planned all the HBAS for different applications.
• Planned all zones, storage ports and disk assignments.
• Worked on ECC, Symcli, NaviSphere, SANCopy, Celerra manager, Replication Manager.
• Worked on a project to migrate Clariion data to DMX using Open Replicator
• Planned migration of old hardware to new hardware.
• Planned to move storage from DMX3 to DMX4 for retiring the old hardware.
• Planned for the capacity and hard drives for different applications.
• Planned to move all the hardware to new efficient HBA and drives.
• Used Confidential DMX, Clariion, NAS, NetApp NAS
• Confidential ECC, NaviSphere, Celerra manager, PowerPath
• Planned for remote replication using SRDF.
• Architected DMX luns for different size critical and non-critical applications using fiber channel
• Architected the design to migrate old small switches to new Cisco switches.
• Planned the storage solution for different departments.
• Used UNIX, Windows and VMware server platforms Planed, installed and configured SAN using HDS, HP XP, MSA and EVA, Confidential and IBM storage.
• Used HDS Thunder, lightning, USPV, Tagmastore, 9960, AMS, HP EVA 8000, XP 1024, 20K, XP24k, MSA,, NetApp NAS
• Worked with the team to upgrade storage hardware, software and firmware on XP 1024 and 20K, EVA 8000. Upgraded microcode on Brocade switches.