PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 21+ Years of experience as a Senior Storage Engineer/Storage Architect
• 15+ Years of experience supporting Storage infrastructure for a major financial corporation (Fannie Mae)
• Designed and implemented multiple Storage solutions for data centers that required very low RPO/RTO
• Hands on experience in design, configuration and set up of SAN storage arrays (EMC /Hitachi (HDS)/ Confidential /NetApp/HP/PURE)
• Experienced in supporting enterprise database applications (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL)
• Designed and implemented new SAN fabrics (Brocade and Cisco switches/directors)
• Experienced in Storage assessment, consolidation and SAN fabric optimization
• Have virtualized/externalized storage behind Hitachi VSP/USPV and EMC VPLEX
• Have been the Storage Lead for DR data center creation, setup of local and remote replications and DR testing
• Storage migration specialist role in migrating Servers from legacy Storage to new EMC XtremIO/ POWERMAX and HDS VSP/G series storage
• Hands on experience in EMC Replication tools (SRDF, Recoverpoint, Timefinder Clones, BCVs, Snaps)
• Hands on experience in Hitachi Replication tools (TrueCopy, ShadowImage and HUR) and NetApp SnapMirror
• Experienced in SAN connectivity, configuration and troubleshooting on Solaris /AIX /HPUX /Linux/Windows/VMware hosts
• Experienced in troubleshooting SAN fabrics, Host multipath issues, Performance analysis and Capacity planning
• in FC, FCIP, NAS (CIFS & NFS), iSCSI protocols and all RAID layouts
• Have good knowledge in configuring monitoring and alerting for Storage
• Experienced in setting up NetApp CVO in AWS cloud and migrated NAS data

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAN Storage: EMC PowerMax, VMAX, VMAX - 3, VMAXe, EMC VNX, VNX2, EMC Clariion (Cxseries)EMC DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX 800/1000/2000 /3000, EMC VPLEX, EMC XtremIO, EMC Unity, Hitachi VSP, G800, G1000, G1500, Hitachi USPV, Hitachi HUS/HUSVM, Hitachi AMS, HP 3PAR, X9000 series, Confidential XIV, Confidential A9000R, NetApp AFF A800/A700 seriesNetApp 8200/8040/3250/3240, NetApp EF550, NetApp CVO in AWS cloud, PUREStorage arrays

NAS Storage: EMC VNX, VNX2, VG8, VG2, EMC Celerra, EMC ISILON, EMC UnityNetApp AFF 800, NetApp AFF 700, NetApp FAS 3250, NetApp 8040, NetApp 8200

SAN Switch/Director: Brocade DCX series, Brocade Director 48000, Brocade Silkworm Switches (3800, 3850, 3900, 4100), Cisco MDS fiber channel switches/Directors (9509/9513/9710)

Storage Management Software: SYMCLI, Unisphere, SPA, SMC, Timefinder, Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI, DCNM, Hitachi Command Suite and Device Manager, SNMP, Hitachi Tuning Manager, NetApp OnCommand System Manager, Santricity, NetApp performance Manager, NetApp Unified Manager, Veritas DMP, Powerpath, HDLM, native MPIO, Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom

Replication: EMC Timefinder CLONE, BCV, SNAP, Recoverpoint, SRDF, Hitachi TrueCopy, ShadowImage, HUR, NetApp SnapMirror

Backup: Cohesity, NetBackup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Storage Engineer/Architect

Confidential, Reston, VA

Environment: EMC PowerMax, VMAX, VMAX-3, VMAXe, EMC VNX, VNX2, EMC Clariion (Cxseries)EMC DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX 800/1000/2000 /3000, EMC VPLEX, EMC XtremIO, EMCUnity, Hitachi VSP, G800, G1000, G1500, Hitachi USPV, Hitachi HUS/HUSVM, Hitachi

Responsibilities:

• Senior Storage Engineer for the SAN infrastructure which consists of Hitachi G1500, G1000, G800, VSP, Hitachi USPV, EMC VMAX-3, VMAX, VNX series, VPLEX, NetApp, PURE as SAN storage and Brocade /Cisco switches/directors as SAN fabric
• Implementation of HDS local and remote replications using ShadowImage and HUR
• Have been a Storage Lead for multiple disaster recovery projects and DR tests using HDS, EMC and NetApp storage arrays
• Performance analysis on Hitachi, EMC, Confidential and NetApp Storage to isolateperformance problems
• Responsible for NAS infrastructure (CIFS and NFS) on NetApp, EMC Isilon, EMCCelerra/VNX, VG8/VG2
• Expertise in configuration of new NetApp storage from ground up
• Have worked on multiple SAN and NAS Storage migration projects
• Have been the Storage lead/Architect in the DR Data Center creation, production data replication and DR testing
• Have been the Storage Lead/Architect for data center ID swap project
• Lead role in Server storage migration projects as part of tech refresh
• Virtualized thousands of Solaris physical Servers to SPARC Hypervisors
• Architected and implemented multiple Storage solutions for projects that requiredvery low RPO/RTO
• Implementation of EMC Timefinder BCV, Clone, Snap, SRDF and Recoverpoint fordisaster recovery
• Designed and implemented new SAN fabrics and performed fabric consolidation andoptimization
• Host configuration standardization, documentation of standard processes andprocedures for the SAN infrastructure related to provisioning and ongoing supportof Storage arrays and their associated SAN switches
• SAN connectivity and troubleshooting Storage related problems on Solaris /AIX /HPUX /Linux/ Windows/VMware hosts
• Adhering to Change control processes and procedures (Remedy, HPSM and ServiceNow)
• Have presented multiple Storage solutions to client management team and gotapprovals
• Have setup multiple EZ2 instances inAWS to create NetApp CVO and test servers to test NAS
• Experienced in setting up NetApp CVO in AWS cloud and migrated NAS data

Confidential

Senior Systems Enginee

Environment: EMC DMX storage (DMX 800/ 1000/2000/3000), EMC Clariion, NetApp Filers, Brocade switches (3850/3900/4100), Confidential AIX, P-series Servers

Responsibilities:

• Configuring the EMC DMX 1000/2000 Storage Arrays and Hitachi 9200/9500 seriesArrays, HDS 9910/9960, AMS 1000 storage arrays to support fiber channel storagefor pseries Systems (POWER4/POWER5 systems) for high performance and dataredundancy
• Installation, setup, configuration, FabricOS upgrade on Brocade/ Confidential switches
• Allocation of LUNs from EMC DMX storage arrays/ EMC Clariion storage
• Configuration of EMC Timefinder BCV, SRDF for business continuity and disasterrecovery
• Allocation of LUNs from Hitachi arrays using DAMP and SNM GUI
• Maintenance of NetApp NAS Storage
• Doing online changes including Fabric OS upgrades on switches, Fabric merge etc.
• SAN connectivity for AIX hosts
• Interaction and follow up with Hitachi/EMC/Brocade on cases opened with them forissues in the Fabric/Storage Hardware for fast resolution
• Automating systems and storage administration tasks through shell scripts and Cprograms
• Adhering to Change control processes and procedures(Remedy tool)
• Point of Contact from Storage team in the Disaster Recovery exercise

Confidential

SAN Storage Administrator

Environment: Hitachi 9200 series, EMC Symmetrix 8830, Brocade 2800 switches, AIXversions 5.2/5.1/4.3, Solaris 8/9

Responsibilities:

• Storage provisioning from EMC array using SYMCLI
• Configuring RAID groups and LUNs on Hitachi array
• Doing online changes including Zoning, Fabric OS upgrades on switches and Fabric merges
• Root Cause Analysis, if the outage was because of an OS/SAN issue
• Adhering to Change control processes and procedures for any change made to the operating environment
• Local and remote administration of Unisys, SUN and Confidential servers
• Storage provisioning from EMC and Hitachi SAN Storage arrays
• Doing online changes including Zoning, Fabric OS upgrades on switches and Fabric merge
• Install power series systems with AIX 4.3/5.1 versions of AIX
• Install Solaris 8 on SPARC systems
• Setup, configuration and upgrade of Unisys SVR4 and UnixWare systems and also
• Installing the required patches
• Handle hardware replacement in case of a disk failure/memory failure