SUMMARY:

• IT professional with 15 Years of broad experience and comprehensive knowledge of Infrastructure SAN /NAS systems from EMC/HITACHI/IBM/Netapp
• Excellent knowledge and experience with SAN Storage, NAS, Network, Servers, and hardware.
• Key Liaison and critical player for various successfully designing and implementing infrastructure projects completion.
• Design/implement/Migrate enterprise Storage systems to improve speed, reliability, and efficiency.
• Bachelors of Computer Science
• Adept in establishing solid business relationships to ensure continuity in operations.
• Ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team to achieve objectives and goals.
• Exceptional analytical, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Storage Systems Symmetrix V - MAX, DMX-3/4, VPLEX, VNX 5300/5500, DMX 1000/2000/3000, CLARIION CX3, CX4, CX500, CX600, and CX700, NS-960.
• Directors/Switches Brocade 12K, 24K, 48K, 3900, 4900, 5100, 5300, DCX and Brocade Fabric Manager .
• Cisco MDS Directors 9513, 9509, 9506, and 9120.
• SymCLI 6.x, 7.x, SMC 7.1, Secure CLI, Navisphere Manager 6.x,
• Software’s & Tools Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager, Web Tools, DCFM,
• Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI. EMC- TimeFinder - Mirror/Clone/Snap,
• SRDF/S/A/AR, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Snapview,
• Clone/Snapshot, Sancopy, Mirrorview, and EMC Powerpath.
• PPME with Open Migrator (EMC)
• Virtual Lun Migration between Tiers (EMC)
• Hitachi True Copy /HUR Hitachi
• HCM and CCI Hitachi
• Global Mirror / Metromirror /Flashcopy (IBM)
• LVDISKCOPY and Flashcopy (IBM)
• Netapp 7 Mode Clusters NETAPP
• VMware Integrated with SRM for Disaster Recovery
• ECC 6.1, Celerra manager, Recoverpoint 3.2.
• Operating Systems IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, HP-UX 11.x, Sun Solaris 8/9/10,
• RedHat 5.x and Windows 2000/2003/2008, VMware ESX, AIX and HPUX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement Migration Strategies G1000 for migration of data from 12 Hitachi AMS/HUS and VSP Arrays
• Desgin and Implement Different Methodoligies for Migration of Data using NDM, Shadow Copy, True Copy HUR and Externalization or Virtualization of Arrays .
• Design specific solutions for Online VMware Cluster Migration with no downtime for applications and databases .
• Design and document old legacy Mcdata fabric for decommissioning of switches and remove zone configs .
• Design and implement disaster recovery solution for currency project with separate G1000 Array, Cisco MDS switches with CORE-EDGE Technology and Synchrounous True Copy Replications
• Design Disaster Recovery Solution For G1000 Arrays for Data Replication between Toronto and Barrie sites considering teh RPO and RTO for various Environements .
• CCI, HCM, HUR, and HORCM setup for various migrations . HI-Track/HPA for monitoring and information Gathering
• G1000 build and architecture configuring RAID Grps and LDEV and dynamic pools for various infrastructures.
• Migrated AIX, VMware, Windows and Linux server from VSP, AMS, USP to G1000 .

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Solution for SRM Implementation with IBM SVC/DS8870 for Automation of Disaster Recovery without intervention of Storage Team . Teh solution was successfully implemented for 32 Clusters in Bank of Scotia Environment for VMware Clusters
• Solution for Extension of Core DCX Switch using ICL for additional SVC / 8870 Connectivity without
• Impacting teh performance of existing CORE-EDGE Model.
• Solution for Monitoring of DCX Core and Edge switches managed through Brocade Network Advisor.
• Implementation of MAPS for Aggressive / Moderate built in policies to email Alerts using Fabric Vision .
• Solution for Migration of Development servers to segregate and backup infrastructure to avoid performance problems. Servers moved to different switch for performance regain.
• Solution for layout New Test Environment for 2 Node SVC, Brocade DCX and DS8870 Array for currency project .
• Solution for Migration of data from EMC DMX Frames to SVC by virtulization of EMC DMX behind IBM SVC
• For online Migration of Data Using built in SVC mirroring .
• Solution for data migration from Midrange IBM 5000 Arrays behind Hitachi VSP array using Externalization Virtulization method and migration of data within pools .
• Solution for Extending existing fabric using ISL for edge switches to accommodate new set of servers for various projects.
• Create teh VPlex environment in LAB with different flavours of Host and BE Arrays such as DS5000, DS8000 and VMAX
• Demonstrated teh Proof of Concepts for new storage technologies and documented teh results
• Perform usual product testing: Zone teh host and BE array to VPlex, prepare teh array to provide storage to VPlex, provision LUNs from VPlex to hosts and run simulated IOs on them, tan perform basic feature testing, failure scenarios, etc
• Work On different Upcoming enhancement in VPlex like RecoverPoint Integration, Cluster Witness etc.
• Raise defects and provide logs in case teh product or teh module is not behaving as expected
• Meetings with EMC to discuss test case design, execution and assignment.

Confidential

Technical Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design Migration Methodology for migration of data from HP XP12000 Arrays and Hitachi Midrange AMS Arrays to EMC VMAX .
• Design VMax Engine for Front End Layout (12 ports for Hosts, 4 For RDF)
• Open Replicator tool from EMC used to migrate data from XP12000 Array (Hot Pull Migrations )
• Expanded SAN environment with ISL on brocade switches
• Migration Planning and Design of MSCS Cluttered Systems/HP service Guard from XP12000 to VMAX.
• Design SRDF Solution between VMAX’s Montreal and Domtar site for Disaster Recovery .
• Performance Monitoring through SPA for VMAX .
• Design Auto Tiering policies for permonace enhancements on pools
• Played a key role between various teams to deliver successful results during various migration events.
• Responsible for Design/Implementation/Migration/decommissioning of Enterprise storage systems.
• Instrumental contributor of Data Center relocation team and work with various vendors.
• Play a pivotal role on upcoming projects to deliver strategic solution for customer.

Confidential

Senior Storage Design/Migration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designing, Planning, Configuration and Migration of Data warehouse application from DMX2 to DMX4
• Layout of Oracle database according to best practices
• Migrated Data from DMX 2000 to DMX4 using Synchronous SRDF and Open Replicator
• Migration of data from 3-PAR arrays using Open Replicator.
• Migration of data from DMX2 to DMX4 using synchronous/adaptive copy mode
• Expanded SAN environment with ISL on brocade switches
• Thin pool configuration for use of thin technology in DMX-4.
• Implemented TimeFinder integrated with Exchange 2000, 5.5 and automated with shell scripting.
• Migration of MSCS Clustered systems from DMX2 to DMX4
• Replication Manager Tool to configure backups for Staging Environment.
• Shell scripting for customizing and monitoring of teh environment and automated emails for Storage.
• Design and Implement Brocade Silkworm 48000 with DMX4.
• Migration of Data using SRDF Synchronous and Adaptive Copy Mode.
• Migration of Data Online using HP-LVM and Open Replicator .
• Configuration of hosts for Multipathing using PVlinks, Veritas DMP and Powerpath.
• Management and Allocation of storage of Hitachi Arrays using HCS /Storage Navigator and CCI

Confidential

Storage Migration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Data from DMX 2000 to DMX4 using SRDF, Open Replicator /Open Migrator.
• Migrated data EMC Clariion to EMC DMX 4.
• Migration of data from DMX2 to DMX4 using synchronous/adaptive copy mode
• Expanded SAN environment with ISL on brocade switches

Confidential

Storage Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration of data from one datacenter to another using SRDF ASYNCHRONOUS MODE
• Migration of 140 Terabytes of data from production to Bubble network.
• Design and Implementation of Enterprise class directors (MCDATA/BROCADE 48K)
• Setting up groups for replication for Disaster Recovery site
• Testing disaster recovery using SRDF and documented step by step procedure.
• Replicating production data using asynchronous mode to replication site.
• Design and Implementation of 20 MS clusters for exchange Environment .
• Migration of mailboxes to parallel built environment with Microsoft built in utility
• Cloning data using SYMCLONE Technology, BCV for backup.
• Installation and Configuration of ECC 6.0 for management of DMX, Making and Zoning.
• Design strategy for migration of HP-UX servers online with LVM Mirror.
• Design strategy for migration of Solaris servers online with Verities Mirror

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• dis projects aims at extending teh backbone bandwidth to 10GB which will eliminate teh CNT routers. Teh main and disaster recovery site will has a lot bigger bandwidth which is in place now, speeding up teh SRDF replication and Remote BCV synchronization process time. EMC SAN will replace with 4 GB directors for SRDF connectivity.
• Design and allocation of dedicated ports for Time finder /SRDF /Production/Test Environments .
• Design and Implement Power Path for failover for HBA’s and Fabric Switches
• Design and Implement layout of New Production Servers in SAN Environment.
• Define strategy for Migration and consolidation of Servers.
• Planning and Implementing SRDF solution for Disaster Recovery Solution

Confidential, Dallas, TEXAS

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and allocation of dedicated ports for Time finder /SRDF /Production/Test Environments .
• Design and Implement Power Path for failover for HBA’s and Fabric Switches
• Design and Implement layout of New Production Servers in SAN Environment.
• Define strategy for Migration and consolidation of Servers.
• Planning and Implementing SRDF solution for Disaster Recovery Solution
• Planning and Implementing Time Finder Strategies for backup of Production Database
• Backup of Data Using EMC Legato Netwroker, creating jobs and policies

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Server-Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed a project plan to integrate TIP Intermodal Services with GE Rail services.
• Implementation of SAN solution for one of their business module called as TIP integration.
• Design a process for allocation of storage from EMC SAN .
• Define policies for Production database Usage and implement Timefinder Solution (BCV) for production database backup.
• Configuration of Production servers for powerpath configuration for single point of failure in Fabric.
• Allocation and Deallocation of Luns from EMC/Symmetrix/Clariion to Servers and Metalun Configuration using ECC Console /SYMCLI.
• Shell scripts to take VCM Database backup ever week for EMC SAN.
• Shell scripts to check powerpath on production servers
• Administration of CLARRION using Navisphere.
• Creation and Configuration of Meta, VCM and Gatekeeper Devices in Symmetrix
• Management of Brocade/Mcdata switches and Directors using CONNECTION MATRIX
• Building and Configuring SOLARIS /HP/AIX as per guidelines provided. Keeping in compliance with Server Hardening Techniques.
• Working with UNIX Shell Scripts, as per requirements and managing scripts for proper functioning.
• Implement teh EMC SAN solution to overcome teh DASD requirements in teh business.
• Integration of data from old DASD solution to new SAN (EMC) solution
• Support activity for hardware (Unix Servers) and application like Oracle financial application, web servers and Oracle database.
• Management of Brocade/Mcdata switches and Directors using CONNECTION MATRIX
• Building and Configuring SOLARIS /HP/AIX as per guidelines provided. Keeping in compliance with Server Hardening Techniques.
• Working with UNIX Shell Scripts, as per requirements and managing scripts for proper functioning.
• Implement teh EMC SAN solution to overcome teh DASD requirements in teh business.
• Integration of data from old DASD solution to new SAN (EMC) solution
• Support activity for hardware (Unix Servers) and application like Oracle financial application, web servers and Oracle database