PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 16 years of broad understanding and experience in IT technology.Core skill includesSAN/NAS, Cloud Storage AWS and EC2, OpenStack Cinder, swift, Glance, Nova and Horizon ,Big-data management, Hadoop Administration Architecture, High Availability/Disaster Recovery, Virtualization,IT Security,Networking, Databases, and Strategy as well as Risk Management. Technical leader, work closely with client/application architects, senior management, and project managers to design and assist with the implementation of the solutions infrastructure related components.
• Experienced and skills with innovative vision in prevailing industry architecture and engineering methodologies such as ITIL.

SKILLS/TOOLS:

Storage Array:

• IBM : Model 8800, 8700,8300, 8100, XIV, V7000, DS5000, DS4000, DS3000ESS 2105
• 3PAR/HP: ModelV800, 400, T800, T400, S800, F400, 3PAR/HP, InFrom 4.X CLI 2.3
• EMC EMC VMAX 20K/10K, VNX, DMX3/4, Symmetrix, CLARiiON CX480, Navisphere, Unisphere
• Hitachi/HP: P9500, HP XP, AMS1000,AMS500, HDS 9580V, 9570V
• NAS IBM Nseries N5200 Gateway,SnapMirror, Data OnTAP 7.3.3, Nseries Storage Navigator
• Storage Virtualization: Storewise V7000,SAN Volume Controller SVC-2145 V6.X, V5.X, V4.X, V3.X, TPC for Data, Disk, Fabric. Hitachi USP-V
• Storage Multi-Pathing:IBMMPIO, SDD, SDDPCM, SDDDSM, FAStT-RDAC, Hitachi HDLM, EMC,PowerPath.
• Storage Management Software: IBMDS8K and DS4KStorage Manager, Shark ESS Specialist, QlogicSANSurfer/FAST MSJ, IBM Systems storage productivity Center, SAN Volume Controller Console, DSCLI, SMCLI, SVCCLI.
• EMC symCLI, navisphere, ConnectEMC Console, SRDF, EMC Control Center, Replication Manager,HitachiDevice Manager, Storage Navigaror Module GUI
• SAN Fabric: Brocade DCX, 2109 Directors and F class, CISCO MDS 9506, 9513McDATAi10k and 6140 interpid Directors, Swithes. EFCM 9.X, fabricOS NX-OS, BNA, Webtool, DCNM, Fabric manager, Cisco Device Manager
• WINDOWS - Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition , Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition , Wintel, Windows 95, 98, NT 3.x 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP Home and XP Professional Edition .
• Technical Operating Systems / UNIX: - AIX 7, 6.1, 5.3, 5.2, Solaris 2.51, 2.6, 2.7, 8, 9,10 , SunOS 5.8, 5.9 , HP-UX B.10.20/B.11.00 11x, 11.21, 11.23, SUSE Linux 10, RHE 5, Red Hat 7.3, 6.X, Fedora, Ubuntu, VMWARE 64, IRIX, SCO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing customer storage environment, rebalance storage routinely and performance monitoring tuning all HP 3PAR, IBM and EMC array to gain maximum reliability.
• Participated and managed total virtualization project with 400 plus Hadoop instances hosting Big-data based applications managed by MangoDB database running xen serves in a Rackspace OpenStackSAN HP, IBM, EMC and Netapp NAS environment per datacenters.
• Configured, managed and supported OpenStack solution for multi-tenant infrastructure as a service IaaS client projects, controlled pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center with Herizon dashboards and CLI.
• Configured OpenStack Block Storage Cinder to support OpenStack compute instances to create, attach and detach devices such as HP 3PAR, IBM XIV SVC, Netapp, Ceph, SolidFire and NetApp Storage.
• Installed, configured, managed and supported many instances of OpenStack Nova, Swift, cinder, Neutron, Horizon, keystone and Glance services
• Supported amazon AWS, EC2 running on vmwarevspherevCenter environment with EBC volume on HP SAN, Netapp NAS and Openstack environment.
• Installed Hadoop clusters, Managed configured HDFS/MapReduce Hadoop based mounted filesystem, job trackers and task trackers as well as maintained and managed scheduler, snapshot and clones volumes in a replicated environment.
• Utilizing OpenStack Image services Glance provided discovery, registration, and delivery services for disk and server images, backup catalog and object storage as well as stored image templates on IBM SVC managed EMC HP and Hitachi storage SAN storage.
• Managed break-fix, day-to-day operation, technology refresh, code upgrades, storage capacity forecasting and performance tuning, SAN fabric management as well as SAN such as HP/HDS, IBM and EMC Storage as well as NAS NetApp storage.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for storage infrastructure refresh project and created storage cloud virtualization strategy, recommended storage purchase based on historical storage performance and capacity growth where we refreshed15 plus legacy EMCsymmetrix DMX3 EMC CX as well as EVA and IBM DS4800 to HP 3PAR T800, V400, V800 and EMC VMAX Storage.
• Worked with management team, presales solutions architects, project managers as well as core HP teams as storage SME to successfully deploy newly purchased storage frames and its functionality to meet strict project deadline.
• Migrated 1500 plus IBM AIX, Redhat LINUX, Windows, Solaris hosts running on VMware and PowerVM platforms in a SAP Oracle RAC production environment that includes 10 plus petabytes of data move from Old legacy EMC, HP and IBM storage to newly purchased 3PAR storage frames with host based volume, HP 3PAR peer motion and EMC Open Replicator based migration.
• Planned and implemented HP 3PAR InForm OS Code upgrade from 3.1.1 MU1 to 3.1.2 MU4 on all 3PAR storage frames as well as addressed recommended patch upgraded to maintain maximum reliability.
• Planned and implemented cisco fabric OS upgrade, EMC code upgrade, NetApp code upgrade and ONTAP OS upgrade from current code to N-1 code level upgrade to support storage environment.
• Installed and configured HP 3PAR system reporters and system reporter database servers VM for each 3PAR storage frame as well as configured adaptive optimization policy to set automatic storage tiering and EMC FAST VP policy to gain maximum performance.
• Defined storage provisioning policy, created CPG poolsand EMC VMAX allocations as well as managed all NetApp NAS request based on storage strategy to make sure allocated storage is utilized properly to avoid whitespace and lower TCO to gain maximum ROI.
• Created daily, weekly and monthly storage capacity planning and performance forecasting reports for line of business and to understand storage usage growth to support current and new storage strategy utilizing HP 3PAR system reporter, EMC storage scope, HP storage essential and IBM TPC respectively.
• Purchased, planned and implemented new storage enclosure/disk add on an existing storage frames based on storage requirements as well as rebalanced each frame after storage add to gain maximum performance of each array.
• Design and implemented disaster recovery site and setup HP 3PAR remote copy, NetApp snapmirror, EMC SRDF BCV, replication between two datacenter on all production HP 3PAR storage.
• Promptly managed each storage escalation and address each critical issue diligently to the resolution. Assisted and trained each team members to manage new storage efficiently.
• Provided lead architect role to storage engineer and offshore storage team with break-fix and performance outage situation to resolve each issue promptly.
• Routinely reviewed each storage frames for performance improvement recommended and tuned tuning parameters for maximum performance based on application.
• After each implementation created best practices documentationsfor future team reference, stored in team SharePoint site for easy access.
• Attended and organized meetings, created presentations and training reference materials , created change management tickets for each issue for housekeeping

Confidential

Lead SAN/NAS Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided senior level all storage responsibility to client by architectural change, review storage request, design plan, create and perform change request for successful completion as well as work with on shore/ off shore resources, carefully peer review storage change request created by team members provide technical assistance if required as well as approval to each storage request.
• Worked as primary lead SME guided storage members in a team to complete responsibility to maintained 60 CISCO MDS 9513 fabric and 8 Brocade DCX switch Fabric as well as provided technical responsibility with complete switch, zoning and provided assistance with break fix and troubleshooting in addition recommended best practices for improvement to gain highest level of reliability.
• Managed USPV/P9500/XP, IBM XIV Gen3, DS8000, IBM SVC 8 Node cluster running SVC code level 5.1, 8 NetAPP filers with 1500 plus Open systems hosts such as AIX, Linux, VMware, Windows supporting total 5 plus petabytes of SAN and NAS Storage.
• Plan and executed IBM SVC code upgrades, Storage ARRAY Firmware upgrades for 3PAR, EMC, HP, Hitachi IBM and NetApp environment as well as fabric switch code upgrades for 15 datacenters.
• Hosted IBM's SAN/NAS IaaS clients, managed 50 plus multi-vendor storage frame and fabric supported 15 datacenterwithsteady state day to day storage activity, break-fix, and managed risk assessment activity to reduce MTTR and gain highest level of MTBF to maintain reliability in a strict ITIL driven change controlled environment.
• CreatedTPC custom reports to understand storage performance bottleneck, scheduled reports for capacity and planning forecasting.
• Setup 8 TPC instance servers and TPC database servers from scratch, completely responsible for configuration, break-fix as well as Upgraded TPC code levels from V3.1 to V4.2.2
• Created hourly, daily, and monthly capacity reports to understand storage space needs and make sure necessary changes are made to backend storage array to gain maximum scalability to maintain highest reliability and to make sure storage is used efficiently and make sure storage TCO is most economical.
• Worked with project manage and IBM support as well as IBM Healthcare client for future planning of TPC upgrade to V5.1
• Responsible for adding new storage devices to TPC for monitoring and managed 8 TPC V4.2 instance.
• Utilizing TPC diligently evaluated customer storage infrastructure, created recommendation project in area which was need improvement. Gain 30 performance improvement by end of the project completion.
• Worked under strict ITIL driven change management to achieve highest reliability for all storage activities.
• Responsibility such as host management, storage provisioning, reclaim, planning, peer reviewing, capacity planning and forecasting as well as monitoring storage performance trending. Storage Includes 8 Hitachi VSP

Confidential

Cloud Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Planed, managed and participated in the diagnosis current state , detailed design future state and deployment of storage related processes and technologies including storage, backup/recovery and data management.
• Identified opportunities to drive more value from an organization's existing and planned storage investment through a combination of technical, operational and organizational initiatives.
• Thoroughly evaluate storage portfolio created whitespace opportunity to reclaim unused 21TB of storage space to lower Storage TCO.
• Assisted and improved storage strategy and provided in depth working knowledge of storage solutions technologies.
• Provided strong working knowledge of virtualization as it relates to storage to internal bank customers

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Diligently assessed SAN infrastructure, created SAN virtualization strategy to develop the storage infrastructure vision with five year tactical road map. With consideration ofdata migration from end of life IBM DS4000 and EMC CLARiiON SAN storage to new 3PARstorage solution. Migrated 200 Plus virtualized UNIX hosts as well as 350 Plus Windows/VMware hosts with minimum downtime supporting Oracle, Cache , DB2, Websphere and SAP as well as ERP Environment. Keeping reliability as number one goal.
• Meticulously collected storage and Server requirements and created Storage RFP to improve reliability, availability, scalability, agility as well as gain greater performance with 3PAR adaptive and dynamic optimization technology by Storage and Server virtualization with sophisticated design and architecture of storage ARRAY as well as servers to support various applications.
• Carefully reviewed the proposed storage solution by Hitachi, DELL, EMC, IBM, Comellent and 3PAR. Created decision model to rate storage solution based on reliability, new key features such as thin provisioning, snapshot technology to improve performance, maintain scalability, and agility.
• Purchased 3PAR storage after careful cost consideration and negotiation among selected vendors
• Implemented 3PAR SAN and migrated 400 plus Terabytes of data from end of life IBM DS4000 and EMC CLARiiON on UNIX and Windows based OS platform. In addition, purchased two IBM POWER7 model 770servers to virtualize all legacy servers, Migrated CISCO MDS 9506 Director Fabric to CISCO MDS 9513 fabric.
• Implemented replication solution with 3PAR remote copy and point in time recovery between two sites utilizing newly purchase 3PAR array to provide synchronous and Asynchronous replication to deliver zero data loss and save higher maintenance cost of NetApp replication solution.
• Implemented IBM POWER7 systems to migrate standalone legacy system to fully virtualized LPAR running UNIX OS to support current applications, improve overall reliability, reduce MTTF and improve MTBF as well as meet the company standard SLA.
• Improved disaster recovery solution by providing IBM HACMP Clustered solution with local as well as site failover.