OBJECTIVE

• To seek a challenging career with a progressive organization that leverages my academic background, skills, and professional experience in Information Technology.

SUMMARY

• Experienced in SAN Integration, SAN Implementation, SAN/NAS Troubleshooting, Performance Analysis and Disaster Recovery
• Extensive experience in implementation, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON arrays
• Extensive experience in EMC SAN technologies and provisioning of LUNs on CLARiiON platform using Navisphere manager
• Experience in disaster recovery configuration using Mirrorview, Sancopy, SRDF and NetApp Snapmirror
• Experience in Application consistent technologies such as Replication Manager, NetApp Snapmanager products
• Experienced in NetApp NAS and SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on NAS and provisioning LUNs using ISCSI and FC
• Extensive experience in Systems Integration, Systems Administration, Installation, Configuration and Support on different UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX and Red Hat Enterprise platforms
• Three years of experience in Networker System designing, Architecture, security, administration and troubleshooting.
• Extensive Experience in configuring the Networker Master Servers, storage Nodes, server.
• Highly Involved in Backup Servers Performance Tunings.
• Technical specialist who can support multiple platforms and applications. Performed installations of Networker software on MS Windows, IBM AIX, LINUX and Sun Solaris.
• Highly Experience in Migrations from Older Versions of Networker to Latest Versions
• Acted as an primary contact for Backup solutions
• Highly involved in Designing Backup solutions for NAS Filers, Data Bases for cost effective solution.
• Extensive Experience Total Recovery of the servers in the Event of Disasters.
• Extensive Experience in conducting the Disaster Recovery Exercises from Scratch.
• Experience with NetWorker integration with DD for Deduplications.
• Extensive Experience is Networking, System Administration of Windows and Unix Operating Systems.
• Allocate and Configure EMC SAN Storage and NetApps for Various Projects.
• Experience in Configuring Avamar Multinode Grid.
• Worked with Avamar admin to integrate Networker with Avamar.
• Experience with Avamar integration with DD.
• Effective communication skills, team building skills, ability to work effectively with minimal supervision and good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experienced in Installation and configuration of SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart automatic installation
• Experienced in Configuration and troubleshooting NFS and NIS environment
• Bourne shell script writing to customize any customer specific application requirement and to automate administrator tasks
• Experienced in storage provisioning on host side using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and VERITAS Volume manager (VxVM)
• Team player with excellent technical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 5.0, Solaris 8/9/10, HP - UX 10.x/11.x, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP

Storage Management: EMC Navisphere Management Suite (SnapView, MirrorView, San Copy), Data OnTap FilerView, Brocade Fabric Manager, EMC PowerPath

High availability software: Volume Volume Manager (VXVM), HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Red Hat Enterprise Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Volume Manager (SVM)

Network and Storage Protocols: ISCSI, FCP, TCPIP, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, SSH, ARP, RARP, HTTP, DHCP

Server Virtualization: Solaris 10 Zones and Containers

Applications & Servers: Apache Web Server, Solaris Jumpstart, HP Ignite UX

Programming/Scripting: UNIX Bourne Shell and AWK, PL/SQL, C, HTML Hardware Technology (Server, Storage, Network)

HP9000 N/L/RP RISC Servers: Sun Ultra Enterprise M8000, E450, Sun Fire 6800/4800/280 R/220R/V880, Sun Blade 1000, Intel X86 and AMD x64 based high end & lower end servers and PC's from Dell, IBM, HP and SUN, EMC Clarion (CX Series), Netapp FAS 2020

Cisco and Brocade Storage: Switches, Emulex, JNI and LSI HBA's

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Washington, DC

Networker and Storage engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created CIFS and NFS share in Data domain
• Monitored Data domain storage and reported it to the management.
• Worked with the storage team to document the storage allocation procedure in a EMC Clariion environment
• Created pools and allocated storage from a CX4-480 environment using unisphere
• Migrated data from cx-480 to Vnx using mirrorview and PPME
• Worked with EMC to get VNX 5500 installed in the environment
• Configured VNX file for NAS and VNX block for SAN
• Configured and allocated storage from Vmax environment
• Configured autoprovisiong and created tdats,tdevs, thin pools in a vmax environment
• Installed and configured replication manager agents on different server platforms for automatic and consistent clones in the environment
• Integrated recoverpoint with replication manager to take bookmarks
• Configured journal volumes, consistency groups and replication sets in recoverpoint environment
• Documented the zoning configuration on the switches
• Created change requests in the environment and documented the changes as per the customer request
• Ran EMC grabs on the hosts and documented the compatibility of the servers with emc storage
• Documented the environment and worked with the system admins to analyze and document the failures in the backup environment
• Worked on day to day administration of networker
• Configured networker agents on windows and Solaris servers
• Configure the saveset for the client on network server as per customer requirements
• Working with different application groups to create schedules and understand the backup SLA per application
• Troubleshoot tape and disk backup issues and open tickets with EMC as required
• Documented the detailed procedure for sql and Hyper V in the environment for the customer
• Documented and created run-books for the customer

Environment: EMC Networker 7.6, Windows server 2008, 2003, Solaris 10, IBM tape library, EMC Data domain, NNM 2.2

Confidential, New York

Veritas NetBackup Administrator & backup engineer

Responsibilities:

• Allocate storage from clariion arrays to the windows servers
• Created raid groups, storage groups and allocate storage to different OS platforms
• Assist EMC in flare code upgrade on a clariion array
• Create reports on clariion san array using Navisphere manager
• Migrated data from clariion to clariion using PPme and open replicator
• Ran emc grabs on the servers and created heat reports in powerlink to analyze the environment
• Allocated luns from DMX 4 environment using ecc and symcli
• Configured incremental sancopy session and migrated about 20TB of data
• Worked with EMC to co-ordinate the firmware upgrade on the arrays
• Configure recoverpoint CRR in the environment
• Add storage to the journal volumes in the EMC recoverpoint environment as required
• Conducted the DR Tests based on the client requirements by restoring the data to alternate locations and testing the application
• Configure Aggregates, volumes and qtrees in a NetApp environment.
• Allocated cifs and NFS shares from a NetApp Array
• Configured NDMP backups in a NetApp environment.
• Performed the Performance Tunings for total Environment using the EMC Recommendations
• Installed Netbackup agents on the unix and windows servers and discovered them in to the system
• Configured Data Domain for De Duplication
• Worked with EMC to configure the filesystems on the datadomain
• Created NAS shares from data domain with EMC
• Configured Avamar Multinode Grid server
• Configured Avamar agents on the servers and scheduled the backups as per the customer requirements
• Troubleshoot the Avamar issues by opening tickets with the emc support
• Implemented Data Domain Boost software for Veritas Netbackup to Reduce the Network Traffic
• Performed backup/Recovery and maintain backed up data 24x7 and review them to ensure that it is successfully stored.
• Implemented the Netbackup policies for different servers
• Troubleshoot and resolve backup failure issues.
• Configure Multiplexing and multistreaming in the environment to improve the performance in the environment
• Install media servers and connect them to the master server
• Create devices, pools, schedules, groups, policies etc. based on backup requirements and fine tune them for optimum performance.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly report of all backup jobs.
• Monitor and resolve any replication issues between DD’s located in production and DR.
• Perform OS upgrades on Data Domain systems as and when new versions are released.

Environment: Netbackup 6.5, datadomain 880, Avamar, sql, exchange 2007, windows 2003 servers, linux rhel 5, solaris 9/10, clariion cx3-80, cx3-40, cisco MDS fiber channel switches

Confidential, MN

Legato Networker Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Legato Networker on a number of operating systems. Perform periodical upgrades on Server, client and storage nodes.
• Configuring SQL And Oracle Servers for Backups using the Networker Agents
• Configured Networker servers for VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries ) for Faster Backups and Restores Configured the Juke Boxes for Total Backup solution.
• Installed the Networker 6.x on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Configured devices, Libraries and Volume Pools for Backups.
• Performed Automated Scripts for Backup Reporting Failures.
• Configured the NAS Filers for Backups.
• Perform backup/Recovery and maintain backed up data 24x7 and review them to ensure that it successfully stored.
• Manage the configuration of servers and maintenance of hardware including the symmetrix.
• Perform cloning, Staging, and creation of inclusion/exclusion rules based on requirements
• Set up retention and various levels of backup.
• Technical documentation on data storage products for customers, partners and internal employees across the various branch divisions.
• Responsible for implementing and administering network and security equipment and policies in environments.
• Work directly with ED Services to implement and maintain standards set by training team Load and install BIN files on the Symmetrix based on partner training requirements. Network, Security hardware and software maintenance.
• Provided on call support for total Backup team
• Configured SQL servers for Backups using SQL Agents
• Monitoring the Backup servers during Non-Production Hours
• Troubleshooting Backup Failures for the servers
• Performed Restores for Data Bases and NAS filers

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Window 2003 active directory and supporting. Troubleshoot any problems that arises in the network from Cisco devices to Windows servers.
• Configured Cisco content switches and troubleshoot. Installing VMware for disaster recovery test purposes.
• Support all levels of escalation issues.
• Monitor Network infrastructure for any problems in the network that may arises using Network Instruments Observer to log network traffic and capture packets and then analyze it to resolve issues.
• Recommend resolution to resolve network issues and improve network performance. Configuring internet issues such as DNS, TCP/IP, and ACL. Administering Exchange 2003 and Windows Active Directory and Novell file and print servers.
• Designed the physical server to virtual server migration deployment. This included the design of the VMware ESX servers, using Netapps for NAS, IP-SAN to implement ESX HA and DRS.
• Design LAN/WAN infrastructure using Cisco routers, switches, and firewall.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and support Cisco and Foundry LAN/VLAN switches.
• Install and configured Windows 2003 Active Directory Cluster using EMC Autostart. Installed, configured, troubleshoot, and support Legato/EMC Networker
• Participate and support migration of Toshiba phone system to Cisco VOIP phone system.