SUMMARY

• Seven years of experience in Storage Administration - NetApp, EMC, HP Hardware, software products and Disaster Recovery.
• Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Involved in designing and developing Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS infrastructure
• Implemented Security groups for Inbound/Outbound access
• Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups
• Administration experience in storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment both in 7-Mode and C-Mode
• Experience in Snap Vault, Snap Mirror and Snap Restore technologies
• Administration of Symmetrix VMAX, VNX, XtremIO (XIO) and VMAX3 arrays using CLI and GUI
• Experience in implementing data migrations using Array based tools Open Replicator- host based tools Open Migrator/Powerpath Migration Enabler.
• Experienced in administrating EMC Symmetrix Storage environment using, EMC TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, SRDF/S, Solution Enabler (SymCLI)
• Experience in creating Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), Virtual Volumes (VV), creating Hosts Persona, exporting Virtual Volumes to Host, creating Virtual Domains, Domain object and managing Domain objects in HP-3PAR
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches.
• Performed data migration in NetApp, HP and EMC Storage Systems.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESX Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning. xpert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon cloud formation, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family
• High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and Software Architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Internet Technologies
• Experience in 24*7 on call support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: NetApp - FAS 8040, 6000 series and 3000 series.EMC Symmetrix - DMX & VMAX, VMX3 (250F)EMC CLARiiON - CX3-20, CX3-40, CX3-80, CX600, CX700, CX200, CX4 960EMC VNX 5500, 5700EMC DD 160, 2500EMC XtremIOHP EVA- HSV 450HP 3PAR- 7400, Inserv V400Switches - Cisco - MDS 9000, Nexus 5596, MDS 9710Brocade 5000 Series and 48K SAN Directors

AWS: EC2, S3, Glacier, Storage gateway, VMware connector, VPC, IAM, Cloud watch, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, Route 53

Software: NetApp - Data ONTAP 8.x (7mode & C-mode), SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, OSSV, SnapManager, Data Fabric operations manager, SnapDrive, FlexShare, Filerview, Config Advisor, OnCommand Suite, DFMEMC - Control Center v6.x, Solutions Enabler v6.5, Navisphere Manager v6.x, NaviCLI, SymCLI, MirrorView, SnapView, SAN Copy, TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath v5.1, Connectrix Manager, SANtegrity, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Recover point, Open Replicator.HP - HP Management Console, HP 3PAR System Reporter, HP EVA Console, Remote Copy, AO, DO, Online Import for MigrationVMware- VMware Vsphere 3.5/4.1/5.0/6.0 , Workstation 6/7, ESX Server 3.5, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Standalone Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 6/7, Solaris 8/9/10, Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2012/ XP/Vista, AIX 5L v5.1/5.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• As an Infrastructure Engineer at Confidential my responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Responsible for all Storage, VMware and Backup - reporting to the Infrastructure Manager
• Managing about 2PB of storage
• Storage Vendor Relations Management
• Incident Management according to company and ITIL framework
• Storage Performance Tuning
• Working on administrating EMC VNX, VMAX3 and NetApp arrays.
• Worked on replication technologies like snap mirror in NetApp and recover point in EMC
• Generate backup reports and storage reports from the reporting tools and prepare monthly capacity planning report dashboard and send to customers
• Generate the monthly SLA report for both storage and backup and make sure the SLA’s are under agreed terms with the customer
• Worked on Netbackup code upgrades to 7.7.3
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines
• Provision VMware Datastore’s and configure storage for Virtual Machines
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS
• Administration on VM clones and snapshots
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration, Storage Vmotion AWS Cloud:
• Expert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon cloud formation, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family
• High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and Software Architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Internet Technologies.
• Working on new Infra build Projects on AWS
• Deployed Different kinds of AWS storage gateways for moving the on-prem data to AWS and utilize various services like S3, Glaciers, EBS volumes.
• Architected DR solution on AWS
• Implemented the Vmware connector and migrated the VM’s from on-prem to AWS

Environment: EMC VNX, Clariion, EMC VMAX3, NetApp FAS 3000, 6000 and 8000 Series, EMC Recover Point, DR Management, Capacity Planning, Netbackup 5020, 5030 and 5230, Reporting Tools, SOX, NetApp Oncommand Suite, Vmotion, Vrealize, VMware 5/6, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, VPC, EC2, S3, Cloud Front, ELB, SQS, SNS, EBS, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, AMI, IAM, CloudFront, Windows 2008, 2012

Confidential, Austin, TX

Systems Engineer & Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centres
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment using auto provisioning on VMAX using SYMCLI/SMC/Unisphere for VMAX.
• Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view
• Implemented FASTVP sub lun level data movement on VMAX, by creating tiers, FAST policies associating storage groups to the FAST policies
• Troubleshooted performance issues using EMC Symmetrix Performance Analyzer
• Working experience in XtremIO (XIO) Storage Array and VNX arrays both file and block
• Configured aggregates, volumes, Qtree on NetApp filers.
• Worked on Creating Virtual Volumes, Common Provisioned Groups (CPG), creating Hosts, exporting VVs to Host, to create Virtual LUNS.
• Implemented Dynamic Optimization by moving data between CPG's using both IMC and CLI.
• Implemented Adaptive optimization to improve the performance by moving the data at sub-LUN level.
• Setup Remote Copy between HP 3PAR’s in different locations
• Worked on migrating data from HP EVA to EMC VMAX 20K using Open Replicator tool
• Worked on migrating data between HP subsystems using HP online import tool
• Worked on with SRDF as part of Disaster recovery (DR) solution by setting up RDF pairs using SRDF/A mode
• Experience in zoning between servers and arrays using Brocade Switches
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Installed following servers Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Win 2008, Win 2012
• Installed & configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation
• Performed tons of V2V Migration
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter

Environment: EMC VMAX20K, VNX 5700, XtremIO, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, EMC Replication Manager for snapshot Management, SRDF/A, Open Replicator, Brocade 5000 series, NetApp 3000 and 6000 series, DD 160, 2500, HP EVA, HP 3PAR 7400, HP Management Console, NetApp Oncommand System Manager and Service Now Ticketing Tool, Online Import Tool, System Reporter for HP, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager

Confidential, Glen Mills, PA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Storage Engineering and operations support at Confidential
• Experience with Auto-provisioning by creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups
• Implemented FAST within the array which enables the use of Enterprise Flash Drives for heavily utilized LUN’s and low cost SATA for less frequently used Lun’s
• Configured aggregates, volumes and Qtree on NetApp filer 8040
• Configured NFS and CIFS shares from NetApp filers
• Installed DCNM severs and Solution Enabler on different Hosts
• Performed server remediation prior to migration by collecting “grab” reports from servers and based on report generated by Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT)
• Worked on Migrating FA ports to different set of FA Ports
• Administration of HP EVA storage arrays
• Coordinate with HP vendor for hardware failures and code upgrades
• Worked on implementing migration plan - moving existence cisco fabric to newly connected MDS 9710 director’s
• Resolved performance issues by monitoring and analysing the end-to-end performance of the infrastructure using EMC Symmetrix performance analyser.
• Handled pool utilization rate, making sure that it does not reach the alert levels
• Worked on setting up the SRDF as part of DR between two data centres using SRDF/A mode
• Created copies of production data by using Time Finder BCV for testing and development and also for backups
• Used Performance Analyzer, created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes
• Created Visio diagrams for all storage arrays using Microsoft Visio software
• Assigned switch ports for the hosts and make sure the ports are in correct VSANs and Zoning on Cisco MDS switches

Environment: Remedy Tool, EMC VMAX10K, Unisphere, Solution Enabler, Performance Analyzer, SRDF/A, Cisco 9148, Nexus 5596 MDS 9710, NetApp 8040 C Mode, HP EVA

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and operations support in Confidential environment
• Gathered replication information from different V-MAX frames for the purpose of DR Test
• Responsible for Providing Clone Luns for UAT applications regarding testing to new environment.
• Creating BCV and SRDF relationship and assigning them to the backup hosts from EMC Symmetrix
• Documented the DR procedures for future purposes
• Day-to-day administration includes storage allocation, zoning, troubleshooting and taking daily & weekend backups and maintenance of Storage arrays & SAN fabric.
• Experience in administering EMC VNX, VMAX, HP 3PAR and HP EVA systems
• Experience in set up AO, Remote Copy
• Using Online Import Tool, done migrations between HP EVA to HP 3 PAR arrays
• Worked on Open Replicator for migrating data from VMAX 10k to VMAX 40K
• Worked on performance related issues by tuning manually from one CPG to another CPG (DO)
• Using System Reporter, generate related reports and check different system parameters and their trend
• Document all best practices and create RCA for all P1 and P2 issues
• Troubleshoot and work with storage support on production related issues
• Monitor space utilization in storage subsystems and resolving the issues.

Environment: Service now ticketing system, EMC VMAX, DMX, VPLEX Metro, EMC DMX-3,4, EMC VNX 5500,5700, EMC Control Center, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), TimeFinder, Open Replicator for migration, Cisco 9506, 9513, Netapp, Hitachi HDS, HP 3-PAR, HP EVA, Online Import, system reporter

Confidential, Monterey Park, CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration and Maintenance of Storage Area Networks on multiple Data Centers
• Hardware Installs of NETAPP storage shelves
• Coordinate with other IT departments to gather information for design and planning purposes
• Created Hardware Visio diagrams for all Storage Systems at Confidential
• Verify system compatibility with NETAPP specific requirements for hosts attached to NETAPP storage systems.
• Trace and label Fiber attached storage systems and SAN switches
• Configured aggregates, volumes and Qtree on NetApp filers
• Provisioned SAN/NAS storage for NETAPP and EMC Symmetrix attached servers
• Worked on V-MAX Thin provisioning and storage Tiering
• Worked on provisioning storage from VNX storage arrays
• Worked with team in upgrading Data ONTAP to 7.3.5.1P3, 8.0.1.
• Performed system level remote support for HP-3PAR Storage arrays
• Involved in assisting clients on various Performance issues
• Provided business groups with snapmirror replication with desired frequency and also snapvault backups for disaster recovery purpose.
• Responsible for snapmirror configurations and monitoring the relationships.

Environment: NetApp FAS 2000’s, 3000’s and 6000’s, Operations Manager, Performance advisor, Config Advisor, Filerview, Data ONTAP, BMC Remedy Automatic ticketing system, EMC VMAX, DMX, EMC DMX-3,4, EMC VNX 5500,5700, EMC Centera, Open Replicator, Cisco 9506, 9513.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implement NetApp storage solutions in production environments
• Plan, manage, and assist with migration activities
• Configured NetApp filers in SAN (FC and iSCSI) and NAS (CIFS and NFS) environments
• Opened tickets with EMC and NetApp customer support and work with them to resolve the open issues
• Confirm interoperability of current operating environments to new install hardware and software to eliminate any documented issues
• Daily tasks included storage provisioning on Clariion arrays using navisphere manager.
• Tasks included creating Meta luns, expanding Meta luns, creating storage groups, configuring templates for array monitoring, generate reports for management in a windows/solaris/linux/vmware environment.
• Configured SnapView Snapshots and SnapView Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Performed daily administration duties using EMC control centre and SYMCLI for allocating LUNs, fabric zoning and masking in a heterogeneous environment.
• Provided storage to hosts in a SAP environment from Symmetrix, configured BCVs on Symmetrix using TimeFinderCLI.
• Monitored Array performance using control center Performance manager.
• Performed zoning (add, remove, rename and replace zone members) on Brocade director level switches.
• Performed switch migration from brocade switches to directors. Knowledge in admin domains on Brocade directors. Daily performance and troubleshooting on directors
• Installed EMC control center 6.0, installed master agents on windows hosts, VMWare ESX hosts, created and managed data collection policies, configured alerts, created alert policies.

Environment: NetApp FAS6040, FAS3070, Symmetrix DMX 2000, DMX-3, Clariion CX 600, 700, CX3-40, CX3-80, Cisco 9509, 9516, SnapMirror, SnapVault, SnapRestore, SyncMirror, Multistore, DataFabric Operations Manager, Navisphere Manager, EMC Control Center, Storage Scope, Solution Enabler, Performance Manager, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Timefinder, Snapview, MirrorView, Connectrix Manager, Web tools, Fabric Manager, PowerPath