Professional Summary:

• Eighteen years of Information Technology experience in Storage Systems Architecture Engineering, VMware/UNIX/Linux Systems Engineering Administration, Database Administration, Infrastructure Management and Application development.
• Complete Project Life Cycle Management and Technical Leadership experience
• Experience in architecting, designing enterprise level machine critical solutions along with leading and managing infrastructure teams.
• Core experience is in Storage Architecture/Engineering/Administration primarily in NetApp, Hitachi, EMC and HP Storage 12 years , Redhat Linux 6 Years UNIX System Engineering Administration primarily in HP-UX 6 years , UNIX Shell Scripting Perl 6 Years , VMware Administration 4 Years Informix DBA, 4GL ESQL/C 3 Years Backups Management using HP DataProtector and Symantec Netbackup 3 years
• Knowledge in Cloud, SDS, Flash technologies and Infrastructure industry road map. Excellent exposure in troubleshooting Storage Systems, UNIX, Linux Hardware, Software and User Applications in production environment.
• Functional experience in Finance, Life Sciences, Security Systems, Telecommunications and Product distribution. Worked in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Storage Architect / Tech Lead

• Involved in various responsibilities spanning across two Infrastructure life cycles with primary focus on Storage both SAN and NAS , VMware and Systems HP and UCS
• Major responsibilities include Project Management / Storage Architecture / Design / Implementation / Engineering using NetApp 6280, 6080, 3270, 3040 and HDS VSP for applications with VMware, Windows and Redhat Linux backend.
• Architected both NetApp HDS SAN storage solutions for SQL Server and Oracle Databases NetApp NAS Storage for VMware ESX 5.1 and 4.x, NFS storage for Redhat Linux and CIFS storage for departmental shares
• Involved in leading and implementing massive data migrations with more than 500TB of data storage. Expertise in array based and host based migration methodologies across storage, server and OS platforms.
• Completely involved in entire SAN and NAS Proof of Concept POC evaluating major storage vendor's platforms EMC VMAX, HDS VSP, NetApp 6280, IBM XIV, and Actifio . Currently working on evaluating new Flash, cloud and Software Definded Storage SDS solutions from Nimbus, XtremeI/O, Nutanix, Sanbolic, and Violin etc
• Performed data analytics across broad spectrum of requirements during POC to choose the best storage solution and then Architected/Designed the complete SAN and NAS platform from scratch.
• Vendor management including relationships management, critical issues conflict resolution, defining future requirements, implementation coordination etc...
• Built solutions for unique and high I/O demanding database applications.
• Along with VMware Architect completely designed/built/migrated entire company VMware environment 800 VM's from old NetApp storage to new 6280's along with changing the server platform from HP C7000 to UCS gear along with moving ESX platform from 4.0 to 5.1.
• Built NetApp storage solution for VMware VDI environment. Involved in implementation of VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Implemented Multiprotocol solutions for Linux environment.
• Upgraded entire company SAN Fabric environment from Cisco MDS 9509 to 9513 in different data center rack with zero downtime with absolute 100 success rate.
• Implemented NetApp Storage efficiency best practices with data high availability features. Currently working on CDOT ONTAP cluster mode POC and got trained in the CDOT administration and implementation.

Hardware/Software: HDS VSP, HCS, Tuning Manager, HUR, ISR, TrueCopy, Replication Manager NetApp 6280/3270, OnCommand / Insight Cisco MDS 9513 Cisco Nexus 5596 Cisco UCS, HP C7000

Confidential

Technical Account Manager Storage Systems

• Designed and Architected Enterprise hosted systems for Biogen Global Technology Services GTS department through AT T Enterprise Hosting and private cloud support.
• Performed lead role in managing around 25 storage devices NetApp FAS systems, XP, EVA and Brocade switches and 100 servers HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows .
• Involved in architecting solutions in SAN, NAS and iSCSI technologies and worked on installing/upgrading/implementing/managing NetApp FAS 3050, FAS 3070 and FAS 6080, HP XP1024, HP XP12000, XP 10000, EVA 8000 arrays.
• Designed and implemented end-to-end Oracle 10g RAC solution from storage, SAN, systems and OS point of view. It involves NetApp FAS 6030 for storage, Brocade 12000 switches for SAN, HP Integrity rx4660 for systems, and Redhat Linux 4.6 for OS.
• Performed several ONTAP upgrades, shelf/disk/motherboard firmware upgrades, adding new fiber port adapters to the head for additional capacity, adding additional disk shelves, creating aggregates/volumes/qtrees/LUNs/CIFS shares/NFS exports, implementing quotas, configuring VIFs / SnapShots, changing cfmode, troubleshooting cluster failover issues, capacity planning, mapping initiators, managing snap mirrors between two sites, resolving FCP path misconfiguration issues, multipathing issues on host side, host side hp-ux, linux, solaris, ESX LUN discovery, NFS mounting, File system creation etc
• Activities include day-to-day operations, RCA for critical issues, troubleshooting long pending issues, project management, suggesting implementing best practices in SAN/NAS/UNIX/Linux platforms, implementing productivity improving techniques across the department, implementing data migration, HW, SW and Apps Upgrade projects, filling the gaps in the team by learning implementing whatever the technology and solution client needs.
• Implemented BusinessCopy Snapshot solution on XP arrays and hp-ux servers. Implemented complete systems monitoring solution for Redhat Linux servers.
• Provisioned FC LUNs to ESX Servers and configured vmfs datastores, virtual disks for VM's, multipathing and tested Storage VMotion. Worked with ESX team in troubleshooting storage issues.
• Created monthly storage report which shows Total / Allocated / Used storage per Array, per server, per month and other important storage related statistics. We use DFM, NetApp SanScreen, HP Storage Essentials and custom reports for monitoring and reporting.

Hardware: NetApp FAS 3000/5000/6000 series, EVA 8000, XP 1024/12000/10000, HP 9000/rp/rx/proliant/superdome series servers, HP Proliant Series, Sun sparc/fire systems, Dell PowerEdge series

Software: NetApp OnTap 7.x, RedHat Linux RHEL 3,4 and 5 ESX 3.0.2 and VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Business Copy, Command View EVA/XP/AE, hp-ux 11i v1,v2 v3, RDP, HP Openview Operations OVO , SGeRAC, Oracle 10g/9i, Solaris 8/9.

Confidential

Principal Systems Engineer

• Installed and configured RedHat Linux platform for one of the project web portal with Apache HTTP server and Tomcat container.
• Involved in functional design of 1U search project related to Airline Industry.

Confidential

Lead Storage/Systems Manager

• Involved in architect, design and configuration of HP MC ServiceGuard Cluster for Oracle 10g in RAC environment for machine critical system using EVA5000 and rp7420 servers.
• Responsible for capacity planning, ordering additional storage, configuring the disks in storage array, Brocade switch zoning, allocating SAN storage to various servers, configuring business copy to take snapshots snap clones and maintenance of SAN. Implemented system clone solution for Redhat Enterprise Linux RHEL systems using Altiris RDP.
• Took lead role in expanding SAN fabric by adding core/edge switches. Configured SAN along with HP SAN engineer moving servers from core switches to edge switches.
• Migrated UNIX/Linux servers to SAN fabric. Used SecurePath to configure the LUNs.
• Complete management of hp-ux and Linux environment. Scope of work starts from planning stage and spans across architecting solution, design, quotation, purchasing, installation, configuration, support and troubleshooting. Responsible for eight hp-ux servers, fifteen Linux servers, two tru64 servers and three Windows servers.
• Taking major role in implementing and maintaining Enterprise SAN backup solution using HP data protector software and MSL tape libraries.
• Started working on DR solution for company's core financial system.
• Designed and implemented NAS storage solutions in Windows and UNIX environments.

Hardware: NetApp NAS Devices F800, F880C, HP rp7420, rp8420, proliant DL ML class, EVA 5000/8000, Brocade Silkworm 4100/3900, Cisco MDS 9124, MSL 6060 tape library

Software: hp-ux 11i v1 v2, RHEL ver 4/3/2.1, RDP, Business Copy, Command View EVA, OV SOM, Openview Operations OVO , SGeRAC, Oracle 10g/9i, Redhat GFS

Confidential

Storage Engineer Level 3

• Worked in Large Storage Environment SSS at Verizon which includes , EMC SAN Disk Tape , EMC Symmetrix, Mcdata switches, NAS, gFiler, Veritas and Time Finder BCV's .
• Worked on various Projects for Storage implementation Disk and Tapes on SAN, NAS, Additional Storage, Configuring at switches, and Veritas Netbackup 4.5/5.1 HBA swap for all platforms. Zonie responsibilities for Tampa, Fairland Datacenter for SAN Tape.
• Troubleshooting day-to-day SAN issues, EMC Disk issues for all OS platforms. 24x7 oncall support for the SAN Disk, BCV's Tape and hp-ux. Created and expanded file systems on 3 TB space on SAN storage EMC LUNs .
• Involved in design configuration of five HP superdomes along with two team members.
• Ignited all partitions of five superdomes with HP 11.11 machine critical golden image. Created 20-way, 8-way, and 4-way partitions.
• Research on top ten security vulnerabilities and finding solutions based on Verizon regulations. Wrote shell script to scan all servers to list information on top ten security vulnerabilities.
• Production and Development application support hands-on troubleshooting production issues and working on production crisis calls including outages .

Hardware: HP 9000 A, L, K, N-class, Superdomes

Software: HP 11.11, 11.00, 10.20 fsecure BMC Patrol Marimba Oracle EMC Symmetrix

Confidential

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator and DBA

• Performed Disk Management and File System Management on HP 9000/800 L-Series Server Capacity Planning , creating physical volumes, VGs, LVs file systems using HP LVM, OnlineJFS
• Fixed various performance issue associated with UNIX Servers HP 9000/L1000 , Disk Array SubSystem 12H , Database Informix , UNIX OS HP-UX 11.0 and Client Applications.
• Involved in network configuration network interface cards, DNS resolvers, hosts, NIS to add the server in two different LANs. System fine-tuning of Kernel Parameters. Installed HP-UX patches, used Ignite-UX tools for Installation, Mirroring and system restore from tape.
• Installed HP Omniback and customized backup scripts for database, File System and System Bare Metal. Designed and coded server-side programs in C, ESQL/C 9.3 and UNIX shell scripts.
• Prepared Technical Documentation Maintenance Troubleshooting, Database, Disaster Recovery, Bare Metal. Prepared Complete Disaster Recovery Plan. This includes Backup and Restore of Root Volume, Database and non-root volume groups.
• Performed Informix Database Administration activities in two projects.

Confidential

HP Systems Engineer

• Re-designed TCOPS UNIX Server HP 9000 N-Class to rectify design flaws. Suggested changes in Space Allocation to File Systems Database, RAID Disk Load Balancing, Backup Recovery plan, and Mirroring and User Application programs.
• Involved in implementation of MC/ServiceGuard Cluster on HP 9000 N-Class Servers with EMC SAN and Storage Works RAID Array 3000 disk arrays. Performed OS/System housekeeping of system logs and application logs.
• Automated backup process file system, database on DDS3 and DLT Tape drives.
• Created additional chunks and separated logical logs and physical logs from root dbspace in Informix Dynamic Server database.

Confidential

Software Developer / Systems Analyst

• Worked on Help-Desk calls, raised by end-users which includes troubleshooting UNIX Systems and PBX Switch Network Applications.
• Worked on developing programs in C, Informix ESQL/C, Informix 4GL languages. Worked on entire data conversion projects for huge AT T ASCII data files using C and Informix ESQL/C.
• Performed daily Network / Systems Administration on HP 9000 K420, Sun E450 servers.
• Created logical volumes, file systems, users and permissions in HP-UX 10.20
• Set up Test Environments at the QA lab. Which includes network setup and maintenance of HP Servers, Windows NT Servers at QA lab

Confidential

UNIX Systems Engineer

• Involved in Migration of Dealernet system from UNIX 3B2 AT T to SUN Sparc 3000 environment. Completed project on-time with negligible end user downtime.
• Setup of SUN Sparc 3000 Server installation and configuration . Also installed and configured VERITAS Volume Manager. Created file systems and users based on requirements.
• Involved in set up installation and configuration of Sparc Server. Worked on Y2K readiness for Dealernet System which includes changing Informix 4GL and ESQL/C programs. Involved in administration of users and file system on HP 9000 D370 Server.
• Used HP Omniback to customize backup for Database and file system. Automated backup process on DLT tape library. Administered migration of code from Pyramid to HP-9000. Installed whole application on HP-UX 10.20

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

• Installed and Configured Compaq Proliant 1500 Server and HP 3000 servers with SCO UNIX. Installed third party software on both Production and Test Servers.
• Designed the database schema, screen layouts and reports after analyzing user requirements.
• Created chunks, dbspaces, database, tables, indexes and stored procedures in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.1 and Oracle 6.x.
• Coded three applications using C, Perl, UNIX shell scripts, Informix 4GL and ESQL/C
• Involved in implementation of the system at client site. Trained users.
• Documented User Manual, DB Maintenance Instructions, LLD of two sports modules

Technical Skills:

• SAN, NAS Systems: NetApp FAS 6200/6000/3200/3000 series filers, Hitachi VSP, HP storage hardware EVA XP series , EMC VMAX, IBM XIV, Entire set of HP server hardware c7000, HP9000, rp, rx, proliant, Superdome etc. , Cisco UCS, Brocade Silkworm and director class switches, Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors, IBM RS/6000 P-Series EMC Symmetrix / Clarion series SUN Sparc Fire servers, HP MSL series Tape Libraries, C-Class Blade systems
• VMware: ESX 5.x, 4.x VMFS5/3
• Operating Systems: NetApp Ontap 8.x,7.x, CDOT cluster mode RHEL AS 3,4,5,6 HP-UX 11i v1,v2,v3 AIX 4.x,5 Solaris 8,9
• Storage and Server Software: NetApp SanScreen Onaro Monitoring Tool, HP DataProtector Backup Software, Veritas Volume Manager, VMWare ESX 3.0.2 and VirtualCenter 2.0.2, HP MC/Service Guard, , HP OpenView Operations, Business Copy, Command View EVA, Veritas Netbackup, HP Storage Essential.