Network Engineer Resume Profile, NJ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Over 8 years of working experiences with heterogeneous storages platforms such as Dell, EqualLogic, Compellent, EMC, Isilon and IBM products, geographic data replication and migration technologies over the Fabric and iSCSI products such as Cisco, Brocade, McData switches, F10, PowerConnect switches. Designed virtualization environment with Site Recovery Manager on VMware platform.
Extensive experience in project management, customer facing and technical sales experiences with proven ability to deliver excellent projects. Out-of-the-box thinker driven to lower costs using conventional/non-conventional solutions. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to apply them towards the investigation of existing installations. A self-starter with the ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment. Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Engineer

Manage and operate the day to day storage infrastructure including storage provisioning, issue resolution, system monitoring, and ensuring heterogeneous storage arrays which includes EMC-CX4, Isilon, VNX5300 and IBM XIV Gen3, and V7000, and Brocade switches are operational.
Manage Array based VMware Site Recovery Manager between the production and disaster recovery sites. Configure Asynchronous Replications between the Storages over the WAN and implement data migration solution from older storage to newer.
Manage data protection on user data on Isilon by setting up snapshots and implement restore policies.
Provision storage on VMware and Windows servers and attach hosts with fully redundancy. Produce clear and comprehensive technical documents.
Design fabric environment for ISL and different domains and monitor for congestion.
Understand and work with VMware to provision virtual machines for storage environment.
Design storage Tiering and raid groups according the business needs.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Integration Advisor Storage

Specialized in EMC, Dell, EqualLogic, and Compellent SANs and successfully delivered storage related projects which included replications over the Brocade and McData FC Switches, and Force 10 and PowerConnect iSCSI Switches to multiple sites resulting in high customer satisfaction.
Designed and implemented High Availability and Failover solutions in VMware and Microsoft environments and optimized the datastore performance by deploying multipathing applications.
Executed projects which involve NAS storages such as NX3000 and NX3300 with Windows 2008 Microsoft cluster solution with Compellent storages.
Responsible for knowledge transfer and presentations for the latest technologies and new products during the implementations.
Responsible for configuring zoning and ISL for Cisco, Brocades and McData Fibre switches to help clients' access storage from servers and to secure Fabric network.
Responsible for configuration of Emulex and QLogic HBA cards on the Blade Servers to help boot from SAN.
Worked with EqualLogic Host integration Tool for Windows and VMware. Configured EqualLogic ASM ME/VE, Dell Open Manage and VCenter Appliances on VMware to have better performance.
Implemented backup to disk and tape solutions with ML6030, TL and DR series.
Led Datacenter move projects.

Confidential

Network Systems Engineer

Led a team of Dell storage consultants on implementation and maintenance of EMC SAN projects and responsible for managing storage groups, LUNs and MetaLUNs, new host attachments to SAN, McData 4400, 4700 Fibre switches providing better performance with secure fabric network.
Led Microsoft Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005 cluster implementation, managed Enterprise level Exchange 2000 servers and BlackBerry Activations.
Contributed to the Riverbed project team to optimize the WAN traffic between 90 sites and configured CMC 8000 and SH model 1020, 3520 and 1520 which resulted significant gain on speed over WAN.
Installed Desktop Authority 7.6 with SQL server 2005 to support more than 3000 computers and pushed out mapped drives, printers, registry changes, group policies and applications to standardize all computers and users configurations.
Monitored AT T cloud across the WAN between corporate offices and Datacenter to make sure that the production is up and running.
Led project to screen various enterprise level backup solutions such as SonaSafe, NetBackup and EMC NetWorker to help company select the best backup solution. As a result of my work, EMC NetWorker backup software was bought by my company to serve as a backup solution for all company production servers.

Confidential

IT Systems Administrator

Promoted from IT Administrator to ERP system administrator
Responsible for Windows 2003 Active Directories for Lipo and Ruger. Contributed to Networking team to build DNS servers with replication between the zones and DHCP servers.
Designed backup system by using VERITAS Backup Exec 10d with Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint and Open File Technology agents.