SUMMARY

Around 14 years of total experience in the field of Information Technology including nine years in Backup/Recovery using TSM, implementation, administration of SAN, NAS and Virtualization.

• Extensive experience in administration, configuration and troubleshooting EMC: VMAX, DMX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, ViPR, Clarion CX, VNX. HDS: AMS, USP/USPV, VSP. IBM: DS8000, XiV, SVC in 24x7 mission critical production environment.
• Hands on experience in storage provisioning and administering multi-vendor operating systems which includes Windows, UNIX and Linux.
• Excellent experience with SYMCLI, SMC, NaviSphere Manager and UniSphere.
• Experience in using HiCommand suite, Tuning Manager.
• Good experience in migrating data from one storage platform to other.
• Strong experience with Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Snapshots/Clones TimeFinder Mirror/Clone/Snap and Flash Copy.
• Experience in Remote Replication using Mirror View, SRDF, and Metro/Global mirror.
• Strong experience in Data Migration techniques using SAN Copy.
• Working experience with NetApp FAS.
• Experience in configuring NFS, CIFS, Snapmirror, Snapvault on NetApp FAS.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade switches.
• Zoning and Firmware upgrades on Brocade and Cisco Switches.
• Experience in installing drivers for Emulex and Qlogic HBA's.
• Excellent experience in Installation and configuration of EMC PowerPath on UNIX and Windows servers for Path Failover and Load Balancing.
• Knowledge on SCSI, FC, RAID and Storage Virtualization technologies.
• Good working knowledge of Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi 5.x and vCenter.
• Working knowledge of configuring VM's, Clones, Templates, HADRS, Fault Tolerance, and VMware Clusters.
• Experience in configuring VMFS and NFS Datasstores.
• Good working knowledge of Cisco UCS.
• Install, configure and administer IBM TSM.
• Install and configure TSM BA client, TDP for MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle DB.
• Install and configure TSM LanFree backups.
• Manage Physical and virtual Tape Libraries like IBM 3584, 3494, EMC EDL, DataDomain and ProtecTier
• Knowledge on Shell Scripting.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as a team member.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills

• Storage Arrays: EMC: Symmetrix V-Max, DMX, CLARiiON CX, VNX
• HDS: AMS, USP/USPV, AMS.
• IBM: DS8000, XiV, SVC
• NetApp: FAS Series.
• Switches: Brocade silkworm 200E, 24000, 48000, DCX. Cisco MDS.
• Data Protection: TimeFinder, SRDF, SnapView, MirrorView, SANCopy, Flash copy, ShadowImage, TrueCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror.
• Tape Libraries: IBM 3584 TS 3310, 3500 , 3494, EDL, DataDomain, ProtecTier.
• Virtualization software: VMware vSphere 5.x
• Operating Systems: AiX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2003/2008/2012.
• Servers: Cisco UCS
• Others: Shell scripting,

Professional Experience

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Confidential multinational food and beverage corporation with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. Confidentialformed with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company and Frito-Lay, Inc. As a member of Storage team actively work on Architecting, Designing and Administering EMC Symmetrix DMX/VMAX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, VNX block, VNX file, Isilon and IBM SVC.

• Extensive experience in administering EMC Symmetrix and VNX.
• Experience in creating and provisioning thin and thick luns.
• Experience in Implementing FAST policy.
• Implement and administer remote replication using SRDF.
• Implement and administer Local replication using TimeFinder Clone, Snap and BCV.
• Experience in migrating data from one array to other using host and array based solutions.
• Experience in storage Array refreshes.
• Develop storage architectures to meet RPO and RTO
• Analyze storage performance, collect performance reports and prepare summary reports.
• Capacity management including provisioning, reporting and dashboard development.
• Project execution including coordination, resource planning, deliverables, time line negotiations.
• Troubleshooting complex Storage problems and determining root cause.
• Participate in application and server consolidation efforts.
• Participate in the planning and execution of Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Troubleshoot storage issues working closely with the System Administrators and product vendors to obtain a long-term resolution.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers, storage arrays, directors and switches.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support.
• Experience in encapsulation and migration of LUNs from DMX to VMAX with Enginuity code 5876 using VPLEX, Older Production VMAX array to a new VMAX using VPLEX.
• Migrations using VPLEX VS1, VS2 , Local/Metro configurations.
• Implemented VPLEX Local for managing data mobility and access within the data center
• Implemented VPLEX Metro across data centers over synchronous distances.
• Experience in setup and installation of VPLEX metro solution for high performance and availability.
• Created distributed devices, rule sets in VPLEX metro configuration to migrate data between datacenters and for global visibility on the devices for remote access.
• Used Extent level and Device level migrations for data refreshes.
• Collected the LUN details of the servers- drive letters, capacity, and HBA information for Encapsulation of LUNs into VPLEX.
• Extensive knowledge on Thin provisioning, good understanding of benefits, risks, and how to effectively design and manage a thin provisioned storage environment.
• Provided subject matter expertise and represented as the highest level of technical escalation for enterprise storage technologies.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience on FAST VP /Implementation. Worked on VLUN migration based on the client requirements/performance considerations.
• RecoverPoint implementation/configuration for performing replication of data to and from remote sites.
• Administration of RecoverPoint, Fabric and Array based splitters
• Experienced in automating the RecoverPoint procedures with Replication Manager Environment.
• Configured and implemented EMC RecoverPoint replication between an EMC Symmetrix VMAX for different hosts.
• Experience in configuring the EMC RecoverPoint CRR sessions between the locations for disaster recovery, CDP for local replication and CLR.
• Created local and remote copies using RecoverPoint.
• Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Installing and configuring the Brocade switches and upgrading the code, updating the licenses.
• Successfully led the Brocade FOS upgrade Project for entire fabric switches.
• Configuring FCIP tunneling on Brocade switches.
• Configure NFS and CIFS on VNX File and Isilon.
• Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.
• Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Confidential

Role: Lead System Engineer

Confidential Services is the world's largest global provider dedicated to banking and payment technologies. As a member of the Storage Engineering team actively work on EMC Symmetrix DMX/VMAX, Clariion, VNX, HDS AMS, USP, USPV, IBM XiV, DS8000 and NetApp handling day-to-day activities, designing and implementing new technologies and products along with supporting the production environment and taking up scheduled on-calls.

• Participating in the project team meetings and taking the business requirements like IOPS, bandwidth, throughput and disk sizing, RAID levels.
• Architecting SAN and storage solutions as a part of the Virtual Engineering VE , meeting the hardware and software requirements and SLAs.
• Preparing the technical assessment TA including the pricing and budgetary planning and presenting it to the departments concerned of client.
• Procuring the equipment and facilitating the vendor groups in installing and configuring it according to the requirements.
• Creating and provisioning Thick/Thin disk to hosts.
• Zoning hosts to appropriate storage arrays and tape drives/VTL
• Implementing FAST policies on VMAX arrays.
• Migrating data to VMAX from DMX arrays using SRDF/A.
• Involved in replications using TimeFinder and SRDF technologies on symmetrix.
• Manage HDS arrays with Hitachi Device Manager, Storage Navigator2 and Storage Navigatior Modular 2.
• Implementing Dynamic Tearing on HDS Arrays.
• Involved in replications using TimeFinder and SRDF technologies on symmetrix.
• Make performance reports using HiCommand Suite, Tuning Manager.
• Have experience configuring Hitachi HUR/Truecopy remote replication.
• Experience in configuring Hitachi ShadowImage replication.
• Planning and coordinating with array vendors for adding raw storage and firmware upgrades.
• Storage cleanup activities on retired EMC arrays.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect and upload to emc ftp sites and work with EMC support
• Studying performance metrics and storage usage trend for planning future storage purchases using ECC storage scope and performance manager.
• Managing and administrating NAS storage on NetApp FAS.
• Managing CIFS shares and NFS exports on NetApp.
• Vendor coordination in case of any hardware failures or new hardware procurement.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters.
• Supporting the production environment and participating in the scheduled on-call process.

Confidential

Role: Senior Storage Administrator

Confidential biggest Telecom operator in Saudi Arabia. As a Storage admin worked on EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, IBM DS8000, SVC, Brocade switches and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN and backup administration. Take care of day- to-day SAN and backup/recovery activities including disk provisioning, zoning, configure and schedule backups.

• Creating/deleting the devices and mapping and masking to/from the FAs and HBAs.
• Setting/Un-setting the SCSI-3 cluster bits on the symdevices.
• Forming/dissolving the metas, resizing the devices in SAN environment.
• Proactively monitoring of Storage Fabrics in a SAN environment.
• Preparing the activity plans to meet the customer requirements.
• Delivering the optimum solutions within given schedule and effort limits.
• Configuring, maintenance and trouble-shooting the Fabric environments.
• Collect EMC Grab reports, SP Collect, upload to EMC ftp sites and work with EMC support.
• Co-ordinate with vendor for hardware replacements/upgrades.
• Perform Local and remote replication operations.
• Managing Time Finder/SRDF operations, establishing and splitting for different purposes.
• Managing Flash-Copy and Metro/Global-Mirror operations on SVC
• Successfully migrated over 1.2 PB of data from DMX to SVC using Image-Mode Vdisk
• Deployed new SVC clusters and Backend storage XIV Clariion .
• Involving in the project team meetings and taking the business requirements like IOPS, bandwidth, throughput and disk sizing, RAID levels.
• Preparing the technical assessment TA including the pricing and budgetary planning and presenting it to the concerned groups involving in the project and higher management.
• Conducting the performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting in the event of system slowness and disasters
• Patch-planning and Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Installing and configuring the Brocade switches and upgrading the code, updating the licenses.
• Successfully led the Brocade FOS upgrade Project for entire fabric switches from 6.2 to 6.4.
• Configuring FCIP tunneling on Brocade switches.
• Perform Health Check of TSM servers.
• Monitor and administer TSM, administrative processes such as expirations, migration, reclamation and collocation, offsite vaulting, tape/media rotations.
• Scheduling of backup on TSM and restore the backed up data according to client requirements.
• Coordinate with system administrator groups hardware and operating system diagnostics to resolve issues related to TSM servers.
• Have performed periodic DR exercises for end clients which include restoration of TSM Server's database and client's data.
• Detect/diagnose and resolve hardware issues server, tape library, etc and interact with vendor, manufacturer for H/W and S/W as necessary.
• Ensure Backup server, tape library and software are maintained to current levels, including system firmware code.
• Periodically scheduling for planned implementation of upgrade activities.
• Configure TDP for MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle DB, DB2.
• Configure LAN free backups.
• Manage Tape/Disk Libraries IBM 3584, EMC EDL, EMC DataDomain .

Confidential

Role: System Operations Specialist

Confidential is an automobile manufacturer. They are the sixth largest automaker in the world.The Automobile giant is engaged in the manufacturing, trading and distribution of various types of automobiles, marine products and accessories, as well as in research and development. As a member of storage/backup team, actively worked on IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM DS8000, SVC, TS3310, TS3350 and Brocade switches for SAN and backup administration. Take care of day- to-day san and backup/recovery activities including backup/recovery, schedule TSM jobs and storage provisioning.

• Supported 20 Backup Servers and 2000 Backup Clients using TSM as the Backup tool across multiple clients.
• Monitor, manage and report day-to-day backup and recovery support activities.
• Check Server availability, administrative processes and scheduling Client schedules.
• Check Tape Library availability, performance monitoring reporting of drives and paths.
• Documentation of infrastructure, software, systems configuration, process and policies
• Perform Health Check of TSM servers.
• Scheduling backups on TSM Client for Windows Unix servers.
• Restore the backed up data according to requirement.
• Check TSM DB, recovery log size and extend or create as required.
• Perform Health Check of TSM servers.
• Monitor and administer TSM, administrative processes such as expirations, migration, reclamation and collocation, offsite vaulting, tape/media rotations.
• Scheduling of backup on TSM and restore the backed up data according to client requirements.
• Coordinate with system administrator groups hardware and operating system diagnostics to resolve issues related to TSM servers.
• Provision and Reclaim Storage.
• Zoning on Brocade Switches.
• Deletion of unused LUN as per the requirement from Clients.
• Preparing the activity plans to achieve the customer requirements.
• Delivering the solutions on time and meeting the deadlines.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Confidential is a leading Service Provider of Software development and IT solution services. As System Administrator I was involved in managing Network Switches, routers and Windows servers. Take care OS Installations, join hosts to domain, and update patches and backup/recovery.

• Installing Windows 2000, Windows NT, 2003, Windows XP Operating Systems.
• Managing Users, User Profiles, User Rights and Creating home folders for the users.
• Applying Disk quota's for the users
• Applying Security Templates, System Policy and Group Policy.
• Deployment of Software Applications.
• Installing and Configuring Printer, Print Pooling and Printer Properties.
• Networking with Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.
• Managing Backup and Recovery.