SUMMARY:

• Scope planning, schedule development, budget and cost control
• Technical, operational planning, strategy development and application
• Strong communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills
• Over 6 years of experience asSAN / SAN Administrator including EMC Storage and System Administration
• Strong experience of EMC VPLEX virtual distributed federation architecture management
• Configuring, Administration and Troubleshooting ofV - MaxSystems included but not limited to Thin-Provisioning and Automated Storage Tiering
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting EMC Symmetrix V-Max, DMX4, DMX3andVNX,ClariionCX-3/CX-4series
• Strong experience with management tools includes EMC Control CenterECC, SymCLI, Performance Manager,Clariion Navisphere Manager/Analyzer/Naviseccli, andEvent Manager
• Strong experience in SAN data migration solutions that include EMCOpen Replicator,Replication Manager,Recover pointand ClariionSancopy
• Strong experience in backup management and disaster recovery administration using EMC TimeFinder Family (Snaps, ClonesandBCVs), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror viewand SAN Copy)
• Hands on experience with variousBrocadeenterprise directors (12k and 48k) and departmental switches (3900, 4100 and 4900)
• Experience withCiscoenterprise directors like Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506 and 9120/9140 departmental switches
• Hands on experience on the data migration tools, both array based (SRDF and OpenReplicator) and host based/non-array based (Unix native tools, Open Migrator, PPME and Robocopy)
• Experienced SAN Management for Sun Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Windows operating systems
• Knowledgeable in troubleshooting day to day SAN/Storage and host related issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Switches: BROCADE - DCX, 48000, Silkworm 5000/4000 Series EMC- Connectrix Directors ED-DCX-B and ED-48000B CISCO- MDS 9513/9509 Directors and DCNM (configuration tools for cisco switches)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

TPC/TSM SAN Administrator / Smart Cloud Enterprise Plus Delivery

Confidential, Armonk, NY

Responsibilities:

• > Managing over 100+ Petabytes SAN in Heterogeneous environment which includes SVC, XIV, EMC XTREME I/O, EMC ISILON, EMC VMAX, Confidential V7000, Confidential V7000 Unified, Confidential SONAS and Confidential DS8000.
• > Upgrade of TPC from 4.x to 5.2 on multiple client servers.
• > Installion and configuration of Linux OS 6.6 Gold master edition and Windows Server 2012 on multiple clients systems and servers.
• > Weekly Archiving data using Confidential Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager)
• > Capacity planning and performance tuning on using TPC 5.2 and Unisphere
• > Protection and recovery of data with. Confidential Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager).
• > Hands on Experience and use of Confidential Network Advisor (INA) to configure and monitor switches
• > Advanced knowledge of DB2 database, installation, configuration, implementation and management.
• > Installation of Socket Leak Fix patch on multiple client s system and servers
• > Daily Storage Health Check utilizing the TPCHC
• > Weekly back - up of DB2 and daily collection of performance reports using Cognos
• > Implemented a system efficient probe job schedule strategy for all devices in the TPC environment
• > Implemented disaster recovery and business continuity strategies

SAN Admin /TPC & TSM Administrator/PCM

Confidential, Aurora CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed 400+TB SAN in Heterogeneous environment which includes EMC (VMAX, DMX and CX series) Confidential FastT storage and Confidential (ESS and DS series 4000, 6000 & 8000)
• SAN Administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/DMX4, Clariion arrays and Confidential XIV storage arrays including file system configuration in AIX, Solaris and Linux servers/clusters, ECC Consoles
• NAS: Netapp Data ONTAP admin., that involves native Snapshot, SnapMirror, Replication, WAFL and Filerview
• Performed analysis of current customer storage infrastructure to create TPC solution.
• Constant utilization of EMC SRDF, Recoverpoint, SAN Copy, and MirrorView for Data Replication, Migration, and Disaster Reocovery processes
• Weekly Archiving data using Confidential Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager)
• Designed Confidential TPC architectural and implementation solutions
• Developed and implemented Confidential TPC “best practice” design methodology resulting in a consistent implementation across all service account.
• Engaged support on server and storage outages using Confidential Lean Model GDF
• Installed and configured DB2 with the implementation of HADR
• Installed and configured Confidential TPC application, TPC data and fabric agents
• Performed steady state work on TPC, Data and Fabric Agents, including troubleshooting.
• Installed and configure various vendor SMI-S providers (CIMOM) EMC, HDS, HP Cisco and Brocade.
• Performed utility patch installation on Confidential SVC/XIV/V7000/DS8K
• Used TPC to collect storage performance data
• Perform capacity planning functions for the SAN environment
• Work in conjunction with other SA groups to optimize the SAN environment
• Used TPC to create system and custom reports for servers, fabric, switches and storage subsystems.

SAN Admin/TPC Administrator

Confidential, Hapeville, GA

Responsibilities:

• Managed 400+TB SAN in Heterogeneous environment which includes EMC (DMX and CX series) Confidential FastT storage and Confidential (ESS and DS series 4000, 6000 & 8000)
• Patched HOST/MASTER Agents on Windows/Unix Servers with ECC Consoles, VMAX/DMX4
• Performed capacity planning functions for the SAN environment
• Configured and managed Dell’s Compellent Storage Center
• Worked in conjunction with other SA groups to optimize the SAN environment
• Installed upgrade to Confidential TPC application from 4.1 to 4.2
• Installed and configured TPC data and Fabric agents
• Performed steady state work on TPC, Data and Fabric Agents, including troubleshooting.
• Installed and configure various vendor SMI-S providers (CIMOM) EMC, HDS, HP Cisco and Brocade.
• Performed utility patch installation on Confidential SVC/XIV/V7000/DS8K
• Used TPC to collect storage performance data
• Used TPC to create system and custom reports for servers, Fabric, Switches and Storage Subsystems.

SAN Administrator

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Performed day-to-day operational support of the SAN environment.
• Sorage provisioning (LUN creation, Masking, Mapping) problem diagnostics/resolution
• Used Symcli, Navisphere Manager and ECC for storage Provisioning, ECC Consoles, VMAX/DMX4
• Configured the Fibre Channel components/features into a production SAN
• Designed cable and connectivity plans between all SAN components
• Designed SAN configuration inventory and installation documentation
• Designed and insured effectiveness of SAN operational processes interactions with other functional areas like systems and networks
• Experience in installing, configuring and monitoring EMC Symmetrix-DX3000 & Clarion CX500/700 storages
• All issues regarding Cabling and connectivity in SAN
• Installed and configured Host HBA and Drivers
• Used Navisphere Manager to create Raid Groups, Storage Groups, Meta LUNs and LUNs
• Implemented FCIP solutions with MDS switches (9216i and 9509 switches) and successfully migrated fabric from McData to Brocade switches
• Hands on experience with multi-platform LAN/WAN environments, as well as various SAN configurations
• Resolved the issues related to all aspects of FC SAN
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments