SUMMARY:

• Proficient in architecting and deployment of AWS/Azure migrations, EC2, VPC, Redshift,RDS, Route 53, S3, Security Groups,ACLs, direct connect, cloudformation - Well defined framework, and Private cloud OpenStack Components from network - neutron, compute - nova to storage - cinder,swift and kilo and liberty dashboards.
• Proficient in Devops automation, CI/CD Jenkins, puppet/ Chef, PC, OpenStack, Azure IAAS, VMWare KVM,vCloud, APIs, Cloud Use Cases, Cloud POCs, Cloud Design and Cloud Mappings to Cloud Requirements Analysis, and dependencies and impact analysis.
• Proficiency in Network and Storage Design and architecting Network and Storage solutionsy Proficiency in Cloud Design, and Cloud Orchestration, OpenStack Heat Orchestration Template (HOT). ver 20 years of experienced as SME as a network, compute and storage architect, design, deployment, support and trouble shooting and problem resolutions using EMC, Cisco UCS, VMware,KVM Converged Infrastructure
• Assessed, analyzed, architected and deployed cloud - private, hosted public and hybrid solutions.
• Proficiency in OpenStack,vCloud AWS / Cloud and storage and infrastructure related to cloud design and data center migrations / transformations. Version control CVS, Subversion, network, storage, applications, application interdependencies, load balancer, utilizations, databases and network infrastructure along with the associated application, storage type, and systems requirements.
• Proficiency in capacity management, storage growth, consumption, demand, and performance parameters and requirements such as - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, application upstreams/downstreams, app. flows, utilization, IOPS, Servers, Arrays, Systems.
• Extensively worked in Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Migration, high-availability solutions, backup and recovery, performance tuning and capacity planning using Veritas Products.
• Highly motivated, self-starting, team player, methodical, ability to adapt to new situations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Cloud and Storage Architect and SME

Responsibilities:

• supporting various cloud migration/deployment projects in North Eastern region - AWS services - Cloud formation, EC2, ELB, RDS, Route 53, S3, OpenStack, VMWare,vsphere, KVM vCloud, MS Azure IAAS, Rightscale ESX/ESXI, KVM, DNS,AD
• Proficient in deployment of ALL OpenStack Components from network - neutron, compute - nova to storage - cinder and swift, Kilo, Ceilometer on Redhat Linux 9
• UI design changes for REST APIs, scripting, json, yaml, bash, python, testing Cloud Use Cases, Cloud POCs, Cloud Design and Cloud Mappings to Cloud Requirements Analysis, and dependencies and impact analysis.
• Plan and install VMware ESX 5.x, vRealize, (VCAC) automation, VCO, PowerCLI, on Vblock 300, 700 MX, VSpex, P2V, capacity planner, VCenter replication for Private cloud and automation and configuration management Puppet labs
• SAN Fabric Migrations, FC, FCOE, Connectrix Manager, CISCO Fabric Manager WebTools, MCDATA, CISCO and BROCADE Switches.
• Experienced in architecting for data center consolidation of Windows 2003/2008 servers, Linux data migration and integration of computing, network, storage access and virtualization to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Confidential

Cloud and Storage Architect and SME

• Proficient in deployment of ALL OpenStack Components from network - neutron, compute - nova to storage - cinder and swift, Kilo, Ceilometer on Redhat Linux 6, 7 UI design changes for REST APIs, testing Cloud Use Cases, Cloud POCs, Cloud Design and Cloud Mappings to Cloud Requirements Analysis, and dependencies and impact analysis.
• Plan and install VMware ESX 5.x, vRealize, (VCAC) automation, VCO, PowerCLI, on Vblock 300, 700 MX, VSpex, v, P2V, capacity planner, VCenter replication for Private cloud and automation and configuration management Puppet labs
• SAN Fabric Migrations, FC, FCOE, Connectrix Manager, CISCO Fabric Manager WebTools, MCDATA, CISCO and BROCADE Switches.

Confidential

Data Center Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Infrastructure Management.
• V-Max, SYMCLI, Auto provisioning, VP, VNX, VNX, Brocade SAN switches and Cisco MDS 95xx, planning, installation, provisioning, upgrade, FAST Tiering, FC, FCOE, FCIP, iSCSI switch support for enterprise clients.
• Cisco/Brocade Switch 9513s upgrade planning and implementation.
• Maintenance of AIX, Redhat Linux 5x,6x, windows servers, heat analysis.
• Design, implement and maintain SRDF independent DG creation, supporting DR sites, role change, Open replicator, Timefinder, array migration, host migration and SRM implementation.
• Project management, planning, timeline schedule, proposals, SOW, RCA, Subject matter knowledge transfer, powerpoint presentations, client .
• Documentation of various operational procedures, beta testing
• Mentoring and implementing Storage and backup Best Practices.

Skills Used: EMC V-Max, VNX, Isilon, VMware ESX 5, McData, Brocade DCX, Cisco MDS 9513, MPS, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Webtools, SYMCLI Commands, Symconfigure, Project planning, SDR, Timefinder, SRDF/A, Open replicator, PowerPath, CX 380, Redhat Linux, 5,6 Navisphere Manager, Netapps Filerview, Ontap 7.3, snapmanager Veritas Netbackup 6.x (symmantac)

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Solutions Architect

• Storage infrastructure engineering support for EMC DMX-4/3, Clariion CX, DMX-3000, Centera and Symmetrix, Cisco MDS, Brocade DCX switch systems support
• Implementation and maintenance of VPLEX Metro, zoning, virtualization and provisioning.
• Plan and install VMware ESX 3.5, VCenter 2.5, on blades, and server migrations, consolidations using VMware Converter.
• Maintenance support for Celerra NS systems, NFS/CIFS, snapsure, Netapps filers, FAS series, WAFL, flexvols, snapmirror, Ontap 7.2 & 7G
• Planning, implementation for disaster recovery planning, supporting DR sites, role change and ECC 6.0 implementation
• Documentation of various operational procedures, SRM reporting, good SQL scripting and Crystal reports, custom reporting
• Mentoring and implementing Storage and backup Best Practices.
• Test Virtual Provisioning with RAID1 devices for Dev/Test Environment.

Skills Used: EMC VMAX, DMX 3000, Symmetrix, ECC 6.0, Celerra, McData EDs, Brocade 12000,24000, Cisco MDS 9606, 9513, MPS, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Webtools, SYMCLI Commands, Symconfigure, Project planning, SDR, Timefinder, SRDF/A, Open replicator, PowerPath, Clariion CX 500,600 CX 380, Navisphere Manager, Netapps Filerview, Ontap 7.2, Veritas Netbackup 6.x (Symantec)

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Storage infrastructure engineering & support for EMC DMX-3, Hitachi USPV, VSP and Symmetrix systems, NSC 55, McData and Brocade switches.
• Maintenance of Celerra NSxx gateways, clarion, Navisphere.
• VMware ESX 5.0 planning, installation and implementations of windows VMs.
• Storage provisioning and capacity planning using Storage Navigator, Hi Command, SYMCLI, ECC, SYMCONFIGURE, SDR, Timefinder/BCV/SNAP, McData and Brocade switch zoning.
• Daily operations support and break fix for the system admins(Solaris, Windows, AIX, Linux), Project managers and Vendors like EMC, Hitachi, Netapps, Brocade
• Architecture planning, implementation for Truecopy, ShadowImage, HUR, CCI, SRDF/A independent DG creation, open replicator, migration, supporting DR sites, and role change
• Documentation of various operational procedures, chargeback, SRM reporting, good SQL scripting and Crystal reports
• Backup and recovery using Tivoli TSM, CDL library support.
• Mentoring and implementing Storage Best Practices.

Skills Used: Hitachi 9980, 9985v, Hitachi Storage Navigator, USP V, HUR, Truecopy, Tagmastore virtualization, Hi Command, device manager, CCI, EMC DMX -3, DMX 3000, Symmetrix, ECC 6.0, McData EDs, Brocade 12000,24000, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Webtools, SYMCLI Commands, Symconfigure, Project

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Sr Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisting with the SAN Fabric Firmware upgrade and microcode upgrade
• Storage provisioning and capacity planning using SYMCLI, ECC, SYMCONFIGURE, SDR, McData and Brocade switch zoning.
• Daily operations support and break fix for the system admins(Solaris, Windows, AIX, Linux), Project managers and Vendors like EMC, Netapps, Brocade
• Maintenance support for SAR, SRDF, supporting DR sites, and role change
• Strict adherence to Change control using Remedy call tickets and Peregrine change management tickets.
• Maintenance support for Netapps filers, snapmirror, ontap 7.x
• Documentation of various operational procedures.
• Mentoring and implementing EMC Best Practices.

Skills Used: Hitachi USP 9985V, NSC 55, Hi Command, Storage Navigator, CCI, EMC DMX -3, DMX 3000, Symmetrix, ECC 5.2, McData EDs, Brocade 12000,24000, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Webtools, SYMCLI Commands, Symconfigure, Project planning, SDR, Timefinder, SRDF, PowerPath. Clariion CX 600, Navisphere Manager

Confidential, Hopewell, NJ

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SAN Fabric Architecture design, migration and maintenance using SAN Manager, Fabric Manager and Webtools.
• Merging of SAN Islands to form a dual SAN fabric.
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, lun masking and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning.
• Daily operations support and break fix for the system admins(Solaris, Windows, AIX, Linux), and Project managers.
• EMC Time finder and maintenance and documentation of various procedures

Skills Used: EMC Symmetrix, DMX 3000, ECC 5.2 sp 3, Brocade 12000, 24000,Fabric Manager, Webtools, SYMCLI Commands, Symconfigure, Project planning, SDR, Timefinder, SRDF, PowerPath. Clariion CX 600, Navisphere Manager

Confidential, Freehold, NJ

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Storage Provisioning and SAN infrastructure support using Connectrix Manager & Zoning and lun masking SYMCLI (Volume Logix) & fpath, Symmconfigure bin file creation.
• EMC Control Center 5.2 implementation, agents installation, switch discovery, hosts discovery, data collection policy setting.