Summary

• 17 years of experience in the industry with a primary focus on Storage Technology and System Engineering.
• Experience in Infrastructure Management Services, Project Transition, Consulting, Architecting and leadership skills in streams like EMC Storage, HP Storage, VCE V-Block, VPLEX and VMware Technologies.
• Remarkable skills in winning over customers to my side and smoothly resolving even the most explosive service situations with calm, smiling and confident interaction.
• Talent for determinedly pursuing a technical problem till a complete solution has been found and then spreading the solution throughout the organization.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

SAN Switch Migration

• Mcdata Switches to Brocade Switches
• Legacy Switches to Cisco Switches

VCE Appliances Management Software

• VCE Vblock 100/300/700 and VPELX
• UIM Console, Unisphere Manager and vsphere
• VSI VMware Virtual Storage Integrator plug in for Vsphere

Storage Appliances

• EMC Symmetrix ,DMX,VNX File Block , Clariion, Celerra
• EMC Recover point, SRDF, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, PPME, TimeFinder
• Cisco, Brocade and Mcdata SAN Switches

Storage Management Softwares:

• Solution Enabler SE , Symcli, FAST VP, Powerpath
• SMC Symmetrix Management Console
• ECC
• Navisphere Unisphere, Navicli
• Cisco Fabric Manager Cisco Device Manager
• Brocade Web tools

Server and OS Administration:

• HP Blade Server
• LINUX , VMWARE and Wintel OS Support.

Professional Experience Summary

Confidential

Designation: Solution Architecture

Hardware: EMC VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, IBM Flash Array, CISCO MDS9000 Directors, SYMCLI, SRDF/A and RPA

Project and day-to-day activities:

• Knowledge acquisition from Cargill customer site and knowledge transfer to offshore storage team at Pune Chennai in India.
• Administered and maintained EMC VMAX, VNX and SRDF/A Day to Day Operation activities.

Confidential

Designation: Sr. Storage Consultant.

Hardware: EMC VNX, VMAX, CISCO MDS9000 Directors, HP BL7600, Unisphere Manager, SYMCLI, ECC, SRDF/A, BCV and VPlex

Project and day-to-day activities:

• Knowledge acquisition from Orlando customer site and knowledge transfer to offshore storage team at Chennai in India.
• Administered and maintained EMC VNX, VMAX and SRDF/A
• Day to day provisioning of storage Storage device selection/creation, Zoning, LUN Masking . Managed and deployed LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the SYMCLI, SMC, ECC and Navisphere. Provided On Call Support day-to-day troubleshooting SAN related issues.
• Involved in configuring, administering zones/zone sets on Cisco switches using Fabric Manager and Brocade Fabric Manager respectively HP Blade servers.
• Configured FAST VP on VMAX. Created Fast VP thin pools, Created FAST TIERS, Policies, associated Storage groups to FAST Policies. Used SPA to monitor Symmetrix performance issues.
• Extensively worked on SymCLI to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions.

Confidential

Designation: Sr. Storage Consultant.

Hardware: EMC DMX-4, VMAX, HP EVA8500, 3PAR, P9500, HP XP-24K, CISCO MDS9000 Directors and Brocade Switches. HP BL7600, AIX, Superdome HP-UX Servers, EMC SMC, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager, SYMCLI, ECC, SRDF/A, BCV

Project and day-to-day activities:

• Knowledge acquisition from Singapore customer site and knowledge transfer to offshore storage team at Chennai in India.
• Administered and maintained EMC, VMAX, DMX-4, VNX, Isilon, celerra, Clariion CX4 and CX-3 arrays.
• Day to day provisioning of storage Storage device selection/creation, Zoning, LUN Masking . Managed and deployed LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the SYMCLI, SMC, ECC and Navisphere. Provided On Call Support day-to-day troubleshooting SAN related issues.
• Involved in configuring, administering zones/zone sets on Cisco, McData, Brocade switches using Fabric Manager, Connectrix Manager and Brocade Fabric Manager respectively.
• Configured FAST VP on VMAX. Created Fast VP thin pools, Created FAST TIERS, Policies, associated Storage groups to FAST Policies. Used SPA to monitor Symmetrix performance issues.
• Extensively worked on SymCLI to implement concurrent SRDF and successfully replicated the storage to the remote site using SRDF solutions SRDF/S and SRDF/A .

Confidential

Designation: Storage Consultant.

EMC DMX, VMAX, CX4-120, VNX-5500, EDL4100, Centera, CISCO MDS9000 Directors, Brocade switch and Replication manager.

Responsibilities:

• Working in a 24/7 IT-Production Support Team comprised of Symmetrix, DMX, VMAX, Clariions and Celerra totaling to 2 PB of storage.
• Providing SAN Connectivity to physical servers and ESX clusters.
• Did the capacity planning and generated the capacity reports by using storage scope
• Performing business as usual tasks such as Storage Provisioning, troubleshooting storage related issues and performance concerns that are critical for maintaining the SLA of the firm.
• Consolidated storage arrays by migrating data from DMX and Clariions to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Storage Migration done successfully from IBM to EMC CX4-960 Storage box with help of Open Migrator/LM.
• Creating pools and masking view for the new server connecting to VNX array.
• For maintenance purpose we have used SNAP clone option in the database server.
• Troubleshoot lun visibility issues, hardware failure, powerpath, collaborate with Unix team for patching, rebuild of servers.

Confidential

Designation: Storage Consultant.

Hardware: EMC V-MAX, V-Block VNX-7500 , VNX-5300, VNX-3100, AX4-5i, NS80G, Centera 32-nodes and CISCO Directors.

Software: SMC, UIM, SYMCLI, Unisphere manager, Rainfinity Appliance, Centera viewer, Power path, Native MPIO, CISCO Fabric Manager Microsoft Windows2003, 2008, ESX5.0 and VSI VMWare Virtual Storage Integrator plug in for Vsphere

Project and day to day activities:

• We have co-ordinate with ICI-America to Installed new Vblock 300 model HX and Migrated VM's from Cambridge-DC to Lexington-DC with help of EMC RPA.
• We have successfully Implemented Site Recovery manager and replicate data from Primary Shire-RM site VNX5500 to Shire-RM DR Site VNX5300
• The Movetis -DC new Storage box VNXe 3300 has been installed successfully and migrated data from Old Left Hand storage device.
• Symmetrix V-MAX - Storage Provisioning using Symcli and EMC Control Center, Configuring Timefinder and Clone Operations. Configuring SRDF Synchronous and Asynchronous modes. Configuring Managing Dynamic RDF Groups. Knowledge on Multi-session consistency, Failover and Failback.
• Clariion CX and VNX - Initializing the Array, Configuring RAID Groups, Binding LUNs, Storage Provisioning, LUN Expansion and LUN Migration.

Confidential

Designation: Associate Storage Consultant.

Hardware: EMC DMX-4, EDL4100, EMC CX4-120, Celera, Centera, AVAMAR, BROCADE 4100 FCSW and CISCO MDS9000 Directors and HP BL460, AIX HP-UX Servers.

Software: EMC SMC and SYMCLI, Multi path, Microsoft Windows2003, 2008 and UNIX

UTi Worldwide, Neu-Isenburg, Germany Jan 2009 to Dec 2010

Designation: Tech-Lead Storage.

Hardware: EMC DMX3/4, EDL4100, CX-300/500 RPA /AS400-SERVERS, BROCADE/CISCO DR.

Software: SYMCLI, SMC, Navisphere manager, Calera, MPIO Microsoft Windows2003

• Storage migration has done successfully from EMC DMX2000 to DMX-4 at Serico-DC with help of the EMC Open replicator
• We have successfully implemented RPA in-between Singapore CX4-120 to Frankfurt CX4-120
• IBM AIX-Server, Implement Time finder and scheduled point in time copy
• The Microsoft 2008 and SQL Cluster installed successfully on boot from SAN Drive
• The EBS Project boot from SAN drive coordinate with UNIX team to succeed

Confidential

Designation: Specialist Storage.

PROJECT: VMware-Installation P2V Migration Project has been implemented successfully and delivered to production before the scheduled window and met SLA.

Hardware: HP EVA 8000, HP DL585-SERVERS, BROCADE 4100 FCSW.

Software: VMware 3.X Microsoft Windows2003, Acronis True Image Altiris.

PROJECT: SAP DR-Project has been implemented and delivered to production before the scheduled window and met SLA.

Hardware: HP EVA 8000, HP DL585-SERVERS, BROCADE 4100 FCSW.

Software: Microsoft Windows2003 E Etd cluster and Multi path

PROJECT: Fort Colin-DR Center data migration with help of IPStore.

Hardware: HP XP-12K EVA 8000, HP DL585G3-SERVERS, BROCADE Director.

Software: Command View XP EVA, IPStore, Acronis, Robocopy and Multi path

Day to Day Activities

• Firmware and drivers upgrade on entire Storage landscape by quarterly basis
• Storage provisioning to new build servers for wintel, Unix machines and clusters active and passive from HP HSG80, EVA and XP12K
• Integrating HP Proliant Blade enclosures/ servers c7000 enclosures, BL460c, BL480c with EVA
• Configure HBA using vendor native tools and Secure path for the new built servers.
• Co-ordinate with OS team to reclaim storage space from the decommission servers.
• Provisioning luns to expand the existing filesystem on Unix, wintel and ESX servers
• Send storage utilization reports to the client and plan for the capacity to meet the demands in near future
• Troubleshoot lun visibility issues, collaborate with Unix team for patching, rebuild of servers.
• Troubleshoot issues related to HBA failure, dead path issues
• Coordinating with vendor to resolve hardware and firmware related issues on storage arrays.
• Installing ESX Server and Virtual Center, Connecting to the ESX Server. Creating Virtual machine.P2V migratation using PlateSpin PowerConverter, VMotion Configuration and Administration, Resource Pools Administration, SAN Disk presentation to VMWARE landscape due to space crunch issue.

Confidential

Designation: Senior Engineer Technical-Support.

• Monitor operational status or health check of infrastructure.
• Assist the Server Services with performing installation or upgrade of device drivers
• Use Remedy for problem management and change management
• Resolve the problem tickets assigned to the queue on remedy.
• Represent the team in Daily Status Call, to discuss the current problems.
• Represent the team in Change Authority Board, to approve or disapprove changes in SAN.
• Maintained process documents for resolving problems.
• Assistance to be provided if, Disaster Recovery Services are in scope. Services should be provided during declaration of a disaster, and annual disaster recovery test s as defined in the Disaster Recovery Plan. Resources for this support are included in the Disaster Recovery Services solution.
• Attending Support Call for Application and Network problems on Windows2000/2003.

Confidential

Designation: Sr.Customer Support Executive.

Job Role:

• Responsible for onsite support of all HP and COMPAQ Based high end servers.
• Implementing and troubleshooting in RAID based servers, Storage Area Networks, Network Attached Storage and Backup devices like Tap Libraries, Ultrium LTO, SDLT, DLT autoloaders and DAT devices. Telephonic support for desktop products.
• Handling a data Centers deployment project which includes Deployment of SAN, HP range of high-end servers.
• Server technologies like cluster services, deployment of SQL Servers and Exchange Servers in a clustered