Summary

• Over 10 years of experience in Information Technology IT field including EMC/Netapp Storage Administration, SAN/NAS administration, Backup administration and System Administration -SunOS/Solaris and UNIX.
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of diverse array of equipment including EMC Symmetrix DMX2000/3000/DMX3, CLARiiON CX500/700,CX4-120/480/960, Celerra NS500/700/NS120/480/960/VNX5300/5500/5700/7500.
• Experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of diverse array of equipment including NetApp FAS250c/270c, FAS 3020c/3050c/6030c/6070c/3170c, R200, FAS 920c/940c/960c/980c/2020/2050/3140/3170/3150
• Good knowledge on VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management, Configuring RAID Groups and LUNs, configuring storage pools and creating thick/thin LUNs, Virtual LUN Migration, Configuring FAST-VP, Configuring FAST Cache
• Experienced in configuring Continuous Data Protection TimeFinder, Snapview , Continuous Remote Replication SRDF, Mirrorview , and Concurrent Local remote Replication SRDF/AR .
• Performed Data ONTAP Data protection online backup and recovery using Snapmirror, SnapVault, Volume Copy, Sync mirror and disaster recovery using Snap Restore
• Implemented space efficient technologies in NAS such as Deduplication, inline and offline Compression, flexclone, snaps and thin provisioning
• Migrated hundreds of TB of data, using array based tools open Replicator, Power Path
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions using Snap View Clone/Snapshot at CLARiiON level and Time Finder Mirror/Clone/Snap at the Symmetrix/DMX level.
• Configured NetApp filers in SAN FC and iSCSI and NAS CIFS and NFS environments.
• Experience in implementation, configuration, maintenance and support for NetApp filers including F720, F740, FAS250, and FAS270.
• Experience in Designing, architecting, and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp Snap Mirror and Snap Vault technologies. Also estimating RPOs, RTOs, and bandwidth requirement for mission-critical applications.
• Experience in Designing, implementing, and managing the Backup and Recovery environment utilizing Sun Servers, Legato Networker, ADIC Scalar 100 tape libraries.
• Experience in Administration of VERITAS Net backup, VERITAS Volume manager and Administration of Brocade, McData and Cisco switches
• Experience with SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, NAVICLI and Connectrix Manager.
• Experience in Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of VERITAS Volume Manager VxVm VxFs using RAID 0, 1, 5.
• Experience in administering user and group permissions in Windows 2003 Active Directory using Group Policy.
• Extensive experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, design, development, implementation, and support on IBM AIX 5L v 5.1/5.2/5.3,SuSE Linux 7.x/8.x,Solaris 8/9/10 and Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Operating Environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• NETAPP: NetApp ONTAP 8.1.8.0/7.3/7.2.5/7.1.2.1/6.5, FAS270c, FAS 3020c/3050c/6030c/6070c/3170c/3240c, R200, FAS 920c/940c/960c/980c/2020/2050/3140/3170/3150
• EMC Hardware: EMC Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON CX/FC series, Brocade, McData,
• Cisco MDS, Celerra 5.5/5.6.43/5.6.45, N960/480/120/500/700, VNX5300/5500/5700/7500, VNX2
• Tape Backup Systems: IBM 3494 library, Storage Tek SL-8500/9940
• EMC Software: EMC Connectrix Manager, SymCLI, EMC Control Center,
• Navisphere Manager, Navicli, Storage Scope, Time Finder, SAN Copy, SRDF, Power Path, symcli, SRDF, Mirror View. Celerra Manager
• Software Tools: VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, VERITAS NetBackup, Symantec Backup Exec, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Protocols: DHCP, WINS, DNS, HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NIS
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 server, HP/UX 11.11, 11.00, 10.2 SuSE Linux 7.x/8.x,Solaris, 8/9/10 and IBM AIX 5L v 5.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Performance Tester

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, Integration, System, Performance, Regression, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensively involved in writing and designing templates for the Test Plans and Test cases
• Identified the Test Cases and documented them in Quality Center.
• Designed and Analyzed Test case design document basing on the Functional Requirement Specifications to implement through testing process.
• Analyzed and Developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedure from functional requirement
• Regularly followed up with the development team to discuss the defects identified during Testing.
• Involved with Test Coverage Metrics and Defect metrics such as Defect Density, Delivered Defect Density, Defects by Severity, Number of Defects, and Defects per build, Defect Fix Rate, Test Case Utility, Test Effort and various other measurements.
• Interact with end users and investigate issues related to the QA.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing with final users. Prepared end user documentation for the new system
• Used Quality Center to store all testing results, metrics, implemented Test plan Document, created Test Cases, Defect Tracking Reporting.
• Participated in status meetings to report issues. Communicated with developers through all phases of testing to prioritize bug resolution using Quality Center
• Expertise in generating the daily defect detailed report using Quality Center for the other project stake holders and the project Management
• Maintained bug lists for critical issues using Quality Center.
• Facilitated formal review meetings with users and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution to issues discovered during testing cycles.
• Prepared test data for automation of regression test cases.
• Analyzed the defect to make sure whether the defect is genuine and valid.
• Reported the bugs using Quality Center.
• Prepared weekly summary sheet to give the status of assigned task in weekly project team meetings.

Environment: .Net 4.0, ASP.net 4.0, SAAS, SQL Server 2008, Web Methods and Web services, Quality Center, Rally, CQ, ALM

Confidential

Data Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Provisioning of storage allocations, capacity management, data migrations, performance analysis and management on FAS 6280
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience in data center Migration.
• Involved in tech refresh migrations from File Servers to New NetApp filers.
• Performed data migrations 30TB from NY and 30TB SAN Data in NC using NetApp Snapmirror and host based tools using Robocopy, Rsync.
• Involved in creating, configuring, and managing CIFS shares NFS exports on new volumes.
• Involved in configuring SnapMirror, SnapReserve, on new volumes provisioned on FAS 6280.
• Scripting using perl/vbscript to monitor space issues and snapmirror/snapvault idle/broken relationships.
• Experience in implementing NetApp NAS technology, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Administration of NetApp systems using OnCommand System Manager.
• Migrated data using SnapMirror.
• Worked with business teams on change management and getting GZ.

Environment: NetApp FAS 6280, ONTAP C-Mode, ONCOMMAND System Manager, Robocopy, Rsync

Confidential

NAS/SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end implementation and management of enterprise storage environment components.
• Design Architect, integration and support, best practices analysis of EMC's Unisphere Storage Management, Virtualized for Citi Group.
• Design Architect integration and support, best practices analysis of EMC's VNX and NS series Tech refresh and Migration for Citi Group.
• Daily tasks Included Managing and provisioning on NetApp filers/Celerra 17PB and DMX/Clariion/VNX using ECC, SYMCLI, Navicli, Data ONTAP CLI, Filer View, Celerra CLI and Celerra manager.
• Participated as a NAS support member to implement ONTAP OS systems 7G, GX, VMware, Flex Volumes, and Data Replications based upon best practices and engineering standards.
• Configured Consistency groups, created Distributed devices at both sides and adding virtual volumes to
• Created volumes, qtree, implementing different mode of security style on qtrees, providing user/group level permissions for CIF shares, creating mount points and exporting the file system using NFS.
• Provisioned FC LUNs on NetApp by creating volumes, LUNs on Volumes, igroup, adding initiators to igroup and mapping the volume to igroup.
• Maintenance and support for NetApp filers including FAS2040, FAS3120, FAS3140, and FAS3170, FAS 6070.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of FILERS NAS hardware level and administration level problems
• Created Aggregates, Volumes, Luns and Qtrees, Quotas, Snap Vault and snapshots and Snap Mirroring and restored files from Snapshots.
• Configured NFS / CIFS on NetApp NAS Filer servers.
• Involved in Migration of NFS and CIFS data from Celerra to NetApp filers.
• Created aggregates, volumes, qtrees and shared nfs and cifs shares from NetApp filers.
• Involved in installation of Netappfiler in the environment.
• Involved in migration of Vfiler from one NetApp filer to another NetApp filer
• Participated in design, research and development effort leading to improvements to the existing and future NAS production and backup environment.
• Involved in performing of daily system health checkouts, Hardware installs and upgrade, configuration of Vfiler/Qtree/snap mirror/snapshots.
• Performed night and weekend support on a rotational basis Monitor and process TCRS queue for NAS storage requests.
• Involved in Maintaining and updating NAS Volumes/Qtree business database Maintain NAS architecture documentation, standards, policies and procedures Develop and maintain proper monitoring and reporting of failed backups.
• Monitoring system performance, tune-up kernel parameter, adding /removing /administering hosts, users, disks on DNS /NIS domain.
• Lead VMware filer installations configuring best practices setting in VMware environment. Worked on ASIS implementation across VMware environment. Thin provisioning Over-commit across VSI/VDI VMware environment. Vmware on nfs.
• Lead Tech Refresh migrations for VMware BAU filers. FAS270's/FAS900 to FAS 2000/3000 series.
• Led Tech Refresh migrations from NetApp to NetApp including planning, Installation and data migrations in 2010.
• Led Tech Refresh migrations from NetApp 36 devices to EMC 21 devices in 2011.
• Led Tech Refresh migrations from NetApp FAS to EMC NS and VNX including planning, Installation and data migrations using host based tools like robocopy/EMCopy and Rsync in 2012/2013.
• Involved in configuring CTA for migrations.
• Involved in Configuring and Certifying tools like Watch4net and Launchpad for Celerra and VNX Holistic and Enterprise reporting.
• Integration tasks in EMC celerra environment. Datamovers DAE's serving users across multiple domains.
• Led a team of five, for Datacenter Migration and virtualization of over 500 Windows Servers as a part of Disentanglement.
• Planned and implemented VMware deployments in both SAN and NFS environment on NetApp FAS 6240 filers.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Performed ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts
• ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
• Managing Storage infrastructure which included NetApp FAS series 900's, 3000's, 6000's, Nearstore R200's in Clustered Highly Availability HA configuration.
• Managing NFS exports and CIFS shares.
• Responsible for snapmirror configurations and monitoring the relationships.
• Configure snapvaults and troubleshoot failed jobs.
• Configured Auto support for Apprx 200 to 300 new filers.
• Upgraded the DFM 3.5 to 3.7 and configured the custom reports ODBC connection to monitor the performance and capacity.
• Snaplock compliance, D2D backup with over 2 years- volume cloning.
• Responding to DFM alerts and troubleshooting.
• Holistic reports/Trending VMware space/custom reports.
• Testing upgrade plan for ONTAP 7.2 4p6, 7.2.5, 7.3.1.
• Load software and patches relative to NetApp functionality on servers running different OS platforms Windows, UNIX, and Linux .
• Confirm interoperability of current operating environments to new install hardware and software to eliminate any documented issues
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of NetApp FILERS NAS hardware level and administration level problems.
• Used Interoperability Matrix to verify required S/W according to build NetApp Hardware and to upgrade correct ONTAP OS.
• Involved as a NAS support member to upgrade the Legacy NAS Celerra devices NS500/700 to NS 960/480/120 from 5.5 to 5.6 .43 and 6.0.
• Involved in discovering all new Celerra and CLARiiON by ECC and configured the necessary reports to monitor capacity and performance
• Involved In implementing Virus scan servers for Celerra and NetApp devices.
• Involved in Implementing the Best practices and developed a script to monitor the best practices on a weekly basis for celerra.
• Involved in testing the new celerra equipment before releasing to production.
• Upgraded the DFM 3.5 to 3.7 and 3.7 to 3.8 and 3.8 to 4.0 and configured the custom reports ODBC connection to monitor the performance and capacity.
• Working knowledge on the OnCommand Insight in monitoring Storage and data management system and generated the Capacity reports.
• Involved in Installing and configuring OnCommand Insight Core and Edge servers and Migrated DFM Database to OnCommand.
• Generated reports related to Perf stat and Capacity Management reports Using OnCommand
• Configured the email notification/AD authentication/ACL for celerra's
• Interfaced with the auditors and Citi Compliance staff for NAS technology Audit, facilitated communication and feedback, relevant evidence collection, thereby obtained a rating of satisfactory for the NAS Audit. Performed risk assessments and created corrective action plans to mitigate identified risks in the environment.
• Led the monthly NAS user based chargeback effort creating internal revenue of 18MM per annum for Citi Technology Infrastructure.
• Led the effort to migrate the Filecensus agents to a VMWARE solution consisting of 31 VMs

Environment:NetAppFAS250/270/3020/3050/950/2020/2040/3070/3140/3170/6030/6070/920/940/960,EMC Celerra NS500/700/NS120/480/960,EMC Clariion CX500/700,CX4-120/480/960,NearStore ,Snap Manger, OSSV,DFM 3.5/3.7/3.8, ECC 6.0/6.1.peformance advisor, netapp protection manager and provisioning manager.

Confidential

SAN engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily tasks included storage provisioning on clariion CX 3-80/CX700 and symmetrix DMX-3 series.
• Designed and implemented storage solutions using EMC products to achieve optimum performance. Played an active role in carrying out various migrations involving Clariions/Symmetrix
• Responsible for implementing BCV pairs. Created Device groups on hosts managing symmetrix and performed initial setup of BCVs, establishing and splitting pairs using ECC and symcli.
• Suggested SRDF best practices to storage operations team. Initial setup of R1/R2 devices, mode control, establishing SRDF in SRDF/A dynamic and AR environments.
• Migrated the data from Clariion to NetApp Filers
• Managed NetApp Snap Manager for Exchange SME , Snap Manager for SQL SMSQL and Snap Manager for Oracle
• Configured Snapview Snapshots and Snapview Clones on CLARiiON CX Series Sub-Systems.
• Performed daily administration duties using EMC control centre and SYMCLI for allocating LUNs, fabric zoning and masking in a heterogeneous environment.
• Upgraded EMC control center from 5.2 to 6.0. Discovered new hosts in fabric and tuned some storage scope.
• Configured EMC control centre alerts monitoring thresholds.
• Installed PowerPath on windows servers.
• Developing and implementing process improvements in the form of documentation and building new tools for operations group to use in daily management of the backup and disaster recovery system.
• Configuring storage devices, volumes, catalog for backup and creating backup policies on netbackup master server.
• Responsible for testing and patching of the Symantec Netback up software both 5.0,6.0 on the servers and clients Solaris based servers and clients of Microsoft, HP/UX and Solaris enterprise servers, from e420s up to E10Ks.
• In depth performance tuning of differing tape technologies, Storage Tek 9940B and LTO2 technologies, by adjusting various Solaris kernel and Netback up tuning parameters to find optimal settings.
• Capacity Planning and Manage interaction of SAN HBAs and Solaris

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX 3000/2000/1000,NetApp FAS 3050/3070,Near Store ,Netapp Snap Manger, EMC Clariion FC:AX,CX, ECC 6.0, HP Unix, Symantec Netbackup 6.0 , Storage Tek 9940, Navishpere Manager, QLogic HBAs, Brocade switches, Cisco MDS switches, Hitachi Data ,Clariion tape library.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day administration of Storage devices using command line.
• Zoning, Mapping and Masking using SYMCLI and NaviCLI.
• Experience in troubleshooting tickets of Storage Environment.
• Daily SAN management including Manage fabrics, zones and aliases Build Raid Groups, bind LUNs, and mask luns to hosts.
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration, troubleshooting of high end disk storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix/DMX, and CLARiiON.
• Responsible for implementing BCV/SRDF pairs.
• Installed NaviSphere Agent/CLI on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Implemented and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI. Experience using EMC connectrix manager.
• Zoning and LUN Masking using Connectrix Manager and symcli.
• Implemented and managed switches/directors. Managed switches with vendor specific GUI. Experience using EMC connectrix manager.
• Zoning and LUN Masking using Connectrix Manager and symcli.
• Knowledge in customizing backups and managing stand-alone devices/auto changers.
• Knowledge of Veritas VCS and Veritas Volume manager to manage and support NB
• Installed and supported of Netbackup 5.x and configured servers, clients and database agents.
• Configured storage devices, volumes, catalog and policies. Tested DR site for recovery of the netbackup environment.
• Installed SSO option in present environment and configured SSO hardware and media in media manager. Configured storage units and backup policies to run smooth with SSO option.
• Troubleshooting netbackup failed backups in a heterogeneous environment.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix DMX 3000/2000/1000, EMC Clariion FC:AX,CX, ECC 6.0, HP Unix 11.11, Netbackup 5.1/6.0, Navishpere Manager, QLogic HBAs, Brocade switches, McData switches, Cisco MDS switches, Hitachi Data ,Clariion tape library, StoreTek series.

Confidential

SAN/Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAN Administrator to manage 230 server farms and hundreds of Storage solutions, including Dell PowerVault 650/630, EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra/Symmetrix, and NetApp FAS 3050/3020
• Day-to-day administration of SAN infrastructure using ECC, symcli, Navisphere and navicli.
• Administration of Brocade and McData Fabric.
• Zoning and LUN Masking using Connectrix Manager and symcli.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's Emulex Qlogic on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Power Path software installation, configuration and administration on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Installation and configuration ECC 5.2 SP5, install Master Agent on UNIX Windows Servers, Push Application Agents onto servers.
• Implementation of EMC Time Finder Mirror for UNIX and Windows environments for Backup Testing.
• Perform Data Migration from Symmetrix to Symmetrix using SRDF, CLARiiON to CLARiiON using SANCopy.
• Configured NetBackup 6.0 backup to disk using NetApp filer as backup repository according to environment services scheduling needs and retention policies
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of FILERS NAS hardware level and administration level problems.
• Setup Netapp devices using VTL, Snapmirror, snapvault with FCP/CIFS and NFS protocols.
• Project Planning, Management for Migration of Storage from Netapp FAS250 to Netapp FAS270s.
• Document the Migration Procedure and discuss it with System Admins.
• Identify servers for migration from CLARiiON to CLARiiON. List the Source devices and create LUNs on Target Array.
• Create RAID Groups, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using NaviSphere Manager.
• Install NaviSphere Agent/CLI on UNIX Windows Servers.
• Perform Zoning for SANCopy. Create scripts using navicli commands to perform migration.
• Document, Troubleshooting, performance analysis, and issue escalation with vendor.
• Management of technical resources responsible for business scheduling and communication
• Follow proper Change management and preparation of technical documentation of all SAN related projects.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON, NetApp FAS250,FAS 270,FAS3050/3020 Navisphere 6.X, Navicli, Legato Networker, TSM, snapview, mirrorview, NAS, EMC Celera NS501, powerpath, BCV, SRDF, Zoning, Time Finder, mc-data, Emulex and brocade fabric switches, Workload analyzer.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Administered Windows Exchange/clustering on windows 2003 server and SAN environment of CLARiiON CX300.
• Configured AIX, SUN and WINDOWS systems to see the presented Storage on the SAN.
• Worked with EMC Control Center, an enterprise Storage management application, for real-time reporting and performance statistics.
• Worked with McData, Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel switches to manage customer infrastructures.
• Managed hosts with Qlogic HBAs as well as Clariion and Symmetrix frames.
• Implemented dual-path and dual-fabric switches for highest availability solutions.
• Also used VERITAS NetBackup with BCVs for backup purposes.
• Designed, installed, manage, and analyze problems with EMC CLARiiON disk arrays
• Snap View, Mirror View and SANCopy setups, EMC Symmetrix and DMX disk arrays,
• EMC CLARiiON Disk Library.
• Installed, Configured and maintained Legato Storage Manager 8.1.6 with back up disk.
• Knowledge of implementing and managing IBM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager
• Administrated daily EMC/AIX operations including adding/removing EMC disks, installing/upgrading EMC SW Solution Enabler, Powerpath, FC device drivers, ECC etc. , manipulate BCV establish/split for HOT data backup etc.
• Implemented a wide range of Storage products in customer environments.
• Integrated existing infrastructure to achieve highest level of performance and data availability.
• Performed short-term and long-term Storage Administrator tasks at various client sites, including, Zoning, Storage Allocation, Fabric Maintenance.
• Configured SQL Server 2000 in a production SAN environment containing high transaction, large databases
• Installed and supported Exchange 2003 Clustering 8 nodes with SAN attached storage
• Administered user and group permissions in Windows 2003 Active Directory using Group Policy
• Network Administration on Windows 2003 Active directory, Exchange in Datacenter and VERITAS Backup maintenance.

Environment: EMC Symmetrix 5000NFS, EMC Clariion CX 300, 600, VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 , VxVm 4.0/3.x, Exchange 2003, NIS, DNS, Shell Scripts, Qlogic HBAs, Brocade switches, McData switches, snap view, BCV, NAS, Tivoli Storage Manager.

Confidential

Asst System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day Administration of Confidential.
• Support Maintenance on Confidential Admin Backup Tools
• Install the servers in test environment
• Device administration File systems administration.
• Installation and configuration of desktop computers, operating systems DOS, Windows NT, Windows 95/98 .
• Implementation of RAID for Data Security Availability
• Installation of Oracle 7 Database Server
• Automount configurations for mounting user and application file system directories from NFS server
• Integration of various network related services like NIS, NFS, DNS and Send mail with each other
• Setting up Administration of DNS servers in Solaris
• System Administration using Solstice Disk, Admin Backup Suites Taking backup with Tar, CPIO, UFS dump, UFS restore
• Integration of Windows Networking to the Sun Solaris Networking on TCP/IP
• Configuration and administration of CISCO Routers 1900, 2500 series .