SUMMARY:

• To pursue a challenging career in the Cloud/Virtualization/Infrastructure industry, wherein I can apply my knowledge, acquire new skills and work with a team of experienced professionals.

SKILL:

Virtualization Skills: VMware vCloud/vRealize Suite, vSphere 6/5/4, VCloud Director, Power shell, Hyper - V, SCVMM, VMware vShield, vSphere Replication, VMware Horizon View VDI, ThinApp, VMware Workspace, Mirage, UEM, Vcenter/SSO, Log Insight, High Availability (HA), vCloud Air, VMware NSX, VMware Fault Tolerance (FT), DRS, VMware SRM, VMware Operations Manager (VCOPS) & vRealize Operations, Powercli, VSAN, VDPA, Citrix Xen Server, Power Cli, VMTurbo, Citrix Xen Desktop, Citrix Xen App, Microsoft Office 365, VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VCO), vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), P2V using VMware Converter etc.

Technologies: vBlock, Cisco UCS Blade servers and rack mount C series, DellCisco UCS Director and UCS Central, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, AWS, Azure, EMC Unity, VNX, Zerto, Flexpod, Cisco Hyperflex, Data Domain, Nutanix, Simplivity, EMC Vplex, Commvault, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Hitachi UCP, Nimble Smart Stack, Pure Storage, Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM), Hybrid Cloud (EHC), Symantec Netbackup, Isilon Systems, VNXe/VNX series, Nimble Storage, Netapp FAS arrays, NetApp E series, NetApp Snap products (Snapmirror, snap vault), IBM XIV, Windows Active Directory, HDS AMS, Brocade switches, Cisco MDS switches, Cisco Nexus Switches, Veeam Backup & Replication, BMC Bladelogic, HP 3PAR, XtremIO, Vspex Blue, Recover point, Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6296/6248/6140, HP DL 3XX servers, HP Blades, EMC Vspex, VxRail, C7000 chassis, Cisco Nexus Switches, Avamar,, EMC SRM, EMC VIPR, SCCM, SCOM

OS Skills: Windows 2012/2008/2003, UNIX and Linux

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect the Upgrade of VMware environment from 5 to 6.x across 2 DC’s. This involved upgrading Vcenters, upgrading hosts and virtual machines (VM tools and VM hardware upgrades) using VMware Update Manager. Implemented VMware SRM as part of the DR with EMC storage for replication
• Architect and implement a DR solution for financial customer for around 1000 vm’s across 2 DC’s. It involved EMC VMAX replication along with VMwware SRM. Also responsible for automating the VM failure to DR site and customizing ip’s
• Designed and implemented vRealize Automation 7.x for an enterprise customer for IAAS and XAAS. The deployment includes building out the whole vRA infrastructure and building all the required blue prints and integrations
• Implemented a VMware Horizon View VDI solution for a financial customer for around 1000 users. Tested the Virtual desktops for performance. The infrastructure included Vsphere 6, and Nutanix servers for compute and storage
• Design and build UCS Director Automation for an enterprise customer to automate regular tasks like creating vm’s, creating, Vlans, creating service profiles etc using UCS Director Workflows
• Automate routine storage tasks using EMC VIPR like creating and deleting volumes on arrays like VMAX, VNX, Xtrem IO etc. Also integrate UCS Director with EMC VIPR
• Consolidated multiple DC’s for the airline customer to one production and one DR DC. Involved in architecture and planning for the whole project. The new DC’s had VBlock’s and all the data was migrated to them using different tools
• Architect and Implemented a VBlock solution for a large airline customer which included Cisco UCS, EMC Unity arrays, Cisco Nexus switches, VMware 6. Migrated data between different DC’s using various tools. Implemented Veeam B&R to backup vm’s and databases for the whole environment

Atlanta, GA

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a Nutanix 3060 solution for a Utility customer

• Implemented VSAN Solution for a customer as part of their VRealize setup. Part of the team responsible for implementing Out of the Box Vrealize Automation and Vrealize Operations (VRops)
• Implemented a Smart Stack solution for a financial customer involving Nimble CS500, Cisco UCS and vSphere 6.0 at 2 locations. Also, implemented Cisco UCS Central for configuring UCS at both locations and implemented UCS Director for management and automation of services.
• Implemented VMware SRM 6.x solution involving around 2000 vm’s for a healthcare customer. Automated VM recovery of different tier vm’s. Customized IP addresses for vm’s at DR site
• Implemented a VXrail solution for a financial customer for their VMware environment
• Implemented EMC VXrail for a law firm to handle all their compute needs. Also implemented EMC Unity for all their CIFS file needs.
• Implemented a Cisco UCS Director 5.2 installation and configuration in the lab environment. It included creating different Catalogs for Infrastructure as a service and creating different custom workflows. Also used Cisco UCS Director to manage the environment consisting of VMware 5.5, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and MDS switches, EMC VNX and Isilon storage
• Migrate data from older EMC arrays to EMC Unity
• Design and Implement a VBlock for a retail customer consisting of Vsphere 6, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus and MDS Switches and EMC VNX2. Involved in migrating the data from legacy arrays/servers to VBlock
• Upgraded the VMware environment for a customer from 5.5 to 6.0 and from 5.1 to 6.0 without downtime. This included upgrading Vcenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machine hardware, VMware tools and VMFS datastores.
• Migrating data from VNX and NetApp arrays to Isilon arrays using host based tools like Secure Copy, Robo Copy etc
• Implemented EMC VIPR for storage automation for the whole storage environment involving arrays like VMAX, XtremIO, Isilon, VNX, Cisco MDS switches. Implemented VIPR SRM for monitoring the EMC environment for capacity, performance, reporting and alert management
• Implemented an 8 node Cisco Hyperflex solution for VMware VDI on vSphere 6
• Implemented a vSphere 6 solution for a financial customer with VNXe 3200 and configured Veeam backups for the virtual machines. Upgraded their vsphere environment from 5.1 to 6.0
• Implemented a VMAX3 All Flash array for a financial customer for their Databases/VMware and Mission critical applications. Migrated their data from older Vmax arrays to VMAX All Flash array
• Implemented Unity 400 and 500 Hybrid arrays for a retail customer for their VDI environment
• Implement and configure an Isilon solution for a utility customer and migrate all their CIFS data from NetApp to Isilon
• Configured and supported EMC XtremIO for VDI and Oracle databases
• Implemented Avamar/Networker and Data Domain at 2 sites for a retail enterprise customer to backup up VMware virtual machines, SQL databases and physical boxes. Also, configured replication between 2 sites

Confidential

Sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Setup the existing vSphere 5.5 environment with VCE VBlock for Best practices

• Implement a basic VMware Operations Manager (VCOps)
• Do a Knowledge transfer of the environment to the client

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a Vrealize Automation POC for customer to evaluate the product.

• Implemented 4 Vblock 300’s for a financial customer for their VMware VDI solution. Responsible for the logical build and customer integration of all the components in the Vblock i.e. vSphere 5.5, VNX 5700, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus.
• Implemented a Flexpod solution for a technology company which included UCS, Nexus, VMware and NetApp with NFS configuration. Also, configured a Veeam backup solution for their Virtual infrastructure.
• Implemented VMware SRM across 2 DC’s with underlying EMC storage. Met the RPO and RTO for the customer and performed DR testing
• Implemented a VMware Horizon 6 for a customer with floating pools
• Implemented a Simplivity Omnistack for a Financial customer at 2 locations for their VMware environment
• Designed and build the necessary infrastructure for a highly available 1300 seat VMware VDI View 5 environment across 2 data centers for a healthcare customer. The project involved the below technologies
• 2 EMC VNX 5700’s storage arrays providing NFS storage each with 10 TB of capacity for the VDI desktops
• 32 Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades in 2 clusters
• VMware vSphere 5.0U2 hypervisor installed on all the 32 blades. Also configured Vcenter heartbeat for HA
• Involved in implementing a NetApp 3240 HA 7 mode array and integrated with UCS blades for a service provider.
• Implemented a multiple 7 Mode Flex pod arrays for a big Technology customer for their production environment with NetApp FAS 6000 arrays, Cisco UCS B 200 M3 blades and vSpehere 5.5
• Involved in setting up the EMC Hybrid cloud solution in the lab using VMware vSphere 5.5, VRA, VROPS, EMC VIPR, EMC SRM, EMC VNX etc.
• Installed Nutanix NX-3050 Converged Infrastructure platform in the lab
• Responsible for building a new virtual infrastructure on vSphere 5.5 for a healthcare customer using Cisco UCS and VNX 5400, Cisco MDS switches and implement VMware Operations Management (VCOPS) to monitor the performance of the virtual infrastructure.
• Implemented an XtremIO solution for a retail customer for their virtual environment
• Implemented a SRM solution for telecommunications customer with EMC SRDF on VMax 10k’s.
• Setup a 2 Data centers for a Staffing Services customers on VSphere 5.5 and setup SRM 5.8 with vSphere replication between both sites. Also, setup Veeam Backup at both the sites.
• Involved in doing a VMware Private Cloud POC for a customer using VMware VCAC 6.x
• Designed and implemented a backup solution for their virtual environment using Avamar 7.0 on Gen4S nodes for a manufacturing customer. Also, involved in installing EMC Isilon for this customer and migrating their file systems to Isilon using Robo Copy.
• Implemented a NetApp FAS Cluster mode 3250 Data Ontap 8.1.x array for a pharmaceutical customer. The project also involves migrating data from 7 mode NetApp 3170 HA array to the Cluster mode 3250 array using storage vmotion. The project involves the following.
• Designing and installing a NetApp FAS 3250 Cluster mode array with FC, FCoE and CIFS protocols
• Installing a 8 blade Cisco UCS B200 M3 cluster and migrating vm’s from old HP ESXI 3.5 servers to UCS ESXI 5.x blades
• Used powercli to do regular VMware maintenance tasks.
• Involved in migrating all their VMware data from a CX4 to VNX 5400 for a technology customer. Installed 2 new Brocade switches as part of the engagement.
• Responsible for building a new virtual infrastructure for a technology customer using vSphere 5.5U2, Vmax 10k and Cisco UCS servers.
• Responsible for building a new virtual infrastructure for a healthcare customer using Cisco UCS and VNX 5400, Cisco MDS switches and implement VMware Operations Management (VCOPS) to monitor the performance of the virtual infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented a backup solution for their virtual environment using Avamar 7.0 on Gen4S nodes for a manufacturing customer. Also, involved in installing EMC Isilon for this customer and migrating their file systems to Isilon using Robo Copy.
• Implemented a Veeam backup solution for a healthcare customer at their primary and secondary sites. Also installed and configured Data Domain 2500 at both their sites to hold the Veeam backup data and the Data Domains were replicated between the sites.
• Implemented a new HP C7000 blade environment for a government client with vSphere 5.5 and EMC storage
• Implemented a SRM solution for a financial customer on an existing Recover point CRR and two Clarion CX4 arrays.
• Implemented a new data center roll out using VNX 5300 block storage and MDS 9124 switches on HP hosts with ESXi 5.x.
• Executed a migration project for a commercial customer. The project involved the following
• Migrated more than 200 vm’s from HP Lefthand array to EMC Vmax and CX 4 arrays to EMC Vmaxe array
• Reconfigured the existing Clariion CX 4 arrays for future use
• Configured 2 EMC Isilon arrays and setup replication between them across 2 different sites
• Implemented the necessary infrastructure required for a VMware VDI for a commercial customer. The project involved the below technologies
• HP C7000 Chassis with 16 blades with ESXi 5.x installed
• VNX 5300 arrays with FC storage for the VDI’s
• Cisco MDS switches for the SAN
• Implemented a SRM solution involving 100 vm’s with Asymmetric Mirror View for a financial customer
• Implemented a EMC VNX NFS solution with Vmware vsphere 5 on Cisco C 200 rack mount servers for a pharmaceutical customer
• Implemented a HP DL 360 solution involving NS-120 Celerra ISCSI solution with VMware Vsphere 5 for a nonprofit customer
• Implemented a EMC VNXe NFS SAN solution with VMware 4.1 U2 for a small healthcare customer

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day storage provisioning and reclamation on EMC Clariion, DMX 4, Hitachi AMS and Netapp arrays.

• Migrated data from different agencies to USDA using Netapp Snap mirror.
• Maintained the Brocade DCX, 48k fabrics and involved in troubleshooting on various issues.
• Provide storage to various agencies using Symcli, ECC on DMX 3 and DMX4, Using Navisphere Manger on Clariion arrays, using SNM2 on AMS 2300, 2500.
• Create volumes, qtrees to different departments within USDA using CIFS/NFS protocols.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Systems Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a complete Flexpod project which involved configuring NetApp storage, Cisco B 200 series servers and 6120 Fabric Interconnects and VMware Vsphere 4. Also implemented Vmware SRM and did test failover of virtual machines using snap mirror at the array replication.

• Implemented a solution for a customer which involved installing a Netapp FAS 2040, Cisco UCS C 250 servers and Xenserver.
• Implemented a complete vBlock 1 project consisting of Clariion CX 4-960, Cisco UCS B 200 servers and VMware vsphere 4.0
• Implemented the install, configuration and setup of 2 Netapp FAS 2040 systems for a commercial customer. This included initial installation of the filers at different sites, configuring them from scratch and setting up the snap mirror replication on windows hosts using FCP and CIFS protocols. Upgraded the Data Ontap from 7.1 to Ontap 7.3 mode.
• Implemented a DR solution for a customer using Snap mirror replication from FAS 2050 to FAS 2040 and also migrated the data.
• Installed a NetApp FAS 3240 for a customer as part of their backup solution.

Confidential, Newark, DE

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SAN Build and migration engineer and was involved in migration of Brocade fabrics to Cisco fabric.

• Successfully installed and configured 64 Cisco MDS 9513 switches in 4 fabrics across 2 data centers.
• Migrated Brocade 48000/24000/ DCX to Cisco 9513 directors involving more than 20,000 fabric ports in 2 Core data centers of JPMC.
• Involved in migrating 6 Mcdata fabrics to 2 Brocade DCX fabrics.
• Involved in laying out the Cisco fabric layout, configuring the switches including ISL’s and migrating to Cisco switches from scratch to end.
• Added 2 Brocade DCX switches into a production fabric in a different data center and decommissioned the old Brocade gear.
• Involved in installing and provisioning the Symmetrix VMAX array and migrated the data from DMX arrays to VMAX array using Open Replicator.
• Migrated data from Clariion CX 600 to HDS 2500 using SV Motion on a VMware 3.5 infrastructure
• Migrated Clarrion CX 700 and CX3-20 to CX 4-960 array using SAN Copy/Mirror View on AIX and Sun servers.
• Provision storage from Vmax and Clariion arrays to various hosts involving virtual provisioning (thin provisioning) and storage pools
• Involved in building HDS AMS 2500 arrays for VTL/SIR backup and deduplication.
• Successfully installed and configured the IBM XIV arrays on Cisco fabric and also migrated data from old Clariion CX-700 arrays to IBM XIV using XIV migration.
• Performed Auto provisioning tasks (Creating device groups, Port groups and Initiator groups) using SymmCli.
• Troubleshooting routine critical issues including threshold optimization one path down, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.

Confidential, NJ

Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Product Support Engineer on EMC's enterprise level storage boxes i.e. Symmetrix Legacy and DMX series, providing backend support and troubleshooting of issues through service requests or tickets in the form of dial homes for drives(RAID), memory, Front End Directors, Backend Directors, Power Supplies, Fan cooling systems, SRDF related problems, BCV drive issues, Fabric/Switches .

• Assign storage from DMX/Symmetrix & CLARiiON arrays to UNIX & Windows systems using ECC, Symcli, SMC, Navisphere Manager, and Navicli.
• Maintained enterprise SAN consisting of both Fiber Channel and SCSI disk arrays.
• Perform Host Analysis by collecting emcgrab reports and analyzing the reports using HEAT Tool
• Participating in problem recreation and failure analysis of systems level problems. Utilize a wide variety of test equipment, diagnostic tools and techniques used in problem resolution.
• Involved in maintaining different EMC storage machine like DMX 3, DMX 4, DMX 800, DMX 1000, DMX 2000, DMX 3000, Clariion CX 3, CX 4, CX 300, CX 400, CX 500, CX 600, CX 700 etc.