Seeking a Senior Data Storage Consultant / Solutions Architect position.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software: Microsoft Visual Studio C , Microsoft SharePoint, MS SQL Server, Reporting Services, Java, Perl, Shell Scripting, Mobile Computing using iphone sdk / Windows SDK, EMC Powerpath, ECC, SnapView, MirrorView, NetApp Operations Manager, Virtual Desktop, Virtual Server, Oracle RAC Cluster, Cloud Computing, Tivoli, Symantec Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, Legato.

• Data Storage: EMC Symmetrix, Clarrion, ECC, Celerra, Centera, NetApp, Rainfinity, Hitachi, IBM Storage, IBM San Volume Controller, Acopia / F5 ARX1000 NAS Virtualization, VMware ESX, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Windows Server, Windows 7, Brocade, McData, Cisco switches. NAS Virtualization, SAN Virtualization, Disk Library, VTL, Tape Backup, Avamar, Data Domain

• Operating Systems: HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, VMware ESX, Windows Server 2003, Linux, IBM 4341 OS-VS, NetBSD, DART, EMC-Celerra Cluster Server, Symmetrix Storage, Clarrion Storage, Adaptec Storage, SUN Storage, Network Appliance Filers, NAS, SAN and Storage Infrastructure.

• Infrastructure: Cisco Copper, Fiber Switches. Brocade / McData Switches. Qlogic, Emulex HBA's, FCOE, iSCSI and Fibre Channel Protocols. Disaster Recovery and Highly Available Applications Design, Planning and Implementation. Remote Replication and Restore. Branch Office Data Storage Deployment and Automation.

EXPERIENCE:

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Data Storage Engineer

Worked with EMC Celerra and EMC Isilon data storage. Performed data migration from Celerra to Celerra. Performed data migration planning and design for data data migration from Celerra to isiolon.

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Data Storage Engineer / Solutions Architect.

Design and Architect the migration of Data from Westborough Data Center to Durham Data Center. Data involves Terabytes in size and allocated to several hundreds of servers. EMC Celerra, Centera, Linux, VMWare.

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Data Storage Engineer / NAS Architect.

• Manage day to day operations of Data Storage. Create NAS Migration plans to consolidate and migration of data from San Diego, Briar Cliff Data Centers to Culpeper Data Center. 200 TB NAS Storage CIFS / NFS Shares located on NetApp 3040 Filers and Celerra/ Centera Filers to NetApp 3140 Filers. Tools and utilities used are DataDomain, Varonis, Robocopy, Rsync, XIV, Clarrion.

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Data Storage Engineer.

• Manage day to day operations of Data Storage or 1 Petabyte Storage located in several data centers in US and overseas. IBM, HP, EMC, NetApp. Design and planning, co-ordination and communication of Data Migration. Consolidation of 18 Data Centers into 2 Data Centers.

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Data Storage Consultant.

• Performed day to day activates of Provision, Monitor, and Reporting on 500 TB of SAN / NAS / CAS Data Storage from EMC, IBM, and NetApp. Worked with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows Server, VMware ESX servers. Scheduled Maintenance and hardware, software code upgrades. Flare Code, Sym Microcode, ECC Infrastructure and several other software / hardware tools.
• Daily Operations, support and Maintenance of 600 TB SAN storage consisted of EMC Clariion, Symmetrix and IBM Data Storage in two data centers. Provision, Monitor and Reporting of the storage usage. Prepared scripts to generate the Data Usage and Performance Monitoring Reports. Provision to Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux VMware ESX Servers. ECC and other Storage tools. Performance trouble shooting and Root Cause Analysis of storage related issues.

• Daily Operations, Support and Maintenance of 80 TB Centera Content Address Storage Arrays and Symantec Enterprise Vault Archiving support for Email Data, Avamar, Data Domain.
• Implemented SAN Virtualization of EMC Clarrion storage devices using IBM San Volume controller for efficient data migration between legacy storage arrays and new state of the art arrays. Designed and Developed Architecture plan for Storage, Server, Infrastructure for the virtualization and Data Center Migration. These consisted of Removal of the Powerpath mutlipathing software and configure the servers with native mutlipathing software. Reconfiguration of the switches to accommodate the SAN Virtualization. Convert and migrate the luns on the Clarrion / Symmetrix Arrays to a format that is supported by IBM SVC and present them to hosts which included AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows Server, and VMware ESX.
• Daily Operations, support and Maintenance of 180 TB NAS storage consisted of EMC Celerra and IBM/NetApp N Series Filers in two data centers. Provision, Monitor and Reporting of the storage usage. Prepared scripts to generate the File Aging Reports for the Information Archival project using Symantec Enterprise vault. Designed and implemented Data Recovery and protection using SNAP and Snap Mirror.
• Used VFilers on NetApp and CIFS/Virtual Data Movers on Celerra. Data Migration between Celerra-NetApp and vice versa to accommodate the growing needs of customers who consisted of User Home Drives and Departmental / Group Folders. Active Directory integration of CIFS/VFilers. Developed procedures and provisions for data monitoring to comply with the Sox / FDA and Regulatory compliance. Implemented Mixed Mode NAS Filer Permissions for NFS / CIFS Data
• Implemented Kazeon Devices to work with NAS Filers to assist the legal team to manage the data and comply with the ongoing litigation and legal data files and folders. Implemented Acopia ARX NAS Virtualization Device for providing the Global Name Space and unified and seamless data access and data migration between Celerra and NetApp Filers.
• Designed and developed NAS Storage for Virtual Desktop project using the VMware and Citrix. This consisted of maximizing the benefits of Data DeDuplication, Golden Image for Desktop VMware Desktops.
• Designed and implemented Data Domain Data DeDuplication Devices for the efficient use of Tape Backup resources and eventual plan for the Tapeless Data Centers.
• Part of the Cloud Computing for Data Storage Design and implementation initiative, which involved the exploring the Amazon Cloud and several other Cloud providers and services. Application Architecture for utilizing the Could Computing Global Resources.

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Data Storage Consultant / Architect.

• As a Storage Administrator and Architect worked with EMC, NetApp storage. Provision, Monitoring and Reporting. Provisioned storage to Windows, HP-UX, AIX and Solaris Servers. SAN/NAS Migration and Data Architecture.

Confidential

Data Storage Consultant / Architect.

• As a Storage Administrator and Architect worked on EMC Synergy project. It is an EMC internal Oracle Financials project which utilized Peta Bytes of NAS SAN Data Storage. Worked with 300 Database team and provisioned and monitored EMC SAN and NAS Storage to 600 Dell Servers. Established DR site where another 600 Dell Servers are located. Performed Data Migration using rSync. Prepared Project Plans and Management Reports.

Confidential

EMC Corporation. Storage Integration Engineer.

• Worked on EMC Celerra NAS Filers. Designed and developed Emulex and Qlogic Fibre Channel Drivers embedded into DART Operating system. EMC Celerra NAS Filer connects to EMC Symmetrix and EMC Clarrion Arrays. Design, coding and testing of the drivers. Used Clariion and SYM CLI for accessing the storage arrays. Volume Logix.
• Helped with the debugging of the drivers, Data integrity tests, Highly Available Features, Failover Features, Load Balancing, and Symmetrix Remote Data Features. Worked with Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows NT/2000 servers in the SAN/NAS Configurations with EMC Storage Created several Perl Scripts and also used C and C , GDB for the development and debugging of the Celerra Server.
• Integrated Sun Workstations, Windows NT Workstations into NAS/SAN with NFS and CIFS Protocols. RAID and Storage Micro Code development. NAS/SAN Performance Planning and System Enhancements. Worked with Several Fibre Channel Switches like Connectrix, Brocade, and McData.

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Sun Microsystems RAID Storage Engineer.

• Conducted Integration and Tests on the Hardware RAID Board that is an OEM product by DPT. It is a 2 Channel SCSI Ultra80 Board. Conducted Various Functionality tests for the board on SUN E250 and E450 Servers. Used Solaris and several Solaris Tools.

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Cluster Storage Engineer.

• Worked on Adaptec very fast Multi Channel SCSI RAID Adapter Boards. Performed various Manual RAID Testing and Automated Microsoft HCT qualifications. At Hardware level BIOS, Firmware, Multi Board testing with several Dell and HP Platforms. Managed the RAID Cluster Lab to 75-80 Test Machines under RAID Testing using Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000-Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Data Center Server.

Worked on Several IT Hardware / Software projects.

• Developed software modules for testing Semiconductor Testing Hardware Equipment. Teradyne has developed a Low Cost / High Performance Semiconductor Test machine called J750.
• Designed and Developed Windows NT 4.0 Device Driver software for a Compact PCI based Data Acquisition Board. Board consists of PLX 9080 chip PCI controller FPGA, one Analog to Digital Converter, two Digital to Analog Converters and used for the High-speed data Acquisition.
• Worked on the PictureTel Group conferencing system. Worked on the various software modules on Video conferencing system such as communication modules T1 /E1, ISDN, BRI, TRI, Quad BRI and Camera Control Systems, and other Audio and Video Systems. Windows/Borland C/C
• Developed and Installed a Windows NT based E-Commerce Application. Browser based Catalog ran on the Notebook accessing data from the NT Server, MS Internet Information Server, and SQL Server Database.
• Part of the Team developed software for the processing of the Group Life Insurance policy for the Small and Medium Size businesses. Independent Insurance Agents use software on the field to generate quotes for the policies.
• Part of integration and testing team, worked on 4 NEC MIPS/NT Workstation products and 3 NEC MIPS/NT Server products. Single CPU and Multi CPU Computers. Developed kernel and virtual device drivers for a proprietary test board developed in-house by NEC
• Developed data processing tools for the Medical Direct Marketing Department. Developed programs for product identification, territory profiling, and vendor links for the telemarketing companies, program response data analysis.
• Helped development and porting of financial/banking EDI application that is on IBM mainframe computer to port to OS/2 and PC.
• Part of the team developed Nationwide Automotive Insurance Quote and Order Processing System. Client Software developed using Microfocus COBOL running on the PC and connecting to the MF/COBOL/CICS.
• Developed Perdiem Insurance Processing System for PHCS. The programs are developed using Realia COBOL and Realia Screen I/O on IBM PC and COBOL/CICS on the IBM mainframe.
• Developed software system for the activity management for Fidelity Investment's Mutual Funds. Developed software in close consultation with management at the Vice President and Fund Managers.
• Developed application software for casualty and property reinsurance system for insurance underwriters. System is designed and developed to perform the daily activities of Insurance Company such as Policy Creation, Acceptance, policy insurance and several other associated activities.
• Developed retail banking delivery system which is designed for small and medium scaled banks to perform daily activities such as new account opening, maintaining business and personal accounts, daily teller activities.
• Converted a successful small business accounting package for the UK market. System functions include VAT code management. Modules such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, payroll and other small business functions.
• Modified and made enhancements to Order Data Manager Software system for Wang Laboratories 3.2 billion-dollar order data management.
• Designed and developed an accounts receivable package for medical and dental offices. The package is designed to automate daily activities of medical/dental office.
• Part of technical team for building a medium paper mill. Engineering and design of several modules for a 30 million-dollar plant.