SUMMARY:

• 9 Years of Working experience on the installation, configuration and provisioning of CLARiiON, DMX, VNX(Unified), VMAX 20K/40K, VBLOCK, VPLEX, Recover Point, NetApp filers
• Experienced in administrating Confidential Symmetrix Storage environment using, Confidential TimeFinder Mirror, SRDF/S, Operational knowledge on SRDF/A, Open replicator, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) & SAN Copy.
• Performance monitoring with Unisphere experienced in administrating Confidential CLARiiON Storage environment using Navisphere Analyzer, Navisphere Manager, PowerPath ME and SANCopy.
• Capacity and Performance Reporting and Monitoring arrays with VNX monitoring tool and VIPR SRM
• Strong experience in Backup management and disaster recovery administration using Confidential Time Finder family (snapshot, Clone and BCV’s), Remote replication techniques (SRDF, Mirror View and SANCopy)
• Successful in troubleshooting the complex technical issues related to storage while analyzing the Root cause of storage issues and resolve to the management contentment
• Hands on experience in Migration of data between Confidential to Confidential arrays and Confidential to Third party Arrays Using SRDF, SAN COPY, Open replicator and RecoverPoint
• Experience with configuring and managing Isilon environment.
• Hands on experience installing troubleshooting and configuring Zoning using WebTools for Brocade switches and Fabric/Device Manager for Cisco MDS switches.
• Experience in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware ESX server 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1; VMware vCenter server 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi 5.0
• Extensive Experience is Networking, System Administration of Windows and Unix Operating Systems.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.

STORAGE TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Arrays: Clariion CX 300/ 340/ 700, DMX - 1000, DMX-2000, DMX-3, DMX-4, VMAX, NetApp FAS 3050, 3270, R200, R270, HP Storage (super Domes), HDS (Hitachi data).

SAN Switches: McData 4500, McData 4700, McData 6064, McData 6140, Brocade 48000, Brocade 5300, Brocade 5100, Brocade DCX Director Class 8GB 384 Port SAN Switches, CISCO 9513 Director Class SAN Switches

Platforms: Linux (RHEL / OEL), AIX, VMware, HPUX, Solaris, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for Storage/SAN Infrastructure located in two corporate Datacenters.
• Manage and maintain Confidential Enterprise wide Data storage systems and related software including, but not limited to, VMAX, UNITY, VNX, and Confidential AppSync and RecoverPoint appliances.
• Design and Implement data migrations for Infrastructure refresh projects.
• Design and Implement SAN switch port migrations from Cisco to Brocade FC switches.
• Responsible for physical cable connectivity, retire the EOL/EOSL hardware and hard drive destruction in the Datacenters.
• Successfully Designed, Implemented and transitioned from Confidential Replication Manager to AppSync.
• Configuration and sophisticated administration of Cisco and Brocade FC SAN switches.
• Manage storage and vSphere replication(s) between the sites for Disaster recovery purposes.
• Responsible for managing and refreshing QA/Development environments using AppSync software.
• Provisioning and managing virtual machines, RDMs, Vmware datastores and datastore clusters in vSphere environment.
• Maintaining the SAN infrastructure to the vendor recommended firmware code levels.
• Work with multiple teams (DBA, Servers, Networks and applications) to deliver storage solutions.
• Capacity planning of Storage and SAN resources.
• Project Management and coordination.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, Installation and Implementing Vplex metro, behind VMAX 20K, 40K, IBM SVC, IBM V7000 and HPEVA
• Administration of Vblock 320, Vblock 340
• Participated in Installing and configuring VIPR SRM.
• Created Custom reports, performance monitoring for storage arrays and appliances with VIPR.
• Created server capacity reports and charge back reports from VIPR.
• Integrated SRM with Vplex and did a DR test across the sites. For virtual environment.
• Configured all storage arrays and switches with VIPR SRM for monitoring purposes.
• Implemented/Installed Vplex metro/local from the scratch.
• Implemented/Installed Recover Point from the scratch.
• Brought IBM SVC/HPEVA and VMAX systems behind the Vplex metro/Local.
• Installed RPA across three sites integrating with Vplex (using Vplex splitter)
• Configured separate pools for journals on each Vmax system.
• Encapsulated storage from HPEVA and IBM SVC systems.
• Migrated Dev/QA/Prod environment using data mobility/ host based migrations behind Vplex.
• Participated in Administrative works like provisioning storage, SRDF (star) and monitoring performance on Vmax 20K.
• Played a major role in capacity Planning and design for Vplex/RPA setup (worked with Confidential team offsite )
• Documented every piece of work and delivered to the customer after a sign off from Confidential .
• Created run books for Vplex and recoverpoint.
• Performed Zoning on Brocade switches 8510’s and cisco 9513’s using CLI and GUI.
• Captured performance data on Vplex Metro using SRM. Also captured performance through Perpectual Logs for historical data on the individual directors.
• Participated in installing and configuring SRM at DTCC teaming with Confidential team offsite.
• Performed Federated tired Storage between IBMv7000 and Vmax20K.
• Design of migration plan from VMAX 20k to VMAX 10k behind VPLEX appliance.
• Migrated production data using storage vmotion from IBMv7000 to Vmax20K

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SAN / NAS Administration in a storage environment consisting of Confidential Clariion, VNX,HDS,HP, DMX, VMax, Netapp FAS Series, Cisco and Brocade Switches
• Responsible for all storage related activities inside the organization (SAN/ NAS/ CAS)
• Working with more than 5.5PB of storage, ensuring performance, reliability, scalability (on - demand)
• Working on the Data Center Consolidation project, reducing costs, improving performance and accessibility
• Working on Tier-1, Tier-2 storage, incidents and RFCs with various business units inside the organization.
• Responsible for storage activities using Netapp Filerview, Confidential Control Center, Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Symcli, Unisphere and Navisphere.
• Working on establishing DR procedures as and when applications/ business units’ change
• Configure THIN pools, THIN devices and on Symmetrix (DMX3-4), VNXe and VMAX 40-K arrays
• Analyze and resolve Confidential SAN/ CAS related errors and reported problems. Coordinate fixes with hardware vendors and customers
• Install, configure, test and implement software, components, patches from Confidential
• Working with SnapMirror to replicate data from the primary data center to a DR data center.
• Migrated virtual hosts by using vMotion to new data store created on VNX pool storage.
• Setting up replication manager session to make replication of exchange and Vmware.

Confidential

IT Tech support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked very closely with existing storage Administrators as I am going to back fill the existing storage administrator.
• Stood up DMX systems, worked with Confidential professional services.
• Administration on DMX 3000, DMX 4000.
• Did set up SRDF/S replication From DMX symmetrix systems.
• Administered DMX’s using GUI as well as CLI.

Environment: DMX’s, Brocade switches, Cisco 9513’s.

Confidential

Systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Windows Server Systems 2000/2003/NT, Corporate Desktop Email.
• VmWare 2.x ESX Server implementation and administration.
• Windows 2000 Server/UNIX/ Red Hat Linux Server User Management.
• Experience on handling Workstations and Printers.
• Windows Server Update Services, Anti-Virus/Anti-Spy ware Management
• Network Engineering & Administration.
• Involved in Upgrading, migrating, and managed servers, PCs, network.
• Troubleshooting desktop software for Microsoft Operating Systems.
• Performed daily backups of critical business data.
• Analyst and Implementation of Windows 2000 Active Directory / server and 2000 professional.
• Analyst and implementation of Exchange server.
• Security planning and implementation, backup scheduling and recovery.