SUMMARY

• Experienced in architecting, implementing and administering Block, File and Object storage.
• Experienced in Installation and administration of Mc Data, Brocade, Cisco MDS & Nexus switch and director.
• Experienced in performance tuning and maintenance of Storage Infrastructure.
• Experienced in SAN infrastructure build in accordance with industry best practices & Data center standards.
• Experienced in SAN fabric migration, effective configuration consolidation on edge switches and directors.
• Experienced in data migrations using various types of tools, solutions and methodology.
• Experienced in architecting disaster recovery solutions, site building, implementing and testing.
• Experienced in Installation, configuration and administration of NAS.
• Experienced in Installation, configuration and administration of Unified storage.
• Experienced in end to end trouble shooting, fine tuning and optimizing.
• Experienced in provisioning storage for SAP implementations on virtualized environments.
• Experienced in designing storage to VMware ESXi and Hyper V servers.
• Experienced in designing and deploying high availability on SAN solutions and infrastructure builds.
• Analytical, focused, self - starter and self-driven professional with interactive, interpersonal and diplomatic skills.
• Independent and structured team player with outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: VNX,VMAX,DMX,Symmetrix,Clariion CX,CX3,and CX4 Series Celerra NSSeries,Isilon,NetApp FAS Series, HP EVA & 3PAR,XIV, Connectrix DS-16B2,Brocade 4900B,Brocade 7500 SAN Router, Mc Data DS 24M2, Cisco MDS & Nexus Series. Brocade 8000 B Directors, DCX Backbones,FCoESwitches & RPA.

Software: EMC Unisphere, SYMCLI, SRDF,TimeFinder,Navisphere Manager, NAVICLI,SANCopy, Mirror View, Workload Analyzer, Power Path, Replication Manager, Open Replicator, SMC, Unisphere, DiskXtender, Hitachi Storage Command Suite, NetApp Operations Manager, NetApp Management Console, NetApp Oncommand System Manager, NetApp System Manager. NetApp Performance Advisor, Snap Drive, EVA Command View, 3PAR Management Console, HP System Reporter, XIVGUI, XIVTop & XCli.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

SAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managing SAN infrastructure which comprises of heterogeneous block and file storage.
• Consolidating and centralizing SAN infrastructure from multiple datacenters reducing OpEx.
• Planning and implementing lift and shift migration along with local storage migration.
• Planning and implementing fabric refresh on principal and subordinate switches.
• Planning, designing, building disaster recovery site and testing application failover.
• Planning and allocating data store and raw device mapping to ESX servers and virtual machines.
• Recommending effective solution to the management by doing market research for upcoming tech refreshes.
• Communicating with resellers, providing them with technical data for assessment and product recommendation.
• Implementing Isilon NAS solution and configuring replication, snapshots, antivirus and NDMP back up.
• Configuring and testing automatic failover and failback of Isilon cluster using Superna Eyeglass DRS solution.
• Consolidating & migrating multiprotocol file systems from Netapp7 mode and cDOT to Isilon.
• Designing and building Amazon storage gateway infrastructure for data migration.
• Analyzing and migrating data to Amazon cloud storage S3 storage service.
• Granting access to users for S3 and Glacier by creating user, policies and roles.
• Data Migration by creating Amazon gateway volumes for SMB shares using CloudBerry explorer.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducting due diligence on local and remote Infrastructures.
• Recommending necessary hardware, software and tools to facilitate refresh and migration.
• Recommending solutions for a consolidated monitoring and management.
• Identifying risk and proactively recommending solutions for mitigation.
• Designing and implementing solutions considering industry best practices and recommendation.
• Creating project plan, design document and presentation slides for meetings.
• Creating awareness of the complexity involved to the management for granting business downtime.
• Verifying the procurement for shipping damage, correctness of integrated parts, modules and licenses.
• Creating rack elevation drawings for hardware install considering power requirement and redundancy.
• Testing and qualifying hardware by following business guidelines and procedure of the customer.
• Optical fibre cabling, testing and labeling as per the industry standards.
• Merging and migrating fabric configurations from EOL Cisco & Brocade switches to Brocade DCX 4SB.
• Migrating configuration from EOL switches and refreshing them with Brocade DS 5100 & 5300 switches.
• Documentation of pre and post migration configuration.
• Creating hand over documents with health reports and configuration details.
• Planning and executing lift and shift migrations across data center.
• Involved in operations managing EMC V MAX-10K, VNX, CX-3 & HP EVA storage arrays.
• Recommended data migration solutions for homogenous and heterogeneous storage arrays.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with customer to understand their business needs and propose solutions accordingly.
• Interacting with vendors and know their cutting edge technologies and incorporating them on solutions.
• Validating Bill of Materials against equipment’s, licenses and inspecting them for damage on shipment.
• Gathering homogenous and heterogeneous tools required for assessing storage Infrastructure data.
• Creating reports from all storage arrays in the infrastructure for calculating used storage for migration.
• Providing information to create rack elevation diagram and identifying proper place for racking equipment’s.
• Providing port information and power requirements for SAN infrastructure to Data Centre vendors.
• Providing information for Pre Design and Data Collection work sheets to vendors.
• Creating Design Documents, Run Books and Test Scenarios for the projects involved.
• Work with storage vendors to design Raid Groups and Storage Pools incorporating Industry best practices
• Building storage Infrastructure incorporating Back Up devices which need fabric configurations.
• Understanding labeling best practices of various DC hosting vendors and implementing them.
• Brain Storming with the team for Data Migration Strategies and understanding dependencies.
• Validating the configuration with the Storage and Fabric vendors before data migration.
• Configuring Boot from SAN for Cisco UCS servers, HP C class Enclosures and IBM P770 servers.
• Zoning the host and storage as per best practices, labeling them internally and documenting.
• Provisioning Thick and Thin LUN’s to Physical, Virtual and Host clusters from VNX5500 and HP 3PAR.
• Configuring Recovery Point Appliance for VNX arrays on local and DR sites.
• Configuring Data Domain 890 for CIFS and NFS shares and present them to hosts.
• Paring and replicating local and remote Data Domain’s and shares for data migration.
• Connecting Quantum Tape Library Scalar i500 with MDS 9148 and zoning with backup servers.
• Connecting HP B6200 and EML442E to Brocade 8000B and zoning with backup servers.
• Configuring RCIP ports, testing DR connectivity and data replication on HP 3PAR.
• Providing support for Lift Shift and Data Centre migrations involving swing storage.