SUMMARY

• 15 Years of experience in IT industry as Sr. NAS/SAN Professional with experience in Unix/Wintel System administration, TCP/IP networking and Internet services, consulting and training.
• Extensive experience in enterprise class and midrange storage systems.
• NetApp (FAS Series and V series).
• HP 3PAR (InServ F200 to StoreServ 7450 All Flash).
• EMC VMAX (10K, 20K, 40K), Vmax 3,Unity File and Block,VNX5200,Isilion(x200,S200),Data Domain (890,7200)
• Expertise in Brocade Director Switches (DCX - 8510-8, DCX-4S), Brocade (5100), McData (i10k, 6140) and
• Cisco MDS (9513, 9509, 9506).
• Planning and implementation of best practices to meet customer needs.
• Extensive experience on local and remote replication technologies using NetApp SnapMirror (Vol, Qtree), HP 3PAR (Virtual Copy Clones, Snapshots and RemoteCopy), EMC (TimeFinder/Clone, Snap and SRDF)
• Worked on Brocade/Cisco Director Switches. Used Webtools, Fabric manager and command line utilities to manage the switches.
• Worked on implementation of complex NAS solutions for various customers using Multistore (vfilers for netapp) and Implementation of subnets on isilon.
• Performed Migrations from Netapp 7-mode to Cluster mode
• Network Appliance (NetApp) DATA ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster Mode, SnapMirror replication, SnapVault, storage planning, data management, disaster recovery planning best practices and testing. Installation and configuration of NetApp hardware and software products.
• Installed and configured Oncommand suite.
• Prepare the implementation design document as per the requirement of the project.
• Lead and take ownership of Storage Infrastructure Build work and act as a point of storage contact for new builds requiring SAN storage.
• Worked as a coordinator and PM type role engaging different teams before and after for NAS /SAN changes (upgrades, patch installs etc...)
• Experience in Thin Deduplication, Compression, Zero-Space and Unused space reclamation methods.
• Code Upgrades on Netapp,Data Domain,Netbackup,SVC,HP 3PAR, Brocade and Cisco.
• Handling Datacenter migration, consolidation and Datacenter exit programs.
• Knowledge of shell (bash) scripting and powershell,Excel Macro
• Designed and worked with networking team on implementation of high performance/redundant networking solutions.
• Configured Data Domain data paths
• Configured and managed Data Domain interfaces, performed replication and recovery
• Performed a Data domain boost backup
• Configured Storage Units on Netbackup
• Created policies, add and delete clients on Netbackup
• Troubleshoot failed backups and perform restores
• Connecting Multivendor array to Vplex
• Claiming of storage devices under Vplex
• Storage Provisioning of Vplex - Creating Extents, Virtual Volumes and extending of extents using vplex cli and unisphere.
• Perform migration and swing over of volume based on performance to connected multivendor array based on requirement called Data mobility
• Removing of extents and unclaiming of devices from vplex after migration or decommission
• Run performance analysis end to end device on vplex.
• Responsible for managing and supporting xtremeio in production environment
• Integration of rest-api plugins for Xtremeio management
• Creating snapshots for volumes
• Efficent storage space management
• Install EMC Power Path, Solution Enabler and other storage related software
• Work with change management systems (Remedy, Service Now) to get it approved before changing anything in the production fabric.
• Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN
• Installation and upgrade of HBA drivers and firmware
• Experience with Storage Migrations using Open Replicator
• Coordinate with EMC and Facilities to get VMAX delivered, create quotes for power, network cable run, request IPs, create SAN cable matrix, coordinate bin file load and verify that the VMAX is operational.
• Extensive experience in working with Technical team to support customer’s business and need.
• Excellent analytical, logical and diagnostic skills.
• Administered highly available IS Operations by 24x7 bases over 700 production and development systems in Global Data Center environment.
• Hardworking, self-starter and highly motivated team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage/SAN/NAS: EMC Clariion CX Series,VMAX,Hitachi, VNX, IBM N series (Netapp Filers),IBM XIV,DS8000,DS4000,SVC

SAN Switches: Brocade/Cisco Director Class Switches

SAN Management: EMC Navisphere, Snapview,Data Ontap, Connectrix Manager, Snapdrive, Snapvault.

NAS: NetApp FAS, ONTAP 7-Mode,CDOT, Celerra NSeries/NSX, Celerra Manager,VNX,Isilon S and X series, OneFS

Data Protection: TSM, Legato Networker, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec,CommVault

System Administration: Unix, Solaris Windows 2000/2003 Server VMWARE ESXi5.1,5.5Blade/Rack Mount server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Infrastructure Engineer

Environment: Isilon(X400,H400,H500,F810),VMAX,Datadomain, EMC RecoverPoint, Cisco, EMC data domain, VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows, RHEL, CentOS

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Build and configure Isilon F810 and migrate the shared file systems from VNX and NetApp using Datadobi.
• Build the DataDobi environment (Core and Proxies) for migration.
• Perform firmware upgrades on Isilon devices.
• Custom Mappings on Isilon to support multi protocol shares.
• Created Custom reports using Python/Rest API for all EMC devices.
• Created custom Excel Reports for capacity comparison using Pandas.
• Created Custom scripts in Python for Data classification (last access time) .
• Plan and co-ordinate firmware upgrades on Vmax,Cisco switches with EMC and work with host teams for multipath checks and compatibility.
• Participate in planning and implementation of semiannual DR tests (Recover Point and SyncIQ)
• Suggest design changes in the existing configuration to mitigate server performance issue.
• BAU changes for database servers and file systems.
• Used Shell Scripts,Python,Pandas,Numpy for automation

Confidential, Keller, TX

Senior Storage/Backup Engineer

Environment: Netapp(V6290,FAS6280),VMAX(40k),Netbackup,Isilon,Datadomain,VNX,Unity400F,Xtremeio,EMC SRM,RedhatLinux, Windows,ESXi5.5

Responsibilities:

• Administration of multi-vendor storage environment, Day-to-day administrative tasks like storage provisioning and troubleshooting NAS/SAN related issues with Primary focus on Netapp Solutions.
• HW/OS installs/upgrades. Performance analysis, tuning and management.
• Performed Data ONTAP upgrade On Netapp filers to 8.2.4 version
• Created remote replications on netapp devices using snapmirror and Participated in DR exercises and utilized flex clones for DR testing
• Implemented/Troubleshoot Multiprotocol shares by creating Mapping entries on Netapp
• Created Custom Excel reports for Capacity Reporting using Excel macro programming
• Automated Netapp Replications and health checks using Shell programming.
• Automated NetBackup reports using Shell Programming
• Performed NetBackup upgrade to 7.7.3
• Performed Automated push/upgrade of NetBackup clients on non-windows servers
• Performed Data Domain upgrade to 5.7.3.0
• Monitoring health, utilization and performance of tiered storage infrastructure. Identifying and resolving performance problems.
• Implemented NIST security controls on storage devices
• Create remote replication session on VMAX using SRDF between R1 and R2 volumes requiring replication.Support DR exercise
• Monitored Data Throughput rate for SRDF Replication and prepared monthly reports
• Performed ESRS and SRM Upgrades
• Conducted Extensive performance studies for Cache utilization, Front end port utilization and write pending
• Rest-api calls to pull custom reports out of SRM for storage capacity planning.
• Utilized Unisphere for Reporting and performance analysis.
• Troubleshoot Database performance issues related to storage
• Performed Extensive tasks on Unity (VSA pool deployment, Data Replication)
• Worked on Design of Fast pool and Fast Cache
• Used Robocopy and EMcopy for migrations.

Confidential, Texas

Senior Storage Administrator

Environment: NetApp FAS6080, FAS6070, FAS3020’s,VMAX 20k,40K Isilon S200,X200,Clariion CX Series, Power Path,Qlogic HBAs,Cisco Director switches,Datadomain,VPlex,Hitachi VSP, AIX,Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5,Hpc7000

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain day-to-day operational support, troubleshooting, implementations and periodic hardware and software maintenance.
• HW/OS installs/upgrades. Performance analysis, tuning and management.
• Created Custom Excel reports for Capacity Reporting using Excel macro programming
• Automated Netapp Replications and health checks using PowerShell.
• Work with Storage Operations, Storage Infrastructure Build, and Storage Engineering team in performing various storage allocation, zoning, decommissioning, migration and designing of storage environment.
• Performed Upgrades on Netapp Devices (cluster mode and 7 mode)
• Worked Extensively on Netapp CDOT Implemtations.Designed and implemented SVM’s and QOS polices
• Utilized Perf Stats, Oncommand and CLI for Performance troubleshooting.
• Implemented NSE(Netapp Storage Encryption on CDOT clusters
• Used Snap Restore and NDMP copy to perform restores.
• Created remote replications on netapp devices using snapmirror and Participated in DR exercises and utilized flex clones for DR testing
• Lead and take ownership of Storage Infrastructure NAS work and act as a point of storage contact for NAS Storage.
• Coordinate storage changes, schedule, approve or implement as needed as per change management policy. .
• Storage provisioning, managing and deploying LUNS using the SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager. Allocate storage to specific servers/applications mostly comprising of Windows, Hyper-V and Wintel machines.
• Worked on Virtual provisioning, creating thin devices and configuring RAID protection levels for thin pools.
• Create zoning for servers attaching to storage using Cisco CLI- VMAX as a target, Hitachi VSP/G1000 as a target.
• Create initiator group, port group, storage group and masking view in VMAX 40k,20k using SYMCLI.
• Create remote replication session on VMAX using SRDF between R1 and R2 volumes requiring replication.
• Use Time Finder Local Replication on remove array to create BCVs for DR allocation.
• Create host in Hitachi VSP/G1000 and allocate storage on Hitachi VSP/G1000 using Hitachi Command Suite 7/8.
• Edit LUN paths as required, delete host, storage and zoning for host being decommissioned and detached from Hitachi.
• For new servers attaching to SAN configure boot order in the System BIOS, mostly HP blade servers.
• Configure FCoE port-channel configuration and necessary zoning in coordination with network team.
• Configure HP Enclosure switches connecting to CISCO SAN.
• Work with system administrator to facilitate server migration - zoning and presenting existing devices to new nodes off of VMAX and VSP, and removing old zoning and initiators after successful migration and validation.
• Perform changes in accordance with the SLA and change management/change control policies.
• Perform various change management roles such as coordinator, verifier, and implementer or approver of changes using HP Service Manager.
• Attend Storage Ops Team/ Infrastructure Build/ Storage Engineering team meetings, and Vendor meetings and provide updates on changes and project status respectively.

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Senior Storage Engineer

Environment: IBM Nseries (Netapp), IBM XIV,DS8000,DS4000,SVC,EMC Isilon S200,X200,VNX 5200,Clariion CX, VMAX 10k,VSP,Hitachi AMS2000,, Power Path,Qlogic HBAs,Brocade Director switches,, AIX,Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX, HP-UX

Responsibilities:

• Administration of multi-vendor storage environment, Day-to-day administrative tasks like storage provisioning and troubleshooting NAS/SAN related issues with Primary focus on Netapp Solutions.
• HW/OS installs/upgrades. Performance analysis, tuning and management.
• Configurations including vfiler, qtree, volume, aggregates and snapshots. Expand volumes.
• Configuration including Smartconnect(dynamic) with Multiple IP Pools and Access Zones
• Generate Insight IQ and OnCommand reports on utilization, chargeback and growth trends and provide recommendations.
• Perform Disk to disk backups using netapp snapvault
• Data Migration using NDMP (isi vol), Volume Snapmirrors and Qtree Snapmirror,SyncIQ across same and different domains within the Enterprise.
• Responsible for performing Data ONTAP upgrades On Netapp filers
• Worked with EMC Engineer On Isilon Cluster ugrades (rolling and Simultaneous)
• Implemented Multiprotocol shares by creating Mapping entries on Netapp
• Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on AIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Configuring data storage in NetApp FAS series filers that run Data ONTAP 7G and 8.X using CLI and Filer View.
• Configuring data storage On Isilon Cluster with 7.x using CLI and Web Gui
• Monitoring health, utilization and performance of tiered storage infrastructure. Identifying and resolving performance problems.
• Supported the enterprise veritas netbackup environment.

Confidential, NJ

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily maintenance and administration of enterprise SAN that included several CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center.
• Involved in the migration of data using SANCopy from CLARiiON CX 600 to Symmetrix DMX 1000 and provisioning of data for testing purposes using Snapview/Snapshots & Clones data replication.
• Involved in administration and provisioning of storage in CLARiiON systems using Navisphere Manager which included creating RAID sets, presenting LUNs to servers.
• Involved in checking & configuring the visibility of the assigned LUN from the host side.
• Installation, configuration and firmware upgrades of Qlogic QLA2310, QCP2340/2342L & Emulex LP1050E HBAs in the hosts.
• Installed Powerpath for dynamic load balancing in Solaris & Windows environments.
• Monitored the performance of the Symmetrix using the Work Load analyzer.
• Involved in configuration of NetApps FAS systems including qtree, volume, aggregates and SnapShots.
• Implemented and configured high availability and disaster recovery using SnapMirror and FlexClone.
• Migration of data from NFS data server to standalone NetApps 3020 filers
• Volume management and maintenance of SAN storage configuration on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX servers using Veritas Volume manager.
• Involved in planning & configuration of automated backups & restores using Veritas NetBackup.
• Involved in data growth analysis and storage resource forecasting for future demands.