SUMMARY

• 7+ years of Strong experience in Storage (SAN/NAS/Converged Storages) and Backup Analysis, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, Maintenance and Administration.
• Experience in implementing, administering and maintaining NetApp FAS 8000, 6200/6000, FAS3200/3000 & FAS2000 series.
• Experience in EMC, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Pure and Nimble storages
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS
• Conducted data analytics for all SAN and NAS platforms.
• Implemented remote replications using True Copy, Remote Copy, virtual copy, Snapmirror, SRDF and Hitachi Universal replicator.
• Suggested improvements for NetApp storage systems for data availability.
• Participated in understanding of implementation and productivity.
• Good experience in Performance and capacity management
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade switch Zoning Changes.
• Infrastructure Build: Implemented Primary & DR environment by Storage & Backup Technologies.
• Operation Management: Managed Datacenter Consist of HP Blade, EMC, HDS & NetApp Storage, Symantec, IBM Storage and Backup technologies, Brocade and Cisco Devices.
• Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
• DataCenter Transformation, DataCenter Green field project implementation, Consolidation, DataCenter Migration and Cloud Implementations.
• Good experience in ITIL Process and 24x7 support environments
• Extensively experienced with the performance tuning and planning for consolidation of storage.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new Technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage: NetApp FAS series - 270, 940 00/ 00 / 6200/ 8000 Series. HP Storage - 3 PAR- T/S/X series, XP24k. Hitachi Storage - VSP, AMS and HNAS, Flash Storage - Pure Storage, Violin 3000 and 6000 and Nimble CS 300/500/700EMC Storage -VMAX, Vplex, DMX-3, DMX-4, Clariion CX-600/CX-700/CX3-80, XtremIO, Isilon, Centera and Vblock. IBM Storage - DS4800, DS4700, DS5100, N5000, N7000 and IBM XIV Series. Fabric Switches and Directors - Mcdata, Brocade and Cisco

Tools: NetApp Storage Software - Oncommand System Manager, Config Advisor, OCUM, Oncommand Insight, LatX, Synergy, IMT, SPM, Perfstat, Smart Solve, Filer View, SanScreen, DFM, Command Line interface, Snap protect, Snap Manager/DriveEMC Storage software - Unisphere, Control Center, Connectrix Manager, PowerPath, SYMCLI, Navisphere MGT, Timefinder, SRDF, Replication Mgr, Isilon Manager, XtreamIO systems Manager. IBM Storage Software - DS Storage Manager Client, Storage virtual client, XIV Management tool Hitachi - Device manager and Hitachi Unified Manager HP - XP CV, EVA CV, Storserv. Switches Software - Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Connectrix Manager, DCFM Flash Storages - Violin Symphony, Nimble setup manager/Infosight

Other Technologies: Server Management - Windows and Unix, Virtualization - Hyper-V and Vmware

ITIL Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy and Service Now, Backup technologies - Veritas Net Backup, HP Data protector, EMC AVAMAR, Commvault, Networker and CA Arc Serve

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Employ exceptional management and technical skills in administering 6 PB of storage covering NetApp, Pure, Hitachi, HP, EMC and IBM storage arrays across Data Centers.
• Analyze and manage Storage Area Network using Brocade and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
• Parallel DR Test Activities.
• Responsible for overall command and control of storage and backup related projects and production issues.
• Responsible for administration of storage hardware and implementation of new equipment.
• Responsible for coordination of upgrades to equipment. Perform steady state storage administration.
• Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
• Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
• NETAPP filers FAS 3070,6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
• IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
• Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
• Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
• Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
• Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Employ exceptional management and technical skills in administering 6 PB of storage covering NetApp, Hitachi, HP, EMC and IBM storage arrays across Data Centers.
• Analyze and manage 2200 port Storage Area Network using Brocade, Cisco, and McData director class SAN switches across the Eleven Data Centers.
• Parallel DR Test Activities.
• NETAPP filers FAS 3070,6070 and FAS 6080 Installation and support.
• Experience with engineer, deploy and administer HP-3PAR arrays, performance analysis, migrations, replication, etc.
• Configuration/upgrading/Hardware cabling and Administration of HP T400, T80, P10000 models and using HP StoreServ
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Practical hands-on systems administration, expert in Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Command Suite, Hitachi Tuning Manager and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
• IBM XIV storage management using GUI tool.
• Creating and managing the Storage pools and Volume pools in XIV Storage.
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• EMC storage administrator designed configured and allocated storage on EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion.
• Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
• Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
• Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
• Symmetrix Storage provisioning: Create the Meta luns from the available hypers, Map the LUNs to FA ports, Check for available address list in the FA ports and Mask the LUNs to the host.
• My day-to-day responsibilities include managing, maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting various issues related to High availability SAN and NAS environment.
• Physical installation, Configuration and maintenance of Cisco/Brocade SAN Switches with fiber cabling from EMC Frames through the various servers connected to SAN.
• NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
• Data center Migration support for NetApp, IBM attached hosts.
• Administer and configure a virtual storage environment that utilizes IBM SVC with more TEMPthan 200 hosts using approximately 500 TB of storage on highly redundant SVC clusters
• Remote configuration and maintenance of EMC McData SAN Switches including Domain configuration, zoning etc.
• RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.

Confidential

Storage Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NET APPS filers FAS 6080, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 270 Installation and support
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Administration of Hitachi AMS 2500, USP-V, VSP and HUS storage arrays by using Hitachi command suite7, Storage Navigator, Storage Navigator Modular2, Solution Enabler (SYMCLI) and SMC.
• Managing Hitachi Dynamic provisioning pools
• Virtualizations of AMS 1000, AMS 2500 and USP storage frames behind the USPV and VSP using Universal Volume Manager
• Data migration from DMX3000 to DMX-3 and data migration from CX600 to DMX-3
• Executing prep work for host analysis and working with support matrix
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• Cisco 13 Director installation and configuration
• Experience with Cisco fabric manager, Brocade zoning, storage allocation
• Experience in creating zones and zone sets and fabric configuration
• Supervise network monitoring standards, security, disaster/recovery, resource utilization and stability.
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support.
• NAS Administration, NetApp filer installation, on tap upgrades, SnapMirror and quota, qtrees Administration.
• NET APPS filers FAS 3050, FAS 3070, FAS 2050 and FAS 940 Installation and support
• LUN mapping/creation on NetApp devices, F/C Switch Configuration management.
• Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror).
• Manage SAN & NAS capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools
• IBM Shark and IBM FastT (DS4500) Installation and support.
• Flash Copy, Snapshot and SnapMirror Installation and support
• Work Flow ticketing systems, Change management, Performance manager and Break fix issues follow up and support
• Experience with Connectrix Manager and data Fabric manager, Zoning, LUN allocation, Storage allocation to storage groups.
• 24/7 Support and On-call Support.
• RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission.