SUMMARY

• About 12 years of experience in various Storage (SAN & NAS) technologies, Exposure & integration of cloud storage in Azure, AWS. Rich experience in EMC Storage Technologies, Excellent design and problem solving abilities, capable of objective analysis and ability in making quick decisions based on wisdom and experience.
• Storage architect experienced in analysis, architectural design, Capacity planning, Statistical analysis and reports, Governance, standard & best - practices, Solution Implementation, Enterprise Application Integration and team Management
• VNX Replication & Migration of LUNs & Filesystems/CIFS from NS/Celerra to VNX, Sancopy, File IP replication, Mirrorview, create snapshots, snapview clones.Snap utilities. Extensively used EMCOPY (Sharedupe /lgdupe). Analyzed & planned VNX Array physical movement from one data center to new datacenter and retained similar networking setup on SPA, SPB, Control station.:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EMC Isilon: Expert level knowledge & experience in various Isilon large scale implementation, Green field & brownfield. Setup (NFS, SMB,iSCSI, FTP,HTTP) smartconnect & networking, snapshots,Quotas, multiprotocol, smartlock - compliance, setup syncIQ replication. Implementation of various config as per requirement, setup filepools & cloud pools. Archiving rules to move cold data to Cloud. Superna Eyeglass for DR Migration from VNX & Netapp (using host based tools)& EMCopy / rsync / Sharedupe /Lgdupe / isi vol copy. CTA used for file archiving with Isilon, Logs & permission investigation. Onefs & firmware code upgrade, DFS Integration. xcopy, robo copy, secure copy.

EMC CTA: Expert level knowledge, Implemented various projects, Integrated CTA with VNX/netapp. Centerra & Atmos. Used as file migration tool, archiving cold data from Netapp and VNX File to DataDomain/Atmos/ amazon/ azure, Code Upgrade.

EMC CloudArray: Configured new setup for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI. Created policies, cache sizes and connected Atmos, Amazon and IBM Cloud. (Cloud Migration), Integrate with other EMC Storages.

EMC Recoverpoint: Install of new Recoverpoint setup, multi site setup, Integration with VNX/VMAX /CLARIION /VBLOCK /VPLEX. Upgrade from lower code to latest code. Used as a migration tool from VNX to other storage. Assist in Hardware Upgrade and perform troubleshooting.

EMC VNX Block & File (Clariion, Celerra, VNX): Fast Cache, Fast VP. Storage Pools, Luns, Windows/Unix integration, Navisec CLI, VNX Datamovers, VDMs,CIFS servers & Networking configuration, VNX2 models. (Unisphere QoS Manager and Analyzer, Generate NAR file and analyze performance), DFS integration.

Netapp: 7 Mode, File setup configuration, Networking setup,CIFS,NFS, Snaps, Migration to Celerra & VNX. Day to Day Administration.

EMC Unity: Block implementation & file implementation & Administration (pools, luns, FAST VP, .

VMware: vCenter, ESXi hosts, clusters, HA, vMotion, Administration, RDM & Datastores.

EMC VMAX: VMAX Architecture. FAST & FAST VP, Vlun migration, VMAX unisphere & Solutions enabler install, upgrade & configure, VMAX CLI, Integrating with RP, SRDF, Migration from & to VMAX.

EMC VPLEX: Architecture of VPLEX family, Planning & new VPLEX Implementation, VPLEX with other EMC Storage Boxes, Data mobility, Using VPLEX for migration & HA. Legecy boxes are connected behind VPLEX.Brocade switches and Cisco MDS switches: Experience in configuration/troubleshooting on Fabric Switches (Brocade, Cisco, McData, Connetrix, and MDS). Manage physical and logical SAN storage fabric, NAS infrastructure configurations to ensure optimum performance, utilization and availability. ISCSI, FCoE, FC Zoning, VSAN, NPV, NPIV, Blade servers & Cisco UCS, Merging switches, Reports & troubleshooting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Storage Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Storage Infrastructure located in USA datacenters. (Seattle, Valencia, Dallas and Miami).
• Worked as SME and taking care of operations & 24/7 Coverage using offshore resources.
• Planed & designed to migration & perform consolidation as needed. ITIL Standards & Proper documentation.
• Managed the development and implementation of multiple NetApp NAS solutions that handled a large image repository; along with the deployment of PureStorageall-flash array solution for the performance satisfaction of critical applications
• Inventory include EMC Isilon, EMC VNX, VNX2, Unity, Vmax, Pure storage, Hitachi, EMC RecoverPoint & Two Dell Compellent & Fabric switches, Replications & DR setup.
• Awareness in DevOps. Ansible knowledge, created basic script & Automation. Basic Experience in configuration management tool Chef.
• Strong Leadership skills with experience in working along with multiple teams along with ability to contribute individually. Demonstrated ability to identify minimizes risks.
• Provide leadership to SAN, NAS administrators on a daily basis, keeping projects on track and ensuring policies and procedures are followed
• Setting up process to maximize efficiency & reduce infrastructure inventory.
• Fully involved from working with VCE- Cisco - EMC-VMWare start to finish - design, integration, implementation, and documentations of Vblock - Storage devices across sites around the Globe. Have responsibilities on the qualifications, pilot and production signoff.
• Scripting to perform basic system activities. Save time in automating regular day to day task.
• Worked on process, people and technology integration between all IT Service Management (ITSM) processes using best practices.
• Provisioning of storage using VPLEX, administration of VPLEX Local & Metro using VPLEX Management console. Also migration of data between VNX, VMAX to VPLEX
• Support Enterprise VNX Block / NetApp Network Attached Storage (NAS) environment. Supported mid-tier OS and Enterprise Virtualization, deployed CIFS / NFS environment for applications distribution.
• Working knowledge of administrating EMC Symmetrix SRDF, EMC TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, SRDF/A Solution Enabler (Symcli)
• Upgrade of SAN Fabric Switches Cisco 9513 Directors, Brocade 5300, M4700, Nexus 5596s
• Administration and support of NetApp platform Cluster Data ONTAP 8.2 - FAS 8040, 6080. Involved in the data migration project and performed backup and restored operations through Netbackup, managed backup policies, catalogs and images, storage units & storage unit groups
• Working knowledge of various NetApp tools, utilities and applications such as SnapDrive, SnapMirror, MPIO, Host utilities, SnapManager
• Planned and executed a SAN migration from a VNX array hosting VMware vSphere, file services, and Exchange to Storage array including EMC XtremIO, VMAX3 and Isilon.
• Prepare Hitachi SAN/VSP/USPV/AMS, Hitachi HNAS, NetApp NAS, and related Change Control for execution.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively used EMC Isilon NAS Storage to provide private cloud storage to multiple customers.
• Working with multiple customers & proposed solution ( Isilon, Netapp, VNX ) and Integrate solution by working with multiple teams (DC, networking, firewall, platforms etc)
• Providing private cloud storage & managing storage Infrastructure, Seamless Replication & DR Setup.
• Archiving storage to cloud AWS: S3, EC2, VPC, and Azure Storage and Exposure to various NAS scenarios, compliance requirements & Cloud / big data.
• File system Analysis, growth trending, future forecasting & reporting. Automating via basic shell and WMI Scripts.
• Responsible for planning, designing, and implementing VMware vSphere, Windows 2008 R2 servers, Windows Clustering, Active Directory, DNS, DFS, Exchange 2010, IIS 7, Sharepoint 2010, SQL server 2008 R2, Weblogic, NetApp, and EMC Storage.
• Involved in the migration of SQL Database / Oracle Database- VMware VMs across DMX4 to VMAX part of the lease migration project.
• Involved in the data migration of EMC Celerra NS960 to NetApp NAS Storage Subsystem FAS6250, support for NFS / CIFS file system.
• Involved in the data migration of IBM DS5300 / DS4700 to EMC VNX Storage Subsystems. The data consists of SQL database & Oracle database; this is a host based migration - VMware / Windows / Linux and AIX hosts, Storage scripting knowledge using power shell.
• Involved in SAP workload configuration using the EMC FAST VP and FAST Cache technology on EMC VNX 7500 Array. Leveraging the EMC FAST suite technology and Flash drives significantly improved the performance by reducing the number of IOPS. Similar FAST VP configuration was also done on VMAX 40K Storage Array.
• Experienced in administrating EMC Symmetrix Storage environment using, EMC TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, SRDF/A Solution Enabler (SymCLI).
• Planned and executed a SAN migration from DMX4 array hosting VMware vSphere, file services, and Exchange to Storage array including EMC XtremIO, VNX2 and Isilon.
• Diagnose and resolve complex problems involving software, servers,storagearrays, directors and switches. Implementedstorageupgradation project to our client environment i.e., migrating 7-Mode Filers data to NetApp C-Mode using 7-Mode Transition Tool.
• Manage HDS arrays with Hitachi Device Manager,StorageNavigator2 andStorageNavigatior Modular 2.

Confidential

Sr. Solution architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with customer to understand Technical challenges & Technical requirements.
• Analysed requirements & infrastructure setup. Planned next steps.
• Propose a solution to customer & management ( based on- best practices & practical approach)
• Created SAN / NAS Solution design and created required planning & documentation.
• Provide necessary customised documents & run books. Basic operational KT.
• Extensively used Scripting to save lot of time in repeated tasks. Shell/VB/ Excel macros.
• Worked on VNX, VNX2, ISILON, Recover point, VMAX, VPLEX, CTA, Netapp, Fabric Switches, and Cloud Array.
• Track progress & ensure the Solution Design is implemented as planned & get the issues sorted out.
• Planned and executed a SAN migration from DMX4, Clariion arrays hosting VMware vSphere, file services, SQL, and Email system to Storage array including EMC VMAX4, XtremIO, VNX 5700, Isilon.
• Provisioning of storage using VPLEX, administration of VPLEX Local & Metro using VPLEX Management console. Also migration of data between VNX, VMAX to VPLEX
• Experience performing data migrations using SAN Copy and Open Replicator at SAN block level and Open Migrator for host level migrations.
• Proficiency in supporting NetApp NAS Filer - Block Storage Subsystem Data ONTAP 7.2 - FAS 6240, 3200, 2520. Involved in support for NFS / CIFS file systems.
• Installed, configured and administration of IBM DS5020, DS5300, DS4700, V7000, SVC Storage Systems. Also, data migration from IBM DS series to EMC Arrays.
• Installation, configuration and Production support of EMC Data Domain Storage System for multiple sites
• Upgraded a 4TB storage expansion to the mission-critical SAP/Oracle database on VMAX 20K. Also involved in the Virtual LUN migration of SAP/ Oracle File Systems on the VMAX 20K.
• Designing & Develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, orStorageconcernsand provide recommendations to improve thestorageinfrastructure, and address/lead critical issues and root cause analysis

Sr. Implementation delivery engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked over 150 plus project as implementation engg across multiple technologies.
• In Depth implementation of various EMC Products. Like EMC Isilon, VNX, VNX2, Recover point, Vblock, Switches, VMAX. Vplex, Vmware, Clarrion, Celerra, CloudArray, Netapp.
• Worked with project management & customer. Handling with multiple projects at a time.
• Closely interact with Architects for solutions & design.
• Worked on various implementations specific to video surveillance, Medical PACS System.
• Perform remote implementation over web ex for a specific solution.
• Provide Knowledge transfer, documentation & ensure customer is comfortable.
• Extensive worked with EMC VMAX 40K - 20K, DMX, Isilon HD400, X410, EMC Control Center, Clariion products NaviSphere Manager, Unisphere, NaviCLI, and EMC Mirror View for Clariion replication to remote facility.
• Extensively worked on Symmetrix VMAX storage provision, (Masking, Mapping) symcli commands, administration of EMC RecoverPoint 3.0.
• Data migration using EMC SAN Copy and Power PowerPath Migration Enabler (PPME).
• Installation, configuration and Production support of EMC Data Domain Storage System.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting EMC CLARiiON (CX4-960, CX4-480, CX3-80, CX3-40), IBM XIV Storage, HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays, DAS
• SAN management and tuning which included LUN layout and analysis of EMC CLARiiON SAN (NaviSphere) as well as host side LVM analysis and layout to maximize performance.
• Full management of SAN environment composed of IBM DS5000 storage subsystems and 4 nodes IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with a SAN storage of 360 terabytes of data.
• Migrated from Netapp FAS6040c to 6080 cluster serving both FCP block as well as NAS (NFS & CIFS) after outgrowing the 6040 Storage Subsystem.
• Successfully migrated over 80 Windows, UNIX, Vmware and Linux hosts from Brocade Fabric to Cisco MDS 9509 Fabric with no data loss and no interruption in service
• Storage implementation support for all Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows Server platforms.
• Studying performance metrics andstorageusage trend for planning futurestoragepurchases using ECCstoragescope and performance manager.

Confidential

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Team lead: Coordinate and control major outages. Technical escalations & KB Articles.
• Preparing all the various monthly/weekly reports and regular tracking of issues. Take care of SLA & Management reports.
• Closely interact with management & other teams. Also be a tech SME SPOC.
• Onsite experience: Had been to Canada for three months for off shoring project and handling KT. Closely work with onsite-offshore resources. Smooth project flowing.
• Involved in handling critical issues related to EMC Clariion & EMC DMX.
• Also get involved in roles of Sr. tech eng mentioned below.
• Implemented a proof of concept for the NetApp FAS3200 Storage Platform connecting to multiple operating systems including Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Red Hat Linux, Solaris 10, 9 and VmWare ESX servers.
• Installing & upgrading the firmware of various storage components like: SCSI HBA, FC HBA & iSCSI HBA, EMC Clariion AX, CX disk array using NaviSphere Manager, NaviSphere Analyzer, SAN copy, SnapView & Brocade Switches.
• Installation, configuration and Production support of EMC Data Domain Storage System.
• Involved in the data migration of EMC Celerra NS350 to NetApp NAS Storage Subsystem FAS6070, support for NFS / CIFS file system
• Part of the Core VMware architecture team- Design, Implement & execute the Virtualization Platform for various Business units.
• Design, Implement, and maintained a new VMware ESX 3.5 Infrastructure from the ground up, spanning two datacenters (Production & DR)
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003 servers.
• Experience with configuring and managing Virtual disks, Disk Mirrors. VERITAS Volume Manager 4.X, VERITAS File System (VxFS), SUN SPARC / AIX VERITAS Volume Manager 4.5
• Installed and configure the High-Availability and DRS setup for twelve ESX 3.5 cluster infrastructure.
• Installed and configured DNS Servers, Created Forward and Reverse lookup zones, Created resource records (A, PTR, CNAME, MX), Configured Zone Transfers, DNS Forwarders, and Public DNS Server
• Experienced in Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS)
• Architect an Enterprise HA solution for FileNet - Automatic Work Flow project using Veritas - VCS Storage Foundation Software.

Sr. Tech/SAN engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting issues to find the root cause and co-ordination with the other teams for pin pointing the problem to escalate the issue to the respective support group.
• Strictly adhering to SLA, process and timings.
• Design the Backup Strategy for the sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration.
• SAN management experience with EMC, Brocade, McData, Emulex, Cisco MDS, and Qlogic products
• Extensive experience in configuration, upgrade, performance monitoring and troubleshooting of various UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Linux system software and hardware
• Deployed NFS environment for applications distribution and software development team. Also, was responsible for upgrades, maintenance and security of all internal UNIX systems.
• Installing, upgrading, patching and configuring SUN Solaris 8 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Plan, document and support high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back and using Sun Cluster Server in SAN environment.
• Experience with configuring and managing Virtual disks, Disk Mirrors. VERITAS Volume Manager 4.X, SUN SPARC / AIX VERITAS Volume Manager 4.5
• Maintained a 24/7-support environment for all UNIX systems with automated pager alerts and operator training
• Creating of CIFS shares/Exports and worked on Netapp, EMC Celerra/Clariion and DMX.
• LUN allocation & basic troubleshooting SAN issues like storage unavailability, HBA issues etc. Switch zoning.
• Remote WAN IP Network infrastructure management.
• Also take care of Incident management reports.
• Create RCA Analysis and formal document for mgnt purpose.
• Windows administration.

Confidential

L1 engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring WAN network and windows servers.
• Extensively used HPOV tool.
• Get new devices to be brought under monitoring.
• Monitor Backups.
• Monitor many other internal tools.
• Daily storage health checks and monitoring replication.