SUMMARY

• Storage professional with Extensive experience in configuring administering Block and file storage on Enterprise and Midrange platforms.
• Experience with EMC enterprise storage platforms like Symmetrix series, VMAX - 2, VMAX-3 and Midrange platforms like VNX and Clariion series.
• Configured and Deployed, various file solutions like EMC ISILON, VNX, NetAppFAS 8040,6280,6240,6080/6040,3270/3170 .
• Experience with All Flash storage solutions like EMC XtremIO.
• Experience in deploying, Administering, troubleshooting BrocadeDCX 8510 and CISCOMDS 9513 director class switches.
• Experience with centralized switch management tools like Brocade Network Advisor and Data Center Fabric Manager.
• Created SMB shares and NFS mounts on ISILON using ONE-FS and CLI.
• Ability to Analyze performance of the ISILON Cluster using INSIGHT-IQ.
• Managed and Administered VNX for Block and File storage using Unisphere.
• Ability to manage VMAX using Unisphere and SYMCLI.
• Experience with Time-finder replication products like Mirror, Cloneand SNAPS.
• Experience in configuring replication technologies like SRDF, Open replicator and Recoverpoint.
• Enabled Continuous Data Protection for any PiT recovery to optimize RPO and RTO using RecoverPoint
• Combining RecoverPoint 4.1 and EMC VPLEX 5.4, MetroPoint topology enables data replication from an EMC VPLEXtwo data centers to a third site over distance and provides disaster recovery that can sustain two-site failures
• Extensive hands-on experience with maintaining and troubleshooting Hitachi storage arrays such as G1000, G600, G400, VSP, USP V, USP VM, HUSVM, HUS150 and AMS arrays.
• Extensive hands-on experience with maintaining and troubleshooting Hitachi NAS arrays such as HDI, HNAS 4080, 4060 and HCP
• Expertise on Hitachi Universal Volume Manager (UVM) and virtualized HDS & Non-HDS arrays.
• Performed Data Migrations from EMC Isilon to Hitachi HNAS, HDI and HCP.
• Experience in Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning and implementing HDT Policies on VSP and HUSVM.
• Configured and Managed Hitachi Universal Replicator.
• Experience in virtualizing external volumes into the HDS VSP and G1000 storage array
• Experience in configuring replication for ISILON using SYNC-IQ.
• Configured CIFS/SMB shares and NFS exports on NetApp Filers.
• Experience on Data ONTAP Installation 8.1.2, 8.0.x, 7.3.x and CDOT 8.3,8.2, 8.1.3.
• Configured VSM and Logical Interfaces (LIF’s) on CDOT 8.3.
• Experience with System manager, ON Command Core package, On command unified manger 6.x and Filer view.
• Implemented SNAP Mirror and SNAP Vault.
• Creating Aggregates on filers, troubleshoot issues with CIFS setup, NFS setup andDNS setup.
• Experience with Storage provisioning, Qtree, SNAP Shot, SNAP mirror, SNAP restore, VOL copy, SNAP manager.
• Working Experience of VMware 5.1, 5.5, 6.5
• Involved in migration and consolidation of Unix Servers inProductiondata center.
• Installation ofPackages, Patch ManagementandUpgrades.
• Involved in configuring, administration and troubleshooting Linux/Unix Servers which are connected to Storage such as NetApp, EMC.
• Experienced working withFiber Chanel and iSCSIStorage Area Networks.
• Experienced in configuration maintainingRed Hat Cluster, Net-backup.
• Creatingnew file systems, mounting file systemsandunmountingfile systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Array: NetApp: FAS 8040,6280, 6240, 3270, 3240, 3220, 3140 . EMC VMAX, VPLEX, XtremIO,VNX-5700,ISILON, HITACHI, PURE

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9506, 9124, 9148 and Brocade 48000, 5100, 5300,8510

Storage Management Software: NetApp 7-mode, CDOT, FAS filers, On Command Core Package 5.2, OnCommand System Manager (3.0 and 2.0), Snap Mirror, Site Recovery Manager, SRA, Flex Clone,SNAP manager, Recoverpoint. One-FS, Unisphere, Navisphere, Time finder,Brocade CLI, Brocade Fabric Manager, Tivoli storage manager, Brocade web tools, Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager.

Protocols: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN and Fiber Channel, SMB 3.0,2.0, NFS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Windows 2k/2k3/2k8/XPHP-UX 10.x/11.x, UNIX, LINUX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego CA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and managed Pure storage FA-420, M10R2, M50, M70R2, X70.
• Provided effective design, coordination, installation/configuration for new storage arrays.
• Developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Compute Infrastructure, Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware/software and related enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure.
• Performed Enterprise storage systems to include high-availability, redundancy, and supporting the organization disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
• Experience in EMC ALL Flash storage array XtremIO
• Responsible for entireXtremIOEngineering Hopkinton lab infrastructure & design. This includes configuration and support of theXtremIOxbricks, fiber Channel support, Network Support, and iSCSIsupport.
• Work daily withXtremIOStorage Arrays. Installation, configuration and troubleshooting
• Migrated EMC XtremIO (ALL Flash array) to Pure storage arrays.
• Migrated data from legacy EMC Clariion, DMX arrays to VNX, VMAX arrays using EMC VPLEX.
• Provisioned storage by configuring Virtual Arrays, Virtual Pools, in ViPR software defined data center.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi VSP, USP V and USP 1100 models.
• Managed and administrated Hitachi AMS 2100 & AMS 2500 storage Arrays.
• Performed storage provisioning on Hitachi VSP using Storage Navigator 2.
• Worked on Hitachi Device Manager to Perform Storage Provisioning on Hitachi USP.
• Worked on Hitachi Command Suite 7.6 using VSP storage array.
• Configured Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pools and V-VOL on Hitachi USP-V & Hitachi VSP storage arrays.
• Configured Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pools on AMS 2500 and AMS2100.
• Configured and Managed Hitachi Dynamic Tiering on Hitachi VSP arrays.
• Installation and configuration of Hitachi Shadow Image.
• Configured and Managed Hitachi Universal Replicator.
• Virtualized Hitachi AMS & EMC Clariion to Hitachi USP-V array using Hitachi universal volume manager.
• Migrated data from EMC & HP array to Hitachi USP V storage array using Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager.
• Set up the user accounts on the HDS storage arrays.
• Provisioned storage from Pure Storage Flash arrays FA-420, FA-450 to ESXi & Windows Hosts.
• Configured Volumes, Hosts, Host Groups on Pure Storage arrays.
• Migrated data from EMC VNX 5700 to Pure Storage FA-450 array.
• Configured Snapshots on Pure Storage FA-450
• Implement and configure an Isilon solution for a utility customer and migrate all their CIFS data from NetApp to Isilon.
• Implement NetApp Ac Mode 8.3 array for VMware and CIFS data and migrated data from 7 Mode NetApp arrays to C mode using Snap Mirror and 7 Mode Transition Tool.
• Performed tasks like zoning on brocade using CLI and web tools.
• Experience on Storage provisioning on VMAX-20K and VNX using Unisphere.
• Migrated data at host level using PPME and Open Migrator.
• Experience in configuring smart pools, File pool policies.
• Experience in configuring SYNC-IQ replication between primary and secondary sites.
• Configured and Implemented EMC DR solutions like SRDF and Timefinder Mirror/Clone/Snap.
• Created scripts for daily tasks device creation, mapping, masking and migration tasks.
• Experience in migrating the data from VMAX2 to VMAX3 using open replicator.
• Managed and Administered NetApp FAS 3240 and FAS 3250 filers.
• Experience in migrating Netapp filers from 7-mode to CDOT.
• Worked closely with peers and the Solutions Architect to ensure that the compute infrastructure, storage hardware, operating systems, monitoring systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational requirements and SOPs.
• Assistwith day-to-day operations including storage provisioning,planning migrations, support operational tasks (On-call) basis of the storage infrastructure..
• Provided technical support to the IT Operations Center 7x24 on call for Mission Critical Application.
• Developed industry best practices for data computing centers and storage.
• Replication based experience for major vendor (NetApp, EMC, Pure etc.)
• Advanced understanding of FC, FCoE, iSCSI connectivity, multipathing and SAN Zoning with the ability to troubleshoot misconfiguration issues.
• Proficient with Visio drawings, Microsoft Office Suite, and technical documentation of storage network systems.

Confidential, Anaheim CA

Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administrated EMC VNX,VMAX, DMX-4, DMX-3
• Managed Cisco switch, created VSAN, added members to zones, added zones to zone set and activated zone set using command line interface.
• Managed and administrated EMC Data Domain 4200 using Data Domain System Manager for backup solution.
• Storage Provisioning on EMC VNX and VMAX using Unisphere
• Storage Provisioning on EMC DMX arrays through SYMCLI and ECC.
• Created LUNs and Symmetrix Device Mapping, Masking using SYMCLI for DMX storage arrays.
• Configure devices, Meta devices using Unisphere for VMAX.
• Implemented FAST VP on VMAX and created policies using SYMCLI.
• Used Navisphere Manager for creation of LUNs, RAID Groups, and Storage Groups.
• Zoning of storage devices by using Cisco Fabric Manager and CLI.
• Migrated Cisco MDS 9124 fabric to MDS 9509.
• Configure Virtual Provisioning on EMC VMAX.
• Migration of data from DMX3- DMX 4 using PPME.
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Migration of data from Symmetrix DMX 3 to VMAX using Open Replicator.
• Performed replication of data asynchronously with Symmetrix SRDF to DMX-3
• Create thin pool and provision thin devices.
• Monitor thin pool using SMC.
• Updating storage utilization report on monthly basis using ECC Storage scope
• Installed Powerpath 5.7 for multipathing on servers.
• Experience with handling of the production support ticketing.
• Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Fiber switches, Zoning.
• Updated SAN configuration inventory and installation documentation.
• Technical review of the hardware, software, mitigating risk and the deployment process
• Managed and administered NetApp FAS 8040, 6070, 3140, 3040, 2040 and V3220 filers.
• Managed 46 filers and 18 vfilers with data over 1PB.
• Extensive experience in administering and managing both 7-mode and CDOT filers.
• Extensive experience in migrating Netapp filers from 7-mode to CDOT.
• Extensive experience with the build of NetApp filers with CDOT 8.2, 8.3.
• Configured Virtual Storage Machines and Logical Interfaces on the filers.
• Configured Snap mirror and Snap Vault relationships among the different filers.
• Performed Data Migrations and Restorations using Snap Mirror and Snap Vault technologies.
• Hands on experience with installation of NetApp Snap Manager products and performed backup and restore using them.
• Implemented the NetApp Site Recovery Manager and setup the DR for the VMware ESX hosts.
• Upgraded the Data ONTAP from 7.3.x to 8.0.x.
• Upgraded ONTAP from 8.0.x to 8.1.2 and SP firmware, Disk and Disk Shelf Firmware.
• Performed the Data Migrations from 32 bit to 64 bit aggregates using VSM, QSM, Snap Vault and NDMP copy.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Managing EMC- VMAX, VNX 5700 for file, Clariion series.
• Experience in EMC ALL Flash storage array XtremIO.
• Experience in administering ISILON cluster using One-FS.
• Deployed and configured EMC XtremIO (ALL Flash array) with multi brick for enterprise VDI Environment.
• Experienced in EMC Isilon Migration, provisioning, creating shares, replicating storage by SyncIQ, Antivirus scanning, setting up Smart Quotas.
• Involved in upgrading firmware on IsilonNodes, One-FS.
• Analyzed customer environment based on current EMC Isilonperformance and growth. Added high performance nodes in the Isilon environment to mitigate the future growth.
• Trouble shooting performance Issues Isilon.
• Experience in Analyzing performance of Isilon using INSIGHT-IQ.
• Experience in replicating storage using SYNC IQ.
• Managed VMAX using unisphere and SYMCLI.
• Performed Auto-provisioning for VMAX by creating, initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using SMC and Solution Enabler SYMCLI.
• Configured FAST-VP policy for VMAX.
• Managed administered Brocade-DCX 8510 SAN switches.
• Ability to manage SAN Fabric using Brocade Network Advisor.
• Used Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing CX-700/DMX to new VMAX storage arrays.

Confidential, Marlborough MA

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed Net-App FAS 6240,3270,3250,2240 filers.
• Managed administered EMC VMAX-20K array.
• Configured and Managed Brocade DCX-8510 switches.
• Performed tasks like zoning on brocade using CLI and web tools.
• Managed the environment fabric using Brocade network advisor.
• Storage provisioning on VMAX using Unisphere and Symcli.
• Configured Time finder mirror and SNAP’s for backups.
• Experience in creating shares on FAS 6240,3270,3250,2240 filers.
• Experience in creating/Exporting volumes on Net app filers.
• Extensive Hands on experience in implementing SNAP mirror on Netapp filers.
• Migrated Netapp filers from 7-mode to Clustered Data on Tap.
• Created and Implemented vfilers on Netapp filers.
• Worked with SNAP Shot technology on Netapp filers.
• Used On command core package for monitoring and alerting on Netapp filers.
• Coordinated in trouble shooting performance Issues with server team.
• Involved in cabling from Storage array to switch during Build phase.
• Executed test cases in build phase.
• Involved in capacity planning and technical review of hardware and software.
• Involved in documentation of the Storage information and fabric connections in the Environment.
• Executed test cases in build phase.
• Involved in capacity planning and technical review of hardware and software.
• Involved in documentation of the Storage information and fabric connections in the Environment.

Confidential, Columbus OH

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Develop the SAN configurations and designs.
• Provision power, space and cables for FAS 3270 and FAS 3240.
• Complete site readiness check.
• Managed and Administered NetApp FAS 3270 and FAS 3240 filers.
• Managed and administered EMC VMAX-40K array.
• Implemented SRDF for disaster recovery solution.
• Complete new filer installation - confirm network and ASUP successful.
• Develop the Network Attached Storage configurations and designs.
• Upgraded Data ONTAP from v7.2.3 to v8.0.3.
• Provide validated production filer name(s) and vfiler name(s)
• Provide new volume names, sizing & profile to NetApp.
• Complete Configuration Workbook for Netapp.
• Execute volume, Qtree, volume de-dupe creation scripts per controller.
• Perform vfiler creates.
• Run cifs setup on each vfiler.
• Create SnapMirror and Snap Vault destination aggregate/volume scripts.
• Monitor schedules for successful backups.
• Identify Ops Manager process for importing SV schedule and restore process.
• Update Data Domain asset information and documentation, and create Data Domain support accounts.
• Verify hosts have necessary disk space, pre-requisite software installed, network access and communication between hosts works as required, applications and services are stopped or disabled, and user accounts are set up as required in the Installation Guide.
• Prepared Operational and Architectural Runbook.

Confidential, Portsmouth NH

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX domains.
• Configured Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Snap mirror, Snapshots & Snap Vault.
• Configured volumes for CIFS / NFS. Upgraded Data ONTAP v6.1 to v7.2.3 via NFS
• Creating volumes and allocating size to file systems using quotas.
• Successfully allocated Storage for open systems storage environment from Clariion, Symmetrix to Windows, Solaris, Linux, IBM-AIX and HP-UX servers.
• Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
• Storage provisioning on Clariion and Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
• Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company’s present and anticipated growth.
• Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
• Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking, mapping and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning.
• Replacing the failed disks on Netapp Filer.
• Worked on Designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with System Administration team that constituted Distributed System Operations.
• Provided support to application and development teams working across the organization.
• Ensured effective memory management by appropriately creating volume groups, associating physical & logical volumes to the volume groups, and creating suitable file systems.
• Administered daily upkeep of Sun Solaris & HP systems and Local and Wide Area Networks LAN/WAN along-with providing technical support 24/7 to the end users and related troubleshooting.