SUMMARY

• Skilled and experienced in areas of designing, implementing, configuring and supporting SAN and NAS storage infrastructures, with strong experience in EMC products.
• To obtain storage engineering positionwithan international company that will utilize and expand my hands - on storage and data protection skills and experience with SANhardware and software.
• Working as Storage Administrator having 7 years of experience in IT industry with excellent skills in EMC-SAN in Storage provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting EMC VNX and Clariion CX4 series Arrays.
• Experience in implementing EMC Business Continuity solutions using Time Finder Clone/Mirror/Snap on VMAX, VNX, using Unisphere for VMAX and SMC, SYMCLI.
• Excellent experience in administrating, maintaining and troubleshooting of EMC-VMAX, EMC-VNX systems.
• Troubleshooting connectivity issues between servers, fabric switches and storage.
• Hardware installation and maintenance of storage, servers, networking equipment, and other supporting hardware.
• Hands on Experience in providing EMC storage environment related to EMC CLARiiON, Symmetrix and VNX.
• Knowledge on vulnerabilities and counter measures which involves in Web application security.
• Strong Knowledge on Windows, PeopleSoft Applications, Sun Solaris Administrator and Linux system Administrator.
• Knowledge on networking and operating system to carry out assigned administrative tasks.
• Skilled in planning, monitoring and provisioning EMC Control Center Solution.
• Ability to handle multiple demands and adapt in a fast paced working environment.
• Demonstrate leadership, organizational, analytical, decision making and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: EMC VNX 7500

SAN Switches: Brocade Switches

Monitoring Tools: EMC Unisphere/Navisphere, Unisphere Service Manager and EMC Networker.

Ticketing tools: CA SDM, BMC Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Sr.EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 7+ Years of experience that includes 3 years of experience in EMC storage systems architecture, installation, implementation, integration, security and administration in local & Geo-DR remote environments.
• SAN Switch Management - Cisco, Brocade.
• Configuring Soft Zoning on Brocade switches.
• Provisioned storage of Clariion CS Series using Unisphere Manager.
• Monitoring the Clariion & VNX arrays and preparing Health check reports at regular intervals of time.
• Software Development and handling the tasks of coordinating with system’s administrators, developers and application developers to optimize storage and to determine storage requirements.
• Monitor existing storage environment which includes capacity planning, SAN Switch ports usage, Storage availability and Disk usage.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production, Development and testing environments.
• Experience in zoning using Brocade CLI and Cisco Fabric Manager and CLI; Installation and deployment of Cisco MDS switches in the existing environment; Creation of VSANs, Zone Sets and Zones and NPIV/Access Gateway Mode.
• Assigned the tasks of identifying the share of different service tiers and storage.
• Coordinating with vendor support team for hardware failures and working with them to base requirements.
• Responsible for high availability of all EMC Storages (VMAX, VNX & CLARiiON) in critical environment providing 24/7/365 days support with 99% uptime commitment.

Environment: VMAX 10K, 20K and 40K, VNX 5700, EMC Clariion Cx4-480, Brocade switches, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Unisphere

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration, Configuration & Monitoring of Clariion, VNX.
• Configuring Soft Zoning on Brocade switches.
• Performed LUN provisioning in VMAX Storage Systems.
• Troubleshooting Clariion, VNX, Switch and host related issues.
• Managed EMC Clarion & VNX Boxes through EMC Unisphere tool.
• Performed creation of the Storage groups and allocation of LUNS to the hosts in the Clarion & VNX Boxes.
• Continuously interacted with the Client Support Representative to do the storage requirement in a satisfactory manner
• Onsite/Customer status reporting and meeting.
• Forming Meta LUNs.
• Storage devices monitoring and control.
• Preparing health checklist for VNX storage arrays and Brocade switches and sending it to the concerned team.
• Preparing hardware health checklist and reporting it for every two hours.
• Supporting and assisting using Networker backup tool for 24/7. Monitoring daily backups and also running them manually after business hours. Trigger the failed jobs manually using Networker Management Console (NMC) V8.0.
• Monitoring free space for the file system and checking the number of free tapes before & after business hours. Preparing Daily backup report to check the SLA’s status and reporting to the concerned teams.
• Monitoring ticket queues and assigning them to the particular team without missing SLA’s.
• SPOC for CED IMOC L-1 team
• Preparing all the Operational Documents for L1 team
• Attending all the DSTUM calls
• SPOC for L1 Audit for multiple regions.
• Attending all the Audit meetings.
• Understanding client requirements
• Successfully generated and development new innovative ideas to make the product highly professional and distinctive.

Confidential, Glendale, CA

EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting VMware Virtualization technologies and EMC storage.
• Capacity planning and forecasting Storage needs for yearly budget cycle which fosters the decision of buying additional Disk shelves or arrays.
• Performance Troubleshooting for slowness issues on the Application side due to storage and recommending necessary suggestions.
• Assigned the tasks of providing engineering support from inception to delivery.
• Perform responsibilities of developing complex standards for x86 platforms as well as system configuration.
• Assigned the tasks of providing first level technical service to meet the requirements of customers.
• Perform responsibilities of providing training session to diploma holders in areas of Cisco UCS Solutions and Engineering.

Confidential

Junior EMC Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of Raid Group, LUNS and Storage groups.
• Configure SAN environment using FC and iSCSI protocols. Provisioning Storage and troubleshooting Storage related issues.
• Working with Storage Vendors to create tickets and work on support cases.
• Backup and restore using FlashCopy, PPRC.
• Knowledge transfer to the customer, which include demonstration to the customer.
• Installation of Tivoli replication manager which is used for Data Replication.
• Creating and configure the environments as per customer requirement like Production, Test ( Performance, Functional and System testing)
• Providing support for all these created environments.
• Managing the data and creating the test data for developers.
• Skilled on JCL, JES2, SDSF, TSO and SDSF.
• Skilled on DB2 database handing.
• Skilled on ISPF and PDF.
• Skilled on PR-tool, BT-tool, ECGEN, Change-tool, LNT-tool and Migration - tools to manage the environments easily.
• Involved in different Tape Management tools EMC DLm and RMM.