SUMMARY

• EMC Certified Professional with Over 9 years of strong IT experience in the areas of system installation, configuring and troubleshooting with extensive expertise on EMC Storage in Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM and Vmware Environments.
• Experience in Datacenter Migration.
• Practical expertise in SAN deployment, and management of EMC Connectrix switches, McData, CISCO and Brocade Directors.
• Deployment of Recoverpoint, Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitters.
• Experienced in Installing and Configuring Recoverpoint and setting up Replication between sites.
• End - to-end Storage provisioning expertise with Clariion CX300/500/700 and CX3,CX4,VNX5700,VNX5300, Symmetrix 8830 and DMX 1000/2000/3000 and DMX3, DMX4 and V-Max 20 series systems.
• Experience in EMC Celerra NAS NS350,NS704 Arrays,EMC Centera.
• Experience in IBM DS6000,DS8000
• Administration experience in storage to Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment
• Experience in administering, maintaining, implementing NetApp Storage Systems FAS2240,FAS6040, FAS3070, FAS3040, FAS3020, FAS270, FAS980 and R200
• Experience in Migrations from Clariion to Clariion /Symmetrix, DMX to V-Max.
• Experienced in EMC SAN configuration with SRDF/S/Semi/A/ Adaptive copy, TimeFinder BCV/Clone, EMC Snap, SAN COPY, Snapview, Mirror view, Navisphere Manager, Connectrix Manager, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, ECC, EMC PowerPath, Storage Scope.
• Extensive experience with Solutions Enabler (Symcli).
• Experienced in HA design implementation, Disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Experienced in interacting with Client solutions, IT operations and management of teams, clients and vendors.
• Very adapting at utilizing resources and integrating EMC best practices and leading edge technologies while being aware of business requirements.
• Experienced with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies and the accompanying enterprise class software solutions
• Knowledge on 3par,Hitachi USP-V
• Familiarity with TSM/Netbackup

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Arrays: EMC Clariion CX 300/500/700, CX3-10, CX3-20, CX 3-40, CX 3-80, CX4- 120,CX4-240,CX4-480,CX4-960,VNX 5700,VNX 5300Symmetrix 8830, DMX 1000/2000/3000 , DMX3,DMX4,V-MAX, EMC Celerra, NS40g,NS 80G, NX4,501,NS350.IBM DS6000,DS6800,DS8000.EMC Centera. NetApp FAS6000 series, FAS3070, FAS3040, FAS3020, FAS980, FAS270 and Nearstore R200,3par, Hitachi USP-V.

Storage Software: Prosphere 1.6,Unispehre for V-MAX, ECC 6.1 UB12, Navisphere Manager, EMC PowerPath, Fabric Manager, SMC, Solution enabler,Recoverpoint, Open Replicator, SRDF/A, SRDF/S, TimeFinder, Snapview, SANCopy,Powerpath migration enabler, Performance Manager, Storage Scope, Connectrix Manager, HBA anywhere,Sansurfer.

San Switches / Directors: Brocade DCX, B5300, B7600AP, McData ED-140M/64M, DS-32M/16MBrocade ED-24000B/ED-12000B, 48K, Cisco MDS-9509/9513

HBAs: Emulex LP 9002, 10000, LP11000/2, LPe11000/2, Qlogic.

Operating systems: Solaris 9/8, Windows 2k/2003,Windows2008, HP-UX, RedHat Enterprsie Linux 4

S/w Application: VERITAS Foundation Suite

Backup: EMC Networker, IBM Tivoli 5.5, Commvault Simpana 8, Data Domain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Diego,CA

Storage Administrator

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX 20, DMX-4,VNX 5700,VNX 5300, Clariion CX-480,CX3-80,NS480,Netapp Fas, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8,Brocade DCX,Brocade b5300,McData 140-M,Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitter, Connectrix Manager DCE10.4.5, SMC 7.3,SPA, Recover point,FASTand FAST/VP,IBM-AIX,EMC Networker 7.6,DataDomain 860,prosphere 1.6,Unisphere for V-Max,Unisphere for V-Max.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day storage allocation on V-MAX,Dmx,VNX,Clariion,Celerra,Netapp. upgraded recover point from 3.2 to 3.3 sp2
• Dmx to Cx 480 Migration of 2.4 TB using Powerpath Migration Enabler Host copy.
• Recoverpoint setup on both the sites and configured Replication.
• Installed and configured Brocade 7600AP Fabric Splitters on the both the sites.
• Upgraded firmware on Brocoade switches and fabric splitters to Version 6.4.1a
• Migration of Core applications using Recoverpoint.
• Switch Migration From DCX to B5300.
• Backups maintenance using Networker and Data Domain.
• Performance tuning on Dmx.
• Installed and Configured Connectrix Manager Datacenter Edition 10.4.5.
• Nas upgrade on NS704 switch migration from DCX TO B5300
• RPA upgrade to 3.3 sp2 from 3.2
• Rpa deployment for datacenter migration. upgrade firmware to 3.4
• Deployed DCX upgrade firmware and sas versions on DCX and Broade 7600ap. setup domain id on swtiches
• Install and configure Connextrix manager datacenter edition.
• Deploy Brocade fabric splitter,setup and configure blade processor. configure the fabric splitters.
• Run fiber, setup and configure V-Max. setup gatekeeper devs, Install solutions enabler
• Install and configure SMC. perofrmance monitoring using SPA.(add luns to a group and monitor its performance.) deploy ionix control center 6.1 ub4 and update to Update bundle 12.
• Install oracle security patches.
• Migration using recoverpoint replication from San diego to Dallas and cutover.
• Thinprov and Fastvp policy setup on vmax.
• Followed emc best practices in storage provisiong-complete balance of performance across all the FA's.
• Full provsioning for VMWARE as we faced performance issues. flare upgrade on cx3-80 to install clarion splitter. updgrade ns480 to the latest code(find the code)
• Migrate hosts from NS480 to VMAX Using recoverpoint.
• Migrate hosts form DMX-3 to V-Max using Recoverpoint.
• NS480 powerdown and moved to dallas.
• Poweron NS480 in dallas and configure the Ip address. sp port layout for ns480.
• Netapp FAS2240 Deployment configuration. upgraded ONTAP TO 8.1 RC3.- rc3 is the fix for random reboots of the filer.Bug 537666 is fixed upgraded enguinity microcode to 5876 on V-Max. upgraded solutions enabler to 7.4 upgraded SMC to unisphere for VMAX. upgraded Recoverpoint to 3.5 to support VMAX Splitter. deployed and configured EMC PROSPHERE. deployed V-Max Splitter. configure ESRS. configure V-Max Acl for recoverpoint.
• Configured VNX file and block based storage.

Environment: Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX-4, Clariion CX4-960,CX3-80,, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8,, Cisco95xx series, FabricManager, SMC 7.3,SPA, Recover point,FAST1 and FAST/VP,HP-UX.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Storage provisioning on Symmetrix V-Max,Dmx-4 and Clariion Arrays.
• Thin provisioning on V-max.
• Hyper to meta conversion of tdev’s on V-max 5875.
• Consistency group setup and maintenance on V-max.
• Daily sync/split operations using symclone.
• Storage provisioning on windows,HP-UX and IBM-Aix hosts.
• Recoverpoint setup and Maintenance for Clariion arrays.
• Symcli and SMC upgrade to 7.3.
• Storage provisioning using symcli and symmetrix management console.
• Configuring alerts on ECC and SMC.
• Performance monitoring and reporting using SPA and EMC performance manager.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels

Confidential, Marysville,Ohio

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Symmetrix 8830,DMX 3,DMX 4,Clariion CX-4-120,CX 3-80,CX-3-40C, EMC Ionix Control Center 6.1 UB8, Emc Celerra NS 40G, NS120,NS 960, NX4,CDL 4400,Cisco 9500,Fabric Manager, SMC, Recover point. Commvault Simpana 8,EDL,CDL,VTL,Data Domain. IBM Aix 5.3

Responsibilities:

• ECC Ionix control center upgrade to UB 8.
• Symmetrix Bcv disaster recovery testing.
• Stroage provisioning on IBM Aix servers.
• Storage scope reporting with crystal reports.
• Celerra lease replacement and migration of older celerra to NS120.
• Clariion Flare code upgrades.
• Celerra Replication.
• Day to day Storage provisioning tasks on Clarrion and Celerra and DMX.
• Resolving Latency issues using reports from Emc Performance manager.
• Managing commvault Simpana backup system..
• Day to day Backup scheduling and Restoring Bacukups using commvault.
• Worked with EDL, VTL and Data domain on backups.

Confidential, Lasvegas, NV & Sunnyvale,CA

Storage Administrator

Environment: V-MAX, Celerra NS-G2, Brocade, Data Domain 690,SMC 7.1

Responsibilities:

• Implement Celerra NS-G2 in to production.
• Install DART OS on Celerra.
• Setup Celerra NS-G2 Gateway.
• Configure Celerra network setup.
• Configure Celerra for V-Max storage.
• Configure Celerra CIFS Server and shares.
• Configure snapsure checkpoints.
• Configure 3-way Ndmp backup for data domain 690 .
• Provision storage on Celerra and V-Max.

Confidential, Cincinnati,OH

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC Clariion CX-4-120,CX 3-80,CX-300,CX-500,CX-700, DMX 3,DMX 1000,2000,3000,DMX 4,V-MAX,EMC Control Center 6.1 ub5, Emc Celerra NS 40G, 702G,NS480,NS 960, NX4,CDL 4400, Brocade 48k,McData and Cisco. Connectrix manager,SMC.Replication manager, Recover point,Powerpath Migration Enabler host copy.

Responsibilities:

• Provision storage that includes Array selections, Fiber connections, Zoning, LUN presentation from ClaRiion,Celerra and Symmetrix arrays to Windows, AIX,Linux, HP-UX hosts.
• Performed Migrations of DMX-3 to V-MAX using Open Replicator.
• Performed migrations from CX-CX and CX-DMX 3 and DMX 4 using Sancopy.
• Performed migrations for Dmx 3 to Dmx 4 using open replicator.
• Celerra to DMX 4 migrations.
• Performed upgrading Solutions enable and SMC to 7.1.
• Symclone setup and activations of weekly database backups of production and test databases.
• Creating scripts (command/perl) for cloning activities.
• Performed host based migration using powerpath migration enabler.
• DR Setup between regions, DR testing.
• Performed windows 2008 server migration using open migrator.
• Performance monitoring on Symmetrix DMX using Symmetrix performance analyzer(SPA).
• Worked on Recover point for DR setup and testing.
• Used replication manager with recover point for CX-CX
• Administering EMC ClaRiion CX and CX3 series, DMX 3000/DMX3 in Cisco based fabric environments.
• Performed EMC Time Finder BCV Establish and Split operations on production data.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, VVM, VCS and VXFS.
• Installed and Configured HBA driver, Firmware and EMC PowerPath.
• Performed migrations on Celerra using Robocopy,emcopy.
• Worked on Centera node setup, maintenance, archiving and backups.
• Clustering setup on windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Upgraded EOL Powerpaths on Hosts to the latest version.
• Responsible for upgrade of the ECC infrastructure to the latest version of the software (ECC 6.1 ub5) and configured storage scope for Reporting .
• Emc license management and Documentation.
• Day to Day storage Provisioning on DMX using Symcli.
• Configured and Monitored ECC alerts and performed ECC zone cleanup from old arrays.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels.
• Coordinate installation and maintenance of all SAN cabling, host bus adapters (HBAs), and associated drivers and link management software.
• Manage storage pools, volumes, LUNs, LUN mappings and security.
• Performed problem determination, resolution, and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms

Confidential, Providence, RI

Storage Administrator

Environment: EMC ClaRiion CX500, 700, CX 3-40, 3-80, DMX 3000, DMX3, DMX4, EMC Control Center 6.0PowerPath 4.5.1, VCS, VXVM, HBA Anyware, LP11000/2, LPe11000/2, IBM DS8000.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implement and administer enterprise SAN environments which include EMC Clariion and Symmetrix storage arrays, multi vendor switches, software, Tape Library, scaling over 1PB of storage capacity for storage provisioning, load balancing, high availability, replication and disaster recovery.
• Provision storage that includes Array selections, Fiber connections, Zoning, LUN presentation from ClaRiion and Symmetrix arrays to Windows hosts with SQL databases, Linux hosts with Oracle ASM, VMware environments. HBA configuration, software installations and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for assisting in new Datacenter built and Migration of existing EMC SAN environment using Open Replicator, SRDF/A for Symmetrix and SAN COPY for ClaRiion to DMX migration.
• Administering EMC ClaRiion CX and CX3 series, DMX 3000/DMX3 in Cisco based fabric environments.
• Performed EMC TimeFinder BCV Establish and Split on production data.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, VVM, VCS and VXFS.
• Installed and Configured HBA driver, Firmware and EMC PowerPath.
• Responsible for upgrade of the ECC infrastructure to the latest version of the software (ECC 6.0) and configured storage scope for Reporting .
• Configured and Monitored ECC alerts and performed ECC zone cleanup from old arrays.
• Performed host Allocation/De-allocation and Zoning using Cisco Fabric manager and ECC.
• Managed SAN fabrics and SAN security, monitor storage capacity and utilization to maintain optimal free-space levels.
• Coordinate installation and maintenance of all SAN cabling, host bus adapters (HBAs), and associated drivers and link management software.
• Centera archiving and node health checkup.
• Manage storage pools, volumes, LUNs, LUN mappings and security.
• Performed problem determination, resolution, and root-cause analysis of performance-related problems on all storage platforms.

Confidential, NJ

Storage Administrator

Environment: Environment: EMC ClaRiion CX500, 700, CX 3-40, 3-80, DMX 3000, DMX3, EMC Control Center 6.0, PowerPath 4.5.1, VCS, VXVM, HBA Anyware, LP11000/2, LPe11000/2, IBM DS8000,DS6800.

Responsibilities:

• Administering, Configuring and Supporting Enterprise Storage Environment, comprising a mixture of DMX 3/3000/2000/1000 , Clariion CX700/600/400, Connectrix ED-140M/64M, Cisco MDS-9506/9509, Brocade ED-24000B/ED-12000B, ECC 5.2, Navisphere 6.19, Connectrix Manager 8.01/7.02, Storage Scope, Powerpath 4.5.
• Day to Day responsibilities include monitoring SAN infrastructure, work on incidents created on HP open view (reporting tool) and perform root cause analysis on the incidents.
• Regular Storage Provisioning from Symmetrix and Clariion. Done some Architecting stuffs.
• Created Zones, Zoneset activation for both HP-UX and Celerra. Management of McData switches using Connectrix Manager, Management of Cisco switches using Fabric Manager, Device Manager and Cisco command line interface and web-based Management of brocade switches.
• Performed configuration and resolved all cable, switch and port issues.
• Worked on trouble shooting single path failures.
• Documented complete SAN infrastructure at NCS Raritan, Milford and Pontiac Datacenters.
• Produced SAN usage and utilization reports.
• Planned and implement NetApp storage solutions in production environments
• Perform daily storage administration activities such as storage provisioning, capacity planning, coordinate both planned and break/fix maintenance, perform code upgrades, and adhere to documented storage best practices
• Configured NetApp filers in SAN (FC and iSCSI) and NAS (CIFS and NFS) environments
• Load software and patches relative to NetApp functionality on servers running different OS platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux)
• Installed new Symmetrix DMX 2000 and implemented rule 17 for mapping as best practice.
• Provisioned storage to Solaris and Windows servers and assign storage according to business requirements.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot McData 3232 switches and 6064 director and MDS 9505 switches, along with QLogic 2340 and Emulex LP1050 HBA.
• Installation of Powerpath on Windows 2000 and 2003 servers for Load balancing.
• Planned and worked closely with the DBA and application owners in respect to the firmware upgrades of switch and storage equipment.
• Performed firmware upgrade for Brocade switches and Flare code for CLARiiON.
• Provided 24X7 support for the Storage infrastructure.
• Assisted with Engineering and application teams for storage related upgrades.

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Storage Administrator

Environment: Solaris 8, 9,10, Linux7.x, 3,4, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager, SPARC Enterprise Servers (E4500, E6800), Workstations (Ultra 60,10,5, Sun Blade, Storage Tek L40, Sun v490, Sun Fire 280R, IBM Z 300, EMC Clariion, DMX 800/1000 Cisco, Mcdata and Brocade.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented EMC Storage SAN and NAS products.
• Performed Storage configuration in SAN, DAS and NAS environments. Performed Storage provisioning allocating and de-allocating in heterogeneous environments.
• Implemented and configured EMC Control Center(ECC), Snap View, Mirrorview, SANCopy, VisualSAN and Open Replicator .
• Configured EMC Snap View Snapshots and Snap Clones (BCVs) in conjunction with Mirrorview and SANCopy for advanced data protection and created replicas locally and remotely.
• Designed the LUNS of RAID 0, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 RAID groups and Storage groups as per size and performance requirements of an application.
• Installed and configured HBA driver firmware, Navisphere agent and Powerpath on IBM AIX, Solaris, Linux, Novell, HP and Windows servers.
• Performed end-to-end Storage provisioning for SUN, HP, Linux and Windows hosts using EMC tools (ECC, and Navisphere) on Clariion Storage with director Brocade, Mcdata and Cisco switches.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Environment: Windows 2000,Windows NT,Novell, Compaq Servers. Exchange server 3.Cisco 1700 series switches,Cisco Pix, Checkpoint.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspect of Active Directory Administration, DNS/DHCP Administration, Back-up administration utilizing appropriate procedures, and software and hardware configuration.
• Created and managed the weekend on-call list and escalation contact list for local and remote offices.
• Assisted application developers in trouble shooting and problem solving network application errors; provided level II help desk support with Novell and Windows Active Directory.
• Oversaw and managed software development lab.
• Configured Cisco routers and switches for software development lab.
• Installed and configured Citrix Metaframe XP presentation server.
• Provided desktop support to software/application developers.
• Administration of Windows NT, Novell NetWare.
• Administration of EXCHANGE Server, IIS Server 3 & 4 version.
• Worked on all COMPAQ Servers 7000 / 3000 / 2500 /1500 etc.
• Configuring RAID5 on NT Server & Novell Servers.
• Installing & Configuring Backup Software Veritas and Arc Serve.
• Creating Backup Que. & Scheduling the Job.
• Restoring of Files & Database / Disaster Recovering.
• Ability to deal with difficult client tactfully.
• Supporting Power user calls if necessary for hardware & software problem.
• Installation of Server like, Proxy, DNS, Web Servers, Exchange server 5.5.
• Installation & troubleshooting of Lotus Notes 4.5 on Desktop & Server.
• Designing of Network Cabling and installing Repeater & Hub.
• Installing & Administrating Windows NT 4.0 Server & Workstation.
• Creating users account and assigning different Login Script.
• Creating Network printing Queue using HP JET Direct Admin Utility.
• Perform routine maintenance such as diagnostic testing and optimization.
• Provide telephone support for software and hardware to user.
• Troubleshooting & maintenance of Laptop & Notebook.
• Training end user on the new software and hardware.