OBJECTIVE

• To seek a challenging career wif a progressive organization that leverages my academic background, skills, and professional experience in Information Technology.

SUMMARY

• Experienced in SAN Integration, SAN Implementation, SAN/NAS Troubleshooting, Performance Analysis and Disaster Recovery
• Extensive experience in implementation, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON arrays
• Extensive experience in EMC SAN technologies and provisioning of LUNs on CLARiiON platform using Navisphere manager
• Experience in disaster recovery configuration using Mirrorview, Sancopy, SRDF and NetApp Snapmirror
• Experience in Application consistent technologies such as Replication Manager, NetApp Snapmanager products
• Experienced in NetApp NAS and SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on NAS and provisioning LUNs using ISCSI and FC
• Extensive experience in Systems Integration, Systems Administration, Installation, Configuration and Support on different UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX and Red Hat Enterprise platforms
• Three years of experience in Networker System designing, Architecture, security, administration and troubleshooting.
• Extensive Experience in configuring teh Networker Master Servers, storage Nodes, server.
• Highly Involved in Backup Servers Performance Tunings.
• Technical specialist who can support multiple platforms and applications. Performed installations of Networker software on MS Windows, IBM AIX, LINUX and Sun Solaris.
• Highly Experience in Migrations from Older Versions of Networker to Latest Versions
• Acted as an primary contact for Backup solutions
• Highly involved in Designing Backup solutions for NAS Filers, Data Bases for cost effective solution.
• Extensive Experience Total Recovery of teh servers in teh Event of Disasters.
• Extensive Experience in conducting teh Disaster Recovery Exercises from Scratch.
• Experience wif NetWorker integration wif DD for Deduplications.
• Extensive Experience is Networking, System Administration of Windows and Unix Operating Systems.
• Allocate and Configure EMC SAN Storage and NetApps for Various Projects.
• Experience in Configuring Avamar Multinode Grid.
• Worked wif Avamar admin to integrate Networker wif Avamar.
• Experience wif Avamar integration wif DD.
• Effective communication skills, team building skills, ability to work effectively wif minimal supervision and good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experienced in Installation and configuration of SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart automatic installation
• Experienced in Configuration and troubleshooting NFS and NIS environment
• Bourne shell script writing to customize any customer specific application requirement and to automate administrator tasks
• Experienced in storage provisioning on host side using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and VERITAS Volume manager (VxVM)
• Team player wif excellent technical and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise LINUX 5.0, Solaris 8/9/10, HP - UX 10.x/11.x, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP

Storage Management: EMC Navisphere Management Suite (SnapView, MirrorView, San Copy), Data OnTap FilerView, Brocade Fabric Manager, EMC PowerPath

High availability software: Volume Volume Manager (VXVM), HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Red Hat Enterprise Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Solstice Disk Suite, Sun Volume Manager (SVM)

Network and Storage Protocols: ISCSI, FCP, TCPIP, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, SSH, ARP, RARP, HTTP, DHCP

Server Virtualization: Solaris 10 Zones and Containers

Applications & Servers: Apache Web Server, Solaris Jumpstart, HP Ignite UX

Programming/Scripting: UNIX Bourne Shell and AWK, PL/SQL, C, HTML

Hardware Technology (Server, Storage, Network): HP9000 N/L/RP RISC ServersSun Ultra Enterprise M8000, E450, Sun Fire 6800/4800/280 R/220R/V880, Sun Blade 1000Intel X86 and AMD x64 based high end & lower end servers and PC's from Dell, IBM, HP and SUN EMC Clarion (CX Series), Netapp FAS 2020 Cisco and Brocade Storage Switches, Emulex, JNI and LSI HBA's

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Washington, DC

Networker and Storage engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created CIFS and NFS share in Data domain
• Monitored Data domain storage and reported it to teh management.
• Worked wif teh storage team to document teh storage allocation procedure in a EMC Clariion environment
• Created pools and allocated storage from a CX4-480 environment using unisphere
• Migrated data from cx-480 to Vnx using mirrorview and PPME
• Worked wif EMC to get VNX 5500 installed in teh environment
• Configured VNX file for NAS and VNX block for SAN
• Configured and allocated storage from Vmax environment
• Configured autoprovisiong and created tdats,tdevs, thin pools in a vmax environment
• Installed and configured replication manager agents on different server platforms for automatic and consistent clones in teh environment
• Integrated recoverpoint wif replication manager to take bookmarks
• Configured journal volumes, consistency groups and replication sets in recoverpoint environment
• Documented teh zoning configuration on teh switches
• Created change requests in teh environment and documented teh changes as per teh customer request
• Ran EMC grabs on teh hosts and documented teh compatibility of teh servers wif emc storage
• Documented teh environment and worked wif teh system admins to analyze and document teh failures in teh backup environment
• Worked on day to day administration of networker
• Configured networker agents on windows and Solaris servers
• Configure teh saveset for teh client on network server as per customer requirements
• Working wif different application groups to create schedules and understand teh backup SLA per application
• Troubleshoot tape and disk backup issues and open tickets wif EMC as required
• Documented teh detailed procedure for sql and Hyper V in teh environment for teh customer
• Documented and created run-books for teh customer

Environment: EMC Networker 7.6, Windows server 2008, 2003, Solaris 10, IBM tape library, EMC Data domain, NNM 2.2Z

Confidential, New York

Veritas NetBackup Administrator & backup engineer

Responsibilities:

• Allocate storage from clariion arrays to teh windows servers
• Created raid groups, storage groups and allocate storage to different OS platforms
• Assist EMC in flare code upgrade on a clariion array
• Create reports on clariion san array using Navisphere manager
• Migrated data from clariion to clariion using PPme and open replicator
• Ran emc grabs on teh servers and created heat reports in powerlink to analyze teh environment
• Allocated luns from DMX 4 environment using ecc and symcli
• Configured incremental sancopy session and migrated about 20TB of data
• Worked wif EMC to co-ordinate teh firmware upgrade on teh arrays
• Configure recoverpoint CRR in teh environment
• Add storage to teh journal volumes in teh EMC recoverpoint environment as required
• Conducted teh DR Tests based on teh client requirements by restoring teh data to alternate locations and testing teh application
• Configure Aggregates, volumes and qtrees in a NetApp environment.
• Allocated cifs and NFS shares from a NetApp Array
• Configured NDMP backups in a NetApp environment.
• Performed teh Performance Tunings for total Environment using teh EMC Recommendations
• Installed Netbackup agents on teh unix and windows servers and discovered them in to teh system
• Configured Data Domain for De Duplication
• Worked wif EMC to configure teh filesystems on teh datadomain
• Created NAS shares from data domain wif EMC
• Configured Avamar Multinode Grid server
• Configured Avamar agents on teh servers and scheduled teh backups as per teh customer requirements
• Troubleshoot teh Avamar issues by opening tickets wif teh emc support
• Implemented Data Domain Boost software for Veritas Netbackup to Reduce teh Network Traffic
• Performed backup/Recovery and maintain backed up data 24x7 and review them to ensure that it is successfully stored.
• Implemented teh Netbackup policies for different servers
• Troubleshoot and resolve backup failure issues.
• Configure Multiplexing and multistreaming in teh environment to improve teh performance in teh environment
• Install media servers and connect them to teh master server
• Create devices, pools, schedules, groups, policies etc. based on backup requirements and fine tune them for optimum performance.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly report of all backup jobs.
• Monitor and resolve any replication issues between DD’s located in production and DR.
• Perform OS upgrades on Data Domain systems as and when new versions are released.

Environment: Netbackup 6.5, datadomain 880, Avamar, sql, exchange 2007, windows 2003 servers, linux rhel 5, solaris 9/10, clariion cx3-80, cx3-40, cisco MDS fiber channel switches

Confidential, MN

Legato Networker Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Legato Networker on a number of operating systems. Perform periodical upgrades on Server, client and storage nodes.
• Configuring SQL And Oracle Servers for Backups using teh Networker Agents
• Configured Networker servers for VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries ) for Faster Backups and Restores Configured teh Juke Boxes for Total Backup solution.
• Installed teh Networker 6.x on UNIX and Windows Servers.
• Configured devices, Libraries and Volume Pools for Backups.
• Performed Automated Scripts for Backup Reporting Failures.
• Configured teh NAS Filers for Backups.
• Perform backup/Recovery and maintain backed up data 24x7 and review them to ensure that it successfully stored.
• Manage teh configuration of servers and maintenance of hardware including teh symmetrix.
• Perform cloning, Staging, and creation of inclusion/exclusion rules based on requirements
• Set up retention and various levels of backup.
• Technical documentation on data storage products for customers, partners and internal employees across teh various branch divisions.
• Responsible for implementing and administering network and security equipment and policies in environments.
• Work directly wif ED Services to implement and maintain standards set by training team Load and install BIN files on teh Symmetrix based on partner training requirements. Network, Security hardware and software maintenance.
• Provided on call support for total Backup team
• Configured SQL servers for Backups using SQL Agents
• Monitoring teh Backup servers during Non-Production Hours
• Troubleshooting Backup Failures for teh servers
• Performed Restores for Data Bases and NAS filers

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Window 2003 active directory and supporting. Troubleshoot any problems that arises in teh network from Cisco devices to Windows servers.
• Configured Cisco content switches and troubleshoot. Installing VMware for disaster recovery test purposes.
• Support all levels of escalation issues.
• Monitor Network infrastructure for any problems in teh network that may arises using Network Instruments Observer to log network traffic and capture packets and then analyze it to resolve issues.
• Recommend resolution to resolve network issues and improve network performance. Configuring internet issues such as DNS, TCP/IP, and ACL. Administering Exchange 2003 and Windows Active Directory and Novell file and print servers.
• Designed teh physical server to virtual server migration deployment. This included teh design of teh VMware ESX servers, using Netapps for NAS, IP-SAN to implement ESX HA and DRS.
• Design LAN/WAN infrastructure using Cisco routers, switches, and firewall.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and support Cisco and Foundry LAN/VLAN switches.
• Install and configured Windows 2003 Active Directory Cluster using EMC Autostart. Installed, configured, troubleshoot, and support Legato/EMC Networker
• Participate and support migration of Toshiba phone system to Cisco VOIP phone system.