Professional Summary:

Over 10 years of Network and System Implementation and Support experience in corporate Storage Area Networking Infrastructure Technology and Data Centers. PM professional experience, providing hands - on support as well as technical and management planning with a strong focus on accountability to ensure client satisfaction. Served as Lead Project Manager, Senior Professional Services Consultant, Information Management Officer and Senior Data Center/SAN System Engineer with special interest in Network Security and large-scale storage.

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY/CERTIFICATIONS :

• Mware Infrastructure 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 Install and Configure
• Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
• Bakbone/NetVault Software Certified System Administrator
• Falconstor Certified System Administrator
• LeftHand SANiQ Certified
• Systems Architecting Fundamentals
• Quality Management System Project Planning Certification
• QMS Technical Leader
• QMS Quality Assurance
• QMS QA Reviews and Inspections
• QMS Configuration Management
• QMS Project Schedule
• QMS Project Budget Plan
• QMS Project Supplier Management Plan
• QMS Project IPT/Team Charter
• QMS Project measurement Collection and Report
• QMS Project Execution Financial Chart
• QMS Awareness 2006
• QMS Project Execution and Closeout
• EMC Certified ControlCenter 5.2
• EMC NS702G
• EMC Navisphere
• EMC Centera
• EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON
• EMC SAN Management
• Hp Certified Storage Track
• Hp blade System c-Class
• Hp Insight Manager / Windows-Linux
• Hp XP
• Hp EVA Solutions
• Hp MSA San solution 1500cs-1510i
• NetApp solution HW SW
• Network Security and Accelerator software testing installation, administration, configuration, backup backup restore, media management
• SAN solutions, including security
• Brocade 3800/24000 Directors and FC switches
• DR Operating systems
• KVS E-mail Archiving Solution
• Arkivio File System Management Solution
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Overland
• STK
• CMD
• Legato
• Computer Associates ARCserve 2000 version
• Vulnerability testing and assessment
• ITIL XP, NMAP, PING, NSLOOKUP, GFI LANguard, TCPView and Microsoft Baseline Analyzer network Professional
• Windows Server NT, 2000, and 2003
• Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Visio utilities
• Oracle 11g
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
• OPNET Panorama
• Mercury Quality Center 9.0
• OBIEE
• Oracle Data Warehousing

SUMMARY:

Specializing in VMware ESX 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, Virtual Center, VMware Administration via Virtual Center and/or ESX Host Service Console, VMware Disaster Recovery design and implementation. Proper licensing of environment as it relates to Virtual Center host, ESX VC agent, VMotion, DRS, HA, and VC Consolidated Backup. Provide First, Second, and Third-level support for VMware environments and documented much of the environment's configuration and routine procedures. Manage projects, selling technical solutions and performing financial analyses. Responsible for installation, configuration, and on-going management of 3 IBM DS4800 storage controllers, which provide storage services for customer production, test/dev, recovery for VMware environments.

Responsibilities include monitoring of storage allocation, recommending additions as needed and advising architects of cost efficient system expansion. Use Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL with the DOT BOM. Defined the organizational structure and skill requirements of an Information Technology organization. Created the standard for operational management procedures, including security policy. Used Performance Manager throughout the project as a tool to conduct infrastructure analysis, creating strategy maps to help visualize and communicate organizational objectives. In addition, through threaded discussions around key goals and metrics, we could share insight and quickly reach consensus and make better group decisions.

AREAS OF SPECIAL EXPERTISE:

Security software testing, administration, storage security solutions for various industries including commercial healthcare and government local, state, and federal-DOD . Coordinated activities for large and complex technical projects. Track billing milestones/payment collections for projects. Advised on network security ensure system compliance with the agency standard configuration, and assisted with and ensured successful vulnerability remediation. Provided leadership in developing partners' networks and collaborations with other IT companies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Primary Responsibilities.

Confidential

• Administering and implementing Oracle 10g R2 RAC on Red Hat 5 daily, weekly and monthly database Management Procedures. Assurance that all SLA's are complete and on schedule and providing a personal roster to comply with technical and industrial mandatory agreements.
• Verifying that all company operations are in line with the required SLA's concerning contact project managed schedules. Manage the advanced and daily administration of all client requests for technical support including understanding the delivery of tools to support the initial knowledge transference. Responsible for understanding the roles of our team members to ensure that they have SOP's in place and understands the CCR's process thus providing correct information to minimize delays and maximize potential for timely deliverables.
• Pro-actively respond to feedback from client to crew and schedule planning objects/areas for change that influence the robust and cost effective deployment of the DBA crew within the current operations sphere.
• Support, administer, and maintain the Customer Remedy System and its related subsystems, as well as other systems. Build and test changes to the Remedy technical architecture, customizing workflow and producing reports for management. Performing backups of Remedy Systems and backend Oracle databases. Respond to service requests promptly and courteously. Perform routine maintenance and support activities. Correct software problems that arise.
• Ensure consistency of application and interpretation within the crew, management and DBA engineer crew in the day-to-day environment. Verify that all agreements apply to the crew to ensure safe, efficient and effective operation of Company.
• Pro-actively contribute ideas, which may be used to improve and change crew agreements and processes to benefit and support the needs of DBA Engineer Crew. Provide data required for management and service partners.
• Compile weekly and monthly legality reports to ensure DBA Engineer Crew operate within the legal guidelines of both the Company and are in line with the Census Bureau Scheme.
• Support the Census Bureau as an Operational Management in the coordination of long term operational planning and will become a focal point of contact for crew members .
• Prepared Test Plan for effectively testing storage area network for performance, and Reliability
• Managed Cisco switch, created VSAN, added members to zones, added zones to zone set and activated zone set using command line interface.
• Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments. Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software problems on AIX, Windows platforms. Design the solution for storage issues.
• Experience with handling of the production support ticketing.
• Created and updated the storage Documentation. Test the solution designed. Conduct the Storage meeting. Problem analysis and Capacity planning. Monitor the storage environment. Set up the alerts and create the logs. Set up the user accounts on storage devices. Research the new technology.
• Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Fiber switches, Zoning.
• Developed the new tools for monitoring and collecting the production data. Periodic audit of storage sub systems. Health monitoring of SAN components. Collect the data for trending. Create daily logs, perform capacity planning and monitor Backup storage and utilization performance.
• Integration of SAN management tools into operation. Updated SAN configuration inventory and installation documentation. Technical review of the hardware, software, mitigating risk and the deployment process.
• Designed SAN and managed EMC Connectrix McData fiber channel directors in support of redundant storage network topology for HP, Sun, AIX, and NCR enterprise servers using EMC ESN tools ECC, Connectrix Manager, Volume Logix and customized scripting.
• Performed discovery, analysis, and implementation of multi-terabyte data migration strategies using various data movement tools: LVM mirroring / moving, Symmetrix SRDF/EMC open migratory
• Managing EMC DMX series storage arrays using EMC Symmetrix management console SMC and EMC Control center
• Data migration using open replicator and EMC SRDF and recover point appliance for cross array migration.
• Managing IOmeter performance analysis.
• Managing EMC Clariion series storage array using Navisphere manager and NaviCLI.
• Implemented EMC Open replicator and Host based migration solutions for heterogeneous storage environment.
• Managing SAN attached high end and midrange storage platforms Hitachi 99xx, USP TagmaStore series, HDS 9585/9570.
• Provisioning of HDS USP and USPV model and HUR implementation.
• Taken care of SRDF/A and SRDF/S links for replication and DR purpose.
• Individually designed and developed a performance monitor tool using PERL and PHP for SFP light level attributes for switches of Cisco and Brocade.

Environment:

• Brocade 48k, 24k, 12k, Mcdata 10000,256M, Cisco MDS 95xx,92xx switches, DMX 2,DMX 4, DMX3000, Hitachi USP, USPv, HDS lightening series 9980v, AMS1000, AMS 2000, Cisco Fabric Manager, Brocade EFCM, Hitachi 99xx, USP TagmaStore series, HDS 9585/9570, Clariion CX-3, CX-4, Navisphere Manager, Perl Scripting, PHP and ASP.Net, Microsoft Cluster, HP Load Runner.
• Responsibilities:
• Documented all the requirements in Mercury Quality Center and prepared traceability matrix for requirements against test scripts and defects.
• New Host deployment, Installation and up gradation of Firmware, patches and drivers for HBA cards and power path configuration, Disk allocation to Sun, Linux, and Windows servers.
• Managing EMC DMX series using EMC Symmetrix management console SMC and EMC Control center.
• Architect and designed SRDF/A between two data centers.
• Created device groups, storage groups and maping-masking of luns using SMC.
• Managed and created Meta devices, save device pool, BCV devices and also created snapshots using SMC.
• Consolidating and migrating EMC to HPXP a Hitachi storage line.
• Installing XP24K, DMX-4, CLARiion, Hitachi Tagmastore, design and, create raid groups, Ldevs, configure thin provisioning, create bin files on DMX storage line.
• Installing and configuring Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
• Performance analysis of XP24K Hitachi Tagmastore usp-v and EVA using performance advisor respectively.
• Configure replication for XP storage array and EMC storage array.
• Performance analysis and tuning for DMX, Clariion, celerra and other storage array using workload analyzer
• Management for 500 TB storage and 2000 san ports, installation of Command view EVA, command view XP advance edition storage navigator, HiCommand .
• Install and configured Cisco fabric manager, VSAN, Inter VSAN routing.
• Installation and configuration of continuous access business copy and continuous access EVA for replication on XP Universal Replicator for Hitachi and EVA Storage array.
• Perform Troubleshooting and resolving issues like path failures, storage not visible to Host and monitored performance using Performance manager in SAN environment to the Management satisfaction.
• Established the BCVs to have mirror copy of production data, split the BCVs whenever required and allocated them to Solaris/ Windows hosts for backup by converting standard devices to BCVs.
• Configured and managed Clariion storage array basic configuration, created raid groups, bounded LUNs, formed storage group, added host and respective LUNs to the storage group.
• Created and activated Snap view clone sessions for production data and fractured clones continuously to set up

Confidential

RESONSIBILITIES

• Manage projects, writing technical solutions and performing financial analyses. Use Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL with the DOT BOM. Work with sales to procure services and/or hardware/software necessary prepare requests for proposals RFPs when necessary when necessary manages vendors or subcontractors when necessary and assists with managing and negotiating contracts or agreements. Plan and conduct project communications team, customer, users, and stakeholders including documentation preparation and status reports including time and cost analysis. Define the organizational structure and skill requirements of an information technology organization. Create standard for operational management procedures, including security policy. Use Performance Manager throughout the project as a tool to conduct infrastructure analysis, creating strategy maps to help visualize and communicate organizational objectives. In addition, through threaded discussions around key goals and metrics, we could share insight, quickly reach consensus and make better group decisions. Use MS Project and Visio to create project plans and high-level depictions of project goals
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• Routinely investigate hardware/software pricing for architecture, including cost effectiveness comparisons of various infrastructure products to ensure that customers are well informed when deciding on additional procurement. Manage the assignment of resources in two physical locations for server builds, both physical and virtual, as well as provide daily status on those activities on conference call held between upper management and our customers. Regularly communicate with customers in order to coordinate complex virtualization projects. This includes identification of customer application groups who own and use the servers in question, the presentation of the project to the customer, CAB meeting from which final approval for all projects is granted or denied, as well as the coordination of the various application groups to perform testing of the servers involved in the project to ensure that application comes back up.