OBJECTIVE

To obtain a Sr. Solutions Architect / Sr. Storage Engineer position with a progressive company where advancement and personal growth is encouraged

WORK-EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• I worked here for EMC Corporation under their Residency Delivery Services as a Solutions Architect. My day-to-day duties included a myriad of responsibilities from operational, design, implementation to architectural solutions. Below are some of my outlined duties
• Created Storage Allocation Policies, Processes and Procedures
• VNX and VNX2 Storage Implementation and refresh Unified Block-only and iSCSI
• VNX Storage design and capacity management
• Cisco Nexus 5K management unified
• Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning.
• VMAX and VPLEX management
• SRDF , Timefinder Management

Confidential

• I worked as a Solutions Architect assisting the Lead Storage Engineer to re-architect the environment to improve performance, availability and manage capacity. This was a pure contract position via Wipro. My day-to-day duties included a myriad of responsibilities from operational to architectural. Below are some of my outlined duties
• Created Storage Allocation Policies, Processes and Procedures
• Designed a Storage Demand Forecasting Mechanism for predicting growth and continues storage usage
• Storage Capacity Management
• Storage Economics
• Re-architected environment to efficiently use storage: preventing situation of High-dollar storage arrays serving low-value applications and vice versa.
• Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning.
• Storage Migration with EMC Open Replicator/Migrator
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC, Unisphere, Prosphere, Watch4Net and Symcli /Symaccess VMAX
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning VNX, CX, VMAX, NAS Celerra, Isilon
• Adding Isilon Accelerator Nodes and configuring them to cluster
• OneFS code upgrades
• SRDF data replication management

Confidential

• I worked as the lead engineer and architect with a team of three persons providing storage solutions for our end client MGM, Activision and Disney. My day-to-day duties included a myriad of responsibilities from operational to architectural. Below are some of my outlined duties:
• Lead a team of three persons technical leadership: training, coaching and administrative
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Storage Migration with EMC Open Replicator/Migrator
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC, Unisphere and Symcli /Symaccess VMAX
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning
• SRDF data replication management

Confidential

• I worked as storage engineer with a team of five providing and administering storage solution needs for McKesson Corporate IT. My day-to-day duties included a myriad of responsibilities spanning from operational to architectural and migration projects. Below are some of my outlined duties:
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Provisioning storage with SMC, ECC and Symcli /Symaccess VMAX
• Day to day storage administration and provisioning
• Storage migration using EMC Open Replicator/Migrator
• Migrated storage from IBM SVC, Hitachi, CX, onto EMC VMX infrastructure
• SRDF data replication management
• Host level migration using Open Migrator, Veritas, Unix native tools
• TimeFinder Snap clone and Mirror application management
• EMC Clariion and Symmetrix Management

Confidential

• I worked as the Senior Operations Manager with HCL Americas. In 2010, HCL secured a contract with General Electric I was hired to lead, manage and train a new team to succeed the transition this I accomplished successfully. Some of my day-to-day duties included below:
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Provisioning storage with SMC and Symaccess VMAX
• Day to day storage administration
• Storage migration using Open Replicator and SRDF
• Training junior storage administrators on SAN best practices
• SRDF data replication management
• Timefinder Snap clone and Mirror application management
• EMC Clariion and Symmetrix Management

Confidential

• I worked as the Sr. SAN Solutions Architect for the diversified automotive company, JM Family. In light of the ongoing recession and the pressing need for JM to move their storage design to a high-end storage architecture, the management of JM, needed a storage expert that could re-architect what they currently had to provide and meet their pressing performance needs and lead the SAN team to a High- end storage system. My job duties included some of below outlined.
• Managing large technical projects, including upgrades, consolidations, migrations etc.
• Building new Windows and ESX servers and adding them to the SAN. Configuring VERITAS Volume Manager and DMP etc.
• Running performance analysis on Oracle DB, SQL DB and DB2 performance issues.
• Configuring newly purchased Clariions, adding new DAE's etc. Configuring NAS data movers and cge's to replicate across data centers.
• Creating VM farms, adding ESX to new farms and provisioning storage to VMware ESX servers from CX-level to the creation of datastores.
• Architecting a new Data Center for disaster recovery and migrating all servers and storage arrays from old DR facility to newly developed DR center.
• Building Brocade LSAN on Brocade 7500 for FCIP between multiple data centers.
• Regular day-to-day storage request and increase in storage requests across multiple OS types: AIX, Linux, ESX, Windows, Solaris.
• As part of EMC's recommended best practice, converted all hard zones to soft zones.
• Replicated data asynchronously across multiple Clariions with MirrorView/A, used SnapView for local replications.
• Re-architected storage layout for multiple Oracle DB servers
• Decommissioned server /storage on multiple server OS types.
• Creating File system on NAS. Creating CIFS and NFS shares etc.
• Provisioning storage from EMC Clariions, IBM DS4500, IBM DS6800 and EMC Symmetrix.
• Creating and building Windows Cluster, both physical and logical build.
• Migrating LUNs, mirroring LUNs at host level with smit for AIX servers and VERITAS for Solaris, Linux and windows OS.
• Worked with EMC, DELL and IBM as a vendor and the main point of contact.

Confidential

• In 2003 congress approved a plan for the NFC to migrate risk associated with Disaster Recovery and appropriated funds to implement this plan. In response to this congressional move, the NFC developed the dual data center project. As part of EMC Professional Services I was assigned to work in conjunction with the NFC personnel to assist in the design and implementation of a primary and backup computer facility. This was a purely contract position.
• The bulk of my job here was to assist in designing a better solution for their data center. And also knowledge-transfer. I taught the NFC SAN personnel the use and functionality of EMC Control Center, Performance Manager and Storage Scope.
• I implemented the installation of Control Center to centralize management of their SAN. The NFC SAN, implements the SAN virtualization technology. They have IBM SAN Virtualization Controller, behind which is an EMC storage array: Symmetrix-DMX3, DMX4, and DMX 3000. The meta-devices on the DMX are virtualized into MDISKs and eventually presented to servers in the form of VDISKs. I assisted in the design architecture and operational administration of SVC.
• This environment had only Cisco switches: two MDS 9513 and several Cisco New Edge Blade servers. Embedded in these 9513's were Generation 1 SSM cards, which we used for Recovery Point data protection. As a certified SAN specialist, I assisted in maintaining their SAN effectively.
• I did lots of performance analysis on their environments to ensure efficiency.
• I designed and set up alert notifications within ECC to aware the NFC personnel when vital incidents happen to their SAN like disk failures, FA failures etc.
• This was a Team project. And I worked closely with my team to accomplish all assigned goals.
• Designed the redirection of VMware ESX Servers access to storage via SVC instead of from the Symmetrix directly.
• Provisioning storage from EMC Clariions, IBM DS4500, IBM DS6800, FastT series and EMC Symmetrix.