Experience Summary

• Strong leadership, project management and implementation skills
• Experience in configuring EMC VPlex, VMAX-40K, ISILON, RecoverPoint , VNX, XtremIO and Invista
• Extensive experience on Enterprise storage design, with additional experience in disaster recovery and Business continuity planning
• Currently Working as Senior Storage Engineer Lead in one of the leading pharmaceutical client.
• 6.2 Years of experience in EMC SAN Architecture and Engineering
• Implemented VPlex-Metro in Walgreens Environment
• Integrated ISILON for POC in Walgreens with Hadoop
• Designed and Implemented Disaster Recovery Solution with RecoverPoint, VMAX AND VNX.
• Implementing VNX in Walgreens for Archiving and Disaster Recovery
• Implemented XtremIO for POC in Walgreens.
• Implemented IBM XIV with VPlex virtualization.
• Worked on IBM Pure-flex under Live Partitioning Migration under AIX.
• Implementing EMC ViPR in Walgreens Environment.
• VPlex Migration of 21 Heterogeneous Arrays in Walgreen environment.
• Worked on Netapp FAS6240 AND FAS3270 for Block and File.
• Worked on UCS cluster architecture with SAN Storage
• Extensively Worked on Capacity Management, Planning and Chargeback structure for different storage solutions.
• Worked closely with Brocade and EMC for SAN Migration of around 40 legacy brocade switches with new Brocade 8510 Enterprise Switches.
• Responsible for day to day storage provisioning on DMX/V-MAX Auto provisioning and Virtual provisioning along with Architecture design and Implementation
• Prepared Onsite-Offshore pre-transition plan as Lead and completed it successfully in storage and backup
• Worked on different Storage Tiering Solutions such as IBM: V7000, SVC, XIV, Hitachi Array, HP Array
• Designed fabric Topology, ISL, Switch Interoperability, IFL, ICL
• Worked on SAN Routing LSAN for Brocade
• Hands On experience in SRDF,TIMEFINDER Clone/Snap , Open Replicator
• Worked on PPME and Host Based Migrations.
• Integrated Testing environment in Durham for VPlex-RecoverPoint Testing
• Performance Monitoring of Symmetrix VMAX- DMX.
• Hands-On experience in Netapp Oncommand/SANScreen and EMC Prosphere, CMCNE, Unisphere, IBM Cognos.
• Worked on both Core and Departmental switches in Brocade and Cisco
• Configuring and monitoring the FAST operation on Symmetrix System between different Storage tiers
• Worked on EMC Backup Solutions such as Data Domain, Avamar
• Worked on Reporting for SAN performance and consolidation.
• Worked On Remedy, RequestIT and ITIL management tools.
• Worked as the System Administrator for Navisphere development and Navisphere DVT
• Worked on 3 Major Release with 5 customer hot fixes and 3 patch releases.
• One EMC INDIA award for outstanding performer in Recoverpoint.
• XIV, HP, Hitachi and Netapp Lun creation and provisioning
• Experience on CLARiiON Storage Provisioning, Storage Capacity Expansion and non-disruptive upgrades in live customer environments
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade fabric administration
• Experience on storage administration, Zoning in both Cisco and Brocade switches, storage provisioning, Thin provisioning, performance monitoring etc
• Worked on All RAID Technologies, EMC Recover point, Power Path and Windows disk manager
• Working experience on Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 , Enterprise Linux servers, Solaris, AIX.

TECHNICAL SILLS:

• Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Windows, VMware 3.x/4.x
• Storage: VMax,VPlex CLI, ISILON, VNX, Netapp Oncommand, Prosphere, SymCli, Symmetrix SMC, Symmetrix Unisphere Manager, DCFM, Navi CLI. Invista Element Manager, InvCLI, CMCNE ,SymmCLI,Mirrorview,Snapview, Connectrix Manager. Brocade Webtools, Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco Device Manager, Putty via ssh, MSCS cluster, UCS Clusters
• Hardware: VPlex, RecoverPoint, Vmax, DMX, Clariion ,Invista, Netapp, XIV, HP, Hitachi, CISCO and Brocade Switches, Dell Servers, AIX, IBM.
• Domain Knowledge: Storage Domain DAS, NAS and SAN ,
• Virtualization, RAID, SCSI, iSCSI, SAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior SAN Engineering / Team Lead

• Lead the development of long-term vision, strategy, and roadmaps for storage across the organization in conjunction with company objectives and goals
• Analyzed the storage environment and make recommendations to make changes in processes and build new Artifacts
• Configuring and Troubleshooting different issues in the SAN environment and providing storage for different usage.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery Refresh.
• Worked on VMware Migration on VPlex.
• Architected and Designed VPlex migration solution in collaboration with EMC, Migrated around 30 Old arrays from the data center.
• Architected and Designed SAN migration via LSAN, for around 50 Legacy Brocade switches and implemented new 8510 director class switches.
• Work closely with Architects on SAN design, Capacity Planning and new storage environment creation in data center.
• Design, implementation and co-ordination of All the SAN related activites.
• Worked on different tools like Remedy and RequestIT in cloud for process implementation and streamlining the Storage Request Process.
• Worked on different Proof of concepts project with client and provided better solution as both Application and Infrastructure standpoint.
• Performance and monitoring on all the 70 arrays in the environment.
• Troubleshooting all the SAN issues and creating RCA for it.
• Working on Storage Consolidation Project for Walgreens.
• Storage migration design and implementation.

Confidential

Quality Engineering/Testing

• Create the VPlex environment in LAB with different flavours of Host and BE Arrays such as CX, VMAX and VNX.
• Demonstrated the Proof of Concepts for new storage technologies and documented the results
• Perform usual product testing: Zone the host and BE array to VPlex, prepare the array to provide storage to VPlex, provision LUNs from VPlex to hosts and run simulated IOs on them, then perform basic feature testing, failure scenarios, etc
• Work On different Upcoming enhancement in VPlex like RecoverPoint Integration, Cluster Witness etc.
• Raise defects and provide logs in case the product or the module is not behaving as expected
• Meetings with EMC to discuss test case design, execution and assignment.
• Working on new feature of VPlex that is integration of VPlex with RecoverPoint, which is one of the leading products of EMC.
• Created the Environment for testing in Durham and provided KT to the whole team.

Confidential

Quality Engineering/Testing

• Perform usual product testing: Zone the host and BE array to Invista, prepare the array to provide storage to Invista provision LUNs from Invista to hosts and run simulated IOs on them, then perform basic feature testing, failure scenarios, etc
• Participate in con-calls with EMC vendors CISCO, Brocade to discuss the course of action for fixing or reproducing the issues
• Clariion administration and management
• Documented and created run-books, SOPs, and processes for storage infrastructure
• Supporting the Development and DVT teams for Image Copy Application, Zoning