Objective

To obtain a challenging position in a diverse grouping of SAN NAS within a forward thinking, ambitious organization which shares the same passion for Storage Technology

Career Summary

• A San Professional having extensive IT industry experience of near 8 years with SAN, NAS Design, Administration and disaster recovery experience.
• Storage architect experienced in analysis, architectural design, Capacity planning, Statistical analysis and reports, Governance, standard best-practices, Solution Implementation, Enterprise Application Integration and team Management
• Technical expertise involves production deployments, configuration, administration, maintenance, security, performance tuning and monitoring of Storage infrastructure with a diversified experience in large mission critical data Center environments
• Have visionary foresight into new technologies to analyse enterprise needs, define opportunities and develop optimized solutions.

Skills:

• SAN- VPLEX Local ,Symmetrix DMX/VMAX 20k/40k , Clarion/VNX AX, CX/7500,5600 EMC Recovery point appliance
• SAN-Brocade DCX, 5400B /CISCO MDS9710/Nexus5596,5548
• NAS-NetApp/Isilon FAS3020, FAS3040,FAS250, FAS960, FAS 6210,V6210,Vseries,Multistore / Xseries,NLseries,Sseries
• IBM DS SVC
• HP EVA/MSA/P2000/
• ISCSI - Dell Equallogic,Netapp
• Hitachi USPV ASM
• Celerra/VNX-IP
• Flash Storage EMC XtremeIO, NetApp EF550, IBM V840, Purestorage.
• Perl Scripting for Automation

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Designing Develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or Storage concerns
• Design, Install, configure, upgrade the VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon
• Design and setting up Replication for golden application using EMC Recovery point Appliance.
• VPLEX local with the backend VMAX, VNX NetApp installed Configured
• Migrated NetApp to VNX using VPLEX
• Have Experience on HP3PAR.
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon
• Have automated many process with Perl Scripting
• Create a change management request for any change required on the current environment by following the ITIL process and ensure the overall quality of the project.
• Provide recommendations to improve the storage infrastructure, and address/lead critical issues and root cause analysis
• Maintain fiber cabling documentation, labeling and logical/physical cabling diagrams, along with CMDB detail KEDB details.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

• Supported around 14Petabyte of Storage space.
• Performed migration project from Clarrion / DMX /Hitachi to VMAX, IBM SVC to Clariion/VNX, NetApp to Isilon, Clariion to VNX
• Design, Installed, configured Upgraded the VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HPEVA Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to VMAX/VNX/NetApp/Isilon/Equallogic/HP/IBM/STK.
• Worked on SRDF, Open Replicator, SAN-Copy, Isi Volcopy, SyncIQ, Aspera, robocopy, rsync, EMcopy, Snapmirror, Snapview Technologies.
• Installed, configured upgraded Core/EDGE Switches in Brocade Cisco.
• Migrated between Brocade DCX core to CISCO MDS9710 core, Brocade 4100 edge to CISO 5548 edge CISCO edge to Brocade edge Implemented NPV/NPIV between the switches UCS.
• Worked on DCFM, Connectrix manager, Isilon Insight IQ, EMC ECC, Unisphere, Navisphere, NetApp System Manager Oncommand3.0, symcli, smc, naviseccli, Storage navigator, SanHQ, SanHealth, HP command View/Performance monitor, DS storage manager client/San tricity, DFM, Power vault Storage manager, Oncommand Insight
• Create a change management request for any change required on the current environment by following the ITIL process and ensure the overall quality of the project.
• Have done DR testing
• Implemented Dynamic pools Combination of SSD, SAS and SATA Drives for dynamic tearing and FastVP in EMC VMAX VNX, Smartpools in Isilon.
• Have done POC on FlexPod
• Have done POC on Flash technology EMC Xtreme IO , Netapp EF550, IBM V840, Purestorage.
• Provided key technical communication and project oversight between contract vendors and business customers.
• Basic Experience in Avamar, Netbackup, Datadomain.
• Designing Develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or Storage concerns
• Provide recommendations to improve the storage infrastructure, and address/lead critical issues and root cause analysis
• Maintain fiber cabling documentation, labeling and logical/physical cabling diagrams, along with CMDB detail KEDB details.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

• Installed Upgraded the NetApp/HP Products
• Worked on Allocating storage space to NetApp/HP.
• Snap restore
• Sync snap mirroring, planning and implementation
• Skills in MultiStore/vfilers, Qtree, Quotas, Highly availability for filers in active/active mode, CIFS, NFS etc. Troubleshooting in NAS.
• DFM for monitoring
• Creation of policy for the backup Veritas backup .
• Scheduling.
• Checking the availability of media.
• Restoration.
• Worked with ADIC IScalar 2000 and MSL 6030 Tape libraries.
• Carried out the following activities: Tool Development
• Defining the goals of the Storage Resource Monitoring tool
• Explored and determined the feasibility of various technologies available to implement the tool.
• Decision making to adopt SMI-S based CIM built monitoring tool development
• Prepared an architectural overview of SMI-S based working environment
• Developed a blue print to build the SMI-S client and Charted out a plan to achieve it.
• Implemented Open Pegasus based CIMOM.
• Implemented Open SLP for SLP based Discovery of SMI-S Providers.
• Registered the SMI-S provider with CIMOM.
• To ascertain the workability of the tool an opensource SMI-S client is used.
• Query the CIMOM using SMI-S client.
• Output is fetched and displayed in a suitable format.
• Dynamic Management information is obtained for SAN fabric and IBM DS 4500 Storage box.