SUMMARY

Over 15 years of diverse IT experience in large global data centers in the areas of Storage, SAN, NAS, Storage Virtualization and Information Life Cycle Management as well as HP-UX system administration. Proven ability to work under pressure and support multiple projects simultaneously. Recognized for analytical and problem solving skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts. Excellent strategic and tactical planning skills with proven success in implementing highly technical systems from design stage and into production. Experienced in leading skilled technical team. Successful in leading change initiatives, handovers and resolving customer concerns. Proven abilities in IT process improvements and restructuring, systems engineering life cycle phases and knowledge in multiple technology domains. Solution oriented with an eye toward bottom line results. Experience ranges from installation, operation, administration, engineering and complete life cycle management of EMC, Brocade/McData, CISCO MDS, NetApp and HP-UX platforms. Excellent skills in managing vendor relationships, building technology roadmap and refresh and representing the team in cross functional projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Storage/Virtualization Engineer

• Leading a small global team of talented engineers in managing the firm's Storage, , and Virtual Infrastructure . Currently managing over 5PB of raw storage and over 120 ESX hosts.
• End to End management of a massive EMC Storage infrastructure with Cisco MDS9513 SANs, HP blade infrastructure C7000 with MDS9124 switches and Cisco UCS infrastructure Cisco UCSB-B200-M3 / Cisco UCS-FI-6296UP
• Provided technical guidance to project teams and server teams on storage related matters.
• Successfully implemented cost saving technologies such as NPV/NPIV in the SAN and de-duplication and Virtual provisioning in the file and block level storage areas.
• Successfully installed, migrated and consolidated several smaller storage arrays into EMC VMAX 40K in the large datacenters, with FAST/VP.
• Consolidated and migrated successfully from CX300/600/700 and CX3/4 systems to unified storage systems VNX5700/VNX7500/VNX5800 VNX-2 , with FAST and virtual provisioning in smaller datacenters.
• Successfully deployed EMC Recover Point 4.0 SP2 for replication in conjunction with VMware SRM.
• Complete management of VMAX/DMX-4/ EMC VNX unified systems, vendor relationship management with an EMC SAM.
• Currently leading a project to migrate NAS infrastructure from EMC Celerra/VNX unified to NETAPP FAS8060 running ONTAP 8.2 mode-7.
• Daily administration of the storage systems including trouble shooting, provisioning and performance management.
• Ensuring that SLA's are met and that storage costs are justified for each tier of storage.
• Successfully implemented EMC DataDomain7200 system for a strategic initiative of completely tapeless backups for the firm utilizing DD BOOST.
• Successfully implemented Nimble CS400 hybrid storage system for the firm's VDI initiative.
• Reviewing and performing Proof Of Concept tests for strategic initiatives such as Cloud Backups, Flash storage, VDI, automation, hyper converged storage and other datacenter technologies.
• Secondary responsibilities included managing the VMware ESX5.x farm. Installation of ESX server, managing resources through Vcenter, managing data stores , vmotion, DRS, HA and VCOPs.

Confidential

Technical Services Senior Administrator

• Managed Storage, SAN, NAS, and Tape Libraries including all its software and hardware components in a large global data center with a mixed computing environment.
• Led a team of 2 technical staff in architecting, designing, implementing and maintaining storage, SAN, NAS and backup infrastructure with EMC, NetApp, Brocade/McData and SUN technologies.
• Provided technical guidance to the team. Served as technical resources on cross departmental and cross functional initiatives.
• Resource allocation and process engineering to support strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Worked with vendor, customers and management to develop technology roadmaps, refreshes, operational best practices and technology alignment.
• Close coordination with service managers to help develop and define metrics that would serve as key performance indicators for the SLA's.
• Successfully consolidated 8 different SANs, saving maintenance cost by half and increasing flexibility. Implemented a successful storage and data migration strategy.
• Successfully implemented Information Life Cycle Management strategy from a storage perspective. Successfully implemented Tiered storage strategy with EMC DMX3 while designing an innovative migration strategy, thereby reducing maintenance windows and the cost of storage by more than 50 .
• Received commendations for successfully implementing an archive storage platform for Email retention.
• Successfully led the initiative for implementing a capacity reporting, monitoring, and trouble shooting tool using Netwisdom to help in the ILM strategy.
• Led the team in computer system validation, process restructuring and business process alignment.
• Worked in global virtual teams and have a lot of cross functional experience along with providing 24x7 operational storage support.
• Technical responsibilities include installation and administration of all EMC DMX 3 and 4 series arrays. Tiered Storage provisioning using SYMCLI solutions enabler and ECC. Storage reporting using storage scope and management of Timefinder BCV's, SRDF, snaps and clones. Storage provisioning on Clariion CX700/ CX3 using Navisphere, data movement with SAN copy and mirrorview.
• Complete end to end management of the Brocade SAN infrastructure including advanced zoning, ISL and trunking, virtual switches and fabric and traffic prioritization.
• End to End management of NetApp based NAS and iSCSI SAN including management of NetApp cluster, NFS and CIFS protocol, Data protection, retention and replication using Data ONTAP, filerview, and Operations manager.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Consultant

• Managed 120, HP 9000 servers running HP-UX 11.x
• Built and managed HP-UX MC Service Guard clusters for mission critical applications.
• Migrations, Upgrade, Patching and disaster recovery planning and execution.
• Performance monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining the Data Protector 5.0 backup infrastructure.
• Successfully standardized HP-UX operations worldwide.
• Worked as part of a successful global virtual team.
• Commended for inter function process alignment and cooperation as well as transitioning services to other geographic and cultural regions.

Responsibilities included Setup, Installation, Configuration and Support of all HP Class servers. This included Application Migrations, OS Upgrades , Server life cycle replacement, UNIX Shell Scripting, DNS, MC/Service Guard, NFS, LVM, OS upgrades, Patching, Configuration , Troubleshooting and Kernel configuration as well as network management and disaster recovery support.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Worked as technical consultant for the company's client, a major retailer in CT.
• Built and managed HP-UX clustered system for stores and warehouses.
• Managed and maintained the Novell Network system.
• Helped the company transition from AS400 to open systems.
• Trained data centre staff transitioning from AS400 to HP-UX

Confidential

Managing large UNIX systems such SCO Unix, AT T UNIX and SVR4 for clients.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Technologies

• EMC All Symmetrix VMAX 40/20/10K, DMX 3/4 series. VNX5700 and VNX7500 Arrays and VNX2 series arrays and unified platforms. Celera NSG8, NX4, NS700G,VG8,VG2, Celerra replicator. Centera and CUA. ECC 6.x. Storage Scope. Solutions Enabler SYMCLI, Unisphere for VNX/VMAX/Recoverpoint and Navicli/naviseccli, Timefinder BCV's, SRDF and SRDF/A, Snaps and Clones, Virtual Provisioning, FAST/VP, VLUN migration, Open Replicator, Powerpath, SAN Copy.
• Very Good Knowledge of EMC RecoverPoint, Gen5 RPA Data protection and Replication, Continuous Data Protection and continuous replication, Data De-Duplication, Thin Provisioning, Disaster Recovery planning and management, storage virtualization, Data backup and restore technologies. DataDomain 5.4, DDBoost, DD replication and extended retention, Mtrees.
• Storage Reporting and Capacity Planning.
• Familiarity with HP, Hitachi , IBM X1V , HP 3Par, Isilon, Violin Memory, Pure Storage, Tintri, Tegile, Cisco Invista Storage arrays.
• NetApp FAS 2020/3020/3040/8060/8020 series, Data Ontap 7.x/8.2 7-Mode, DFM Operations manager, protection manager, performance manager, replication manager, Thin provisioning, deduplication, snaplock, snapmirror, snapshot, flexclone, snapvault. Nearstore Virtual tape library VTL700/1400. NetApp Clustering, Filerview. Storage Reporting and Capacity Planning. Netapp unified manager, Netapp Management console, netapp system manager and Netapp Oncommand Insight.
• Brocade/Mcdata All Brocade and Mcdata directors and switches including DCX backbone, DCX 4S, Brocade 12000/48000 directors, Mcdata Intrepid 10000, Intrepid 140, DS5000, DS32000, DS4700. All FOS 5.x and 6.x and EOS 9.X releases. EFCM 9.x and DCFM 10.x as well as Brocade Web GUI. Switch/Director administration including installation, operation, fabric design, switch interconnect including trunking and ISL, Advanced Zoning, partitioning, Virtual switch and virtual fabric, Traffic Prioritization, routing, ICL, troubleshooting and performance management. Fabric Reporting and Capacity Planning including fabric migration and fabric merging.
• Familiarity with Cisco's directors and switches.
• Cisco MDS SAN switches Cisco MDS9513, CISCO MDS9124, VSAN, SAN OS 3.x/4.x/5.x, NPV/NPIV, Cisco Fabric Manager, ISL and Trunking, Advanced Zoning.
• HP HP 9000 class of business servers and workstations, 9000 series, K, N, L, rp series including both RISC and Integrity based platforms running HPUX 11.x . Data Protector. LVM and MC Service Guard. HP Openview, MC Service Guard, Mirror-UX, Ignite-UX, Service Desk. Engineering and 24x7 support.