Summmary:

specializes in 18 years EMC SAN, Hitachi SAN, HP SAN and IBM SAN, TSM, Netbackup and CommVault technologies. Mohammed is certified in EMC Technology Foundations EMCPA . EMC's Solutions Practice focused on the Replication professional services delivery of EMC integrated solutions for enterprise applications including SAP and Oracle databases running on VPLEX,VNX,VMAX,DMX, Symmetrix, CLARiiON, DataDomain and HDS storage arrays. Mohammed has experience in the design, administration, and management of all sizes and types of enterprise systems including storage systems, network infrastructure, and detailed documentation of management systems.

Work Experience:

• Member of Data migration Team MetLife for Mexico,Brazil,Argentina,Chile and US sites RISC SISC .
• Technologies involve EMC RecoverPoint, VPLEX, DataDomain,RecoverPoint4VM,vSphere replication,Zerto.
• Successfully migration of non-prod and prod environments for Brazil using EMC RecoverPoint. Infrastructure consisted of EMC VPLEX,VMAX,VNX,DataDomain,IBM XIV and Cisco SAN switches.
• MetLife Chile HDS storage -HUS130-PyC and virtual using Hitachi storage navigator modular2.
• Provided detailed analysis for Intralinks NetApp environment consisting of NetApp FAS3140 Data onTap 8.1.2P1 7 mode environment installed in both NY and Boston sites.
• Assisted in troubleshooting of Hyperwiser NetApp 7.3.6 environment issues.
• Shadowing of EMC xtremIO poc and install configurations with EMC and customer Teams.
• Attendance to EMC DPAD,ViPr, EPIC training sessions along with xtremIO.

Confidential

Sr. SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• SAN Engineer on EDC Office of Administration at 2 site datacenter locations with the environment of IBM DS8300, XIV Gen2. 3 , SVC, NSeries N6240 with 2 controllers, VMware vSphere 5.1, Cisco MDS 9513 and EMC VPLEX for multiagency clients at primary and DR sites respectively.
• Completed working SAN administrator on American Red Cross Project as a member of NAEC Storage SAN Team for Data migration using EMC SRDF/A from Chicago datacenter to Eagan datacenter involving 2 of DMX3-24, VMware 5.1, VMware SRM, EMC ECC, SMC, and Brocade 48000 switches.
• As a backup SAN Administrator for COPA assisted in brocade switch code upgrades. The SAN environment datacenter consists of IBM DS8300, XIV Gen2., EMC DMX3-24, and VMAX and VMAX10k at 2 DR sites. DMX and VMAX support for both open systems and mainframe.
• Completed ITSM 7.6 change requests for storage allocation on EMC and IBM arrays.

Confidential

• Change requests for Storage allocation and reclaim requests on EMC arrays in the datacenter.
• Involved in projects for migration from DMX-3 to VNX5300 arrays.
• Involved in VMAX for open systems and mainframe.
• Regular status check of SAN EMC arrays, Cisco switches and Backup Avamar, Data Domain, Networker environments in primary and DR sites.
• EMC documentation for primary and DR sites with updates.

Sr. SAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in array migration at different sites datacenters -From EMC NS-40 to NS960 , From EMC NS-20 to VNX5300
• Monthly Storage Capacity reports EMC StorageScope/StorageCompanion
• Upgrade of ECC UB9
• Installation of EMC SMC and SPA
• Recommended EMC Replication Manager roll out plan
• Change Control for Storage Allocation on Symmetrix VMAX and CLARiiONs NS-960/NS-40/NS480/VNX5300/VNX7500.
• EMC TimeFinder/Clone of SQL database with Data Domain and Netbackup project.
• Support for EMC SnapView project.
• Storage Allocation and support for Array data migration for Recover Point Project.
• EMC's Introduction of VPLEX and EMC ProSphere projects.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Role of Solution Architect for the EMC replication manager configuration.
• Review of scope and project plan layout for EMC project with the team.
• Design outline for deployment within the infrastructure of the customer.
• EMC software and hardware compatibility matrix laid out for this project.
• Experience with PERL and SQL for post sales EMC replication manager projects in scripting for replication/recovery of the databases.
• Assisted in the project document and VMAX data layout information gathering phase.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects for migration of Hitachi HDvM SAN HDS 9980 to IBM SAN DS8300 solutions in datacenter with complete design and implementation along with replacement of Brocade 12000 switches.
• Successful completion of timely transformation to new SAN composed of IBM DS8300, IBM 3592 and new Cisco SAN switches.
• Extensive detailed architecture overview for HDS and IBM SAN architectures based on Technology, Cache structure, Front-end connectivity, Bandwidth, Back-end connectivity, Functions and features, Scalability, Performance and Availability.
• Planned Phased approach for new SAN project consisting of IBM XIV, IBM SVC at Server Farm and hotsite secondary location comprised of Hitachi SAN.
• Completed Perfmon analysis for IBM of the current Server Farm Production servers for Windows and VMware ESX systems on SAN.
• Led the team to complete documentation for Disaster recovery project for PennDOT's executive management team.
• Provided feedback for the recommendation of the new SAN environment consisting of IBM XIV.
• Implemented CommVault CDR for data migration in the phase of new SAN implementation.
• Completed CommVault CDR 8.0 tool for APRAS, CSRP, HOD and Terminal Server applications based on Continuity of Operations for Client Server Section at Server Farm Facility.
• Completed Performance analysis report on HDS 9980.
• Worked with PENNDOT and IBM sales/marketing team for the business proposals to deploy SAN.
• Worked with IBM sales team for IBM SAN hardware/software maintenance.
• Worked with Hitachi / CommVault / Symantec's Sales teams for maintenance proposals.
• Completed successful upgrade to Symantec storage foundation 5.1 SP1 upgrade across Server Farm environments.
• Posting of 4 knowledge based articles to Symantec website from PENNDOT environment.
• Planned Layout of Data migration for PENNDOT onto new SAN environment.
• Design of IBM SVC to support IM DS8300 and HDS 9585V and disaster recovery project.
• Recommendation of IBM SVC to help support PennDOT environments.
• Installation of IBM System Storage Productivity Center SSPC and support for IBM TPC Basic Edition and IBM SVC CIM agent and GUI .
• Involved with IBM for IBM TPC Standard Edition beta testing phase.
• Support of IBM TPC Basic edition installation and configuration.
• Report to management twice a month for SAN projects progress.
• Responsible for maintenance of Harrisburg Server Farm SAN support for Hitachi 9980, Brocade 12000 and Windows/VMware ESX production and non-production servers.
• Responsible for maintenance of Disaster Recovery site at Allentown SAN support for Hitachi 9585, Brocade 12000 and Windows/Linux production and non-production servers.
• Provided input to HDS 9980 and HDS 9585 configurations in SAN utilization report plan.
• Maintenance of Brocade 12000 SAN environment.
• Completed SRS tickets for new SAN requests, data migration using VERITAS volume manager.
• Planned SAN layout for additional SAN SRS tickets.
• Completed de-allocation of storage on HDS 9980.
• Completed creation of raid groups on HDS 9585 and configuration of Brocade 3800 switches.
• Maintenance of HDS 9980 for cache issues and hardware replacement tasks.
• Maintenance of Brocade 12000 for SAN switches issues and hardware replacement tasks.
• Coordination of SAN project with vendors and PENNDOT and provided day to day support.
• Configuration of Hitachi tools of Storage Navigator, Hi-Command Device Manager and Data tools.
• Implemented CommVault CDR replication tool for critical application for Team A, B and C to replicate between Harrisburg ServerFarm and Allentown sites.
• Planned for upgrade for CDR 8.0 replication tool in production environment.
• Completed plan for proof of concept and upgrade for CommVault CDR Simpana from 6.x to 8.x for APRAS application with configuration thru DMZ firewalls.
• Maintenance for Team C projects like GIS Ividlog thumbnails , Avocent upgrade, CRS, APRAS, E-Grants, Mercury, MSDSPro, Rational, DB2, APC, AppSight and VRS.
• Support for Team A projects VMware ESX 3.5, SQL 2005/2008.environments on SAN.
• Support for TSM environment and IBM 3584 on SAN.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Storage Consultant for AdvizeX's EMC Services practice providing expertise in Replication Automation, Performance Analysis, Data Layout, and Storage Migration to EMC customers. Current involvement includes installation of ERM in datacenter at County of LA, Rapid Clone implementation at Intuit, and small residency at Wyndham. These engagements are part of the AdvizeX EMC Services practice providing subcontractor services to EMC for its customers.

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working knowledge of EMC DMX and CLARiiON architecture, performance characteristics and performance tools to help resolve performance issues in the EMC DMX and CLARiiON architecture by following vendor's best practices.
• Ability to use performance manager to determine available recourses for new storage allocations.
• Experience with PERL and SQL queries for pre-sales/post sales EMC replication manager projects in scripting for replication/recovery of the databases.
• Expert knowledge and experience with allocating disk on a DMX using Symconfigure
• CLI line commands , solution enabler and EMC Control Center console :
• Created Metas, Map devices, Mask device, Create BCVs, Create Clones,
• Set up dynamic SRDF, Set up SRDF/A and Creating and managing device groups with Solutions Enabler.
• Ability to zone and upgrade switch firmware using the Brocade switch OS Fabric commands, Brocade fabric manager, and McData switch Connectrix manager.
• Ability to work with host administrators in gathering needed information on new SAN hosts: Host system, Host system manufacturer, Host system model, Operating system, Operating system manufacturer, and Operating system model.
• The Ability to work with host administrators to install EMC supported Path Management Software supported firmware revision, EMC qualified cluster software and EMC HBA supported driver.
• After the zone is active, the allocation of creating the number of either Hypers and or meta devices that the client s expect to see on the host server s is performed by using either EMC ECC Control Center console or by using SymCLI line commands done on DMX storage arrays and by using the Navisphere GUI for allocations done on EMC CLARiiON arrays.
• Develop, design, and recommend alterations and enhancements to improve delivery, performance, availability and operation of software applications through hardware architecture SAN, load balancing and cluster configuration , network load balancing and database high availability software.
• Working with management and other engineers responsible for developing, documenting, and demonstrating disaster recovery and business continuity plans for a large scale, mission critical environment.
• Strong background in working closely with database and system administrators with storage relation to provisioning, managing, reporting, performance issues and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for the development of lesser experienced staff through mentoring and teaching. Working independently but within the framework of department goals.
• Work with host administrators to troubleshoot performance issues on host servers.
• Coordinated with the network team to troubleshoot connectivity issues on host server HBA's, switch port, and frontend ports on storage arrays.
• Ability to run fiber cables from the server HBAs to the available Brocade or McData switch ports in order to set up the zoning by using either EMC Control Center ECC console ,Brocade switch fabric OS commands or Connectrix manager for McData switches of the server WWN's to the frontend port of the storage array in question.