SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of practical IT experience, with relevant experience in SAN/NAS Administration and Network/System Administration.
• EMC Proven Professional to make informed decisions across multiple technologies involving SAN, NAS, IP-SAN, Business Continuity, Security and Virtualization.
• Extensive exposure to storage and data management products, including EMC, NetApp and IBM.
• Strong experience in enterprise storage technologies and products from EMC like VMAX/DMX series, VNX/CLARiiON and Celerra.
• NetApp NAS Administration, Filer Administration, CIFS, NFS, RAID configuration.
• NetApp Filers quota Management, NFS exports, Data migration Administration, near store Administration,
• Extensive knowledge on migrating data from NetApp to EMC and EMC to NetApp NAS systems..
• Experience in implementing Business Continuity Solutions using SRDF, MirrorView, SnapView (Clones/Snapshots) and TimeFinder (BCV/Clones/Snap).
• Experienced with Operation and Troubleshoot medium-size route and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN.
• Experienced with LAN/WAN administration, IT expertise, understand networking fundamentals experience with configuration management, and technical support.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong inter-personal skills to effectively explain business implications of a technical problem and proposed solution.
• Ability to promote a team environment that includes, support of team initiatives, mentoring and willingness to work in a 24/7 production support environment.
• Provisioned Storage to ESX(3.5/4) servers from NetApp NAS devices.

Technical Skills:
Hardware: 

EMC: EMC VMAX, DMX 4500/3000/2000, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX700/600, CX3-80, CX3-40, CX3-20, NS120/480/960, VNX 5300/5500,

NetApp: FAS 2020/2040/3140/3170/6030/6050/6070

SAN Switches: McData 3232, Brocade SilkWorm 3850, 3900, 4100, McData Intrepid 6064; Brocade DCX, DCX-4s, SilkWorm 24000, 48000; Cisco MDS 9509, 9506.

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008, Sun Solaris 10/90/8, IBM-AIX 5.x/4.3.3, Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX.

SAN Management Tools: SymCLI, Navisphere Manager 6.x/5.x (SnapView, MirrorView, SAN Copy), Unisphere,Access Logix, NaviCLI, SRDF, TimeFinder, RecoverPoint, Open Replicator, Storage Scope, Celerra Manager, Celerra Replicator,EMC Control Center 6.1/6.0, SMC , Cisco Fabric Manager, Power Path 4.x/3.x, EMC Navisphere Analyzer, SAN Manager, Performance Manager.

Education:
Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY May 2011 - Present

SAN Administrator 
Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of high end storage arrays like EMC Clariion CX 700, CX4-480, 3-80, Symmetrix VMAX, DMX- 3 in SAN and NAS Environments.
• Managed 950TB of data in SAN and NAS Environment.
• Created and Configured RAID Groups, Storage Groups, Binding Luns, Naming, Resizing, Unbinding Luns through Navisphere Manager and NaviCLI.
• Hand on Experience in Storage infrastructure that included NetApp FAS series (, 3000\'s, 6000\'s, Nearstore R200\'s) in Clustered High Availability (HA) configurations across 5 sites.
• NetApp implementation including Filer configuration, Network configuration and routing, primary and SnapMirror volume configuration, implementing revision control of system files, transition and support of pilot users, documentation of operational procedures and troubleshooting.
• Provisioned and managed storage for 80000+ users home and shared drives.
• Involved in daily snapshot/snapmirror/CIFS/NFS troubleshooting issues.
• Created MetaLUN\'s by expanding base LUN\'s using striping and concatenation procedures.
• Created point-in-time copies of LUN\'s using SnapView Snapshots and clones.
• Installed and configured best practices options on filelevel VNX systems.
• Created LUNs and presented to Storage Pools and Created File systems on filelevel VNX Systems.
• Configured replication on filelevel VNX Systems.
• Configured FAST Cache on filelevel VNX systems.
• Implemented deduplication on filelevel VNX systems.
• Performs various methods of data migration on the CLARiiON using MirrorView/A & SAN Copy, providing the customer with practical methods in transferring large amounts of data to remote locations
• Management of SRDF, Timefinder and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Configured EMC ControlCenter for end to end Administration and Management of SAN environment.
• Configured tested SAN Copy procedure to migrate data from Clariion to Clariion.
• Involved in assisting EMC CE in upgrading Flare Code on Clariion.
• Perform monitor and generate reports using ECC and extract file lever reports using storage scope.
• Configuring Powerpath and Access Logix for dynamic load balancing, making system redundant of power failures and Masking the LUNS for providing security to the SAN.
• Analyzed and Troubleshot host connectivity problems with the storage arrays.
• Configured and administered Fiber Channel Switches like Brocade and Cisco MDS.
• Creating, adding and deleting aliases, zones, and activating zone sets on CISCO switches.
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Brocade 5000 and 4900 and McData 3232 fibre channel fabric switches, along with QLogic QLA 2460 and QCP 2342 HBA.
• Manage Brocade and McData switches using Fabric Manager.
• Installation of EMC Control Center (ECC), PowerPath, Navisphere suite.
• Hands-on experience with ECC, EMC Navisphere, NaviCLI, SymCLI
• Provide data provisioning, Zoning and LUN masking services to group of users.
• maintained server and client backups using Legato Networker and StorageTek (STK) tape libraries
• Designed, Planned and Installed ECC6.0 (fresh install).
• Provisioned storage using SYMCLI and Zoning using Connectrix Manager and Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Identified required host level patches and provided to system administrators.
• Prepared procedures for client to ECC Master/ Host Agent Install and knowledge transfer.
• Responsible for Planning Storage migration and assisting new Datacenter built.
• Created gatekeeper devices in the storage array.

Environment: VMAX, DMX 3000/2000, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX700/600, CX3-40, CX3-20, VNX 5300/5500/7500,EMC Celerra NS 480/960,FAS 3140/3170/2020/2040, Near Store VTL 700, DART 6,Unisphere,, EMC Networker 7.6, Brocade 3850/3800, Brocade 24k, McData DS32M2/DS16M2, McData 6140, Emulex and O-logic HBA’s, Windows 2000/2003.

Confidential, Baltimore Jan 2010 – April 2011

SAN/NAS Administrator 
Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of VMAX & DMX 3000and CX4-240, CX3-40, CX3-20, NS,FAS 270/2050/3070/3050/6040.
• Daily SAN management tasks include managing fabrics, zoning and building RAID Groups, binding LUNs, creating Storage Groups, registering hosts, and presenting LUNs to Windows, Solaris and LINUX servers.
• NAS Administration, NetApp Filer Installation, ONTAP Upgrades, Snapmirror and quota, Qtree Administration.
• Configuring CIFS, NFS configuration on NetApp NAS Devices.
• NAS NetApp Filers quota Management, Near store Administration, NFS exports, Data migration Administration.
• Planned and provisioned NetApp NAS Storage for multiple departmental users.
• Implementation of NetApp Snap Mirror and Operations manager, centralized management, monitoring and provisioning storage using storage essentials.
• Managing and deploying LUNS from EMC storage frames to multiple servers using the SymCLI, ECC, NaviCLI, and Navisphere Manager.
• Involved in Data migration from one frame to another CLARiiON frame CX700.
• Configured Snapview Snapshots/Clones, MirrorView and SAN Copy on CLARiiON storage systems.
• Implemented SRDF for disaster recovery and tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF
• Installation, configuration and administration of ECC 6.0 in Single-Host architecture. Responsible for upgrading ECC 6.0 to ECC 6.1
• Involved in installation and configuration of NAS device EMC VNX.
• Provisioning pools, NFS & CIFS using unishpere.
• Configured Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating checkpoints.
• Created and exported NFS and CIFS shares from EMC Celerra.
• Installation and configuration of EMC PowerPath for dynamic load balancing and making the SAN environment redundant of power failure.
• Configuration and administration of EMC Storage Scope for reporting and capacity planning.
• Fabric Zoning for Cisco MDS and Brocade Silkworm Switches.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Emulex and Qlogic HBA cards.
• Windows host based migration using Robocopy.
• Worked in Clariion CX 700 series using Navisphere manager for efficient LUN Masking.
• EMC grab collection for the EMC related array issues to get the problem fixed in short duration.
• Troubleshooting NAS problems with efficient utilization of power link and interacting with the EMC customer centre.
• Hands on exposure to the EMC Software which includes EMC Control Center.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of Technical experience in EMC storage products with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.
• Working on with other teams closely for data replication and data recovery.
• Generating daily reports with Storage scope (ECC) and Work Load analyzer.
• Working closely with the external vendors for any hardware replacement
• Monitor, review and optimize the performance and connectivity of the SAN environment through EMC Control Center.
• Knowledge in preparing reports using ECC
• Perform daily checkouts on backups and coordinate for resolution with Backup team.
• Performed Time finder BCV Establish and Split operations on production data.
• Created Zones, Zoneset activation. Management of McData switches using Connectrix Manager, Management of Cisco switches using Fabric Manager, Device Manager and web interface-management of brocade switches.
• Administered and Managed Multiple NetWorker Servers on different platforms for Problem analysis, troubleshooting, capacity planning and monitoring the Backup environment.
• Installation of Powerpath on Windows 2000 and 2003 servers for Load balancing.
• Installation and management of SRDF and creating BCVs as disaster recovery solution.
• Planned and worked closely with the DBA and application owners in respect to the firmware upgrades of switch and storage equipment

Environment: DMX 3000/2000, DMX-3, CLARiiON CX700/600, CX3-40, CX3-20, EMC Celerra NS 480/960, NetApp FAS 6040/3070/2050, NearStore VTL 700, ONTAP 7, EMC NetWorker 7.6, Brocade 3850/3800, Brocade 24k, McData DS32M2/DS16M2, McData 6140, Emulex and O-logic HBA’s, Windows 2000/2003.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY Nov 2008 - Dec 2009

Storage Administrator 
Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Storage Administrator for the EMC Symmetrix DMX & CLARiiON CX Series.
• Responsible for Storage Provisioning on CLARiiON by creating LUN’s and performed LUN Binding using Navisphere Manager, NaviCLI and also involved in creating Meta Volumes on Symmetrix Arrays.
• Experience in implementing NetApp FAS 3020/3050, including configuring shares, CIFS and NFS Administration.
• Understanding and experience with SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file permission management and disaster recovery.
• Created storage groups through Access Logix to provide LUN Masking in the CLARiiON Arrays.
• Migrated data from one CLARiiON Storage frame to another using SAN Copy.
• Managing the Symmetrix DMX using EMC Control Center and also SymCLI.
• Implemented Snapshot, Clone and Mirror Copies.
• Created Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery Volumes using SRDF solutions.
• Configured EMC Control Centre for End to End Storage Management Solutions.
• Monitored performance and generated reports using Storage Scope.
• Created SAN Infrastructure Documentation and Storage Infrastructure diagrams
• Created reports on all servers in the infrastructure that require Firmware and Drivers updates
• Day to Day responsibilities include monitoring SAN infrastructure, work on incidents created on BMC Remedy 6.0 (reporting tool) and perform root cause analysis on the incidents.
• Performed configuration and resolved all cable, switch and port issues.
• Worked on trouble shooting single path failures.
• Creation of Meta Volumes by grouping several Symmetrix Logical Volumes.
• Created point-in-time copies of data using TimeFinder/Clone and TimeFinder/Snap.
• Created and exported NFS and CIFS shares from EMC Celerra using Celerra manager.
• Worked with EMC to coordinate and upgrade the DART version on the Celerra.
• Creating change requests to facilitate the outages and migrations
• Collected and assessed Celerra performance statistics using Celerra CLI 5.6
• Used Web Tools and Fabric Manager for managing M-Series, B-Series and MDS Series Switches respectively.
• Troubleshooting issues regarding Emulex and Qlogic HBA’s.
• Performed Windows, Solaris and AIX Host integration with the Storage Arrays.

Environment: EMC Control Center, EMC Clarion CX3-80, CX-700, CX-600, SnapView, SAN Copy, Mirror View, EMC DMX 3-24, 3000, BCV, EMC Networker 7.6, Power Path, NaviCLI, Emulex, Qlogic HBA’s, Cisco and McData switches. NetApp V6000, filers 3070/3020 and R200, Snapmirror, netapp snapshots, flexclones, snapdrive, EMC DMX 1000, EMC CX 700, SAN copy, Replication manager

Confidential, Madison, NJ Aug 2007- Sep 2008

System/ Backup Administrator
Responsibilities:

• Configuring Backup targets like Quantum Scalar i500 Tape libraries.
• Designing, Installation configuring and testing of TCP/IP based servers like DNS, NFS, and DHCP services under Sun Solaris, Redhat Linux, and HP UX in the intranet
• Creating, Updating, and maintaining the NIS databases. Creating NIS Clients
• Adding and managing Users and Printer on Solaris, HP-UX , WinNT/2000
• Used Solstice Admin Suite for various Administration purposes
• Users, Groups creation and assign rights to them
• Backup and Restore using tar and dump
• Added new hardware to systems (Disks, Tapes). Created new file systems
• Upgraded the Netbackup master and media servers from 4.5 FP9 to 5.1 MP4 with all the security patches
• Installed NDMP Drives

Environment: Data Domain, NetWorker 7.X, SUN Solaris 2.x, SUN OS, Redhat7.x/8.0,Perl,Shell,NMC, NMSQL, NM Exchange, Quantum Tape Library

Confidential Mar 2006- May 2007
System/ Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• UNIX user administration like Adding user, deleting users, changing permissions of files
• Installed and removed software packages and patches on Solaris machines
• Provided Server software backup and recovery solutions
• Installing and Monitoring Network OS and systems
• Implemented NIS+, DNS, NFS and Automounter in the UNIX environment
• Installing and configuring of Solaris servers and implementing client-server model networks
• Configuring and installing Protocol FTP, TCP/IP, PC/TCP
• Performance tuning and Availability Monitoring of Enterprise Servers
• Analyze, log, track and resolve complex software/hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, servers, and applications to meet business needs.

Confidential Jul 2004- Jan 2006

Jr. Network Admin
Responsibilities:

• Solve IP PC and network connectivity problems by isolating faults using ping, trace route utilities to identify failures and performance problems
• Maintain the office LAN network and manage Access List, VLAN, and Switch operations.
• Manage functionality and efficiency of a group profile computers running on heterogeneous Operating Systems environment.
• Maintain the Availability, Integrity and Security of servers and systems.
• Set up Administrative and Service accounts.
• Maintain the system documentation and Interact with Users.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to purchase new hardware and software, while co-coordinating the installation.