OBJECTIVE

To work on a senior level position, preferably in a fast growing company. Interested in delivery/implementation of IT projects in a position which involves Enterprise Cloud storage, server and data center virtualization and automation based solutions and implementation including management of consulting practice, technical support practice, corporate technical advisor, technical architect, solution architect, product manager, etc. My Ultimate goal is to achieve professional success by demonstrating excellent decision making, solid professional technical, management and customer satisfaction skills.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• IBM Certified Cloud Solution Advisor – Cloud Computing Architecture V2.0
• NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator Data ONTAP 8.0 7-mode Administration (NCDA)
• Data Migration Facility (DMF) Edge Certified Professional from SGI.
• Hewlett Packard Certified HP-UX Systems Administrator for HP-UX v.11
• IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert – pSeries and AIX 5L.
• Sun Certified Sun Solaris 9 systems Administrator.
• IBM Certified Specialist – Problem Determination tools & techniques. (AIX 5L & pSeries hardware)
• IBM Certified Systems Administrator – AIX 5L & pSeries.
• IBM Certified Specialist for p690 Technical support. – ( The IBM’s highest level pSeries Server)
• IBM Certified Specialist – Installation and Recovery (AIX 5L & pSeries)
• Currently Pursuing VCP, ITIL, ITSM, PMP and CISA Certifications.

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS COMPLETED

• Effective Leadership and management Skills.
• ITIL v.3 Foundations training.
• NetApp SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle Planning and Operation.
• Netapp Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode administration
• NetApp SnapMirror Planning and Implementation
• NetApp High Availability for Data ONTAP 7-Mode
• VMware on NetApp Solutions.
• Isilon Storage administration and Management.
• AIX Jumpstart for Experienced Systems Administrators
• HACMP V.5.X Administration for AIX.
• RedHat Linux Administration.
• EMC Storage SAN fundamentals.
• EMC2 Control center 5.1 Administration,
• EMC2 TimeFinder and SRDF Management.
• CISCO MDS9000 Switch Fundamentals.
• Hitachi Virtualization USP-VM hardware and Software training.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• More than 16 years of solid experience in project infrastructure solutions architecture design , reviewing and designing Private cloud enterprise solutions, IT servers management, Unix administration, Enterprise storage administration , systems capacity planning, enterprise system monitoring using HP Openview, Disaster recovery planning and procedures development, systems infrastructure solutions design and implementation which includes servers, migrations, Unix OSs,storage and SAN Fabric in mission Critical production environments at large IT organizations.
• Broad understanding of Cloud reference architectures, IBM CCRA 2.0, cloud computing concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), and knowledge of cloud-enabling infrastructure technologies - computing, storage, networking and virtualization
• Industry knowledge and awareness on best practices, trends, and latest features of Internet, SaaS, and Cloud delivered applications.
• Researched and recommended cloud based IAAS private cloud solutions from major cloud service vendors like IBM (CloudBurst), RightScale, Cloud.com, HP (CloudStart), Flexpod solution from NetApp and VMware etc.
• Expertise in delivering solutions relatedto Enterprise private cloud, enterprise storage, storage virtualization (HP / IBM / Hitachi / NetApp / Isilon, BlueArc, NexSan), enterprise backup including data de-duplication based technologies from HP, IBM, DataDomain, CommVault and ExaGrid.
• Solid understanding of VMware VSphere5, VCenter and major components like vMotion, DRS, VMHA.
• Highly experienced in Managing and architecting solutions on NetApp storage and other Platforms.
• Strong knowledge of NetApp software tools e.g FlexClone, SnapVault, Operations Manager, On Command system Manager, SnapProtect, Snapmanager for oracle, SMVI, SnapMirror on FAS3xxx and FAS 6xxx systems.
• Highly experienced in IT processes management and followingstrict ITIL practice in large IT organizations.
• Experienced in Project management indelivering IT SAN storage, backupand data center automation software implementations and architectural design at large federal organization.
• Architected solutions and Performed system migrations from OS level to the storage level following strict ITIL procedures.
• Documented all aspect of the projects following ITIL based procedures and methodologies.
• Working as Cloud Solutions (IAAS) initiator, Infrastructure storage and server architect since last 8-10 years and have come across many solutions, migrations as well as systems solution design and implementation across variety of clients.
• Expertise in disaster recovery planning, procedures, Implementation and recovering systems.
• Ability to provide technical presentation to customers (High level staff e.g. managers, directors and CxO) for various kinds of solutions and explained them clearly why the solution fits your environment.
• Develop HP BTO (Storage essentials and HP Asset manager 5.x) product implementation, relevant processes, and integration with other systems and processes.
• Understand the client\'s vision, goals, objectives, strategy, and how they relate to enterprise IT architectural business objectives.
• Prepared quality technical documents as a deliverables, prepared technical presentations for CIO, VPs and directors.
• Excellent Process Assessment, Design and Implementation skills.
• Superior knowledge and understanding of ITAM and Sourcing Best Practices
• Excellent Vendor Management and Relationships
• Ability to effectively work and team with clients at all levels including management personnel.
• Built and managed atechnical Pre-Sales organization that consistently acknowledged for sales and technical expertise.
• Developed and delivered presentations, demonstrations, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Proof of Concepts (POCs) and beta projects
• Highly capable of working in 24x7 support environment involving high risk of operational pressure.
• Highly experienced in handling systems operations in Real time trading, Production and development environments.
• Highly experienced in administering, installing, upgrading and configuring HP-UX servers in large network environments.
• Expertise in IBM AIX installations, and migrations, Redhat Linux installation, configuration, advanced installations using customized kickstart process on IBM Blade Centers, HP C-Class Blade Centers, Proliant and DELL Intel platforms.
• Configured and maintained virtual partitions e.g. DLPARs, LPARs on IBM Power5 Processor machines like p570 using HMC in production environments running IBM AIX v.5.3 as well as vParsin HP9000 class of machines.
• Experienced in installing, administering and configuring and upgrading Sun Solaris 2.6,2.7,2.8 and Solaris9, Solaris10.
• Expertise in administering, installing, upgrading and configuring AIX on IBM’s pSeries and RS/6000 Hardware.
• Experienced in external SAN storage disk operations on Netapp 6170/3140, 3Par T400/800, Hitachi 9980/ USP-VM / AMS storage arrays, EMC2 Symmetrix / DMX800/1000/3000 andClariiON CX400/500/700 disk arrays and performance analysis using Workload Analyzer in SAN environment.
• Extensively used EMC2 tools like TimeFinder, SRDF and SYMCLI to manage EMC devices and BCV volumes. Used Control Center v.5.x for managing storage Arrays in Enterprise Storage environment.
• Experienced in managing EMC2 ClariiON using EMC’s Navisphere software. Managed LUN backups using SANCopy.
• Expertise in system, data and application migration to and from HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Redhat Linux.
• Expertise in Patch management, performing patch analysis on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Linux OS.
• Expertise in administering advanced installations on HP9000, IBM PSeries, Sun SPARC and Redhat Linux Intel based servers using IGNITE-UX, MKSYSB, SYSBACK, Jumpstart and Kickstart methods.
• Configured and supported High Availability IBM clustering software HACMP v.4.5, v.5.x on IBM AIX servers.
• Experienced in working in High Availability/Clustering (HA) Environment using HP MC/Service Guard v.11.x.
• Expertise in administering, upgrading, configuring and designing backup strategies using HP Openview Data Protector.
• Excellent IT-AUDIT / SOX practice and expertise on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris Systems.
• Experienced in writing Shell scripts using Korn and Bourne shells, familiarity with PERL scripting.
• Experienced in working on TCP/IP, FTP, SNMP, NFSv3.3, FCoE, FCP and iSCSI suite of protocols.
• Experienced in administering Windows NT Server 3.51/4.0/Windows 2000 for 3 years.
• Acquired and supported customers like Hewlett Packard Company, Pella Corporation and Telcordia Technologies in a senior consulting role to fulfill their product needs and application support needs.
• Worked with very large clients like National thermal Power station, Indian Petrochemical Corporation and Vadodara Stock Exchange Limited that resulted in receiving a special bonus as recognition for outstanding contribution.
• Won many awards for delivering outstanding service to various customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: 
HP-UX 11.x, 11i, 11i v3, , 11i .v1,11i .v2 10.x, AIX v.5.3, v.5.2L,6.1, Sun Solaris v.7,v.8, v.9, Compaq Tru 64 Unix, Redhat Linux AS 3.x, AS v.4.x, ES v.3.x, ES v.4.x, Redhat Linux 7.x, 9.x, DEC VAX/VMS, ,Windows 2000.
Softwares: 
VMware Vsphere5, vCenter, NetApp SnapManager for Oracle 3.0, NetApp On Command System Manager 2.0, HP Storage essentials, BladeLogic data center asset management software, HP asset manager , Hitachi device Manager, APtare , HP-Openview IT/Operations v.4.x, v.5.X, Hitachi Device Manager, HP-Open view/Network Node Manager v5.x, v6.1, MC/Service Guard 11.X, IBM HACMP v.4.5, v.5.1, HP Glanceplus/UX, HP-Perfview, IBM FastT Storage Manager, EMC2 ClariiON Navisphere Manager, EMC2 PowerPath Manager, HP Openview Data Protector v.5.0, v.5.1, Tivoli Maestro Scheduler V5.x,v.6.1 BIND v.8.2.3, v.9.2, v.4.9, SUN Solstice DiskSuite, VERITAS volume manager, VERITAS NetBackup, Legato Networker, HP JFS Online v.3.3, , IGNITE-UX, EMC2 Control Center 4.x, 5.x, EMC2 TimeFinder v.4.x, EMC2 SRDF, EMC SANCopy, EMC Work load Analyzer, Apache web server V.1.3.14, Netscape Web Server, iPlanet web server, HP Support Tools manager (STM), IBM MQ-Series v.5.10, BEA Tuxedo v6.3,v6.5, Perl 5.0, VSI-FAX, TelAlert 5.1, v5.0, Symark Powerbroker v.3.0, Power Password 3.0, 
Hardware Platforms: 
ISILON IQ72000, CORAID, BluEArc Mercury 100, NexSan E5310, E60, SUN 7410, DataDomain DD580, HP 9000 RISC based servers N4000, L3000, K570, Superdome PA-8900, RX3600, SUN E3500, E6500, IBM RS 6000, EMC2 DMX, EMC2 Symmetrix 8430, 5830, 8730, 3930, EMC CX500, CX700, EMC2 NAS Celera, IBM pSeries p650, p630, p570, p575 servers, FastT900, HITACHI 9980, USP, USP-VM, AMS2500, AMS1000, NetApp 6170/3140/3050/3040 storage arrays, IBM XIV storage, ExaGrid EX1000, EX5000, Brocade 5100 and 7xxx , McData switches, HP SureStore 20/700, HP Autoraid Arrays, STK Tape Libraries L700, L180, Quantum DX5000 VTL, CISCO routers, CISCO MDS9000, , IBM E335, E346, IBM Blade Center HS20 , 8843, 8834, HP C-CLASS Blade centers, HP Proliant DL380, DL385, DL580 & DL585, DELL 28XX, 29XX, 68XX.

RDBMS: ORACLE v10G, 11G, Sybase ASE 12.x, INGRESS, Progress 8.3.c, 8.3.d.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Confidential
Position: Sr. Mass Storage Architect - Manager
Employer: Confidential JAN-2011 to PRESENT

• Leading the storage team that supports NHGRI’s various organizations and helping them to provide best storage infrastructure in terms of Cloud solutions evaluation, storage administration, performance needs, data growth and budget estimates for new products and services recommendations.
• Participated in NIH enterprise cloud storage project evaluations and recommendations to NIH Domain Architecture team.
• Analyzed and reviewed all aspects of cloud solutions from various vendors like IBM, HP, NetApp, Cloud.com and RightScale.
• Overseeing enterprise backup environment running Legato Networker, LiveBackup and NetApp NDMP.
• Work as a main technical point of contact for new product recommendations and suggestions to CIO level staff at NHGRI.
• Managed Oracle Database protection and backup using NetApp SnapManager for Oracle 3.0.
• Contribute to the evaluation, testing, configuration and deployment of new mass storage hardware and software.
• Implemented VMware vSphere5 virtualization infrastructure for evaluation purpose.
• Supporting NHGRI’s storage infrastructure consists of NetApp clusters, Nexsan, Data Domain, Bluearc, Isilion, Sun, Coraid, and other storage technologies, scientific and administrative data for the Institute.
• Identify and develop diagnostics and monitoring tools to help manage and assume the integrity of the storage systems.
• Responsible for helping to identify and streamline mass storage data flow, and provide tools to organize and formalize workflow.
• Working with researchers and investigators to determine their immediate and future needs, and will communicate Mass Storage issues and plans to employees and/or upper level management, as needed.
• Successfully delivered Storage and Backup solutions for various departments like NCTT, NISC and Gryphon cluster team.
• Designing enterprise storage policies and backup related infrastructure consideration.
• Providing best practices on storage solutions based on ITIL framework and submitting proper technical documentation to various project teams.
• Provide integration and support for NIH/NHGRI’s mass storage and backup infrastructure, with a special focus on the multi-petabyte NextGen Sequencing Project.

Confidential, Washington, DC APR-2009 TO SEP-2010
Client type: Confidential
Position: Sr. Storage Solutions Architect

• Worked with the project team to understand customers’ requirements in terms of budget, performance, scalability, DR needs of client with system architects to comprehend the requirements of storage, servers’ capacity and related supported softwares that client is using to manage their applications.
• Successfully planned, designed and implemented new element needed by client in order to maximize output from client\'s infrastructure investment.
• Worked with different stakeholders, application teams, enterprise architects and developers to develop Architecture design, logical and technical models.
• Developed and documented the strategic technology infrastructure plans and roadmaps, and integrate those with other project components such as SAN data migration, archiving, and enterprise backup and recovery.
• Successfully architected solutions for enterprise system management and monitoring key components of the infrastructure that will continually optimize system performance.
• Oversee the testing and qualifying of new environments,
• Handled responsibilities towards system hardware and evaluation against pre-defined quality standards. Conducted various interviews with clients using different vendors’ equipments, vendor qualification surveys for acquiring or replacing new systems and services.
• Worked with various ITIL cross functional process owners such as Change, Release, Configuration, Incident, Capacity, Performance, and Problem Management so that these processes fully enable IT infrastructure performance.
• Defined and implemented servers and storage operating standards, operating procedures, and new third party software tools programs to improve quality and performance and management of the infrastructure.
• Work as part of a project team to develop a plan to finalize solution (scope, deliverables, assignments and client checkpoints for enterprise storage and backup upgrade redesigning project at PBGC
• Evaluate and Develop architecture plan for various data center automation tools including HP asset management, storage essentials (for storage and backup) at PBGC.
• Apply work product knowledge and IC assets to craft new/innovative, complex solutions to client business problems.
• Work with PBGC management to formulate business, organization and information strategies to help them apply information and technology services in support of storage upgrade project.
• Discuss various technical solutions with vendors like HP, NetApp, Hitachi, CommVault, Symantec, 3PAR, IBM, DataDomain, EMC2 and ExaGrid.
• Provided detailed SAN solutions for NetApp and 3Par Storage arrays which includes NetApp 6170 and 3Par T800.
• Provided basic training and demonstration to customer about NetApp 6170 and 3Par T400/800 Configuration, management and technical aspects.
• Provided complete solution based on NetApp 6170 and CommVault Simpana8 for storage and backup infrastructure, presented to CxO level staff.
• Relate the major differences between platforms for purposes of product positioning and addressing PBGC’s IT storage and backup requirements.
• Evaluate solutions and provide alternative analysis among all possible solutions and design final solution that meets client’s ultimate goal.
• Providing architectural designing to help customer manage ITAM processes.
• Provide architectural study for product HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Inventory (DDMI) and its integration with HP Asset Center.
• Conduct technical discussions with stakeholders and gather storage infrastructure requirements
• Review and correct Requirements.
• Deliver functional ITIL based design documents and correct defects.
• Tailor specific contractual templates for use as part of a solution proposal.
• Design storage, backup, data center automation software implementation software (HP asset management and storage essentials) architectural plan and design.
• Deliver migration guide as well as deployment guide for new solution.
• Tightly maintain project deliverables deadline, track project schedule, manage action items and coordinating among various staff people to get approvals.
• Communicate with vendors to discuss various possible solutions.
• Verify and finalize solution according to ITSLCM / ITIL processes and prepare required ITSLCM documents to meet audit compliance.
• Present proposed solution to PBGC CIO and other VP level officials.
• Implement proposed solution into production and maintain the IT Storage infrastructure after new solution implemented.

Confidential AUG-2008 TO APR-2009
Position: Sr. Professional Services Consultant
Client: Confidential.

Working at Government site called GFDL/ NOAA controlled by Department of Commerce, USA. The site is equipped with state of the art UNIX environment running Linux on SGI\'s Super computers which is having 1024 processors and several TB of RAM in a large SAN environment.

• Achieving best performance usage on SGI software and hardware.
• Monitoring of system performance and recommending Application system tuning ideas such as upgrading OS, changing system parameters, etc.
• Developing various internal policies and procedures that will assist in advance diagnosis and early detection of system problems.
• Assist in the automation of various system monitoring procedures.
• Conduct technical discussions with stakeholders and gather storage infrastructure requirements
• Deliver functional ITIL based design documents and correct defects.
• Maintain project schedules, discuss action items with higher authorities and arrange necessary meetings schedule.
• Interface with customers and build effective customer relations.
• Linux system administration, CXFS, DMF, and SAN management, in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.

Confidential AUG-2002 TO AUG-2008
Position: Sr. UNIX Systems Architect (No. of Servers supporting: 1600+)

Successfully delivered technical development and UNIX systems architectural initiatives regarding server hardware and, infrastructure product life cycle. Established goal oriented working strategies, architectures and designs to meet industry needs in Enterprise SAN storage technologies from EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp, Enterprise UNIX server hardware technologies, capacity planning and management, evaluation of different hardware from HP, IBM and SUN. Managed UNIX server’s product line and strategic product planning in addition to developing and documenting training programs for customers and end users. Conducted and presented various kinds of training sessions for customers, maintained, inventory management, and new product development.

Project responsibilities:

• Developed operation run books for servers and storage operations, documented systems improvement data and delivered to IT infrastructure support teams to ensure seamless operation among them. Participated in various Enterprise infrastructure meetings to specify performance standards, improvement areas and the components needs to be modified to meet various service level agreements.
• Conducted and attended various meetings on a regular basis to determine the solutions to prevent various problems occurred on the systems/storage and provided valuable input to enhance RCA processes.
• Provided required data in the periodic audits of retained servers, storage and applications to TMNG and E&Y auditors.
• Worked in planning, testing and implementation of Disaster recovery and business continuity process for various organization from servers, network and on storage level point of view. That includes remote replication (EMC SRDF, Hitachi HUR etc.)
• Provided significant efforts in datacenter servers redesign project to roll out new servers and performed systems and data migrations from Solaris to HP-UX and from HP-UX to AIX based servers.
• Enterprise SAN Storage management NetApp 3120, storage arrays, EMC DMX, FastT900 and ClariiONCX500/700.
• SAN Software hands on expertise on ClariiON Navisphere and IBM’s FastT Storage Manager and NetApp ONTAP.
• Total systemsAdministration of Redhat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Sun Solaris servers companywide.
• Management systems virtualization, Virtualized partitions DLPARs and LPARs on IBM Servers running AIX 5.2L & 5.3L
• Performed Linux ES3.x, AS3.x, ES4.x, AS4.x kickstart installations using PXE boot process and remote installations.
• Installing IBM and HP Blade center machines, firmware upgrade and setting up management modules on the network.
• Managing patch bundles and software installations on HP-UX, AIX 5.x, Solaris and Redhat Linux operating system.
• Setting up automated fault reporting system e.g. Service Agent, HP SIM Server configuration and EMS setup on HP-UX.
• Advanced UNIX installations using OS specific tools like Ignite-UX, Jumpstart, Kickstart, SYSBACK, and MKSYSB.
• Working closely with external audit team from TMNG, E&Y and providing the required information.
• Administering and Configuring HP Openview Data Protector Enterprise backup software.
• Designing system Security policies for UNIX based systems and implementing it in production environment.
• Administering IT AUDIT configuration and managing IT AUDIT deliverables to AUDIT team.

Confidential, IOWA. FEB-2002 TO AUG-2002
Position: Sr. UNIX Infrastructure Consultant (No. of Servers: 78) (Role: Post Sales)

As a Sr. UNIX consultant following key areas focused apart from regular system support activities, during my tenure at Pella. 

• Participated in scoping calls, solution meetings, and customer presentations; development of solutions including preparation of support documentation and proposals; coordination of internal resources as matrixes support for managed opportunities
• Client Project Design, Implementation planning, system performance Analysis and Tuning.
• Providing Professional Services/Ongoing Support
• Providing Storage & SAN Architecture and Assessments and Data Center Architecture preparation help.
• Delivering Disaster Recovery techniques, important solutions and suggestions.
• Systems and application assessment, capacity planning, client hardware evaluation and scalability planning and reports.

Project responsibilities:

• Total systemsAdministration, configuration, and upgradation of HP-UX servers in 24x7 support environment.
• Performing patch management on all HP-UX servers using Custom Patch Manager Tool from Hewlett Packard.
• Administering enterprise backup operations using HP Openview Omniback II v4.x, 3.
• Installing and administering NFS, NIS and NIS+ services and managing users in NIS environment.
• Installing and configuring Primary DNS, Secondary DNS servers and allocating zones for various DNS sub domains.
• EMC2 disk management using SYMCLI, TimeFinder and SRDF for remote recovery.
• Troubleshooting Checkpoint firewall 4.x running on HP-UX. Co-ordination with checkpoint Corporation for problems.

Confidential, DETROIT,MI. DEC-2001 TO FEB-2002 
Position: HP Openview BTO Consultant (Number of servers: 345) (Role: Post-sales)

Health Alliance Plan needed consulting services to Implement their Network Management and Monitoring system from scratch using HP Openview set of products. Their environment is very large running thousands of UNIX based servers and network components. The project successfully completed single handedly exceeding the customers’ acceptations.

Project responsibilities:

• Developed proposals and statements of work in response to new opportunities from channel partners and other sources, in conjunction with the internal proposal group
• Conducted analysis of client’s SAN, network and server environment and prepared detailed implementation plan and process.
• Installation and configuration of HP Openview VantagePoint Operation on Windows2000 as well as on HP-UX 11.0.
• Successfully implemented Network Management and monitoring system running HP Openview set of Products.
• Provided implementation documents, training and system walk through to ensure client satisfaction.
• Implementation, configuration and administration of HP Openview NNM to manage the variety of network components.
• Administration of HP-UX, Sun Solaris Servers and AIX servers running HP-UX v.11.0, Solaris 2.7, 2.8 and AIX v.4.3.3.
• Provided training to customer technical staff for proper operation of HP Openview Monitoring system.
• Design and development of network maps for variety of network components for easy manageability.
• Setting up paging and email notifications for machine status and various alarms using Telalert 5.1 product from Telamon Inc.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor of Engineering
• Post Diploma in German Language