Joe Grewal

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Summary:

**+ years of IT experience, including Virtualization and Storage technology experience and certifications in VMware/EMC/NetApp/Pillar/HP-LeftHand/Dell Storage hardware and software.

Architecting, designing and implementing VMware, Cisco UCS on Hitachi VSP block storage, HNAS for NAS and CIFS at a large Healthcare facility based at Rancho Cordova, CA.

Architected and implemented various systems including domain controllers, SQL DB’s, application, web servers, and utility servers on a Virtual private cloud. Configured NAT rules, firewall rules and load balancer on Virtual private cloud infrastructure. Experience with migrating data across cloud infrastructure between private cloud and public cloud.

OpenStack Linux, Ubuntu and KVM virtualization user level experience.

Implemented FlexPod (Cisco UCS/NetApp/VMware) architecture at a major financial institution. Migrated data from legacy architecture to FlexPod architecture.

Supporting NetApp 7-Mode and C-Mode on regular basis configuring NFS, iSCSI, FC, CIFS running in Virtual Infrastructure. Expertise in NetApp SMSQL, VSC, SnapMirror, SnapVault, DFM Operations Manager.

Worked on Cisco UCS Director (Cloupia) automation tool which automates VM provisioning, Network, Storage provision and application deployment by executing scripts as per customized requirements.

Implemented Cisco UCS systems in collaboration with VCE running VMware VSphere environment at multiple Medical groups across Northern CA, configured NFS/iSCSI/FC Storage replicating across multiple sites by extending Fibre Channel for D/R.

Large scale VMware P2V, V2V, P2P migration experience, recently finished a 3 months project at a large automotive company. Performed disk alignment on all the VMs, built brand new ESX environment, architected EMC/NetApp storage as per best practices.

Architected/Installed and Configured EMC VNX providing iSCSI storage to VMware ESX environment. Completed EMC provided VNX training and testing.

Implemented Doubletake P2V/V2V high availability solution in order to replicate data at D/R site for a construction company Swinerton. Used DoubleTake to migrate data at Chicago based Central State Funds, used DoubleTake to migrate VMs for a large Insurance company at Sacramento.

Implemented Platespin P2V solution at a large construction company in order to replicate data at D/R site.

Experience in deploying large scale Dell, HP, IBM and Cisco UCS server systems.

Architected/designed and Implemented Brocade switch fabric with over 2000 ports in each production, Development and Disaster Recovery environment at Intel. Responsible for daily monitoring, reporting, maintenance and troubleshooting switch fabric products. Advanced level experience with Brocade switch fabric departmental switches, Brocade director class switches, multi-protocol router, cli, web tool and fabric manager. Implemented Brocade acquired switch fabric products from McData, CNT, Inrange, Nissan. Experience with Cisco MDS switch fabric, cli and fabric manager.

Experience in Architecting, designing and configuring various NetApp frames utilizing FC and IP connectivity, configured raid, configured cluster, DeDuplication, NearStore, upgraded OnTap, upgraded active/active controllers.

Configured NetApp SnapMirror D/R replication, SnapVault, SnapRestore, Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, SnapDrive, SnapManager for Exchange, Oracle, Sharepoint and for Virtual Infrastructure. Implemented SMSQL integrating it with SnapMirror and SnapVault. Experience with installation, configuration and administration of OnCommand Insight/Sanscreen tool.

Experience in Architecting, designing and configuring EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion/Celerra/VNX and Centera.

Experience in Architecting, designing and configuring HP MSA2000, LeftHand, Dell EquaLogic iSCSI arrays and Pillar Data System.

Experience in Installing/Configuring VEEAM Backup/Replication products for Virtual Infrastructure.

Proven track record of delivering highly scalable and available storage solutions to address customers business & technical problems.

Familiar with working for a large, globally dispersed Enterprise organization in which frequent collaboration across all organizational boundaries and levels of management is required, experience managing large size 6 Petabytes of Enterprise data.

Strong written & oral communication and presentation skills.

Excellent problem analysis and critical thinking abilities.

Working as a VMware consultant designing, deploying VMware and Storage technology at various enterprise environments.

Extensive experience with SAN/NAS/iSCSI, Virtual/Robotic Tape Libraries, Backup/Recovery, D/R architecture, design, implementation and troubleshooting.

Experience in configuring Cisco and 3Com LAN and Firewall networking.

Experience in VMware ESX 4.x and 3.x, Virtual Center 5.X, VMotion, DRS, Clustering, P2V convertor, VDI, Lab Manager, Health Analyzer, vCOPs, Orchestrator, vCloud Director.

Experience in F5, Kemp and virtual load balancers.

Hardware & Software Skills:

VMware server virtualization ESX 5.x, 4.x implemtation, storage support, DRS, Vmotion, VDI, SRM & Lab Manager, vCOPs, vCloud Director, Orchestrator.

EMC Symmetrix/DMX/vMax, vPlex, VNX, CLARiiON, Celerra, Centera, NetApp, Pillar, LeftHand Networks, Dell EquaLogic, HP MSA2000 and Xiotech storage platforms.

EMC Avamar DeDuplication, ControlCenter, SymmOptimizer, Performance Manager, StorageScope, SAN Manager, SAN Advisor, Replication Manager, RecoverPoint, Legato, and PowerPath.

EMC SRDF Multi-Hop, Sync/Async and Timefinder families.

Brocade / McData and Cisco fibre-channel & distance switching platforms.

NetApp SnapMirror, Syncmirror, SnapVault, SnapManager, SnapDrive.

Navisphere Manager, Unisphere, Replication Manager, SANCopy, SnapView, Mirrorview, NAVI Analyzer.

NetApp SnapMirror, SnapManager, SMVI, SnapVault, SnapRestore, OnCommand Core, Insight, Balance.

Dell, HP, Cisco UCS, IBM Enterprise and blade servers.

Cisco, 3Com, Juniper and Astaro Firewall networking switches.

Platespin PortabilitySuite, Forge, DoubleTake for P2V, P2P, V2V and V2P D/R migrations.

PanoLogic desktop virtualization using PanoLogic broker and VMware View 5.x, 6.x

Emulex and QLogic Host Bus Adapters.

Symantec Storage Foundations for Windows, TSM, Avamar, EMC Legato Networker, NetBackup, Backpexec, CommandCentral Storage and CommVault.

Windows OS, MS Cluster, MS SQL DB.

Quantum, Data Domain, NetApp de-duplication VTL and enterprise robotic tape libraries.

FalconStor IPstor storage virtualization and replication.

Datacore storage virtualization and replication.

esXpress backup, restore and replication for VMware virtualization environment.

OnCommand Balancepoint, Solarwinds StorageProfiler, Vizioncore Foglight.

OpenStack Cloud computing, Red Hat and Ubuntu

Load Balancers F5, Kemp and vCloud Director (Load Balancer, Firewall)

Work History:

Sr. Virtualization & Storage Engineer Feb, 2015 – Present

Architecting/implementing Virtualization technology (VMware server/desktop virtualization, Citrix XenDesktop virtualization) involving Cisco UCS, HP, Dell server systems on NetApp/EMC/HP/Hitachi/IBM/SVM/Falconstor/Dell storage systems and supporting backup products from Commvault, Symantec NetBackup, Puredisk, Veeam, Networker, Avamar, VSC.

Computing Architect - Project at a Healthcare company, architecture, design, implementation and operation support of VMware on Cisco UCS having Hitachi VSP/HNAS as storage. Project at a company supporting Affordable healthcare for various counties, states supporting VMware, Cisco UCS, NetApp C-Mode storage.

Elliemae Inc.

Sr. Virtualization/Storage Engineer Mar, 2012 – Feb, 2015

Architect, design, implementation and support of NetApp 7-Mode, VMware vSphere 5.x, View 5.x, various NetApp tools such as SnapManager for SQL, Virtualization, Snapmirror, SnapVault, DFM, Operations Manager. Performed various data center consolidation by migrating several terabytes of data across private and public cloud environment. Regularly pPerformed upgrade of NetApp OnTap code, VMware vCenter, vSphere upgrades. Performed Disaster Recovery drills across various sites.

Updated management related to Storage/Virtualization capacity and performance data for future storage and computing hardware addition and upgrades. Analyzed and developed configured technology solutions in IIS based on customer requirements. Includes installing IIS, configuration, optimization, setting up websites.

Built and maintained Windows based systems, application installation, maintenance and troubleshooting.

Independent Consultant April, 2011 – Mar, 2012

Architecting/implementing Virtualization technology involving Cisco UCS, HP, Dell server systems on NetApp/EMC/HP/Hitachi/IBM/SVM/Falconstor/Dell storage systems and supporting backup products from Commvault, Symantec NetBackup, Puredisk, Veeam, SMVI.

CA, Inc / 4Base Technology (Redwood City) Feb, 2010 – April, 2011

Sr. Services Architect

Provide Architecture/Design/Implementation professional services in products such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, NetApp, Dell, HP, HDS Cisco, various Backup products, VTL’s, Tape Libraries and CA Automation products.

INX, Inc / AccessFlow (Sacramento) Jan, 2008 – Jan, 2010

(Vmware, Cisco, NetApp premier partner)

Senior Storage Architect / Sr. VMware Virtualization Consultant

Provide a stable, predictable, and scalable environment for the delivery of computing solutions.

Initiate direct communication with a wide range of client, supplier, regulatory, application, architectural, and systems personnel.

Ensure conformance to established system architecture, methods, regulations, standards and practices and participate in their creation.

Participate in long range planning and ensure those plans are consistent with business objectives for resiliency, disaster tolerance, and regulatory compliance.

Help set the storage vision for the organization, define projects and execute them to achieve that vision.

Responsible for creating effective SAN, NAS & iSCSI storage designs from functional requirements in a large enterprise data center environment which includes virtual storage, zoning, volume management and file systems.

Design and lead a holistic strategic solution for remote consolidation and centralization while standardizing on single hardware and software solutions.

Develop and maintain a storage capacity and simplification processes that includes tiered storage offerings, centralization, quarterly capacity predictions, and consolidation/reclamation opportunities. Improve documentation, templates and processes.

Designed and implemented disaster recovery infrastructure for various companies.

Developed Project Plan, Statement of Work (SOW), and Proof of Concept (POC)

Experienced in building out Data Centers and large-scale server rollouts from Dell, HP, Cisco UCS and IBM.

Utilized Citrix MetaFrame, Microsoft Terminal Server, and thin client technologies to implement access to multiple network.

Established diverse method of remote access such as SSL, PPTP, L2TP over IPsec and IPsec

Established parameters for QOS, NAT, and Packet Filter

Configured Cisco, 3Com LAN, Router and Firewall systems.

Configured and monitored Astaro Firewall to insure validity of individual network

Analyze and problem solve complex technical issues with minimal supervision, and work within a team / environment while communicating well to a diverse set of colleagues.

Deploy VMware virtualization technology converting P2V, VDI, backup/recovery and D/R.

Intel Corporation (Folsom, CA)

Senior Storage Engineer Nov. 1999 – Jan. 2008

Successfully developed, designed & implemented SAP multi-hop bicoastal disaster recovery strategy & solution. Designed, landed, integrated, configured & managed various Disaster Recovery productions/benchmarking SAN storage components in disaster recovery production environments which includes Symmetrix, DMX, NAS, CLARiiON, EMC control center, Brocade 12000/24000/48000, McData – SAN router, Tier 1 replication – Multi Hop SRDF (3 sites – Source, Bunker & DR; Sync SRDF between source & Bunker, Async SRDF over WAN between Bunker & DR), Time Finder, SRDF and managed environment.

Performed several DR drills & performed ten plus failover/failback testing for mission critical applications such as SAP & Tibco.

Developed disaster recovery strategy for Tier 2 application & tested functionality using Clarion Mirrorview asynch technology on clarion frame.

Drove efforts on storage consolidations & saved more than $300K. Consolidated several small frame into larger frame & end of life several old storage frames & SAN switches

Evaluated EMC Recoverpoint (Kashay) & Topio Technologies & provided findings. Participated in evaluation of various CDP, Backup & recovery technologies.

Performed day to day SAN administration activities such as zoning, lun masking, storage provisioning on Symmetrix, DMX, CLARiiON, VNX, Celerra using Clariion Navisphere & Control center, Unisphere, Brocade tools & allocated storage on more than 2000 servers & managed over 4PB of data. Helped staff members troubleshoot production system performance & configuration issues. Use supported EMC tools to build & modify EMC “bin” files

Define and drive strategic direction for the storage and backup domains by establishing technical priorities and initiatives that will support Intel’s business goals.

Organize and orchestrate research, architecture, technical development, and engineering activities across Intel IT.

Research and evaluate new technologies, perform TCO & ROI analysis, and determine positioning in the IT environment.

Create and present project / program proposals to management and business partners for review and ratification.

Technical storage consultant and architect for large, complex, and high impact projects such as the implementation of SAP Netweaver, enterprise-wide storage management and reporting capabilities, the Tier 1 and Tier 2 replication solutions.

Designed strategy consolidating storage across various tiered storage infrastructure.

Documented processes and procedure implementing storage solutions.

Maintained storage capacity information, planning&forecasting and provisioning.

Engaged with customers gathering storage requirements as per application requirements.

Supported CDP disk to disk backup and replication solution.

Designed, implemented and Supported enterprise backup/recovery environment utilizing Symantec Veritas Netbackup and CA Arcserve.

IBM Corporation (San Jose, CA)

Systems Engineer (CA State University Chico, Intern) Jan. 1999 – Nov. 1999

Performed ADSM and TSM Backup/Restore Software Quality analysis.

Prepared various software testing scenarios.

Tested backup/restore on various OS softwares and hardwares.

Tested backup/restore process supporting Oracle and SQL databases.

NEC Electronics (Roseville, CA)

Fab Process Engineering Tech Mar. 1994 – Nov. 1998

Worked in photolithography area processing memory chips, exposing and aligning layers of various circuits.

Used computer-based automated tools to process silicon wafers.

Education & Certifications:

California State University, Chico MS Computer Science

(Finished all semesters for Masters in Computer Science)

Govt. Engineering College, Rewa, India Bachelors in Engineering

EMC Proven Professional certification - Storage Technology Foundation

EMC Proven Professional certification - EMC Technology Foundations

EMC Velocity Affiliate SE certified

EMC Velocity Affiliate Sales certified

EMC VNXe Accreditation

EMC DataDomain Accreditation

EMC AVAMAR certified

NetApp – NetApp certified SAN Implementation Engineer

NetApp – NetApp certified Data Management Administrator

NetApp – 7-Mode and Cluster Mode trained

Pillar Data systems – Pillar installation and deployment Certified

HP LeftHand Networks – LeftHand Networks SAN certified

VMware – vSphere VCP, VTSP, Various product accreditations (SRM, Horizon View)

Unidesk Certified Professional

Hitachi HDS training completed

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