Muruli Krishna

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Folsom, CA *****

Phone: 916-***-****

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SUMMARY

A seasoned professional in storage management with hands on SAN /NAS/Backups & storage management

experience. A very strategic thinker and problem solver while being a strong team player.

Excellent leadership and communication skills, clear understanding of business rules and ability to work as part of a team.

Ten years of experience in Information Technology Operations, with emphasis on Storage Area Network Architecture & Administration, and Unix Systems Engineering & Administration.

Objectives :

Looking for a rewarding role in a Storage Engineering / Architect / Administrative positions

INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW

Storage technology: SAN, NAS, Backups,CAS, Cloud Storage

Storage Hardware: EMC Symmetrix /DMX, Clariion CX4 & CX3 Series, Virtual Disk Libraries, NAS(Celerra & Netapps), CAS(Centera), StorageTek Tape Libraries.

Fabric Hardware: Brocade 2800/3800/3900/12000/24000/48000/FC-IP

SAN Software/Tools: EMC ESN Manager, ECC 4.x/5.x, Volume Logix, Navisphere, Powerpath, Solutions Enabler Components, Brocade Fabric OS ,Web Tools.

Backup Software: Veritas Netbackup Software 4.5/5.1

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 7/8/9/10, HP-UX 10/11, Windows NT/2000/2003

Server Hardware: HP,Sun Servers, Linux, VMWare

DETAILED EXPERIENCE

Barclays Global Investors, CA

Storage Architect & Leadership role Nov. 2004 - Present

Have spent 8+ years on create, design of the Storage environment from ground zero. Started when being part of Unix group and was primarily responsible to recognize, propose and initiate creation of consolidated Storage.

Have developed strategic enterprise storage roadmap to build and run a stable production mission critical class environment. Have provided detailed technical oversight of various tasks including but not limited to provisioning, standard builds, fabric zoning, etc.

Have defined and developed Backup/recovery strategies to cover stringent financial organization needs.

Have also been on the look out constantly for newer technologies. Have built Cost of ownership models on the ones that make Business sense. And as a next step performed stringent POC’s. These include VTL’s, Tape less backups, Oracle on NAS, NAS solutions, etc.

Designed early SAN’s with departmental Brocade switches and EMC Clariion FC series arrays which by 2008 was almost 2 PB and 100+ Storage appliances. Exposure widely distributed across EMC Symmetrix, Clariions, Centera, Celerra, VTL, Brocade Enterprise class switches, Netapp Filers, etc.

Have successfully delivered from design, architect and execution various projects including Data Center migrations, VTL deployment, Email archiving, Backup Exec migration to Netbackup, Netbackup upgrade, Non Stop ASIQ environment,VDI on VMWare,etc.

Have developed customized reporting to augment standard SRM tools like ECC. Have deployed tools like ECC, DFM & Data Fabric Manager to enable effective monitoring and reporting.

As a part of the assignment, have lead a 15-member Distributed Storage Engineering and Operations team, which delivers end-to-end storage solutions to all areas of Key Technology Services. The team, consisting of engineers and operators, provides design, procurement, implementation, and support services.

The storage environment currently supports approximately 600 enterprise servers using close to 2 PB globally. In addition, approximately 80 VMWare servers hosting virtual machines are also SAN connected. The NAS infrastructure provides File Services for approximately 3000 employees.

Also responsible for annual evaluation of compliance testing in the Storage Services area, to ensure adequate controls are in place in terms of Storage Security and Access control.

Provide all required documentation to internal and external auditors on a yearly basis. Identify risks and vulnerabilities in the environment and ensure all risk mitigation activities are completed in a timely fashion.

Engaged vendors in monthly meetings from support perspective to discuss infrastructure health check results, code upgrades and maintenance tasks

Barclays Global Investors, CA.

Sr. Storage Architect/Administrator Jun. 2000 – Nov. 2004

Administration of the Environment:

Everyday responsibilities in the area of SAN Management included tasks of storage allocation/reallocation, LUN Masking, Zoning, Load Balancing & Failover configuration, Replication Management, Performance Monitoring, Problem determination, and Capacity Planning.

Possess in-depth knowledge of the following tools used to perform the above tasks:

Enterprise Control Center for EMC DMX disk allocation and LUN Masking

Navisphere for EMC Clariion disk management

ESN Manager from EMC and Web Tools from Brocade for Zoning tasks,

EMC PowerPath and HP SecurePath for failover and load balancing of I/O traffic on the hosts.

Workload Analyzer for performance monitoring of all EMC subsystems,

EMC StorageScope for Capacity monitoring and Utilization

In the capacity of a storage administrator, have been keenly involved in the installation, configuration, maintenance & upgrade, and effective usage of all the above tools. Possess a thorough understanding of benefits, limitations, and the relationships between these tools.

Enhancements to the Infrastructure:

As a solutions architect, was principally responsible for the architecture and design of a new SAN environment to replace all existing storage platforms with new hardware. This involved replacing all Symmetrix and Clariion arrays with DMX and CX700 and CX-3 arrays, Brocade Switches.

Also participated in the evaluation of emerging technologies such as Boot from SAN, Wide Area File Services, Data De-duplication, and Block & File level Storage Virtualization.

Barclays Global Investors, CA

Unix System Administrator/Storage Administrator Nov. 1997 - Jun. 2000

Part of a ten-member Unix System Administration team that constituted Distributed Systems Operations. Primary responsibilities involved supporting a variety of Unix Platforms including HP-UX and Solaris. As part of the support team, was required to provide Unix production support to application and development teams working across the organization.

Environment: HP-UX 10.20., Solaris

Extensively involved in Unix System Administration. Ensured effective memory management by appropriately creating volume groups, associating physical & logical volumes to the volume groups, and creating suitable file systems. Extensive modifications were made to existing programs & scripts to ensure communications of the servers with other interfaces using FTP and UUCP. Tasks also included developing operating system backup strategies, installation of hardware devices, creation of users, etc.

Maintenance tasks included daily upkeep of Sun Solaris & HP systems and Local and Wide Area Networks LAN/WAN along-with providing technical support 24,7 to the end users and related troubleshooting. Duties also included scheduling and monitoring daily and weekly process on each server.

EDUCATION

BS Electronics & Communication Engineering, Bangalore University, India 1984

Status - US Citizen

References made available on request.

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