Manager Administrator

Adnan Ali Butt

***-** **** *** *****: 857-***-****

flushing ny, 11355 Email: ************@*****.***

• Hardworking and highly motivated professional with strong analytical skills and ability to

lead or work for a team.

• An accomplished Information Technology professional with over 5 years of

experience in a multi-site, multi-host environment.

• Strengths include solid communication and problem-solving skills and adapting to

change.

• Goal-oriented, innovative individual who has an excellent sense of teamwork to get

results by instilling commitment, trust, fairness, and loyalty. Experience in:

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DMX, Symmetrix EMC Control Center, Symcli.

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Clariion EMC Navisphere Manager.

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San Connectivity MDS, Connectrix M Series, Brocade.

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Replication Software TimeFinder, San Copy

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Monitoring / Reporting Performance Manager, Storage Scope

Professional Experience

Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA 2008 to 2009

San Administrator

• Provisioned approximately 6 to 10 Terabytes of storage per week for multi-vendor

host environment using symcli for several different projects.

• Generated list for thousand of hosts attached to DMX Arrays which were candidate

for Micro code upgrade and made all hosts redundant.

• Created Aliases for hundreds of hosts when preparing for Micro code upgrade for

EMC Array which made whole environment easy to troubleshoot.

• Reclaimed devices from existing hosts or completely decommissioned hosts to add

storage to Array’s free pool and later used those resources to other projects.

• Involved in San Knowledge transfer for new hired or existing transferred employees

on the change process and mentored them on standard KP provisioning techniques.

• Resolved Remedy incidents by providing 24x7 support to KP-IT infrastructure during

on call rotation.

Indymac Bank, Pasadena, CA 2008 – 2008

San Administrator

• Worked closely with EMC engineers assisting in firmware upgrade on Cisco MDS

switches from San OS 3.0 (2c) to 3.2(3a).

• Led the effort to remediate the hba driver and firmware for 500 servers and completed

the task on schedule, which enabled a smooth firmware upgrade.

• Discovered any single path hosts in an environment and had it redundant.

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• Allocated storage from DMX-3 to windows servers using ECC 5.2 SP5, zoned hosts

to DMX FA ports, dissolved Meta devices and created Metas according to business

unit need.

• Provisioned storage from Clariion CX3-80 and CX700 using Navisphere that included

host initiator registration for new boxes, creation of Raid Groups, Storage Groups, binding

luns, Zoning hosts to Clariion sp’s using Fabric Manager.

• Performed zoning according to EMC best practices standards.

• Generated compatibility Reports for Indymac Bank using EMC Navigator to

determine the compatibility of new Sun OS with exiting hba, its driver and firmware.

• Managed day-to-day function in SAN environment. Troubleshoot production outages

and resolved single path failures. Installed Master Agent for ECC, PowerPath,

StorageScope and Solutions Enabler as needed for new servers builds.

Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA 2007 - 2007

San Administrator

• Teamed with Senior Solutions Architect to design and implement Open Replicator for

disaster recovery. Project tested successfully and completed ahead of schedule.

• Responsibilities include devices for upgrading production hosts from 500GB to 1.2

TB. Created new relationships between production devices and clones. Maintained

and updated scripts to allow necessary changes.

• Increased the number of gatekeepers to a total of 6 from 2 on the designated host.

• Managed day-to-day jobs in the SAN environment. Installed Master agent and

Powerpath on host and performed zoning using Fabric Manager, swapped the devices

from one host to another.

• Installed and configured new fully loaded DAEs on an existing CX700. Set Bus and

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St Francis HealthCare, New York, NY 2005 - 2007

San Administrator

• Experience in Zoning using ECC 5.2, Fabric Manager/Device Manager, Connectrix

Manager for Cisco MDS/Mcdata Director ED-140M. Experience in migrating fabric

from Mcdata to Cisco MDS.

• Provision storage for Solaris & Windows Servers on Clariion using Navisphere,

Create RAID groups, Bind luns create Storage groups, register hosts

• Experience in migrating arrays using Sancopy (clariion to clariion) Migrated 2TB

from CX600 to CX700

• Supported the environment for day-to-day operations for internal applications.

Education

Associate in Science Fiorello H LaGurdia 2004

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