SANDEEP .K

E Mail:acn1qb@r.postjobfree.com Contact No.: +91-779*******

To achieve employment as a Storage infra specialist where my skills on Storage ( EMC and Netapp ) can

be equally utilized.

PREVIEW

• 3.2 Years of professional experience as storage infra administrator in distributed environments and

storage technologies .

• Worked at DCM Data systems (Deployed at IBM India) as Storage specialist.

• Worked at WIPRO technologies as storage administrator.

• Worked with UST Global,Chennai As Storage Engineer

• Qualified MCA candidate from Sri venkateswara University, Tirupathi.

IT FORTE Key Skills

Storage Arrays : EMC Clariion,VNX,DMX,VMAX,NetApp,Extreme IO

Storage Tools : Unisphere, SYMCLI, NaviCli,, On Command system manager

Switches : Cisco, Brocade Switches

Operating System : Windows,Linux

Admin Tools : MS Office, Outlook, Lotus Notes, Maximo

Key responsibilities

• Administration, Management and provisioning for EMC storge environments

• Administration of Brocade switches.

• Good knowledge on storage Arrays like Clariion,DMX,VNX,VMAX.

• Knowledge On NetApp (FAS) series.

• Administration and working on various tools such as Unisphere, on command system

manager,Navisphere,ECC.

• Good knowledge on FC switches.

• Good Understanding of ITIL process

• Document best practices and architectural references in developing and deploying storage platform

solutions.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1. DCM Data systems. (April 2013 – Oct 2014)

Role: Storage Specialist- Infrastructure Management

Support: Level 2

Clients supported: CNA insurance.

CNA is one of the America's most successful insurance Companies. CNA has various divisions like General

Insurance, Motor Insurance,Health Insurance Etc.

CNA's Storage infrastructure consists of data centres in various geographies (Chicago,Aurora etc.). 35 EMC

Storage devices (VNX, VMAX, Clariion,DMX,Celerra,Extreme IO) and 2 Netapp Boxes. Cisco SAN switches

(MDS 9513) exist at the CNA environment. NetApp and EMC storage are configured on SAN and NAS

Environment.

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Management of EMC VMAX,VNX,CLAriion and Netapp storage boxes.

• Using modified BMC’s REMEDY ticketing tool for getting incident and task

tickets.

• Health check monitoring and report management for EMC and Netapp boxes.

• Handling EMC storages incident issues which include Allocations,Expansions,Reclaimations etc.

• Providing support for EMC CLARiion CX series, DMX4, VMAX and VNX Arrays.

• Administration and managing of VNX arrays using Unisphere manager.

• Administration and managing of DMX4 and VMAX arrays using SYM CLI.

• Administrating& Troubleshooting Brocade Switches and Cisco switches.

• Configured zoning in Brocade and Cisco switches.

• Good knowledge on Meta Lun configuration.

• Providing support for Netapp Filers.

• Checking the storage critical Events on Netapp arrays, Checking the status of aggregate

and volume usage, Performing Daily health check to monitor the usage of LUN,

Aggregate and volume utilization, Volume resize, aggregate disk add and lun resize.

• Excellent knowledge on PPME migrations.

• Knowledge on Lun expansion on VNX arrays using Unisphere manager.

• Working on Disks failures, disk replacement and creating RMA and coordinating with EMC and

netapp teams for same.

• Conducting training for new joiners and Knowledge transfer sessions to other team members.

2. Wipro Technologies,Pune (Aug 2012 – Jan 2013)

Role: Storage Administrator

Support: Operations Professional, Level 2

Clients supported: Harman International (JBL)

Harman International is an German Company whose main business is manufacturing music systems, Music

instruments etc.Data centers are Located at differant regions like America,APAC,Europe etc.

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Management of EMC VNX and Clariion boxes

• Storage provisioning on EMC VNX and Clariion.

• Administration of SAN Fabric switches.

• Installation and Configuration of RAID Group, assigning LUN to Host.

• Provide support to EMC Customer Engineers on the site during installation and various maintenance

activities.

• Configuring zoning policies in SAN environment (Hardware Zoning/Software Zoning)

• Managing storage allocations for ALL UNIX platforms, Linux and Windows servers.

• Creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Meta LUNs, creating Storage Groups, Access Logix,

and Registering hosts as per customer Requirements.

• Handling Incidents of Backup failure and restores on Windows and Aix platforms.

• HBA replacement activities such as rezoning and remasking to new HBA.

• Installation and Configuring of EMC Power path.

• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience on creating Storage Groups, binding Luns

and Hosts on VNX arrays using Unisphere manager.

• LUN Migration and LUN Masking.

• Working knowledge on Meta Lun configuration on Clariion storage array.

• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience on creating Storage Groups, binding Luns

and Hosts on VNX arrays using Unisphere manager.

• LUN Migration and LUN Masking.

• Maintaining the accuracy of different reports that needs to be sent to higher Management

• Performing SA&D ( Service activation and deactivation ) and RFS tasks.

3. UST Global,Chennai (Aug 2011 July 2012)

Role : System Engineer

Support: Operations Professional, Level 1

• Performing Storage Array Health checks.

• Performing Switch Health Checks.

• Reporting Incidents to The Customer and resolving the Issues

• Preparing Health Check Reports and sending them to the management.

• Working with Customer support team in scheduling the time window for Maintainance activities.

CERTIFICATIONS and TRAININGS

•

Data ONTAP 7 Mode Fundamentals training.

• EMC VMAX configuration training.

• EMC VMAX Business contunuity training.

• EMC performance Workshop..

ACADEMICA

Post Graduation Completed from Sri Venkateswara University.(2005-08)

(M.C.A) CGPA Score – 71.3(Distinction)

Graduation Completed from Sri Venkateswara (2002-2005)

( BSC Elect) Score: 60.0%

Inter – MPC Completed 10+2 from Rayaseema junior College(2000-02)

Score: 72.4%

10th – Completed 10th from Kakatiya EM school

Score: 71.0%

Achievements

Got Value certificate from IBM india PVt ltd.

Sandeep K

Hyderabad

Jan . 2015

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