KRISHNA MARAMU Email:ad28o6@r.postjobfree.com Ph:615-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

** ***** ** ** ********** in Storage Area Networking, Converged Infrastructure, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Network attached Storage, Block and File storage area networking, Dell EMC, NetApp Hitachi, Pure Storage, IBM Storage products, Cisco and Brocade SAN switches.

Architectural design on Isilon, SmartConnect, Access Zones, SyncIQ, Smart Quotas and InsightIQ, S-Nodes, NL-nodes, H500 nodes and A200 nodes.

Perform the SAN storage DR failover and failback for application servers and fileshares using automation scripts with minimal timeframes.

Planed, schedule the upgrades on storage arrays, pre-checks to ensure no downtime to business, no impact to any database and application servers.

Plan, design and implement the SAN Migrations for all the Database and Application servers without any downtime and non-disruptive to the environment.

Responsible for researching/implementing new technologies (SAN and NAS storage environment)

IT frameworks ITIL, including key processes -- knowledge, incident, change, service request, and major-incident management using Service NOW tool.

Troubleshoot Performance issues by validating reporting, IOPS, Read/write response times and overall storage arrays performance analysis.

Identify unused LUNS, unused file shares work with application and server teams to reclaim. I have worked on projects for Cost savings to the business on storage reclaims.

Plan, coordinate, manage and perform storage migrations between various vendor Enterprise Storage solutions with experience architecting and engineering private, hybrid or public cloud storage solutions

Review and approve Change Requests and represent them in the CAB meetings; review and assign Incident Tickets in the queue.

Implemented Brocade SAN switches SFP replacements on PROD Linux, VMware ESXi Hosts, Windows servers without any impact to operations.

Proven ability to understand Operational and Capital budgets for both on premise and cloud infrastructure including the ability for forecast 3+ years. Establishes budgetary requirements for asset refresh, licensing, maintenance agreements and project funding.

Expertise with the design, configuration, and administration, tuning, optimizing, and troubleshooting for NFS, CIFS, SMB, iSCSI, NDMP and other Enterprise Storage protocols.

In depth understanding of Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell EMC storage and Brocade switches with the ability to operate, engineer and architect associated solutions.

Ensures the overall technical infrastructure and support services effectively support the business needs of the organization.

Provide technical architecture expertise in design and implementation of enterprise computing and storage platforms.

Leads strategic storage engineering activities to innovate and modernize long-term and large-scale data storage solutions for multi-petabytes of data.

Actively monitors storage infrastructure, including utilization, performance, and growth trends, and forecasts future storage needs.

Prioritizes, plans, schedules, and directs activities to meet deadlines, while reporting the status on multiple priorities and deadlines. Contributes to long range planning and budget discussions.

Knowledge of trends and developments in the fields of physical & virtual storage management, backup & recovery technologies, and data protection.

EDUCATION:

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) – 2005 – Passed with 72%

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) -- Osmania University – April 2002 – Passed with 78% with Distinction

Core Technical skills:

Highly skilled and experienced in EMC XtremIO, X2, VMAX, Symmetrix, DMX, CLARiiON, VNX, VPLEX Cluster, VBlock 350, RecoverPoint, Isilon, Unity, Netapp, Hitachi USP1100, USPV, VSP, Hitachi UR, True Copy, Shadow Image, IBM DS6800, DS4700 DS8000, IBM SVC and XIV, Pure Storage X90 and X70 storage arrays. SRDF/A, Isilon SyncIQ, InsightIQ, Command line interfaces, X2 Native replication, DR failover/failback, SAN/NAS Migrations.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Company: GEODIS Logistics LLC. Title: Principal IT Architect/ Sr. IT Manager Duration: Jan 21, 2015 – PRESENT,

Location: Brentwood, TN

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical insight, strategic direction, and ongoing operations management for the Enterprise Storage and Back up team.

Storage provisioning reclaims on Hitachi storage arrays, Dell EMC Unity, Pure storage, Vmax, XtremIO, Isilon arrays.

Set up SRDF/A replication, RecoverPoint replication, XtremIO Native replication and Unity Native replication and configurations.

Data replication using NetApp SnapVault, SnapMirror, SnapCreator and SnapCenter.

HUR Hitachi replication set up and Local Shadow image replication set up and configurations.

SAN/NAS reclaims on for Linux Hosts, VMware ESXi hosts

DR Failover/Failback activities for performing the switchover from primary to DR sites.

Perform upgrade activities with interacting with Vendors for various Storage arrays.

Brocade DCX8510 SAN zoning and troubleshooting the issues.

Performance issues on SAN and NAS arrays for IOPS, Latency read/write and IO load balancing.

Architectural design documentations, presentations to upper-level management.

Explore newer technologies that fit for the organization.

Plan, schedule, perform the SAN migrations without any impact to PROD servers and databases/applications.

Plan, coordinate, manage and perform storage migrations between various vendor Enterprise Storage solutions with experience architecting and engineering private, hybrid or public cloud storage solutions

Review and approve Change Requests and represent them in the CAB meetings; review and assign Incident Tickets in the queue.

Proven ability to understand Operational and Capital budgets for both on premise and cloud infrastructure including the ability for forecast 3+ years. Establishes budgetary requirements for asset refresh, licensing, maintenance agreements and project funding.

Expertise with the design, configuration, and administration, tuning, optimizing and troubleshooting for NFS, CIFS, SMB, iSCSI and other Enterprise Storage protocols

In depth understanding of Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell EMC storage and Brocade switches with the ability to operate, engineer and architect associated solutions.

Leads strategic storage engineering activities to innovate and modernize long-term and large-scale data storage solutions for multi-petabytes of data.

Actively monitors storage infrastructure, including utilization, performance, and growth trends, and forecasts future storage needs.

Prioritizes, plans, schedules, and directs activities to meet deadlines, while reporting the status on multiple priorities and deadlines. Contributes to long range planning and budget discussions.

Knowledge of trends and developments in the fields of physical & virtual storage management, backup & recovery technologies, and data protection.

Company: TIAA-CREF (Financial Services) Designation: Sr Storage engineer Duration: Jan 2014 – Dec 2014

Location: Charlotte, NC

Key Responsibilities

Experience on SAN refresh Migrations from Hitachi USPV4, USPV2, VSP arrays to VMAX 40k storage arrays using Open replication software.

Storage LUN provisioning, mapping, reclaims on Hitachi arrays, Vmax, SAN zoning on Brocade and Cisco MDS switches.

Worked with Server teams, DB teams to plan design the migration steps and prepare the cut over documents for zero impact to production systems and operations.

Company: Bank of America Designation: Sr Storage engineer Duration: Sept 2010 – Nov 2013, Location: India

Key Responsibilities

Configuring storage LUNS, Storage reclaims in VMAX, DMX, Clariion, Hitachi and IBM storage arrays by creating storage group, initiator group, port groups.

Automated the allocation, reclaim scripts like mapping, using the shell scripting.

Replication set up SRDF, RecoverPoint, DR failover activities,

Storage Operations, Troubleshooting the performance related issues, Replication sessions issues, Latency issues to reduce the minimal impact to operations and prod systems.

Experienced in Storage provisioning, Reclaims, Migrations and SAN/NAS operational issues.

Worked on Vmax arrays, Hitachi storage arrays, IBM storage arrays, Brocade SAN switches and Cisco MDS switches for zoning.

Company: HSBC Software Development Designation: Sr Storage Administrator Duration: January 2008 to Sep 2010, Location: India

Key Responsibilities

Configured and managed Brocade fabrics 48k, 5300, 5100 using Brocade CLI and Webtools.

Implemented SRDF replication using SRDF/S, SRDF/A and Cascaded replications.

Experienced in Hitachi Storage navigator, Hitachi device manager, Hitachi Universal Replicator, True copy, shadow Image, Journal Volumes and Journal Groups.

Migrations from DMX to Hitachi arrays without any impact to Prod servers.

Company: Patni Computer Systems Designation: Storage Engineer Duration: Feb 2007 to Nov 2007, Location: India

Responsibilities:

Storage configurations from CX500, 700 arrays using Navisphere Manager to AIX and Windows hosts including creating Raid groups, Binding LUN’s, creating storage groups and adding LUN’s to the Storage groups.

Support for users facing issues on Clariion arrays through remote dial in to the array, troubleshooting the technical issues that may cause the data loss on the array.

Performed Root Cause Analysis for the issues which caused significant business impact to the customers using Clariion FC and CX series arrays.

Company: United Online services and Development Designation: Storage Associate Duration: April 2005 to Jan 2007, Location: India

Responsibilities:

Experienced creating EMC case to resolve the issue of failed drives on the array and hardware issues.

Allocated storage from CX500/CX 600/CX700 model arrays using Navisphere Manager to AIX and Windows hosts including creating Raid groups, Binding LUN’s, creating storage groups and adding LUN’s to the Storage groups.

Gathering the SP collects and check the basic drive failure issues and provide the analysis to the client.

Professional Certifications:

ITIL Version 3 (V3) Foundations Certified in IT Service Management.

Basic Six sigma (Just do it) Certified.

EMC Proven Professional - CLARiiON Foundations Specialist (E20-40).

EMC Information Storage and Management (E20-001).

Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional.

EMC Proven Professional Associate – Information Storage Associate - V2

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