Objective

To provide the organization with the best possible compute and storage administration, maintenance and support services

Technical Skills and Certification

Enterprise Storage:

EMC - VPLEX, XIO, VMAX, DMX, VNX, Isilon, Unity, ViPR SRM

IBM – SVC, V9000, FS9150, DS 8000 Series, V7000 series, XIV

Other Vendors – Pure and Netapp Storage

Switch:

Brocade (3200, 3500, 3900), Cisco Switch(M9513, 9148, 9153, 9148, 9148s, 9250i), Mcdata (Intrepid 6064, 6140 & i10K)

Backup:

Backup Software’s - EMC Avamar, EMC Data domain, EMC ECS, HYCU Backup, Backup exec, Arc serv, Syncsort Backup express

Backup Monitoring tool: DPA, DPC

Platform:

VMware, Nutanix, Cisco UCS, Windows 2000 to 2008

Cloud: AWS

Certification:

Nutanix Platform Professional 5.0 (NPP-5), EMC Isilon Solutions Specialist, VMware Certified Associate – Digital Business Transformation, SNIA, MCP

Education

Bachelor in Electronics and Communications - Anna University – Chennai - 2002 - 2006

Experience

HCL AMERICA

Associate Consultant - Team Lead

• Client: Performance Food Group • Richmond, VA, USA • Sept 2017 - till date

Associate Consultant - Tower Lead

• Client: Broadcom • San Jose, CA, USA • April 2017 - Aug 2017

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Associate Consultant - Tower Lead

• Client: Stanford Healthcare • Chennai, India • Aug 2015 - March 2017

IBM

Technical Services Specialist - Tech Lead

• Client: CMA Systems • Chennai, India • July 2013 - July 2015

Technical Services Specialist - Tech Lead

• Client: Avaya • Chennai, India • Dec 2012 - June 2013

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Senior Specialist Systems – Storage Engineer

• Client: AstraZeneca • Chennai, India • DEC 2011 - Nov 2012

Senior Specialist Systems – Storage Engineer

• Client: UTI (A Logistics Company) • Chennai, India • June 2010 - NOV 2011

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD

Systems Engineer - Storage Analyst

• Client: Nestle • Chennai, India • Jan 09 - June10

MICROLAND

Technical Support Engineer

• Client: SERCO (UK) • Bangalore, India • Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

Key responsibilities and Accomplishment

Leadership

• Served as only onsite Storage and Backup consultant for company’s customer

• Managed Storage and backup team with their daily BAU and Project activities.

• I am part of Major incident management to take part in the Critical Incident Management calls, technically instructing team in the event of a major issue which has potential business impact

• Consulted with clients to gain an understanding of their IT needs, budget, and their current operating environment then designed storage solutions to meet those criteria

• Managed and monitored the capacity and performance of the storage environment and provided monthly recommendations/reports to Senior IT management.

• Performed half yearly Risk analysis and provided solution for risk mitigation

• Collaborated with vendors and suppliers on pricing and deliverables to fit budget constraints

• Provide Service improvement plan and Value Adds

• Implemented a tiered storage platform by generating service levels agreements and providing lower cost alternatives (Isilon) based on application performance requirements

• Maintained project plans, coordinated meetings with all stakeholders, conducted tests, identified prerequisites, documented technical procedures, and monitored the implementation phase of various storage and backup related projects

• Developed and presented training for SAN and Backup engineers

• Documented SOPs and automation checks

Technical

Storage:

• Expert in managing EMC/IBM Storage devices and Brocade/Cisco Switch

• Install and configured new Storage Device (EMC VPLEX/XIO/Isilon/VMAX/VNX, IBM FS9150/V9000/V7000/DS8000 and Netapp)

• Established an enterprise tiered storage and recovery strategy for each mission critical application tier (IBM V9K Remote Replication, EMC VMAX SRDF, EMC Recover point Appliance, EMC Isilon SyncIQ, EMC Data domain Replication)

• Deploy and migrate to new SAN switch MDS 9148s

• Deploy and configure 9250i FCIP Router for inter site storage replication.

• Planning and implementing Storage migration. File Server Migration to Isilon, Data Migration from VNX to Pure Storage, From Vmax to VNX/XIO (Open replicator migration), from VNX to XIO, from ESS 800 to DS8000

Backup:

• Install and configure Avamar/HYCU for Data backup

• Migrated Data backup solution from Netbackup to Avamar and from Avamar to HYCU

• Implemented DPA (Data protection Advisor and Data protection Central) for backup device backup monitoring and Reporting

• Performed monthly test restore to test availability of backed up server/shares/application

• Performed quarterly backup availability check of all servers

• Maintained 99% backup success rate throughout the year

Platform:

• Managed Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers and clusters

• Deployed Nutanix (2 Node cluster) and migrated data from VMware/VNX to Nutanix AOS across 24 data centers

• VM migration from Vblock (VMware) to Nutanix (VMware)

Other:

• Providing Root Cause Analysis and preventive actions plan.

• Performing Quarterly DR Test of Gold applications

• Performed quarterly N-1 firmware analysis/upgrade for all supported devices

• Performed quarterly capacity analysis/ cleanup on all storage devices (Storage white space cleanup, VMware Datastore consolidation, Orphan Lun cleanup)

• Automated manual monitoring/reporting tasks using PowerShell

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