Profile Summary

An Enterprising Leader with an analytical bent of mind, offering 15+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure services which includes Presales, Administration, Implementation, Architecting & Consulting on data storage & Data Protection,Virtualization, Public Cloud -Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloud migrations, SAN/NAS connectivity and datacenter transformation, Block & NAS migrations.

Successfully administered various IT Infrastructure and Datacenter Transformation Projects; developed relationships with business stakeholders and culturally diverse teams; presented changes, issues, risks & contingency plans to balance program/project resources.

Architected technical solutions required to address customer requirements, assessed customers’ needs and recommended.

solutions that optimized value for both the customer and the firm

Project & Delivery Management expertise encompassing planning, implementation, scope management, activity sequencing, resource management, risk analysis & quality with team members; skills in identifying opportunities for establishing high standards of collaboration and project deliveries.

Experienced in analyzing risks to organizations, ensuring compliance to IT standards & designing secure solutions that support organizational objectives; competent in analyzing ecosystems to identify risks pertaining to IT operations, business continuity readiness, process flaws, security awareness, and statutory/contractual non-compliance.

Led several success stories in IT infrastructure areas out of underperforming resources & programs, ensuring optimization, automation, to bring down costs and improve margins.

Extensive IT infrastructure services experience including networking, computing, enterprise class storage, backup technology and cloud.

Experience in architecting, planning, designing, implementing, managing, administering IT Infrastructure solutions which includes DELL EMC Powermax/ VMAX3/ VMAX/ DMX/ SRDF/ SRDF Metro/ OpenReplicator/ SANCOPY/ PPME/ VNX/ Clariion/ Unity/ PowerStore/ Recoverpoint/ XtremIO/ VPLEX/ ISILON/ NetApp 7 Mode/CDOT/ Hitachi Storage/Pure Storage- Pure Storage- Pure FlashArray & Pure FlashBlade /IBM Storage, Brocade SAN/ Cisco SAN, RP4VM, HCI-VxRail,Powerscale,SDDS : PowerFlex,VMWare SRM & DRaaS : Zerto for VM replication & Migrations ( On Prem & Cloud ),Crowdstrike for Cloud Security,Public Cloud : AWS-Azure-GCP.

Felicitated with Leadership Skill Appreciation and numerous Field nominated awards for long-term project delivery for the reputed clients and driving various initiatives.

Architect, presales, and consulting level experience of a professional and managed service business in data management or datacenter solutions

Led the Professional Services Knowledge contribution drive which resulted in 200+ KB Article; created Knowledge based articles and valuated for internal, partners and external stakeholders.

Recognized technology speaker in Executive Briefing for Customers (EBC) events

Certifications & Courses

AZ 305 - Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Certified

RecoverPoint Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers E20- 375

VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Exam - E20-807

DES-1423 Specialist – Implementation Engineer,Powerscale

DES-1121-Specialist -Implementation Engineer,PowerMax and VMAX Family Solutions Exam

IT-as-a-Service Expert Exam for Cloud Architects - E20-918

Specialist, Systems Administrator VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Solutions Exam - E20-507

VPLEX Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers-E20-260

Specialist - Implementation Engineer, Dell EMC Unity Solutions Exam E20-393

Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist Exam for Cloud Architects E20-018

XtremIO 3.x Flash Storage Solutions Exam E22-258

VNX Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers - E20-390

Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 4.0

EMC Information Storage Associate - E20-001

Certified DobiMiner Engineer.

ITIL V3 Foundation Certified

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals AZ-900

Pursuing Azure & AWS Solution Architect Certification.

Powerflex 3.6 Implementation and Administration.

VxRail Implementation and Administration.

PowerStore Implementation and Administration

Project Management Professional (PMP) trained.

Trained on CCNA Routing & Switching

Education

TechEdge (Technical Leadership Programme) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore in 2020

MCA from Indira Gandhi National Open University in 2014

B.Sc. from Osmania University in 2008

Core Competencies

Strategic Planning & Execution

IT Infrastructure

IT Service Delivery Management

Technical Presales

Disaster Recovery Planning

Enterprise/ Solution Architecture

Data Storage/DELLEMC Storage/Pure Storage/Hitachi Storage/IBM /NetApp

Cloud Computing-AWS\Azure\GCP

Digital Transformation

Technical Skills

Public\Private Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Dell APEX.

Servers\Virtualization: Windows, Linux & VMWare

Data Storage: Powermax,VMAX, VMAX3, XtremIO, DMX, Clarion, VNX, Unity, Powerstore, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, RecoverPoint for VM

Miscellaneous: HDS Storage - HDS Arrays-VSPGxxx, VSPFxxx, HUS, HCP, Netapp Filers\CDOT\Microsft ANF ( Azure Netapp Files ), IBM SVC, Pure Storage Arrays.

Migration Tools: Open Replicator,NDM,MDM, SRDF Migrations, SANCOPY, PPME, DataDobi Dobiminer, RSync, EMCopy.

NAS Solutions: Dell EMC UDS Solutions - Isilon\Powerscale

DPS Products: Networker, Avamar, Data Domain

Hyper Converged Infrastructure\Converged Infrastructure: VxRail, Vblock,PowerFlex

DELLEMC Object Storage- ECS

DELLEMC Application: Dell AppSync

VMWare Replication Technologies: Zerto and VMWare SRM

Microsoft Visio: Used for Solution Design,System diagrams,Network Topology,Data Flow Diagrams,Rack Diagrams, Process Flow

SAN Management: Brocade, Cisco SAN,McData

DevOps:

-Containerization and Orchestration Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

-Collaboration and Communication Tool: JIRA

-Version Control Systems: Git

-Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Tools: Jenkins

-Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools: Terraform

Work Experience

Appridat Solutions LLC

Senior Solution Architect Apr’23-Present

Working as Senior Solutions Architect helping customers in Presales, Solutions design, architecting, implementation and deployment projects of various complexities on Multi Cloud Computing technologies, SAN, NAS, HCI, CI,Data Protection, which included Solutions on Public Cloud like AWS\Azure\GCP,DELLEMC Storage- DMX,VMAX,Powermax (V3 & V4),VMAX3,Clarion,Unity,VPLEX MetroNode,XtremIO,Isilon\Powerscale, Netapp Filers, Azure ANF, VxRail, PowerStore,VPLEX & PowerStore MetroNode,PowerFlex,SRDF, Pure Storage- Pure FlashArray & Pure FlashBlade, SRDF Metro, Zerto, VMWare SRM,Avamar,Datadomain and Networker, Block & File Based Migrations.

Deep Expertise in Solution Design & Planning, disk sizing & creating Sales Order, Pre-Sales support, creation of BoM & Quotes

for Dell EMC Storage Products. Capacity Planning for Storage & Backup Solutions and Provide Fix and solution to Product related issues.

Assisting in Identifying the EOSL Storage Arrays and preparing plan for Tech Refresh and Migration activities.

Oct’10-Apr’23 with Dell Technologies

Senior Solution Architect Oct’18-Apr’23

Clients worked: RE INSURANCEGROUP OF AMERICA INC,BAIN & CO, PAWLING CORP, AT&T, BOA ( Bank of America ), Wells Fargo Bank,RBS,Barclays,credit Suisse,Goldman Sachs,Citigroup,PepsiCo

Managed over 300+ Presales, Solutions design, architecting, implementation and deployment projects of various complexities on Multi Cloud Computing technologies, SAN, NAS, HCI, CI,Data Protection, which included Solutions on Public Cloud like AWS\Azure\GCP,DELLEMC- DMX,VMAX,Powermax (V3 & V4),VMAX3,Clarion,Unity,XtremIO,Isilon\Powerscale,Netapp Filers, Azure ANF, VxRail,PowerStore,VPLEX & PowerStore MetroNode,PowerFlex,SRDF,Pure Storage- Pure Storage- Pure FlashArray & Pure FlashBlade, SRDF Metro, Zerto, VMWare SRM,Avamar,Datadomain and Networker.

Deep Expertise in Solution Design & Planning, disk sizing & creating Sales Order, Pre-Sales support, creation of BoM & Quotes

for Dell EMC Storage Products. Capacity Planning for Storage & Backup Solutions and Provide Fix and solution to Product

related issues.

Driving sales by delivering exceptional results on a greenfield project resulting in sales opportunities.

Enterprise Solution Architect focusing on Virtualization and Storage solutions based around Dell EMC & VMware product portfolio on Storage, Replication & Migration solutions.

Assisting in Identifying the EOSL Storage Arrays and preparing plan for Tech Refresh and Migration activities.

Successfully Designed and Implemented the VxRail cluster (Standard, ROBO, vSAN 2 Node, Dynamic & Stretch cluster).

Successfully lead the migration using Storage vMotion for 800 VM from VMAX to PowerMAX-8000 with 2 PB Data.

Responsible for Creating more than 300+ Solution Designs and Implementation BluePrint documentation with deep-dive technical insights into the architectural aspects of Dell EMC Storage Product family.

Comprehensive analysis and decision on the number of disks, Tiers, RAID groups, Hardware and software specifications of the product using Sizer tools for PowerMax, VMAX3, Isilon, XIO and Unity.

Configure new Quote orders for Dell Products like PowerMax, VMAX3, Isilon, XIO and Unity as per customer contract,

commitments and restrictions.

Working directly with customers to identify opportunities to Configure upgrades based on contract commitments and actual performance data that continue to meet performance commitments with clients.

Lead the Evaluation of performance data to verify the delivery is meeting contract commitments and provide recommendations on how much performance capability is still available for workload expansion provide optimal solution for demanding customers along with capacity upgrade recommendation.

Assisting and managing the Metering & Measuring of consumption/utilized data from the all the Dell assets deployed in customer environment required for Billing and provide Billing reports to customer as per agreed pricing for each models, also provide Utilization charts and trend charts using BI Tools.

Zerto v9.5 for VM level replication,Disaster recovery and migrations between the vcenters, on prem to on prem between storage arrays with source being EMC and target being Pure Storage array and on prem to the cloud facilitating the cloud adoption - Created VPG, protected the VMs\Servers by doing a remote replication to a DR site, migrated the workloads, failover to DR in case of a disaster, performed the restore of the files to latest checkpoints as per customer requirements.

ServiceNow \ Remedy for ICNM, CR, PRB, RITM management, inventory discovery.

Architecting,deploying & Managing the Azure Netapp Files (ANF ) by creating the needed Storage Accounts, Choosing the appropriate region,capacity pools ( Standard,Premium,Ultra),setting up Active Directory for Authentication, creating Volumes(SMB\NFS),defining the Virtual network, subnet, setting quotas, snapshots, resizing the volumes.

Administering and maintaining NetApp filers.

• Quota, Qtree, Space Management, Snapmirror DR, Data Fabric Manager Update & Management.

• Experience in managing NetApp Snapsuite solutions like SnapMirror, and SnapVault for backup, migration, and disaster recovery

• Maintenance and Monitoring of NetApp storage by Configuring Aggregates, volume, Qtree and snapshots using DFM,Operations

Manager,CLI.

• Created and configured CIFS Shares, NFS Mounts, Quotas Permissions on NetApp NAS.

• Experience in working on Support Network Attached Storage (NAS) / Netapp platform and Proven experience in complex, enterprise level NAS platform in a mission critical environment.

Experience in working with Netapp 7MODE and CDOT and capable of providing support following ITIL practice and incident.

management.

• Performing health checks for NetApp 7MODE, CDOT.

Understand existing app and associated IT infra landscape on VMWare, Servers(Windows\Linux) etc. to propose a cost effective solution on AWS Cloud.

Work with AWS public cloud solutions architect team for better solutions design on latest service offerings.

Lead organization through cloud adoption and transformation efforts and establish best practices to move to Azure, AWS & GCP.

Lead the management and maintenance of the cloud architecture.

Provide leadership over cloud efforts like infrastructure transition, service, and data migration.

Identify and implement cloud capabilities that best support the organizations cloud efforts.

Perform analysis of cloud offerings and determine offer that provides best value to the organization.

Define and implement secure networking solutions between on-premises data centers and public clouds.

Provide guidance and training to cloud engineers on the approach selected as the best implementation.

Bin design of VMAX,VMAX3,Powermax Arrays and ensuring the upgrades are handled seamlessly by the field engineers and work closely with RCM team to create the needed procedure files.

SAN Fabric Design, Implementation and Migration, focus on Brocade and Cisco SAN switches.

Lead a team of 20 storage engineers offshore and onshore supporting a 7+ PB SAN/NAS environment comprising of EMC/Netapp/ Brocade SAN infrastructure. Plan, Lead Migration projects and other complex storage projects.

Design, Administration & Implementation of Isilon\Powerscale clusters.

Leading Large Scale Transformation Projects.

Steered storage administration on EMC & HDS, Netapp.

Experience working with VMWare environments having Vcenter,ESXi clusters in terms of administration and troubleshooting the environment, checking the needed logs, performance captures, host reboots, slow boot etc.

Experience in Deploying, Upgrading, and managing Powerflex

Experience in Designing, Deploying, Upgrading, and managing Powerflex Appliances

Experience in Installing PowerFlex managers and using this appliance for managing the infrastructure.

Experience in performing troubleshooting and remediating the customer environment by working with support team.

Experience with Configuration and implementation of PowerStore 1000x through 9000x models.

In depth Performance analysis of various storage arrays like Clarion, VNX,Unity,VMAX,VMAX3,Powermax,XtremIO and VPLEX and providing the health check scorecards to the customers based on DELLEMC best practice recommendations.

Brocade Infrastructure health Assessment using the tools like Brocade SAN health and providing recommendation to fine tune the SAN island spread across multiple datacenters.

Working as Technical Leader and providing SME opinions to the project teams at critical situations on complex engagements

Leading a team of 20+ architects successfully coming from various technology background and experience resulting in exponential CSAT growth QOQ

Steering DELLEMC Storage practice and transitioned the product expertise to the team by training over 100 people.

Building New Datacenters and planning DC moves from On Prem to On Prem and On Prem to Cloud acting as a POC coordinating the same with various stakeholders involved from Application, Infrastructure and Databases, Networking and Cloud COE teams.

Propose a migration strategy to suit customers’ demands to move into cloud.

Designing a modern application on Azure cloud using WAF (Well Architected Framework) and set of architecture pillars.

Designing a strong Identity and Access management (IAM) controls for On Prem and Cloud Resources.

Expertise on AWS or Azure clouds EC2, IAM, VPC, EKS, Security Groups, EBS, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Experience working with AWS Backup and Storage Gateway.

Azure Active Directory: Self Service password reset, Conditional Access, Single Sign On, Multi Factor Authentication, Privileged Identity Management, User provisioning automation, Azure AD App registration & Enterprise application, Azure AD application proxy, AD connect.

AZURE Log Analytics Workspace for monitoring of on prem and cloud resources.

Understand application and workload move dispositions (6R Methodologies)

Deploy Azure IaaS/PaaS infra/resources like Azure App Service, Virtual machines, VMSS, Storage Accounts, Networking( Virtual Networks-Peering-Expressroute), Monitoring, Private link Service & Private end point, Load balancer, etc.

AZURE backup for backup and protection

AZURE Site recovery for disaster recovery

Azure CDN for accelerating access to Web applications using global network ( Microsoft & Partner Networks ) and Redis Cache for speeding up application access.

Azure AD App Proxy to access internal web applications hosted onprem.

Planning, Architecting and Migrating on-prem VMs to Azure cloud using Azure Migrate.

Planning and implementing Azure backup solution using the Networker and Datadomain Virtual Edition offerings from Dell.

Planning and Implementing AWS\GCP backup solution for end clients by creating robust IAM controls, VPC Network Peering, deploying more then 300 + DDVE ( Data Domain Virtual Edition ) & Networker VE backup server offerings from Dell on AWS\GCP Cloud for backing up more than 2000+ end clients which included Virtualized and physical servers\Databases etc.

Propose a migration strategy to suit customers’ demands to move into cloud.

Work with Microsoft public cloud architect team for better solutions design on latest service offerings.

Effectively tracked and communicated project progress to senior leadership teams and worked closely with CCOE ( Cloud Center of Excellence ) teams to evaluate the gaps and address the same for smooth delivery.

Reduced monthly cost consumption by following best practices on CloudCheckr.

Reduced monthly cost consumption by archiving Service Now records.

CloudCheckr for billing and best practices, inventory.

Crowdstrike for Cloud Security to protect Azure & AWS resources.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate PCI DSS and HIPAA requirements into the software development lifecycle, ensuring security and privacy considerations were addressed from the outset.

Iaas / PaaS experience on multi cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.

Created Hosts, Host Groups, Volumes, Volume Groups, Protection Groups, Snapshot Scheduling in Pure Storage FlashArray.

Extensive Knowledge working with Pure FlashBlade – Unified Fast File Object Storage for file and object based workloads.

Setting up Active DR capability built into the Pure Storage Flash Array products running Purity 6.0.

FlashArray GUI to migrate workloads between Pure FlashArray systems using ActiveWorkload without disrupting business services or users.

Solution Architect Nov’14-Oct’18

Clients worked: GIBSON ENERGY ULC,CITY OF GADSDEN, Healthcare : Cardinal, Abbott,Pfizer

Evaluated customer requirements, developed & implemented technical solutions designs for Enterprise and Mid-range Storage (SAN & NAS), Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Data Migrations and Data Center Consolidations for global EMC customers.

Worked on the migration from Netapp array to EMC array using VPLEX and RecoverPoint

Functioned on migration using SRDF/S and SRDF/A from VMAX to VMAX3

Experience working with VMWare environments having Vcenter,ESXi clusters in terms of administration and troubleshooting the environment, checking the needed logs, performance captures, host reboots, slow boot etc.

Worked on Brocade SAN Install/Merge/Configuration and migrations from MCData,48K to 8510-4 and 8510-8

Performed performance analysis and provided best practice recommendations on XtremIO, Unity, RecoverPoint, Brocade, VMAX, Powermax. Data Migrations using VPLEX Data Mobility

Implemented Integration of XtremIO\Recoverpoint arrays with VMAX\VMAX3

Configuring NFS and SMB shared on Isilon and providing client access to the data.

Configuring Storage Pools and applying smart quota.

Experienced in migrating data from symmetrix DMX to VMAX and CLARiiON to VMAX using both Open Replicator Hot pull/push and Cold push/pull technology.

Extensively worked on Brocade Director Switches, McData and Cisco MDS switches. Proficient in using Cisco Fabric and Device Manager.

Experienced on Connectrix Manager and Connectrix Series Web Tools.

VMAX3\VMAX\Powermax Design/Implementation/Configuration.

VNX-VPLEX-RecoverPoint Design and Implementation.

File/Block Data Migration Design, Planning and Implementation

Created LDEVs, LUSE and Provisioning/ Reclaiming LUNS.

Added Parity Groups to the Pools if pool utilization exceeds.

Worked on Hitachi UVM (Virtualized other storage arrays to VSP) and migrated data.

Worked in configuring HDS Replications like Shadow Image, COW, TC and HUR.

Configured GAD Replication using HORCM CCLI and GUI.

Worked on configuring Ops Center, HCS, HDID, Ops Center for Enterprise Storage Systems.

Created Performance Reports and changed Tiering policy for the servers with low performance.

Collected Logs and worked with vendor to resolve issues.

Configured File Systems and set Quotas for HNAS.

Worked in upgrading the microcode of VSP.

Associate Delivery Specialist II Apr’12-Nov’14

Clients worked: Walmart,General Electric,Macquarie Bank,Boeing,UnitedHealth Group,Intel

Allocation and Reclamation of storage from HDS VSP series/HUS, HCP as per the requests.

Working on Hitachi Replications like Shadow Image, True Copy and HUR using HRPM and Horcm CCI.

Troubleshooting SAN connectivity & performance issues in coordination with OS teams.

Responsible for architecture, forecasting, procurement, and operational support of 30+ Petabyte SAN environment.

Day-to-day storage administration activities for different business units.

Responsible for firmware upgrades of Hitachi, Netapp filers and Cisco MDS switches.

Responsible for managing on Networker & Avamar, Data Domain environment.

Worked on Integration of Avamar with Data Domain

Consults with end users to coordinate scheduling of backups and address other backup and recovery concerns.

Supporting backup/restore environment for global customer consisting of UNIX and Windows servers.

• EMC Networker Activities like monitoring backups and troubleshooting failures, perform Initial checks and restarting the failed backups,

checking for backup schedules.

Performing Ad hoc backup and restore requests.

• EMC Avamar administration tasks like performing restores, Checking retention policies,Creating-Editing-Copying- Datasets, defining Exclusion and Inclusion list of backups as per site requirements, Scheduling backups(Daily\Weekly\Monthly\On-Demand), monitoring backup-restore activities, server monitoring, Resume backups\restores.

Formulated redundant systems and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to maintain data protection.

Implemented a culture of innovation, service excellence, performance, and safety, investigate ways to continuously improve the IT Infrastructure activity.

Drove vulnerability management in the teams, ensuring that vulnerabilities are fixed for IT infrastructure areas

Associate Delivery Specialist I Oct’10-Apr’12

Clients Worked: GE,Pfizer,Capgemini,MGL

Responsible for managing, monitoring, and configuring Cisco, McData and Brocade Switches. Used Cisco Fabric Manager, Connectix Manager, and Brocade Fabric Manager for configuring, administering zones/zone sets on Cisco, McData and Brocade Switches.

Performed touch support work during the cabling that ran from servers to switch in the process of switch migration.

Supported backup\restore environment for global customer consisting of UNIX and Windows servers using backup software’s like Networker, Avamar and Data Domain

Jul’08-Oct’10 with Infosys as Assistant Engineer

Clients Worked: HDS, Vodafone

Administered and implemented Windows-Exchange Servers, midrange\enterprise class data storage, HDS & Netapp

Performed infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis Data Centre\Server Consolidation Project Experience

Experienced with Windows Server 2012 R2, Domain Controllers, Group Policy, DNS, ACLs, and permissions.

Coordinate closely with Engineers, Network and Storage teams to ensure successful execution.

of migrations on time with zero defects.

Manage the individual migration plans and wave event planning.

(i.e., Run books, minute-by-minute execution plans, charter documents, project Documentations, move group documentations).

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