Dec 2012 – Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Implementation of Equllogic (iSCSI) & Compellent ( iSCSI & FC) arrays in Mission Critical Environment.
• Perform troubleshooting and repair in escalated or critical situations
• Installation and Integration of Solaris, Linux, AIX, VMware ESX & Windows system to SAN.
• Perform health check and maintenance services for SAN environments
• Perform sustaining install activities including DAE or host adds and SAN upgrades
• Develop and maintain positive, long-standing customer relationships built on trust
• Resolve customer issues resulting in 0 revisits for engineer issues

Sep 2008 – Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Provide technical expertise and support to the Business Units
• Point of contact to receive escalations of high priority incident management, change management Team.
• Responsible for new projects implementation, Performance & Capacity management.
• Own the resolution of complex high-priority incidents and problems.
• Produce documentation and procedures regarding the proper use and operation of the Enterprise SAN system infrastructure.
• Provide technical expertise to Configured RAID Groups, Storage Tiers, Migrating Data across tiers using Tiered Storage Manager.
• Administrating of HDS /IBM/ NetApps Storages. Creation of Aggregates, Pools, volumes and mapping of LUNs to Windows & UNIX hosts.
• Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zone sets and fabric configurations. Configured zoning on FC Switches (Brocade) using the Datacenter Fabric Manager (DCFM) & Enterprise Fabric Manager (EFCM).
• Monitoring, Capacity planning, performance tuning and maintaining HDS arrays using Tuning Manager Expert Assistance.
• Capturing SAN & Backup Performance Metrics and publish weekly basis to management.
• Monitoring and trouble shooting performance metrics through Virtual Instrument tool.
• Monitoring and reporting Fabric level performance level metrics using NetApp OnCommand (SANScreen) tool.
• Environment: HDS - VSP , AMS 2X00, HNAS, IBM- DS8800, DS8300, DS4800, XIV , N5600, Protect Tier Emulex, NetApp - FAS 6030, FAS 3270/3020/3030/3050, Brocade - DCX Director , DCX-4S Backbone, 5100, 5000, 48000, 4020 McData -- 6840 Director, Sphereon 4700 , Storage Tech SL8500 Tape Library , IBM Protect tier for Virtual Tape Library(VTL)
• Tools: NetApp OnCommand (SANScreen), NetApp Operations Manager, Virtual Instruments SAN performance tool. Datalink Aptare for Backup Reporting, Brocade -Datacenter Fabric Manager (DCFM).

Nov 2004 – Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Responsible for HBA connectivity, Configuring HBA’s, creating Zone sets on Fiber switches and allocating storage from EMC DMX 4, DMX 3 , DMX 1000, Symmetrix 8830, CLARiiON
• Creating Luns on Symmetrix Storages and assigning them to FA Ports using SYMMCONFIGURE utility & EMC Control Center
• Disaster Recovery Setup for the identified applications using Symmetrix Remote Data Facility. Configuring of CNT Edge routers for compression and conversion of FC packets to IP Packets
• Creating Disk groups, File Systems using Veritas Volume Manager & HP Logical Volume Manager
• Installation and using Time Finder to work with Business Continuous Volumes.
• New Storage design and deployment
• Asynchronous Online Replication of Databases from the Primary Site to the DR Site
• Enforcing replication policies (SRDF )
• Participated actively in all DR POC & Drills
• Creation of New Sun/HP Domains
• Installing and configuring the Solaris & Sun Cluster.
• Clone the database for Dry Runs
• Replicating the Production data to BCV copy for Dry runs
• Configuring staging databases for Reporting.
• Implementing OS Hardening as specified by the Client’s Security policy.
• Assigning BCV Volumes for Backups and Reports.
• Creating Veritas /HP-UX LVM functions.
• Environment: Symmetrix DMX 3000/1000, DMX-3, DMX-4; CLARiiON CX700/600, CX3-80, CX3-40,HP-XP12K, Brocade - Silkworm 4100,3800,4900,Sun Fire E25K, E15K, v490, v890, HP Superdome 128/64/32 way ,RX6600
• TOOLS: EMC NetWorker 7.3, EMC Data Manager (EDM) 5.5, EMC Control Center 6.0, EMC Solution Enabler 6.3.2, EMC Time Finder, EMC Power Path 4.5, EMC SRDF.
• Backup: Quantum ATL P7000, PX-720 Tape Library with Fiber Channel routers, EMC Data Manager (Backup Solution), EMC Networker.

Aug 2002 – Nov 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• User administration (LDAP, NIS,NIS+)
• Configure and maintain NFS, autofs server.
• Configure and maintain Bind DNS Server.
• Configure and maintain Apache HTTP Web Server.
• Configure and maintain SMTP, POP3 Mail Server.
• Configuration of Print and samba (Unix/Windows file sharing) Servers.
• Setup the Firewall with DMZ, NAT (port forwarding).
• Configure and maintain the FTP Servers.
• Maintenance and installation of service packs and software patches
• Planning & Implementing Windows NT/2000 Server at Enterprise Level.
• Installing operating systems, hardware, vendor software packages like Unigraphics (v.16, 17&18), Pro-e (2000i&2001), Ansys (5.4&6.0), Catia (V5R4, R8), and Delcam.
• Installing & Optimizing Active Directory Services for Windows 2000
• Installing & configuring DNS on NT/2000
• Creating User Accounts and assigning advanced file permissions in respective of the Companies security policy.
• Configuration of Outlook Express for POP3 and SMTP services

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Installation and configuration of Windows NT 3.51, Windows 3.11 and Windows 95.
• Installation of new machines in the network, adding and maintaining remote printers.
• Windows NT System and TCP/IP Network Administration.
• Configuration of Network Connectivity in LAN Environment in Windows NT.
• Configuring the systems into networks using protocols: TCP/IP and NetBEUI.
• Creation of Users, Groups and taking care of security features of the system by assigning appropriate roles to user logins.
• Hardware maintenance of the Systems present in the Campus.
• Print service configuration
• LAN Administration – TCP/IP Network with 40 nodes based on Ethernet, CSMA/CD, and CAT5 Twisted pair. The operating systems used Windows NT (3.51) & Windows 3.11/95.

Aug 1994 – Jul 1996 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Attending for the daily Customers Service Calls.
• Troubleshooting the Hardware & Operating system related problems.
• Installing and Configuring the Printers like Dot matrix, DeskJet & Laser Printers.
• Installing Operating systems, Hardware, Software Packages and Upgrading the
• IBM PC compatible Systems.
• Maintaining cordial relations with the customers