Karthik Pappu

CTO

United States17 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Cloud Security and Storage Engineering.
  • Proven track record in SAN and NAS implementations.
  • Strong background in healthcare IT solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security and Storage Engineering expert in the Healthcare industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityStorage EngineeringInfrastructure

Other Skills

Hitachi SANHitachi Device ManagerTuning ManagerTiered Storage ManagerHitachi Storage ViewerEHR applicationsNetappIsilonCisco MDS switchesVMwarevSphereEMC IsilonHitachi NASEMC VMAXNimsoft monitoring

About

Securing Zero's and One's.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Electronic arts (ea)

Cloud Security/Systems/Storage/PKI

Nov 2015Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

Cloud SecurityStorage Engineering

Seattle children's

Storage Engineer

Feb 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Seattle

  • Storage:
  • Designing, implementing, installing , troubleshooting and operational support for Hitachi SAN (VSP,HUS,AMS).
  • Extensively worked on Hitachi Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tiered Storage Manager
  • Automation of storage performance reporting and trending for HDS arrays using Tuning Manager.
  • Implementation and configuration of Hitachi Storage Viewer (Aptare), to report on capacity and resource utilization
  • Implement of Storage best practices for EHR applications like Epic, Cerner and PACS.
  • NAS:
  • Design and implementation and operational support for HNAS 3000 and 4000 series of NAS controllers
  • Established test criteria and designed proof-of-concept tests for Netapp and Isilon products.
  • Troubleshooting cifs/nfs clients using native Hitachi HNAS tools and Wireshark .
  • Object/Content Storage:
  • Design and Implementation of Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and HCP ANYwhere (cloud storage platform) and integration with HDI.
  • Migration of existing data from EMC Centera to Hitachi HCP .
  • Switches:
  • Managed Cisco MDS switches and performed switch migrations from Cisco 9500 series to 9700 series in a phased manner.
  • VMware:
  • Involved in the migration of 21 ESXi clusters from vSphere 5.0 to 5.1 and then to 5.5, including the transition from VMFS 3 to VMFS 5.
  • Application of HDS-VMware best practices for storage layout and tiering, to work with VMware Storage DRS Clusters.
Hitachi SANHitachi Device ManagerTuning ManagerTiered Storage ManagerHitachi Storage ViewerEHR applications+6

State farm

Storage Analyst L3 (Contracting Company Renee Systems)

Sep 2012Feb 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Storage:
  • Designing, implementing, installing and troubleshooting of Hitachi SAN (VSP,HUS,AMS)
  • Extensively worked on Hitachi Device Manager, Tuning Manager, Tiered Storage Manager
  • Experience on performance troubleshooting with tuning manager
  • NAS:
  • Design,implementation of Hitachi NAS and migrating from HNAS 3200 to HNAS 3090 using File-based replication.
  • Proof of concept and testing of EMC Isilon.
  • Resolve technical connectivity issues for Unix and Windows systems using NFS, CIFS.
  • Switches:
  • New Cisco MDS 9513 SAN switch setup and firmware upgrade's
  • ISL setup between existing and new Cisco MDS 9513 switches.
  • Migration of Cisco MDS 9513 from gen1/2/3 to gen4
Hitachi SANHitachi Device ManagerTuning ManagerEMC IsilonCisco MDS switchesStorage Engineering+1

Community health systems

Storage Engineer (Contracting Company Renee Systems)

Jul 2011Jul 2012 · 1 yr · Franklin TN

  • Administrated SAN environment across 134 data-centers comprising of multi-vendor heterogeneous infrastructure consisting of EMC VMAX, DMX,VNX, IBM DS8300, 5k,4k, SVC, EMC VNX, CLARiiON storage arrays across United States.
  • Configured Nimsoft monitoring software for SAN monitoring across all 134 datacenters.
  • Installed TSM clients 6.3 on Windows and Linux clients for backup and remediating TSM misses and failed backups..
  • Configured DE-duplication polices on Falconstor VTL.
EMC VMAXNimsoft monitoringTSM clientsFalconstor VTLStorage EngineeringInfrastructure

Florida power & light

Storage Consultant(Contracting Company Renee Systems)

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

  • Design/deployment of IBM SVC and migrate data from EMC DMX 800 and other old array's to IBM DS storage.
  • Implementation of IBM Global Mirror for remote replication.
IBM SVCEMC DMXStorage Engineering

Emc

Storage Engineer(Contracting Company Elan Tech)

Dec 2010Jun 2011 · 6 mos · Annapolis

  • Migration from 3rd party storage to EMC VMAX storage.
  • Migration technologies used:Open Replicator/Migrator,rsync.
  • Orcale RAC cluster storage allocation and migration
EMC VMAXOpen ReplicatorOracle RACStorage Engineering

New mexico state university

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jul 2008Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Graduate Level Courses:
  • Computer Performance Analysis.
  • Communications Networks (Course and Lab)
  • Advanced Computer Networks
  • .
  • Under Graduate Courses:
  • Course: Digital Circuits.(LAB)

Research Assistant

Jan 2008Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • My research mainly focused on optimizing routing protocols for wireless sensor networks(WSN). Worked on projects funded by NSF which consisted of designing jammer using WSN.
  • Research consisted of :
  • Study of Distributed Jamming Using TDMA Subnets using active and passive jamming .
  • Maximize the lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) using Linear Programming Models
  • Performance and optimization of P2P Networks

Education

Dakota State University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — CyberDefense

Aug 2023Jun 2027

New Mexico State University

Master's degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2010

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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