Kunal Chaudhery Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

I am currently employed in a multi-brand storage environment that includes storage arrays such as Infinibox, EMC Unity, Synology, and Brocade SAN. My responsibilities encompass all storage-related activities, including performance tuning and troubleshooting. Over the past year, I have achieved several key accomplishments, including successfully executing code upgrades for Brocade switches, Infinibox, and EMC Unity. Additionally, I migrated the NAS environment from EMC Unity to a newer model, generated and maintained capacity reports, replication failure reports, and conducted DR tests.Moreover, I collaborate with the Storage sales teams from various vendors to identify the best available storage solution for our environment, taking into consideration both performance and cost perspectives.I have also conducted training sessions on Dell ; Information Storage and Management v5.

Gurugram, Haryana, India

My responsibilities as a Storage Administrator involve various tasks, including multi-platform storage allocations, storage reclamation, zoning, performance enhancement, port balancing, commissioning, and decommissioning of storage and servers at the storage level. I am also responsible for performing disaster recovery tests and setting up replication of production volumes and consistency groups.To carry out physical activities that require hands and feet support, I coordinate with the appropriate personnel. Additionally, I coordinate with the storage vendor for replacement, installation, and storage decommission activities. As part of my role, I manage Infinibox and EMC Unity, Brocade SAN switch fabric, and CMCNE. I am responsible for code upgrades of storage arrays and SAN switches, as well as troubleshooting SAN during application slowness issues.I am also responsible for maintaining various reports required by management, such as capacity reports, inventory reports, and reports for disaster recovery tests that include LUN information for both the source and target. Furthermore, I perform NAS failover to migrate NAS resources to upgrade storage, and I coordinate with application owners to minimize downtime and enable migration with minimal disruption.

Noida

As a Professional:II Storage administrator at DXC technologies, my primary responsibility involved administering various storage devices such as EMC VMAX, EMC VNX (5600 and 7600), Unity 650F, Infinidat storage (Infinibox), Netapp, and Vplex. I was also responsible for configuring NAS for multi-platform servers, performing replication and migrations on both enterprise and mid-range arrays, and troubleshooting and administering Brocade SAN switches.Additionally, I was responsible for monitoring and reporting on the performance of storage devices, conducting capacity planning, and performing cleanup activities. My areas of expertise included EMC VMAX, Unity, Netapp, HP3Par, Hitachi Storage, and Brocade SAN switches.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

During my tenure at HCL Technologies, I served as a storage administrator with a range of responsibilities. Specifically, I administered various storage devices, including EMC VNX (5600 and 7600), Unity 650F, and Clariion. Additionally, I was responsible for managing Brocade SAN switches, which involved activities such as zoning, troubleshooting, and overall administration.My duties also encompassed monitoring and reporting on the performance of storage devices, performing capacity planning, and undertaking cleanup activities as needed. In addition, I played a role in incident management and critical incident management, as well as risk management.One of my notable achievements was leading a team of eight people who were responsible for monitoring critical devices. I also worked on a project that involved enabling alert monitoring on all devices, suppressing alerts, deduplicating alerts, and adopting a monitoring tool that enabled automated ticketing within the environment.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Intermediate, Pcm

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Electrical And Electronics Engineering