• Leading a team of architects and engineers supporting Big Data technologies and NetApp Open solution for Hadoop for ASUP in NetApp. This includes Cloudera/Pentaho/Flume open source technologies. • Implemented innovative solution for Hadoop using latest NetApp storage technology to support NetApp product line to make compute and storage independently expandable. • Implemented automation using Ansible for NetApp compute infrastructure supporting Hadoop and cloud to reduce deployment time significantly and avoid any possible human errors.• Managing team of systems architects & Deployment Engineers to provide solutions for complex technology capabilities for many critical applications, leveraging IT standards where possible. • Leading teams in building out and maintaining high performance, high availability cloud-capable infrastructure (private and public clouds) for NetApp.• Managed simultaneous large-scale projects with an emphasis towards defect free, on-time, on-budget, and in-scope completion. Drive Integration of Cloud and On-Premises delivery.• Responsible for new infrastructure design through implementation for the Global NetApp Project portfolio and driving adoption of virtualized solutions in both the server and storage space.• Established and managed a repeatable & scalable resource forecast process, method for measuring time, cost and quality of the services provided.• Supervised data center capacity management and demand forecasting related to annual operating planning along with representing IT delivery to integrate outsourced staffing to both India and China based services providers. Delivered 99% of projects (200+) on time within budget.

• Designed, implemented and maintained distinct Unix environments required for Oracle ERP project (including Sandbox, Development, UAT, Production etc).• Supervised all aspects of general system administration functions for the UNIX systems environment, including hardware planning, installation, and configuration of PA-RISC and Itanium based systems. • Oversaw System maintenance planning, configuration and troubleshooting over network, disk mirroring and striping using EMC Symmetrix & CLARiiON disk arrays in Data Center environment.• Organized HP-UX 11i upgrade / patch planning and implementation.• Engineered Hard & Soft (Virtual) Partitioning on HP9000 systems using nPar & vPar technologies.• Configured & managed EMC enterprise storage systems (Symmetrix & CLARiiON) and tape solutions from ADIC.• Supervised various activities like Unix Kernel Tuning, Performance & Capacity Planning, System sizing/integration for several full-scale Oracle e-Business Suite 11i (ERP) environments.• Engineered DR solution by configuring Business Continuation Volumes (BCVs) using EMC TimeFinder. Automated entire process by writing scripts to the BCVs in order to establish and split them from STD devices.

• Supervised administration of several HP9000 servers running Oracle Applications (ERP) & various Oracle Databases configured in High Availability (multi-node cluster) mode using MC/Service Guard and EMC Symmetrix disk arrays.• Mentored other Unix Admins wrt system configuration, installation, integration, testing for HP9000 & Sun Enterprise servers and workstations; and provided on-site consulting. • Managed corporate DNS and Mail servers running Sendmail Pro and resolved day-to-day problems.• Implemented Veritas NetBackup DataCenter successfully in production environment on HP-UX & Solaris based systems.

• System administration, management, installation, upgrades, configuration, integration, testing and troubleshooting of various HP & Sun Enterprise servers and workstations running HP-UX & Solaris.• Implemented BRP (Business Resumption Planning) site for Disaster Recovery of Solaris systems at EMC, which involved co-ordination with other groups, troubleshooting and proactively anticipating & preventing problems.• Installed, configured & managed X.25 network comprised of Memotec X.25 switches and Netcomm II (SGP) X.25 WAN cards.• Managed system resources and automated the backup procedure by scheduling backups and various batch jobs using “cron” and Veritas NetBackup solution.