Sheik Sufyan Email & Phone Number

Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

-Providing Technical Support, guidance and direction in Virtualization and Storage Technologies.-Currently supporting Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare Virtual Environment which has VCE Vblocks VB740, VB240 and Cisco VersaStact with IBM Storage with around 150 ESXi hosts, 1000+ Virtual Machines and 700+TB Storage.-Experience in Planning and Implementing Virtualization (VMware vSphere), Storage -Successfully implemented pilot for Microsoft Azure IaaS solution, established secure connection to Azure cloud, created network components, provisioned VMs also migrated on premise VMs with the help of Azure Site Recovery.-Experience in preparing RFP’s and Scope of work (SoW) for the new projects, and reviewing Technical Proposals.-Experience in Automating tasks with the help of PowerCLI in VMware environment-Worked on VCE RCM upgrade of VB740 and VB240.-MIgrated from Cisco Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch to VMware vSphere Distributed switch in a vSphere Environment with 500+ VMs.-Worked on Datacentre MIgration project , where 500+ VMs are migrated from one converged infrastructure (vBlock720) to Cisco VersaStack.-Worked on VMware Encryption project, wehere KMS is integrated with vSphere Environment to enable VM Ecnryption.-Preparing and updating Documentation for Technical procedures and other documentation.

Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia

-Providing Technical Support, guidance and direction in Storage, Backup, Virtualization and Linux Technologies.-Worked on f Pollowing Projects/Customer Environmentso Maaden: Worked on Maaden Turaif site for implementation of IBM TSM Backup Solution, IBM V3700 Storage and RHEL Linux Servers.o Saudi Global Ports Corporation (SGPC): Provided Support on VMware vSphere Environment and IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) and worked as escalation support.o SAFCO: Implemented Veritas BackupExec Solution to protect and secure their data.o Royal Comission Jubail: Provided Support to their Veritas NetBackup Environment.-Experience in Planning and Implementing Virtualization (VMware vSphere), Backup Solution (IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM))-Managing and Troubleshooting experience in IBM V7000, SVC, NetApp Storage, EMC VNX Series and EMC VMAX Storage systems.-Reviewing RFP’s and Preparing Scope of work (SoW) and Technical Proposals for the new projects, discussing with the customers from the initial planning till the completion of a project.-Preparing and updating Documentation for Technical procedures and Customer IT environments.

Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia

-Provided support for IBM Storage Installations in Saudi Aramco, which included IBM V700 and SVC.-Provided Support for Performance monitoring, Technical issues and trouble shooting.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Administrating and Troubleshooting Servers and Storage in Shared Virtual environment which consists of 4 vCentre Servers, 80+ Clustered Hosts, 500+ Virtual Machines, clustered 8 NetApp Systems• Also managing NetBackup Environment and HP EVA Storage Arrays• Working on provisioning VM, installing OS, integrating and configuring with Puppet • Working on building new ESXi hosts and configuring them• Working on provisioning storage to VM’s by creating vFilers and volumes in NetApp Storage.• Working on configuring SnapMirror relationships, configuring backups through SnapCreator and configuring SnapVault relationships.• Working on building complete customer landscape by building VM’s configuring them and creating vFilers and volumes required for them and also establishing SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships for the provisioned volumes.• Working on automation by building required modules in Puppet and creating scripts in Python and Ruby to automate tasks.

Hyderabad

• Provided Technical Support , guidance and direction for Netbackup Backup environments• Currently Managing 4 Sites, 1st site has 10 Media Servers two VTL’s one SL3000 one L700 two SL48 Libraries and taking backup of 2000+ Devices• 2nd Site has 3 Media Servers one SL500 and 400+ Device backups• Remaining 2 Sites are small Sites with 200+ Device backups with one Media Server Each• Monitoring backups and troubleshooting the backup failures• Performing restores when required which includes file system restores and also Exchange restores.• Audit backup policies and environments to ensure integrity of backup and recovery activities.• Ensure integrity of Supported Environments• Actively and pre-emptiviely determine possible faults and causes by the execution of health and operational checks.• Hardware /Software fault detection and Vendor Liaison• Analyze and resolve escalated problems within target.• Document and implement changes to Technical Standards as required.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Provided Technical Support , guidance and direction for NetApp, Netbackup Backup environments• Working Knowledge on NetApp filers and Hitachi Data Systems• Worked as Escalated Point of Contact for Three accounts backup Environments• Managed Backup Success rate above 97% for three accounts• Attended Management Calls for Backup Performance review on Daily/Weekly Basis• Attended Project review calls to provide direction for backup implementation for new servers• Audit backup policies and environments to ensure integrity of backup and recovery activities.• Work with change and problem management tools

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

Intermediate Education, Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry, 94.5%

Secondary School Certificate (Ssc)