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San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Conduct project/account design reviews• Engage with engineering, operations and other architecture teams to align services to existing and future business capabilities• Contributes to definition of “technical authority” and the associated standards of work• Confers with and advises peers and IT Infrastructure management on technical problems, priorities, and methods• Experience supporting mission critical storage & data protection solutions, leading POCs, developing test plans, working with internal customers on requirements determination• Have in-depth understanding of the customer's business and IT environments• Develops and cultivates strong customer relationships ensuring a 'customer for life' relationship• Strong customer-facing skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, and crisis management• Responsible to analyze customer provided requirement and work with program managers and customers to get appropriate information for the implementation of Infra components• Proactively alerts project management and sales team of potential problems and solutions• Supports the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work

Orange County, California Area

• Leading a team of seven colleagues to manage closely 45 PB of Storage, Backup and VMware stacks• Supporting the day to day administration of more than thousand instances on AWS and AZURE infrastructure• Handled multiple disaster recovery exercises and brought up Storage, Backup and VM servers online at the DR site• Involved in evaluating different backup tools like Rubrik, Cohesity, CloudPoin, etc. to facilitate backing up cloud workload• Seasoned skill set on vRA (vRealize Automation) and vRO (vRealize Orchestrator)• Thorough workflow understanding on server builds through Chef recipes and Ansible playbooks • Basic Linux administration skills, especially on RHEL 6 and 7• Experienced in handling Splunk ITSI• Master in creating different dashboards on ServiceNow• Storage assets managed in this project o StorageGrid - 8PB o Amazon S3 o Azure Blob o NetApp Cluster mode - 4PB o DELL EMC ISILON - 9PB o DELL EMC XtremeIO - 1.5PB o Pure Storage - 3PB o DELL EMC RecoverPoint - 800TB o DELL EMC VMAX - 6PB• Backup o NetBackup 8.2 - Solutionizing, designing, testing, validating and managing backup of more than 8000 servers with proper recover points set o CloudPoint o Rubrik o Azure cloud native backup o Dell EMC Data Domain

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Orchestrated all designing, architecting, installation, configuration, and daily operations on VSP-G1000, VSP, HUS-VM, and HNAS 4080.• Ensured accurate architecting of 3-DC for production block storage, comprising of multi-mode replication and cascading replication, including True Copy (TC) & Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR) as a Remote Replication, and ShadowImage as an Inside Storage Replication (ISR).• Utilized performance analysis tools, as well as tuning manager, command director, and Hitachi Command Suite analytics to execute storage configuration and performance analysis.• Assessed NAS infrastructure’s filesystem to ensure customer requirements, including Age Based factors, types of files, and other attributes, using the Arkivio tool.• Executed installation, troubleshooting, and volume management within SAN environment using Hitachi VSP / VSP G1000 Software Suites.• Demonstrated expertise in both 7-Mode and C-Mode to accurately install, configure, upgrade, and manage Data ONTAP.• Configured Aggregates, SVM, volume, Qtree, and snapshots with Filer View & Oncommand System manager, Performance Manager to maintain NetApp storage.• Gained and applied vital experience in Snapmirror and Snapvault replication configurations.• Showcased working knowledge with OnCommand Unified Manager.• Fulfilled necessary administration of Veritas NetBackup (7.7.3) and Quantum tape library.• Performed major software upgrades to Netbackup and OpsCenter (7.6.0.4 to 7.7.3).• Developed backup policies, including NDMP, VADP, MS Exchange, MS-SQL, Windows, Standard, Catalog.• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, storage vMotion, & VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).• Coordinated vSphere upgrade by properly assessing, designing, and understanding VMware ESX 5.5 to ESX 6.0, SRM 6.0.• Programmed Business Continuity solutions, such as FCIP, FCR, AEL in Brocade 7800 switches.• Configured Native ISL between Brocade DS and upgraded Switch Firmware.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Orchestrated all designing, architecting, installation, configuration, and daily operations on VBLOCK 740, ISILON X-410, VMAX 3 (200 K), VPLEX, Data Domain & Networker and CISCO MDS.• Organized and properly set up Migration using SRDF, Mirror View, and SAN copy Open replicator.• Established BCV, Clones, and Snap devices for Business Continuity using SYMCLI and Unisphere. • Succeeded in assembling a file tree structure on Isilon to accommodate 15 Access Zones.• Followed requirements and quotas in SmartQuota policies to create SMB shares & NFS exports on Isilon.• Composed SyncIQ policies and established replication between the Isilons.• Accomplished Active-Active replication setup between 2 DC’s using VPLEX distributed volume.• Built distributed devices, as well as rule sets in VPLEX metro configuration to migrate data between datacenters and to obtain global visibility for remote access on devices.• Initiated Extent level and Device level migrations for required data refreshes.• Exhibited comprehensive understanding of Active Directory implementation in Enterprise Infrastructure.• Employed best practices when implementing SAP HANA and ORACLE DB from storage end.• Presented complete knowledge on Symantec Veritas cluster server (VCS).• Provided proper administration skills on VMware (vSphere 5.1 and 5.5).

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Operated within Hitachi Delivery team particularly in Replication, Virtualization, and Device Manager/Tuning Manager installation.• Received official training in Replication (In-system and Remote), VSP G1000, and Command Suite 8 to work with 3 major clients.• Supported a client through installation of Replication Manager (HRpM) and 3 DC implementation.• Organized and facilitated training for all 3 clients on CCI, HORCM, and RAIDCOM, for replication and daily storage operations.• Offered specialized services in Disaster recovery solutions.• Monitored SAN components, produced daily logs, and performed capacity planning.

San Francisco Bay Area

Houston, Texas Area

Bengaluru Area, India

• Spearheaded the configuration & maintenance of 4 VSP, 2 HUS-VM Storage arrays, VMware, F5 Load balancer, and Brocade.• Formulated vNetwork Standard Switch, VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console, and NIC teaming.• Devised configuration for VMware ESXi hosts and managed 800 virtual machines on vSphere 4/5 environments with vCenter management, consolidating backup, DRS, HA, DPM, and vMotion.• Migrated ~250 servers from a physical space to virtual using VMware Convertor P2V.• As part of the Monthly Patch Upgrade activity took the ShadowImage for the Boot LUN of the Operating system as part of the Role back plan and replicated the selected Production data like OLTP and SAP landscape data to the near line DC using the TC solution for the Near Zero RPO.• Deployed HUR as part of a Disaster Recovery solution for the DR site, located 200 KM apart from Production and consuming 2X150Mb/sec.• Played key role in enforcing SLA and IT policies designed to maintain IT infrastructure.• Navigated the planning, designing, setting up, and managing of IT Infrastructure activities, as well as installing servers, networking devices, routers & firewalls, communication/messaging devices, and other peripherals, recommending changes for improvement while adhering to guidelines.

Master Of Science - Ms, Network Communications, 3.92

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering