Storage Engineer
Designed and implemented migration plans for various prod/sub-prod Applications
- Configured Filers with Ontap 8 and provisioned storage
- Successfully troubleshooted iSCSI boot and backup issues with Windows Apps
- Provided documentation and training to Offshore teams
- Designed Oracle 10g on NFS with various system and storage level tuning
- Created scripts to automate storage provisioning, monitoring and backups
- Configured 18/4 cards with DMM on Cisco MDS 9500 series
- Configured FCIP on Cisco MDS 9500series
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Virtualization and Storage Engineer
Successful opening of [company name] as the senior architect for all VMware, EMC, Cisco UCS and NetApp systems.
- Cosmopolitan's VMware and Storage liaison between all enterprise vendors and Cosmopolitan IT management.
- Responsible for the RFQ, RFP and POC process on storage and virtualization platforms.
- Worked to validate and sell solutions to both internal management as well as the investment arm of Deutsche Bank to create solutions that fit both the ROI goals of the financial arm, as well as the IT goals of the internal teams.
- Design, architecture and implementation of VMware vSphere across 3 datacenters, including AppSpeed, SRM, Distributed vSwitch, and vCenter Operations, and View 5.
- Successful datacenter migration from temporary operating space to new datacenter facilities.
- Working vSphere5 proof of concept for the casino upgrade to SRM5.
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Sr. Storage Engineer
Member of a five person team that manages over 100 arrays and switches around the world.
- Performed CLI management on 3Par and NetApp arrays.
- Works as Tier 2 support for over 90 Petabytes of data.
- Carved, presented and zoned to servers per customers request.
- Perform proactive storage infrastructure performance monitoring, analysis, alerting, reporting, and tuning.
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Storage Engineer
Performed various administrative tasks on the DMX/SYMMETRIX, CLARIION storage systems using GUI and CLI.
- Managed SAN capacity and performance using appropriate reporting & monitoring tools. Proficient with daily tasks, which include Lun mapping and masking, setting symmetrix port flags. Knowledge on viewing Symmetrix configuration data using Solutions Enabler and ECC.
- Responsible for day-to-day storage provisioning on CLARiiON, Symmetrix DMX and VMAX systems in production, test and development environment. Has exposure to viewing Clarion and Symmetrix DMX errors and hardware failures.
- Knowledge on CISCO and BROCADE enterprise director switches.
- Managed, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON CX 500, 700 storage systems using Navisphere GUI.
- Created storage groups to provide LUN Masking and prevent unauthorized access of LUN's in the CLARiiON arrays.
- Provisioned storage to different hosts such as Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX.
- Used SRDF/A to migrate data from CX-700 to DMX-3 and Open replicator to migrate over 150 LUN's to VMAX SE.
- Assisted Customer engineer at onsite data center for installing new hardware into the environment. Continuous errors check while installing new hardware.
- Configured and implemented CX4, CX3 hardware and software across both UNIX and Windows. Created LUN's, storage groups and bind those LUN's using Navisphere/ Unisphere. Allocated space to the new host by manually registering them.
- Involved in monitoring and troubleshooting issues such as HBA failure, Unable to discover LUN's after provisioning storage, path failures, FA performance issues, improper zoning, mapping and masking.
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Data Storage Engineer
Designed and deployed enterprise level in House Backup solution "Commvault Sempana 9"
- Managed deployment of 191 backup agent clients in 12 countries
- Managed restoration project to retrieve /restore past 7 years of DOS data from legacy backup system to new in House Backup system.
- Deploy and configured Dedicated SAN storage for CommVault backup system and eliminated need for tapes.
- Managed day to day Backup and restore operations in compliance with DOS standards.
- Responsible for design/implementation of Active Directory, Group Policy architecture and remote access for a newly-designed secure virtualized network
- Developed and deployed Enterprise-level client system image via WDS complying to DoS IT security
- Implemented & configured a secure domain-wide WSUS downstream solution for 12 overseas sites
- Managing CA IT Client Manager server for application deployment
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Storage Engineer
VMAX administration, auto provisioning and thin provisioning using SMC and solutions enabler
- Responsible for host based power path migrations across the environment on windows/AIX/Linux hosts
- Configured replication setup using SRDF/a and mirror view technologies between prod and DR sites
- Managed CISCO departmental and director class switches using Fabric manager
- Worked on CX3/4 using Navisphere
- ECC administration
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Advisory Development Engineer, System X Storage Engineer
Lead software engineer, primary focused on developing and maintaining software roadmap for IBM's System X storage portfolio.
- Technical leader on high performing team that developed RAID and SAS HBAs, SAS/SATA/SSD hard drives, backplanes, expanders, and tape drives for IBM System X Servers.
- Participated in product architecture and development with storage partners, including PMC, LSI Logic, Adaptec, HCL, Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, SanDisk, and Maxim.
- Created architecture, feature analysis, and design/implementation documents for IBM System X Server storage solutions.
- Worked with Program Management and cross-functional team to establish project schedules, milestones, and execution plans.
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Unix/windows Senior Storage Engineer
Utilized Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to perform backup/restore for all open systems servers.
- Performed day to day delivery of Storage to State Street Prod/UAT/DR hosts.
- Created and added zones to all open system platform around the globe.
- Reclaimed storage on LCM Arrays for all vendors/storage redeployed for future demand for applications.
- Efficiently managed SAN environment through utilization of software provisioning tools that included EMCs Command Center, Symmetrix Management Console, EMC Connectrix Manager, Hitachi's HiCommand Device Manager, IBM's San Volume Controller and XIV Controller.
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Project Engineer / Storage Engineer II
Managed customer project delivery and responsible for driving the installation of SAN/NAS and switch infrastructure. A liaison between engineering and vendors groups also responsible for documenting and understanding the current environment and capacity planning. Risk management and change control.
- Managed the cleanup after the migration of 460 Intel and 270 Unix server, one Z9 MF, three EMC Symmetrix boxes to our Disaster Recovery site in San Antonio, TX
- Migrated the fabric from existing ED 140 switches to Brocade 48000 switches effecting 625 INTEL, 540 UNIX Servers, EMC Storage, IBM Storage, NETAPP, Teradata and Z9 MF
- Created project work plans for infrastructure changes, microcode, change control, feature upgrades, and worked the plans until completion. Capacity planning with management.
- Special training in Avamar Admin, SRDF/CE, Networker UNIX/Windows, EMC Mainframe Storage.
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Storage Engineer
Storage Engineer responsible for managing 31 environments, 10,000+ servers, to ensure 19 client's servers are protected.
- NetApp VTL 700 - Monitoring (Actions Required, Logs), Virtual Tapes (Import From Shadow Tape Pool) work in conjunction with IBM TS3500 tape library. Create team documentation, Assist team so NetBackup can see the tapes.
- Responsible for projects, tasks, troubleshooting, CRM, RTO's, disaster recovery, server builds.
- Leverage NetBackup Enterprise 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 7.5 to protect the client's applications and data.
- Design documentation while training colleagues.
- Setup/Configured Netbackup Master/Media servers in Unix and Windows
- Worked on Symantec 5020/5030 appliances and EMC Data Domain.
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