OBJECTIVE

 

To work on a senior level position, preferably in a fast growing company. Interested in delivery/implementation of IT projects in a position which involves Enterprise Cloud storage, server and data center DR, virtualization, complex Data Migration, automation based solutions and implementation including management of consulting practice, technical support practice, corporate technical advisor, technical architect, solution architect, product manager, etc. My Ultimate goal is to achieve professional success by demonstrating excellent decision making, solid professional technical, management and customer satisfaction skills.

 

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

 

·         IBM Certified Cloud Solution Advisor – Cloud Computing Architecture V2.0

·         NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator Data ONTAP 8.0 7-mode Administration (NCDA)

·         NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator Data ONTAP 8.1.1 Clustered ONTAP  (NCDA)

·         Data Migration Facility (DMF) Edge Certified Professional from SGI.

·         Hewlett Packard Certified HP-UX Systems Administrator for HP-UX v.11

·         IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert – pSeries and AIX 5L.

·         Sun Certified Sun Solaris 9 systems Administrator.

·         IBM Certified Specialist – Problem Determination tools & techniques. (AIX 5L & pSeries hardware)

·         IBM Certified Systems Administrator – AIX 5L & pSeries.

·         IBM Certified Specialist for p690 Technical support. – ( The IBM’s highest level pSeries Server)

·         IBM Certified Specialist – Installation and Recovery (AIX 5L & pSeries)

·         Currently Pursuing VCP, AWS Solutions Architect, ITIL, ITSM, PMP and CISA Certifications.

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS COMPLETED

 

q      Effective Leadership and management Skills.

q      ITIL v.3 Foundations training.

q      NetApp SnapManager 3.0 for Oracle Planning and Operation.

q      NetApp Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode administration

q      NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.1 Clustered ONTAP administration

q      NetApp SAN Scaling and Architecting

q      NetApp SnapMirror Planning and Implementation

q      NetApp High Availability for Data ONTAP 7-Mode

q      VMware on NetApp Solutions. 

q      VMware vSphere 5.0 administration.

q      Isilon Storage administration and Management.

q      AIX Jumpstart for Experienced Systems Administrators

q      HACMP V.5.X Administration for AIX.

q      RedHat Linux Administration.

q      EMC Storage SAN fundamentals.

q      EMC² Control center 5.1 Administration,

q      EMC² TimeFinder and SRDF Management.

q      CISCO MDS9000 Switch Fundamentals.

q      Hitachi Virtualization USP-VM hardware and Software training.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

 

·         More than 20 years of solid experience in project infrastructure solutions architecture design, designing Public/Private cloud enterprise solutions, complex data migration among heterogeneous storage systems, IT service management, Disaster recovery planning and procedures development, Unix administration, Enterprise storage administration , systems capacity planning, enterprise system monitoring using HP Openview, systems infrastructure solutions design and implementation which includes servers, migrations, Unix OSs,storage and SAN Fabric in mission Critical production environments at large IT organizations.

·         Broad understanding of Cloud reference architectures, cloud computing concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), and cloud-enabling infrastructure technologies - computing, storage, networking and virtualization

·         Expertise in designing, building, and operating infrastructure on AWS cloud platform to support highly available mission critical systems.

·         Highly experienced with AWS services like IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, MapReduce and Auto Scaling etc.

·         Experienced in migrating data from customer datacenters to AWS cloud, IBM Cloud (CMS) and IBM Softlayer cloud environments.

·         Experienced in conducting PoC for clients in AWS environments and production infrastructure setup on the public cloud.

·         Researched and recommended cloud based IAAS private cloud solutions from major cloud service vendors like IBM Softlayer, AWS, RightScale, Cloud.com, OpenStack, Flexpod solution from NetApp and VMware and how different third party cloud offerings fits best in customers Architecture.

·         Experienced in the Designing Application and Infrastructure Architecture on AWS Cloud Platform in public and Hybrid cloud configurations for various clients.

·         Experienced in establishing cloud security as per customer needs on various cloud platforms like AWS, SoftLayer and IBM Managed Cloud Services platforms. on public and hybrid cloud configurations

·         Expertise in delivering solutions related to Enterprise private cloud, enterprise storage, storage virtualization (HP / IBM / Hitachi / NetApp / Isilon, BlueArc, NexSan), enterprise backup including data de-duplication based technologies from HP, IBM, DataDomain, CommVault and ExaGrid and Enterprise Disaster recovery solutions.

·         Experience building infrastructures with a secure solution for public facing web applications, multi-site data centers, and protecting highly confidential content. 

·         Experience in designing, building, and operating solutions using virtualization using public, private and hybrid cloud technologies from different cloud vendors like IBM SoftLayer and Amazon Web Services.

·         Highly experienced in IT processes management and following strict ITIL practice at large IT organizations.

·         Familiar with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks to design Architecture for an organization.

·         Architected data migration solutions and Performed system migrations at OS level, storage level and enterprise backup software level following strict ITIL procedures.

·         Documented all aspect of the projects following ITIL based procedures and methodologies.

·         Familiarity with Analytics and BigData platform such as Hadoop.

·         Experience as a Cloud Solutions initiator, Infrastructure storage and server architect since last 8-10 years and have come across many solutions, migrations as well as systems solution design and implementation across variety of clients.

·         Ability to work effectively with clients at all levels including management personnel, presented various kinds of infrastructure technical solutions to customers (High level staff e.g. managers, directors and CxO) and explained them clearly significance of solution in their environment.

·         Excellent Vendor Management and Relationships skills.

·         Expertise in disaster recovery solutions planning, procedures, Implementation and recovering systems.

·         Successfully planned, designed procured and implemented Disaster recovery enabled enterprise backup, storage and virtualized infrastructure solutions in multiple datacenter type environments.

·         Expertise in delivering storage solutions and best practices recommendations based on NetApp cDOT platform.

·         Solid understanding of VMware VSphere5, VCenter and major components like vMotion, DRS, VMHA.

·         Highly experienced in Managing and architecting DR enabled solutions on NetApp storage using SnapMirror and SnapVault tools.

·         Strong knowledge of NetApp software tools e.g. FlexClone, SnapVault, Operations Manager, On Command system Manager, SnapProtect, Snapmanager for Oracle, SMVI, SnapMirror on FAS3xxx and FAS 6xxx systems.

·         Experienced in external SAN storage disk operations on NetApp 6170/3140, 3Par T400/800, Hitachi 9980/ USP-VM / AMS storage arrays, EMC² Symmetrix VMAX / DMX800/1000/3000 and ClariiON CX400/500/700 disk arrays and performance analysis using Workload Analyzer in SAN environment.

·         Extensively used EMC² tools like TimeFinder, SRDF and SYMCLI to manage EMC devices and BCV volumes. Used Unisphere service manager for managing storage Arrays in Enterprise Storage environment.

·         Highly experienced in architecting, designing and implementing enterprise backup solutions using HP OpenView Data Protector, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Legato Networker and CommVault Simpana etc.

·         Highly experienced in delivering complete enterprise DR solutions for Servers, Storage and Backup infrastructures.

·         Highly Experienced in Project management in delivering IT SAN storage, backup and data center automation software implementations and architectural design at large federal organization.

·         Understand the client's vision, goals, objectives, strategy, and how they relate to enterprise IT architectural business objectives.

·         Prepared quality technical documents as a deliverables, prepared technical presentations for CIO, VPs and directors.

·         Built and managed a technical Pre-Sales organization that consistently acknowledged for sales and technical expertise. 

·         Developed and delivered presentations, demonstrations, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Proof of Concepts (POCs) and beta projects

·         Highly capable of working in 24x7 support environment involving high risk of operational pressure.

·         Highly experienced in handling systems operations in Real time trading, Production and development environments.

·         Highly experienced in administering, installing, upgrading and configuring HP-UX, AIX, RedHat Linux and Sun Solaris servers in large network environments.

·         Expertise in system, data and application migration to and from HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Redhat Linux.

·         Architected and Configured HA clustering solutions using HACMP and MC/Service guard on AIX and HP-UX.

·         Excellent IT-AUDIT / SOX practice and expertise on Linux, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris Systems.

·         Experienced in writing Shell scripts using Korn and Bourne shells, familiarity with PERL scripting.

·         Experienced in working on TCP/IP, FTP, SNMP, NFSv3.3, CIFS, SMB, HTTP, FCoE, and FCP and iSCSI suite of protocols.

·         Experienced in administering Windows 2008 Servers.

·         Won many awards for delivering outstanding service to various customers.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

Operating systems:

HP-UX 11.x, 11i, 11i v3, , 11i .v1,11i .v2 10.x, AIX v.5.3, v.5.2L,6.1, Sun Solaris v.7,v.8, v.9, Compaq Tru 64 Unix, Redhat Linux AS 3.x, AS v.4.x, ES v.3.x, ES v.4.x, Redhat Linux 7.x, 9.x, DEC VAX/VMS, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 7.

Softwares:   

VMware Vsphere5, vCenter, NetApp SnapManager for Oracle 3.0, NetApp On Command System Manager 2.0, NetApp Operations Manager, DFM , ASUP, NetApp SnapMirror, SnapVault, HP Storage essentials, BladeLogic data center asset management software, HP asset manager , Hitachi device Manager, APtare , HP-Openview IT/Operations v.4.x, v.5.X, Hitachi Device Manager, HP-Open view/Network Node Manager v5.x, v6.1, MC/Service Guard 11.X, IBM HACMP v.4.5, v.5.1, HP Glanceplus/UX, HP-Perfview, IBM FastT Storage Manager, EMC² ClariiON Unisphere Manager, EMC SMC, EMC² PowerPath Manager, HP Openview Data Protector v.5.0, v.5.1, Tivoli Maestro Scheduler V5.x,v.6.1 BIND v.8.2.3, v.9.2, v.4.9, SUN Solstice DiskSuite, VERITAS volume manager, CommVault Simpana 8.x, VERITAS NetBackup, Legato Networker, HP 3Par Inform OS Manager, HP JFS Online v.3.3, , IGNITE-UX, EMC² Control Center 4.x, 5.x, EMC² TimeFinder v.4.x, EMC² SRDF, EMC SANCopy, EMC Work load Analyzer, Apache web server V.1.3.14, Netscape Web Server, iPlanet web server, HP Support Tools manager (STM), IBM MQ-Series v.5.10, BEA Tuxedo v6.3,v6.5, Perl 5.0, VSI-FAX, TelAlert 5.1, v5.0, Symark Powerbroker v.3.0, Power Password 3.0, Microsoft Active Directory.

Hardware Platforms:

NetApp 6170/3140/3050/3040, NetApp FAS 3210,3220,6210,6220,6280,3270 storage arrays, ISILON IQ72000, CORAID, BlueArc Mercury 100, NexSan E5310, E60, SUN 7410, DataDomain DD580, HP9000 RISC based servers N4000, L3000, K570, Superdome PA-8900, RX3600, SUN E3500, E6500, IBM RS 6000, EMC²  DMX, EMC² Symmetrix 8430, 5830, 8730, 3930, EMC CX500, CX700, EMC² NAS Celera, VNX, VMAX, IBM pSeries p650, p630, p570, p575 servers, FastT900, HITACHI 9980, USP, USP-VM, AMS2500, AMS1000, HP 3Par T400, T800, F400, Nexsan 5310, 5110, IBM XIV storage, ExaGrid EX1000, EX5000, IBM Blades HS20, HP C-Class Blades, Brocade 5100 and 7xxx , McData switches,  HP SureStore 20/700, HP  Autoraid Arrays, STK Tape Libraries L700, L180, Quantum DX5000 VTL, CISCO routers, CISCO MDS9000, , IBM E335, E346, IBM Blade Center HS20 , 8843, 8834, HP C-CLASS Blade centers, HP Proliant DL380, DL385, DL580 & DL585, DELL 28XX, 29XX, 68XX.

RDBMS: ORACLE v10G, 11G, Sybase ASE 12.x, INGRESS, Progress 8.3.c, 8.3.d.

Cloud Environment:

IBM CMS, IBM Softlayer, AWS, IAM, EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, MapReduce and Auto Scaling, CloudWatch,

Data Migration:

CirrusData DMS 4000/8000, DoubleTake Recover, NetApp 7MTT.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

IBM Corporation Herndon, VA                                                                   November-2013 to Present

Position: Sr. Data Migration Architect

Multiple Projects: Alberta Health Services, Apple Leisure Group, NineWest, American Insurance Group, MetLife, Alianz –USA, South West Airlines etc.

q      Handling multiple data storage migration projects among multiple datacenters for various CLient's of IBM worldwide.

q      Responsible for gathering and analyzing technical requirements for large data migration projects.

q      Designing and architecting data migration solutions for complex projects involving multiple storage vendor devices.

q      Development and testing of data migration Solutions.

q      Data migration planning and execution.

q      Supported multiple data migration projects and migrated data from Physical data center to IBM Cloud CMS/ SoftLayer environment.

q      Worked extensively on provisioning resources for target environment in AWS and SoftLayer cloud environment.

q      working knowledge about Amazon CLI Tools and automation

q      Understanding of relational database technologies, Hadoop clusters in the application development environment on AWS.

q      Helping IBM's customers to provide innovative solutions to automate Data Migration processes.

q      Delevering strong understanding of the whole data migration life cycle processses including best practices for data migration solutions to multiple client

q      Defining data migration strategies and migration planning within multiple applications environments.

q      Providing Proactive and enthusiastic approach with strong customer management and stakeholder skills at various client locations.

q      Responsible for creating data migration functional requirement specifications.

q      Responsible for communicating the migration approach and design methodology to each client’s responsible teams.

q      Responsible to define strategies for Cut over and roll back during complex data migration projects.

q      Responsible for final post migration validation testing, verification and customer feedback to ensure total customer satisfaction.

 

Client: Capital One Financial Corporation. Plano, TX                                JAN-2013 to October-2013

Position: Storage Management Architect

Company: NetApp Inc.

 

q      Providing Best practices and storage design Management for multi Peta Byte environment at Capital One Financial Corporation running on 10 different Clusters and NetApp cDOT (Clustered Data Ontap) with almost 20 PB capacity.

q      Assist customer with implementation of NetApp best practice regarding Tech Refresh of existing NAS environment, as well as provide migration services.

q      Worked as a NetApp SME and provided best practices and technical recommendations to customer.

q      Developed and delivered cDOT implementation documents for 10 clusters running in NetApp Clustered ONTAP platform on FAS 3210/3220/6210/6220/6280/3270 hardware platform.

q      Configuring and debugging NetApp clustered environment and helping customer with problem resolutions time to time.

q      Provided project management and project execution work as required by Capital One that  included cDOT nodes  installations, Hardware upgrades and additions , Data ONTAP and firmware upgrades and recommendations, Operations Manager (“OM”) installation and upgrades • Filer monitoring using OM ,Onsite diagnostics and replacement of hardware components , GSC coordination , Participation in regularly scheduled reviews with Capital One and delivering complete Documentation of NetApp cDOT storage environment using NetApp best practices.

q      Extensively worked in Multiprotocol environment and provided - access to share/export via CIFS and NFS - NFS, CIFS, FCP, iSCSI, and FTP protocols.

q      Configured ASUP, Operations Manager and DFM server for optimum alerts and reporting for various reports delivery on cDOT environment.

 

Client: NHGRI / NIH (National Human Genome Research Institute) US Dept. of Health

Employer: Digicon Corporation                                                                                                                JAN-2011 to DEC-2012

Position: Sr. Mass Storage Architect - Manager

 

 

q               Leading the storage team that supports NHGRI’s various organizations and helping them to provide best storage infrastructure in terms of Cloud solutions evaluation, storage administration, performance needs, data growth and budget estimates for new products and services recommendations.

q               Participated in NIH enterprise cloud storage project evaluations and recommendations to NIH Domain Architecture team.

q               Implemented testing pilot cloud environment with 2 ESX servers and 4 physical servers using Cloudstack and performed various functionalities with storage, backup, performance and administration.

q               Analyzed and reviewed all aspects of cloud solutions from various vendors like IBM, AWS, HP, NetApp, Cloud.com, Openstack, RightScale and ScaleXtreme.

q               Overseeing enterprise backup environment running Legato Networker, LiveBackup and NetApp NDMP.

q               Work as a main technical point of contact for new product recommendations and suggestions to CIO level staff at NHGRI.

q               Managed Oracle Database protection and backup using NetApp SnapManager for Oracle 3.0.

q               Contribute to the evaluation, testing, planning and deployment of enterprise wide DR strategies for new mass storage and backup infrastructure.

q               Contribute to the evaluation, testing, configuration and deployment of new mass storage hardware and software.

q               Implemented VMware vSphere5 virtualization infrastructure for evaluation purpose.

q               Supporting NHGRI’s storage infrastructure consists of NetApp clusters, EMC VNX, Nexsan, Data Domain, BlueArc, Isilion, Sun, Coraid, and other storage technologies, scientific and administrative data for the Institute.

q               Identify and develop diagnostics and monitoring tools to help manage and assume the integrity of the storage systems.  

q               Responsible for helping to identify and streamline mass storage data flow, and provide tools to organize and formalize workflow.  

q               Working with researchers and investigators to determine their immediate and future needs, and will communicate Mass Storage issues and plans to employees and/or upper level management, as needed.

q               Successfully delivered Storage and Backup solutions for various departments like NCTT, NISC and Gryphon cluster team.

q               Designing enterprise storage policies and backup related infrastructure consideration.

q               Providing best practices on storage solutions based on ITIL framework and delivering technical documentation to various project teams.

q               Provide integration and support for NIH/NHGRI’s mass storage and backup infrastructure, with a special focus on the multi-petabyte NextGen Sequencing Project.  

 

 

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation, Washington, DC                      APR-2009 TO DEC-2010

Client type: US Federal Government Agency

Position: Sr. Storage Solutions Architect

 

q               Worked with the project team to understand customers’ requirements in terms of budget, performance, scalability, DR needs of client with system architects to comprehend the requirements of storage, servers’ capacity and related supported softwares that client is using to manage their applications.

q               Successfully planned, designed and implemented new element needed by client in order to maximize output from client's infrastructure investment.

q               Worked with different stakeholders, application teams, enterprise architects and developers to develop Architecture design, logical and technical models for enterprise infrastructure.

q               Developed and documented the strategic technology infrastructure plans and roadmaps, and integrate those with other project components such as SAN data migration, archiving, and enterprise backup and DR strategies and DR implementation plan.

q               Successfully architected solutions for enterprise system management and monitoring key components of the infrastructure that will continually optimize system performance.

q               Handled responsibilities towards system hardware and evaluation against pre-defined quality standards. Conducted various interviews with clients using different vendors’ equipments, vendor qualification surveys for acquiring or replacing new systems and services.

q               Worked with various ITIL cross functional process owners such as Change, Release, Configuration, Incident, Capacity, Performance, and Problem Management so that these processes fully enable IT infrastructure performance.

q               Defined and implemented servers, storage, backup and DR operating standards, operating procedures, and new third party software tools programs to improve quality and performance and management of the infrastructure.

q               Work as part of a project team to develop a plan to finalize solution (scope, deliverables, assignments and client checkpoints) for enterprise storage and backup upgrade redesigning project at PBGC

q               Evaluate and Develop architecture plan for various data center automation tools including HP asset management, storage essentials (for storage and backup) at PBGC.

q               Apply work product knowledge and IC assets to craft new/innovative, complex solutions to client business problems.

q               Work with PBGC management to formulate business, organization and information strategies to help them apply information and technology services in support of storage upgrade project.

q               Discuss various technical solutions with vendors like HP, NetApp, Hitachi, CommVault, Symantec, 3PAR, IBM, DataDomain, EMC² and ExaGrid.

q               Provided detailed DR enabled SAN solutions for NetApp and 3Par Storage arrays which includes NetApp 6170 and 3Par T800.

q               Provided basic training and demonstration to customer about NetApp 6170 and 3Par T400/800 Configuration, management and technical aspects.

q               Managed Oracle Database protection and backup using NetApp SnapManager for Oracle 3.0, SnapManager for Virtual infrastructure (SMVI) and provided NetApp SnapManager products training to customer.

q               Provided complete DR enabled solution based on NetApp 6170 and CommVault Simpana8 for storage and backup infrastructure resp. and presented to CxO level staff.

q               Relate the major differences between platforms for purposes of product positioning and addressing PBGC’s IT storage and backup requirements.

q               Evaluate solutions and provide alternative analysis among all possible solutions and design final solution that meets client’s ultimate goal.

q               Providing architectural designing to help customer manage ITAM processes.

q               Provide architectural study for product HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Inventory (DDMI) and its integration with HP Asset Center.

q               Conduct technical discussions with stakeholders and gather storage infrastructure requirements

q               Review and correct Requirements.

q               Deliver functional ITIL based design documents and correct defects.

q               Tailor specific contractual templates for use as part of a solution proposal.

q               Design storage, backup, data center automation software implementation software (HP asset management and storage essentials) architectural plan and design.

q               Deliver migration guide as well as deployment guide for new solution.

q               Tightly maintain project deliverables deadline, track project schedule, manage action items and coordinating among various staff people to get approvals.

q               Communicate with vendors to discuss various possible solutions.

q               Verify and finalize solution according to ITSLCM / ITIL processes and prepare required ITSLCM documents to meet audit compliance.

q               Present proposed solution to PBGC CIO and other VP level officials.

q               Implement proposed solution into production and maintain the IT Storage infrastructure after new solution implemented.

 

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)                                                                        AUG-2008 TO APR-2009

Position:  Sr. Professional Services Consultant

Client: GFDL / NOAA, Department of Commerce USA.

 

Working at Government site GFDL/ NOAA controlled by Department of Commerce, USA. The site is equipped with state of the art UNIX environment running Linux on SGI's Super computers which is having 1024 processors and several TB of RAM in a large SAN environment.

 

q      Achieving best performance usage on SGI software and hardware.

q      Monitoring of system performance and recommending Application system tuning ideas such as upgrading OS, changing system parameters, etc.

q      Developing various internal policies and procedures that will assist in advance diagnosis and early detection of system problems.

q      Assist in the automation of various system monitoring processes.

q      Conduct technical discussions with stakeholders and gather details about Disaster recovery initiatives for enterprise backup and storage infrastructure.

q      Deliver functional ITIL based design documents and correct defects.

q      Maintain project schedules, discuss action items with higher authorities and arrange necessary meetings schedule.

q      Interface with customers and build effective customer relations.

q      Linux system administration, CXFS, DMF, and SAN management, in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.

 

NEUSTAR INC, VA (Formerly Part of Lockheed Martin)                  AUG-2002 TO   AUG-2008

Position: Sr. UNIX Systems Architect (No. of Servers supporting:  1600+)

 

Successfully delivered technical development and UNIX systems architectural initiatives regarding server hardware and, infrastructure product life cycle. Established goal oriented working strategies, architectures and designs to meet industry needs in Enterprise SAN storage technologies from EMC, IBM, HP and NetApp, Enterprise UNIX server hardware technologies, capacity planning and management, evaluation of different hardware from HP, IBM and SUN. Managed UNIX servers’ product line in addition to developing and documenting training programs for customers and end users. Conducted and presented various kinds of training sessions for customers, maintained, inventory management, and new product development.

 

Project responsibilities:

 

q         Developed operation run books for servers and storage operations, documented systems improvement data and delivered to IT infrastructure support teams to ensure seamless operation among them. Participated in various Enterprise infrastructure meetings to specify performance standards, improvement areas and the components needs to be modified to meet various service level agreements.

q         Conducted and attended various meetings on a regular basis to determine the solutions to prevent various problems occurred on the systems/storage and provided valuable input to enhance RCA processes.

q         Provided required data in the periodic audits of retained servers, storage and applications to TMNG and E&Y auditors.

q         Worked in planning, testing and implementation of Disaster recovery and business continuity process for various organization from servers, network and on storage level point of view. That includes remote replication (EMC SRDF, Hitachi HUR etc.)

q         Provided significant efforts in datacenter servers redesign project to roll out new servers and performed systems and data migrations from Solaris to HP-UX and from HP-UX to AIX based servers.

q         Enterprise SAN Storage management NetApp 3120, storage arrays, EMC DMX, FastT900 and ClariiON CX500/700.

q         SAN Software hands on expertise on ClariiON Navisphere and IBM’s FastT Storage Manager and NetApp ONTAP.

q         Total systems Administration of Redhat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Sun Solaris servers companywide.

q         Management systems virtualization, Virtualized partitions  DLPARs and LPARs on IBM Servers running AIX 5.2L & 5.3L

q         Performed Linux ES3.x, AS3.x, ES4.x, AS4.x kickstart installations using PXE boot process and remote installations.

q         Installing IBM and HP Blade center machines, firmware upgrade and setting up management modules on the network.

q         Managing patch bundles and software installations on HP-UX, AIX 5.x, Solaris and Redhat Linux operating system.

q         Setting up automated fault reporting system e.g. Service Agent, HP SIM Server configuration and EMS setup on HP-UX.

q         Advanced UNIX installations using OS specific tools like Ignite-UX, Jumpstart, Kickstart, SYSBACK, and MKSYSB.

q         Working closely with external audit team from TMNG, E&Y and providing the required information.

q         Administering and Configuring HP Openview Data Protector Enterprise backup software.

q         Designing system Security policies for UNIX based systems and implementing it in production environment.

q         Administering IT AUDIT configuration and managing IT AUDIT deliverables to AUDIT team.

 

 

PELLA CORPORATION, IOWA.                                                         FEB-2002   TO AUG-2002                                                                    

Position: Sr. UNIX Infrastructure Consultant (No. of Servers: 78) (Role: Post Sales)

 

As a Sr. UNIX consultant following key areas focused apart from regular system support activities, during my tenure at Pella.

 

q         Participated in solution meetings, and customer presentations; development of solutions including preparation of support documentation and proposals; coordination of internal resources as matrixes support for managed opportunities

q         Client Project Design, DR Implementation planning, system performance Analysis and Tuning.

q         Providing Storage & SAN Architecture and Assessments and Data Center Architecture preparation help.

q         Delivering Disaster Recovery techniques, important solutions and suggestions.

q         Systems and application assessment, capacity planning, client hardware evaluation and scalability planning and reports.

q         Total systems Administration, configuration, and upgradation of HP-UX servers in 24x7 support environment.

q      Performing patch management on all HP-UX servers using Custom Patch Manager Tool from Hewlett Packard.

q      Administering enterprise backup operations using HP Openview Omniback II v4.x, 3.

q      Installing and configuring Primary DNS, Secondary DNS servers and allocating zones for various DNS sub domains.

q      EMC² disk management using SYMCLI, TimeFinder and SRDF for remote recovery.

 

 

HEALTH ALLIANCE PLAN, DETROIT, MI.                                         DEC-2001 TO FEB-2002                                                           

Position: HP Openview BTO Consultant (Number of servers: 345) (Role: Post-sales)

 

Health Alliance Plan needed consulting services to Implement their Network Management and Monitoring system from scratch using HP Openview set of products. Their environment is very large running thousands of UNIX based servers and network components. The project successfully completed single handedly exceeding the customers’ acceptations.

 

Project responsibilities:

q      Developed proposals and statements of work in response to new opportunities from channel partners and other sources, in conjunction with the internal proposal group

q      Conducted analysis of client’s SAN, network and server environment and prepared detailed implementation plan and process.

q      Installation and configuration of HP Openview VantagePoint Operation on Windows2000 as well as on HP-UX 11.0.

q      Successfully implemented Network Management and monitoring system running HP Openview set of Products.

q      Provided implementation documents, training and system walk through to ensure client satisfaction.

q      Implementation, configuration and administration of HP Openview NNM to manage the variety of network components.

q      Administration of HP-UX, Sun Solaris Servers and AIX servers running HP-UX v.11.0, Solaris 2.7, 2.8 and AIX v.4.3.3.

q      Provided training to customer technical staff for proper operation of HP Openview Monitoring system.

q      Design and development of network maps for variety of network components for easy manageability.

q      Setting up paging and email notifications for machine status and various alarms using Telalert 5.1 product from Telamon Inc.

 

 

TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES, Piscataway, NJ                                   OCT-2000 TO DEC-2001                                                    

Position: Sr. UNIX & Storage Solution Architect (Number of Servers: 215)

Role: Pre-sales and Post sales

 

The consultant position was key component within the solution and Delivery teams; they are responsible for all technical assessment, design & presentation of technologies and services to be provided to the internal client/customer.

q         Assisted in training and educating both engineers and end users on new products, software’s and solutions

q         Provided technical assistance and information to pre-engineers & configuration to employees.

q         Coordinating the delivery and quality of pre sales Technology Solutions deliverables within the account which may include items

        Such as configurations, architectural diagrams, and proposal inputs.

q         Provided technical presentations to customers about various solutions and products.

q         Implemented proposed solutions in production and necessary training provided to systems administrators as well as

        Other relevant support professionals to ensure smooth running of operations.

q         Developed and presented well-position business cases that align with customer needs and requirements

q         Installation and configuration of HP-UX 11.0, 10.20 on N, L, K, T, J, E, A, D, I and H class servers and Solaris 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8.

q      Completed data and application migration from HP-UX to SUN and from SUN to Redhat Linux environments.

q      Extensively build new servers, performing Disk Mirroring, server consolidation, data migration among different servers.

q      Supported Clustering environment using MC/Service Guard as well as VERITAS Cluster Server2.0

q      Disaster recovery planning advanced HP-UX installations, cloning systems, creating golden system images using Ignite-UX.

q      Configuring and monitoring EMC² disk arrays, EMC² TimeFinder.

 

HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY, BURLINGTON, MA.                  NOV-1999 TO SEP-2000

Position: HP Open view / UNIX solutions Consultant (Number of Servers: 206)

Role: Pre-sales and Post sales Implementation.

Client:  iBasis Inc., Burlington, MA.

 

Following are the key tasks focused as a Post sales consultant to the client:

q      Provided post installation support to client from start to end towards Implementation of HP Openview management system.

q      Interfaced with Client and management to understand their needs and provide solutions accordingly.

q      Demonstrated project functionality, technical presentations to customer.

q      Provided professional training as well as prepared system run book to ease customer’s efforts during post sales cycle.

q      Systems Administration of HP-UX and SUN Solaris Servers.

q      HP-Openview IT/Operations Installations, Configuration, Implementation, customization and troubleshooting.

q      Administering EMC² Disk Arrays in SAN environment.

q      Designed Shell scripts for backup jobs, monitoring and BCV volumes backup automation.

q      EMC² disk management using SYMCLI, ESN manager, TimeFinder and SRDF for remote recovery solutions.

 

CMC LIMITED (A Govt. Of India Enterprise)                                       AUG-1995 TO OCT-1999

Sr. UNIX / Solutions Consultant. (Pre-sales and Post sales)

 

Project responsibilities:

 

q      Identified opportunities for solutions-based and services-lead sales campaigns, leveraged appropriate consultative solutions and practiced resources to execute.

q      Coordinating the delivery and quality of pre sales Technology Solutions deliverables within the account which may include items such as configurations, architectural diagrams, and proposal inputs.

q      Provided Architectural concepts, Design & Implemented Storage as well as Backup Solutions.

q      Interfaced with Clients at Management level throughout the Sales & Delivery and post sales process.

q      Demonstrated Strong knowledge of HP, SUN, UNIX, Network management, Storage and backup technologies.

q      As Professional Solutions Architect, created various solutions specific to client needs and within varying IT Environments, demonstrated great implementation capabilities and acted as a visionary & resident authoritative resource.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS:

 

q      Outstanding Contribution for supporting and configuring systems for NPAC software at Neustar Inc.

q      Appreciation award for pre-sales and post sales support to HP 9000 system at GSFC as per the customer satisfaction level.

q      An Appreciation certificate awarded by the customer for delivering outstanding services.

q      Appreciation award for excellent pre sales and post sales support to SAIL, Central Excise and Customs of India for maintaining their LAN system efficiently and achieving high level of satisfaction from the customer.

q      An appreciation award for excellent contribution in leading pre-sales and post sales growth to the company in 1995-1996.

q      An award for the pre-sales efforts and post sales installations at IPCL site within significant time frame.

 

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

1.       Bachelor of Engineering from MS University of Baroda. (SEP-1991 to AUG-1995).

2.       Post Diploma in German Language from Faculty of ARTS, MS University of Baroda (MAY-1995 to JULY-1998).

 

 

REFERENCES:

Excellent references will be provided if required.