SATHISH KUMAR RAMAN

Mobile : +44 (0)7542404707 Email : sathish.raman@cloudonair.io

Address : Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathishraman
CLOUD, STORAGE, BACKUP and INFRASTRUCTURE
Dynamic and accomplished professional with 15 years of work experience in IT industry
Google; AWS; HDS; NetApp; EMC; VMware; ITIL; BROCADE; MCSE; TOGAF Certified Professional

ð Expertise in Infrastructure service delivery, Subject Matter Expert, Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Server, Cloud, Datacentre
Migration/Consolidation, Hardware management, Project management, Presales, Post sales, Client-Facing Support, Customer
relationship management (dealing with C-level/stakeholders) and Team management
ð Efficient team leader & player, adept in updating new technologies with sound communication, interpersonal, problem resolution,
training, analytical and leadership skills
ð Proficient in Designing, Developing & implementing technical infrastructural solutions and facilitating organizations in increasing return
of investment (ROI) and minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO), CAPEX & OPEX
ð Extensive technical skills in NetApp - FAS, ES, E, AFF, FlexPod, Oncommand Suite, OnTap Cloud, Cloud Manager & SolidFire SF series
Storage; Hitachi - VSP, HFS, HCP Anywhere EFSS, HUS & HNAS Series Storages; Hitachi ID Identity and Access Management; IBM –
VersaStack with IBM FlashSystem V9000, IBM Storwize V7000, DS8k, IBM Spectrum Suite, PureFlex, XIV, SVC & N Series Storages;
NexSan Transporter 75/150 EFSS; Quantum XCELLIS STORAGE QXS-456 & StorNext Pro series; EMC – Celerra, Clariion, Atmos, Data
Domain, ViPR, VNX, VCE VBlock, VxRail, AppSync, Unity, Isilon, XtremIO, Vplex & VMAX3 100k/200k/400k/AF Series Storage; Tintri
Series, Nimble AF series, Pure M series storage, DELL – Equallogics PS4000/6000 series & Compellent FS8600 with FluidFS,
SC2000/4000/7000/9000 Series Storages; QNAP series; Synology series; WD Cloud series; Tegile Series; Fujitsu Eternus series; HPE – XP,
3PAR StoreServ series, D2D4312 Backup Systems, StoreOnce series, StoreVirtual series, Hyper Converged 200 series, MSA & EVA Series
Storages; CTERA Hardware & Virtual Cloud Appliance, P2V, V2V, Zerto, VMware, 5nine, ASR, AZ-Migrate, Double-Take, Veeam, vCenter
Converter; NetIQ – PlateSpin Migrate v12; Private Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, G
Suite, Office365 Deployment/Migration, Commvault Simpana, NetBackup; Software-Defined Storage – Oracle, Nexenta, CloudByte
ElastiStor OS, ZFS, JBOD; IAM - Hitachi ID Identity Manager, Password Manager, Privileged Access Manager, Mobile Access, Suite v11.1 /
Microsoft Azure IAM / AWS IAM / SailPoint IAM / Keycloak IAM v4.3; Windows, Ubuntu, Suse, Centos, MacOS, Aix and RHEL
ð Security compliance standards, Regulatory, Compliance and governance associated with PCI DSS v3.2, ISO 9001:2015/27001:2013, ITIL,
Agile, TOGAF/Zachman/SOX framework, MOD (Ministry Of Defence) and GDPR

UK BPSS/CRB/Enhanced DBS/DS Clearance Certificate

• Baseline Personnel Security Standard(BPSS), Criminal Records Bureau(CRB), Disclosure and Barring Service(DBS) & Disclosure
Scotland(DS) from Scotland Police Security Clearance Certificate (Valid from June 2018)

Professional International Certifications

• Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Certified Professional
• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
• TOGAF 9.1 Certified Professional
• VMware vSphere 6.5 Foundation Certified Professional (VCP)
• VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization Certified Professional
• Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE 2012)
• Brocade Certified Fabric Professional - 16Gbps
• NetApp NCDA Storage Certified Professional
• NetApp NCIE Storage Certified Professional
• EMC ISM V2 Storage Foundation Certified Professional
• EMC VNX Solutions Specialist Certified Professional
• EMC Isilon Certified Storage Professional
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certified Professional
• Hitachi Data Systems – Storage Foundation Certified Professional
• Hitachi Data Systems System Architect Certified Professional – HNAS
• Hitachi Data Systems Implementer Certified Professional – Enterprise
• Hitachi Data Systems Implementer Certified Professional – Converged
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Yet to be certified, In progress)
• Microsoft Certified, Azure Cloud Solutions Associate (Yet to be certified, In progress)

Other Information
• Self-Employed at own limited company based in Moorgate, London, HMRC VAT registered company, maintaining a chartered
accountant and FSB member
• Education – Diploma in Computer Engineering, BSc, MSc from India and MBA from University of West of Scotland
• Holding Business Insurance - £2m Professional Indemnity / £10m Public Liability / £10m Employers Liability
• Tier2 PBS Dependent(Spouse) Biometric Resident Permit valid until February 2021, eligible for ILR & British Citizenship
• Eligible to work anywhere in UK – Contract / Permanent / Fixed-Term
• Flexible & Open for relocating anywhere in UK and No VISA sponsorship required..!!
• Valid clean Full UK Manual Driving License and owned Car
Professional Experience
Cloud On Air Limited, London (My Own Limited Company)
IT Consultant (Starting from 3rd August 2017 to Till Date)
Description: Cloud On Air is a premier cloud and IT consulting firm, that has been leveraging Infrastructure, Storage and Cloud technologies. We
have helped enterprises transforming to cloud, storage infrastructure innovations, GOV UK Crown Commercial, MOD and G Cloud Supplier.
Key Clients handled: GOV UK, NHS Trust, Financial, Banking, Logistics, Enterprise, Gaming, Animation, Media, Medical Industry, Education
Sectors, Managed Service Providers, Telecom, Aviation, etc.,.

Project #1: University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine-Addenbrooke’s-NHS Trust, Cambridge

Infrastructure Engineer (15th Aug 2018 to Till Date)
Description: The School of Clinical Medicine is the medical school of the University of Cambridge in England. According to the QS World
University Rankings 2018, it ranks as the 2nd best medical school in the world. The school is co-located with Addenbrooke's Hospital on the
Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Role and Responsibilities:
• A project team of Infrastructure at Clinical Medicine is the medical school packed with team of Service Desk, 2nd line
support, Network Team and Infrastructure Engineers.
• They have two DC’s Primary in Addenbrooke’s-NHS, Cambridge & DR in University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
• Clinical Medicine is the medical school has Microsoft Azure Cloud, Dell EMC Isilon H600 Series All-Flash NAS, NetApp FAS
2000 & 8000 series, 7mode/CDot, Nimble storage, Nimble VSA, NetApp VSA, Cisco UCS, VMware v5.5, ESXi, vCenter,
vMotion, ADS, Windows 7/10, RedHat Linux, Office365, Windows server 2008/2012/2016, etc,.
• They hired contractor due to shortage of manpower to implement projects like VMware v5.5 to VMware v6.5 upgrade
for Clinical School & VMware v5.5 to v6.7 for Clinical research centre, NetApp 7mode to CDot migration, Dell EMC Isilon
OneFS administration, InsightIQ, SnapShotIQ, SmartConnect, SyncIQ, SmartLock, SmartDedupe, On-Premises physical to
Azure Cloud migration using vmware & cloud migration agents, Implementing Azure Identify and Access management,
Authentication principals such as HBAC/RBAC/PAM/MFA, Single Sign-On, Password Management, ADFS connect, Office
365, PowerShell, Slack Internal chat communicator, McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Adaptive Threat Protection (ATP)
v10.6.0, Acronis Backup, Kemp LoadMaster 3000 series, Asigra Cloud Backup v13, VM replication for VMware vSphere.
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold, Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 setup & deployment between Primary & DR Datacenter, etc,.
• Working on Change management system using Atlassian Jira Software v7, ITIL/Agile Framework, ISO 27001, etc,.
• Working on decommissioning of VMware v5.5, Acronis Backup application, NetApp FAS 2000 series, NetApp firmware
upgrade, 7mode migration & decommissioning, HP c7000 physical server, etc,.

Project #2: CNA Hardy, London via TCS UK Ltd

Infrastructure Consultant (1st May 2018 to 14th Aug 2018)
Description: CNA Hardy is a leading specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets.
Role and Responsibilities:
• A project team of Infrastructure at CAN Hardy, working in Merger project CNA bought the company called Hardy. It is
now merging as CNA Hardy. They hired me to identify to merge the infrastructure migration, decommission, etc,.
• They have two DC’s Primary in Greenford, London & DR in Manchester.
• CAN Hardy has Private, Hybrid & public cloud solutions, HLD/LLD design, implementation, BAU, project tasks,
documentation and delivery.
• Worked on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) which is United States Congress passed to protect shareholders and the general
public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in enterprises, and to improve the accuracy of corporate
disclosures.
• Worked on Incident, Problem & Change management in SNOW(Service Now), ITIL framework system.
• Worked on decommissioning of HP Live Vault, Acronis & NetBackup Backup application and migration to new
Commvault Simpana v11
• Worked on Cloud Migration from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, LLD/HLD, switch to Google products like GSuite,
Compute Engine, App Engine, BigQuery, CloudSQL, Cloud Storage, etc,.
• Worked on Map AWS cloud services to Google Cloud Platform products, Migrating VMs to Compute Engine, Importing
virtual disks(VMDK, VHD, and RAW), We used two kinds of migration tools to migrate, VMs to Cloud & Physical to Cloud,
Using CloudEndure agent-based tool performed prem-to-cloud migrations and Using Velostrata migrated VMs to GCP,
Target GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), GCP Network tags, NetIQ Platespin Migrate v12, Deploying the Velostrata
Manager on-premises and Velostrata Cloud Extension using VMware vCenter, PowerShell Script, Kubernetes Engine
(GKE) , GKE cluster logs, load balancers, GCE Route, GCE Health check, etc,.
• Worked on Cisco MDS 9000 series Vsan re-design, zoning changes, firmware upgrade between Greenford and
Manchester Datacentre, Solarwind monitoring tools, etc,.
• Worked on VMware v6.5 to VMware v6.7 upgrade, vSphere with Operations Management 6.7, since it is a new version
from VMware, VMware Airwatch Deployment and Implementation of Enterprise Mobility.
• I am supporting technologies like Cloud, Storage, Backup, Fabrics and VMware v6/6.5, SRM, PlateSpin Migrate v12, V2V,
P2V migrations, Hitachi Virtual Storage platform (VSP) F 350 series, Hitachi Command Suite v8.5, EMC NS480, Clariion,
VNX, VxBlocks, VMax3, XtremIO, Unity, Recovery Point, EMC AppSync v3.2, HPE Nimble Storage AF1000 All Flash Array,
HPE Data Migration Services for HPE Nimble Storage, HPE Nimble Storage InfoSight, NetApp AFF8080 EX FlexPod
Datacenter, Cisco B200M4 UCS Blades, Cisco B200M3 UCS Blades, Two Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect, Cisco
Nexus 9396PX unified Fabric, Citrix XenApp v6.5, EMC Open Replicator, NetApp storage administration (C-Mode/7-
Mode), NetApp XCP Migration, Cisco MDS Fabric Switches, VMware v6.5, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016, RHEL, NFS,
CIFS, FC, SMB, etc,.
Project #3: L3 CTS, Crawley & Southampton
IT Infrastructure Consultant (12th February 2018 to 27th April 2018)
Description: L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) have a heritage that dates back over 80 years to incredibly successful organizations within
the civil aviation arena: Link UK, US Defence Aviation, CTC Aviation and Aero simulator.
Role and Responsibilities:
• A project team of SAP S/4 HANA at L3 CTS, they have two DC’s Primary in Crawley & DR in Southampton, working on
HLD/LLD design, implementation, documentation and delivery.
• Worked on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) which is United States Congress passed to protect shareholders and the general
public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in enterprises, and to improve the accuracy of corporate
disclosures.
• Worked on Microsoft Azure infrastructure including VMs, Storage Accounts, Load Balancers, Auto scaling, Functions,
Azure SQL, Resource Groups, Network Security Groups (NSGs), IAM, ARM Templates, Azure HA strategies including:
Regions, Availability Sets, Azure Recovery Manager, Active Directory (AAD), AD Connect etc,.
• Worked on infrastructure supporting SAP HANA S/4 application, Pure FlashArray M10, Dell PowerEdge R630/R930
servers, VMware VMotion, Vcenter, ESXi v6.5, Windows server 2012 R2/2016 LSTB, ADS, Suse Enterprise v12 SP2 Linux,
Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5, Brocade 6505 SAN Switch, Nagios Monitoring, PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library, LTO
7 Tape media for infrastructure for this project. I am a part of team size 58 people plus* working on various segment to
complete the project such as Dev, QA, Performance Testing, Pre-Prod, Prod and KT.
• A FlexPod Datacenter with Fibre Channel Storage using VMware vSphere v6.5 U1, NetApp All Flash FAS A300 Series,
Cisco UCS Manager v3.2, HP XP/P9500, HP 3Par, NetApp FAS 2040 series, Cisco 5108 Chassis, UCS 6332-16UP Fabric
Interconnects, UCS C220 M4 series servers, Nexus 9332PX Switch, Dell Compellent SC 4020/SCv2000 series, Qnap series
validated combine storage solutions, Ontap 7 mode/Clustered Data Ontap v9.1, SnapMirror, NetApp SnapCenter v4,
Deduplication, OnCommand System Manager, Microsoft Sharepoint, NetApp OnCommand Insight(OCI) v7.3,
dashboards, reports to visualize hybrid cloud IT infrastructures, monitor and manage hybrid cloud storage resources,
compute, and switching infrastructures, Symantec Endpoint Protection v14, NFS, CIFS, FC, SMB, iSCSI, etc,.
• Worked on out of hours supporting storage request on On-Call shift rota, ServiceNow, etc,.

Project #4: Colt Technology Services, Shoreditch, London

Storage / Cloud Consultant (22nd September 2017 to 9th February 2018)
Description: Colt is the New Standard in high bandwidth network and voice services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and
North America’s largest business hubs.
Role and Responsibilities:
• A project team of SAP & Multiple projects at COLT, working on HLD/LLD design, implementation, documentation and
delivery.
• Working with the Infrastructure, Cloud, Storage, Cisco UCS, VMware and Backup infrastructure for this project. I am a
part of team size 72 people plus* worked on various segment to complete the project such as Dev, QA, Performance
Testing, Pre-Prod, Prod, KT and Closure.
• A Dell EMC VCE VBlock EMC VNX 5200/5400 series / Unity 350F / Unity VSA / VMAX 250F / XtremIO X2 / ScaleIO, VxFlex
OS, VxRail, ISILON F800 series validated combine storage solutions, NetApp FAS 2620/8200, NetApp AltaVault AVA400,
Clustered Data Ontap v9.1, SnapMirror, SnapCenter, OnCommand suite, Cisco UCS 5108 chassis & B200 M5 Blade server,
Cisco UCS Manager, Symantec Veritas NetBackup v7.7, NetBackup 5330 Series Appliance, NFS, CIFS, SMB, iSCSI, etc,.
• Worked on VMware v6.5 Horizon, vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, VMware vCloud Director, SRM, VMware vRealize automation,
vCloud Suite, vRealize Orchestrator, vShield, vConverter, vRealize Ops, VMware NSX (SDN), Vmware vSAN(SDS).
• Lead design and deployment hybrid cloud environment based on AWS cloud infrastructure and Vmware, including VPCs
(private, public, vpn subnets), EC2s, AWS IPSec VPN, AWS security group/Network ACL, AWS Storage gateway (stored
volumes), McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), McAfee ePO on AWS v5.10, McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS), McAfee
Application Control v8, McAfee Drive Encryption (DE) 7.2, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) v8, McAfee VirusScan
Enterprise for Storage (VSES) v1.2, deploying storage VSA through OVF Template, etc,.
• Worked on internal project team of COLT, Amazon AWS Cloud, Cloud Migration, Route53, VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, EFS,
Identity & Access Management(IAM), Authentication principals such as HBAC/RBAC/PAM/MFA, etc,.
• An external Telecom project of COLT a team of 8 crew members working on Design, Implementation, Configuration of
RedHat OpenStack v12 on NetApp FlexPod, NetApp AFF A700 series, Cisco UCS 5108 Chases, UCS mini B200 M5 Blade
servers, Cisco 6332-16UP Fabric Interconnect, Cisco 2208XP Fabric Extender(FEX), Nexus 5k/7k/MDS Switches, software-
defined networking (SDN) controller, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), VMware v6.5, UCS Manager v3.2, UCS
Director, OpenStack Compute, Network, Object Store, Orchestration, Database, etc,.
• Worked on storage implementation, allocations, provisioning, storage expansions, performance monitoring, reporting,
Cisco UCS Service Profile, Boot LUNs, Boot from SAN, Brocade & Cisco MDS zoning, etc,. as per project request.
• Worked on NetApp OnCommand Insight v7.3, navigation of Insight web UI, setting up Insight, installing licenses,
managing user accounts, setting up weekly backups for insight database, SNMP notifications, ASUP processing,
Managing performance policies, data source management, setting up storage resources like NetApp, HP, VMware
vSphere, EMC VNX, VMAX, Unity, Unity VSA, Isilon, XtremIO, Brocade Fabrics, Cisco Fabrics, Maintaining Insight,
upgrading Insight server software, etc,.
• Worked on HPE StoreVirtual 4000 series, creating a datastore using vSphere client, Creating a virtual machine(VM) using
the vSphere client, Installing VSA OVF, manually migrating SAN volumes to local datastore, Configuring CMC, Creating
iSCSI SAN, RAID, configuration of two-system configuration, storage allocation, firmware upgrades, etc,.
• Worked on configure monitoring tools like CloudWatch, setup alarms and event triggers to ensure Reliability of
applications in the cloud, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 deployments, Powershell, RedHat/Ubuntu Linux, Backup,
SQL Database, SAP HANA, SAP BPC, SAP ECC ERP, Solarwinds, Velostrata, Terminal Services, RDP, etc,.
 • Building high availability environments in Azure (Availability groups, Auto Scaling) and Monitoring through OMS.
• Setting up workloads on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) virtual machines (VMs) including Microsoft & Linux, performing
configuration management and remote debugging.
• Worked on Hitachi ID Identity and Access Management suite v10.1 implementation, Resources, Policies, Privileged
access, Workflow, Policy enforcement, Automated On boarding and Deactivation, Access Request Portal, Self-service
Profile Updates, Delegated Access Administration, Robust Approvals Process, Role-based Access Control, Risk Scores,
Actionable Analytics, Etc,.
• Worked on Hitachi ID Privileged Access Manager v10.1, secures privileged accounts, managed system and account,
Checkout a session, Launch RDP connection, Manage the system, Checkin the session, check-outs/check-ins, Report, Etc,.
• Worked on Service Now ticketing system tools to deliver change, incident and work order request.
• Worked with IT service provider on storage hardware replacements, datacentre requests, etc
• Worked on out of hours supporting storage request on On-Call shift rota, supporting EMEA region.

Project #5: Sanstor Data Systems Limited, Essex / Hertfordshire / Cambridgeshire / Buckinghamshire
Senior Professional Service Engineer (6th March 2017 to 20th September 2017)
Description: Sanstor Data Systems is an established consulting organization providing professional services and solutions. We are committed to
quality and innovation and offers a portfolio of solutions and services to companies in the manufacturing, service, retail and healthcare
industries.
Role and Responsibilities:
• It is a Home-Based work, need to travel client places across Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire & Buckinghamshire,
Design, LLD, HLD, configuration, build, transform, migrate, POC(Proof of Concept) testing, SOW, BOW, presales
presentation / demo, troubleshooting, BAU tasks using Service Now, technical documentation, etc,.
Office 365 Migration/Administration Project – Honeywell Aerospace, Yeovil, Somerset – MOD (Ministry Of Defence):
• Microsoft Azure Cloud AD administration, Hybrid O365 configuration and troubleshooting of a complex environment.
• Company mailing system realignment (9K mailbox migration) and Office 365 consolidation, network redesign, IT platform
correction (8 datacentre’s), team management and organizational communication.
• Microsoft licensing auditing: leader of 3,7 EUR million savings. Licence restructuring and consolidation.
• Expertise in the Microsoft stack including Windows 7 and 10, EMS Suite, Azure, O365, E1 and E3 licensing for Enterprise
Agreement, Office 365, Lotus Notes, Google Mail, Google Docs.
• Cloud migration: Windows server 2012/2016, ADFS deployment, tunnel communication set up, Office 365
implementation, infrastructure configuration for 50 physical migration to Microsoft Azure.
• Load Balancing: acquisition process, contract award and deployment of load balancing platform (Citrix MPX8200) for
healthcare management software version control and reverse proxy functionalities.
• Administration of SCCM 2012 (Windows Updates, Software Deployments, Machine Builds), Windows 10/Mac
environment, McAfee Endpoint Security v10.5, McAfee ePO server, Threat Prevention, Firewall, Web Control, Platform,
McAfee ePO Software Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection.
• Dell EMC Unity 350F All-Flash Storage, Unisphere Management suite, health scores with CloudIQ, day to day support,
provisioning, reporting, performance tuning & ESRS.
• Creation of Active Directory and Office 365 accounts, Import of pst files into Travelopia email accounts,
• Worked on Azure Cloud Deployments, Microsoft Azure IaaS, Azure Resource Manager and Templating, Azure Virtual
Networks, Azure Network Security Groups, Azure Active Directory, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup Express Route,
Azure Application Service Environment, Azure SQL, Microsoft Server up to 2016, Active Directory, Group Policies, etc,.
• GPO testing and implementing for OneDrive for business, Plan and test data migration to OneDrive for business.
• Assist in migration of departmental shared mailboxes, Proxy configuration for inbound and outbound connectivity to
O365, PaloAlto VM-700 16 Gbps firewall for Securing Azure public cloud.
• Assist with data migration of file shares and personal drives, Creation of distribution lists in Office 365
• Hardware rebuilds - Dell and HP with Windows 10, Mobile device configuration for Office 365 connectivity.
• Active Directory Administration, Office 365 Administration, Dell and HP Hardware configuration, Creation and
management of User accounts, Creation and management of Security Groups,
• Creation and management of email accounts, Distribution List Management, Creation and management of shared
mailboxes and SMTP address administration.
Project 2: Google Suite Deployment/Migration/Configuration Project - Warwickshire College - Leamington Spa
• A Warwickshire College infrastructure consist of Microsoft Exchange server 2008, they are in test phase of POC in
migration of 750 mailbox to Google Suite, remaining 10000 mailbox will be migrate and taken care by internal engineers.
• I have carried-out best practice methods to migrate 750 mailbox to G Suite using CloudMigrator migration tool v3.
• Google’s Suite enpacked with awesome features such as Drive, Gmail, Hangouts, Docs, Sheets, Slides.
• CloudMigrator Exchange Migration Tool for G Suite (Google Apps) – Supports all versions of Exchange 2000 – 2016 and
moves email, calendars, contacts, tasks, public folders, archives and file data.
• Add domains as aliases, Add domains to separate G Suite accounts, Allow users to use POP or IMAP with email clients,
Use Google Calendar, Connectors to display free/busy information between G Suite and MS Exchange
• Domain management, User Account migration, Mail data migration, mail routing, calendar migration, mobile
configuration, user policies, authentication and authorization.
• I have given KT(Knowledge Transfer & cookbook(Blue-Print) along with screenshot and procedures of G Suite migration
for internal technical team who look after the project and further migration to be carried out.
Project 3: Royal County of NHS Guildford, Surrey
• A Royal County of NHS Guildford infrastructure consist of EMC VNX, HPE StoreVirtual 4335 series, they wanted to return
back the leased EMC VNX to cut the infrastructure cost and they wanted to migrate data’s to HPE StorageVirtual Hybrid
Storage system.
 • Worked on LLD, HLD, Implementation, configuration, migration, HPE StoreVirtual 4335 series, VMware vSphere ESXi
v6.5, vCenter, Host based migration using Secure Copy, iLO configuration, VMware vCenter setup, vSphere setup,
StoreVirtual VSA license deployment, managing storage provisioning, Health checks, logs, performance tuning, VLAN
configuration, etc,.
• Documented a Runbook, given KT to onsite IT engineers and signed off.

Project #6: Deutsche Bank, London, United Kingdom

Senior Technical Consultant (Starting from 22nd November 2016 to 3rd March 2017)
Description: Deutsche Bank chooses to base its largest investment banking operations in the City of London, a centre of global flows of trade and
wealth.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked in Datacentre, Low/High level Design, implementation, deployment, Blue-Print, Run book, configuration,
administration, troubleshooting, migration, DR and micro-code upgrades.
• Worked on Dell EMC SC5020 / Hitachi VSP G1000 / G200 / HCP Anywhere Standard Pod EFSS / Hi-Command Device
Manager / HCS administration v8.5 / Hitachi ID Identity and Access Management suite v9.5 / BAU administration level 2
& 3 support.
• Zoning FA ports of the storage arrays to the HBA’s of servers by using Brocade 5000 & 6000 series, BNA(Brocade
Network Advisor) and Cisco MDS 9000 series, Web Tools & CLI (Both Hard and Soft Zoning).
• Managing Hitachi – HUS – 150, HNAS – 4100 Series - SMU administration - level 3 supports / Diagnostic report / EVS
Migration / Universal volume manager / Hitachi Tier storage migration / working with HDS on part replacement.
• Worked on EMC Data Domain, SRM - Recoverpoint / Symantec Netbackup 7.5 / NetApp FlexPod Datacenter validated
combine storage solutions, NetApp FAS 8080, Clustered Data Ontap v8.3 / v9, OnCommand System Manager(OCSM),
OnCommand Unified Manager 6.4(OCUM), NetApp OnCommand Insight v7.2, OnTap OnCommand Cloud Manager v3.2
for AWS & Azure, Metrocluster, BAU administration level 2 & 3 support, SnapManager Suite for SAP/Exchange,
SnapMirror, SnapVault, etc,.
• Worked on EMC VNX2, Unity 400F, Unity VSA, VMAX3 200k series Unisphere GUI, plus advanced capabilities such as
FAST hinting, Service Level Objective (SLO) Provisioning, support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols), and FAST. Achieve
1-click Service Level Provisioning for both block and file services within an array, Monitor up to 200 VMAX arrays from a
single consolidated view with Unisphere 360.
• Worked on Aptare StorageConsole v10, Inventory Navigator, Portal Server, Portal Server Software, Reporting Database,
Data Collectors, Dashboards, Capacity Manager, Backup Manager Scope, Exporting, emailing, sharing Reports, Dynamic
Template Designer, User Authentication, etc,.
• Worked on EMC Networker v9, Installation & Configuration of NMC GUI, Backup storage, Data protection policies,
Backup options, Backing up data, Cloning, staging, archiving, data management, recovery, datazone activities, server
monitoring, NMC server management, host management, etc,.
• Worked on HPE Hyper Converged 250 System, HP storevirtual centralized management console, StoreVirtual VSA on
VMware vSphere, rack-stack, new system installation, network deployment, iLO configuration, VMware vCenter setup,
vSphere setup, StoreVirtual VSA license deployment, managing storage provisioning, Health checks, logs, performance
tuning, VLAN configuration, etc,.
• Migration performed using EMC Open Replicator, four steps easy migration from NetApp / VNX / HP MSA to EMC Vmax3
200k series, non-disruptive migration(NDM), PowerPath v5.7/v5.9 host software, online pull operation that copies data
to vmax from old storage, pair the source volumes from the legacy array to target volume on Vmax3, session options,
visualize the data migration element.
• Strong experience of storage protocols such as FC, FCoE, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, SMB, ZFS, FICON, experience of public cloud
environments such as AWS/Azure, EC2, S3, VPC, EBS, IDaaS, AAD, Office 365 integration & migration, Ethernet,
switching, VLAN, TCP/IP, routing, DHCP, DNS, Windows 10, VMware, Strong automation skills of open source
technologies and tools Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Hpca radia, etc,.
• In-depth experience working with RHEL 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, Active Directory and Windows
desktop clients up to and including, NetIQ – PlateSpin Migrate v12, Zerto Virtual Replication v5 migrating VMs, servers,
mission-critical applications, large data sets for private cloud & public cloud migrations, Move the entire application with
Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs), Spectra Logic T950 robotic tape Library, backups and restore, etc,.
• Worked on planning & deploying migration from NetApp 6000 series Data ONTAP 7mode to NetApp FAS 8080 Clustered
Data ONTAP v8 using NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool v.2.3 (7MTT) using Snapmirror
• Worked on Service Now – Incidents, Changes, Task, effectively close-out Customer tickets, handle changes and escalate
problems, PCI-DSS, ISO27001:2013 standards, ITIL and TOGAF framework.

Project #7: Total Data Warehouse Solutions UK Limited, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Senior Storage and Cloud Consultant (12th September 2016 – 18th November 2016)
Description: A IT company which holds enterprise projects with Tier 1 clients across UK & Europe, Outsourcing, Enterprise in delivering Storage,
Network, Cloud, Virtualization and System engineering.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on short term assignments, projects across UK which includes design, implementation, deployment, Pre-Sales,
Road Mapping, White boarding, Presentation to customers, Proposal writing, configuration, administration,
troubleshooting, migration, DR and micro-code upgrades.
• Worked on bids more than £220k Plus deals, Proposal stage, Engaging effectively with customers, engaging with
CDA(Commercial Deal Architect), Managing relationships with customers, suppliers & internal accounts team managers,
Channel partners, POCs, SOW, BOM, RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.
 • Performing presentations and demonstrations of the software solutions to prospects and clients, Build and maintain use
case and demonstration setups of specific software modules
• Project 1 - Worked on inventory search, planning, deployment, configuration, LLD, HLD, Amazon AWS Cloud, Cloud
Migration, VPC, EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, Identity & Access Management(IAM), Directory Service, WorkSpaces, Remote
Desktop(RDP), Route 53, CDN, Lambda, Snowball, Glacier, Storage Gateway, etc,.
• Project 2 - Worked on IBM Lotus Notes v9, IBM Storwize v7000, rack-stack, physical installation, deployment, Initial
Setup, configured v7000, created Storage Pools, Volume Pools, Host, Copy Service, Flash copy, Remote Copy, Firmware
Upgrade, Performance tuning & Analysis and LLD, HLD documentations.
• Project 3 - Worked on planning, LLD, HLD, storage design, storage implementation, documentation and delivery. A HPE
3PAR StoreServ 8200 All-Flash Creation of CPG's, Tunesys, creating Virtual Copies, setup Replication, configure and install
SSMC console, NetApp FlexPod Express validated combine storage solutions, NetApp FAS 2240, Clustered Data Ontap
8.3, integrated OnCommand System Manager(OSM), OnCommand Unified Manager v6(OCUM), Cisco Nexus 3048, Cisco
UCS C220 M3, Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect, Cisco UCS Manager, Service Profile configuration, iSCSI SAN boot,
VMware vSphere v6.0, Powershell Scripting, etc,.
• Project 4 – Worked for multiple Financial & Enterprise clients, Planning, Installation and Configuration of IBM Spectrum
Protect Version v7.1.7, Backup-archive client at v7.1.6, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Spectrum Protect at v7.1.3, IBM
Spectrum Control - Storage monitoring, Storage automation, Tiered storage optimization and Cloud-based deployment,
IBM Spectrum Protect family for VMware & Hyper-V, Software-Defined Storage - Nexenta, Joyent SmartOS, CloudByte
ElastiStor OS, ZFS, JBOD, OpenEBS, Commvault Simpana v11, IBM Storwize v7k, XIV Storage, NetApp, IBM Cloud Object
Storage and DS8k.

Project #8: Sompo Canopius, London, United Kingdom

Senior Storage Consultant (16th June 2016 – 2nd of September 2016)
Description: Sompo Canopius AG ("Sompo Canopius") an A+ rated company and one of the top three Japanese P&C insurers.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on HLD/LLD design, implementation, documentation, Knowledge Transfer, transition, Risk assessment and
migrations. A NetApp FlexPod Datacenter validated combine storage solutions, NetApp FAS 8080, 8060 & 8020,
Clustered Data Ontap 8.3, integrated OnCommand System Manager(OCSM), OnCommand Unified Manager
6.3RC1(OCUM), Metrocluster, ATTO Bridges, Cisco Nexus 5548, Cisco UCS Nexus 7018 Switch, Cisco UCS 6296 Fabric
Interconnect, Cisco UCS B200 & B420 M3 Blades & 5108 Chassis, Cisco UCS Manager, KVM Manager, VMware ESXi v6,
vRealize Operations Manager v6.2, Quantum DXi4700-Series, OneFS filesystem v8.1, Solarwinds v6.2 – monitoring
storage, Cisco UCS & SAN Switches, NFS, CIFS, SMB, FC, Windows, MAC OSX & Unix.
• HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8400, SSMC admin console, storage allocation to windows & unix, Virtual Volume, CPG(Common
Provisioning Groups), File shares, systems, controller nodes, Reports, Remote Copy replication, Security and firmware
upgrade, Cisco MDS 9000 san switch zoning, configuration using GUI & CLI.
• Design & Implemented, NexSan Transporter 150 series Sync & Share system to support VIP users to share data using
mobile devices, NetApp SolidFire SF9605 series, Element OS v9, 4 Nodes cluster, 58TB capacity, Performance per node
50,000 IOPS, Cluster configuration, Volume provisioning, Performance Reporting, Mixed-Node Cluster configuration,
Configured Performance Pools, Capacity Pools, etc,.
• Amazon AWS Cloud, Installation, configuration, maintenance and upgrades of EC2 instances in VPCs, IAM Roles and
policies, Bucket policies, Security Groups Network ACLs, S3, IAM, RDS, ELB, ADS, DNS, DHCP, maintaining Windows and
Linux servers/virtual machines, Cloud design for scalability, elasticity and high availability.
• Worked on planning & deploying migration from NetApp 6000 & 3000 series Data ONTAP 7mode to Clustered Data
ONTAP using NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool v.2.3 (7MTT) using Snapmirror, Zerto Replication for VMware.
• Worked on Dell Compellent FS8600 with FluidFS v3, Enterprise Manager, SMB Share, NFS Export, iSCSI, Replication, Live
Volumes, Monitoring, Alerts, NDMP, etc,.
• Worked on Symantec enterprise vault v12, NetApp SnapManager v7.2 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012(SMSQL) automated
backup, restore, and cloning operations, NetApp OnCommand Insight v7.1, Snapvault, Snapmirror, SnapDrive, HPE
StoreEver ESL G3 Tape Library.
• Worked on planning, deploying & implementing NetApp SnapCenter v1.1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Storage Virtual
Machines (SVMs), adding Run As accounts, downloading and uploading SnapCenter plug-ins, adding hosts, installing
plug-ins, creating a policy and a dataset, and performing an on-demand backup, Service Now – Incidents, Workorders,
effectively close-out Customer tickets, handle changes and escalate problems, ISO27001:2013 standards and ITIL
framework.
Project #9: Total Data Warehouse Solutions UK Limited, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Senior Storage Architect (26th May 2016 – 14th June 2016)
Description: A IT company which holds enterprise projects with Tier 1 clients across UK & Europe, Outsourcing, Enterprise in delivering Storage,
Network, Cloud, Virtualization and System engineering.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked for small scale, mid-size companies, institutional clients, all my assignments are short term assignments /
projects across UK which includes design, implementation, deployment, configuration, administration, troubleshooting,
migration, DR and micro-code upgrades.
• Worked on Managing relationships with customers, suppliers & internal accounts team managers.
• Worked on bids more than £80k +, Engaging effectively with customers, gathering, SOW, POC and leading Bid team.
• Worked on IBM Storwize v7000, Planning & Deployment, Rack & Stack, Initial Setup, LLD, HLD, Monitoring, Storage
Pools, Volume Pools, Host, Copy Service, Flash copy, Remote Copy, CP, Mappings, Firmware Upgrade.
 • Worked on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center(TPC) v5.2.6 suite, end to end monitoring, Health checks, Asset(Storage,
Fabric, Host), Availability, Capacity, Performance and Automation Management, managing Global Mirror, Metro Mirror
and Flash Copy replication services.
• Worked on LLD, HLD, Datacenter consolidation, Migration, HDS HFS A200 series, HCP Anywhere Sync & Share, QNAP,
Cisco UCS, Fabric Interconnect, Fabric Extender, Cisco & Brocade SAN Switches, Fabrics, FC, ISCSI, FCP, LAN, WAN, etc,..
• Worked on Storage Design, Implementation, Configuration, Migration, Administration on NetApp FAS, FlexPod Select &
Express, EMC RPA, VNX, VMAX3 100k series, Powerpath, ExtremeIO, Networker v9, VCE VBlock Storage’s, HDS HUS,
HNAS, VSP G series Storage’s, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series, XP, MSA, Tintri Storage’s, Storage Migrations, Storage
Replication, SNMP Monitoring Nagios, Performance Tuning, Powershell Scripting. Firmware upgrades, etc,..
• Worked on EMC Data Domain, NetBackup v7, P2V, V2V, V2P, VMware vSphere ESXi v6, Zerto, NetIQ – Platespin Migrate
v12, Windows Server 2008 & 2012, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Active Directory, Group policy, WSUS, file servers, RCA(Root Cause
Analysis), symantec enterprise vault v12, RedHat Linux, Service Now, TOGAF, ISO27001:2013 standards, Zachman & ITIL
Framework, Cisco IP phones 7000 series, Cisco Unified CallManager Voice Software v9, configuration, troubleshooting,
etc,.

Project #10: Ladbrokes Plc, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Storage & Cisco UCS Engineer (29th February 2016 – 29th April 2016)
Description: Ladbrokes is a world leader in the betting and gaming industry with over 2,700 betting outlets in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and Spain
and over 800,000 active online customers.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on Infrastructure transition project, HLD/LLD design, implementation, documentation and delivery. A EMC VCE
VBLOCK, VNX 7500 series, EMC Recovery Point Appliance are validated combine storage solutions, Cisco Nexus 5548,
Cisco 2248TP Fabric Extender, Cisco UCS Nexus 7018 Switch, Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnect, Cisco UCS B200 series
Blades & 5100 series Chassis, Cisco UCS Manager, VMware ESXi v5.5 & v6, vRealize Operations Manager v6.2, vCenter
Server v6.
• Expertise in Design, implementation, deployment & configuration of Amazon AWS cloud - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2), P2V, V2V, Migrations.
• Worked on Microsoft Azure Cloud, Migrated From VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 using Hyper-V Manager,
configured Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS), Zerto Virtual Replication for VMware, Hyper V & AWS.
• Worked on EMC Atmos, Solarwinds v6.2 – monitoring storage, UCS & SAN Switches, EMC ViPR Controller, capacity and
performance reporting, EMC ExtremeIO 2 X-Brick Cluster storage implementation on three locations located in Rayner’s
Lane, Swindon & Leeds. XtremIO Storage management interface, Hardware Setup, Cabling Setup, Storage controllers
Setup, Cluster Initialization & Post-Installation Procedures.
• Worked on EMC VNX Storage allocations, EMC Data Domain DD4500 Series, Cisco MDS zoning, Cisco UCS server build,
login server using KVM manager, EMC RPA replication from two sites located in Swindon & Leeds, storage migration and
firmware upgrades, Supporting SQL Server databases, Windows Server 2012 R2, Red Hat v5, 6 & 7, Oracle Database
RMAN, Migration from NetBackup v7 to Commvault Simpana v11, Commvault v11 VSA for VM Protection, Backup and
Restore & Worked on Service Now, TOGAF framework & IT management Service Now.

Project #11: ARM Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Senior Storage Analyst (9th November 2015 – 2nd February 2016)
Description: ARM is at the heart of the world’s most advanced digital products. They are into semi-conductor and microchip manufacturing
company including smartphones, tablets and enterprise infrastructure.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on Design, implementation, administration, configuration & Migration on NetApp FAS 2554 Cluster Mode, Tintri
VMstore T5060 All-Flash Series, Tintri VMstore T880 Hybrid-Flash Series, Tintri Global Center (TGC), EMC Isilon high
performance S210 series, EMC Isilon X410 Series, HPE StoreOnce 3540, EMC Isilon OneFS, Dell Equallogics PS4210E
storage array - Storage and Data management using Equallogics Group Manager, Data Migration using EqualLogic
Manual Transfer Utility & Firmware upgrades, Dell Storage SCv2020 storage array, Dell Enterprise Manager, Dell Storage
24 Disk SC120 expansion enclosures, VMware virtual machines for performance.
• Administration and support of NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP & 7-Mode and EMC Isilon clusters globally. Storage
Efficiency Optimization activities such as upgrades, performance tuning, and system audit tasks.
• Worked on Proficiency in configuration of Isilon Networking, DNS configuration and Isilon SmartConnect technology /
Configuring and Managing Isilon SmartQuota (quotas) / Managing the storage tiers, SmartPools, Node pools / Isilon
SnapshotsIQ / SyncIQ, emcopy and rsync / reporting and monitoring the Isilon clusters using the InsightIQ appliance.
• Owned technical pre-sales tasks for green filed projects, conducted workshops with the client to scope the requirements,
designed a solution to transform the infrastructure to cloud and helped BAU for implementation & transition, McAfee
Endpoint Security v10, McAfee ePO, Threat Prevention, Firewall, Web Control, Platform.
• Backup via Networker v8, SnapVault & Protection Manager, Data Replication using SnapMirror & Rsync. Implementation
of backup and restore, disaster recovery, data protection.
• Day to day operations include: create/remove volumes/aggregates/exports, Break-Fix.
• Worked on Updated & Configured NetIQ - PlateSpin migrate v11.1 to v12.0, installed PlateSpin server, data encryption
algorithms that are compliant with FIPS, PlateSpin migrate client on Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Lync Server
2013, Symantec enterprise vault v12.
• Worked with NetApp GS, project managers, application, networks teams, Interacting with project managers, application
and network teams.
• NetApp cDOT (installs, consolidations, migrations, provisioning), 7-Mode transition to Clustered DataONTAP using 7-
Mode Transition Tool, EMC Isilion (installs, consolidations, migrations, provisioning)
Project #12: News UK & Ireland LTD via HCL Technologies Great Britain LTD, London, UK
NetApp Flexpod Architect (21st September 2015 – 4th November 2015)
Description: News UK a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on HLD/LLD design, implementation, documentation and delivery. A NetApp FlexPod Datacenter validated
combine storage solutions, NetApp FAS 8080, Clustered Data Ontap 8.3P2, integrated OnCommand System
Manager(OSM), OnCommand Unified Manager 6.3RC1(OCUM), NetApp OnCommand Insight v7.1, Metrocluster, ATTO
Bridges, Cisco Nexus 5548(5k), Cisco 2248TP Fabric Extender, Cisco UCS Nexus 7018(7k) Switch, Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric
Interconnect, Cisco UCS Blades & Chassis, Cisco UCS Manager, VMware ESXi 5.5, vRealize, vRO, Powershell Scripting, etc,.
• Worked on Vicom SAN Mirroring Appliances, SM4x4-1 Single, 4Gb/s Engine Appliance & SM4x4-2 Dual, 4Gb Engine
Appliance, SAN Mirroring Appliance mirrors pairs of physical storage volumes and presents each pair to connected host
systems as a single, “unbreakable” LUN.
• Configuration of Vicom SME using SAN Mirroring Software, Storage Appliance Admin GUI, Switch Zoning, Setting the
Engine IP Address, Configuring the Daemon, Starting the Daemon, Adding a Connection Path, Clustering the Engines,
Registering Network Devices with the Engines, Creating Mirrors, Creating VLUNs and Presenting Mirrors or VLUNs to
Hosts, OpenStack Compute, Network, Object Store, Orchestration, Database, etc,.
• Implemented a NetApp Metrocluster infrastructure which has two datacenters with Active/Active Sync 16Miles between
the location and it supports upto 250km sync.
• Performed MetroCluster / FlexPod Test Plan, manual failover test between two datacenters, Physical NetApp FAS
Storage Controller Failure, Physical Clustered Data ONTAP Cluster Interconnect Failure, HA Interconnect, SyncMirror
(Each aggregate will be synchronously mirrored to the remote site), Redundant power failure, Redundant MetroCluster
fabrics, Physical Nexus Data Switch (Nexus 5548UP) Failure, Physical Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Failure, Cisco UCS B
Series Server Uplinks – IOM/FEX to Fabric Interconnect cable/link failure, Cisco Nexus to Cisco UCS Ethernet Uplink
Failure, UCS Chassis PSU Failure, UCS Chassis Fan Module Failure, Fabric Interconnects L1 and L2 Failure.
• Delivered UCS network configuration, VMs and Storage allocations & provisioned, NFS/CIFS Data LIFs, Aggregates, Flash
pools(SAS, SATA, SSD), Storage Virtual Machine(SVM), Volume, Export Policies, CIFS shares, File level permissions are
followed using Best practise methods.
• Worked towards project closure, preparing HLD/LLD design document using MS Visio, preparing the POA & working with
NetApp to test solution for final NetApp automated failover using Metrocluster Tiebreaker. MetroCluster Tiebreaker
(MCTB) solution is to provide automatic failover of the MetroCluster under conditions when the MetroCluster cannot
perform automatic failover itself. This can occur when the interconnect links between the two controllers goes down.
Without communications between the two controllers, a surviving controller will not perform a takeover automatically.

Project #13: Total Data Warehouse Solutions UK Limited, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Senior Storage Architect (1st June 2015 – 11th Sep 2015)
Description: A Start-up IT company which holds enterprise projects with Tier 1 clients across UK. Outsourcing, Enterprise in delivering Storage,
Network, Virtualization and System engineering.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked for small scale, mid-size companies, institutional clients, all my assignments are short term projects across UK
which includes design, implementation, deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, migration and micro-code
upgrades.
• Worked on end-to-end delivery of infrastructure solutions, such as Data Centre Migration, QNAP, Synology, MAC OSX
and SAN & NAS install/refresh/upgrades, symantec enterprise vault v12, Microsoft Exchange, Lync Server 2013, VMware
ESXi v5.5 & v6, NetIQ AppManager v8.2, vCenter Server v6 & vCenter v5.8, MS Azure Cloud.
• Worked on design, implementation, administration, configuration & Migration on Cisco UCS management suite, NetApp
FlexPod, EMC Atmos, EMC VCE Vblock, NetApp 7mode & cluster-mode, HP 3Par, VMware, TOGAF & ITIL framework, HPE
3PAR StoreServ 7200c 2-node Storage, HPE 3PAR Management Console, Data Center, EMC VMAX3 400k series & VNX
storage arrays in a institutional client based on Hertfordshire.
• HPE StoreOnce 5500, StoreOnce GUI, Powering up and setting up iLO4, Logging in to the HPE StoreOnce System and
checking status, Configuring licenses, Setting time zone and configuring NTP server, Creating user accounts, Setting up
email alerts, Setting up SNMP, Generating the SSL certificate, Expanding additional storage, Checking for the latest
software, Configuring Remote Support, Complete network configuration and Firmware Upgrade.
• StoreOnce Catalyst to back up data to a target store on the StoreOnce System. Deduplication may occur on the media
server or on the StoreOnce System.
Project #14: Cargill, Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Senior Storage Engineer – Service Delivery (1st Sep 2014 – 29th May 2015)
Description: Cargill also has an agriculture joint venture with Allied Grain (part of ABF), under the name Frontier Agriculture. Cargill has activities
in the following areas in the United Kingdom: Alcohol animal feed ingredients, aqua nutrition, asset management, cotton trading, Etc,.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on integration of Hitachi NAS and SAN storages based on the LLD / HLD.
• Worked on Hitachi VSP G1000, G600 & G800 Series, Hitachi Command Suite v7.0/v8.0, Hitachi Tuning Manager, etc,..
• Expertise in COW / HUR / True Copy / Shadow image / HORCM / Allocations / BAU administration level 3 support and
HCP(Hitachi Content Platform) Anywhere Sync & Share.
• Zoning FA ports of the storage arrays to the HBA’s of servers by using Brocade 5000 & 6000 series, BNA(Brocade
Network Advisor) and Cisco MDS 9000 series, Web Tools & CLI (Both Hard and Soft Zoning)
 • Managing Hitachi Unified Storage 130, Hitachi NAS Platform 4100, Brocade 6510 SAN switches, SMU administration -
level 3 supports / Firmware upgrade / Diagnostic report / EVS Migration / working on CLI - Bali console / working with
HDS on part replacement.
• HNAS migration was performed using SecureCopy & User Data Management from NetApp FAS 3040 series / EMC VNXe
3200 series to HDS HNAS 4100 series.
• Worked on Storage Replication technologies (Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR), Hitachi true-copy, shadow image,
managing HORCM Files.
• Daily BAU tasks san provisioning and monitoring. Familiarity with capacity planning and availability management,
Disaster recovery system process implementation, Windows Server 2012 R2, RedHat Linux, VMware by allocation
storage LUN to host, experience in designing of storage infrastructure and files services migration.
• Professional service project planning and implementation, Strong communication, presentation, analytical, problem
solving skills and Service Now - Incident, Work order & Change ticketing system.
• Significant experience of leading and managing teams, Proven ability to work in unison with team and management.
• Design and Deploy SAN & Storage solutions to meet Business needs and involve in Capacity planning to meet the 15PB+
requirements, Datacentre migration, consolidation, lift & shift.
• Worked on end-to-end delivery of infrastructure solutions, such as Data Centre Migration and SAN & NAS
install/refresh/upgrades.
• Expertise and worked on EMC Atmos Cloud, EMC Clariion, EMC Open Replicator, VNX, VMAX3 400k series, VPLEX, VCE
VBLOCK, ISILON X400 series, SRDF, powerpath, RecoverPoint & ViPR SRM, NetApp FAS series, Data Ontap 7 Mode &
Cluster-Mode, FlexPod series, NetApp OnCommand Insight v7.1, Dell Equal-Logic, Dell Compellent SC220, Dell Storage
SC280 expansion enclosure with 42 disks, HPE StoreOnce 5100, NetIQ-PlateSpin Migrate v11.1(Windows & Linux),
Veeam Backup and Replication V6.5 & V8, Commvault Simpana v10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.x/v7, AWS cloud, SQL
Server, DBA, Oracle, RMAN, Microsoft Lync Server 2013, symantec enterprise vault v12, Skype for Business, etc,.
• Migration performed using EMC Open Replicator from NetApp to EMC Vmax3 400k series, EMC Symmetrix Management
Console (SMC), Solution Enabler v7.x, PowerPath, switch Zoning, Vmax target LUNs, Vmax device file, Query Rcopy
session prior to activation, Activate the Rcopy session, Query Rcopy session after activation, Verify Rcopy session and
Terminate Rcopy session.
• Worked on VMware virtualisation environments such as VMware ESXI v5.5, Vsphere, Vmotion, V2P, P2V, V2V and virtual
provisioning, EMC ViPR, Powershell Scripting, etc,.

Project / Role Client Roles & Responsibilities Period /

Project #15 / Senior Avon Valley School &
Storage Analyst - Performing Arts
Storage College, Rugby,
Warwickshire, United
Kingdom
Duration
• Expertise in Design, Planning and deployment as per 15th Aug 2014 –
BOM & SOW of the project. 29th Aug 2014
• Worked on NetApp FAS 2552 Series, Design,
Implementation & Configuration and Technical
documentation.

Project / Role Client Roles & Responsibilities Period /

Duration
Project #16 / Senior Lord Derby Academy, • Expertise in Design, Planning and deployment as per Aug 2014 - Aug
Storage Analyst - Liverpool, United BOM & SOW of the project. 2014
Storage Kingdom • Worked on NetApp FAS 2520 Series, Rack-Stack,
Cabling, Design, Implementation & Configuration, HP
BLc7000, VMware ESXi 5.5, Windows server 2012 and
Technical documentation.

Project / Role Client Roles & Responsibilities Period /

Duration
Project #17 / Senior Dimension Data, • Expertise in Design, Planning and deployment as per July 2014 - July
Storage Analyst - Lichfield, Staffordshire, BOM & SOW of the project. 2014
Storage United Kingdom • Worked on NetApp FAS 2000, FAS 8000 Series, Rack-
Stack, OnCommand System Manager, Cabling, Design,
Implementation & Configuration and Technical
documentation.

Project / Role Client Roles & Responsibilities Period /

Duration
Project #18 / Senior Capita PLC, Swindon, • Expertise in Design, Planning and deployment as per July 2014 - July
Storage Analyst - United Kingdom BOM & SOW of the project. 2014
Storage • Worked on Fujitsu Eternus DX440-S2 Disk Storage
System, Rack-Stack, Cabling, Design, Implementation &
Configuration and Technical documentation.

Project #19: Cargill, Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Senior Storage Analyst (April 2014 - July 2014)
Description: Cargill also has an agriculture joint venture with Allied Grain (part of ABF), under the name Frontier Agriculture. Cargill has activities
in the following areas in the United Kingdom: Alcohol animal feed ingredients, aqua nutrition, asset management, cotton trading, Etc,.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Worked on integration of Hitachi, EMC, HP, IBM, Dell & NetApp, NAS and SAN storages based on the LLD / HLD.
• Managed and worked on Hitachi VSP, HUS, AMS Series, EMC Atmos Cloud Storage, NetApp FAS, FlexPod series, HPE XP 20k & 24k
series, 3Par 9000 series, StoreOnce 3540/5100, EMC Clariion, Vmax3 400k series, Networker v8, VNX, Powerpath, IBM DS 8000 series,
XIV, V7000 series, N series, SVC, Dell Storage Products & Performance Tuning, NDMP & VOL copy.
• Worked on ITIL Framework, incident, problem, change and release processes.
• Tasks on DS8700 / DS8300 Strong expertise to Array Creation / Rank Creation / ExtentPool Creation / LUN Creation / Host Definition
Creation / LUN Migration / Global Mirroring / Metro Mirroring / FlashCopy of Volumes) through DS8700 and Strong Knowledge on HMC
and Installation of Microcode Bundle 75.15.67.0 for DS8700.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of HDS HUR, TrueCopy, EMC SRDF Sync/Async and TF replications on EMC arrays.
• Performing/assisting in executing and Run-book creation for DR / Restore / High-Availability drills on HDS / EMC arrays per business
requirements, Providing the assistance in migration of servers and storage arrays and Commvault Simpana v10.
• Planning and execution of maintenance activities like datacentre power downs, code upgrades on the SAN and Storage devices.
• Handling end to end change management process upon hardware failures (Disruptive) on Storage arrays and SAN switches.

Project #20: Kensington Close Hotel, West Kensington, London, UK

Senior Storage Analyst (March 2014 - April 2014)
Description: A white-painted Victorian townhouse on a residential street, hotel is a 5-minute walk from both West Kensington tube station.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Experience in integration of Hitachi & NetApp, NAS and SAN storages based on the LLD / HLD.
• Worked on Hitachi VSP, HUS, AMS Series, NetApp FAS series Storage Products.
• Managed IT Infrastructure and Storage Nodes from the Product Line Team.
• Deployment of NetApp Data Fabric Manager to provide performance analysis and reporting of NetApp storage arrays.
• Defining Infrastructure Planning, Designing Architecture, writing road-maps and blueprints.

Yash Technologies, Bangalore, India / Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Senior System Analyst – Storage Lead (Mar 2012 - Feb 2014)
Key Clients handled: Monsanto Holdings, Bangalore, India / Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Role and Responsibilities:
• Implemented ITIL compliant change management process using standard IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and IT Service Management
(ITSM) methodologies. This included a Technical Advisory Board (TAB), and Change Advisory Board (CAB), and standard change request
form used for all changes. Process issues dropped from 134 in the previous year to 29 over the following 12-month period, a 78%
improvement resulting in significantly improved customer satisfaction.
• Proven at delivering complex technical re-fresh and data centre migration projects with multi-million budgets on time and to quality.
• Experience of running procurement exercises (RFI/RFP) and managing the negotiation and set-up of contracts alongside Procurement,
Legal and Finance functions.
• The responsibilities would include estimating the projects, managing the projects, budget management, resource management,
maintaining, managing teams, Scope management, documenting project plans, arranging key workshops, Forecasting risks, updating
risk and issue register with established project delivery methodologies.
• Improved relationship between Level 2 Platform Service Team and Level 3 Storage & Hypervisor Team by holding weekly collaboration
meetings resulting in cohesive team environment and improved customer satisfaction.
• Interacted with International customers, understood business requirements and involved in planning, consulting, design and
implementing storage arrays, Led successful ITSM Audit and completed all resulting compliance actions.
• Monitor Remedy to ensure workload is balanced between technicians. Ensure tickets are responded to in a timely manner and
communication with the end user is completed by the technician assigned to the work.
• The project involved following a streamlined methodologies of various level of planning, formulating and validating strategies in
migrating servers to Cloud/Moving to virtual infrastructure.
• Technical Lead for HDS, NetApp, NetApp OnCommand Insight v6.4 & IBM Storage Arrays. IBM Products – SVC Cluster, V7000, DS8K
Arrays and IBM Flash Array. Hitachi Models – VSP, AMS & HNAS Arrays and HUS Family.
• Implement Active- Active Solution across the data Centres and DR using different Replication Technologies in IBM and HDS Arrays, IBM
Tape Libraries like TS3500, Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T40+, Spectralogic T series using LTO 4&5, Powershell Scripting.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support and managed consulting, critical support with the onsite technical team. Expertise in experience on HDS,
EMC Isilon, EMC Atmos, VNX, VMAX, Dell Equallogics P 6000, 9000 series & NetApp Storage Products.
• Installed, deployed and configured NetIQ – PlateSpin Migration tool v9.3 on Windows Server 2003 R2, Symantec enterprise vault v11 at
Saint Louis Datacentre, USA, v2v, p2v migrations, System Center 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection.
• Administration of SCCM 2012 (Windows Updates, Software Deployments, Machine Builds), Windows 7 environment
• Day to Day Administration on IBM, HDS and Brocade SAN including backbone connectivity between sites
• Experience in integration of Hitachi, EMC, Dell & NetApp, NAS and SAN storages, Amazon AWS cloud based on the LLD / HLD, VMware
ESXi v5, vCenter Server v5 & vCenter, P2V, V2v migrations, McAfee Endpoint Security, etc,.
• Amazon AWS Cloud, LLD, HLD, Installation, configuration, maintenance and upgrades of EC2 instances in VPCs, IAM Roles and policies,
Bucket policies, Security Groups Network ACLs, S3, etc,..
• Worked on Hitachi VSP, USP, USPV, AMS Series, NetApp FAS, E series, EMC CLARIION, VMAX, VNX, VCE vblock, Cisco UCS, FI, FE, Cisco
MDS, Cisco Nexus 5k & 7k, EMC Data Protection Advisor v5.7, vplex Series, Dell Equallogic P 6000 Series Storage Products, Storage
allocations using Dell Group Manager, SAN HQ, Dell Volume Replication & Auto-Snapshot Manager using VMware vcenter,
Performance Reporting & Firmware Upgrades.
 • Involved in meetings with stakeholders and management w.r.t. understanding and adding the value to the project in terms of optimal
use of resources.
• Defining Infrastructure Planning, Designing Architecture, Blueprints, RUNBOOKS, ISO27001:2012/2013 standards, writing road-maps
and blueprints.

Capgemini India Private Limited, Bangalore, India / Germany, Europe

Senior Storage Consultant (May 2011 – Feb 2012)
Key Clients handled: DEUTSCHE BANK, SPARKASE BANK, ALDI GERMANY, BSKYB, etc,.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Interacted with International customers, understood business requirements and involved in planning, consulting, design and
implementing storage arrays.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support and managed consulting, critical support with the onsite technical team.
• Experience in integration of Hitachi, EMC, IBM & NetApp, symantec enterprise vault v11, NetIQ – PlateSpin v7.0 physical-to-virtual
(P2V) migrations, NAS and SAN storages based on the LLD / HLD.
• Worked on Hitachi VSP, USP, USPV, AMS, BlueArc Series, NetApp FAS, E series, EMC CLARIION, VMAX series, IBM DS, Xiv, SVC, N Series
Storage Products.
• Worked on IBM System p570, 600+ AIX, IBM HACMP V5.4, NIM & VIO Servers, managed disk space using AIX Logical Volume
Management (LVM), Created VG, LV extend vg, extend lv, vg mirroring, moving the log files, increasing file systems to manage any data
growth, Restored mksysb and savevg backups, Replaced faulty disks, replacing rootvg mirrored or non-mirrored disk, HACMP Failover
Test/configuration, Configured shared filesystems, file system increase, decrease that are part of cluster, Configured Virtual IO server
and clients (LPARs) using HMC and performed VIO servers + LPAR profile backups, Moved resources from one node to another, working
with cluster services such as stopping starting, User creation, Configured shared filesystems and implemented file system
increase/decrease that were part of cluster, etc,.
• Worked on IBM DS8000 / DS3000 / XIV (monitoring / creation of extend pool; creation of Array / creation of Rank & VDisk; deletion of
Vdisk; creation & deletion of Host; mapping a Host to the VDISK / Host Definition Creation / SVC) through DS8300 – Storage Manager
and CLI.
• Worked on IBM DS4000, DS8000. IBM SVC 2145-8A4, IBM System Storage Device Manager, IBM San Volume Controller (SVC), IBM
System Storage Productive Centre [SSPC], Volume Copy, Flash Copy, PPRC, Global Mirroring, Metro Mirroring & Microcode Upgrade.

NetApp India Private Limited, Bangalore, India

Professional Service Engineer – Storage (May 2006 – Apr 2011)
Key Clients handled: BROADCOM, NOKIA, INTEL, NORTHERN TRUST, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, JP MORGAN, CAPGEMINI, FORD INDIA, IBM, etc,.
Role and Responsibilities:
• Interacted with Regional customers, understood business requirements, Providing pre-sales & post-sales and involved in planning,
consulting, design and implementing storage arrays.
• Build and maintain use case and demonstration setups of specific software modules, Preparing and conducting product workshops
and/or proof of concepts on clients/prospect sites.
• Track regulatory updates and provide summarized write ups for internal product and development teams to keep them abreast of
upcoming regulatory changes and provide regional/global insights through research.
• Worked for Multiple Enterprise client across India to design, implement, deploy, configuration of new NetApp storage solutions on
NetApp FAS, V, E & FlexPod series, OnCommand System manager, Snap Products,etc,..
• NetApp Cluster-Mode administration level 3 support / Cluster Setup / Joining a node to cluster / Enabling cluster HA / Switchless-
cluster in a two node-cluster / Configuration backup schedule for single node-cluster / setting up event management system /
Renaming a node / Verifying cluster setup / Setting up a Vfiler with FlexVol volumes / remote - implementation / Snap Vault / Snap
Mirror / Snap Manager – Exchange / De-Duplication / Firmware Upgrades / Thin Provisioning / On Command / Operation Manager /
FlexPod.

Hobbies
• Playing Badminton / PlayStation / Family outing / Long Drive on my BMW / Tasting multinational foods /
Learning Electric Guitar / Relax with Dalmore 18yrs Old single malt scotch whisky on the rocks / Listing to
multinational songs / Watching movies

Reference
• Available upon request