Saraja Patil

Senior Storage Consultant with 11+ years of experience in enterprise storage and SAN infrastructure within large IT services organizations. Strong expertise in DELL/EMC, NetApp, SAN switches, data migration, and disaster recovery. Proven ability to manage mission-critical storage environments, execute upgrades and migrations, and support high-availability systems in 24x7 production environments.

Senior Consultant (Storage) - Capgemini

(2021-10)

• Administer enterprise storage platforms including EMC PowerMax, VMAX, VPLEX, NetApp Clustered ONTAP, and RecoverPoint.
• Provision storage for Linux and Windows servers and clustered environments.
• Perform LUN masking, multipathing configuration, and volume expansion.
• Manage SAN fabrics: zoning, aliases, port monitoring, and troubleshooting on Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Execute firmware and OS upgrades for storage arrays and SAN switches.
• Perform disk firmware upgrades and SP upgrades on NetApp arrays.
• Handle data migration activities using SnapMirror and RecoverPoint.
• Monitor storage health proactively and manage capacity thresholds.
• Create capacity utilization reports and support audit requirements.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Raise and implement Change Requests for planned maintenance and migrations.

Storage Administrator - Future Focus InfoTech (Client: Capgemini)

(2021-04 - 2021-10)

• Supported EMC and NetApp storage environments in production.
• Assisted with storage provisioning, monitoring, and decommissioning.
• Participated in SAN configuration and storage migration activities.

Storage Administrator - IDC Technologies (Client: TCS)

(2018-11 - 2020-09)

• Managed daily storage operations for EMC and NetApp platforms.
• Performed LUN provisioning, volume expansion, and host configuration.
• Supported SAN zoning and end-to-end fibre channel troubleshooting.

Storage Administrator - Wipro Technologies

(2012-12 - 2018-04)

• Delivered storage administration services for enterprise customers.
• Managed EMC VNX and VMAX storage systems.
• Performed RAID configuration, storage allocation, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborated with OS, database, and application teams.

B.Sc. - Computer Science - J.V.M.'s Mehta College, Airoli (2012)