S Kumar

More than 15+yrs of experience in SAN/NAS storage and Project Management. Expertise in Infrastructure Management, Solutions, Designs & Architect, Project Management, Technical Support & Team Management, Datacenter Migration & Refresh Projects.

Received Cisco

Certificate of appreciation for delivering smooth Transition for Storage Tower.

Expertise in end to end managing of Arrays: Celerra, Centera, DMX, ISILON, VMAX, VPLEX, CLARiiON CX Series, VNX1 & 2 Series, NetApp. Expertise in implementing different RAID Levels based on Performance and Data Protection. Configured the Pool storage, FAST and FAST VP. Expertize in Configuring & Managing ESRS Gateways Server, Unisphere for VMAX & Vapp, BNA (Brocade Networker Advisor), Cisco Network Manager, Performance Manager, Unisphere Central and LDAP Authentication.

Licensing

Quote for Servers, Activating License, Installed and Configured the PowerPath. Expertise in managing Cisco MDS, Brocade/ McData directors with Fabric Manager, Device Manager, BNA and Connectrix Manager.

Performed

Array based migrations using SRDF A/S, RecoverPoint EX/CL/SE, Open Replicator (Hot/Cold Push/Pull) and San Copy. Performed VLUN Migration from Pool to Pool using Symmigrate.

Performed

Host based migration using Open Migrator, PPME, LVM and VMware Vmotion. Expertise in Capacity planning and performance fine tuning. Expert in designing and implementing RecoverPoint Solution for DR for VMAX Splitter and VNX Splitter. Co-ordinate with EMC to Upgrade Switch firmware, Micro Code and Flare Code.

Project

Planning and Initiation, team Coordination and Communication, Monitoring and Reporting.

Experience in Troubleshooting Storage related Issues and handling day-to-day tickets.

Provided

Support to EMC Customer Engineers onsite during installation and various maintenance activities. Good inter-personal and communication skills, multi-tasking ability, good presentation skills, and the ability to meet deadlines efficiently. Worked in a 24x7 critical production environments.

Experience in administration of storage to multiprotocol environments like CIFS and NFS in NetApp SAN/NAS environment. Perform NAS operations on Netapp filers FAS3170 ver 7.3.3, FAS3040 7.3.2 FAS960 ver 7.2.x. NetApp 7-mode, CDOT allocation/Replication (SAN and NAS), CLI + GUI.

NAS and/or SAN storage and surrounding infrastructure -Network Attached Storage protocols experience (NFS/CIFS/iSCSI). Well versed with NetApp Snap products and 7MTT tool. San Screen/OCI implementations.

Migrations and consolidation projects involving EMC Centera and NetApp FAS series. NetApp Shelf upgrades, ontap upgrades and migrations of VMware farms from 7G to CDOT, physical servers to VMware etc. NetApp Snap products and Ontap administration.

Storage Admin - TCS- DTCC - Tampa FL

(2025-04)

• Assisting with tracking Sprint progress and key Scrum metrics.
• Ensuring the team maintains sustainable work practices.
• Collaborates with the Product Owner and team to ensure sprint goals align with project timelines.
• Ensures resource availability and capacity planning.
• Helps identify dependencies and risks before the sprint starts.
• Communicates sprint progress, risks, and potential impacts on deadlines or deliverables.
• Prepares and delivers sprint status reports and dashboards.
• Identifies, tracks, and mitigates project risks and blockers.
• Ensures sprints stay aligned with the overall project timeline and deliverables.
• Ensures the team adheres to organizational standards and compliance requirements.
• Reviews sprint retrospectives to identify actionable improvements.
• Tracks the implementation of agreed process changes.
• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters to align teams and share best practices.
• Supporting leadership in scaling Agile methodologies.
• Promoting a mindset of experimentation and adaptation.
• Bridging the gap between the development team, Product Owner, and stakeholders.
• Encouraging transparency and open communication.
• Ensuring alignment between business objectives and team deliverables.
• Assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members.
• Managing communication among stakeholders and ensuring alignment.
• Ensuring adherence to deadlines and project milestones.
• Providing leadership, motivation, and conflict resolution within the team.

STORAGE ADMIN - TCS- Advance Auto - RTP, NC

(2020-05 - 2025-03)

• Implementing and managing storage systems, Deploy and configure SAN, NAS, and cloud storage systems. Monitor the health and performance of these storage environments.
• Capacity Planning and Optimization: Analyze storage usage and plan for growth. Reorganize storage volumes to optimize performance and space.
• Data Backup and Recovery: Implement and manage backup systems, ensuring that backups are performed regularly, and data can be recovered in case of system failure.
• Allocate storage space and resources based on the needs of different teams.
• Monitor storage usage trends and anticipate future needs to ensure that the infrastructure can accommodate growth.
• Implement policies and tools for storage efficiency, such as data deduplication, compression, and tiered storage.
• Responsible for storage migration, infrastructure tasks including provisioning storage, connectivity issues, upgrades, and day-to-day issues.
• Continuously monitor the performance of the storage system (e.g., latency, throughput) to ensure it meets organizational needs.
• Track storage utilization and report on trends and potential issues like capacity limits or underutilized resources.
• Diagnose and resolve storage-related issues, such as performance degradation, connectivity problems, or system failures.
• Performed storage allocation on NetApp, VNX, IBM SVC storage array.
• Managed and optimized all-flash storage solutions using Pure Storage, ensuring high availability and performance for enterprise applications.
• Maintain detailed documentation on the storage infrastructure, including configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Generate regular reports on storage utilization, performance, and issues for IT management and leadership.

STORAGE ADMIN - TCS- CISCO - RTP, NC

(2018-11 - 2020-04)

• Administered a SAN/NAS environment comprising of EMC VMAX Arrays and NetApp Filers.
• Responsible for infrastructure tasks including provisioning storage, connectivity issues, upgrades, and day-to-day issues.
• Implemented Virtual Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, thin devices and masking the Thin devices to the host, using Symcli and Unisphere.
• Performed storage allocation by creating volumes, creating a server with HBA's and presenting the volumes to the server using Compellent Enterprise Manager.
• Performing NetApp SnapMirror, Clone and Snap Vault and Performing NetApp code updates.
• Consolidation of NetApp filers (Legacy NetApp devices to 6800 and FAS series).
• Migration of Celera NS960 to Isilon X200. Total data of 110TB consisting of 40 SMB and 200 plus NFS file systems using Isi_vol_copy.
• Created aggregates/volumes/Qtrees in the NetApp environment and provisioned storage to different teams on their requirements.
• Diagnosed and troubleshoot issues related to multipathing drivers, HBA firmware and zoning.
• Troubleshoot the SAN connectivity on different Operating Systems like Windows, VMware ESX, Linux and Solaris.
• Successfully executed all the storage backups by using COMMVAULT, NETBACKUP services.
• Used Open Replicator software to execute data migration from existing DMX4 to VMAX storage arrays and SAN COPY from CX3 to VMAX arrays.
• Performed storage migration from DMX4 to VMAX and Clariion CX3 to VMAX using Open replicator and SRDF.
• Performed the Disk, shelf, RLM, SP, BMC, and BIOS firmware upgrades as per the NetApp Auto support.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting issues in NetApp and CX storage.
• Troubleshooting, and resolving issues like one-path-down, hosts not seeing storage, HBA failures, storage allocations, mapping, masking and zoning on CISCO Switches.
• Created change management tickets and worked with the server admins and DBA's to inform any possible impact on server and database.