1. ABUBAKAR ARABHAVI
#182, Chaitra Nilaya, Muniraju Building, Margondanahalli, Bangalore - 562106, Karnataka
C: +91 9620655626 | abu.arabhavi@gmail.com
Objective:
To work in a challenging environment where I can use my networking and storage skills to become a pioneer in the
IT domain and achieve personal as well as organizational goals.
Professional Summary:
Technocrat with 5+ years of experience as a Subject Matter Expert on EMC Celerra, Clariion and VNX arrays
and Cloud Engineer for WIPRO CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES(WCCS) on Cloud Storage and Backup.
Experience:
Organization: Wipro InfoTech – Bangalore, Karnataka
Duration: Sept 2015 till date
Role: Cloud Storage and Backup Engineer
WCCS is purely IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service) handling end to end infra support for the global clients ensuring
on demand support for the client.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 SAN Administration of EMC Clariion, VNX, NetApp, Brocade and Nexus Fabrics.
 Space provisioning for new and existing hosts in cloud infra.
 Perform daily health checks on NetApp, VNX and Clariion storage systems.
 Vendor /customer management during the hardware failure issues.
 Proactively determine possible faults and causes by the execution of pre-determined health and
operational checks.
 Preparing Storage Capacity planning and data backup reports.
 Working with onsite data center team for any hardware replacements or cabling issues.
 Configuration and administrating the backup environment using EMC Networker backup software.
 Monitoring and Managing Backup jobs.
Organization: Wipro Technologies – Bangalore, Karnataka
Duration: Mar 2011 till Aug 2015
Role: Subject Matter Expert - EMC Storage
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Providing enterprise level product support and consults to the Storage Administrators via phone, email,
chat and remote session.
 Handling customer initiated service requests of all priorities and resolve the storage issues within the
agreed SLA/SLO.
 Educating customers to follow best practices as per the process and the product functioning.
 Identifying Technical Training needs for the team members and facilitate Refresher and new hire
trainings.
 Sharing best practices and technical updates with the team about code releases, known issues,
technical SOP's.

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Technical Skills:
Storage:
 SAN and NAS Administration in a storage environment consisting of EMC Celerra, Clariion, VNX and NetApp
v6220 storage arrays.
 Configuring and managing CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI protocols on EMC arrays.
 Troubleshooting connectivity and hardware issues on array.
 Monitoring EMC arrays using Navisphere/ Unisphere and NetApp storage using OnCommand System Manager
and Performance Manager GUI.
 Experience in performing Zoning & Trunking on Brocade 3200, Nexus 5000 switches.
 Co-ordination with Vendors in performing Firmware upgrades for Storage systems & SAN switches.
 Creating and configuring Storage Virtual Machines (SVM) for storage management.
 Creating Aggregates, Volumes and LUN's for provisioning on NetApp storage.
 Creating and configuring iGroups for host access.
 Basic understanding of VMware.
Backup:
 Performing filesystem backup to tapes at VM level.
 Configure new clients or modify the existing client properties in the backup environment.
 Managing retention period as per the daily, weekly and monthly backups.
 Create polices and schedules as per the customer requirement and execute.
 Troubleshooting backup failures by analyzing the daemon logs.
 Verifying the network connectivity between the client and the backup server using PING and Telnet
utilities.
Education:
 Bachelor of Computer Application (B.C.A) from Gogte College of Commerce, Belgaum, Karnataka (2008)
 P.U.C Science from Karnataka State Board (2005)
 SSLC from Karnataka State Board (2003)
Certifications:
 Attended Diploma in Hardware and Networking (DIH), CCNA courses
 EMC Proven Professional - Information Storage Associate
 Network Attached Storage (NAS) Specialist
 VNX Solutions Specialist for Storage Administrator
Accomplishments:
 Awarded as Best organizer for SHIKHAR-07 during my graduation
 Achieved Exceptional Contribution award
 Achieved best C-SAT Champ Award
 Received best SME and Mentor award
 Received rewards and recognitions for maintaining the highest productivity and quality scores
Languages:
English, Urdu, Kannada, Hindi and Marathi.
Personal Details:
Father’s Name : Abdulkhadar Arabhavi
Date of birth : 26th Sept, 1987.
Gender : Male
Marital status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Passport Number : H1092431