1. 06/2014 - 08/2015 CDI Corporation - Contractor - SUBK
Assigned to: IBM/The Hartford Insurance Group
Title: SAN STORAGE ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
 Worked as a Sub-Contractor for the IBM SAN/STORAGE US Team from home office remotely.
 Hardware consisted of EMC VMAX, IBM XIV, IBM V7K, IBM SVC, CISCO SWITCHES.
 Project assignment was to migrate over 1,500 servers from EMC VMAX frames to IBM XIV frames.
 Project included coordinating migration of servers attached to 3 EMC VMAX frames by other US and
GR (India) team members after hours during the weekend after allocations on XIV frames were
completed. Movement of data from VMAX to XIV was both server based and XIV Migrations Tools.
 Main assignment was to create designs to cleanup servers from the VMAX frames once the server
was successfully migrated to XIV storage. Included in designs were removal/cleanup of Clone devices,
Snap VDEV devices used for backups, SRDF/A replication to remote VMAX used for disaster recovery
and removal of zoning.
 Coordinated with EMC on VMAX storage frame decommissions, removal from floor and data erasure
of all customer data.
 Completed XIV allocations as needed to meet customer deadlines.
10/2010 - 11/2013 CDI Corporation - Contractor - SUBK
Assigned to: IBM/The Hartford Insurance Group
Title: SAN STORAGE ENGINEERING CONSULTANT
 Worked for the SAN/STORAGE US Team from home office remotely.
 Hardware consisted of VMAX, DMX, CLARIION and CISCO SWITCHES.
 Coordinated with EMC on storage frame expansions and micro-code upgrades on DMX and VMAX
frames. Developed run plans for each.
 Worked with CISCO switches for server zoning in a VSAN environment.
 Allocated storage for servers attached to CLARIION frames including creating devices, Storage
Groups and SNAPSHOTS for backups. Masked and mapped same. Coordinated import/deport test of
SNAPSHOT devices attached to backup servers on a per server basis with Server Administrators.
Created allocation spreadsheets for System Administrators.
 Allocated storage on servers attached to DMX frames including creation of devices, zoning, mapping
and masking of servers. Device offsets when needed. Created BCV devices attached to backup
servers and did import/deport test for backup verification. Added devices to Disk Groups. If Disaster
Recovery involved, created R1/R2 and remote BCV devices for replication to remote frames. Also
included APP BCV devices if needed and tested same with server System Administrators. Created
allocation spreadsheets for server administrators.
 Allocated storage on servers attached to VMAX frames including creation of devices, zoning, masking
and mapping of servers. Included creation of Storage Groups (SG's), Initiator Groups (IG's), or if
clustered, Cluster Initiator Groups (CIG's), Port Groups (PG's) and VIEWS. Utilized Thin Devices, also
known as virtual provisioning devices (TDEV's), Virtual Devices (VDEV's) for backups, and APP
CLONE devices if needed. Also created R1/R2/Remote CLONE devices for Disaster Recovery
purposes to remote frames. Coordinated import/deport test of VDEV's for backup purposes with server
administrators. Assigned devices to Disk Groups. Bound TDEV's to either FIBRE or SATA Storage
Pools as designed.
 One of 3 people assigned to add/remove R1/R2/Remote Clone devices to/from SRDF/A Consistency
Groups.
 Major assignment to SAN Refresh project (migrations) from CLARIION and DMX frames to VMAX.
Utilized SANCOPY when needed to accomplish this. Coordinated decommissioning of CLARIION and
DMX frames. ( 7 CLARIION frames, 8 local DMX frames and 2 remote DMX frames) after migrations

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were completed to VMAX frames. Implementer on cleaning up and removing servers from CLARIION
and DMX frames per designs.
 SAN Refresh Project. Became the only person doing step by step designing of server cleanups from
DMX and CLARIION frames. Ran individual scripts to produce command output files for deletion,
unmasking, un-mapping, removal from Disk Groups and deletion of Disk Groups and devices. After
design was completed, assigned to 1 of 5 implementers.
 Step 2 of SAN Refresh Project was migration of servers from VMAX's to XIV and V7000 storage.
Designed step by step instructions for cleaning up of servers from VMAX's after migrating was
completed. Included removal of VIEWS, devices from SG's, SG's and removal of IG's or CIG's.
Designs also included step by step instruction for removal from SRDF/A and Consistency Groups. Also
included removal and destruction of VDEV's and unbinding of TDEV devices from Storage Pools.
Included in designs were the removal of the correct zones for servers.
 Utilized Remedy for creation of CRQ's (Change Requests), and INC's ( Incident Management).
 Participated in daily SAN Refresh meetings and also was a member of the Peer Review team to
review all changes taking place.
 Servers included Windows, Unix and ESX/VMWARE.
 Assisted other team members with technical issues, questions and procedural issues.
 Rotated with other team members in 24x7 On-Call rotation. I had two On-Call duties. US On-Call for all
SAN/Storage issues and was one of four personnel for SRDF/A replication On-Call duties.