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B HAVIN D ESAI
RESIDENCE: NJ, USA
PROFILE
TECHNICAL SUMMARY:
OVER 20+ YEARS IN IT EXPERIENCE THAT INCLUDES:
5+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON CISCO UCS(FLEXPOD),HP C7000,HP RX/RP/ALPHA.
8+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON VMWARE ESXI & VMWARE PRODUCTS.
3+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON CLOUD PRODUCTS.
5+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON CISCO/NEXUS NETWORKING SWITCHES/ROUTERS.
8+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON REDHAT, CENTOS, HPUX 11I, AIX UNIX & MICROSOFT OS
1+ YEARS OF IAAS ( DOCKER, KUBERNETES, OPENSTACK, AWS )
10+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON STORAGE PRODUCTS (3PAR,EMC, NETAPP, DELL,
DATADOMAIN).
8+ YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, SOX ANALYSIS AND COMPLIANCE, PROJECT
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE/EXPERT IN UNIX AND STORAGE ADMINISTRATION, INSTALLATION,

MIGRATION.

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE/EXPERT ON SERVERS (UCS, INTEGRITY, RISC SERVERS, BLADE

SERVERS).

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE/EXPERT ON STORAGES (DISTRIBUTED OBJECT STORAGE, CLEVERSAFE

OBJECT STORAGE, EMC/NETAPP STORAGE SOLUTIONS), EXPERIENCE ON CONFIGURING ZONING
& VSAN.

EXPERIENCE OF WORKING IN DATACENTERS WITH 24X7 AND ON-CALL PRODUCTION

ENVIRONMENTS.

ARCHITECTED CELERRA AND VMAX/VNX /VNX2/UNITY FILE AND BLOCK DEPLOYMENTS

IMPLEMENTED FILE AND BLOCK DEDUPLICATION, REPLICATION AND SNAPSHOTS

EXPERT IN MIGRATING VNX FILE TO VNX FILE, VNX TO NETAPP OR ISILON

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN BACKUP STRATEGIES, INSTALLED AND CONFIGURED DATA

PROTECTOR.

EXPERIENCE IN TROUBLESHOOTING HARDWARE, STORAGE, APPLICATION BOTTLENECKS.

SYSTEM RECOVERY, CRASH DUMP ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE TUNING.

MANAGING USER ACCOUNTS, SYSTEM SECURITY, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, DOCUMENTING AND

FOLLOWING COMPANY STANDARDS.

SOX AUDIT OF SYSTEMS TO SEE IT THE SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
POLICIES.

WILLING TO LEARN, FAST LEARNER, ABLE TO ADAPT VERY QUICKLY, SELF-MOTIVATED, TEAM
PLAYER AND RESULT-ORIENTED PROFESSIONAL WITH A SOLID WORK ETHIC.

RECEIVED BEST CE PERFORMER & NWC AWARD FOR PUTTING CUSTOMER FIRST FROM HP.

CORE COMPETENCIES

CERTIFICATIONS

EMC and Netapp San/Nas admin

Implemented
replication

Expert in migrating VNX file to VNX file, VNX To

Netapp. Implemented VNX file multiprotocol
implementation.

Architected Celerra and VNX /VNX2/UNITY file and

block deployments
File

and

block

deduplication

and

Expert on Netapp FAS 8080, FAS 8060, FAS

6290,6280, FAS 32XX,30XX,60XX

Expert in Netapp 7 mode and Cmode deployments

KD100 ( Kubernet / Docker ) training from

Mirantis
CSA (HP-UX Certified System
Administrator)
Tru64 Unix System Administrator
CISCO - CCNA
COMPAQ ASE ( SAN/Backup Products )
M.C.S.E. , M.C.P. + INTERNET
C.N.E. (Novell Netware)
Foundation Certificate in IT- Service

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TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY
Operating Systems:
Servers:
SAN/NAS Product:
N/W Product:
Backup/Recovery:
Networker
Management Tools:

CentOS, Red Hat, HP-UX, Tru64 & Microsoft OS

Cisco UCS, HP Rx74xx, Rx84xx, HP9000, HP C7000/3000 Blade
HP 3PAR, Dell Equal logic, EMC data domain, HP EVA, NetAPP
SAN iSCSI, Brocade silkworm, Mcdata 8/16/32, Cisco MDS, Nexus
HP Data Protector Backup, HP StoreOnce, vRanger PRO, EMC Avamar,
HP Oneview OVSD, Cisco UCS Central, venter, vClould Director

EDUCATION
Computer Engineering (Year 1995 , TEB Gujarat India ).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Taken
Taken
Taken
Taken
Taken

HP/Digital Unix Training @ HP Bangalore

SAN/Backup L3 Training @ HP Singapore
ITIL Training @ HP Pune
VMware Training @ VMware Pittsburgh
Cisco UCS Training @ Cisco Lab

Certifications:

KD100 ( Kubernet / Docker ) training from Mirantis

VMware Track 4/5x training from ProTech USA
CSA (HP-UX Certified System Administrator)
Tru64 Unix System Administrator
CISCO - CCNA
COMPAQ ASE
M.C.S.E. , M.C.P. + INTERNET
C.N.E. (Novell Netware)
Foundation Certificate in IT- Service Management(ITIL)
Problem Solving and Decision Making. (HP)

EXPERIENCE
COMCAST ( Mar 2014 to Jan 2017 )
Sr. Cloud Administrator
Principal Accountabilities / Essential Functions

Responsible for the overall maintenance of the COMCAST Viper (Video IP Engineering and
Research) & Cloud compute infrastructure in Production environments running on Cisco
Unified Computing Systems (UCS), VMware ESXi / Linux OS Platform.

Provide role of Tier 3 and above for escalated production that interrupt Global Connect
production processing which may involve Network, Systems & Operations.

Implemented Netapp 7 mode and Cmode deployments with UCS Flexpod solution & integrated with
VMs & Linux

SAN design for the VPLEX , Recover point deployments, Performance analysis of
VMAX/VNX storage array.

Monitor the health of systems with different monitoring tools like Nagios, OP5, Splunk,
Cacti.

Deploy & Maintain > 5000 UCS Blades, >7500 VMs running on Windows & Linux OS, in
Cluster Environment.

Identifying, and documenting of technical SOPs as an SME (subject matter expert).

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Identify the necessary steps to manage software and firmware versions and upgrades in
UCS, VMware ESX & Linux Environment.
Deliver IT solutions based on agile deployment process (i.e., use of Jira queues,
Confluence), Plan to deal with emergency response in such a way as to minimize rework.
Analyzed & collect the data via implementing the tools vCloud Director, vRealize suite
(vRA, vOPS, vMA) Cisco UCS systems, and NetAPP, knowledge of Super Micro Servers ,
ClevOs , DSNet( accessors and Slicestor ).
Work with support vendors (e.g. Cisco, VMWARE ) to isolate Critical Issues.
Participate in customer-facing meetings to evaluate future generation products OpenStack,
Docker, Kubernetes and recommend potential solutions to implement in environment.

CompuCom ( Mar 2009 to Feb 2014 )

Sr. SAN Administrator
Principal Accountabilities / Essential Functions

Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage environment

Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
Designed the process of data and server migration
Worked with various operations team during the design phase to deploy new storage
hardware and software and provide knowledge transfer

Architected VMAX/VNX block and file, VPLEX, Netapp and Isilon

Implemented VMAX3/VMAX2, VNX,VNX2

Implemented SRDF/timefinder, recoverpoint

Architected and implemented EMC xtreme IO

Architected and implemented VNX file and Isilon

Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror or

checkpoint. Replication

Creating and managing flex volumes, flex clones, snapmirror, snaplock,snap vault, qtree,
luns

Troubleshooting CIFS and NFS

Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers

Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode to cluster mode .

Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies

Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR

Implemented Server Consolidation and disaster recovery for the same.

Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and
asynchronous replication

Deploying vplex campus solution with replication using recover point

Architecting and Implementing Recoverpoint /VM,Recoverpoint SE, with replication

manager

Architecting and integrating recover point with VPLEX metro

SAN design for the VPLEX , Recoverpoint deployments

Architecting and deploying isilon environment, data migration from Netapp and CX to
isilon

Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netabackup , HP data protector for very
complex technologies like Oracle RAC, Exchange ,Sharpoint,SAP.

Implemented and upgraded AVAMAR AND DATA DOMAIN

Hewlett Packard (Feb 2007 to Jan 2009)

Sr. Unix/San/Backup Administrator
Principal Accountabilities / Essential Functions

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As Architect design backup solution & consolidated different backup strategy ( vRanger
Pro, Symantec NetBackup, sqlsafe) to single HP Data Protector.
Reviewed & analyzed different vendors enterprise san/backup solutions (e.g. Emc
Avamar/datadomain, HP StoreOnce) & recommend potential solutions to implement on the
current environment.
Got onsite HP training on StoreServ(HP 3Par & StoreOnce Catalyst
products(B2600,HPDP7,storeonce VSA).
> 5 years of hands on experienced to configure different type of (source/server/target)
deduplication method for faster & efficient backups.
Integrated with 3PAR/EVA & data domain, configured D2D Backup with VTL & DE
duplication feature.
Upgraded the Data Protector to latest release without effecting ongoing backups.
Maintain EMC DataDomain Backups of >100 TB weekly & followed PCI Standards for
retention of backup media.
Executed DR via restoring backups within customer RPO/RTO policy.
Configured the different job scheduler based on different OS & Database requirement
( HPUX, AIX, Linux , windows, VMware, sql/ingres Database), configured Pre/Post scripts in
job scheduler.

Hewlett Packard (May 1995 to Jan 2007)

Sr. Unix/San/Backup Administrator
Principal Accountabilities / Essential Functions

Performed Installation/configuration/administration of HP UX(11i v1, 11i v2) ,Tru64

Unix(4.0F,4.0G, 5.0a, 5.1b), OpenVMS( 6.2, 7, 7.1 ) & Red Hat ( RHEL 3 ) Unix on enterprise
environment.
Storage Array/SAN Performance Tuning, configuring zoning, monitoring of Storage,
Implementing Continuous Access & Business Copy Solution.
Installation & Administration of nPar / vPar running on RP/RX 74xx/84xx Servers.
Performed Design/troubleshooting/configuration changes/Failover activities on HP MC Service
guard & Tru Cluster ( SgSAP, RAC ) .
Deliver IT solutions based on ITIL best practices (Change Management Process, Capacity
Planning).
Flexibly provided 24x7 production supports & executed project activities.
Firmware upgrade on Fibre Switches, Servers, Array Controller with following Change
management Process & Procedure.
Defining proper LUN security and LUN masking generate performance reports, making scripts
to automate several tasks.
Planned, performed & designed DR activities based on Continuous H/W Products, Configured
Snap clone/Snapshot scripts based on customer requirement, Configured Disaster Recovery
Groups with symmetric/asymmetric data transfer between sites.
Documenting procedures and policies with using Microsoft Office & Visio Products.
Performed performance monitoring tasks using Glance Plus/UX, Measure Ware and other
generic tools. Hands on experience in kernel tuning & System security tightening.
Hands on experience with various troubleshooting tools like Compaq Analyzer, DecEvent,
HPMC decoder, ISEE for hardware troubleshooting/data collection etc.
Defining backup schedules and strategies using HP Data Protector, Integration with Oracle
RMAN, SAP BRTools & Exchange.
Recruitment of engineers, to train and deploy them at various projects.

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Provided Training to Customer on HP-UX/Tru64 System and Network Administration , VA /EVA

Storage Products & Data Protector Backup Products
Executed more than 25+ Projects, Installed & manage 50 to 300+ Unix Servers on various
Industries Sites ( provide project details on request )