K Madhu
System And Storage Consultant
Chennai,TN
Summary
Creative Operations Specialist skillful in executing effective operating rhythms and management systems structures. Expertise in analyzing, articulating and solving various problems. Analytical and organized professional comfortable working independently or as part of team.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Senior Consultant
Hitachi Vantara
Chennai, Tamilnadu
08.2017 - Current
- Storage Provisioning from Hitachi VSP G1000/G1500/G5500, VMAX 40K, VPLEX, PowerMax and VNX to open-v servers like ESX, Linux & Windows
- Troubleshooting and fixing performance related issues in the environment. Analyzing the performance through SAN & VI tools and providing the root cause of the performance issue to application and DB team
- Working on SAN capacity planning, storage migration and consolidation projects to minimize infrastructure costs by decommissioning EOSL arrays based on tech refresh
- Working on priority issues in the environment and automation of the health checks of storage devices
- Experience in administering Netapp Storage systems on Data ONTAP
- Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade, Cisco MDS Switches
- Experience in writing basic Shell scripts using ksh, bash, perl, for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as a team member
- Provided on-call support and worked with Vendors on system issues and bugs for its resolution
- Proficient in System administration, System planning, co-ordination, commissioning, setting up security hierarchy and capacity planning
Storage Consultant
IBM
Chennai, Tamilnadu
03.2017 - 08.2017
- Performed various system administration duties including capacity planning and performance tuning of server systems and HDS Architecture and recommending and specifying hardware for internal operations use.
- Implemented disk-to-disk backup and recovery process using EMC Timefinder and SRDF technologies
- Documented procedures and processes that will help other team members to more efficiently
Storage Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chennai, Tamilnadu
03.2016 - 02.2017
- Provisioned, Mapped, Masked and zoned LUNs to VMware, Linux, Windows, and Solaris servers using VMax and IBM XIV storage.
- Conducted Performance Analysis in troubleshooting hot spindles, FA's and utilization on EMC arrays
- Deallocated and reclaimed storage from decommissioned servers and reclaimed SAN switch ports
- Provided Break/Fix technical support on EMC products
Lead Administrator
Wipro Technologies
Chennai, Tamilnadu
04.2013 - 02.2016
- Configured aggregates, volumes and qtrees on NetApp filers
- Configured NFS and CIFS shares from netapp filers
- Configured snapmirror and snapvault between filers for Disaster recovery and archival purposes
- Documented the DR procedures for future purposes
- Troubleshoot issues in the environment after talking to the netapp customer support and customer LOB’s
- Created reports for storage and capacity planning purposes
- Co-ordinate netapp ontap upgrades with netapp PSE’s
- Create reports for the management using storage scope
- Performed server system administration, maintenance, and hardware/
software upgrades - Monitored, evaluated, and resolved system performance issues in a proactive manner
Technical Specialist
HCL Technologies
Chennai, Tamilnadu
05.2007 - 04.2013
- Configure and maintain storage infrastructure providing optimal availability, performance, and best practices.
- Ran reports for metrics utilizing EMC Storage Scope
- Documented risk management issues and outlined mitigation actions.
- Supported day to day operations with storage team on provisioning, reporting, monitoring, general administration break-fix, 24x7 'on call' rotation, problem tickets, created documentation and provided knowledge transfer to each team member after every project was completed
- Worked to improve security and disaster recovery procedures and documentation
- Performed Break/Fix operations on all hardware related to the Storage Area Network
- Responsible for system/application patches and upgrades
- Manage customer relations/expectations
Education
Computer Engineering -
Institute of Engineers (INDIA)
Kolkata 12.2001 - 09.2007
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
VKR & VNB Polytechnic
Gudivada 06.1997 - 04.2000
Skills
EMC VMAX, SRDF, Hitachi VSP G1000, G1500
Brocade, Cisco MDS switches
Linux, Windows, Shell Scripting, Netapp C-Mode, Netbackup
Certification
EMC Proven Professional Associate
Timeline
Senior Consultant
Hitachi Vantara
08.2017 - Current
Storage Consultant
IBM
03.2017 - 08.2017
Storage Consultant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
03.2016 - 02.2017
Lead Administrator
Wipro Technologies
04.2013 - 02.2016
Technical Specialist
HCL Technologies
05.2007 - 04.2013
Computer Engineering -
Institute of Engineers (INDIA)
12.2001 - 09.2007
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
VKR & VNB Polytechnic
06.1997 - 04.2000