Vidhya Vijayan

Enthusiastic Storage & Backup administrator with 8.5 years of experience, eager to leverage knowledge to achieve excellence in latest technologies with a desire to learn,collaborate & meticulously manage the IT demands.

• Successfully driven the Transitions of client infrastructure.
• Successfully accomplished DC consolidation & move activities without hassle.
• Have received client appreciations on storage migrations.
• Have received HCL silver club member award for my performance.
• Have received many awards & appreciation for my distinguished performance in the team.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely project delivery and client satisfaction.
• Zone Creation in Brocade switch for new device allocations on SVC.
• Activation and De-Activation of ports in EMC Brocade Fabric., Good Knowledge on TCP/IP, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC Protocols.
• Making changes in Existing Zone configuration after a port change or SFP/HBA replacements., Troubleshooting port/SFP related issues in Brocade switch.
• Bottleneck Detection and adjusting the configurations speed accordingly.
• Experience in administration of IBM SVC.
• Have worked in an environment where SVC acts as a front end for storage provisioning having XIV, VNX, VMAX, V7000,3PAR series as backend devices.
• Lun creation and Mapping to UNIX and windows server both standalone and Cluster Environment., Expansion/Modification/Deletion of existing LUNs in SVC as per the Business requirement., Modifying tier pool policy based on the storage pool usage.
• Hands on experience in MDisk Removal, Migrations in SVC.
• Worked with Vendors on drive, cable replacements, port and hardware related issues.
• Hands on Experience in Administrating NAS (NFS & CIFS) share Allocation and Expansion for the servers in both CLI and GUI.
• Decommissioning of NAS shares., Administration of Aggregates, Filers, Volume, Lun, CIFS & NFS.
• Performed NAS failover/Flip from one location to different Location., Snapshot and Snap mirror configurations & management on cluster mode.
• Performed Volume move in production volume including root volume.
• Performed ontap upgrades.
• Troubleshooting issues like Permission & Slowness, Resizing Volume, Mounting Issues, and Inaccessibility of shares and LUN.
• On command unified manger maintenance ,upgrade & migration.
• Involved in DC consolidation and storage migration & refresh activities.
• Further advance my career by continuing to learn and sharpen my skills ,I have been indulging myself to be challenging and cross skilled on Virtualization platform and have a good knowledge on VMware Basic Concepts Datastore, snapshots, vMotion, Fault Tolerance, High availability.
• Monitoring day to day backups and act upon failures., Analyzing backup requests and design appropriate solutions to meet client needs.
• Manage backups of heterogeneous client groups (Windows, VMware and Data Bases).
• Performing Data Restore and Full System Recovery Including VMware Restore.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience on IBM Tape Library.
• Involved in Media management activities which includes tape drives, cartridges mounting, labeling volumes, creating pools and act on issues.
• Performing Health check and coordinating with vendors for hardware related issues.

• IT Analyst, TCS, Bengaluru, 02/2021 to present, 3 Years and 3 months
• Technical Lead, Cognizant Technologies Solution, Bengaluru, 01/2019 to 01/2021, 2 years.
• Senior Analyst, HCL Technologies Limited, Chennai, 09/2015 to 12/2018, 3 Years and 3 months
• B. Tech in IT, Sree Sastha Institute of Engg., and Tech., Chennai, 2015
• HSC, Presidency Girls H.S.S., Chennai, 2011
• SSLC, Presidency Girls H.S.S., Chennai, 2009

• Date of Birth: 12/15/93
• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married