Dinesh Reddy
Dallas,TX
Summary
Broad and diverse technical background as a SAN and NAS storage engineer and architect. Extensive years of infrastructure experience, project management, system design, operational and application support. Experience leading complex projects and designing storage solutions. Independent, highly motivated, and always willing to take on new challenges.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Storage Engineer
Ahead
2011.10 - Current
- Manage the daily administration of our storage systems that include both SAN and NAS technologies, as well as driving the business requirements.
- Provisioning iSCSI volumes to VM for file servers environment and ESX hosts.
- Maintain the health, availability, stability operational support of our NAS Isilon cluster nodes and provide operational support to our SAN devices which include Cisco MDS, VMAX/PowerMax XtremIO and Pure storage devices.
- Resolving storage performance and capacity restraints of SAN volumes.
- Architecting Disaster Recovery design of the NAS Isilon environment and maintaining DR integrity of our NAS appliances
- System Administration of Isilon /PowerScale OneFS environment , FreeBSD linux environment, Superna SUSE linux OS
- Administration of code upgrades and patching
- Working with Security teams on vulnerabilities and Access level permissions
- Coordinate both Non-Disruptive and Disruptive hardware failures changes in our environment
- Troubleshooting performance issues such as latency, network issues, application response levels, high CPU utilization
- Respond to Critical alerts, Job failures, and performance issues
- Disaster Recovery design and implementation between Data Centers and across mission critical applications
- Utilized Superna EyeGlass Software to automate our DR exercises
- Provide backup solutions for various application groups such as SMB shares, designing our SnapShot schedules for data recovery and SyncIQ for data replication across Data Centers
- Working knowledge of Rubrik backup environment. Maintaining hardware integrity like bad disks, and bad nodes.
- Providing Operational Support – Provisioning storage on a server level as well as adding (zoning) servers on our SAN
- Providing NAS SMB shares on a department, application and user level, as well as our NFS exports requests
- Worked with the Backup Team in complex data retrieval, search and recover of directories or files
- Worked with the Security Team on Identity Management on NAS and user level access on files and directories
- User management of creation and deletion of user accounts. Providing user and group access to file shares.
- Project Management – Working with various teams such as Project Managers and Application teams in implementing new applications requiring storage space
- Projects such as Proof of Concept, Data Migrations and data archival from legacy systems
- Coordinated change management with teams on possible downtime relating to major code upgrades on our Isilon clusters and maintaining a non-disruptive change
- Projects implementing new applications requiring storage solutions
- Reporting – providing our leadership and application teams storage capacity reporting as well as performance reports to assist in forecasting and budgeting
- Used InsightIQ and Storage Reporting and Monitoring
- Prepared estimates and budgets.
- Conducted analyses addressing failure, reliability or yield improvement.
- Performed root cause analysis of problems, documented faults in tracking system and generated daily reports.
- Troubleshot and performed tests to confirm product performance.
- Generated technical reports for customers.
Education
Certifications For Unix System Administration -
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TXCertifications For Oracle Administration -
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TXBachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, ConnecticutCertifications for Unix System Administration, SMU Plano Certifications for Oracle Administration, SMU Plano -
Skills
- Dell-EMC Powermax, PowerScale/Isilon, Powerstore
- NetApp FAS, AFF Series CDOT Filers
- HPE Nimble, 3PAR, Alletra & Primera
- SAN & NAS Technologies
- FC, ISCSI, NFS & CIFS
- VMWare
- Brocade, Cisco MDS
- VMAX/PowerMax XtremIO
- Pure storage devices
- Wireshark and tcpdump
- Windows
- Linux
- AWS, GCP & Azure cloud storage
Timeline
Senior Storage Engineer
Ahead
2011.10 - Current
Certifications For Unix System Administration -
Southern Methodist University
Certifications For Oracle Administration -
Southern Methodist University
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
University of Connecticut
Certifications for Unix System Administration, SMU Plano Certifications for Oracle Administration, SMU Plano -
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