Nasia Ullas

- Vet cutting edge technologies in the Storage Area Network , Network Attached Storage , Hyper Converged , Disaster Recovery , Business Continuity and Data Migration Tools.

- Do scorecarding to compare between technologies available in market and vet the product that meets requirements

- Present technical solutions to Architecture Review Board

- Draft Project Plan and work with Stakeholders to collect Business requirement specification, and design and configuration specification

- Conduct POC on latest tools to ensure it meets business requirements

- Conduct Testing to ensure design , configuration and requirement specifications are being met

- Ensure Infrastructure Management Lifecycle and SDLC documentation and Service Transition to operations are done

- Write Knowledge Base Articles, and conduct Knowledge Transfer Sessions to transfer activities to Operations teams during Hypercare period.

- Meet and attend multiple vendors and keep abreast with latest in technology

• Technical Lead/SME for Storage and Backup Team across PSEG
• Develop technical solutions for migration, Disaster Recovery, Virtual Backups in response to requirements from Business
• Analysis of capacity management and utilization to procure new storage
• Track, plan and drive life cycle management of Storage arrays. End to end lead on hardware upgrades for Cisco MDS switches and Array hardware migration/upgrades.
• Proactive escalation of potential problems, technical assistance to geographically dispersed teams
• Configuration and implementing Unity/VNX/VNXe/ Arrays using FC and iSCSI technologies
• Report generation for status/incident and problem management.
• Performance Tuning and Implementing FASTCache and Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)
• Configuring Disaster Recovery Solutions and conducting Disaster Recovery Tests using EMC
RecoverPoint and Replication Manager Solutions.

• Storage Specialist for Major US Petroleum Company. Responsibilities included
• Storage provisioning from VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, VNXe arrays.
• Migration from VMAX to XtremIO using VPLEX
• Migration using Open Replicator from DMX to VMAX arrays
• Creating CIFS shares and NFS exports in VNX , VNXe and Isilon boxes
• Setting up NAS replication between VNX boxes.
• Conducting Training on VNX/SRDF/Symmetrix Configuration
• Setting up SRDF DR replication in VMAX
• Creating Renaming and Configuring CIFS servers on VNX
• Enabling Time Finder Clone to ensure Local Replication
• Creating new Zones in CISCO SAN Switches
• Setting up Orphan Deletion/Archiving/Stub Scanner in FMA/CTA
• Perform DR exercises includes SRDF/A , TimeFinder Clone
• Setting up SRM and EMC VSI to work in conjunction with SRDF
• Setup ISILON replication

Storage provisioning from DMX 4 (SYMCLI) /Celerra and Centera Boxes
• Enabling SRDF/A on LUNS to ensure Remote replication for DMX4
• Enabling Time Finder Clone to ensure Local Replication in DMX4
• Inclusion of new devices into existing device groups and creation of new device groups
• Reclamation of unused devices
• Zoning new Servers to SAN using Soft Zoning in Brocade
• Migration from DMX3 to DMX4 using Open Replicator
• SRDF/A , TimeFinder Clone
• Maintain the Rainfinity, Centera architecture for archiving

PSE for Symmetrix Storage at EMC Corporation Bangalore. Responsibilities include:
• Maintenance and administration of DMX and Clariion boxes
• SYMMWIN for administration of DMX and Symmetrix Legacy boxes
• Worked on Hardware faults,Director Faults,Fibre Loop issues and all dialhomes
• Monitored automated scripts run by SYMMWIN
• Assisted CE for onsite activities
• Used Navisphere manager for administration of EMC Clariion.