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Umare Mohsin

Lawrenceville,USA

Summary

High Performing Storage and Compute Engineer with a passion for Technical Architecture. 20 years of Solid experience Engineering Storage and Compute systems for large scale projects in On Prem Data Centers, Cloud and Hybrid between on prem and cloud. Confident in ability to collaborate with Cross functional Teams to solve complex and high stakes problems. Committed to continuous improvement and contributing to Team Success.

Storage engineering professional with solid track record in managing and optimizing storage solutions in enterprise environments. Adept at implementing storage architectures and ensuring data integrity and availability. Known for collaborative work style and adaptability, consistently meeting project goals and adapting to evolving requirements. Strong skills in SAN/NAS management, data protection, and performance tuning.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

HPC/Storage Engineer

Bristol Myers and Squibb
09.2012 - Current
  • Enterprise IT Compute, Data Center and Storage Engineer, vertically aligned with Research and Early Discovery Department to provide expertise in unstructured data with acute focus on designing storage solutions for high performance compute environments.
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of cutting-edge storage solutions resolving complex technical issues across orchestration, distributed systems, service modeling, and automation, leading to a 90% increase in system stability and 75% decrease in operational incidents.
  • Designed and supported cutting edge HPC/AI Infrastructure platform (DGX SuperPod) to serve community of researchers and scientists who are using Machine Learning, Deep Learning and High Performance Computing to make groundbreaking discoveries.
  • Led the design, architecture and implementation of distributed storage systems optimized for AI/ML with availability and reliability of large scale deployments.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and execute the road map for HPC/AI for both on prem and in the cloud, providing technical expertise, standards and best practices design principles to IT and Scientific Leadership
  • Efficiency improvements by designing and implementing data storage, ingestion and transfer processes resulting in a 90% reduction in data retrieval time, enhancing application performance, and increasing overall productivity for more than 20 interconnected R&D sites. Utilized Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) deployments in AWS Cloud Formation to provision AWS resources, reducing deployment time by 95%.
  • Developed and Implemented Data Governance policies and standards for data lifecycle management ensuring compliance, accessibility and classification of data within the organization.
  • Solution Driven DevOps deployments with container orchestration platforms in Kubernetes and Docker using Ansible for config management and maintaining CI/CD pipeline via Jenkins.
  • Process Improvements with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and design storage architectures tailored to meet specific data payloads for computational workloads. E.g. VMWare, Sequencing data pipelines, HPC etc
  • Mitigated Risks by conducting regular vulnerability assessments, applying security in data lifecycle management and Implemented data replication and backup strategies to enhance data availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
  • Conducted performance monitoring and capacity planning to ensure the seamless operation of storage systems, identifying and addressing bottlenecks as needed.
  • Optimized data access and transfer rates by fine-tuning storage configurations, file system parameters, network settings and data access patterns.
  • Vendor management, management of contract and SOW details for all outsourced work; to evaluate and select storage hardware and software solutions, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compatibility. Led the operations of the off-shore team as approval authority for change management. Mentor and oversee offshore resources for their L1/L2 tasks, providing guidance as well as level 3 and 4 support.
  • Budget management and cost saving initiatives by leveraging CAPEX and OPEX models as needed, delivering 6.2M in Savings.

Senior Systems Engineer

Fordham University
03.2008 - 09.2012
  • Deployed and configured Solaris 9/10/11 and RHEL 4/5/6 servers across the multitudes of networks.
  • Provided application integration and automation support for enterprise applications.
  • Coded front ends for system automation and integration tools using php/perl
  • Deployed and performance tuned complex web applications in manageable LAMP stacks.
  • Maintained php code for multiple sites and applications to apply changes via subversion.
  • Deployed and configured system automation tools Chef and Puppet.
  • Designed and implemented hot DR sites for business critical applications.
  • Migrated expanded block level storage for multiple applications and environments.
  • Complex systems design and architecture services for application lifecycles and scalability.
  • Created systems security framework for web applications as well as for hardening UNIX/Linux systems.
  • Implemented vulnerability management and intrusion detection paradigm.
  • Led file storage migration of more than 35K user base and associated departments.
  • Implemented ID Management to serve as a gateway for single sign on through portal.
  • Configured Web Portal for unified application access to all University's resources.
  • Configured Enterprise Content Management System.
  • Design and implemented VMware ESX clusters and migrated in-house development, QA, production and UAT environments to it. Upgraded 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 and vSphere.
  • Designed and implemented a highly complex Microsoft AD environment with sites and services, services catalogues, group policies, user roles, roaming profiles, WINS, MAC and UNIX Systems authentication, security, multiple domains and trusts.
  • Collaborated in configuration of Oracle DataGuard and RAC to provide data site redundancy, Enterprise Data Warehouse for Data Mining and data intelligence reporting, Lotus Domino Server 7.x for collaboration among other projects.
  • Configured load-balanced systems in Amazon EC2 cloud in hybrid scenario to off-scale the load from in house servers using Eucalyptus hybrid cloud products.
  • Automated system builds for standardization and homogeneity of systems passed on to Operations.
  • Created and maintained documentation for systems, including architecture diagrams, configuration details, and operational procedures.
  • Participated in system upgrades, patch management, and troubleshooting to resolve storage-related issues promptly.
  • Participated in on-call support rotations to address urgent storage issues outside of regular business hours.

Senior Systems Engineer

CBS Corporation
11.2007 - 03.2008
  • Supported Solaris 9 implementation for upgrading NetCool monitoring environment.
  • Configured storage for multiple platforms across multiple systems.
  • Prepared and participated in 56-hour exercise to perform Back-to-Life scenario and verified testing to provide proof of concept.
  • Configured host based intrusion detection system across the environment (2000 + servers and devices)

Senior Systems Consultant

Nielsen Entertainment (VNU)
09.2007 - 11.2007
  • Installed and configured SuSe 10 on x86 architect.
  • Installed/configured Apache 2.2 in multiple virtual host environments particularly with mod_rewrite and mod_authnz_ldap.
  • Converted database to MySQL and PostgreSQL (up to 30 TB).
  • Converted php code from Windows to be executed in Linux as well as recompiled C binaries to Linux standards
  • Eliminated complex dependencies in the architecture to be a standalone LAMP stack with failover capabilities.
  • Configured LDAP across the environment with multiple master and replication schemes to support the standalone structure.
  • Configured different group settings for internal and external users (customers) in Open LDAP for authentication as well as authorization.
  • Configured Nagios for monitoring across the environment with SNMP services and event handling.
  • Extensive use of VMWare to free up resources as well as to eliminate hardware dependencies.

Senior Systems Consultant

New York Times Company
02.2007 - 08.2007
  • Planned scalable web environment hierarchy according to Network Design Specifications in the new data center with several DMZ's and landing zones.
  • Hands-on in building new systems from scratch (Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Linux ES3, SuSe Linux 9).
  • Installed and configured IBM Webseal, Tivoli Access Manager, Websphere WAS server 5.1, IBM MQ Manager (for Mainframe).
  • Installed and configured HP OpenView Operations across all environments and regions according to design and utility specifications.
  • Implemented Sun Cluster in all regions of the new environment.
  • Successfully provided cutover from old production to new production environment.
  • Using old environment to create development and QA segments for the applications.
  • Implementing long term and short term backup strategy and solution.

Systems Engineer - Consultant

Chicago Tribune Company
11.2006 - 02.2007
  • Administered Solaris Systems for multiple web applications.
  • Supported migration from E15K and several mini and standalone regions to E25K for system consolidation.
  • Played key role for SAN design.
  • Configured and supported VCS in two node environment for six domains.
  • Exposure to Veritas Volume Manager Volume Snaps using Netbackup 5.0 flash snap option.
  • Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager on enterprise storage for database.
  • Installed and configured Weblogic 9.0 for the new environment.
  • Supported applications such as Business Objects XIR2 and Informatica.
  • Designed and implemented scripts for preventative maintenance.
  • Deployed data snaps to synch data on backup from the original source using rsync.
  • Developed design specifications, testing plans, scenarios and project deliverables.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Information Systems -

DeVry Institute of Technology

Skills

  • High Performance Compute (HPC)
  • Storage Engineering
  • Linux Engineering
  • NVIDIA Deployments
  • Data Migration and Mobility
  • Data Governance
  • InfiniBand and Ethernet Networking
  • DevOps Engineering
  • Hybrid Cloud AWS/GCP
  • InfiniBand and Ethernet Networking
  • DevOps Engineering
  • Hybrid Cloud AWS/GCP

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Architect Professional
  • NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
  • Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (MCITP)
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCSA)

Timeline

HPC/Storage Engineer

Bristol Myers and Squibb
09.2012 - Current

Senior Systems Engineer

Fordham University
03.2008 - 09.2012

Senior Systems Engineer

CBS Corporation
11.2007 - 03.2008

Senior Systems Consultant

Nielsen Entertainment (VNU)
09.2007 - 11.2007

Senior Systems Consultant

New York Times Company
02.2007 - 08.2007

Systems Engineer - Consultant

Chicago Tribune Company
11.2006 - 02.2007

Bachelor of Computer Information Systems -

DeVry Institute of Technology

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