Subramani Kotteeswaran

• Have 11+Years of extensive experience in Data storage& Bakcup experience (SAN/NAS/Object Based)
• NetApp Storage Systems [FAS Series, AFF-A300], 
• EMC Storage Systems VMAX100K,200K,20K, VPLEX, Isilon, VNX, ENAS],
• HP Storage Systems [HP-XP24k, HP95K], 
• IBM Storage Systems [V7000, V5000, DS8000, XIV, A9000]
• IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Data Recovery Management experience [Veritas Netbackup, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, IBM Spectrum Protect, TSM and HP Data protector]
• Networking Switch Management experience [CISCO MDS switches and Brocade Switches using DCNM, DCFM, Fabric Manager and CLI]
• EMC Mirror View and Snap View solutions, design, implementation and administration 
• EMC Replication Manager knowledge, SRDF A/S/CE, Time Finder Snap Clone, EMC SANcopy
• Advanced RAID/SCSI server architecture knowledge, and Blade system solutions
• Effectively applying technical solution to clients whilst assessing their storage needs
• Good at Windows, AIX and LINUX Servers management
• VMware ESX / ESXi installation, configuration and management
• Having knowledge of Cloud technologies - Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Working knowledge and understand of storage & backup infra-automation
• Innovative thinker with Customer Service focus
• Establishing and maintaining a professional working relationship at multiple levels both internally and with the client
• Providing technical consulting expertise and leadership to internal project teams and clients
• Maintain current knowledge of storage-related trends and issues, including current and new technologies and standard methodologies
• Providing coaching, guidance and leadership to colleagues
• Strong listener, verbal and written communicator, and negotiator
• Capable communicator of technological information to business leaders
• Having ability to work independently and in a team-based environment that functions at global scale
• Have adequate Knowledge on performing Microcode upgrades, Online configuration changes and Disk firmware upgrades on Storage Systems
• Corporate exposure in Network & System Administration, networking technology & system integration projects. 
• Interacted with customers directly for the issues in the storage arrays and resolved them on time without DUs/DLs.
• Developing End of Life storage upgrade and migration plans
• Working knowledge and understand of storage automation
• Analyze system performance and other key attributes for our architectures

Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts pertaining to LAN, WAN, security, IT communication, WAN protocols, Networking devices administration and maintenance in multi-platform environments

HCL Technologies, [Feb 2022 – Till Date]

Designation: CONSULTANT

Work location: NOIDA, INDIA

Work Profile: Senior Storage & Backup SME and Tech lead

Reason for job change:I am passionate about taking on challenges. Taking challenges and getting awards motivates me to work each day with technical and management skillexperience towards organization growth. 

IBM Dalian Global Delivery Co.Ltd, CHINA (30th Dec 2015 –Feb 2022)

Designation:IT Analyst and Storage and backup SME and solution advisor

Work base location:Shenzhen, China

Duration of stay at onsite: 6 years,3 months. 

Work Profile:Senior Storage & Backup SMEand solution advisor

For SONY&AIA Australia accounts.

Tata consultancy Services, INDIA(10th Oct 2011 – Nov 2015.)

Designation :  System Administrator

Location :  Chennai, INDIA

Work Profile :  Storage & Backup SME 

As a Storage Solution advisor and Storage & Backup Team SME in IBM my responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for all Storage Production - reporting to the Infrastructure Manager
• Team Management - Setting gals to team members and guiding them through their development, assigning project and managing their life cycle
• Storage Vendor Relations Management
• SAN/NAS architecture design / testing PoCs and implementation
• Backup Solution support, design and implementation
• Remote Replication SRDF& NAS & SAN Data Migrations.
• Oversee one or more major projects in support of client group
• Migration Projects[Netapp,EMC,HP,IBM] from end to End.
• Due diligent check needed to perform migration
• Actual execution of migration health check
• CIFS/NFS - Preparation steps Planning before migration from one NetApp/EMC storage to another
• Setup NetApp c-Dot (snapmirror for migration).SRDF for EMC 
• NetApp C-Dot NAS (CIFS/NFS) , EMC Isilon/VNX NAS.
• Incident Management according to company and ITIL framework
• Help the management in achieving SLA & SLO, Queue/Ticket management
• Technical Team Escalations - Acting as a SME to the other members of the team
• Storage Performance Tuning
• Training the Storage& Backup Team in troubleshooting methodologies
• Training the Storage Team in SAN performance tuning
• Owning SAN & backup Migration projects, creating project plans, communicating with the Rackspace Support Segments, Creating the mass tickets to our customers. 
• Owning the full project life cycle including data migrations, array decommissions
• Supporting various production environments of various operating systems in the EMEA region

I also was appointed an acting Quality Lead for my team - my responsibilities included technical walk ups from all teammates, Subject Matter Expert, DELL Software Solution Team escalations and EMC engineering. This position also covered dispatch quality control, and technical notes monitoring. Supervised 11 Technicians