Experience

Perfekt Pty Ltd

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Integration Specialist

  • Jun 2021 - Present



Chemist Warehouse

• Australia
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Storage and Backup Engineer

  • Dec 2017 - Jun 2021

  Storage engineer• Involved in splitting the commcell environment into three different environments namely the PROD and Non-PROD, the Warehouse and the Stores. Migrated around 3000+ clients and media agents from the old commserve into the new commserve. • Configured around 600+ media agents, storage policies, storage copies, global deduplication database and used Commcell Migration and CLI to move the clients in between old and new commserve • Developed a procedure to move workload from primary to secondary and vice versa with no downtime. Developed PowerShell CLI using VMWare CLI and Dell Storage Manager CLI, we were able to bring workloads seamlessly without downtime. • Responsible for Compellent SCOS upgrades and related software such as Dell SRM adapter and Dell Storage Manager • Responsible for storage capacity planning, storage performance related issues within the Dell Compellent SC9000 • Responsible for Commvault storage backups in all environments including PROD, Non-PROD, Warehouse, Management and all stores around Australia. Managing the software maintenance, disk libraries, storage polices and schedules Show less



Metro Trains Melbourne

• Australia
• Rail Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Storage Engineer

  • May 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Involved in the Platform Uplift Program as a storage engineer providing storage to the new VMware farm, SQL servers and Citrix farm. Involved SAN Uplift project for migrating the production servers for SAN and NAS from EMC to DELL SC8000 and Datacore SANSymphony • Build Windows 2012 cluster with fileserver roles for the CIFS shares with Datacore SANSymphony as the backend storage • Analysis for the storage configuration and layout of the existing storage in the old VM farm. Configuration of the datastores in the new VMware farm through fibre channel and iSCSI. Planning and executing of VMFS uplift from version 3 to version5. Implemented and configured VMware API Storage Awareness (VASA) with EMC VNX and VMware 6.0 • Migration of the VMware ESXi host 4.x to VMWare ESXi host 6.0 using storage vmotion for all windows machines for both production, test and development. • Configured the Networker backup in the new VMware environment using VMware Data Protection (VADP) and backed up in EMC Data Domain. • Configuration, backup and restore testing for the Commvault backup. Exchange, SQL, Oracle and filesystem creation of clients and subclients. • Storage provisioning for physical servers and virtual machines via RDM using Datacore SAN Symphony and DELL SC8000 storage. • Migration of over 700 VMs from EMC VNX to Dell Compellents SC8000 Show less



ANZ

• Australia
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Storage Analyst

  • Nov 2010 - Sep 2015

  Involved in project activities relating to Storage Area Network EMC VMAX EMC SRDF EMC NAS VG8 Cisco MDS 9000 series Netapp NAS Involved in project activities relating to Storage Area Network EMC VMAX EMC SRDF EMC NAS VG8 Cisco MDS 9000 series Netapp NAS



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Storage Specialist

  • Aug 2007 - Nov 2010

  In a contractual position, supports the Telstra account, handles Cisco, McData SAN fabric and DMX, Clariions arrays from different sites in Victoria and New South Wales. Schedules on-call to support beyond office hours and weekend tasks. Helps in creating macros for generating scripts for masking, zoning and validating the design against the production environment. In a contractual position, supports the Telstra account, handles Cisco, McData SAN fabric and DMX, Clariions arrays from different sites in Victoria and New South Wales. Schedules on-call to support beyond office hours and weekend tasks. Helps in creating macros for generating scripts for masking, zoning and validating the design against the production environment.



Dell EMC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Implementation Specialist

  • Jan 2002 - Aug 2007

  • Experience in DMX series arrays (DMX1000, DMX2000, DMX3000, DMX3-950 DMX3-1500), Symmetrix 8000 series arrays (8830, 8530), CX and CX3 Clariion Arrays (CX200, CX400, CX600, CX300, CX500, CX700, CX3-20, CX3-40- CX3-80). • Experience in EMC SAN Products such is McData (ED140, 24M, 4400M 4700M), Brocade switches (16B2, 16B3, 32B2), Cisco SAN Switches (9513,9509,9506,9120,9140) • Experience in EDM Backup Solution and EMC Legato Networker. • Implements MDS 9000 series director switches using VSAN technology, FCIP solutions with three way DR using SRDF and Mirrorview, Dynamic Port VSAN Membership to increase flexibility with VSAN in place, Inter VSAN Routing to access storage from different VSANs, implements SanTap protocol for CDP Recoverpoint. Installs and configures different types of line cards both version 1 (16, 32 port, and 14+2) and version 2 (12,24,48 ports), IP Modules both 4 and 8 ports and SSM Module to support CDP Recoverpoint; Upgrades firmware to the latest supported version. • Implements McData Enterprise Director Switches; Installs and configures Connectrix Manager for monitoring and management of zones and zonelibrary. Implements best practices in configuring zoning. Implements PDCM, Preferred Path and Open trunking feature of the Mcdata Switches. Implemented MP1620, and 2640 to take advantage of iFCP feature of the Multi Protocol switches in Mcdata with MirrorView/A and SRDF/A solutions for DR. • Implements SRDF/S and SRDF/A over Escon and Fibre Channel director over DWDM and WAN using Gigabit Ethernet. Knowledgeable in TimeFinder using multiple BCV with consistent split technology with Oracle, SQL and Exchange Environments. Experience in SRDF and Timefinder in a multihop environment. • Experience in SYMCLI using Timefinder, SRDF/S, SRDF/A, Access Control List, Symmetrix Configuration, Timefinder Snap, Timefinder Clone, and Symmetrix Masking of devices. Show less