Shafi Razad
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Credentials
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ITIL V3 Foundation
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NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
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NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE)
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Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris, part 1
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Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris, part 2
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Veritas Implementation of High Availability solutiond for UNIX (VCS)
Veritas
Experience
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BlackBerry
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Canada
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Storage and SAN Administrator
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Feb 2008 - Present
-Design and build SAN/NAS and Storage services in line with IT corporate standards-Involve in the Business designs on new setup of storage installation-Participate in on-going tech refresh assessment with the objective of reducing and consolidating storage frames-Produce documentation for NAS/SAN Migration, Operational Procedures, DR Testing etc- Supporting IT environment globally on 24/7 on-call basis assuring NAS/SAN/storage services are provided to employees with no disruption.-Working in ITIL environment and using Remedy as a tool to create change tickets-Maintain, monitor and administer 7-mode and C-mode NetApp filers-7-mode vfiler to c-mode vserver migration using 7MTT and snappmirror command-Plan and perform data backup and data migrations using methods such as snapshots, snapvault, volume snapmirror, qtree snapmirror vfiler migrate, vfiler dr and vol move-Performing daily system health checkouts, hardware installs and upgrade, filer reconfiguration, space addition, qtree/quota modification, exports, MultiStore etc-Plan and integrate NetApp with VMware ESX/vSphere-Involved in clustered ESX VMWare Virtual Infrastructure server administration-Install and configure Brocade HP StorageWorks SAN switches and perform FOS upgrade-Perform switch management by creating Alias, zoning, ISL using cli, web tools, Data Center Fabric Manager and HP SAN Network Advisor. -Configure SAN devices with dual path on dual fabrics for redundancy and collect logs to troubleshoot the SAN connectivity -Configure and administer HP P9500, IBM XIV, SUN 6540/6920 storage arrays and allocate LUNs as per customer requirement-Configure multipathing and present LUNs to different hosts as per customer requirement-SAN/Storage management and performance monitoring using SANScreen servers -Install and configure Nebackup master/media server -Good knowledge in troubleshooting day to day Netbackup problems.
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SriLanka Telecom, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka
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Education Administration Programs
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1 - 100 Employee
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System Administrator
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Apr 2002 - Dec 2007
Responsible for the running, maintenance and updating of a range of storage arrays, servers and SANs within the internal corporate Network, together with day-to-day support of UNIX hosts providing Telecommunication services.-Solaris system administration, mainly system installation, configuration, Administration, and performance tuning. ( Solaris 2.6, 7, 8,9 and 10 )-Sun Work Group Storage and Midrange Storage Administration. ( RAID configuration, LUN masking and monitoring of Sun Storage Arrays - D2, 3510, T3, 6120, 6140, SE6920)-SAN management, includes SAN Switch Installation, configuration and Management (brocade 3800/4100 )-EMC DMX3 storage based DR implementation for SUN servers. -EMC DMX3 symcli commands including mapping and masking, SRDF splitting and reestablishing, Time Finder clone creation, detach and attach to original volumes, Power path and Solution Enabler configurations.-Designing, Installing , Configuring and Upgrading Veritas Netbackup ( Netbackup 4.5/5.x/6.x)-Administration of Sun workgroup and midrange servers such as Sun Fire V240/280R, V440/480R, V880/890, SF6800/6900.-Veritas Cluster server installation, configuration and Administration (VCS 4.x / VCS 5.0 )-Veritas Storage Foundation suite and Solstice Disk suite Administration and configuration-Solaris 10 Zones/Container/ZFS configuration and Administration
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System Administrator
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Mar 2000 - Feb 2002
-Software development using Visual Basic and Oracle Database -Implementation of Local Area Network Engineering office.
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Education
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1995 - 2000
University of Peradeniya
Bachelor of Engineering (Bsc.Eng.), Telecommunications Engineering
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