Affan Mohammed, Storage Administrator

Affan Mohammed

Storage Administrator

Avaya

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology
Experience
4 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 9 Months

Storage Administrator at Avaya
  • United States - Texas
  • June 2013 to July 2017

•Hands on experience working on NetApp, EMC Storage arrays.
•Configured volumes for CIFS / NFS.
•Managed and administrated EMC VMAX2, DMX and VNX storage arrays.
•Managed EMC VMAX, VNX series using Unisphere.
•Managed Cisco switch, created VSAN, added members to zones, added zones to zone set and activated zone set using command line interface.
•Configure Fast VP policies on storage pools on EMC arrays.
•Installation and configuration of EMC SRDF, and Time Finder.
•Analysis and remediation of enterprise Windows 2003 Active Directory.
•Provided Support and administer assistance within the SAN environments. Performed the basic trouble shooting techniques and problem resolution to identify the HBA or driver software problems on AIX, Windows platforms.
•Experience with handling of the production support ticketing system.
•Configured Avamar to backup all production host's using native agents (SQL, Exchange, Oracle and NDMP).
•Installation, Configuration and Integration of NetApp filers with the Windows and UNIX domains.
•Configured Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, Snap mirror, Snapshots & Snap Vault.
•Creating volumes and allocating size to file systems using quotas.
•Installation and Configuration of Raid groups, storage groups and disk mirroring.
•Storage provisioning on Symmetrix Systems for Windows, Solaris and AIX hosts.
•Proposed LUN, RAID Group and Storage Group configuration after evaluating company's present and anticipated growth.
•Actively participate in the planning and implementation of storage and backup solutions.
•Experience in implementing and troubleshooting data backup solutions for customers using Symantec NetBackup.
•Daily checking the backup status of the clients and troubleshooting the errors for next backup cycle.
•Storage Provisioning using zoning, LUN masking, mapping and reclamation, Capacity planning, disk layout planning.
•Worked on Designing and implementing bunker and remote replication using NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies.

Environment: EMC V-MAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, VNX, NetApp FAS Arrays, Cisco MDS 9513 and McData 6400 Enterprise Director, SYMCLI, Unisphere Manager, Snap View, MirrorView, SAN Copy, Open Replicator, Cisco CLI/Fabric Manager and EMC PowerPath, Celerra Manager and DATA Ontap, AIX, Solaris, Windows 2008/2003 and Linux

System/Network Administrator at Sentry Insurance
  • United States - Wisconsin
  • September 2012 to March 2013

•Installed, maintaining backup and recovery of various Linux Operating Systems.
•Installed and maintaining Linux and Windows operating systems in Virtual Machine.
•Experience in Kickstart and Jumpstart Installation of RedHat Linux. Creating, deleting and maintaining of user accounts and groups, Profiles, Security, and Permissions.
•Experience in installing upgrading and deleting software packages in Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Installing, Updating and Deleting Packages in Linux Operating System.
•Experience in recovering Root password. Configured and Implemented RAID Levels (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5), Logical Volume Management(LVM) and Load Balancing.
•Troubleshooting and performance tuning on various systems. Writing Scripts for automated daily admin tasks using Crontab.
•Experience in creating user/group accounts and attaching policies to user/group accounts using AWS services.
•Installed, designed, setup and configured simple and complex network environments including Cisco switches, routers, and other mission critical devices.
•Developed and implemented network architectures, monitored performance, capacity planning and recommended modifications to existing configurations to maintain the company's 100% uptime goal.
•Management, implementation and troubleshooting the network when users experienced less than desired network performance.
•Developed network requirements, policy and translating requirements into specific device configurations.
•Conducted implementation and troubleshooting of security permissions and restrictions using ACL's.
•Hosted seminars with users of the network to educate them on their role to ensure security of network devices is up tight.
•Monitored and managed the LAN network using Syslog, Netflow and SNMP.
•Provided network administration support for development, deployment, and problem identification/remediation of the enterprise network environment.
•Installed and maintaining protocols like DNS, FTP, NFS, SSL, SSH, TCP/IP, and DHCP.

Environment: Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Centos), UNIX (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD), Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), MacOS, Virtual Machines, Switches, Shell Scripting (Bash, SH), Networking, Virtual Machines, Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco ASA, Database

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Concordia University Wisconsin
  • January 2013

Information Technology

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication
  • at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • December 2009

Electronics and Communication

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Switches
Dell EMC
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
CAPACITY PLANNING
CERTIFIED LOTUS INSTRUCTOR
CUSTOMER RELATIONS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - Routing & Switching (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2017
Valid Until:
November 2019