RASHID ADIYARAMBATH

Present Location: Etisalat - UAE | Mobile: +971 565911757 | Email: Rashirafi@gmail.com

Objective
To associate with progressive organization that gives me scope to update my knowledge and skills
according to latest trends and be a part of team that dynamically works towards the growth of organization
and gains satisfaction thereof.

Professional Synopsis
 9 years plus professional experience in the field of EMC Storage Arrays and EMC Backup
Products, HITACHI Storage Arrays , HP SAN storage Arrays, DELL and IBM Flash storage arrays
 9 Years plus professional experience in the field of Brocade and CISCO SAN switches
 9 years plus different types of host integration with SAN and NAS storage array
 Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare virtualization
 Presently I am working as a Technical Expert at Etisalat- Emirate Telecommunication
Corporation – UAE – Abu Dhabi (From 2015-September)

Professional Certifications
 Specialist - Systems Administrator, VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Solutions Version
 EMC VMAX Technology Architecture Specialist Certified (VMAX Infrastructure Solution
Specialist EMC E20-515 and VMAX solution Design Specialist E20- 326)
 EMC VMAX Solution Implementation Specialist (E20-335)
 EMC ISA (Information Storage Associate- E20-001) Certified
 VCE VBLOCK Certified Associate
 EMC VPLEX Implementation specialist Certified engineer EMC E20-260
 EMC VNX Solution Implementation Specialist ( E20-390) Certified
 EMC Networker Implementation Specialist (E20-593) Certified
 EMC Velocity Partner System Consolidate Engineer( EVP-100)
 Red Hat Certified Engineer on RED HAT Linux 5 -2010
 Red Hat Certified System Administrator RHCSA-7 - 2018
 VMware Certified associate VCA6-DCV

Technical Skill
 Implementation, administration and maintenance experience enterprise class storage arrays like
EMC VMAX, Hitachi VSP G1500, and HP EVA, 3PAR, DELL and IBM Flash storage Arrays
 Implementation, administration and maintenance in CISCO and Brocade Enterprise director class
SAN fabric environments
 Administration and management of DELL/EMC Symmetrix, VMAX, VMAX2 and VMAX3 storage
arrays. Implementation, administration and maintenance of EMC CLARiiON, Celerra, NS, NSX
Storage Arrays. Implementation, administration and maintenance experience in EMC VNX,
5100/5300/5500/5700/7500 and VNX2 5200/5400/5600/5800/7600 series
 Storage administration in experience in Hitachi AMS, VSP, VSP G series storage array
 Data migration experience from HP-EVA to VNX, EMC-EMC storage arrays and EMC to Hitachi
storage arrays
  Implementation, administration and maintenance experience in EMC backup solution, EMC
Networker and Data Domain
 Advanced Hands on experience in DELL Power Edge R 620/720/820/ Dell M520/620/820 Dell
M1000 Chassis servers and iDRAC configurations
 10 years of experience in different types of host integration with SAN storage arrays (Windows,
Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-Ux, Citrix and VMware)
 Installation of Microsoft server OS, Microsoft clustering and Hyper-V virtualization
 Advance working knowledge in
 Provide weekly report to reporting manager or project manager or functional manager
 Work as a situational project manager or team lead for the assigned project
 Co-ordinate with vendors for installation, maintenance and support
 Open service request with hardware vendor and follow up
 Work with IT –presales or sales team and provide technical support and clarifications
 Work with planning team and stakeholders to provide the service
 Good team player
 Check hardware inventory and verify the items are correctly delivered on site
 Support data center cabling or maintenance team for all DC related activities
 Low level and high level design document preparation
 Provide KT to customer or newly joined team member
 Create project handover document and sign off document

Working Experience
TECHNICAL EXPERT | ETISALAT | 2015-SEP – TILL TODAY
 Administration and management of Hitachi VSP G1000/ G1500 /G600 /G400 storage arrays
and Hitachi HNAS storage arrays
 Administration and management of EMC VMAX storage arrays in 6 different data center
 Administration and management of EMC VNX1/VNX2 (VNX 5300,VNX 5500,VNX7600 and
CLARiion CX4-120/240/480) series storage arrays
 Administration and management of EMC Data Domain DD890,DD9500,DD6800,DD2500
 Administration and management of EMC Networker Backup
 Administration and management of Veeam backup
 Support acquisition, installation, maintenance, and administration of large enterprise SAN,
NAS & enterprise Backup environment.
 Troubleshoot, perform root cause analysis and identify storage related problems
 Allocate SAN storage and NFS/CIFS shares to servers and provide system security and access
 Provide backup client installations & scheduling, backup policies setting, performance tuning,
and troubleshooting
 Use SAN,NAS & Backup management tools to analyze performance and identify bottlenecks or
slowdowns and take appropriate action to resolve
 Plan, handle and upgrade components of the SAN/NAS/TSM as needed with software,
hardware and microcode upgrades, etc. Work with vendors as needed in this process
 Work with Etisalat Planning Team to ensure solutions meet or exceed business requirements.
 Provide advanced engineering support for raised remedy cases
 Upkeep service efficiency and end-user satisfaction levels through service SLA
 Maintain systems and update operational documentation to ensure that they are current.
 Regular and timely update of project status to the key partners

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  Involve in projects to upkeep the computing environment to meet future demands.
 Accountable for SAN/NAS, Backup & Archiving capacity planning and growth projection
 You will work with the global team to share on engineering efforts, technical challenges and
breakthroughs
 Participate in 24/7 on call rotation, major incidents and reviews
 Attend to level 2/3 user service requests and service restoration through remedy (Incident
management)
 Handling vendors and team members to troubleshoot issues related to the operations
(Problem management)
 Ensure all changes to systems are recorded and properly executed with approval (Change
Management)
 Raise the SAC for Planned Hazardous / Outage / unplanned outage.
 Co-ordinate with planning team for new Storage/Server/Backup/FABRIC integration
 Co-ordinate with planning team for servers decommission, LUN reclaiming, capacity
expansion and data center requirements
 Co-ordinate DC management team for cabling, SAN switch port selection, SAN switch trouble
shooting, labelling and for hardware maintenance activity
 Monitor the server/storage/VM/ SAN switch environment using EMC VIPR-SRM monitoring
tool
 Administration and management of IBM 840 /900 Flash storage arrays
 Administration and management of HP EVA storage arrays
 Administration and management of Brocade DS300, DS5300, DCX-4S, DCX-8510-8B,X6-8
16gbps SAN switches in 6 different data center
 New Server/Host integration with Storage arrays
 Storage Migration between different vendor storage arrays (Hitachi, EMC, HP and IBM)
 Server migration from 8gbps Storage Array Front End Port to 16Gbps
 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
 Capacity Reporting and planning
 Contacting Vendor and Partner Companies for technical or hardware or management related
issues.
 Reclaim the storage space from decommissioned servers and cooperate with planning and
server team for server decommission requests
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SENIOR IMPLEMENTATION ENGINEER |MDS – ABC –QATAR | APRIL-2013-AUG 2015

 Work with project manager, sales team and pre-sales team as part of new project request
 Provide project update to project manager and all stakeholders
 Provide weekly project status report to technical manager and project manager
 Implementation and Administration of EMC VNXe, VNX, VNX2, ISILON, Recover Point, EMC
VMAX, EMC VPLEX. Support for old model storage arrays like CLARiiON and Celerra Series.
 Data Migration and from old storage arrays to New VNX storage arrays
 SAN Switch Migration from old model new models
 Implementation of Dell Power Vault NX Series NAS storage Array, Dell Modular Storage Arrays
MD 3660i, 3220i, Dell Compellent storage arrays, Dell M1000e blade systems. Dell Power Edge
R610, 620/720,820 Series Servers.
 Installation and configuration of Microsoft Clustering, HYPER-V implementation, SQL
Clustering.
 Implementation and configuration of EMC Networker and Data domain backup Solution.
Project Meeting with Client, Project scope of work discussion, Site Readiness checking.
 Preparation of Low Level and High Level design document, Project hand over document
preparation. Knowledge Transfer to customer.

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SENIOR IMPLEMENTATION ENGINEER |REDINGTON –INDIA | 2011- 2012
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC CLARiiON CX4-120,CX4-240,CX4-480
and CX4-960
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC VNX 5100,5300,5500 Storaage arrays
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC AX series and NX series storage arrays
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC NS series gateway and integrated model
NAS storage arrays
 Implementation and support for EMC Data Domain DD860, DD890, DD2500
 Implementation of EMC Networker Backup
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for Brocade
DS300,DS4900,DS5000,DS5100,DS5300,DCX-4S,7800
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for CISCO MDS9148,MDS9506, MDS9222i
 Implementation Hitachi AMS 2000 series storage arrays, and maintenance support for USP-
V,VSP arrays
 Installation of CISICO UCS,Dell and HP rack mounting servers.
 Installation and configuration of MS2003, MS2008 Server OS and MS clustering
 Installation of Linux Server OS

CUSTOMNER ENGINEER | HCL –INDIA | 2009 JULY- NOVEMBER 2010

 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC CLARiiON CX3-10,CX3-20,CX3-40 and
CX3-80
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC CLARiiON CX4-120,CX4-240,CX4-480
and CX4-960
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC AX series and NX series storage arrays
 Implementation of EMC Networker Backup
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for EMC NS series gateway and integrated model
NAS storage arrays
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for Brocade
DS300,DS4900,DS5000,DS5100,DS5300,DCX-4S,7800
 Implementation and hardware AMC support for CISCO MDS9148,MDS9506, MDS9222i
 Installation and hardware AMC support for HCL,Dell and HP rack mounting servers.
 Installation and configuration of MS2003, MS2008 Server OS and MS clustering
 Installation of Linux Server OS

Educational Qualifications
Examination University/Board College Year Percentage
Kerala Govt.
3 Year Diploma in Model Poly Technic College
Technical 2009 73%
Computer Science Vatakara
Education
Higher Secondary
Kerala
(+2) Computer JNM GHSS Vatakara 2006 62%
Government
Science
Secondary School Kerala
MPHSS - Maniyur 2004 72%
(10th) Government

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Training Attended

 PMP- PMI training PMBOK 6th Edition

 ILT Training in CLARiiON CX4 Series Installation and Maintenance Training
 ILT Training in VNX & VNXe series Installation and Maintenance Training.
 ILT Training in Celerra NS series Installation and Maintenance Training
 ILT Training in Symmetrix DMX3/DMX4 series Installation and Maintenance
 Online training on EMC VNX series Installation and Maintenance
 ILT training on Networker Implementation – EMC Dubai
 ILT Training in Data Domain Training From EMC office New Delhi
 Trained from HCL Info systems Ltd (HCL Training Centre, Hyderabad)
 Trained from HITACHI Data Systems Bangalore on Hitachi Storages
 Trained From Net.xprt on Red Hat Linux ( Delhi – NOIDA )
 EMC VMAX Implementation 40 Hours VILT training ( Education.emc.com )
 EMC VMAX Technology Architecture 80 Hours VILT Training (education.emc.com)
 VMWare VCP6-DCV training.

Personal Details
Full Name Rashid Adiyarambath
Sex Male
Date of Birth 7-Sep-88
Marital Status Married
Nationality India
Current Company Etisalat-Abudhabi (Pay roll of Omnix International)
Current Position Technical Expert in Storage and Backup
Employment Type Contract
Total Years of experience 9.5
Relevant IT Experience 9.5
Willing to Relocate Yes
Notice Period 30 Days

Declaration
I hereby declare that all the above statements are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Place: ABUDHABI-UAE
Date: 29/03/2019 Rashid Adiyarambath

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