Ahmed Qadri

Old Bridge, NJ
848-219-4730
PROFILE:

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

I have worked in Isilion environment fluently for more than 7 years. I have setup clusters from scratch
for x, s, nl nodes, including but not limited to rack and stack, network setup, link aggregation and
SmartDNS. Ive also worked on the Implementation of file retention using SmartLocks. I have
experience with the setup of SmartDNS for client load balancing, archiving. Ive also worked on flash
implementation in Isilon, capacity and performance monitoring using insight iq, implementation
snapshot iq, adding isilon cluster as hadoop storage nodes, management of snapshots, snapshot
aliasing, deleting snapshots, reverting to snapshots etc. I have experience implementing and managing
smart Dedupe. Ive implemented synciq for disaster recovery, test failover and failback. Ive also
managed storage tiering with smart pools and cloud pools. On a day-to-day, I am monitoring jobs on
the isilon or NetApp.

Technical Expertise

Strong technical background in storage (HDS, EMC, NetApp, IBM), SAN switches (Brocade and CISCO
MDS), Unix (Solaris and Linux) , Data Protection (Netbackup), High availability (VCS), Storage
Foundation Suit (VXVM/VCS), Storage and Network (TCP/IP/ administration. Various configuration,
management, and performance monitoring tools. (Bandwidth utilization, IO Response time, EMC SRM
or Prosphere). Storage: HDS 99XX, USP, USPV, VSP, EMC VMAX, IBM DS8KX, NetApp 30XX, 31XX, 60XX,
Sun 60XX, 61XX, 70XX. Data protection and management suite administering Netbackup with VTL,
Dedup, SL8500. OS: Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows. San Switches: Brocade 8510, DCX, 7500/7800,
5300/5100, BES 8000, 6510, Cisco MDS 95XX. Sun / HP Enterprise system architecture, installation,
configuration, administration, monitoring and support.

EDUCATION:

Rutgers University
Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software/Hardware: OOAD (OOA/OOD), RUP, UML, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, QA, WAP, CVS, TEAMMATE, MS A
ccess, SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DBA, Java , Windows 98/2000/XP/7, basic UNIX, HTML, basic DHTML,
basic XML, MS Office Suite-Excel Macros, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Rational- Rational Rose
, Clear Quest ,Rational XDE, Cobol, Requisite Pro, CaliberRM, Omniture, Crystal Reports, various NIKU products,
C, C++, Sharepoint, Docushare, BASIC, Intermediate level-Visual Basic

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
QTS Piscataway, NJ
February 2014 April 2017
Senior Storage Admin

Worked in the web based Wealth Management Platform to customize the web portal for Broker Dealers that in
tegrates resources and aggregates information, allowing Advisors to conduct business quickly and efficiently. I
had worked in Managed Account Platform by supporting the client's billing and money managers. Also, I had w
orked on Vplex data storage and Cisco data storage systems through most of the processes.

Responsibilities:
San admin with more than 9 years of IT experience, including storage sub system, provisioning, monitoring,
consolidation and reporting of Enterprise Storage.
Extensive Experience on Design and architect of Open system disaster recovery processes and set up.
Experience working on Large data center with corporate data centers
Experience in EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX2/VNX series Storage Products.
Experience in EMC XTREME IO/ISILON series Storage Products.
Experience in EMC VIPR SRM, workload analyzer, Performance View, access logix, snapview.
Experience in EMC VPLEX, recoverpoint
Experience in migration technologies such as LVM, VERITAS MIRRORING, Open replicator, powerpath
migration enabler, Hitachi external storage, VPLEX, IBM SVC
Experience in Netapp 7 mode and Cmode deployments
Experience in migration from Sonas to Isilon
Experience in migration from Netapp to VNX/Isilon
Experience in SAN, NAS, and storage based on customer performance requirement.
Knowledge and experience in AIX/VIO, Solaris, HP Unix and San management using EMC products.
Experience in Installation and Configuration of storage management, Storage area Network products from
EMC.
Expert in Recover point installation and configuration
Experience and knowledge of high-end storage disk sub systems with NAS & SAN based Backup solutions.
Experienced in Storage Capacity planning, Ad hoc changes, etc.
Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Documentum, RUP, SDLC, UML, TestDirector, LoadRunner

IBM, New York, NY

October 2012-February 2013
Business/Systems Analyst

This project involved developing a Data Warehousing System for several business areas including mortgage ad
ministration, loan monitoring, and inspection, ESCROW and default collections. The three major components of
the system were ETL, Data Warehousing and Reporting for several business areas. Reviewed and assessed info
rmation gathered, defined key facts and issues, identified potential problems and facilitated problem resolution
. This project was aimed at automating the entire mortgage system with the intention of closing more loans in l
ess time. The final accepted system helps the lenders in automating the origination, processing and closing func
tions of the mortgage system, thereby increasing the operational efficiency of the system

Role & Achievements:

Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
Designed the process of data and server migration
Worked with various operations team during the design phase to deploy new storage hardware and
software and provide knowledge transfer
Implemented VMAX/VNX , DS8000 and VPLEX, netapp and isilon
 Architecting deployment of virtual systems, integration of network switches, blades , storage
Implemented VMAX2, VNX, ISILON
Architected VMAX Fast deployments
Implemented SRDF/timefinder, recoverpoint
Integrated with VMWARE/ORACLE etc.
Implemented EMC xtreme IO
Architected and implemented VNX file and Isilon
Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers , CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror or checkpoint.
replication
Migrating from 7 mode and VNX AND ISILON to Netapp .
Designed Brocade DCX deployments and MDS
Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode to cluster mode .
Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
Upgraded cisco MDS san environment with new code, NX OS upgrades
Configuring VSAN, configuring NPV/NPIV.
Implementing FCIP , implementing FCOE on the MDs/Nexus switches
Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and asynchronous
replication
Implementing Vmware stretch cluster using VPLEX METRO and witness
Deploying vplex campus solution with replication using recover point
Architecting and Implementing Recoverpoint /VM,Recoverpoint SE, with replication manager
Architecting and integrating recover point with VPLEX metro
SAN design for the VPLEX , Recoverpoint deployments
FCIP,IVR Virtual fabric , SAN consolidation ,SAN Management using brocade network advisor, SAN
migration
Integrating Storage based replication with VMWARE SRM
Implemented Data migrations using Veritas volume manager, LVM, Storage Vmotion, Powerpath
Migration enabler.
Architecting and deploying isilon environment, data migration from Netapp and CX to isilon
Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netabackup, HP data protector for very complex
technologies such as Oracle RAC, Exchange, Sharepoint, and SAP.
Implemented and upgraded AVAMAR AND DATA DOMAIN
Environment: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, Documentum, Windows, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL, SQL Server,
Sybase, SharePoint, Unix, Agile/Scrum, C#. NET, Business Objects, Test Director, Load Runner.

Citi Hedge Fund Services, Roseland, NJ Septemb

er 2009 September 2012
Systems Analyst

This project involved developing a Data Warehousing System for several business areas including mortgage ad
ministration, loan monitoring, and inspection, ESCROW and default collections. The three major components of
the system were ETL, Data Warehousing and Reporting for several business areas. Reviewed and assessed info
rmation gathered, defined key facts and issues, identified potential problems and facilitated problem resolution
. This project was aimed at automating the entire mortgage system with the intention of closing more loans in l
ess time. The final accepted system helps the lenders in automating the origination, processing and closing func
tions of the mortgage system, thereby increasing the operational efficiency of the system

Responsibilities
Implement and Administer SAN /storage environment on VNX/VMAX
Implement and administer NAS device deployments and virtualization
 Consolidating SAN, Servers, Databases.
Implementing disaster recovery solutions.
Responsible for capacity planning and administration of SAN environment for boeing which contain data on
EMC Symmetrix VMAX2/VMAX3, VNX/VNX2/ISILON, NETAPP, HPXP etc storage array connected to
Windows and vmware servers.
Storage provisioning on VNX, NETAPP, isilon, VMAX, HPXP, Hitachi
o Creating storage groups, storage pools initiator registration, bind luns
o Creating hypers, meta device, bcv, bcv meta,
o snap vdev, thin vdev, rdf device ,allocation ,masking on DMX
o Creating ldevs, luse, host groups, lun security on tagmastore
Configure zoning, masking, Mapping host to the storage array and troubleshooting any connectivity issues.
Installation and configuration of HiCommand device Manger,TSM
Plan, Implmente server/Storage/NAS Consolidation /Migration.
Thin provisioning , FAST,FAST CACHE AND FasT VP implementation on VNX/VMAX
Data migration from DMX to VMAX using open replicator ,open migrator
Mirrorview/snapview configuration on VNX
SRDF,SNAPSHOT,FAST VP configuration on
Installation and configuration of NS 960, VNX,Netapp filers
Data migration from older NAS to newer NAS
Architected, implemented and administered server and SAN /storage environment
Designed and implemented server and storage consolidation
Designed, implemented server/storage consolidation
Designed the process of data and server migration
Installed and configured Cisco MDS san switches and configuring IVR
Installed and configured Netapp C dot filers, CIFS/NFS, snapshots, snapmirror or checkpoint. replication
Configured snapmirror/snapvault/snap protect in Nseries filers
Configured cluster mode filers, migrated from 7mode
Installed and configured IBM XIV, EMC VMAX,IBM SVC, Clariion CX for SAP, Oracle RAC,VMWARE and
Exchange environment.
Virtualization and data migration of block storage using XIV and IBM SVC.
Designed San fabrics and deployed core-edge technologies
Upgraded cisco MDS san environment with new code, NX OS upgrades
Configuring VSAN, configuring NPV/NPIV.
Implementing FCIP , implementing FCOE on the MDs/Nexus switches
Implementing Port Channels in SAN fabric , implementing ISLs
Migrating SAN fabric , consolidating SAN fabric
Design of the san, failover, dual path, disaster recovery, as well as Business Continuance
Documentation and knowledge transfer for disk allocation, zoning, file system creation on Solaris, HPUX,
AIX,VMWARE to the customer.
Installation and configuration of snap, snapview, mirror view
Installation and configuration of EMC celerra /Netapp FS servers
Migrating celerra using replicator
Installation and configuration of centera and centera replication
Migrating centera to newer generation centera
Configuration of CIFS/NFS aggregates, volumes and NDMP backups
Performance analysis of VMAX/VNX storage array.
Storage device management, with ECC.
Installation of, Timefinder, Srdf, for Disaster recovery.
Writing scripts for Timefinder, srdf operations using Symcli.
Installation of Brocade director level Switches. Installing SAS based splitters.
Architected recover point appliance CRR and CLR.
Installation and configuration of recover point for Data replication and data migration.
Monitoring performance of switches.
Created disaster recovery schemes, and tapes.
Data migration using different methods such as open replicator, san copy, Tiered storage.
 Installation of Fiber adapters, installation of Brocade Fiber switches, Zoning.
Migrating from Emc data to Brocade switches.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting TCP/IP LAN/WAN Problems.
Have two domains, production and development domain.
Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest), E-Payment, RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL
Server, Oracle, C#.Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows For
ms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.

Merrill Lynch HFIS Division (Hedge Fund Integration Services), New York, NY
June 2009 September 2009
Data Analyst Intern

One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services which provide investment management, retail and co
mmercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services. Their mortgage system is
a windows-based software package that is designed to be a complete mortgage lending solution. The system all
ows for processing, closing and underwriting of all loan types for both wholesale and retail production. The syst
em also provides a centralized repository for underwriting and monitoring process

Responsibilities:
Reconciled trades to Advent Geneva and Calypso in the SharePoint Database
Analyzed User Requirement Document, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Technical Requirement
Specification and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS).
Analyzed proprietary trading interfaces, identified front-to-back office transaction lifecycle details which
included APL security master and component files, clearance, settlement.
Involved in training clients for various APL functions, communicated status, resolution plans, and
expected timeframes for completion.
Worked with the SME, Tech Lead and 3rd party vendors in gathering requirements and data transaction
information related to Capital Markets for reinvestment agreement to write global specs.
Conducted joint requirements planning (JRP) sessions as a facilitator to gather requirements from the
business area and to discuss different critical success factors of the project like Operational Feasibility
Analysis, Technical Feasibility Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis & etc.
Prepared for GAP Analysis; identified and documented improving areas to meet capital requirement
regulations.
Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest), E-Payment, RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL
Server, Oracle, C#.Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows For
ms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.

Metropolitan National Bank, New York, NY

June 2008 September 2008
Data Storage Intern

One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services which provide investment management, retail and co
mmercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services. Their mortgage system is
a windows-based software package that is designed to be a complete mortgage lending solution. The system als
o provides a centralized repository for underwriting and monitoring process.

Responsibilities:
Assisted legal department in mortgage closings
Worked closely with Senior Management, Traders, and Risk Analysts to perform value and risk analysis
 pertaining to complex transactions and portfolio positions (power generation, load contracts, complex
derivatives, hedging strategies, and trading assets)
Identified and communicated all transaction discrepancies to Operations team
Evaluated contract exception requests and risk-related issues
Reconciled commodity trades daily
Collaborated effectively with Commercial, Legal, IT, and Operations teams to evaluate requests in a
timely manner
Addressed business requests by leveraging problem solving, data manipulation, and analytical skills
Environment: Rational Enterprise Suite (Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest), E-Payment, RUP, Visual Basic, SQL, SQL
Server, Oracle, C#.Net, Web Logic, IPFR Services, HTML, UNIX, Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Windows For
ms, Web Forms, Load Runner, Win Runner, DOORS, Project Management.