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Resume of Rahul Mehta

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Certifications:- EMC Certified Architect, VMWARE Certified Professional, CCIE DATA Center, EMC Certified Sales
Associates, Cisco Certified Account Manager, VMWARE Certified Sales Professional, Symantec Certified Sales Professional,
Veritas Certified Backup /storage foundation professional, Veritas data insight professional, HP certified Datacenter
protector , Cisco certified Security professional, Palo alto certified professional, Symantec certified DLP Professional

Area of Expertise
Designing and implementing complex infrastructure solutions including but not limited to storage, network,
compute and security.

Expert in design, deployment and operations of various UNIX (AIX,SOLARIS/HPUX) infrastructures , virtualization,
patch management , volume management ,clustering , backup and disaster recovery.

Expert in design and deployment for AWS,AZURE,VMWARE environments, clouds, automation deployments using
VRO/Puppet/chef, patch management

Expert in the management of server hardware platforms like c7000, UCS blade chassis, IBM P, Sun M and T class,
HP 9000 , Itanium series.

Expert in deployment of software defined networking , NSX, Cisco Nexus 1000v.

Expert in end to end auto deployment of server hardware , operating system deployments

Expert in Storage design , deployments and operations around EMC VMAX3/VMAX2/Unity/VNX, XtreemIO, HP
3par,Hitachi VSP,USPV Netapp FAS3XXX, FAS6XXX, Isilon and Ibm storage array

Expert in Veritas cluster , storage foundation , replicator and Data Insight product

Expert in DR setup using array based products or off array products

Substantial knowledge of PCIDSS, HIPPA, SOX compliancy and security framework to provide the same.

Expert in creating security hardening on the devices and servers

Expert in Symantec endpoint protection, DLP , content protection deployment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
March 2009 to Date AKS InfoTech INC,US
Lead Storage Architect

Developed and deployed Datacenter solutions like server virtualization, storage consolidation,
disaster recovery, private cloud for Fortune 100 clients like HP,EMC,,HDS,Netapp and IBM storage
array,VMWARE, Merrill Lynch, TD Ameritrade, J&J pharmaceuticals, Sun Pharmaceuticals
(USA),Camber Pharmaceuticals, Tris Pharmaceuticals, VISA, Wells Fargo, Pepsi International.

Designed server consolidation, storage consolidation , virtualization , backup and recovery , network
infrastructure for the clients.

Managing a team of implementers and Architects in virtualization , storage, migration, Backup and DR
managing 20+ petabyte across the various storage platforms like EMC,HITACHI, Netaapp, IBM , HP

Deployed EMC VMAX3/2 , VNX,UNITY,VPLEX, Xtreme IO

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 Deployed Isilon and Netapp for file systems

Implemented Veritas Data Insight for data control , integrated it with Netapp, Isilon, file servers , sharepoint
servers

Integrated Veritas Data Insight with Symantec DLP

Implemented and managing a server infrastructure consisting of AIX, Solaris, HPUX , ESX in the tune of 6000
servers

Implemented server and storage provisioning automation across UCS, VMWARE,STORAGE

Implemented clustering using Veritas cluster server

Implemented and undertook data center migration

Implemented Server Consolidation and disaster recovery for the same.

Implemented Disaster recovery for various storage arrays using synchronous and asynchronous replication

Implemented Avamar, DATADOMAIN and Veritas Netabackup , HP data protector for very complex technologies
like Oracle RAC, Exchange ,Sharpoint,SAP.

Implemented and upgraded AVAMAR AND DATA DOMAIN

Implemented DR/BACKUP environment ofr VMWARE,Hyper-v, Citrix Xenapps.

Business continuance on critical application using array based tools like clones, snapshots , shadow image etc.

Apr 2001 to Feb 2009 Cyberthink , INC

Senior storage /Unix Architect

Served various customers in a diverse capacity. Delivered successful solutions for customers like,
EMC,HP, Bank Of America, Bloomberg, Meril Lynch, MBNA, Munich Re Insurance, St Paul
Reinsurance, TD Ameritrade, ClearChannel Media.

Delivered solutions for Virtualization, Storage, Server Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Archiving and
Compliance
o Designed and Implemented infrastructure solutions including but not limited to Server , Storage,
Network Cloud and Virtualization infrastructure components, for SAP, Exchange, Oracle RAC database,
Sharepoint Portals
o Designed backup, disaster recovery and high availability environments using various methods such as
backup environment using Netbackup, HA using VERITAS Cluster,DR using replication mechanisms
o Designed infrastructure for N+1 availability , locally or globally using various methods of clustering and
Traffic Managers
o Designed Storage Infrastructure with EMC VMAX/DMX,VNX, Netapp, Hitachi ,HP and IBM Storage .

o Designed Server consolidation for the AIX/VIOS , Solaris Ldoms, HP-UX npar/vpar platform, VMWARE
3.x onwards.
o Designed cloud infrastructure using VMWARE/Citrix Technologies.

o Designed and optimized Server and Storage environment for various applications.

o Designed and deployed Backup and recovery infrastructure for Netbackup, Avamar, Legato.

Led teams on projects to anticipate and plan for overlap technology challenges as related to Virtualization ,
Storage, Server Consolidation, IT security

Collaborates with senior customer decision makers to define and implement business and IT Strategies

May 1999 to March 2001 Hutchison-Max Telecom Ltd.

Systems Manager

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Responsibilities

Led a team of people to maintain day to day operations , which includes help desk management, Network
,Server Management

Led a team for the designs of Network and server infrastructure. Design and roll out of IT network infrastructure
throughout state of Gujarat

Vendor Management, Proof Of Concepts for new business needs and challenges.

Interact with CEO,CIO ,CFO. Managing Corporate IT and Telecom IT.

Designed and Implemented infrastructure solutions including but not limited to Server , Storage, Network
infrastructure components

Designed Networks for Novell Infrastructure. Migration of Novell to NT infrastructure.

Design and roll out of Active directory, Exchange email system through organization

Designed backup, disaster recovery and high availability environments using various methods such as backup
environment using Omni back, HA using HP service guard cluster,DR using replication mechanisms

Roll Out of BSCS telecom billing system, Oracle procurement and HR modules.

Designed remote office application solutions using Terminal servers.

June 95 to May 99 CMC Ltd

Customer Engineer

Responsibilities:
Installation, Configuration & User management in HP-UX 10.x, Solaris 2.x, Windows NT.
Configuration of the different peripherals & N/w equipment on HP, Sun & NT system.
Reloading of the OS in case of corruption of the existing OS.
User creation & user management as per the requirements.
To ensure the complete security of the system. Backup procedure & restoring data.
System activity reporting & monitoring using GlancePlus/UX and other integrated tools of HP-UX.
Support to system in case system crash, or hardware failure and solving problems related to N/w.
System disaster recovery management. Backup of the systems using Omni back II and other tools.
Installation of ITO, Integration of Network management tools with ITO.
Installation and configuration of HP Open View NNM. Integration of NNM and Ciscoworks.
Installation and configuration of Cisco 26xx, 36xx and 3com routers, T1 lines.
Configuration of Access list in Cisco routers for traffic management policy.
Configuring LAN/WAN, Network traffic optimization.

B. E. Electronics & Communication, Gujarat University, Nadiad, Gujarat

ACHIEVEMENTS / AWARDS
Have won several appreciation awards during the working with M/s CMC Ltd, Baroda for the outstanding contribution
to the Company.
An Appreciation certificate awarded by the customer for delivering outstanding services.
An appreciation award for excellent contribution to the company in 1995-1996.
An award for the installations at IPCL site within significant time frame.

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