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Senior System Consultant - Cloud (ODI)
Calgary, AB
I am passionate about Cloud Computing and Hyper Converged Infrastructure; I have delivered great customer satisfaction
in a variety of industry sectors (Oil &Gas, Utilities, Hoteling and Hospitality, Banking) by moving workload from traditional infrastructure to the Hybrid cloud platform. I have 15+ years' experience delivering creative solutions to customer problems. I am a lifetime learner and continually invest in developing my skillset so that I may continue to provide high value solutions to the clients.
in a variety of industry sectors (Oil &Gas, Utilities, Hoteling and Hospitality, Banking) by moving workload from traditional infrastructure to the Hybrid cloud platform. I have 15+ years' experience delivering creative solutions to customer problems. I am a lifetime learner and continually invest in developing my skillset so that I may continue to provide high value solutions to the clients.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Work Experience
Senior System Consultant - Cloud (ODI)
Long View Systems
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CA
June 2014 to September 2020
• Canada, USA
Projects Highlight
LVS OneCloud
Migrating on-site solutions to ODI cloud-based offering for client over 3 datacentres across North America. Automation of storage provisioning that ensured that standardization was enforced, and reduced incident count. Helped them align their business and technical requirements, and provided effective solutions over the following areas:
• OnDemand Infrastructure (Iaas)
• OnDemand Storage
• OnDemand Recovery
• OnDemand Messaging (Hosted Exchange)
Hospitality Company
• Managing more than 1PiB Alterra- Intrawest Data on HPE SimpliVity. Helping client ensure security by upgrading and security patching of Hypervisor and HPE SimpliVity federation on all 19 datacenters. By automating the process with scripting, it was delivered on time, with no disruption to service.
Financial Institution
• Worked as part of the team to build and migrate production workload from vBlock to VxRail Appliance cluster (38 nodes, 1700 VMs and 800TiB in total).
• Sizing and expanding the VDI environment based on 500 concurrent users licensed.
• Daily operation and covering their VM/VxRail need. Document and knowledge transfer to the client.
Utility company
• Manage, daily operation, and Patch of 5 VxRail stretched clusters 28 nodes & 2 vBlock, migrate the Production workload (+700 VMs) from vBlock to VxRail with no disruption to service, on time and under budget.
Utility company
• Provide Technical Leadership for the design and implementation of the Energy Management System (EMS 3.0) upgrade program
• we designed and built a brand-new infrastructure on multiple sites within the NERC CIP security framework based on the client requirements.
• Migrate +1500 VMs and workload from NetApp 7mode to cluster cDOT by using 7MTT tools and Storage vMotion on budget, disruption-free.
Oil &Gas Sector
• Worked as part of the team responsible for developed data and application replication strategy, test strategy, and cutover methodology that successfully completed the transition of these systems.
utility company
• Worked as part of the team to develop an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) strategy and hybrid cloud platform.
• Migrating +200 VMS from ESXi to AHV also support and maintain on all Nutanix and Netapp upgrade project on the Energy Management System infostructure.
Projects Highlight
LVS OneCloud
Migrating on-site solutions to ODI cloud-based offering for client over 3 datacentres across North America. Automation of storage provisioning that ensured that standardization was enforced, and reduced incident count. Helped them align their business and technical requirements, and provided effective solutions over the following areas:
• OnDemand Infrastructure (Iaas)
• OnDemand Storage
• OnDemand Recovery
• OnDemand Messaging (Hosted Exchange)
Hospitality Company
• Managing more than 1PiB Alterra- Intrawest Data on HPE SimpliVity. Helping client ensure security by upgrading and security patching of Hypervisor and HPE SimpliVity federation on all 19 datacenters. By automating the process with scripting, it was delivered on time, with no disruption to service.
Financial Institution
• Worked as part of the team to build and migrate production workload from vBlock to VxRail Appliance cluster (38 nodes, 1700 VMs and 800TiB in total).
• Sizing and expanding the VDI environment based on 500 concurrent users licensed.
• Daily operation and covering their VM/VxRail need. Document and knowledge transfer to the client.
Utility company
• Manage, daily operation, and Patch of 5 VxRail stretched clusters 28 nodes & 2 vBlock, migrate the Production workload (+700 VMs) from vBlock to VxRail with no disruption to service, on time and under budget.
Utility company
• Provide Technical Leadership for the design and implementation of the Energy Management System (EMS 3.0) upgrade program
• we designed and built a brand-new infrastructure on multiple sites within the NERC CIP security framework based on the client requirements.
• Migrate +1500 VMs and workload from NetApp 7mode to cluster cDOT by using 7MTT tools and Storage vMotion on budget, disruption-free.
Oil &Gas Sector
• Worked as part of the team responsible for developed data and application replication strategy, test strategy, and cutover methodology that successfully completed the transition of these systems.
utility company
• Worked as part of the team to develop an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) strategy and hybrid cloud platform.
• Migrating +200 VMS from ESXi to AHV also support and maintain on all Nutanix and Netapp upgrade project on the Energy Management System infostructure.
System Consultant
IGS
November 2014 to September 2018
Long View Systems -Canada
Embedded as a Resident @ Alberta Electric Service Operator (AESO)
• Provide reliable backups, vaults, archives and restores through the integration of vCenter, Netapp Virtual Storage Console, Protection Manager and EMC Networker
• Co-designed and implemented a full-scale highly available enterprise-wide NetApp storage environment, the core elements of which are:
• Active-Active Data centers Bi-directional replication, Archive to tape (IBM Tape libraries) from multiple sites, Utilize all available protocols: NFS, CIFS, FC, iSCSI
• Actively manage critical NetApp infrastructure Responsible for in depth performance analysis using Netapp's Performance Advisor & Grafana to diagnose Oracle RAC, VMWare, Exchange, and application issues on 6 FlexPod
• Independently support many of Netapp's products/services: NDMP, SMVI, SnapDrive, MPIO, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Snapshots, Flex clones, DFM/Operations Manager, Protection Manager, Performance Advisor, OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, Gerafana, Ontap 7 & cDOT mode, WFA
Embedded as a Resident @ Alberta Electric Service Operator (AESO)
• Provide reliable backups, vaults, archives and restores through the integration of vCenter, Netapp Virtual Storage Console, Protection Manager and EMC Networker
• Co-designed and implemented a full-scale highly available enterprise-wide NetApp storage environment, the core elements of which are:
• Active-Active Data centers Bi-directional replication, Archive to tape (IBM Tape libraries) from multiple sites, Utilize all available protocols: NFS, CIFS, FC, iSCSI
• Actively manage critical NetApp infrastructure Responsible for in depth performance analysis using Netapp's Performance Advisor & Grafana to diagnose Oracle RAC, VMWare, Exchange, and application issues on 6 FlexPod
• Independently support many of Netapp's products/services: NDMP, SMVI, SnapDrive, MPIO, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Snapshots, Flex clones, DFM/Operations Manager, Protection Manager, Performance Advisor, OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, Gerafana, Ontap 7 & cDOT mode, WFA
IT Support Specialist
Caspian Information Systems Inc
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Toronto, ON
January 2014 to June 2014
Technical Support Engineer
Mailave
June 2013 to December 2013
CTO
Negareh Information Analysts
July 2006 to May 2013
System Consultant
Negareh Computer Co
August 2004 to July 2006
Active Certifications
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (AWS-CSAA)
* VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
* Dell/EMC Specialist - Systems Administrator, VxRail Appliance (DCS-SA)
* EMC Converged System and Hybrid V2 (DECA)
* NetApp Certified Clustered Data ONTAP Administrator (NCDA)
* NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer (NCIE-SAN)
* Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP5.5)
* Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer(NCSE-L1)
* NetApp Certified Storage Associate, Hybrid Cloud (NCSA-HC)
* COHISITY Accredited installation professional
* HPE 3PAR StoreServ Mid-Range Service and Solution Qualification(7000/8000)
* HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration (01113868)
* Asigra Fundamentals V13.x
* Veeam Technical Sales Professional(VMTSP)
* Commvault Technical Sales Professional (CVTSP)
* Isilon Solution Specialist for Implementation Engineers
* ITILv3(ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management)/NERC-CIP Compliance
* Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) ID: 7731843
* Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP 2008)
* Data Protection Solutions Certified Engineer from Tandberg Data
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (AWS-CSAA)
* VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
* Dell/EMC Specialist - Systems Administrator, VxRail Appliance (DCS-SA)
* EMC Converged System and Hybrid V2 (DECA)
* NetApp Certified Clustered Data ONTAP Administrator (NCDA)
* NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer (NCIE-SAN)
* Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP5.5)
* Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer(NCSE-L1)
* NetApp Certified Storage Associate, Hybrid Cloud (NCSA-HC)
* COHISITY Accredited installation professional
* HPE 3PAR StoreServ Mid-Range Service and Solution Qualification(7000/8000)
* HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration (01113868)
* Asigra Fundamentals V13.x
* Veeam Technical Sales Professional(VMTSP)
* Commvault Technical Sales Professional (CVTSP)
* Isilon Solution Specialist for Implementation Engineers
* ITILv3(ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management)/NERC-CIP Compliance
* Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) ID: 7731843
* Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP 2008)
* Data Protection Solutions Certified Engineer from Tandberg Data
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Azad University of Tehran
2002
Skills
• Experienced with Designing, troubleshooting enterprise server and storage environments, including converged (CI) and Hyper-Converged (HCI) infrastructure stacks. VxBlock, FlexPod Solution. • Experienced with implementing Object-based Storage, NAS and SAN solutions using all core protocols: S3, NFS, CIFS, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, • Experienced with Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible. • Experience as a Linux, Windows, Hypervisor (VMware ESXi, Nutanix AHV) administrator • Deep storage experience with multiple vendor storage platforms (HP, EMC, NetApp, Nimble, Pure) • Deep storage experience with HCI platform (vSAN, VxRail, SimpliVity, Nutanix, Netapp HCI) • Deep Server Experience with Cisco UCS, Dell, IBM, HP Blade. • Deep Backup/Archive solutions experience (COHISITY, Symantec BackupExec, Networker, Veeam, Avamar, Data Domain & Commvault). • Experienced with data protection and disaster recovery strategy and implementation using multiple vendor products (Veritas, Commvault, Veeam, Asigra, Zerto) • Certifies on ITIL framework. • Large scale data migrations and data migration tools. • Azure and AWS cloud infrastructure. • NetApp Cloud Volumes on AWS.
Certifications and Licenses
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (AWS-CSAA)
December 2018 to Present
VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV)
August 2018 to Present
Dell/EMC Specialist - Systems Administrator, VxRail Appliance (DCS-SA)
July 2019 to Present
EMC Converged System and Hybrid V2 (DECA)
January 2020 to Present
NetApp Certified Clustered Data ONTAP Administrator (NCDA)
September 2017 to September 2019
NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer (NCIE-SAN)
April 2018 to April 2020
Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP5.5)
July 2019 to Present
Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer(NCSE-L1)
January 2020 to Present
NetApp Certified Storage Associate, Hybrid Cloud (NCSA-HC)
January 2020