Gowri Shankar

Experience

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  Midas Communication Technologies

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  IFS engineer

  Telecom product support and Testing• Installation and Maintenance of Fixed Wireless Equipment- corDECT, Cable wireless system, Catius network & all its subsystems.• Offering Acceptance test & training the officials, Technical support.• Validating new software for cable wireless systems, manageable switches etc. Integration of IP-network and Cable-network and switch testing.• Installation & maintenance of Linux and Windows operating systems

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  Wipro technologies

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Product support engineer

  Worked as a SME for Symmetrix Product Support Engineer Lab on EMC's Products Symmetrix, DMX and VMAX

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  CSC - Computer Sciences Corporation

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  SAN administrator

  Worked as a L2 Storage admin for a Banking customer for EMEA and America region.

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  Mphasis

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

  Principal Infrastructure Engineer

  • Leading Project activities such as new array Implementation and Migration of arrays – EMC Vplex, VNX, 3par and cisco switches.• Also involved in decommission activities of EMC DMX, Mcdata switches, Clariion arrays.• Worked with SANcopy. Open replicator, traditional methods for Migration.• Working on replication solutions in EMC DMX.Managing Timefinder BCV, clone setup and verifying sync schedules, SRDF operations and Support of all new projects, Disaster Recovery tests and tech refresh projects.• Work effectively on the project work such as New installations, Decommissions, New Server Builds, and Migrations.Critical projects involved:• VPLEX Migration – Encapsulate the existing Clariion server using vplex and migrate to VNX arrays. Consolidate the existing clariion array based on prod/dev.• VNX refresh project - Migration - Clariion EOSL array decommision– 15 arrays and Migrate to 12 VNX arrays – 1200 servers migrated from Clariion.• VNX installation and configuration – 12 arrays• VMAX Installation and configuration – 4 arrays• HP 3par array v400 installation, configuration and System reporter setup – 4 arrays• HP 3par 7200 installation with ISCSI configuration – 2 arrays.• EVAC Cisco switch migration – Add cisco switches to the existing fabric and decommission the EOSL mcdata switches.• Cisco fabric refresh – Add new Cisco switches and cutover to the new switches and decommission older switch with old EOSL linecards.• Alaska switch migration – Move the servers/array to the new cisco switch fabric.• HP 3par array performance tuning – Array Expansion and Performance reporting• Involved in HP 3par array Testing and design.• Cisco switch line card refresh – Addition of 10 new cisco switches and remove EOSL gen-1 line card modules.• SMC/SPA upgrade, System reporter upgrade, Fabric Manager Upgrade. Show less

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  Dell Technologies

  Dec 2015 - now

  Principal Engineer Service Delivery