Rahil Peshimam
Abu Dhabi,UAE
Summary
Approx 25 years of IT industry experience in IT architectural designs, deployments, operations, and support with cutting-edge technologies and working with large service providers and enterprise organizations. In the past 13 years, I held senior and key decision-making positions working with senior executives to set the strategic direction of IT. Experience in setting up and driving IT operations management and implementation of architectural and operational practices thus ensuring IT is in alliance with business objectives augmenting IT value and user experience. Capable Team Leader, Good Project Management Skills, Resource Management, Technical Leader, Good Technical Skills across multi-platform Practical, highly skilled individual demonstrating out-of-the-box thinking. Optimises cost-effective operations and improves safety by scrutinizing existing practices. Proven success infulfilling complex project briefs on-time and under budget.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Enterprise Compute, Virtualization,Cloud Platform(SDDC) STORAGE & Backup Engineer
New York University Abu Dhabi
05.2014 - Current
- At NYUAD, I am responsible for Daily operational activities in regards to Storage, Backup, Vmware, Vmware Horizon View and Cloud (IAAS, GCP
- AWS, DigitalOcean etc......) This also includes L3 level trobleshooting, managing the KPI, and maintaining the customer SLA My Role Also includes Storage Backup and cloud infrastructure implementation Working on Data Backup and protection tearing stragedies for the customer Working on Storage Provisioning,Allocations,Reclaims Working on DR setup and Replications.Configuring DR's and DR tests
- Involved in Migration Projects.Involved in Storage software up gradations
- New Installations and Decommissions.Storage Reporting and Documentations
- Working Hardware related issues /escalations and Fixing them
SME Storage and Backup
HP
10.2011 - 10.2013
- To handle escalation, day to day maintenance activity of storage, Capacity planning, Space allocation, Hardware maintenance, Backup Maintenance, maintaining KPI and SLA in tem of storage and Backup, File system Extension, Storage SLA is 99.9 % uptime and Backup SLA is 99.6 % success Rate and maintaining DC & DR for all the sites Taken Major lead role in Datacenter Zero Downtime Migration Accounts Audit for multiple accounts (West accounts) ITIL based Process management, Handling escalation, 24
- 7 support, Team Management
- Administration of HP XP Storage, EVA, Storage arrays end to end, Implemented Continuous Access, Preforming capacity management, Allocation of Ldevs and formatting of ldevs
Delivery Lead - Storage and Backup
Rahil Peshimam - page 1HP
10.2009 - 09.2011
- Account support Management activities for Bank of Baroda
- Planning and delivering Mission Critical deliverables task
- Troubleshooting day to day server and storage problems
- Analyzing the problems from the log files for any system problems
- Hardware Installation and maintenance of HP servers (9000/Integrity) and storages
- Applying o/s (HP UX 11i) Security and vulnerability patches to the Servers
- Data backup and restoration management
- System performance Analysis incase of performance bottle neck
- Planning and implementing the new requirements (cluster setup / storage space allocation / configuration) through TCM process
- Business Copy configuration in XP 12000 Storage and Mirror Clone Configuration in EVA8000
- Management of BCV sync and splits
- Add disk as needed to existing systems
- Planning Disk space allocation and Capacity management of SAN Storage
- SAN Switch management (Brocade & Mcdata Directors) & Monitoring.
Regional Delivery Lead - Storage
HP
05.2008 - 02.2009
- To handle escalation, day to day maintenance activity of storage, Capacity planning, Space allocation, Hardware maintenance, Backup Maintenance, maintaining KPI and SLA in tem of storage and Backup, File system Extension, Storage SLA is 99.9 % uptime and Backup SLA is 99.6 % success Rate and maintaining DC & DR for all the sites Clients: BOB (Bank of Baroda), Kuoni India, Godrej, Raymond's, SIDBI, BOI (Bank of India) etc
- Storage handled: EVA series, XP series, ESL libraries, EML libraries, MSL, Libraries Backup Software: HP Data Protector, Netbackup
- Storage Software: CV EVA, CV XP, PerfmonEVA, SVP for XP disk arrays
Sr. Server/Storage Engineer - L3 Support
Zenith Infotech
06.2007 - 04.2008
- Remotely troubleshooting the Servers and storage (HP, IBM, Dell) using online propriety softwares for multiple issues relating to hardware and software failure, BackupExec problems, and other issues Remotely configuring the servers and storage Configuring snapshot technologies R&D test engineer using volume snapshot, StorageCraft and parallels virtual machine for disaster recovery Offsite Disaster recovery solution using combination of Storage Craft, Datacore SAN Symphony, Datacore SAN Melody, Aspera data transfer , ONTAP, Parallels Virtual machine and 1 Petra Byte SAN Handling Customers from US, UK and European countries remotely Handling L3 support which is the final level escalation Working in shifts to handle 247 NOC operations
Product Specialist - Storage and Enterprise servers
Rahil Peshimam - page 2Micropoint Computers Ltd.
03.2007 - 05.2007
- Presales, Implementation, Service and Support of HP Storageworks (MSA, EVA, MSL, Autoloaders, AIO, NAS, Libraries, Autoloaders, Tape drives) Implementation of HP SIM and ISEE Troubleshooting techniques involving HP tools Implementation and Support of enterprise servers{Blade Servers (C-class and P-class), Integrity Servers, 9000 series Servers, Superdome Servers, Proliant Servers} Implementation High Availability Clusters Solution, Infiniband Solutions
- Support of Veritas BackupExec and Netbackup and HP Data Protector Backend support to the technical team Team leader - technical Value Added Division Support VMware L1 HP Storageworks service certified engineer (HP SCE-001)
Senior System Administrator
Orient Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
02.2003 - 02.2007
- Storage Support Engineer Handling IBM and HP storage Handling NAS and SAN Infrastructure( EVA, MSA, DS, EXP) Handling Tape Libraries, Disc libraries and autoloaders Handling Veritas BackupExec & Netbackup, Netvault, EMC legato, HP Open view Data Protector, Ghost corporate edition etc Disaster Recover Solutions(LSR, IDR, VaultDR) Server Engineer Installation and troubleshooting of HP Proliant server (ML and DL series Servers) & IBM pseries, xseries, eseries Installation and troubleshooting of HP and IBM Blade server ( BL Series Servers ) Installation and troubleshooting of HP Integrity sever (9000 series and RX series integrity entry level servers) Installations and troubleshooting of IBM X series E series and P series servers UNIX Administration Unix Administration and trouble shooting Linux, HP-UX11i and Solaris
System Administrator
Databyte Computers
11.1999 - 01.2003
- Handling 12 Servers , 40 Desktops, 10 Laptops Looking after the complete LAN and WAN Looking after Lotus domino administration, Taking all backup activity using Veritas and Ghost Heading the R&D department for implementation of products Lotus Domino Administrator Giving Training on Lotus domino and networks
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA - Information Technology
Jaipur National University
05.2018 - 05.2020
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Chhattisgarh University
01.2003 - 05.2004
HSC - Science
Rizvi Junior College
01.1994 - 04.1996
SSC - General Schooling
St Anne's High School Mumbai India
01.1984 - 04.1994
Skills
- SME H
- Data Center
- IT Service Management
- ITIL
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Computing
- IT Operations
- Solution Architecture
- Vendor Management
- Virtualization
- Knowledge of [Software]
- Leadership
- Google Workspace
- Problem-solving
- Team building
- Multilingual
Websites
Certification
- Commvault Certified Professional - Commvault
- Data Protector Administrator Specialist - Micro Focus
- Data Protector v10 Certified Professional - Micro Focus
Custom
Commvault Certified Professional V11 - Commvault
Accomplishments
Please check my LinkedIn profile for details recommendations
Timeline
Master of Business Administration - MBA - Information Technology
Jaipur National University
05.2018 - 05.2020
Enterprise Compute, Virtualization,Cloud Platform(SDDC) STORAGE & Backup Engineer
New York University Abu Dhabi
05.2014 - Current
SME Storage and Backup
HP
10.2011 - 10.2013
Delivery Lead - Storage and Backup
Rahil Peshimam - page 1HP
10.2009 - 09.2011
Regional Delivery Lead - Storage
HP
05.2008 - 02.2009
Sr. Server/Storage Engineer - L3 Support
Zenith Infotech
06.2007 - 04.2008
Product Specialist - Storage and Enterprise servers
Rahil Peshimam - page 2Micropoint Computers Ltd.
03.2007 - 05.2007
Senior System Administrator
Orient Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
02.2003 - 02.2007
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Chhattisgarh University
01.2003 - 05.2004
System Administrator
Databyte Computers
11.1999 - 01.2003
HSC - Science
Rizvi Junior College
01.1994 - 04.1996
SSC - General Schooling
St Anne's High School Mumbai India
01.1984 - 04.1994
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