Skills/Certifications

Industry Certifications


VTSP

VMware Certified
  • VTSP
  • VSP
  • VCP 






itSMF Foundations Certificate (ITIL)
  • Information Technology Service Management Green Badge on 06-May-2005

 

EMC2 Proven Professional
  • Certified Professional (EMCPA) on 27-Apr-2006
  • Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) on 22-Jun-2009
  • Implementation Engineer (EMCIE) on 01-Jul-2009
  • Cloud Architect, Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist (EMCCA) on May 10, 2011

 

NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer
  • Data Management Administrator (NCDA) on 04-Sep-2009
  • SAN Implementation Engineer (NCIE) on 16-Oct-2009

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

MCP ID# 1662076

  •  Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE/MCP+I) on 09-Dec-1999

CCDA Cisco Specialist 

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Cisco ID# CSCO10461297

  • Achieved CCNA on April 30, 2002
  • Achieved CCDA on July 16, 2010
  • Achieved DCIND on July 30, 2010

 

IBM Certified

  • XIV Specialist - Achieved on August 21, 2009

Commvault

Commvault Certified
  • CommVault Certified Engineer (12-Jan-10)
  • CommVault Certified Support
  • CommVault Certified Administrator
 

Trade Skills

  • C/C++, SUN Java, Perl, PHP, and HTML
  • Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, F5
  • Microsoft Windows Platforms, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX(HPUX), Novell Netware, VMware ESX, Citrix Xen,Sun Virtualbox
  • EMC Storage Arrays(Clariion/Symmetrix), EMC NAS(Cellera), EMC CAS(Centera), Network Applaince ONTAP, Network Appliance SNAP Technologies
  • Web Servers(Apache/IIS), Email Servers(Exchange/Sendmail), Databases(Oracle/Sybase/MS-SQL), Security(Active Directory,AD,Kerberos), and Directory Servers(DNS/DHCP).





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