12+ Years of Proven Track Record in Software Quality Engineering, of which eight years in Validation and Testing of Enterprise Class, Mission Critical, Continuous Availability and Data Replication Products and Solutions.

Core Competencies and Past work experience are in the following areas:

# Continuous Availability and Data Backup, Data Protection Solutions
# Virtualization - VMware ESXi and Virtual Storage Systems - VPLEX
# Software Defined Storage and Highly Available SAN/Systems
# Storage Communication Protocols - FC, iSCSI and SCSI
# Block Storage Virtualization
# Disk Storage System, SRM Products & SAN Switches
# Hyper-Converged Systems

* Proficient in Test Planning, Test Strategy Development, Execution & Reporting for functional and non-functional areas - Load, Performance & Scale, Interoperability

* Hands On Experience in Troubleshooting Customer Issues, Setting up Complex SAN Systems.

* Certified Scrum Master and Proficient Agile & Scrum Practitioner

* Excellent Interpersonal and Problem Solving Skills. Good at coaching, mentoring and building high performing teams.

* Actively involved in pre-sales activities - Customer Demos, PoC, Solution architect/design of EMC Continuous Availability, data back-up & recovery and DR products.

Other Area of Interests, where I want to build expertise / learn:

* From Product to Solutions - Solving data centre - Continuous Availability challenges, customer issues using existing Storage, Data-backup, replication products.

* Learn, Contribute and Help teams/organizations in their transition/journey from Enterprise SAN >> Private Cloud >> Public Cloud

* DevOps Tools & Utilities: Ansible, Puppet [Proficiency - Intermediate]

Certifications:

* DevOps - Puppet (Attended two days training on Puppet)
* Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Master
* EMC Proven Professional - Cloud Infrastructure & Services Associate (EMCCIS)
* EMC Proven Professional - Information Storage Associate