IT CONSULTANT / TSM ENGINEER

Over 10 years of IT experience in Production Support. Contribute my technical, interpersonal and communication skills to a challenging position of systems backups with a vision of becoming a significant leader in Backup systems administration. Strong technical training to servers and backup systems administration. Adept in technology skills with the ability to quickly learn, master, and apply new technical concepts. Monitor systems to ensure service availability.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS DOS, WIindows 3.x, Windows 3.x for Workgroups,Windows3.51,Windows95, Windows 98, Solaris 2.6, Red Hat Linux 5.2 - 6, IBM Mainframe, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows NT Server 4.0, Novell NetWare 4.x, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Professional, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2012 server, Windows 8.

MS BackOffice Products: IIS 3.0/4.0, SQL 6.5, SQL 2007, SMS 1.2/2.0, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2007, Site Server, Transaction Server, Certificate Server, Index Server, ILS Server, SNA Server, MS Cluster Server

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DLC, AppleTalk, NetBEUI, SNMP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, MIME, POP3, ISDN, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, IMAP, X400, FTP, VPN.

Software Skills: Microsoft Office 2007/2003, Corel Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Logic Works, Magic Support, Visual Dbase IV, FileMaker 4.0, MS Outlook, NetSuite Audit, BackupExec for Windows NT 7.3, ArcServe, GoldMine 4.0, Lotus Notes, BMC Patrol 3.3, HP Openview, Legato Backup Software, Compaq Insight Manager, Norton Antivirus, McAfee Virus Scan, SiteScope, Compaq Insight Manager, NetIQ AppManager, Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2/5.1/5.5/6.1/7.1. IBM XIV Storage Management,

Network Security Tools: ISS Internet Security Scanner, Systems Security Scanner, Real Secure, SET, NBTScan, BindView EMS-NosAdmin for Windows NT, NMAP, NeoTrace, SET, BackOrifice, Cisco Works, Cisco CNR, Cisco DPR/BPR, Net Defender, LANALYZER, Network General Sniffer. EMC Centera archiving

Programming Languages: Turbo Pascal, C, Visual C , and Advanced programming with data structures, Assembly

Language, Algorithm Analysis, Visual Basic, VBScript, MS Access, SQL Queries

Electronic Skills: Electronics and Instrumentation, Electromagnetism, Semi Conductor devices,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

TSM / SAN Admin

• Install and Configure TSM client on various platforms Windows server 2008, 2012, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5, 6, SUSE Linux, Solaris 9
• Troubleshoot Miss/Fail Backups, troubleshoot server issues and review error logs
• Setup reporting scripts, monitoring scripts, administrative scripts, DRM scripts
• Tape handling and Management with IBM 3500 Tape Library with 12 tape drives
• Create storage pools, volumes, zoning with XIV SAN Storage Management
• Build and Configure Windows 2008/2012 servers, update systems, configure patches
• Patch fiber, Configure BROCADE and CISCO MDS SAN switches
• Investigate long running backups and design accordingly to complete within backup window.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot and update Windows 2008 / 2012 servers

Confidential

Consultant / Systems Administrator

• Install and configure TSM server, client and TDP on IBM AIX, Windows 2003,Windows 2008 and Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 5
• Configure Linux servers, provision system with memory, disk and CPU
• Linux system administration, troubleshoot application and processes running on servers
• Troubleshoot, Develop and implement disaster recovery, backup, restore and media administration procedures.
• Build, Install, Configure, Troubleshoot, support and maintain Windows 2008/2003 servers, Cluster servers, SQL servers and Exchange servers
• Perform upgrades to the TSM infrastructure, provide reports, maintain TSM servers.
• Develop and implement new technology procedures to handle media backups and restores.
• Checking daily backup schedules for TSM DB and schedule expiration process, sizing the TSM Database, Log and primary disk pool, define tape library, drives, storage pools in TSM and performance tuning parameters
• Build, Install, Configure, Troubleshoot, support and maintain Red Hat Linux version 5 and version 6 servers and Solaris 9 servers.
• Investigating long running backups and addition/removal of TSM Clients
• Enhance current procedures and policies related to the TSM backups and carry out TSM health checks
• Installation of TSM Server code and customization of defaults, defining policy domain, policyset, management class and copygroups as per requirements in TSM for suiting to various needs of servers

Confidential

Consultant / Systems Administrator

• Design, implement and monitor TSM, Client and server, Automate administrative Scripts and installation
• Troubleshoot, Support and Administer backups, Install , Configure and Troubleshoot Windows Servers
• Design and develop Operational procedures, Setup and configure monitoring systems
• Perform daily monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of backup jobs on various applications and platforms MS Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Windows, VMware and Unix servers
• Provide TSM Support to database administrators, application analysts, and other system administrators
• Analyze TSM performance and design appropriate solutions to meet client needs and monitoring of scheduled backups to ensure success or take remedial action for failures
• Perform installations and upgrade of TSM software
• Build, Install and configure Red Hat Linux servers, OS management and support.
• Provide backup system data statistics to management
• Perform periodic restores as requested by end users and other team members

Confidential

Consultant / Systems Administrator

• Migration from Novell NDS to Windows Active Directory, Group Policy and AD Replication
• Windows 2000, File clusters, Print Clusters System Administration,
• Support and maintain ASP web environment Support IIS and SQL servers
• File Server backup with Arcserve on Novell Netware, NetIQ installation and configuration
• Install, configure, troubleshoot and maintain TSM infrastructure

Confidential

Consultant / Systems Engineer

• Design, Configure, Test and Implement migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Active Directory.
• Server security and ACL migration, Migrate Windows NT clusters to Windows 2000 clusters
• Responsible for Engineering and supporting of File and print servers. Troubleshooting printing problems.
• Automate installation and configuration procedures using scripting technologies.
• Engineer, design and develop TSM backup solution for mail servers
• Tuning TSM Applications, tape libraries and host Operating Systems
• Troubleshoot TSM applications issues as well as issues with backups and/or restores
• Implement new technologies to improve the existing infrastructure and provide a highly available solution to the TSM infrastructure

Confidential

Consultant / Systems Engineer

• Designing, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 2000 Advanced server as web servers, database servers or Web application server.
• Install and Configure dynamic DNS, DHCP, WINS for host name resolution.
• Setup And configure Sitescope and Compaq Insight Manager to monitor systems, Build and Support Concert production Portal. Setup and configure WebTrends,Proxy servers and URL redirectors

Confidential

Consultant / NOC Engineer

• Provide training and supervise NOC staff, Develop escalations procedures and monitoring guidelines to be used by NOC staff.
• 5500, Design, setup and configure Cisco 7200 routers and Cisco 6500 switches.
• Setup and configure backup to run on private network, configure VLAN with cisco switch
• Plan, Design and implement NetIQ AppManager for Windows servers Setup Monitoring policies for mail servers, file clusters, print servers, database servers and application servers.
• Install and Configure monitoring packages on different systems HP Openview, BMC Patrol, SNMP, NetIQ, etc ,
• NT 4.0/2000, Sun Solaris 2.6/7.0, Cisco routers and switches.
• Pro-actively monitor and troubleshoot technical issues in a multi-platform environment including Windows
• Establish and monitor NT security, firewall protection, and data encryption. .