SUMMARY

• 16+ years of IT experience with over 8 years of thorough experience in System, Network and NetBackup Administration and Storage Consulting
• Responsible for administrative and troubleshooting skills in NetBackup issues with NetBackup 7.x, 6.x
• Proficient with NetBackup GUI and command line utilities
• Worked in heterogonous platforms, such as, Linux, HP - UX, Sun Solaris, IBM-AIX and Windows 2003, 2008
• Expert in working with industry leading tape libraries like Quantum P4000 and Scalar i 40 - i 12000, Oracle Storagetek L700, SL8500,
• Extensive work in Vstorage API integration with NetBackup 7.5.x environment
• Outstanding understanding of Symantec Datacenter Management and Storage Foundation Products Symante appliance and DataDomain devices
• Excellent knowledge of installing and configuring STK libraries & ACSLS software’s

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Oracle Solaris 9/10/11, HP-UX11.0 - 11.31, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, SuSE 11, AIX 5/6/7 Windows

Servers: SUN Fire V440 / V240 / E450 / E250, DL385p, DL380, RX4640, BL870ci2, BL465c on C7000 enclosure

Backup Storage Libraries: Quantum i 12000/6000/2000 , i40/80/500 and IBM 3584TL with LTO5, L700, STK 9310 Powderhorn with 9840 and 9940 tape drives, MSL 4048, 6000, 8096, HP ESL 712

Backup Software: Symantec NetBackup 6.x, and 7.x

Applications: MS Exchange 2007, MS SQL 2005, IBM DB2, Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

NetBackup Infrastructure Engineer L3

Responsibilities:

• Plan design and implement NetBackup 7.5 upgrade for Windows and Unix environment across 3 EDCs
• Integrate VMware Vstorage API backups with complex VMware VIP and non-VIP policies
• Migrate existing NetBackup VMware clients to new vSphere API environment
• Assist operations team in installing NetBackup 7.5.x client on low space servers
• Work with Unix team for catalog database migration using TDMS
• Assist team in preparing NetBackup Master, Media and Client installation checklists for Unix and Windows Operating systems
• Assist off shore operations team in installation and configuration of Opscenter
• Collaboratively work on Opscenter canned and custom reports
• Document and Transition the knowledge to team (offshore)
• Solution design/planning on deliverables
• Assist off shore L1 and L2 teams and participate in CRT (critical response team) calls
• Hand over the service operations to steady state/deliver team
• Define/redefine Root-Cause-Analysis(RCA) process and methods
• Test, Coordinate and document release management tests
• Document high level lessons learnt summary for management and later reference

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

NetBackup Data Domain Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Plan design and implement NetBackup 7.1 installation for Windows and Unix environment
• Inventory and assess current environment and recommend changes for new environment
• Integrate Data Domin devices with NetBackup for tapeless backups
• Configure DataDomain devices for off site replication using Storage Life Cycle policy
• In corporate DataDomain OST/ddboost ifgroups for maximum throughput
• Configure DataDomain interfaces for net failover and LACP mode
• Integrate EMC replication manager with NetBackup to automate backup and restore jobs
• Use GUI and CLI interfaces to configure and upgrade Data Domain
• Troubleshoot NetBackup-Data Domain-Replication manager integration
• Migrate existing NetBackup clients to new DataDomain ddboost environment
• Take backups using cross mount point
• Configure distributed segment processing using DataDomain OST/ddboost

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Data Recovery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan and upgrade the NetBackup environment from NetBackup version 6.x to 7.1
• Daily administration and troubleshooting of problems for overall performance improvement by defining improvement goals, methods to achieve the goals, and ways to measure goal attainment
• Provide 24x7 on-call escalation for support of production storage and backup systems support for the products such as NetBackup Advanced Client (FlashBackups), BMR, NetBackup Vault, Database agents (SQL, Exchange, Enterprise vault), Windows and Unix clients, Sharepoint, Opscenter, Storage Foundation replication to DR site, Write and maintain automation scripts, where necessary
• Assist and provide project leadership between IT departments implementing backup and recovery solutions that satisfies Disaster Recovery and record retention policy requirements
• Evaluate deduplication technology and recommended products
• Implement Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) and backup to disk (B2D) solutions
• Generate Operations reports related to system capacity and growth trending information
• Interact closely with management, external department teams to plan and support environments and follow underlying strategy
• Participate in regular incident review meetings to ensure incidents are being resolved promptly in order to minimize service outages perform root cause analysis of problems
• Interact with hardware software and offsite storage vendors
• Maintain documentation for all backup and recovery solutions
• Monitor system RPO objectives to ensure requirements are being met

Confidential, New Castle, DE

Sr. NetBackup Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure Master & Media servers
• Work with clients and NetBackup support team for severity one and two issues
• Troubleshoot and monitor day to day NetBackup administration by providing on-call escalation support for production storage and backup systems
• Install and decommission NetBackup clients as per rotation policy
• Design and implement vaulting policy to ensure highest level of restore availability
• Work together with SA, Oracle and SAP team to resolve NetBackup issues
• Install, configure and provided support for tape libraries and EMC EDL (Virtual Tape Libraries) 4100
• Migrate clients from NetBackup 5.1 to NetBackup 6.5.3 environment
• Configure and install NBR (NetBackup reporter) to ensure proper reporting of backup activities
• Conduct formal presentation and provide basic production and functional overview to familiarize the customer with the current issues and future recommendations
• Work on process improvement and fine tuning NetBackup to maximize performance of NetBackup on Quantum i2000 and TS3500 tape libraries
• Configure client servers by creating and modifying NetBackup policies
• Provide training to off shore monitoring team with basic NetBackup troubleshooting issues
• Work with Iron Mountain for off site media management

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. NetBackup Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated clients from NetBackup 5.1 (MP4) to NetBackup 6.5 environment as per client’s standard with Oracle policies, and STK 8500, STK 9310 tape libraries with LTO3, SDLT and DLT media
• Experienced in NetBackup administration and troubleshooting in heterogeneous SAN environment
• Successfully deployed and configured NetBackup 6.5 Enterprise server in Sun Solaris 10 and Windows environment.
• Troubleshooted various problems and failures in NetBackup. Analyzed root-causes of failure and documented them
• Supervised client and server initiated backups and restores
• Supported EMC legato environment and Cisco MDS switches
• Worked on duplication solutions for disaster recovery such as Cross Site Vaulting
• Actively participated in all the meetings and DSR (Daily Service Reviews)
• Worked with Symantec support engineers to resolve major 6.x issues and provide ‘nbsu’ log files to review and find out the root cause
• Documented and contributed to the best practices and resolutions to known issues.

Confidential

Backup and System Support Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the client for enhancements and modifications of the existing system
• Implemented and tested system based Vaulting on Veritas NetBackup
• Executed vaulting and daily tape management
• Designed, developed and implemented reports to monitor failed backups, trends and risk exposures
• Troubleshooted and determined root-cause analysis of NetBackup issues
• Configured and supported Powderhorn and Quantum drives
• Took regular tape backups and reported inconsistency
• Designed and implemented IT Security policies and procedures
• Evaluated latest techniques for better backup performance.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported troubleshooting and problem resolution for Windows NT 4.0 and Novel Netware Network
• Installed and configured Cisco 1750 based WAN connectivity for voice and data network
• Delivered in house training for Windows NT and Novel Netware 3.11 and 4.0.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured JVC juke boxes
• Configured and troubleshooted enterprise level RightFax Brooktrout digital fax server solution
• Deployed and supported CA’s ARCserve backup solutions.