Summary

Highly Motivated, Knowledgeable Storage Professional with 12 years of IT experience seeking new challenge. Strong track record of problem solving, quick learning, adapting and executing new storage technologies. Expertise includes: understanding Data center client requirements project execution, IBM Tivoli Products administration, NSeries Administration, TSM Backup and Archive solution. Well versed with servers, storage and software products. Provided leadership to team of storage specialists.

Detailed Work Experience

Confidential

Implementation Program

Role: Storage Specialist

• Phoenix BUR Implementation Project for WNZL Client. Project Phoenix transitioned Westpac's centralised IT infrastructure from their data centre to a new data centre. Phoenix also provided a significant refresh of the bank's infrastructure to enable the agility to meet the bank's current and future business requirements.
• Installation/Upgradation, Configuration and Administration of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3 thru 6.3 .
• Implementation of Tivoli Data Protection products for Oracle,DB2,SAP,Peoplesoft,SQL.
• Configuration of Disaster Recovery Manager and Participation in DRM Tests.
• Configuring and troubleshoot LAN Free backup.
• Worked with IBM VTL Tape libraries, IBM ProtecTIER VTL, IBM ProtecTIER Deduplication gateways, Network Attached Storage, XIV,DS8K and other Storage products.
• Christie's TBMR 6.4.1 Installation and usage for bare-metal backup and recovery of Windows Systems
• Install and configure TSM for VE
• Install and configure TDP for VMware Recovery agent,EMC VMware vCenter server,vSphere
• Experience on various OS platforms like AIX, Suse, RedHat, Solaris, and Windows.
• Migrate from 3494 library to 3584 Library with LTO3 drives.
• Experience in supporting ITIM, Omnibus
• Programming in Java and C, Scripting korn/sed/awk/perl
• Communicating with Customers and designing all the TSM policies as per their requirement
• Supporting the entire Environment Backup and Restore issues and working on all BAU issues proactively
• Installation/ Upgradation Configuration of various TDP products
• Provide support for backup and restore related issues for Oracle,DB2,SQL,Peoplesoft,Exchange,Notes Cluster,VMWare.
• Working in creating Active Data Pools and helping in faster recovery
• Upgrading TSM Server from 5.5 thru 6.2.3 to 6.3
• Training Team for Tivoli 6.2.3
• Setting up Omnibus/Netcool
• Trouble shooting and resolving Backup issues on TSM Client side and Server side

Confidential

Role: Storage Specialist

Supporting Multi Client Environment

• Installing, configuring and implementing TSM 5.1 thru 5.5
• Implementation of Tivoli Data Protection products for Oracle,DB2,SAP,Peoplesoft,SQL.
• Documenting the processes and procedures, RFS requirements.
• Experience on various OS platforms like AIX, Suse, RedHat, Solaris, and Windows.
• Experience in supporting Maximo and RETAIN
• Administer NSeries N5200 and NSeries 2863, NSeries 2864 Data ONTAP 7.x
• Communicating with the customer regarding requirement.
• To Build New server and TSM Configuration on them.
• Getting the requirement Doc and configuring backups as per the requirement.
• Configuring backups on all AIX,Linux,Windows Clients and trouble shooting.
• Setup TSM server code on Aix 5.x on IBM P520 systems including schedules, storage pools, management classes, TSM databases, recovery logs, performance parameters, and TSM server options file.
• Configure 3584 library with fiber attached LTO3 drives in TSM.
• Installing and Troubleshooting TDP for SAN,DB2, Oracle.
• Daily Health check of Server and managing Tape Drives,Volumes,Database.
• Resolving and closing the Change Management tickets.
• Working with the Network Team,OS team,SAN team in case of backup failures.
• Configuring backups in Cluster Environment.
• Upgrading TSM Client versions on Windows and Unix Client servers.
• Backing up and restoring the Client servers manually in case of scheduler failure.
• Viewing Bocada reports and working on the Failures.
• Participating in Disaster recovery twice a year.

Confidential

Implementation Program

Lead Storage Developer

NSeries Filer Callhome feature sends AutoSupport Message. In Cluster Mode which is scalable up to 24 Nodes can report on each other. NCCM application provides an interface to the filer and supports two modes of transport HTTPS and SMTP in receiving the filer ASUP data. An Asynchronous Process will analyses the Data and Send an XML report containing inventory, problem and performance Analysis for Display or Opening Electronic Problem Report. Dublin WebService will receive the Message and depending on analysis use IBM Retain Interface to Open problem ticket and route it to country where the machine is located. The whole report is displayed on IBM NSeries Dashboard for internal customer and Support Centre users worldwide via secure https site.

Platform Skills : JAVA, NSeries DataONTAP, Websphere Application Server 6.0.2, UNIX Scripts, AIX, DB2,

• Involved in design of the Internal UI using Rational Software Architect.
• Administered NSeries to document and test IBM NSeries 5200 Gateway and IBM NSeries 2865 NAS Device
• Used As400JDBC Driver to connect to the database.
• Worked with DB2 database.
• Used Hibernate for the Object model and connection to Database.
• Used SOAP, WSDL for the Web Services part.
• Developed different modules using J2EE Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI, CORBA, Java Server Faces Portlets
• Used JNDI for registering and locating Java objects.
• Monitors implemented using Perl and Korn scripts as a cronjob for 24/7 monitoring.
• Using Rational Clear case, Clear Quest for version control tool for Code management, and repository and Defect control.
• Coordinate efforts of teams spread in different geography.
• As a Project Leader, weekly Report Presentations and Spreadsheets
• Project Estimation, Project Scheduling, Tracking phase of Project, Problems, risks and dependencies using Rational Portfolio Manager.
• Single point of contact for Technical and issue resolution.

Was awarded by Business Executive for on time delivery of crucial business product.

Confidential

Programming Project

IT Specialist

• Rational Functional Tester is used for the Functional Testing

• Created the data Model for the project using Rational Software Architect
• Design and implemented DB framework to be able to create, update and delete relational information in Database using configuration.
• Helped implement high volume, high traffic transactional application.
• IBM MQ is used for messaging between Service Data Reciever and Asynchronous processor.
• Move legacy code from Java 1.1 to Java 1.4
• Accessibility code added as per company instruction CI 113
• Binary code compression algorithm developed
• Implemented parsers for ESCON, OBR, MBR, SIM, VOLSER records in the Error Report Data files.
• Implemented the SAX XML interface for parsing the XML inventories in Resource Collection Format which is the format used for sending the customer inventory.
• Used JNDI for registering and locating Java objects.