SUMMARY

• A highly motivated professional with 13+ years of experience in the services and infrastructure support industry, backed by international exposure in backup and Data Protection Operations of both onshore and off - shore model excellent knowledge of Back-up and Recovery Solutions, Disaster Recovery Solutions, Enterprise Storage, Remote Infrastructure Support, Business Continuity
• Currently working as a Specialized Solution Architect in Designing the Backup/Storage infrastructure. One of the very few consultants who can do Veritas NetBackup Catalog Manipulation.
• Proficient in working with large groups and a very strong team player. Expertise in Technical / Customer service field, Customer facing roles, handling top level management i.e. CIO, CEO, Procurement Teams etc. with good analytical and excellent communication skills.
• Have complete multiple cycles of SOX/PCI audit for Multiple Fortune 500 Clients and was highly appreciated by client for the same.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• NetBackup Version 5.x, 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6.7.7.x,8.x
• NetBackup Catalog Manipulation 3.5 Certified
• NetBackup 52XX, 53xx Appliance code 2.7.x
• Veritas Velocity (Beta)
• Veritas Resiliency Platform 2.0
• Commvault Simpana 10
• EMC Data Domain
• NetBackup Ops-center
• EMC Avamar
• Rubrik
• Cohesity
• Tivoli Storage Manager 5.x, 6.x
• Actifio 6.x
• EMC Networker (intermediate)
• Backup Exec
• EMC DPA.
• Aptare
• Netapp Snap Manager, OSVV, Snapmirror, Snapvault
• Netapp Data Ontap 7.5, 8.0, 8.1(7 Mode)
• VMware VSphere 5.0, 5.1
• VMware SRM
• Server Sizing and Capacity Planning for enterprise applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Confidential

Veritas Netbackup Architect / Sr. SE

Responsibilities:

• Technically Leading backup infrastructure team and handling L3 and L4 related issues.
• SME for Veritas NetBackup Catalog manipulation which included Splitting, Merging, Migrations services for very large and complex NetBackup Environment
• Providing 24*7 support to Fortune 500 large enterprise clients
• Defining and Designing the Data Management Strategies which includes POC and Evaluation of next gen backup appliances like Cohesity and Rubrik
• SME for any Backup /Recovery and Disaster Recovery solution for Cloud and Traditional infrastructure
• Strong Understanding for Veritas Competitive products i.e. Commvault, EMC BUR and some niche players like Actifio, Rubik, Cohesity etc.
• Involve in multiple features testing in Partner and Engineering Collaborations.
• Sizing and deployment of Confidential NetBackup Appliances
• Working with client top level management for backup and restore request process, escalation matrix, project expected reports and governance.
• Gave multiple presentations to CIO and other staff with the project forecast and vision for Data protection and Disaster recovery strategies.

Confidential

Technical Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Solutions Architect and Global SME for Confidential Smart Cloud Manage Backup and Backup Solutions, primarily Confidential NetBackup, Confidential TSM.
• Participate in Large and Complex Recovery Solutions.
• UNIX / Server / Storage Sizing for Large infrastructures.
• Conducting DR drill and creating DR best practice documents.
• Designing and Deployment ERP backup using SAP BRTOOLS, SAP HANA, Oracle RMAN.
• Capturing RPO / RTO requirement and building solutions around Functional and Non Functional Requirements
• Articulating the Solution and presenting to CXO. CIO’s Level management.
• Presales function for both Operations (Service Delivery) and Consulting/Build (Project Delivery) Services.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of High level Data Backup and Recovery related issues.
• Solution Designing/Management for Data Centre Services, including Solution Proposal and Commercial Bidding, Effort Estimation, Pricing, SOW, SLA & OLA Definitions.
• Service Creation for Cloud-based Virtual Desktop Services and other Backup & Storage based Services.
• Prepare the Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Application Recovery Plans and Solutions.

Confidential

Confidential NetBackup Backup Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Completed the restructuring the Multi Petabyte environment for minimum tape utilization and backup consolidation from remote sites, deployed multiple NetBackup appliance 5220 with Riverbed wan accelerators the project was Onsite.
• Completed the VMware (VSphere) backup migration from Netapp Snap manager to NetBackup appliance using V-ray and the concept was highly appreciated by customer and was able to deploy the backup for 4 V-center, managing multiple ESX servers which hosting approx. 6000 VM guest including production and staging server.
• Worked on planning, implementation and designing of the backups in better and efficient and cost effective manner.
• Worked on the Backup Consolidation for Confidential Customers.
• Worked for Couple of Onsite Projects and was appreciated highly by Stakeholders and Customer and was the first Vendor to be awarded by customer Onsite.
• Recently deployed NetBackup Automatic Image Replication for the DR site.
• Deployed NetBackup Appliance 5220 for the remote sites.
• Helped Deploying Riverbed WAN accelerator for the remote site replication for the better throughput over the WAN.
• Recently worked on the restructure of the NetBackup Licensing and was appreciated as it save nearly a million dollar for the client.
• Manage and coordinate all aspects of multiple Large/Small sized projects concurrently.
• Coordinate activities with Confidential teams (sales, support, operations).
• Drive technical issues through the Confidential support escalation process.
• Initiate project billing per contract terms and ensure accuracy of results.
• Managed project portfolio forecast.
• Understand, Facilitate Confidential processes related to time and expense tracking (i.e. timesheets, QA, CStep, SAF)
• Facilitate and coordinate non-technical escalations within Confidential, client or subcontractor organizations if needed.
• Working on planning, implementation and designing of the these backups in better and efficient and cost effective manner.
• I was involved in the Storage Planning, forecasting, LUN allocation as per requirements. Working with Vendors for troubleshooting.
• Has Completed the Transition of a project, Specially looking the designing and Implementing of the Backups Using VERITAS NetBackup for the UK and US sites, Designed the backups for ORACLE, SAP, EXCHANGE 2007 and Implemented the NetBackup Sever on VCS cluster in 2 Sites.
• Has the Experience in creating the RUN books, NetBackup Upgrade project plans using MPP.
• Involved in NEW projected bidding and implementation.
• Involved in complete Coordination with the Client and Storage Team for the implementation of the SAN and NAS Units as well.
• Has Successfully Upgrade the NetBackup from 5.1 MP 6 version to
• 6.5.4 On 7sites and Upgrade one of the DR site to the NetBackup 7.0 for testing the Deduplication on the media server (PDDE Integration) and OpsCenter for integrated reporting and Alerts.
• Also Implemented the EMC DPA for the reporting tool for the backup failures and success and introduced the Backup Dashboard for weekly success and failure ratio.
• Closely worked with the Change Management team for any changes and SLA management with respect to the ITIL process