SUMMARY:

• Experienced Solution Architect involved in several Designs, Cloud Computing, Implementation, Backup & Disaster recovery solutions for products like Avamar, Data Domain, Networker, NetBackup, Commvault & DPA based on sales and customer expectations ensuring best Practices and compatibility Matrix.
• More than 12 years of IT Backup & DR administration, Systems Administration, Networking, Technical Support, documentum, Quality and Analysis.
• In - depth knowledge and understanding in Implementing Enterprise Backup Applications viz., Confidential NetBackup 6.x-7.x, Backup Exec 12d, Confidential Avamar 6.x-7.x, Networker 8.x/9.x, Commvault 7.x/8.x/10.x and D2D appliances as Confidential Data Domain, Confidential Netbackup appliance and Pure disk, Confidential Data Protection Advisor for reporting.
• Experience in Migration of Enterprise backup Environments.
• Implementation and Configuration of Confidential Data Protection Advisor (DPA) as Reporting & Analytical tool into the environment.
• Administrative knowledge of Linux, Solaris and Windows Operating Systems.
• Configuring Replication on Data Domain as per the business requirements.
• Perform Root Cause analysis of issues Incidents to avoid future occurrences.
• Involved in many Migration projects to move servers from End of life versions for Backup Enterprise servers to the latest versions.
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) with deep expertise in Amazon’s cloud computing offerings
• Generated Procedural Documents for the environment viz., Run Book, Work Instructions, Troubleshooting procedures etc.
• Excellent Good Organizational and communication skills.
• A team player with strong communication, analytical, relationship management and mentoring skills.
• Learn critical business processes and quickly gain an understanding of the business priorities in order to prioritize activities and effectively support the business units.

AREAS OF EXPOSURE:

• Design & execute installation & configuration of LAN, governed by communication protocols.
• Administer network security through implementation & maintenance of security tools.
• Assign users at various nodes in the network and manage user rights and security.
• Supervise maintenance of Web / Application Servers in the Enterprise Network.
• Oversee installation of Operating Systems and application software on Windows, deployment of servers, network, console, power and monitoring the same. Configure the Printer.
• Handle design and development of the database, and creation of various database objects.
• Plan & implement software rollouts, testing and OS deployments/upgrades etc.
• Devise strategies for Disaster Recovery Management, including planning and designing servers for backup and recovery of database information.
• Installation and Hardware Configuration
• General System Administration
• Custom Configuration and Administration Issues
• Backup and Restore Procedures
• Upgrading Linux
• Monitor the system, Process Management; automate Tasks with At & Corn and Crontab files.
• Troubleshooting and System Maintenance
• Subnetting & VLSM: CIDR, Subnetting Class C & Class B addresses, VLSM Design, implementing VLSM Networks.
• CISCO IOS: Restoring 2620 Series CISCO Router IOS in ROMMON Mode, backing up and restoration of 2620 Series CISCO Router IOS using TFTP Server, CDP.
• IP Routing: RIP, RIP V2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF
• Layer 2 Switching: STP, Configuring the catalyst 1900 and 2950 Switches, setting Password and Hostname.
• VLAN: Static / Dynamic VLAN, configuring VLAN, VTP pruning, VMPS, VLAN using Trunk / Access link.
• Access List: Types of Access list, Access list configuration in VLAN Access link and DHCP Relay Agent.
• DHCP: Configuring Router as DHCP Relay Agent.
• WAN Routing: Lease Line, Frame Relay, ISDN.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, SuSE 8.x/9.x/10.x/11.x, Fedora Core 10.x/12.x/14.x/16.x/22.x, Solaris 9.x/10.x, AIX 5.3/6.1,Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server.

Virtualization: VMware ESX Server 4.x/5.x/6.x, EESX 4.0, VMware Virtual Centre

Programming Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, PERL.

Bugzilla, Helpzilla, Accurave, Appropos, Titan, E: track, WebEx, Nagios.

Query Language: SQL, MYSQL, PostgreSQL

NetBackup Appliance: 5200/5220

PureDisk Appliance: 5020

Tape Libraries: IBM 3584 Library (TLD/LTO Tape Devices), IBM TS 3K series, Sun StorageTek L 700, SL3000, SL500, SL8500, C4 tape libraries, Quantum Scalar i80 & i40.

Confidential SAN: Clariion, VNX, Lun provisioning, NFS and CIFS shares.

Confidential Data Protection Suite: Avamar 6.x/7.x, Networker 7.6/8.x/9.x, Data Domain 5.x/6.x

Confidential Backup Applications: Backup Exec 10D / 11D, NetBackup 6.x/7.x, PureDisk 6.5/6.6Computer Associates (CA) ARCserve Backup 11.1 / 11.5Commvault Galaxy 7.x/8. x/10.x.

Reporting Tools: Confidential Data Protection Advisor 5.8/6.x, Confidential Opscenter 6.x/7.x

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Enterprise Backup Consultant / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leads the project with migration planning & execution and provides consultative assistance to business management through data analysis and reporting.
• Need to prepare a blue print for entire Data Center (6 sites) and Re-Design migration process for their data protection suites that address the entire range of RPOs and RTOs leveraging best of breed technologies and storage platforms which allows customer to accelerate data center transformation and implement the necessary changes.
• Prepares technical architectural and implementation design, Strategies and plans with the project management team that defined in the Statement of Work.
• Prepares Design workbooks, Configurations guides, Test acceptance plan, Migration plan etc and works with the Project Management team to develop the implementation plan.
• Prepares reports and conducts trending analysis/root cause analysis; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Working on incident and change management adhering to ITIL standard practices and guidelines to drive the project with minimal impact to the production environment.
• Will be involved in critical and complicated implementations to ensure less downtime and TCE.
• Being primary technical point of contact, I need to jump-in whenever there is any technical issue during the whole design & implementation cycle till the project closure.
• Helps to identify and leverage Confidential and partner resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.
• Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current challenges and evolving client requirements.
• Execute effective processes in customization and integration of Confidential solutions and related systems.
• Implement procedures for installation, customization and integration of Confidential solutions as per best practices.
• Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements.
• Lead in project delivery quality assurance, mentoring mentees and preparing internal documentation.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Enterprise Backup Consultant / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a backup assessment for the client and work with them to potentially re-design end to end enterprise-grade data protection solutions that address the entire range of RPOs and RTOs leveraging best practices to their backup strategy and implement the necessary changes.
• Identified any workloads and/or hosts that are not being backed up today and put a plan on place to back them up.
• Prepared technical architectural design, strategies and plans that will be a delivered in the engagement.
• Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current challenges and evolving client requirements.
• Worked with Confidential pre-sales & Project management team to recommend short term & long term growth proposal for either Data Protection Suite and/or Data Domain expansion
• Deployed Confidential Data Protection Advisor and generate reports as per requirements - they want to have a solid view of the success rates of their backups etc.
• Involved in clients migration from Commvault to Avamar environment.
• Developed and configured CommVault alerting notifications and processes.
• Worked on operational tickets related to Commvault.
• Proactively worked on RMAN, SQL, VMWARE, NDMP backup configurations and backup failures.
• Help to implement / configure and educate client on Confidential Data Protection Suite.
• Implemented the changes as per Confidential best practices.
• Assisted in SAN, NAS, NDMP, troubleshooting, storage related problems and conflicts. Suggesting improvements in operations/ processes to make the environment foolproof.
• Knowledge Transfer to the team as much as possible around Avamar, Data Domain, Data Protection Advisor, & Networker.
• Lead in managing Data Centers, mentoring mentees, project delivery within time and preparing documentation as needed.

Confidential

Senior Delivery Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design Solutions for Confidential products like Avamar, Data Domain, and Networker & DPA based on sales and customer expectations ensuring Confidential best Practices and compatibility Matrix.
• Design Implementation of Data Protection Suite within Confidential Federated Enterprise Hybrid Cloud.
• Attend Sales’ call, Project Manager’s call, Customer’s kickoff calls for project time lines and strictly adhering to the schedule of project.
• Contribute to the development of strategies, policies and best practices through participation in management meetings and other direct contributions.
• Work on POC for Confidential / Non- Confidential products such as NetBackup & Commvault and convert to sale.
• Designed and Implement Data Domain VTL with Commvault as backup target. Also configured Replication.
• Responsible for Manage and Administration of CommVault Simpana environment which includes CommServe, Media Agent and clients.
• Perform sustain Data Protection engineering functions in Data Protection - Implementation of CommVault patches and upgrades under supervision.
• Problem Resolution of CommVault and DD VTL issues (troubleshooting).
• Participate in technical discussions with internal team and customer, gathering requirements for all POC project engagements. Where review Test Plan in order to improve understanding of Customer business & technical requirements and specific testing objectives.
• Implement DDBOOST backup for MSSQL and RMAN.
• Experience in NetApp Filers quota management, CIFS shares, NFS exports, data migrations
• Hands on experience with NetApp Filers FAS 3070, FAS 3040.
• Works closely with the project management to define project deliverables and schedules.
• Coordinate with other technical team members for development and installation of Confidential solutions.
• Prepares technical architectural and implementation design documents and works with the project management to develop the implementation plan.
• Helps to identify and leverage Confidential and partner resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.
• Execute effective processes in customization and integration of Confidential solutions and related systems.
• Participate in continuous learning of technical specifications, system requirements and Confidential products.
• Implement procedures for installation, customization and integration of Confidential & Non- Confidential solutions.
• Responsible for the creation of proposals that address current and evolving client requirements.
• Lead in project delivery quality assurance, mentoring mentees and preparing internal documentation.

Confidential

Sr. Business Critical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Dealing with customer issues relating to Confidential products (NetBackup & PureDisk) by providing swift evaluation and accurate resolution
• Ensuring customer satisfaction by providing a professional service and swift resolution to all customer issues
• Recreating problems in house and providing evidence where bug fixes are required
• Providing consulting to Confidential clients on Disaster Recovery procedures\plans for windows and Solaris clients
• Providing consulting on fine tuning the Backup Environment
• Working on backup environments involving SAN \ NAS \ HBA \ Fibre Switches \ Tape Libraries SCSI \ ISCSI devices
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Netbackup in EMM Server, Master Server, Media Server, Client Server and NDMP Server(Netapp, VNX etc.)
• Giving consultation to devise backup strategies to best suit client environments.
• Working on Escalated cases from frontline towards resolution of the problem.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements and Analysis: Understand Client's requirements and act as a sole functional resource
• Set-up the Test bed which involved installing the virtualization software on the top of Windows NT server and Unix flavor with SAS and SATA hard drives
• Set-up the Test bed with Confidential (1950, 2950) server, HP (ProLiant DL385 G2) server and IBM server for testing Classical ESX and Embedded ESX with SAS and SATA hard drives
• Monitor performance in real-time—or keep archive logs for trending
• Use DRAC and ILO Management Suite to install and manage ESX 4.0 and EESX 4.0 server
• Executing Test cases and proactively managed critical status changes
• Testing & debugging

Confidential

Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Major responsibility pertains to Setting up the Test bed with lab set up which involved configuring the Netgear Firewall and KVM switches.
• Writing shell scripts, Perl scripts and modifying Perl scripts as and when required.
• Network Maintenance throughout the lab under UNIX platform (FEDORA CORE 6.0, RHEL 4.0, SOLARIS 9.0 / 10.0) and as well as WINDOWS platform.
• Executing Perl automated test suites.
• Data protection and restore with Backup Apps ( Confidential Backup Exec 9.1 / 10.0, NetBackup 5.1 / 6.0, Commvault 6.x).
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of CommVault Simpana environment which includes CommServe, Media Agent and clients.
• Develop test plans for the upgrade/Service pack installation of CommVault Simpana software to ensure supportability across all servers within the Data Center.
• Built test plans for CommVault Database protection and backups for Disaster Recovery purpose.
• Reporting bugs and verifying those.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Major responsibility pertains to System Administration and Network Maintenance throughout the campus under UNIX platform (FEDORA CORE 3.0 / 4.0 / 5.0 / 6.0 , RHEL 3.0 / 4.0, SOLARIS 9.0 / 10.0).
• Handling maintenance for Internal LAN that is connected to the Internet through Fibre Optics and connected to SIT and other TIG Resource Centres.
• Also managing internal development of Campus Applications through necessary software.
• Modifying systems to suit staff and students by changing the script of Proxy Server and Firewall according to the situation and also maintaining secure server from outside the campus through firewall.