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Cloud Disaster Recovery Architect Resume

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SUMMARY

  • Dynamic, qualified, and highly ethical Information Technology/Finance Professional with over 10 years of extensive experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry in such positions as Architect, Technical Evaluation Team Lead, Project Lead, and Certified Administrator.
  • Detail - oriented Professional with practical experience developing complex solutions to achieve business objectives, including determining system and service requirements, developing Build Specifications, managing the evaluation and selection of vendor solutions, defining the Standard Operating Environment (SOE), determining the appropriate provisioning methods, and executing the complex deployment of mission-critical production systems. Designed, implemented, and tested disaster recovery plans.
  • Experienced in successfully managing and performing daily maintenance of production servers, SAN/NAS enterprise storage, and data protection backup software and infrastructure; expert in effectively managing projects and engineering teams that deploy system management and monitoring tools in production environments, including patch and firmware maintenance; familiar with TCP/IP networking, RAID concepts, and system architecture requirements analysis.
  • Expert in analyzing data, troubleshooting issues, determining necessary corrective actions required to support mission-critical production environments, and resolving problems efficiently; ability to negotiate contract renewals for software and application maintenance; innate ability to build rapport with clients and colleagues and succeed in high-pressure, challenging, and deadline-driven environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Cloud Architect
  • Information Technology (IT)
  • Build Specification Development
  • Project Management
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Pre-sales/Post-sales Support
  • Installation
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Backup and Recovery/Cloud
  • Corrective Action/Problem Resolution
  • Storage Infrastructure Architecture
  • Backup Infrastructure Architecture
  • Hardware/Software Installation & Configuration
  • Organizational Management
  • Team Leadership/Training
  • System Architecture
  • TCP/IP Networking
  • Configuration Management
  • Policy Creation & Development
  • Analysis/Troubleshooting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • SCO / HPUX / AIX / System V
  • Microsoft Windows, 2000 Server; Microsoft Windows 200X / XP / Vista
  • Sun V Series, Enterprise Series, Sun Fire Series, Confidential, Quantum, Dell, Compaq, 3Com, Cisco, HP, EMC, StorageTek L and 8500 series, Data Domain, NetApp
  • Sun Cluster 2.2, VERITAS Cluster, Office 2000 Suite, PowerBuilder, Winrunner 6.0, Netbackup 7.5.x, What’s Up Gold, Ipmonitor, BMC Patrol, Oracle, DNS, Apache, Network File System (NFS), vi editor, EMC Networker 7.x, EMC IDP, EMC Data Domain
  • C++, UNIX shell scripting, Perl, HTML, Visual Basic 6.0, HTML, TCP/IP, http, telnet, ftp
  • RAID Concepts (0, 1, 0+1, 5,6), Sun Logical Volume Manager (SLVM/SDS), VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS NetBackup, Legato Networker 7.2 - 7.6.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Disaster Recovery Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Provide configuration management of various customer backup systems.
  • Redesign several customer backup systems using Symantec Netbackup 8.x EMC Networker 8.x in conjunction with Virtual and Physcial and Vitual Tape Libraries.
  • Complete customer assessments for current and future storage and infrastructure needs.
  • Identify storage solutions that best fit the needs of the customer and address all customer issues.
  • Correct various customer issues caused by EMC Networker & Netbackup and the chosen storage architecture.

Confidential

Presales Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Performed Pre- and Post-Sales support for the Virtual Tape Library. Provided configuration management of various customer backup systems.
  • Redesigned several customer backup systems using EMC Networker in conjunction with Virtual Tape Libraries. Conducted.
  • Identified storage solutions that best fit the needs of the customers and addressed all customer issues.
  • Resolved various customer issues caused by EMC Networker and the chosen storage architecture.
  • Initiated a firmware and VTL software update to all customers within the assigned southern region.

Confidential

Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and implemented the enterprise backup network with two storage nodes. Designed and maintained the Decru encryption appliances. Performed BTA installation and configuration in 2000 server’s environment.
  • Served as Solaris System Administrator for more than 200 servers. Installed, configured, and maintained the EMC Backup Advisor. Conducted daily restores of data as requested within the necessary timeframes.
  • Designed, implemented, and successfully tested the disaster recovery plan for a billion dollar company. Identified all weaknesses within the corporation’s disaster recovery and backup systems and implemented controls to mitigate the identified weaknesses. Documented and provided needed information for all IT, legal, and financial audits regarding the backup and disaster recovery procedures.
  • Certified the audits for backups within the corporation and their affiliates. Created retention, documentation, and retrieval policies that complied with HIPPA, SOX, and legal requirements.
  • Installed the Confidential Virtual Tape Library (VTL). Integrated the backups onto the SAN solution. Installed the Legato Networker clients and modules. Managed the daily backup of 12.2 terabytes of data; managed the monthly backup of 69 terabytes of data; managed the annual backup of 112 terabytes of data.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Maintained a development environment using Razor, Orbix, Fxobject, and Versant. Upgraded and repaired workstations and servers.
  • Coordinated office move from Fairfax to Reston. Maintained Sun Solstices backups of network. Installed over 20 sun servers and workstations in a one-week timeframe (V250, Blade, 1500, V480).
  • Renewed and updated maintenance contracts for applications and software, resulting in over $50,000 savings. Defined technical environment specifications. Defined proper inventory control mechanisms for projects. Maintained NFS and NIS and corrected errors.
  • Reduced development builds by over 20 hours.

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