Backup Engineer and Administrator Resume

SUMMARY

Storage and Systems Engineer, Administrator and IT Generalist with 20 years’ experience seeking a position that encourages teamwork, personal career growth and would benefit from my skill set to achieve departmental and company goals.
I possess the basic knowledge and commitment to adapt and understand a new environment quickly, adjust to the ever - changing landscape of IT and meet the needs of the hiring manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Backup Engineer and Administrator

Responsibilities:

Helped plan and assist in Data Center relocation of over 1000 servers
Build out of multiple Hyper-V clusters for several Virtualization projects
Management of multiple EMC CX, VNX and Unity SANs including yearly performance reviews and improvements
Management of multiple EMC Isilon NAS Devices including yearly performance reviews and improvements
Managed multiple Quantum DXI Series Tape and Disk Backup Appliances
Project lead in migration of 1000 plus SQL backup tape jobs to an Internal disk backup solution
Project lead in migration of Physical to Virtual (P to V) servers hosting Microsoft Online Classic Games
Project Lead in planning and implementation of SAN to SAN LUN Migration for SQL Stand-Alone\Clustered and Hyper-V data reducing our Data Center footprint from 7 EMC CX SANs to 2 EMC VNX SANs
Project Lead in planning and implementation of Server Build\Configuration of multiple major game releases for Game Studios
Project lead in planning and implementation of Hyper-V Virtual Machine migration reducing our Data Center footprint from 14 - 7 node clusters to 2 - 14 node clusters.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Backup Engineer and Administrator

Responsibilities:

Management of multiple EMC CX, VNX and Unity SANs including yearly performance reviews and improvements
Management of multiple NetApp FAS Appliances including yearly performance reviews and improvements
Managed multiple Quantum DXI Series Tape and Disk Backup Appliances
Project lead in planning, re-design and implementation of new backup environment yielding a successful backup rate of 98% and 100% in data recovery.
Project lead in planning and design of Data Center rack space for COLO relocation
Project lead in implementation of Data Center relocation of the public and private infrastructure on time and under budget
Project lead in planning and implementation of domain migration under root after business acquisition.
Project lead in planning, design and implementation of new patching solution for all local and remote servers
Project lead in planning and implementation of Exchange and SQL Cluster Database migration’s to new hardware and SAN storage
Project lead in planning, design and implementation reducing Data Center cost by 50% with addition of new storage and Virtualization
Project lead in planning, design, implementation and tuning of SCOM.
Promotion from Service Desk Technician to Systems Administrator in 3 years
Successfully completed Desktop\Laptop refresh for 300 plus users in 3 months
Successfully supported and built relationship with the Worldwide remote sales teams