SUMMARY

• IT Professional around 9+ years’ experience in Implementing, engineering, maintaining, documenting, and training around backup, Disaster Recovery and Storage environments.
• Well experienced in Netbackup Data Domain Strategic IT Planning and Implementation Net Based/Cloud Storage Platforms Expertise
• A versatile and successful Senior Level IT Professional wif extensive experience in a wide variety of operating systems and hardware configurations who combines strong organizational and strategic skills, high technical proficiency wif the ability to specify, procure, set - up and maintain sophisticated IT systems wif nearly 100% up-time performance for mid/large distribution and manufacturing organizations.
• Expert Knowledge in Backup & DR: History of specifying and implementing the optimum IT hardware and software combinations for fast, efficient and economical backup and recovery system solutions to a variety of industries.
• IT Management: Minimized costs while reducing maintenance time and increasing reliability wif a high-performance, scalable, flexible and secure implementation and managing of backup, storage and recovery systems in a variety of environments including: remote offices, and data center wif client-side data deduplication and energy-efficient designs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

NetBackup Admin

Confidential:

• Managing 23 Remote sites and 3 Datacentre’s worldwide wif the team of 10 people including 2 onsite.
• Configuring and maintaining complex Symantec Netbackup 7.X/6.X large scale IT Infrastructure including VMware and windows cluster environment.
• Configuring and maintaining Accelerated and Flash backup and Recovery.
• Working on Hobort and ops center reporting.
• Working on HP and IBM series Tape library wif LTO dives including vault as well on Data Domain for disk based backup.
• Troubleshooting NBU operational issues relating to backups/restores including BMR and NDMP.
• Troubleshooting escalated issues for backup and restoration failure.
• Troubleshooting NetBackup master and Media servers and escalating the issues in terms of failure.
• Involved in installation, configuration, upgrading, patching and troubleshooting of Master, Media and clients servers

Backup Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configure Netbackup 7.6 in new environment on the Unix platform including SLP and VMWare EXS
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups including storage life cycle policies.
• Worked on the capacity license and ops center reporting.
• Worked on Netbackup deduplication appliance 5230 for puredisk storage unit.
• Improved Operational procedures for off-sighting of tapes, and troubleshooting of backup failures.
• Configure and maintain tape vaulting.
• Worked on shell script to perform capacity license report based on business unit.
• Configured DD Boost on 4 Data Doamin
• Implemented backup and Replication of Oracle RMAN to Data Domain via DD Boost.
• Installed RMAN Plugin 1.2 on windows and unix and various Oracle versions including RAC.
• Migrate oracle RMAN Backup from NFS to DD Boost
• Prepare Best Practice documentation DD Boost

Confidential

Storage/Backup Admin

Responsibilities:

• Managed Corporate Data Domain & NetBackup system wif large scale environment including Active Directory, Exchange, Enterprise Vault and all operating systems including Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and UNIX.
• Educated staff in Data Domain, features available on the DD890 wif DDOS 5.0, Replication, Snapshots, and Cleans
• Troubleshooting NBU operational issues relating to backups/restores.
• Setting up new hosts for Storage Provisioning and assigning storages to the host
• Working on Migration of backups from celerra to Isilon.

Confidential

Confidential Residence Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed 5 Data Domains 890 Backup infrastructures and provided Best Practice recommendations for efficiency improvements
• Upgraded Data Domain OS from 5.3 to 5.4
• Migrated RMAN and EXADATA Backup from Tape to Disk using DDBoost.
• Implemented DDBoost for RMAN Backup and Replication.
• Outlined a test plan for DDOS 5.4, to test MTree groupings for Oracle RMAN Backups.
• Performed Knowledge transfer of the differences between DDOS 5.3 and DDOS 5.4
• Documented Oracle RMAN Data Domain Infrastructure via Visio, including exported NFS paths, and planned Replication Contexts

Backup Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and maintaining complex Symantec Netbackup 7.X/6.X large scale IT Infrastructure including VMware EXS
• Improved Operational procedures for off-sighting of tapes, and troubleshooting of backup failures.
• Provided training to Data Center Operation's staff, local staff at international sites, and other team members to assist wif backup related errors, and Day to Day operations of the Backup environment.
• Worked on BCV, Mastro and NDMP Backup
• Troubleshooting NBU operational issues relating to backups/restores.
• Adding and configuring new Windows, Unix different flavored clients.
• Using Service Manager tool for ticket management and creating Changes, Incidents.
• Monitoring & Maintaining Netbackup Environment.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.
• Managed Corporate Data Domain & NetBackup system wif large scale environment including Active Directory, Exchange, Enterprise Vault and all operating systems including Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and different UNIX flavored.
• Take Active part in Transaction Process, Runbook preparation and migration of Data center from Columbus Ohio to Kings mountain NC.

Confidential

Backup Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading Netbackup from 5.x to 6.x.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.
• Configuring robots, tape drives storage units and volumes pools.
• Installed and configured new clients for data protection and created policy for full/incremental automated backups
• Verify, Duplicate, Expire and import Backup Images.
• Preparing backup success and failure reports on daily basis.
• Taking catalog Backup on daily basis.
• Performed backup using Disk Backup and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL).
• File System administration and management like monitoring various logs, file system sizes etc.
• Installed, configured and maintained the Netbackup on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux for development, staging and production environment. And also involved in configuration

Confidential

Residence Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Netbackup Enterprise Server 6.0 MP's and 6.5 and MP2.
• Troubleshooting of failed backup attempts to successfully backup all servers required to be backed up.
• Running a Netbackup database Consistency Check and providing to support
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.
• Configuring robots, tape drives storage units and volumes pools.
• Restore files and monitor restore jobs.
• Installed and configured new clients for data protection and created policy for full/incremental automated backups
• Preparing backup success and failure reports on daily basis.
• Monitoring of Servers performance and Backups.
• File System administration and management like monitoring various logs, file system sizes etc.