SUMMARY

• Having 10+ year’s experience in Enterprise storage area of TSM/UNIX/WIN environment ( Confidential AIX p - series Servers 6.x/7.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x).
• Has thorough knowledge and over 7+ years of hands on experience working on Confidential 3494/3584, SUN STK L700, EMC, Netapp VTL, Quantum and EMC Data Domain deduplication library.
• Confidential Certified Deployment Professional TSM V6.1 and Worked on latest version of TSM 7.1 and Spectrum Protect 8.1 as well as exposure to teh latest VTL of EMC CDL and Netapp hardware.
• Support and Implementation of Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and LAN Free Backup
• Experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, design, development, implementation, and support on Confidential AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 Operating system Environments.
• Installing TSM on various platforms like AIX/Sun Solaris/window/Linux.
• Worked on latest version of VERITAS NETBACKUP 7.6as well as exposure to teh latest VTL of EMC CDL and Netapp hardware.
• Participated in DR test to recover base flat file and Database clients (Exchange and DB2) in NetBackup environment
• Client backups restore and failed backup problem determination.
• Working experience in Linux, HP-UX, AIX and Windows 2000/2003/2008 operating systems and excellent trouble shooting skills related to storage/backup issues.
• Support client by being on-call for a week & resolve any tickets that come in that time frame
• Followed teh Incident, Problem, and Change Management procedures to support environment (ITIL).
• Participated in DR test to recover base flat file and TDP Database clients (Domino notes, Exchange, Netezza and DB2) in TSM environment.
• Excellent client relation skills and teh drive to complete tasks TEMPeffectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded.
• Ability to communicate TEMPeffectively wif all levels of management and teh client community.
• Having experience wif Commvault and Evault.
• TEMPHas Knowledge of SAN and NAS technology such as EMC and NetApp in relation to a Data Protection environment.
• TEMPHas Knowledge of SAN and NAS technology such as EMC and NetApp in relation to a Data Protection environment.
• Has excellent client relation skills to drive and complete tasks TEMPeffectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as teh ability to communicate TEMPeffectively wif all levels of management and teh client community. Can handle demanding clients also.
• Excellent in troubleshoot issues and; has good experience working on priority issues and resolving them.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. TSM Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working as a TSM Administrator to support all aspects of TSM client/server installations, Configuration, backup and restore of Enterprise storage systems.
• Administration includes large Enterprise storage systems total of 80 TSM instances and large Backup clients of various platforms including Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP/ Windows 2003/2008) and provide leadership in teh area of TSM and backup/restore operations.
• Install/upgrade and configuration of AIX/Win/Solaris/Linux BA Clients and TDP for Domino notes, SQL, Exchange and DB2 databases from V5.3/5.4 levels to V 5.5.0.6/6.2.1.0.
• Participation in project team to implement e-Vaulting wif VTL System wif new policies in order to support huge data backups and faster restores.
• Configured and maintained CISCO NEXUS 5596 switches and CISCO MDS 9148 switches. I’ve also worked on Mc Data switches.
• Major role in team for up gradation of TSM Server/Client from 5.5 to 7.x for UNIX and Windows platforms.
• New versions and patch installations on TSM Servers in order to overcome teh backup issues for clients and co-ordinate wif CEs for Library firmware upgrades.
• Assign teh SAN Storage LUNs to Servers from EMC DMX and troubleshoot all storage issues related to LUNs assignment.
• Perform Capacity planning for both Disk and tape storage and recommend about new storage products to management.
• Archive schedules setup for UNIX and windows clients for long term retention and perform data retrieve operations based on user requests.
• Provide teh Disk/tape storage usage and recommendations of capacity planning for future data growth wif reports to management.
• Provide technical/solution contributions to current operations and to teh vision for teh future.
• Manage capacity and performance of teh backup infrastructure ensuring teh integrity of infrastructure on a day to day basis.
• Monitor components of TSM including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups.
• Investigates alternatives and researches development of strategic implementations of infrastructure components; recommends solutions for short, medium, and long range projects.
• Health check of Library managers, TSM servers and tape libraries every day and troubleshoot teh problem and escalate teh major issues related to tape libraries to vendors.
• Attend team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment Involved in teh configuration of fiber-based tape and disk infrastructure, tape library, Brocade switch/director infrastructure, and multi-vendor disk subsystems (HP, Confidential and EMC).
• Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Physical and Vitual server builds for AIX/Redhat/Oracle Linux, systems.
• Migrates fromAIX5.3 toAIX6.1 includingpatchingAIXtechnology levels, and service patch updates
• Production Support for Confidential Power6, Power7 and Power8 Servers
• Built VIO Servers and LPARs as per existing procedure, policy, and standards
• Performed AIX 5.3 / 6.1 installation using Media and NIM servers.
• Create procedures and scripts for automating and streamlining repeatable processes during server integrations and large scale application rollout.

Confidential, Austin TX

Sr. TSM Backup & Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Major role in team for up gradation of NetBackup Server/Client from 6.5 to 7.x for UNIX and Windows platforms.
• Installing, configuring and backing up DB2, SQL and ORACLE databases using Veritas backup agents.
• Check teh day-to-day backups complete status of all clients and troubleshoot teh failed backups of BA and TDP Clients and Participate in Root Cause Analysis for all severity level related incidents.
• TSM Disaster Recovery Tape Management, tape extraction and maintain enough scratch tapes in teh tape library.
• Define and configure teh client schedules and administrative schedules.
• Monitor teh tape library for any drives, tape volume issues and troubleshoot teh problems.
• Complex and multiple workload management and work TEMPeffectively in a stress Enterprise storage area to do multitask.
• Participation in Disaster Recovery test on physical tape 3584/STK and virtual tape environment and analyze teh recovery time and issues and lay out teh new strategies to recovery teh systems faster wif scripts automation.
• Working wif storage vendors Confidential /EMC/NETAPP/Quantum/STK/EMC Data Domain, issues related storage acquisition and escalate major issues related to hardware problems.
• Working wif LTO2/LTO3/LTO4 Tape cartridges and troubleshoot any issues wif LTO tape drives and primary/copy storage pool volumes.
• Setup teh LAN-Free backup for SQL, Oracle, DB2 and Exchange databases wif Confidential 3584 tape library in a library manager shared environment.
• Installation, configuration of Solution Enabler and assign teh Gatekeeper devices.
• Experience in all aspect of TSM setup including define client/admin schedules, define policy domains and management classes and DRM tape rotation, and add teh SAN Storage/LTO or VTL tapes to existing libraries and setup new Libraries if needed.
• Performance monitoring related to server and client backup and tuning teh server parameters to optimize teh performance.
• Coordinate ongoing projects wif various teams including Network, SAN enterprise and application groups in systems environment.
• Working experience wif EMC Data Domain deduplication library.
• SAN Fabric Zoning on Cisco MDS Switches (CLI/Fabric manager) for new hosts or existing one and perform RTS process according to requests.
• Has sound knowledge of SAN; worked on multiple multipathing software SDD, SDDPCM,MPIO Power path for various SAN storages of EMC - DMX, VMAX, Confidential - XIV
• Assign teh SAN Storage LUNs to Servers from EMC DMX and troubleshoot all storage issues related to LUNs assignment
• Hands on experience in Storage-Host LUN/Path troubleshooting including SFP replacement, fiber errors detections and co-ordinate wif vendors to fix teh problems.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

TSM / Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• TSM Operational Reporting including adding new TSM Servers in Operational Reports, configuring Reports and automating Reports, Produce and analyze TSM Reports.
• Installation, configuration and management of TSM Servers and clients of various platforms.
• Maintain TSM backup and restoration procedures and schedules for UNIX and Windows servers.
• System administration includes user administration on UNIX platforms and file system size monitor and UNIX server’s health checks.
• Manages performance for scalability and availability.
• Supports department in planning and implementing backups, disaster recovery and security actions.
• Monitor components of TSM including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups.
• Investigates alternatives and researches development of strategic implementations of infrastructure components; recommends solutions for short, medium, and long range projects.
• Attend team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment Involved in teh configuration of fiber-based tape and disk infrastructure, tape library, Brocade switch/director infrastructure, and multi-vendor disk subsystems (HP, Confidential and EMC).
• Administer TSM server environment to monitor and manage enterprise data management processes.
• Monitor TSM application server processes and errors to ensure overall system performance and stability.
• Design and implementation of TSM LAN free backups wif 3584 Tape Library.
• Installing, configuring and backing up DB2, SQL, ORACLE and DOMINO databases using TDP.
• Daily monitoring of TSM databases, recovery log and Storage Pools - Extend if necessary.
• Experience wif VTL Technology, EMC Clarion Disk Library.
• Configuring TSM Library manager in enterprise environment and responsible for Day-to-Day TSM maintenance.
• Responsible for installing and configuring TSM on AIX/Solaris/HP-UX and Windows.
• TSM Disaster Recovery Tape Management, tape extraction and maintain enough scratch tapes in teh tape library.
• Define and configure teh client schedules and administrative schedules.
• Monitor teh tape library for any drives, tape volume issues and troubleshoot teh problems.
• Complex and multiple workload management and work TEMPeffectively in a stress Enterprise storage area to do multitask.
• Provide teh Disk/tape storage usage and recommendations of capacity planning for future data growth wif reports to management.
• Provide technical/solution contributions to current operations and to teh vision for teh future.
• Manage capacity and performance of teh backup infrastructure ensuring teh integrity of infrastructure on a day to day basis.
• File system management using LVM
• Maintain and update documentation for teh standards, processes and procedures to be adhered by teh team.
• Define and manage Disk/Tape storage pools and policy domains, management classes and version of files based of Business partner requests.