SUMMARY

• A technology leader with 11+ years of IT experience including 9.5 years of Strong experience in Enterprise Backup Analysis, Migrations, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, Maintenance and Administration.
• I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analysing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies.
• Infrastructure Build: Implemented Primary & DR environment by Storage & Backup Technologies.
• Operation Management: 11 Years of IT experience in Backup - Veritas Netbackup, HP Data Protector, EMC Avamar/networker, Commvault.
• Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
• Data Centre Design & Build: Backup Infra Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting.
• Virtual environment build installation and configuration and troubleshooting.
• Data Management: Backup and Recovery, VTL, De-Duplication, NAS and SAN Technologies.
• Extensively worked on various Backup Integration like Oracle, Sql, VMware Using Veritas Netbackup and HP Data Protector.
• Experience in Administration of Storage to Multiprotocol Environments like FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS
• Perform Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
• Data Centre Design & Build: Storage & Backup Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting.
• Experience in designing, and maintaining of EMC Data Domain 690, HP Store Once D2D and Symantec Appliance 5230.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of Backup Appliance and Servers.
• Experience in working on Disk clean up in Data Domain and House Keeping in D2D.
• Experience in Assigning LUN to Windows and Unix Server Using HP EVA 4000.
• Strong experience in working on restores like File level, Sql,Oracle And VMware.
• Handled critical Disasters like Catalog recovery in Netbackup, IDB Restore in HP Data Protector.
• Self-motivated, able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet operational deadlines.

Core Strengths

• Experience in Creating VTL’s using D2D and Data Domain.
• Implemented Fiber setup for backup Infra.
• Strong Experience in trouble shooting Snapshot issues for VM Backup’s.
• Expertise in creating BCH scripts for SQL backups in Netbackup.
• Implemented Oracle online backups in Netbackup /HP Data protector/AVAMAR.
• Good knowledge on Oracle intelligent policy.
• Expertise in configuring VM with SQL Integration using snapshot backup.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Backup tools
• Storage
• Operating Systems
• Veritas Netbackup
• HP Store one D2D
• Windows 2003/2008
• HP Data Protector
• HP EVA
• HP UX/red hat Linux
• EMC Avamar
• HPUX/Red hat Linux
• Networker
• EMC Data Domain
• Commvault
• Symantec Appliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Netbackup7.5 Master/ Media Servers
• Extensive experience in tuning the Netbackup environment, Automated Installation scripts for Netbackup.
• Extensive knowledge on Backup and Storage Devices
• Migrated from Gen2 to Gen 3 on HP D2D
• Maintained and managed Dedicated backup network using HP Procure Switches
• Installation and maintenance of VERITAS Netbackup,Avamar and HP Data Protector Manager
• Proficient in configuration of Symantec Netbackup V6.5 and V7.5.0.4.
• Perform Maintenance tasks on Avamar servers - Garbage collection, Check point & HFS checks Creation of Avamar User for Backups
• Checking Avamar grids on daily basis for the health and escalate any issues regarding hardware failure to the EMC like drive failure etc.
• Installation and Maintenance of Symantec OPS Centre Analytics
• Daily analysis of backup jobs that include the ability to report on backup failures and troubleshoot failed backups
• Performed Migration from HP Data Protector to Netbackup.
• Supervisor for Backup environment looking at escalated issues as a part of last tier in technical escalations for team, the team size is 10+ members.
• Suggesting process and Technical environmental improvements to our customer.
• Point of contact for customer and Tech Mahindra higher management for any issues.
• To provide 2nd and 3rd level Storage Management services, and product support for Symantec Netbackup (NBU) across various accounts.
• Hands-on experience performing upgrades on Avamar, Netbackup, Data Domain
• Migration of Clients From Symantec Net backup to EMC Avamar
• Configured ORACLE RMAN backups using DD Boost in EMC Data Domain
• Configures SQL Backups Direct to EMC datadomin
• In-depth understanding of operating systems, servers, and enterprise applications, as well as their compatibility with storage architecture, business goals, and technology strategies
• Proven background in disaster recovery and backup, including data replication at remote locations
• Integrating Data Domain with Avamar 6 and Netbackup 6.5 and 7.1
• Completed firmware upgrades on EMC Data Domain from 5.1 to 5.4
• Administering Netbackup/Data Protector Master and Media servers
• Configuring NDMP, SQL, Oracle and VM integration backups using Symantec Netbackup and HPDP Tool
• Policy creation & scheduling of backups on different clients (Windows, UNIX, Linux. Solaris etc) & applications (Oracle, SQL, etc)

Confidential, Renton, WA

Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuration, Administration of Netbackup and AVAMAR servers.
• Installation and configuration of Symantec Appliance 5230 and EMC Data Domain
• Implementation of various Backup Procedures, Groups, Policies and Parallelism.
• Implementation and configurations of Backup tape libraries.
• Performing Data backup and recovery.
• Configuring HOT and COLD backups for databases Like Oracle, SQL.
• Troubleshooting of Backup servers/clients and performance related issues.
• Job scheduling and Media management.
• Library Management: Check in, Check out, Maintaining scratch volumes, tape
• Rotations and working on drive issues, stuck tapes in libraries.
• Restoration based on requests from clients in both Windows/Unix platforms.
• Performing Disaster recovery on requirement (Planned and unplanned).
• Excellent understanding of pre-planning procedures and Implementation of Disaster
• Ensuring 100% Successful scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Missed/Failed backups on a daily basis.
• Daily reporting of missed/failed backups and send it to the clients.
• Engaging Vendor and Coordination with respective teams for related issues.

Confidential, Harlingen, TEXAS

Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of VERITAS Netbackup,Avamar and HP Data Protector Manager
• Proficient in configuration of Symantec Netbackup V7.5.0.4 and 7.6.0.4
• Perform Maintenance tasks on Avamar servers - Garbage collection, Check point & HFS checks Creation of Avamar User for Backups
• Checking Avamar grids on daily basis for the health and escalate any issues regarding hardware failure to the EMC like drive failure etc.
• Installation and Maintenance of Symantec OPS Centre Analytics
• Performed Migration from HP Data Protector to Netbackup.
• Administering Netbackup/Data Protector Master and Media servers
• Configuring NDMP, SQL, Oracle and VM integration backups using Symantec Netbackup and HPDP Tool
• Policy creation & scheduling of backups on different clients (Windows, UNIX, Linux. Solaris etc) & applications (Oracle, SQL, etc)
• Administration and managing Symantec Netbackup Appliances 5230.
• Restoring encrypted data from source cell manager to the destination cell manager.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting backup failures through viewing the variety of Reports and Alerts from the reporting tool APTARE.
• Configuring D2D VTL’s, creating Medias, deleting Medias, setting blackout window for Housekeeping.
• Troubleshooting issues related to DATA DOMAIN DD690.
• Installing and configuring of Data protector clients and remote agents.
• Administering the storage devices including robots, tape drives and medias
• Creating Backup and Restore policies & Scheduling Backups and Performing Manual Backups.
• Bouncing and Restarting Backup Services
• Importing Media and extending backup images
• Performing File system and Integration (Oracle, MSSQL and VM) restores using Netbackup/Data Protector.
• Performing Catalog Backups and Restores.
• Handling Customer Requests and Escalations from Different teams
• Troubleshooting in Restoration related issues and prioritize the issues and attending the same.
• Produce regular reports for management, to assist in cost recovery, capacity planning and preparing volumetric’s

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of Windows 2003 servers.
• Configure cell manager, clients and Maintaining the backup using HP Data Protector /Symantec Netbackup Software
• Administration on MSL 6000, MSL 8096 Tape library.
• Backup and media management.
• Backup & Recovery using HP Data Protector.
• Reporting, Troubleshooting, Media Management for Backups.
• Backup integration, adding new clients to backup, Annual DR Exercises.
• Vaulting media, Media rotation Management.
• Responsible for Scheduling and restoring of the backups.
• Installation and Up gradation of Backup servers and client.
• Upgrading firmware in drives and Library.
• Ignite Backup and Restoration
• Administration on SAN (Enterprise Virtual Array).
• Creating Vdisks with Command View EVA
• Increasing the size of existing Vdisks
• Managing and monitoring the controllers and FC Switches
• Monitoring the performance of SAN Storage with Command View EVA
• Installation of HBA drivers and upgration of firmware when required
• Installation of MPIO software in windows servers
• Managing the Qlogic HBA’s with SANSurfer software
• Creation of Volume Group’s and Logical Volume’s
• Configuring Zoning Policies in SAN Environment.
• Managing Storage Allocation for Windows and UNIX Servers.
• Managing of Clusters with Microsoft cluster Service.
• Installed and Configured Windows 2008 R2 Server with Failover Cluster.
• Active Directory Operations Support, Monitoring & troubleshooting.
• Implementation of Group Policies and security settings to ensure integrity of the network and privacy.
• Management of DHCP & DNS Servers.
• Managing Antivirus Server Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 Ver.
• Knowledge on ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Process.
• Monitoring Servers Using BMC Portal.
• Managing MS Exchange Server 2003.
• Management of Web Servers (IIS6.0).
• Active Directory Operations. Support, Monitoring & troubleshooting.
• Management of DHCP & DNS Servers.
• Management & Troubleshooting of Windows 2000/2003 Servers.
• Migration from windows 2000 server to Windows 2003 Server.
• Creating user accounts and assigning security rights to them.
• Creating and managing groups.
• Implementation of Group Policies and security settings to ensure integrity of the network and privacy.
• Creation of shared folders & folder redirection to manage the resources on the network.
• Managing resources and assigning rights to them.
• Configuration of local & network printers for end-users.
• Installed and configured Terminal Services Server and Client.
• Configuring Lotus Mail ID on the Lotus Domino Server.
• Maintaining overall health of the computers.
• Install virus protection software on PC's and regularly update it with new patches.
• Perform daily backups, maintain backup system, and verify that backups are working on all critical systems.
• Troubleshoots network connection problems and workstation configuration issues.