SUMMARY:

A successful backup engineer of 20+ years of technical experience and over 8 years of management experience with recognized strength in implementing & supporting advanced network solutions. Competent project manager that excels in managing customer expectations and providing service level expectations on time and on budget. Proven history in corporate IT environments, capable of implementing standards and preparing procedures and documentation to enhance efficiency of support and operations, with a strong ability to train, motivate and lead a team.

SKILL SUMMARY:

• Technical Project Management
• Solaris 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, Linux, Redhat Linux, RMP Package Manager, HP - UX, SGI Irix, Mac OS X 10.4-10.5 Leopard, Windows Server Windows NT / 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / 2012 ; Windows XP, Windows 7 / 8, Cisco IOS 11
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS 1.3), Volume Manager, & Oracle 4 Node Cluster; Envizex X Term; Exceed X Windows Manager; UNIX/LINUX Kernel Tuning; Citrix Metaframe; LVM Logical Volume Manager
• Scanners, Nmap, SATAN
• Sun Ultra 5, 10, 60 Workstations
• SAN Storage Area Network
• Samba (NT UNIX file sharing)
• Brocade Silkworm 4100, 2800, 2400 Fabric, Fiber Channel, (Fcal)
• Squid (Internet Proxy Cache servers) Crossroads 4450 Bridge
• Hitachi Storage Area Network 9200, 7000, 5000 Series
• Virtual Private Networks
• Firewalls

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management of various client projects involving large and small scale backup systems including Netbackup, Backup Exec, and TSM. Development and execution of budget cost structures, project plans & timelines. Implementation and upgrade of backup systems, including tape duplication, disaster recovery testing, systems restoration, and site duplication.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development of the Confidential backup reporting environment, including documentation, SQL reporting environment, management of the StorageScape Portal, Installation of remote Client Sites, Diagnosis of backup environment issues, front facing client sales, Support of OnSite Technical Staff, Reporting to CIO Level of Quantitative / Qualitative Backup Analysis

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Auditing of Multiple Backup systems & Methodologies.
• Preparing written backup audit reports for various clients
• Designed backup report templates and SQL Queries for VTL/Tape based backup metrics using Aptare Storage Console.
• Prepared written reports including Quantitative/Qualitative backup analysis.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical Sales, management and installation of Aptare backup reporting software.
• Management of Confidential Aptare Portal, including Database maintenance, custom reporting.
• Prepared custom report templates used to report on customer backup infrastructures, including Veritas Netbackup, Backup Exec, TSM, Networker.
• Designed reports for physical & virtual (VTL) tape drive metrics.
• Upgrades of Netbackup 6.0 / 6.5 with infrastructure redesign.
• Maintained of SalesForce.com database, Meetings with Webex & Gotomeeting.

Confidential

Technical Sales

Responsibilities:

• backupVISUAL backup reporting software.
• Customer Sales/Support, including custom queries, Backup System Design & Analysis / Troubleshooting, Storage Area Network Support including Switching & NDMP installations. BackupVisual & Aptare backup reporting tools.

Confidential

Project Manager / SAN Engineer / NetBackup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Re-design and hands on deployment of entire NetBackup 6.0 Infrastructure, including NOM Net Backup Operations Manager, Complete Backup infrastructure Confidential BackupVisual Reporting tool & Email Notifications, Unix SAN Media Servers, Installation of EMC Celerra NDMP SAN based backup, Netbackup Advanced Client, Oracle 9i & 10g Hot backups, Sepaton Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Vault Configuration, Hardware ADIC/Quantum.
• Management of EMC Clariion Disk Arrays, EMC Celerra, EMC Centera, Disaster Recovery Plan using SunGuard Services.
• Navi Analyzer, Cisco 9506 San Switch Management & Configuration including zoning & cabling.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation & configuration of Solaris 10, Upgrade from Solaris 9, and Systems Administration of Samba Servers.
• Installed & configured Apache Web Server.
• Architected Fault Tolerance & Fail over design of Samba using Veritas VCS, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas File System and VXVM Disk management software.
• Assorted administration including patching, various software installs.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administration including Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, Veritas VCS Cluster Server Administration, Veritas VXVM File System, Apache/Tomcat Webserver installations, Conversion from NIS to LDAP, Installation of Sun Directory Server, Directory Proxy Server, Testing of SUN Java System Windows 2003 Active Directory Synchronization.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Level 2 Technical Support of Trading Applications, Cluster Applications.
• Technical Support of SOLARIS UNIX hardware E series & Software Systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed & Installed Veritas Cluster Server (VCS 1.3) / Volume Manager Oracle 4 Node Cluster using SUN E 3500 Series Servers. Wrote Cluster Test Scripts, and Per/Post Online Offline Scripts.
• Wrote Test Plan Procedures, Initiated Test Plan.
• Wrote backup procedures using Veritas Netback up 3.4 Data center.
• Installed Veritas Netback up & Tape robots.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed Veritas Netbackup Data Center 3.4 with Qualstar tape Robot, replaced existing Confidential and Bresil Q2 drives with new Qualstar.
• Installed Master Server and clients on SUN Solaris, Confidential AIX, HP HPUX, Linux, Windows NT.
• Designed automatic Tape Volume Pool with barcode Rules.
• Configured Backup notify scripts.
• Setup schedule for Catalog backups.
• Setup all Classes for backups.
• Monitored and reported on backups.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed & configured Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager / SAN Storage Area Networking Projects.
• Reinstalled Various HP Machines in the CDMA environment including HP V2500, HP K Series, HP D Series.
• Tuned kernels for Oracle. Installed & configured Netbackup.
• Migrated Windows NT/2000 500 Gig File Systems from Compaq 4100 Fiber Storage Array to Hitachi 9920 Storage Array.
• Migrated Windows NT/2000 100 Gig File Systems from EMC Clarion SCSI Storage Array to Hitachi 9920 Storage Array, using Brocade Mulit-homed Light Pulse 9000 Cards.
• Created and migrated user home directories form existing storage to managed storage on Storage Area Network.
• Wrote scripts to unshared move, and re-share home directories. Installed and evaluated Veritas Volume Manager for NT.
• Installed WLBS for Microsoft IIS server using ClearQuest/ClearCase Web services front-end.
• Installed new Compaq 1U Web Servers. Upgraded NT 4 to 2000 Load Balance for user home directories.
• Monitored Performance of NT network, including DHCP, WINS, Disk, SAN, Memory, etc.
• Wrote script to monitor and reboot servers if web services stopped functioning.
• Installed NT/SUN Citrix Metaframe servers, clients using ICA protocol to support remote software builds using MRX, Tornado, C++ development software.
• Installed 200 user Metaframe clients remotely using NT login scripts. Supported/ Monitored Citrix services /memory requirements.
• Installed Clustered SUN SAN Environment dedicated to Clearcase & NFS File Server Support Migrated Sun Cluster 2 to Veritas Cluster Server, Clustered Sun Hardware with Veritas Cluster Server 1.3.
• Architected / designed Multi Terabyte SAN Storage Area Networks using Brocade, Hitachi, Crossroads, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas San Point HA.
• Designed Veritas Snap Shot Backup System for Clear case 3.x 4.x Vob.
• Installed Veritas Serverless backup.
• Wrote PERL High Availability HA scripts for Clearcase fail over.
• Designed Microsoft NT Fault tolerance with Windows Load Balancing Services (WLBS) & Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS).
• Clustered Oracle with Veritas VCS and Veritas Oracle Agents.
• Replaced Rman backup with Veritas Netbackup Agents and Standalone Veritas Netbackup Server.
• Provided primary Veritas Training and Support to Confidential Staff.
• Also instructed staff on differences between High Availability HA and Fault Tolerance.
• Managed CDMA IT Functional Teams.
• Teams had the following focuses, Sun/HP Unix, Windows NT 2000 Upgrades, NIS, LDAP, Active Directory Migration, Help Desk.
• Managed a team with 5 direct report and 15 team members.