OBJECTIVE

• My career objective is to use my proven technical and leadership abilities to deliver outstanding results to forward thinking organisations. I highly enjoy working with different technologies and people to improve and efficiently maintain the I.T. infrastructure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Lead Role/SME Netbackup

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configure and deploy backup files and scripts to SAP clients
• Train and prepare Data Protector intermediate and senior engineers for Netbackup
• Given the “Partnership First” recognition for the exemplary display of hard work and going the extra mile for the account
• Reduced the license cost by 10% by identifying and removing decommissioned hosts and databases
• Performed annual Disaster Recovery tests with 98% success rate

Sr. Storage and Backup Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced tapes cost by $20,000 plus a year by utilizing WAN link to do the back and forth replication of data between Jacksonville and Houston sites
• Upgraded Netbackup Appliances from all sites to 3.1.1 with Netbackup 8.1.1 to address Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability
• Identified and removed unnecessary data on backup rotation that saved the company thousands of dollars on license costs.
• Migrated all Windows Physical backup servers with 160TB of data to Netbackup Appliances
• Deployed new Netbackup Appliance 5230, 5240 and Virtual Appliance and configured Linux, Windows, Exchange, Oracle, MSSQL, VMWare (vmdk) and DFSR policies. Designed Storage Lifecycle Policies for duplication and replication jobs
• Installed and configured OpsCenter Analytics to generate Capacity License and daily and monthly backup jobs reports
• Troubleshot and configured tape drives and library.
• Assisted in storage related tasks like Hitachi Vantara and Synology iSCSI LUN provisioning

Netbackup Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided day to day operational activities for backup and recovery teams including installation, configuration, monitoring and administration of Netbackup 6.5, 7.1, 7.5 and 7.6
• Continuously looked for opportunities to improve systems performance in terms of backup speed, minimizing errors and keeping all devices up
• Scheduled and implemented Change Management deployment tasks for system changes and upgrade
• Logged service calls to IBM, Oracle or Symantec as required to address unprecedented incidents
• Created a bash script to identify bad tapes on the rotation