OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a position that offers new career opportunities, challenges, and growth. While utilizing and enhancing my skills in the storage, backup and recovery fields.

SUMMARY:

• 12 plus years of TSM Administration Experience. Production Support for a multiple Petabyte TSM environment and daily issue resolution. Plan, design, and build TSM servers and backup solutions. Plan, implement, and test TDP (Tivoli Data Protection) solutions for Oracle, DB2, and SQL.
• Plan configure test and support Library Manager, LAN - Free, STK, IBM tape libraries. Plan and configure EMC CDL, and Falconstor virtual tape libraries. Plan, configure and upgrade Data Domain virtual tape libraries and DD Boost. Plan install and configure Overland Storage REO series VTL Extensive, experience in configuring backups on AIX, Solaris, LINUX and Wintel servers.
• Disaster Recovery design, implementation and testing. Plan, test, and implement TSM upgrades and patches. Follow established change control processes and policies to plan, document and schedule changes in the environment.
• 1 plus years SAN Administration experience. Production Support of EMC Symmetrix DMX, Clariion, HDS Lightning, and HDS AMS storage arrays.
• Production support of Brocade, McData, and Cisco Fibre Channel switches. Follow established change control processes and policies to plan, document and schedule changes in the environment.
• Heavy, experience in command-line on Symmetric, Brocade, and Cisco.
• 5 years of Systems Administration experience. Production support of AIX and Solaris, and 1 year of HP-UX experience.
• Install new hardware.
• Installation, upgrade, and patching of the OS. Shell scripting.
• Support DR exercises.
• Application migration to new servers.
• User account and filesystem management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Production support of the TSM backup and recovery environment.
• Design, configure and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan and upgrade and maintain the backup and disaster recovery environment.
• .Plan, install and configure new TSM servers and upgrade existing servers.
• Planned and performed upgrades on EMC Data Domain VTL.
• Implemented TSM automatic client deployment/upgrade.
• Worked with internal teams and Zenoss developers to create a TSM Zen pack for TSM monitoring and automated trouble ticketing.
• Perform small POC of Avamar and Veeam for the virtual server environment.
• Explored the use of Data Domain DD Boost and CIFS as backup targets.

Confidential, Dublin, Ohio

Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Production support of all Cogent customer supported backups, globally.
• Production support for Cogent internal backups and disaster recovery.
• Design and install backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Plan and implement upgrades for backup and disaster recovery.
• Assisted with the implementation of the DR network upgrade and design and implementation of Cogent Corporate disaster recovery backup environment.
• Planned and implemented VTL solutions at customer sites and at Cogent Corporate data center.
• Use a variety of backup software mostly Tivoli Storage Manager, NTBackup, HP Data Protector, Windows 2008 Windows Server Backup.
• Use Windows 2008 Windows Server Backup for small remote sites and use of the BMR (Bare Metal Restore) for disaster recovery.
• Provide Unix Administration and SAN support for our customers and internally.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

SAN Engineer, Storage Production

Responsibilities:

• Production support of a multiple Petabyte storage environment on EMC Symmetrix/DMX, EMC Clariion.
• Production support of one of the largest private sector Brocade SAN environment, with a port count over 42,000
• Production support of McData and Cisco SAN fabrics, with a port count of over 20,000
• Proficient in provisioning storage using Symm CLI, Navisphere Manager
• Proficient in performing zoning on Brocade, Cisco and Mcdata switches
• Provided storage-related assistance to line of business customers as needed
• Production Support of EMC SRDF and BCV. Hitachi Shadow Image and True Copy.
• Support for DR exercises and data center power down tests.
• Production support for changes and upgrades to the SAN environment including vendor microcode, firmware and hardware failures.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

TSM Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, and build new TSM servers
• Review, test, and apply TSM versions and patches when released
• Manage TSM user accounts, permissions
• System capacity monitoring and planning for backup solutions
• Daily monitoring and resolution of tape drive and library issues
• Daily monitoring of backup success and failure
• Daily reporting of backup and success and failures from Bocada
• Installation and configuration of multiple TSM server instances on one physical server
• Install Configure, and maintain TSM TDP for DB2
• Install, Configure, and maintain TSM TDP for Oracle
• Install, Configure and maintain TSM TDP for Domino
• Install configure and maintain Lan-Free
• Configure the Falconstor VTL clients, create virtual tape drives, and virtual tapes
• Training of new hires.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain system availability according to SLA agreements.
• Perform system maintenance.
• Review, test, and apply system patches.
• Perform new system installs.
• Review, test, and apply application patches when released.
• Manage user accounts, files, and permissions.
• Monitor and maintain system security.
• System capacity monitoring and planning.
• Daily monitoring of system performance.
• Monitor and resolve server related backup issues.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Senior Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Production batch support.
• Conversion from Mainframe job scheduling package to a UNIX based job-scheduling package
• Support miscellaneous daily batch problems.
• Assist developers with production and development issues.
• New UNIX application migration.
• PVCS local application administrator.
• Ardent DataStage administrator.
• Attended Forte and Chordiant Administration training.
• Forte and Chordiant Administrator
• Disaster Recovery

Confidential, Columbus Ohio

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain RS/6000 AIX SP, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris servers in a large data center environment.
• Maintain system availability.
• Install RS/6000 SP servers.
• Upgrade operating system with new releases.
• Apply operating system and application patches when released.
• Manage user accounts, files, and permissions.
• Monitor and maintain system security.
• Maintain a reliable backup schedule and application for disaster.
• System capacity monitoring and planning.