SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of solid experience in Backup storage solutions architecture design, installation, configuration and administration in mission critical production environments in at large IT organizations.
• Having 8+ years of core experience in Backup technologies design, implementation and administration and Management, with excellent knowledge in TSM(Tivoli Storage Manager), CommVault, Data domain, EMC Avamar/Net backup technologies.
• Solid knowledge of system backup procedures
• Implemented and managed backup environments with EMC Avamar / Net Backup / CommVault / TSM.
• Worked in a backup environment where more TEMPthan 2500 clients, 150 media servers and average daily data backup size is more TEMPthan 1.2 PB.
• Addition of Media Server, Partitioning of tape libraries for master/media servers setting up of SAN.
• Implemented NetBackup for VMWARE in the environment. Vcenter used for mapping the ESX and backup proxy server (virtual machine) being used for performing backups.
• Installation, Implementing, Configuring and Administration of CommVault/Simpana.
• Working experience on TSM Implementation, up gradation, Administration and troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager Server and Client on Windows and UNIX platforms.
• Close monitoring of backup and disaster recovery systems and how to apply and upgrade to an organization’s benefit.
• Strong Interpersonal, analytical and investigation skills, with a structured approach to problem solving.
• Configuring & Managing TSM Database, Storage pools, Recovery log and Policy Management.
• Installing and configuring B/A clients, TDP SQL and TDP oracle as per the client requirements
• DRM implementation and LAN - Free configuration

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Backup software: TSM Server 6.x/7.1 BA Client, TDP SQL, TDP ORACLE,TDP Exchange, TDP Oracle, TDP ERP, CommVault 9.0/10.0, NetBackup, EMC Avamar.

Operating systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012, Linux (RHEL5 &6), AIX, Solaris, HP-UX.

Hardware: IBM 3582/3583/3584/ TS3100/TS3200, LTO Libraries, EMC Data Domain DD2500, DD4200

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Kenilworth, NJ

Sr. Backup Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Configuring & Managing TSM backup, upgrade, administration and troubleshooting Tivoli storage manager server and client on windows and UNIX platforms.
• Configured Commserver, Media agent’s, Client & database idata agent’s and Library’s
• Library Management, maintaining Scratch Volumes and Log Monitoring daily.
• Working on DRM, Export and Import admin Process.
• Experience in involving Backup, Recovery and Administration tasks such as Migration, reclamation and Expiration.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Client and Admin schedules.
• Reviewed and managed client backup data to ensure successful storage data protection.
• Made on-site visits for everything from training to server and hardware maintenance
• Worked with clients to assess needs and implemented procedures and tasks for appropriate backup protocols.
• Performed NBU Media server, client installation and configuration.
• Configured and managed NBU backup systems.
• Performed system backup duties and routine checks.
• Developed and implemented updated backup policies.
• Installation, configuration and administration of EMC Data Domain.
• Administration of Avamar gen 5.
• Prepared documentation of practices processes and policies regarding net backups

Confidential, Plantation, FL

Backup Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Configuring & Managing TSM backup, upgrade, administration and troubleshooting Tivoli storage manager server and client on windows and UNIX platforms.
• Administrative operations in TSM Server for Controlling Migration process, backup storage pools, TSM DB backup, volhist backup, device configuration backup, Expire inventory processes.
• Experience in involving Backup, Recovery and Administration tasks such as Migration, reclamation and Expiration.
• Planning TSM backups with required retention periods based on the Client Implementation Request, and associating them to the schedules.
• Auditing Tape volume errors and restoring data from copy tape.
• TSM migration between data centers.
• Perform daily health checks on regular basis and work on the point of interest.
• Configured and managed NBU backup systems.
• Prepared documentation of practices processes and policies regarding net backups
• Installation and configuration of backup software for iData Agent, SQL and Oracle agents, scheduling the clients for backups.

Confidential

Sr. TSM Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working on Schedules to take periodic backups of Production Servers
• Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG and client schedules; if any failures working on it based on the priority.
• Worked on DRM activities and troubleshooting TDP backups issues
• Reporting the backup status to the superiors and working on the client restorations.
• Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes as well as cleaning cartridges.
• Tuning of TSM Server and client parameters to improve backup performance.
• Configuration of TSM Reporting for all TSM servers
• Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths.
• Experienced TSM DB Restoration, Recovery log and DB high utilization and crashed.
• DRM implementation and LAN-Free configuration
• Recover the Missed Primary, Copy and Active STG pool volumes.
• Define and Configure the Policy domain, Policy Set, Management class, Backup copy group, Archive copy group and its parameters as per Customers requirement.
• Configuring TSM operations like expiration, migration, reclamation, collocation etc.
• Monitoring client, admin schedule and tape library status.
• Working on missed/failed schedules (Client and Admin)

Confidential

TSM Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working on Schedules to take periodic backups of Production Servers
• Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG and client schedules; if any failures working on it based on the priority.
• Reporting the backup status to the superiors and working on the client restorations.
• Tuning of TSM Server and client parameters to improve backup performance.
• Configuration of TSM Reporting for all TSM servers
• Tape Library availability, performance monitoring & reporting of drives and paths.
• Experienced TSM DB Restoration, Recovery log and DB high utilization and crashed.
• DRM implementation and LAN-Free configuration
• Recover the Missed Primary, Copy and Active STG pool volumes.
• Performed DB Reorganization.
• Define and Configure the Policy domain, Policy Set, Management class, Backup copy group, Archive copy group and its parameters as per Customers requirement.
• Configuring TSM operations like expiration, migration, reclamation, collocation etc.