SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of industry experience. 8 years of advance Netbackup Storage Administration, capacity planning and architecture.
• Extensive experience in Tape SAN technology, Backup Architecture and administration (Netbackup) Shell/PERL scripting
• SAN Storage administration (Hitachi, HP, XP24000, XP512 and StorageTek Flexline 280,380), Fiber Channel Switch configuration (Brocade)
• Experience in UNIX system administration (HP, AIX and SUN) and Window servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior backup administrator

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Migrate backup from LTO4 to Data Domain 890, 990 VTL and Ost, using SLP to replicate data from local DC to remote DC.
• Migrate master servers from non - cluster to VCS Linux cluster in 7 data centers.
• Upgrade master servers from 6.5.6 to 7.5.0.6
• Upgrade and migrate legacy backup from 4.5 to 6.5.6 environment
• Participate DR testing 3-4 times yearly.

Senior Storage System Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Leaded hardware and software backup system upgrade in Denver, San Francisco and Chicago campuses.
• Upgraded master servers and 20 media servers from Netbackup 5.1 to 6.5.3
• Designed and architected backup capacity to reflex corporate needs and changes.
• Played a key role on SAN administration for Open Systems managing over 500 TB of enterprise Tier1 and Tier2 storage. Main tasks include assigning storage for numerous projects, performance tuning, capacity planning (using SAN Screen and HiCommand), firmware upgrade planning and coordination.
• Migrated TAN switches from Brocade 3800/3900 to Brocade48K.
• Responsibility increased from one backup domain to four. Mentoring two new team members from no backup experience to be able to manage daily operations and basic scripting.
• Migrated half of Open system backup from Omniback to Veritas; from 9310 two 9710 tape libraries to SL8500. And, migrated master server from HPUX service guard to a VCS cluster. To increase backup productivity of SSO 9940B drives utilization diverted slow and small backup to DSSU on STK Flexline 280. Created backup template script to advise operator how to response to backup error properly.
• Solved a major Netbackup performance issue for a 17TB DB2 system, after newly accepted the role of Backup Storage Administration and being the only member in the team, by applying previous technical trouble shoot and shell scripting expertise. The company’s backup system in main campus consisted of a master server ran in a HPUX Service Guard cluster, 6 HPUX media server, 8 AIX SAN media servers and a Window server behind a firewall.

Senior Distributed Systems Support

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked different shifts in a team of five to achieve 24/7 Level2 support for the entire enterprise Open System including hundreds of Unix applications running on AIX, HP/UX clusters and standalone systems.
• Analyzed from Service Center and HP Openview system monitor logs to identify repeated problems and coordinate wif developers and System administrators to implement long term solutions.

System Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Migrating 40 mission critical applications from EMC to XP storage.
• Mission critical systems in High availability environment (Service Guard).
• DNS servers and Intranet servers.