SUMMARY

• I am an IT infrastructure specialist with experience in the industry since November 2008. I am highly skilled in the planning, designing and implementing on a Data Center with Storage and Backup along with the Disaster Recovery and High Availability. I also have experience in leading a technical team for the Data Center support activities and coordinating with vendors to purchase and get the facilities installed.
• Design and Implement the backup and Storage infrastructure using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with IBM ProtecTIER, Hitachi HUS disk subsystems, IBM DS6K Storages, IBM 3584 Tape Libraries on IBM P7 servers with AIX in HA mode.
• Define the process and implement the disaster recovery for the backup and storage infrastructure using FCIP with Brocade Emulex switches
• Create and manage SAN, disk and tape storage for backup and storage infrastructure using Brocade switches, Hitachi Command Suite, IBM 3500 GUI, and IBM ProtecTIER GUI.
• Manage multipathing software on RHEL, openSuSE, AIX used for tape and disk subsystem multipathing
• Implement and define a process for Tivoli Bare Metal Recovery (TBMR).
• Implement operation and monitoring tools for TSM like Tivoli Operations Center, Tivoli monitoring, Predator, TSM Manager.
• Provide a design and structure to EMC to implement Avamar, Networker, DataDomain with DPA and coordinate with EMC to complete the implementation process.
• Work physically in a datacenter and coordinate with vendors to do the hardware installation, upgrade, and replacement activity on Servers, Storages, Tape libraries, SAN and Ethernet switches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Backup Software: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager,EMC Networker,SymentecNetbackup,EMC Avamar

Storage Devices: IBM 3500 Tape libraries,IBMProtecTIERVTL,Hitachi HUS, EMC Datadomain,EMC VNX, IBM 6k storage,Quantom (adic) Scalar tape libraries,HP Scalar Tape Libraries

Switches: Brocade ICX, DCX,Emulex

Management software: Brocade Network Advisor,IBM System storage GUI, Hitachi Command suite, HP and Adic tape library GUI

Operating System & Virtualization platforms: IBM AIX, Windows server 2000/2003/2008/2012 , SuSE, RHE Linux, HP - UX, VmWare& ESX

Server Hardware: Dell PowerEdge and Dell blades,HP and Compaq Servers

Other Supporting skills: Shell& Perl Scripting, VB scripting, HP Service Manager, BMC Remedy, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Addison, TX

Datacenter and DR Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Datacenter operations person monitor and enable the smooth running of datacenter without failures.
• Maintenance activity on the hardware like faulty battery, mother board, hard disk, power supply replacement.
• Addition of storage disk to Storage arrays and tapes to tape libraries
• Maintenance of servers, storage, SAN and backups.
• Coordinating with vendors to install new devices and self-install if required
• Overall understating of the datacenter capacity and project managers for technical up gradation,
• Verify and keep the licenses and maintenance contracts up to date.
• Coordinate and guide the offshore teams to fix the software issues.

Confidential, NY

Team Lead - Backup and Storage

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the team.
• Provide Technical assistance to the team.
• Technical responsibility include:
• Gather the infrastructure architecture from the client partners
• Migrate the TSM from AIX to RHE Linux and upgrade to v7.1
• Expand the tape libraries
• Manage the IBM ProtecTIER and Hitachi HUS
• Design and configure the backup SAN switched and implement Fiber channel routing(LSAN), FCIP(OSTP) and Traffic Isolation
• Install upgrade and manage the Netwoker clients and server.
• Configure new backups to Netwoker and TSM
• Manage the shell, perl scripts used for the operations.
• Manage the backup continuity services for disaster recovery by IBM DB2 replication
• Team Management responsibility includes:
• Interview and select resources with adequate knowledge as per the project guidelines
• Provide the technical orientation for the team
• Act as a people manager for the team and resolve their day to day official needs.

Environment: Backup Software

Confidential

Backup and Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of the infrastructure by coordinating with the technical teams and getting the required approvals.
• Coordinating with EMC vendor for the EMC installations.
• Coordinating with IBM vendor for the licenses.
• Major tasks that were done as a part of the project were
• Plan the re-design of the backup infrastructure and which client backups to be moved to be retained in TMS and which to be moved to EMC setup
• Coordinate with the teams to install and setup the TSM environment.
• Configure the SAN and storage environment for backup.
• Purchase and Setup the non EMC appliances for EMC backup infrastructure.
• Redesign the backup procedures and backup flow.
• Test the TSM and EMC backups and verify if the backups are happened as per the design
• Train and handover to the operations team for the daily activities.
• Enable VMware backups to TSM.
• Implement encryption manager in TSM.
• Design, Plan and test the DR setup
• Redesign and implement the NetApp filer backups using NDMP.
• Manage the expansion of tape library.
• Develop scripts for installation, DR and daily monitoring activities.
• Setup IBM monitoring for the TSM and clients
• Setup the EMC DPA for EMC backup infrastructure monitoring

Environment: Backup Software IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, EMC Networker, SymentecNetbackup, EMC Avamar

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Backup and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain SAN and disk storage on high availability computing systems.
• Verify that the database file system has enough space.
• Examine the database percent utilization, available free space, and free-pages.
• Verify that there is enough disk space in the file systems that contain these log files.
• Active log
• Archive log
• Mirror log
• Archive failover log
• Verify that the instance directory file system has enough space.
• Verify that the database backups completed successfully, and that they are running frequently enough.
• Check the database and recovery log statistics.
• Verify that you have current backup files for device configuration and volume history information. You can find the file names for the backups by looking in the dsmserv.opt file for the DEVCONFIG and VOLUMEHISTORY options. Ensure that file systems where the files are stored have sufficient space.
• Search the summary table for failed processes.
• Search the activity log for error messages.
• For storage pools that have deduplication enabled, ensure that processes are completing successfully.
• Check the status of your storage pools to ensure that there is enough space available.
• Check for any failed storage pool migrations.
• Check the status of sequential access storage pools.
• Check how many scratch volumes are available.
• Determine if there are any tape drives offline, or their paths that are offline.
• Determine if there are any libraries offline, or their paths that are offline.
• Verify that all of the tapes have the appropriate write-access.
• Verify the status and settings for disaster recovery manager (DRM).
• Check for failed or missed schedules.
• Check the summary table for scheduled client operations such as backup, restore, archive, and retrieve.
• Check the summary table for scheduled server operations such as migration, reclamation, and expiration.