Career Objective: A results driven IT Professional with a unique ability for implementing solutions that meet service delivery needs, looking to obtain a mutually beneficial position that will allow me to fully utilize my skills and expertise I have garnered within my past experience.

Key Skills:

• Significant experience with Tivoli Storage Manager and AIX
• Implementation and administration of Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3/5.4/5.5/6.1/6.2 on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Knowledge of DRM and LANFREE.
• Knowledge of libraries, tape management and firmware upgrades.
• Proactive management style with ability to engender team loyalty through effective training and mentoring

Education & Qualifications:

B.E Electronics

Professional Certification: Certified Tivoli Storage Manager V5.5 Administration

Professional Experience / Career Profile:

May 2011 - Present

Storage Administrator

Confidential

• Analyzes, designs, implements and maintains IBM Tivoli storage manager on windows platform.
• Performs detailed analysis of backup, restore & archival process and implement as per the best policy & in a single or multimedia environment.
• Prepares and presents best methodology, process to integrate backups and storage in a single unified platform.
• Installs, configures and troubleshoots Tivoli storage (TSM) for maximum uptime.
• Takes a proactive initiative for the tuning of the TSM/ other backup software within the corporate and data centre environment.
• Integrates TSM with SAN/NAS in environment & setup.
• Manages windows and implement the performance tuning, patch management and other maintenance jobs on TSM implemented in pacific controls.
• Performs DR Disaster Recovery drills & coordinate with internal and external auditors for successful audit.
• Troubleshoots hardware & software issues on TSM & other Backup software as when introduced in the system & network platform.
• Transfers the knowledge to the juniors and training them in TSM for day to day and other L2 activities.
• Performs health checks and maintain the SAN boxes (IBM DS boxes) and SAN switches.
• Troubleshoots SAN, switches for maximum uptime.
• TSM SERVER MANAGEMENT:
• Configures TSM DB, Recovery LOG and Storage Pools as per the Client requirements
• Defines admin schedules for process like Expiration, Storage Pool Migration, Collocation and Reclamation of TAPE Storage Pool Volumes
• Checks administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG; any failure issues are resolved based on priority levels
• Checks activity log for any HARDWARE or Application related errors
• Upgrade TSM server version as per the release and maintain to ensure optimum
• Schedules the SQL backups and perform restore on regular basis on cluster server
• Trains the Team by imparting TSM knowledge and prepare of L1 and L2 support
• LIBRARY MANAGEMENT:
• Configuring library and library paths, drives and drive paths, device class
• Audit Library if any mismatch in LIBRARY inventory and TSM inventory
• Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes
• Troubleshoot and resolve the hardware issues if any and perform the firmware upgrade of the drives and library to maintain good health of the tape library

Sep 2006-Mar 2011

Operation Senior Lead specialist

Confidential

• TSM Server Management, Client Management [Registration, Installation/configuring client parameters, associating to schedules and scheduler service configuring], Tape Management [check-in check-out, Audit volume, restore volume, Scratch Maintenance], Library Management [Drive status, cleaning and power cycling, Gripper issues, Audit Library] and Health Check of all TSM SERVERS, checking all reports of TSM SERVERS.
• Configuration and administration of TSM SERVERS, configuring Policy Management, based on the Client requirements.
• Troubleshooting Recovery LOG, DB, and Storage pool issues.
• Checking Client and Admin Schedules and if any failures triggering manual backup such as: TSM server processes expiration, DBBACKUP, Migration, Reclamation.
• Resolving the issues based on priority and SLA.
• Performance Tuning of TSM SERVER and Client.
• Perform upgrade of the TSM servers to the version supported by L4 support.
• Responding to RFS activities on the servers as per the requirement such as: migration of SAN (DS box to SV), ATLs (Migration from 3494 to 3584 or TS3500).
• Perform DR drills and involve in external and internal audits
• Defining scripts using SQL Statements for daily reports and facilitating as per defined priority
• Troubleshooting AIX hardware issues, file system maintenance, APAR and firmware upgrades.

TSM SERVER MANAGEMENT:

• Configuring TSM DB, Recovery LOG and Storage Pools as per Client requirement
• Configuring SERVER process including Expiration, Storage Pool Migration, Collocation and Reclamation of TAPE Storage Pool Volumes
• Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG; ensures any failure issues are resolved based on priority levels
• Registering nodes to the proper Policy Domain and associating to schedules
• Checking activity log for any HARDWARE or Application related errors

LIBRARY MANAGEMENT

• Configuring library and library paths, drives and drive paths, device class
• If any Drive related or Volume related errors, move the data of the volume to destroy the Volume based on the number of READ/ WRITE errors
• Audit Volume if any inconsistency in Volumes Data, Restores Volume
• Audit Library if any mismatch in LIBRARY inventory and TSM inventory
• Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes

PERFORMANCE TUNING:

• Configuring Performance tuning parameters in Client as well as in TSM SERVER to improve the Backup and restore speed
• If any change needed for improving the performance of TSM SERVER or BACKUP speed, contacting leads for change request

Technical Strengths

Hardware Servers:

• IBM 3494
• IBM 3583
• IBM 3573
• 3584 Ultrium Library
• IBM P Series
• IBM DS3000

Operating Systems:

• AIX 5.2, 5.3,6.1
• Linux
• Win 2K3

Application Servers:

• TSM 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2