SUMMARY

• Storage Architect with 13+ years of professional IT consulting experience with 9+ years in the Storage & Backup arena focusing on Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager and Confidential Storage, Brocade and Cisco SAN Environments.
• Proven consulting skills in managing, designing, planning and implementing Backup and Storage solutions comprising various Confidential modules to clients from Fortune 100 companies.
• Experienced in transforming customer business requirements into a comprehensive solutions using the appropriate methods, tools, and technologies.
• Experienced in integrating Confidential modules Tivoli Data Protection of Databases, TDP for VMWare, Tivoli Flash Copy Manager, Total Storage Productivity Center (TPC).
• Experienced in design and supporting EMC Networker, Data Domain and Avamar Technologies.
• Managed environments with Networker, Avamar and Data Domain technologies.
• Specialization in Storage Administration & Virtualization, Exposure to Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager, SVC, Confidential SAN, TPC, Cisco & HDS SAN environments and have design and implementation of Data Domain DD880g.
• Built from scratch many highly effective, highly efficient, large Confidential environments.
• Managed largest Confidential environment so far with simultaneous growth to 50 Confidential instances, 28 Confidential Library managers, 4 large 3500 Tape libraries with all hardware equally duplicated between two production datacenters and two hot Confidential DR sites including remote tape vaulting.
• Proven ability to work with multi cultural teams, lead 30+ backup team, and 15+ team located onsite, offshore - India.
• Managed all aspects of solution delivery as a Solution Architect, Lead Consultant and as functional expert.
• Presented recommendations and Confidential architectures that provide fast backups and equally fast restore.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Working as and Technical Solutions Architect for Confidential Software Labs with Storage team, design and Implementation of Backup Environment with Confidential .
• The ability to architect and build an infrastructure that will work within your existing environment and build a plan to migrate your current Confidential environment to an improved one. For Confidential, this would include the correct amount of SAN and/or LAN. The best approach to deploying a SAN. Describe designed points around whether to have a separate backup LAN or SAN or a single LAN or a single Disk/backup SAN.
• Took part and solved major critsits and received appreciations from the customer.
• Involved in the Backup & Storage Infrastructure optimization projects for major telecom customers.
• Engaged in the different presale discussions and played major role in winning deals.
• Performed Storage and backup assessments and provided recommendations which helped clients in optimizing their environments for above customers .

Lead Architect,

Confidential, US

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Confidential as Confidential Architect. This is the Largest Confidential environment so far has been a combination of conversion with simultaneous growth to 50 Confidential instances.
• 2 Large Confidential TS3500 Tape Libraries with all hardware equally duplicated between two production datacenters and two hot Confidential DR Sites including remote tape vaulting.
• This environment is completely architected with Library Manager and Library Client concept. In this environment I have also configured and supported TS7520,7530,7520 VTLs which has been used as Lanfree clients.
• The entire backup data of the Production site will get replicated to DR site through Confidential .
• Responsible for supporting the Cienna devices and CNT Brocade switches through which the entire data gets replicated to the DR site.
• Responsible for Brocade SAN Directors M48000 through which all the Lanfree backups has been configured by using the VTLs TS7510,7520,7530.

KDC3 Data Center Migration,

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built from scratch highly effective, highly efficient, Confidential environments.
• Worked in the migration of KDC1&2 datacenters to KDC3 Datacenter
• Replicated backup data from Production to DR by using High Speed Cisco LAN Switches and Cienna Hardware.
• Established Process and Procedures since the environment has been migrated from different architecture to the current architecture.
• Layout efficient admin schedules to manage the Confidential backend and data movement within Confidential as well as the schedules to manage the client backups and Confidential loading.
• Clients included but not limited to the installation of LAN-free clients and LAN-free windows clusters.
• The above environments also consist of Confidential for Databases like Oracle, MSSql and FlashCopy Manager with Dataprotection for Exchange Servers.
• Provided experts advise while designing and installing these environments.
• Worked with all versions of Confidential up through 6.2 but specializing in versions up to 5.5.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Working on Confidential AIX, RS6000 servers with Confidential installed with more than 3000 nodes connected to those servers.
• Working on Storage Libraries like 3494 & 3584 ATL and VTLs also.
• Supported AIX Servers with SSA disks and Fast’s connected to those servers.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting Tivoli Storage Manager Servers and Clients.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting TDP for Oracle, SQL, and my SAP
• Experienced in troubleshooting TDP for Exchange and Domino.
• Involved in setting up Confidential Client environment with DB2 Database.
• Experienced in setting up Confidential for Advanced Copy Services.
• Worked on Problem and Change management tools like CPMA, manage Now, Remedy etc.,
• Worked on maintenance of DR and Production sites for Confidential
• Have done performance tuning of BPebhs Confidential Server, which involves Load & Unload of the database, restructuring the Confidential Database and log Volumes.
• Worked on Confidential environment where Library Manager and Library Client Architecture has been setup.
• Worked on Disaster Recoveries which has been performed in lot of environments of Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Implemented a Configured Confidential Server with Disk pool, Primary Tape Storage and Copy Storage Pool with DRM modules & SAN environment in GSBC project.
• Lead a team of 19 people, helping them technically and process wise in all the technologies and accounts they are supporting.
• Helped the team to successfully complete AIX & Confidential upgrades to latest level and make sure that all the servers are complaint.
• Participated in the Defect Prevention Project of Confidential and reduced the backup failures in the Confidential environment.

Product Specialist,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Intel Based Confidential Servers like x440 and x345 running on Red hat Linux AS.2.1 with Db2 and Web sphere with Confidential Confidential (Tivoli Storage Manager).
• Good Working Knowledge in Configuring designing Tivoli Storage Manager for different environments.
• Worked on implementing failover technology with Linux Clustering on Confidential X440 servers using Red hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1.
• Used Policy domains, policy sets, management class, storage pools while Designing the Confidential for all the countries.
• Configured Confidential for taking Db2 backup which is running on Linux, which is a core banking database in Standard Chartered Bank.
• Worked in Configuring Confidential for taking backup from SAN.
• Configured Confidential Confidential Server for taking backup into SCSI libraries with LTO and LTO2 drivers like Confidential 4560slx and Optical Library.
• Worked in configuring Confidential for Confidential On demand Content Manager Server.
• Experience in configuring and expiring the backups and running reclamation on the storage pools for all the countries for the respective time and date.
• Having good working knowledge in the implementation Fastt600 and fastt200 with Exp400 SAN configuration with raid10 EXP 600
• Implemented Samba for file sharing in the Standard Chartered Bank.
• Good exposure in implementing clustering on Linux with DB2.
• Experienced in Leading a team consists of 6 members for Rolling out Ibanking of Standard Chartered Bank for the MESA Region

Systems Administrator,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Administered Confidential Confidential 5.1 for taking backup daily from file server and mail server.
• Administered Mail server like Sendmail on Sun E-250.
• Administered firewalls like Cisco Checkpoint firewall on Sun Netra T1.
• Maintained Cisco router 2600 and Cisco Switches 2950.
• Administrated Windows 2000 server.
• Provided Desktop support to all the users having Windows2000 professional, Windows XP.
• Vendor Interaction and Taking Backups of Solaris and windows servers.
• Maintained servers with Redhat Linux 8.0 7.3 7.2 which are configured with NFS and NIS.

System Administrator,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Configured and administering servers and gateways on Linux, Sun Solaris 2.8 and 2.7 and Windows NT.
• Installed, Configured and administered Linux gateways with IPChains as firewalls and IPSec for VPN with NAT and IPMasquerading.
• Installed, Configured and administered fileservers on Solaris and Linux with Linux Software Raid with DNS, DHCP, Samba, NIS, and NFS.
• Configured and administered Apache Web server with SSL module, mason implementation with PHP, Perl, MySQL, Virtual Hosting on Apache, FrontPage extensions and Accesscontol on Apache
• Configured and administered MailServers like Sendmail, Postfix, IMAP and POP3.
• Implemented Firewalls like IPChains on the Gateways and For accessing fileserver from outside with redirecting ports on the Gateway by using the secure tools like SSH, Sftp from outside.
• Implemented Version Controlling Systems on UNIX like CVS (Concurrent Versioning Systems).
• Implemented Samba Server on Linux and Solaris for accessing UNIX server from Windows Desktops.
• Dual booting on Sun Ultra 10 machine with Sun Solaris 2.8 and 2.7.
• Implemented NIS, NFS, DNS on the Sun Solaris 2.8 and 2.7.