Microsoft Data Protection Manager Resume Harrisburg, PA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Senior Backup Administrator, experienced in breaking chaotic situations down into component problems that can be individually resolved.
Excellent administrative abilities and financial instincts. Skilled in improving efficiency and reducing waste.
Disciplined, ethical, capable of independent work as well as teamwork. Previously held Secret and Top Secret clearances.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Responsibilities:

Learned Microsoft DPM well enough to support it and translate the values from one to another. Also discovered that though the times were set in Greenwich Mean Time, the scheduling was done as if Eastern and Central US time zones. Corrected these.
Prepared detailed reports based on DPM to ease the transition to NetWorker.
Set up backup directives, savegroups and client profiles for all the NetWorker clients. Prepared Data Domain disk pools, clone pools, backup and clone schedules and clone tape pools.
Installed and tested NetWorker APIs for SQL and Exchange.

Confidential, Chandler, Arizona

Data Domain platform

Responsibilities:

Using SMS reports and a close review of NetBackup values, prepared detailed listings of all client resources and characteristics.
Divided the clients to be migrated to Networker from those to Avamar.
Set up backup directives, savegroups and client profiles for all the NetWorker clients while teaching customer administrators how to do this and preparing screenshot documents for their use.
Tested backups to verify success, including those of cluster servers.
Worked wif customer schedulers to setup the Control - M job schedules.

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Senior TSM Administrator

Responsibilities:

Migrated 7,300 client server backups from Legato Networker to NetBackup, Windows 2003, 2008, Unix, Linux.
Ensured backups of Oracle RMAN processes and SQL databases succeeded. Worked wif DBA teams to resolve issues.
Provided input for the preparation of the NetBackup infrastructure.
Requested and manipulated DPA reports to produce lists of problems to correct.
Moved all data off the virtual tape libraries used by Networker in order to reduce maintenance and utility expenses, prepared the EMC EDL (Virtual Tape Library) hardware for removal.
Consolidated data on tapes in specific retention pools to reduce space and tape consumption.
Prepared a detailed listing of tape drives and equipment to ensure continued backups and restores for the next 10 years. Laid the groundwork for the reconfiguration of 10 Legato master servers wif EMC assistance and the removal of 16 media servers plus two-thirds of the tape drives.
Provided reports of all clients and their status to ensure continued backup of essential data.
Managed three tape libraries servicing in excess of 130, 000 tapes and 18 Networker and NetBackup master servers.
Managed backups for 5000 client servers (Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Unix and Linux) to Avamar.

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Responsibilities:

Audited 20,284 client definitions across 10 Networker servers and corrected issues over a 3 month period in 2009. Eliminated duplication of 47 clients backing up the same data to two different master servers, removed 141 redundant jobs, removed 317 unnecessary client definitions, restarted backups on 14 clients that had been mistakenly stopped, and changed 698 backups from nonproduction to production classification to match the customer requirements to data retention.
Executed a detailed audit of over 100,000 tapes in two Oracle tape libraries and the 10 Networker master servers in 2008. This audit stopped the rampant overwriting of data that was ongoing in two data centers and stopped the further destruction of essential data. Captured the statistics on the destroyed data to reports for use in future investigations and put in safeguards to protect the data from loss. Coupled the audit wif an inventory by the Media Management Team to destroy old media no longer needed, remove from inventory the thousands of missing tapes, and tighten up the controls on physical media.
Developed methods of analysis to find and eliminate duplication of efforts and enhance backup reliability.

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Responsibilities:

Resolved space issues on the client servers, both windows and AIX.
Participated in several disaster recovery exercises at a geographically separated hot site.