PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Around *.* years of Experience in Backup & Storage Technologies, DR and Unix System Administration with in an Enterprise Storage, Backup and Recovery Environment. Expertise includes Storage Area Networks (SAN), Backup and Disaster Recovery, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Datadomain, EMC SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Administration of EMC Storage DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2, CLARiiON CX4, CX3, CX600/700.

• Strong storage management and data protection skills, Designing, Administering and implementing backup/recovery infrastructure.

• Administering, configuring and managing SAN, EMC storage for backups and disaster recoveries.

• Worked on Backups, recovery and capacity planning projects for FORTUNE 500 customers.

• SAN Experience includes SYMCLI/ECC/SMC, Navisphere/Navicli, Webtools, Fabric Manager/Device Manager.

• Experience in installation and configuration of Cisco MDS 9513/9509/9506 enterprise directors and 9140/9120 departmental switches, Brocade 48k/24k enterprise directors and 4900/4100/3900/3800 departmental switches.

• Experience in Administration, Troubleshooting and Configuration of DMX-4, DMX-3, DMX-2, Symmetrix8730/8830, Clariion CX480, CX3-80/40/ CX700/600.

• Extensive Data Domain experience

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Technical Skills: Specialize in Storage with Backups on various platforms UNIX: AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2003 and 2008. Administration, Troubleshooting of Storage Arrays, EMC VMAX, Symmetrix, DMX, Clariion in Brocade & Cisco Fabric environment. Configuring/Administering storage/backup solutions like Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker. Administering and configuring DB backups for SAP, Oracle, SQL, Siebel and other DBs. Configuring and managing EMC Data Domain.

Disaster Recovery Solutions: Specialist in operations and performing disaster with different backup software like Symantec NetBackup & EMC Datadomain. Proven expertise in implementing disaster recovery solutions and performing real production disaster recoveries and disaster recovery tests, both on-site and offsite. Also planned and formulated tailor-made strategies for an individual company’s disaster recovery. Responsible for managing day-to-day backup administration and capacity planning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

STORAGE ARRAYS EMC Symmetrix DMX-2 / DMX-3 / DMX-4 / V-MAX, Sym8830 / 8730 CX500 / CX600 / CX700 / CX3-40 / CX3-80 / CX4

BACKUP & RECOVERY Symantec Netbackup, EMC Datadomain

SAN SWITCHES Brocade 48k / 24k/12k/4900 / 4100 and Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, 9506, 9140 and 9120

STORAGE/SAN SOFTWARE ECC 5.2/6.1, SMC 6.1.2, SYMCLI 6.x, Navisphere Manager/NAVICLI, SRDF, SRDF/A, TimeFinder/Clone, Mirrorview/SnapView, SanCopy, Open replicator, Open Migrator, BrocadeCLI / WebTools, CiscoCLI / Fabric/Device Manager and PowerPath/DMP.

HARDWARE IBM P series / SUN SunFire / HP9000 series, Qlogic and Emulex HBAs.

OPERATING SYSTEMS Solaris 8/9 /10, AIX 5.2/5.3, Redhat ES3/ES4 Linux, HP 11/11i and Windows 2k/2k3

VOLUME MANAGER SUN Volume Manger, VERITAS Volume Manager and AIX/HP/Linux Logical Volume Manager.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Project #1

Apollo Group, Phoenix, AZ Feb2012 - Present

Backup Engineer

• Responsibilities include administering Company’s global Backup environment with EMC Datadomain and Netbackup in Brocade & Cisco environments.

• Providing 3rd level support for storage operations for EMC Datadomain, Netbackup and other storage products.

• Reviewed retention periods and created backup policies to get optimum utilization of Tape Libraries and Data Domain

• Revised critical applications in the environment and based on the criticality, reconfigured backups on the respective servers.

• Backup network remediation process includes identifying severs which do not require backup, identifying servers getting backed up through production network and configure them to be backed up over backup network.

• Reviewed over 200+ production servers which require backup and wrote STORAGE LIFE CYCLE POLICIES on these servers.

• Participated in migration of production backups from tape library to Data domain.

• Participated in reviewing clients current restore process and creating play books for accuracy.

• Backup of virtual environment with VADP feature.

• Deployed multi-campus backup environment based on EMC Datadomain storage.

• Implemented Data domain 880, 890,690 and storage appliances across multiple sites, replicating datasets between units utilizing OST integrated with Netbackup.

• Configuring different Storage devices to help Clients to Backup their Data in the most efficient way that will help them to restore the Mission Critical Data as and when required using Symantec Netbackup tool.

• Implementation and configuration of Backup in a Cluster Environment

• Configuration of different types of Robotic Library & Configuring Storage Units and Volume Pools.

• Configure Apollo’s backup environment which includes the data domain systems, configuring VTL, NFS and CIFS. Also administering and configuring data replication and high availability with disaster recovery solution.

• Propose recovery strategy and assesses backup environment to provide overall data protection at off-site and on-site data warehouse.

Environment: Backup, SAN & Storage Environment consisting of EMC Datadomain 880, 890, 690, Symantec Netbackup 7.1, Symantec Opscentre, Sun storagetek SL3000, Quantum Scalar I6000 Tape Libraries, CISCO MDS 9513 / 9509 / 9120, Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager Brocade 48K, 4100 Switches, Brocade Fabric Manager, Clariion Cx4, Cx3 Series, CX600, CX700, Symmetrix DMX-4, DMX-3, Navicli and Windows, Solaris 8/9/10, and Redhat Linux 2.6

Project #2

Terinine Chattanooga, TN Aug11 – Jan 12

Storage/backup Engineer

• Providing support for storage operations for EMC Datadomain, Netbackup and other storage products.

• Managed 500+ TB’s of backup data from 200+ servers.

• . Implementation of Intelligent Disaster Recovery

• Implementation and configuration of Backup in a Cluster Environment.

• Implementation of Backup in a SAN environment.

• Configuration of different types of Robotic Library & Configuring Storage Units and Volume Pools.

• Implement of BURA solutions using Data Domain, Netbackup, Backup to tape and VNX technologies.

• Configure client’s storage environment which includes configuring the data domain systems. Configuring VTL, NFS and CIFS. Also configuring data replication and high availability with disaster recovery solution. Tested and implemented plans specific to customers’ environment.

• Responsible for backup/storage environment by centralizing zones and adding new hardware and servers, including replication and encryption.

• Provide technical maintenance, operational management, infrastructure environment assessments, performance tuning and trouble shooting of storage technologies.

• Propose recovery strategy and assessed backup environment to provide overall data protection at off-site and on-site data warehouse.

• Responsibilities also include registering hosts, creating RAID groups, binding LUNs, creating Storage groups and providing accessible storage using Navisphere manger/Navicli to the respective hosts.

• Eliminated tape from all daily backup routines and used it solely for monthly archival processes.

Environment: Backup, SAN & Storage Environment consisting of EMC Datadomain 880. 690, 580, EMC Networker, Symantec Netbackup 6.5, 7.x, CISCO MDS 9513 / 9509 / 9120, Cisco CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager Brocade 48K, 4100 Switches, Brocade Fabric Manager, Clariion Cx4, Cx3 Series, CX600, CX700, Symmetrix DMX-4, DMX-3, V-max, VNX, Open Migrator, Open Replicator, TimeFinder, SRDF, Navishere Manager, Symcli, ECC, Unisphere Manager, SMC, Navicli and Windows, Solaris 8/9/10, HPUX and AIX 5.3,6.1.

Project #3

Health Alliance Plan, Detroit, MI Oct10 – Aug11

Storage/backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the client’s backup & Storage environment.

• Responsible for fixing client’s existing backup’s related issues and making recommendations.

• Once completed turn over the responsibilities to the client.

• Installation and configuration of new 7.x Netbackup environment including: Windows

• Servers, Pure Disk, VMware snapshots, Exchange backups, SQL database backups and remote

• Replication to DR site.

• Performed test backups and test restores of all backups and agents implemented.

• Provide technical support, guidance and direction for products supported by analyzing and

• Resolving the problems.

• Configured and implemented Data Center Migration for terabytes of data with no loss of data

• with little host intervention using host based Open Migrator/LVM and array based Open

• Replicator, SRDF, Mirror View and SAN copy.

• Migrated data from DMX2000/DMX3000 to DMX3/4 using Open Replicator with little

• Interfering of host applications.

• Data Migrated using host based Open Migrator for AIX/SUN and also using host based LVM’s

• like VxVM, AIX LVM and HP LVM.

• Analyzed EMC grab of both (Unix and windows hosts) using DCA tools like Heat report, Elab

• navigator and EMC support matrix.

• Well Versed with DMX-4/3 storage allocation and architecture.

• Involved in the migration of Clariion CX-500/700 to CX-3-80 using MirrorView and SAN copy.

• Installed and configured PowerPath for AIX / Solaris /HP / Linux and Windows Operating Systems to provide the fault tolerant and load balance.

• Involved in converting SRDF/Advcopy mode to SRDF/A after the copy of r1 and r2 invalid tracks.

• Also setup the TimeFinder BCVs for the remote copy and setup the “symrecover” to update the BCV on regular interval.

• Involved in configuration and installation of ECC 6.0 infrastructure along with agents, Planned and Implemented various Agent upgrades. (Including the Master Agents).

• Involved in installation of symmetrix management console 6.1 (SMC) and Configuration and management of symmetrix arrays using SMC including discovering symmetrix arrays.

• Configured DNS, NIS and NTP servers for the Data movers.

• Created checkpoints for file systems and restoring files from the checkpoints.

Environment: EMC Data Domain, Netbackup 6.x/7.x, Windows Servers, PureDisk, VMWare, Exchange, SQL, Open Migrator, LVM, Open Replicator, SRDF, MirrorView, SAN copy, DMX2000, DMX3000, DMX3, DMX4, VMAX, Clariion CX-500, 700, CX-3-80, MirrorView, SAN copy, LVM’s, VxVM, AIX LVM, HP LVM, Heat Reports, Elab Navigator, EMC PowerPath, SRDF/A, TimeFinder, ECC 6.0, SMC, SymCLI, Navisphere Manager, Cisco MDS 9513, Brocade 48k, AIX 5.x,6.1, Solaris 8/9/10, HPUx, RHEL and Windows NT, 2003.

Project #4

Vartec Telecom, Dallas, TX Oct 09 – Oct 10

Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

o Configuring and maintaining complex Symantec Netbackup 7.0/6.X large scale IT Infrastructure.

o Assessment of current Netbackup 6.x environment and give recommendations for going to 7.0.

o Analyzed Data Domain 890 Backup infrastructures and provided Best Practice recommendations for performance and efficiency improvements

o Implementing Data Domain DD690/DD880 on all the environments replacing EMC Disk Libraries with Data Domain.

o Upgrade complete Netbackup environment from 6.x to 7.0 at primary site and secondary sites.

o Troubleshooting NBU operational issues relating to backups/restores.

o Worked on Meta LUN expansions to provide additional storage to the host, converting the device personalities based on the requirement.

o Documented Oracle RMAN Data Domain Infrastructure via Visio, including exported NFS paths, and planned Replication Contexts

o Optimized Data Domain Oracle RMAN Solution of a Full image backup, forever incremental, and incremental merges. Filesys Fastcopy also was leveraged by a DD Oracle Admin user for versioning.

o Installed and configured Cisco MDS 9513 and was involved in the fabric migration from Brocade 48k switches to CISCO 9513.

o As part of the Fabric Migration, collected all the Switch reports to verify the Zones, Domain IDs, IP address etc.

o Studying application backup policies and environments to ensure integrity of backup and recovery activities.

o Participating any activities such in cases of recovery of application environments where required.

o Ensure integrity of supported environment, by actively and pre-emptively determine possible faults and causes by the execution of pre-determined health and operational checks.

Project #5

Ahold USA, Greenville, SC Nov 08 – Sep 09

SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a member of data migration team, actively involved in the design of the migration methods based on the customer requirement.

• Provided all the required information to qualify the hosts based (host analysis) on the EMC support matrix (loading “grab” utilities, collect the required data and upload them to EMC)

• Based on the EMC requirement, updated the drivers (HBA etc)/patches (Operating System) on all systems involved in the data migration.

• Performed all kinds of migration methods (Array based – Open Replicator/SRDF and Host based – Open Migrator and LVM) based on the application/system availability and moved the data from 8830 to DMX2000 and DMX3000.

• Setup the “Delta Mark” as per the EMC best practice guide lines to collect the data changes occurring during the busy hours.

• Implemented a disaster recovery solution between two data centers using SRDF/A for failover and failback without impacting the production performance.

• Creating the Device groups and populating the devices (STDs, BCV/R1 and BRBCVS etc) and export those groups to the remote site to use in case of a disaster.

• Setup the “symreplicate” in a “cron” (or in a scheduler) to run at regular cycles (based on RPO time)

• Involved in a consistent data replication for machine critical applications between DMX-3000 to DMX-3000 using SRDF/AR with TimeFinder/Consistent Groups Technology.

• As an implementation specialist and part of the data migration team, responsible to stage the initial environment including the creating Meta devices, converting the device personalities and setting different attributes based on the requirement.

• Prepared the Migration procedures in consulting with the systems administrators, Database administrators, application developers/users and business owners.

• Hands on experience with all the migration methods, especially provided online migration using LVM (no application shutdown) and also provided a very effective migration method using Open Migrator (capable of providing new VG structure, copies data from one volume to another irrespective of the volume type – stripe or concatenate).

• Responsible to setup the Zones between the hosts, old 8830 and new DMX3000 Symmetrix using Brocade web tools and Brocade CLI.

• Prepared the configuration and troubleshooting guides to maintain/run the environment smooth and transferred the Knowledge to the customer personal responsible to maintain the environment.

• Day to day work involved troubleshooting, maintaining groups and user accounts.

• Create RAID Groups, BIND LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager.

Environment: Netbackup 6.x, EMC Support matrix, Open Replicator, SRDF, Open Migrator, LVM, DMX2000, DMX3000, SRDF/A, Failover and failback, SRDF/AR, TimeFinder (M/C/S), Consistent Groups, Symmetrix 8830, Brocade Webtools, Brocade CLI. RAIDs, Navisphere Manager, SymCLI, ECC, Solaris 8/9, AIX, HP-Ux, Linux and Windows.

Project #6

Clarian Health, Indianapolis, IN Sep 07 – Oct 08

Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of NetBackup Enterprise Server 5.x MPs, 6.0 MP's and 6.5 and MP2.

• Upgrading NetBackup from 5.x to 6.x.

• Troubleshooting of failed backup attempts to successfully backup all servers required to be backed up.

• Running a Netbackup database Consistency Check and providing to support.

• Monitoring & Maintaining NetBackup Environment.

• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.

• Provide reports for the entire backup and tape media and responsible for tracking the tape media from vaulting site.

• Configuring robots, tape drives storage units and volumes pools.

• Fine tuning of tape drive for effective usage.

• Restore files and monitor restore jobs.

• Installed and configured new clients for data protection and created policy for full/incremental automated backups Verify, Duplicate, Expire and import Backup Images.

• Daily data backup & restoration tasks for Oracle Database using RMAN through NetBackup, MS-Exchange server, and SQL server 2005.

• Preparing backup success and failure reports on daily basis.

• Taking catalog Backup on daily basis.

• Writing scripts to automate system administration tasks.

• Strong experience Backup to Disk (B2D) and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)

• Strong Experience with Enterprise Tape libraries and associated technologies IBM 3584, and SL700.

• Helping clients patch up their Netbackup edition to the latest patch level to resolve the discrepancies with the previous Netbackup edition /patch level.

• Performed backup using Disk Backup and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL).

• Backups of database servers running Oracle and SQL Server.

• Monitoring of Servers performance and Backups.

• File System administration and management like monitoring various logs, file system sizes etc.

• Installed, configured and maintained the NetBackup on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux for development, staging and production environment. And also involved in configuration management, software deployment, change management, performance monitoring, and application maintenance.

• Create and/or maintain necessary documentation and procedures in support of the backup infrastructure.

• Executing vaulting process and daily tape management.

• Creating, managing, and removal of backup policies.

• Updating process flow diagrams, configuration guides, and other supporting documentation.

Environment: Netbackup Enterprise Server 5.x, 6.x, MPs 6.0, 6.5 & MP2, Oracle, RMAN, MS-Exchange server, SQL server 2005, Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), IBM 3584, SL700, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Windows.

Project #7

Semantic Space, India Jun 05 – Aug 07

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

o Automate and write script to clean up all the logs on a daily basis for effective disk usage.

o Automate backup processes for incremental backup of users’ policies database using UNIX disk backup utility.

o Installation/Upgrade, System Startup & System Shutdown as needed.

o Administer and configure DNS, NFS server.

o Installation and configure PC and UNIX based machine as per the requirement.

o Self drive and highly motivated to work both independently and also with team.

o Debug and analyze system logs for error or for any security breach.

o Administrating and configure networking services and create firewall rules using Ipchains / Iptables.

o Review supporting documentation for operation and installation of hardware related equipment.

o Monitor and run system maintenance scripts on regular basis.

o Installation and troubleshooting steady state maintenance, capacity and performance, firmware, OS and device driver upgrades.

o Installation and configure PC and UNIX based machine as per the requirement.

o Installed agents for databases on UNIX platforms and configured retention policy for optimal data recovery.

o Debug and analyze system logs for error or for any security breach.

o Installation and troubleshooting steady state maintenance, capacity and performance, firmware, OS and device driver upgrades.

o Review supporting documentation for operation and installation of hardware related equipment.

o Installation and administering of DNS server.

o Installation configuration of DHCP server, assigning users access on MAC address level.

o Customized the user CDE environments and User profiles, security authorizations etc.

o Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP OSI model and DNS.

o Provide training and support to users as appropriate.

o Systems administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.

o Processes administration and management like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes/sub process.

o User administration and management like add/change/delete

o User profiles, security authorizations etc.

o Maintaining and changing file systems & disk assignments using Meta disk.

o Installation/Upgrade, System Startup & System Shutdown as needed.

o Monitor System Performance Parameters using iostat, vmstat and fine-tuning.

o Scheduled various regular, periodic, futures, queue tasks by using crontab, at.

o Resolved system errors and crashes, disk space problems, huge file sizes, file system full errors.

o Administration and trouble shooting skills on Disks & File Systems, Users & Groups.

o Documented various regular administrative tasks and backup procedures etc.

o Working knowledge in services like Rlogin, Telnet, FTP, X-Window System etc.

o Experience in networking and TCP/IP services.

Environment: Sun Solaris, Windows NT, 2002, Sun Fire V20Z, V40Z, SPARC server 1000, Shell scripting, Pentium PCs, Genicom Printers, Veritas Volume Manager.

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