JIMMY B. ALLEN

**** ******** *****

The Colony, TX 75056

940-***-****

ac8ev8@r.postjobfree.com

https://linkedin.com/in/jimmy-allen-a002438

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Experienced RedHat System Admin. Managing RedHat NetBackup media servers.

Implemented upgrades to operating system as well as the NetBackup application running on each server following vendor recommended process.

Coordinated Change Management process for hardware repairs and software changes as required.

Successfully upgraded disk and raid controller Firmware on Veritas appliance to latest version.

Experienced NetBackup Administrator running on Veritas NetBackup appliances in a large data center.

Able to relenships with team members, while ensuring that all change management policies are followed to customers expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WIPRO LIMTED

CITI GROUP 10/2018 – 02/2019

Support the NDM/Connect Direct enviroment. Create new users and netmap entries to provide connectivity for secure file transfers.

Worked with the Upgrade the application from 4.1 to 4.2 other team to

NTT DATA Services / DELL Services 09/1998 to 06/2018

UNIX systems administrator/ Data Backup Engineer

Performed System Admin responsibilities on NetBackup Appliance running Redhat 7.x. Performing monitoring, system upgrades, Firmware installs, system monitoring and hardware repairs as needed.

Created shell scripts to automate several day-to-day operations, process monitoring, tape counts as well as file system space with email and phone alerting for any issues.

Successfully managed changes for the data protection team. Opened all required Remedy tickets for system reboots, hardware repair and software upgrades. Scheduled the hardware repair techs and performed testing and validation when the change was completed.

Communicated with business unit managers informing them of any risks or concerns with scheduled changes. Presented upcoming changes at the weekly Change Advisory Board review meeting.

Reviewed Remedy and Service Now ticket queues daily for system failures and customer requests that were required as well as any system changes needed.

Managed a large NetBackup environment, consisting of over 100 NetBackup appliances backing up over 4000 clients located across the United States.

Corelogic 1998 – 2003

Worked as a Systems Administrator supporting Solaris and AIX operating systems.

Supported Disaster recovery process performing NetBackup and data recovery.

Installed operating systems from a CD as well as from a jump server.

Managed local user accounts using the USERADD/USERDELETE commands.

Installed and configured LDAP to manage user accounts.

Created backup script using TAR to backup the system.

Installed and configured NetBackup 4.5.

Created misc scripts for system monitoring and alerting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

STORAGE: EMC VMAX, EMC CX, HDS VSP, IBM XIV. EMC Data Domain, IBM, QUANTUM I6000, QUANTUM I500

BACKUP: VERITAS NetBackup Appliance model 5220, 5230, 5330, 5340

SOFTWARE:RMAN, NDMP, TARADATA, UNIX SHELL (ksh/bash), SUSE Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Veritas Volume manger, Windows, Microsoft office, AIX

HARDWARE

NetBackup Appliance model 5220, 5230, 5330 and 5340

Quantum i6000 tape library, Quantum i500 tape library, IBM 3584 Tape library

Solaris Servers, RS6000 running AIX

EDUCATION

ITIL Foundation suite 3.0, Westlake, Texas

Certified

Collin County Collage Continuing, Education, Frisco, Texas

VMWare vSphere Install, Configuration and Manage

Certificate of completion

Veritas Training Center, Dallas, Texas

Veritas NetBackup Training Version 6.x, 7.x and 8.x

HACMP Training in Austin

Completed Course

UDEMY courses completed

Commvault

NGINX fundamentals

Chef fundamentals

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