Senior Storage Admin

M. LAKSHMI MASCO

Phone No: +313-***-****

E-mail: *******.*****@*****.***

Professional Summary

Having 9 years of total IT experience in Backup administration, IBM Tape libraries and related storage hardware and AIX.

Technical specialist who can support multiple platforms and applications. Performed administration & Troubleshooting of TSM Server/Client on AIX & Windows Servers.

Hands on Experience on different Storage hardware Tape libraries such as Tape Library and data domain and IBM ProtecTIER

Have good communication skills, self-motivated with a high degree of attention, a good Team Player, committed to work.

IT Skills

Hardware Skills : IBM 3584/3592 LTO Libraries,VTL and Data Domain

Operating Systems : IBM AIX 6L, Win 2012, and LINUX

Software Applications : TSM Server 5.x,6.x and &.7.1.1, BA Client, TDP,TKLM

Professional Training Undergone

AU14 AIX5L System Administration – Implémentation

AU16 AIX5L System Administration II - Problem Determination

Solaris version 9.0 ( L1 & L2)

Basic of Tivoli Storage manager (TSM)

Data Domain

ITIL Foundation Certification.

SAP BASIS Basic Training.

Certification

IBM Certified Specialist-p pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3

Experience in Reverse Chronological order

IBM Pvt, Ltd,Chennai as Technical Services Specialist from May14th 2014 to Jan 20th 2016.

Project Details

Period : May 2014 to Jan 20th 2016

Designation : Backup Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-- Working with TSM4VE with 7.1.1.0 TSM server.

-- Maintain the backup for 1500+ servers for TSM4VE.

-- Working on SAP Backup configuration.

-- Install and configure TDP for oracle and SQL.

-- Active role in Transition phase for new project.

-- Upgrade of TSM BA client 6.3 to 7.1.1.0

-- Working TSM4VE client environment.

-- Tacking care of patching on the TSM server.

Computer Science Cooperation India Pvt.Ltd, Chennai as a System Engineer from Feb ’11 to May 2014.

Project Details

Client : Zurich NA

Period : Feb 2011 to May 2014

Designation : Senior System Engineer

Role : Level 2 – TSM

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-- Maintain the backup for 3000+ server’s, work on backup missed and failed for daily basis.

-- Take care of sending offsite tapes once in a week.

-- DB extending, Recovery log issue.

-- Install and configure TSM client on unix and windows.

-- Register node and schedule for backup

-- Decommission the nodes.

-- TDP for MS SQL, DB2 configuration.

-- Scheduling of backup and archive

-- Scheduling of administrative schedules

-- Policy domain, policy set maintenance and creation

-- Problem resolution and escalation to IBM if not resolved

-- Monitor tape libraries and resolve if there are any intervention issues

-- Daily back-up for Disaster Recovery

-- Daily Health checks for backup Applications and Tape Library

ONSITE EXPOSURE IN USA – OKLAHOMA CITY

TKLM – Tivoli Key License Manager:

Installation and trouble shoot on TKLM

Restore of the TKLM data base.

Configuration encryption of the library drives with TKLM.

Tape management in sending to offsite.

Replacing the Disk in Data Domain, have a Data Center experience.

Done a successful Disaster recovery activity with TBMR.

Decommission of the IBM Tape Library.

Wipro Technologies Ltd, Chennai as a Project Engineer from Jan ’07 to Feb ‘11

Project Details

Client : NESTLE

Period : Jan 2007 to Feb 2011

Designation : Project Engineer

Role : Level 2 – TSM

Technologies: Tivoli Storage Management 5.5v

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Configuring TSM DB, Recovery LOG and Storage Pools as per the Client requirements.

Configuring SERVER process like Expiration, Storage Pool Migration and Reclamation of TAPE Storage Pool Volumes.

Checking administrative schedules like DB BACKUP, BACKUP STG; if any failures working on it based on the priority.

Registering nodes to the proper Policy Domain and associating to schedules.

Checking activity log for any HARDWARE or Application related errors. Troubleshooting specific TSM Server/Client problems and if needed enable trace and work with IBM software support

Creating backup schedules for all the clients considering the backup throughput, server throughput and the tape drives capacity.

Responsible for taking up escalations on Backup, Restoration Management, Tape and media Management Offsite and Onsite.

Creating a standard dsm.opt for each platform and deploy this to all clients.

Worked on Implementing LAN free configuration of DB2 backups.

Configuring library path drives and drives 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.

Tape reconcile, Offsite Tape Management, plan for storage with respect to size of data growth.

AUDIT VOLUME if any inconsistency in VOLUMES DATA; RESTORE VOLUME.

Audit Library if any mismatch in LIBRARY inventory and TSM inventory.

Maintaining minimum number of scratch volumes.

Involved in Implementing Library sharing across the multiple TSM servers and creating Server to Server communications

# UNIX MONITORING TEAM, Role: L1 UNIX

Responsibilities Managing

Installation and maintenance of AIX V 5.2. and 5.3

Hands on capable of increasing and decreasing of file system

User Management.

LVM concepts and Volume Management.

Performance monitoring

Academic Profile

B.E (Electronics and Electronic Engineer ) with 76 % from Anna University During 2002-2006

H.S.S from state board with 85% of aggregate During 2000-2002

S.S.L.C from state board with 88% of aggregate During 1999-2000

Personal details

Name : M. Lakshmi Masco

Father's Name : A. Mascow

Address : 2002 SW Sarazen cr, Apt12,

Bentonville, AR.

DOB : 01-01-1985

Passport Number : N3986422.

Visa type : L2

EAD Number :SRC1690204974

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian

Languages known : English and Tamil

I do hereby declare that the information given above is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Lakshmi Masco.M

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