SANTHA KUMAR G

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Certified Backup & Storage Engineer

Professional Summary:

Leading-edge Sr. Server, Backup Architect with extensive experience designing, building, & deploying, complex Enterprise grade solutions. Strong leadership, communication and team building skills. Primary areas of technical experience include Backup and Recovery, Storage, Disaster Recovery, and offsite Data Management. With 14+ years of IT experience including 12 years of Strong experience in Enterprise Backup Analysis, Migrations, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, replication, maintenance and administration. I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest backup, storage, Virtualization& cloud technologies. Performed Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions. Expertise in Data Centre Design & Build, Backup Infra Installation, configuration and Troubleshooting. Proficient in Backup and Recovery, VTL, De-Duplication, NAS, SAN, CIFS, NFS protocols extensively worked on various backup Integration of Exchange, SAP,Oracle,SQL, VMware Using Networker,Commvault,Data Domain,Avamar and Netbackup.

Technical Skills:

Backup & Recovery Solutions

EMC Networker V7.4,V7.6,V8.2,V9x

Commvault Simpana V9,V10,V11x

Commvault Hyperscale (HPE+Fujitsu) V1.5

EMC Data Domain V5.4,V5.6,V6x

NetBackupV5x,V7.6,V7.7

EMC Avamar V5x, V7x

Backup Management

Commvault Commcell Console

NetBackup Java console

NetBackup Administrator console

NetBackup CLI

EMC Avamar Administrator console.

Networker CLI

EMC Data domain Console and CLI.

Reporting & Documentation

NetBackup OpsCenter,

Commvault cloud worldwide reports,

Networker Data protection advisor.

UNIX shell & PERL script.

Backup design and Documentation

SOP/IQOQ/document validation/Configuration documents.

Builds/Enhancements

Experience with EMC Networker and Commvault simpana infrastructure setup and build, Catalog migration, NetBackup/Networker/Commvault/Datadomain/Avamar/Hyperscale Upgrades.

Professional Experience:

Merck Inc & Co (Branchburg - NJ) June’ 17 – Present

Backup infrastructure Lead – Associate consultant

•Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise in the managing, encrypting, storing, archiving, and organizing of data in Client’s environment.

•To allocate and monitor storage to meet backup and recovery requirements.

•Implement and administer a backup and restore system

•Backup schedules, rotation schedules, and a retention scheme.

•Assess the current resources in our environment and determine backup time using throughput rates

•Managing Devices and Storage Nodes- Library, Tape and drive configuration.

•Worked on creating use cases which involved planning, design, build, test and deployment of a new Commvault with Data domain infrastructure in DC.

•Implementation of Commvault 1 touch BMR, Live sync migration, Virtualize me and Disaster recoveries.

•Managing upgrades for products/firmware/drivers/OS.

•Data migration specialist – Expert in migrating data between multiple backup products and to Understand, assist with the migration of client data, edits to client data, and completing timely reconciliation to ensure data integrity.

•Specialist in planning, building, managing and executing Commvault Commcell migration (CCM) between Commvault backup environments.

•Deployed Hyperscales and configured policies/schedules/storage pools for backup and recovery.

•Working with stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate project scope, create project plan/requirements, and execute to high expectation.

•Expert in forecasting the data growth and to address the bottlenecks.

•Design/Report/Transition/SOP document validation and submission.

Wipro Technologies Client: Levi Strauss & Co. June 16 – June 17

Lead Administrator - Backup & Recovery Specialist.

•Installed EMC Networker and configured backup jobs for various servers as windows, Linux, VMware virtual machines& integrated with Azure cloud solutions.

•Installed EMC Data Domain and EMC Avamar and configured backup jobs for various servers as windows, Linux, VMwares.

•Configured NDMP backups and other Networker module backups such as exchange and Oracle RMAN.

•Configured DPA reports for the Backup Environment.

•Upgraded EMC Data Domain from V5.3,V5.6 to V6

•Managing and adminstration of Backup & Recovery Manager (BRM).

•Frequently contacted by EMC for advanced troubleshooting of networker installations.

•Upgraded Netbackup Enterprise Master & Media Servers from 7.6.0.4 to 7.6.1.1 & 7.6.1.2

Upgraded OpsCenter Server from 7.6.0.4 to 7.6.1.1 & 7.6.1.2

•Managing & Administrating of CommvaultSimpana V11 across large environment includes 4000 clients

•Installation and upgradation of CommvaultSimpana V10 and idata agents for UNIX,Windows,Databases to V11.

•Administration knowledge of Networker/Datadomain software - working in monitoring backups, creating policies & performing restores as per client requests

•Involved in meetings with vendor to analyze capacity planning, lifecycle, scale out & scale in

•Worked in setting up the lab environment & testing new features that needs to be applied on the production systems

•Implemented storage efficiency techniques like creating snapshot policies,deduplication policies in data domain and commvault

•Involved in quarterly site disaster recovery testing for critical applications

DELLEMC Client: Vodafone/Travelex/BankofAmerica Feb‘2015 – Feb’2016

Storage and Backup Engineer (EMC Implementation Specialist)

•Part of EMC's DPAD Team responsible for Implementing EMC Networker,EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar across various clients.

•Performed installation and configuration of Networker and configured Clients for the backup on AIX, Linux and Windows platforms

•Performed disaster Recovery planning and testing for all Unix/Linux/Networker, ESX environments

•Managed tape libraries (IBM TL3585, IBM TS3310 & Quantum Iscalar500) for the Networker environments

•Configured and managed Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) on Data Domain

•Worked on Networker Cross country migration, upgrade and design enhancements

•Data domain integration with Networker/Netbackup/Commvault

•Creating and Managing CIFS,NFS Export share with data domain

•Configuring and expansion of Shelf add for data domain.

•Configuring Data domain as AFTD,as disk libraries and as VTL with EMC neworker and other backup products.

Tata Consultancy Services Client: Sony Corporation of America Jun’2009 – Jan 2015

Backup & Recovery Consultant

•Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise in the managing, encrypting, storing, archiving, and organizing of data gathered from various server systems within the boundaries Client’s environment.

•Installation, Managing, Administrating and Upgradation of CommvaultSimpana V9 &idata agents for UNIX,Windows,Databases

•Managing Devices and Storage Nodes- Library, Tape and drive configuration.

•Monitor and Maintain Enterprise Netbackup 7.6.0.4 infrastructure

•Troubleshooting Netbackup, EMC DD890,DD7200, IBM TS3500 library related issues.

Upgraded Symantec Netbackup Master & Media Servers from V7.1 to 7.2

•Completed POC for Netbackup Backup environment and ensured reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements.

•Investigated backup failures, determining root cause of issues. This resulted in a reduction of backup failures and an increase in system availability.

•Experienced in TSM,Azure cloud and SAN fundamentals.

•Managed 20 TSM server environment connected to StorageTek L700E libraries and IBM 3584 and 3494 libraries

Six Sigma (deputed in the client end – TCS) Nov’2007 – Jun’2009

Backup Administrator

Client: Telefonica

•Worked in Compound Netbackup and networker environment contains different versions of

•backup software e.g. Veritas 5.0, 5.1& Networker 7.4 to Networker 7.6

•Providing End to End Support for all Netbackup related issues.

•Restoration - Flat file, Archive, Exchange, Lotus Notes, validation

•Restores and media management.

•Daily vaulting and troubleshooting vaulting issues.

•Creating RCA based on the Incidents received in the environment.

•Identify opportunities for improving systems in terms of Backup Time

•Available 24X7 support whenever required Troubleshooting failed jobs.

•Handling escalated Data restore request from the Customer.

Selwin Computer Jun’ 2006 – Nov‘2007

Solaris Administrator

Client: BSNL,India.

•Installation, Configuration and Administration of solaris 10.

•Managing file systems and users.

•Create unix file permissions and bash scripting

•Booting, Restart and shutdown procedures for solaris 10 system.

TRAININGS:

ITIL V3 Foundation Course

Data ONTAP 7-Mode & C-Mode Administration

Enterprise NetBackup 7.x Administration

Commvault simpana Administration

EMC Networker Administration

Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering from Anna University – 2006.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Sun Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator

Web sphere Application Server Network Deployment v 6.1

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler V8.5 Implementation

Data Protection Administration for UNIX using Net Backup

Netapp NCDA certification

IBM DS-8000 High end disk for open systems V2

EMC ISM Certified

EMC Data Domain Implementation Certified

ITIL 2011 Foundations Certified.

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