GREGORY C. BASTEDO

DENVILLE, NJ 908-***-**** adx41b@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Backup and Recovery administrator with 20 years experience in the IT Industry. Specialized in deploying and supporting large global infrastructure environments. Proficient in TSM, Commvault, Cohesity, Data Domain, Remedy, ServiceNow, Disk and Tape Library management.

SKILLS

Backup and Recovery Applications and Technologies

Disaster Recovery

System Administration

Technical Support

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Change and Incident Management

Writing and Documentation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JUNE 2021-JUNE 2023

Backup and Recovery Specialist Organon Jersey City, NJ

Worked as part of a team that managed and deployed backup and recovery solutions to a large global environment.

Delivered backup and recovery strategies and disaster recovery procedures with an emphasis on 100% backup and recovery rates.

Deployed Cohesity backup product, supporting backups both on premise and in AWS cloud. Global environment with multiple clusters deployed.

Ransomware protection focus on Air gap and Fort Knox for seamless resiliency.

Followed all change and incident management SOP's procedures for tracking and audit purposes.

Support user community and troubleshoot issues when necessary

Documented Work Instructions, Knowledge Base Articles (KBA's) and SOP's.

Work with vendors on support cases.

MAY 2013-JUNE 2021

Backup and Recovery Specialist Merck Branchburg, NJ

Worked as part of a team that managed and deployed backup and recovery solutions to a large global environment.

Deployed TSM and Commvault as the global backup solution leveraging both tape and tapeless (Data Domain) storage solutions.

Manage Disk (Data Domain) and Tape hardware (LTO).

Worked with Windows and Unix administrators on troubleshooting backup performance and restore issues.

Handled Remedy tickets for backup configuration, restores, and schedule changes.

Delivered backup and recovery strategies and disaster recovery procedures with an emphasis on 100% backup and recovery rates.

TSM Client (Unix and windows) installation, configuration, troubleshooting including client cluster configuration, Oracle, RMAN and MSSQL agents, DDBoost. Some Netbackup and HP Omniback/Data Protector.

Function as a team lead providing governance and advisory to a team of 20+ offshore resources responsible for execution of all backup and recovery services globally for Merck. Ensuring all work was delivered on time.

Participated in a data center relocation project to ensure a greater cost savings on infrastructure and also a more robust disaster recovery solution.

Performed periodic disaster recovery testing to ensure backup and recovery processes were viable.

Supported post cyber attack recovery efforts to bring the company back online.

Work with vendors on support cases.

NOVEMBER 2009-MAY 2013

Infrastructure Management Analyst Merck Whitehouse Station, NJ

Backup and Recovery Services

Continued to function as part of the global backup and recovery team implementing backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures for Merck

Backup and recovery follows the 12x2 support model

Support the backup environment on a daily basis completing both operational and engineering tasks

Deployed Data Protection Advisor for reporting and monitoring

Deployed Data Domain Technology for a tapeless backup environment

Support backup activities and attended planning meetings for COMET/SAP backup deployment

Transition Level 1 and Level 2 work to our offshore team

Provide day to day support and have weekly meetings with offshore backup team lead

Function as backup team lead for the legacy Schering Plough Data Center Migration project

Attend meetings, providing support for pre and post migration activities, and collaborating with other Merck MSD teams and offshore resources

Participated in Merck/Schering Plough Day 1 integration support for backup infrastructure

Remedy CI Steward (CMDB) and Knowledge Management Domain expert.

EDUCATION

MAY 1995

Bachelor of Arts: Communications

Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey

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