Technology lead for Backup | Adapting new skills on the Data Science Platform Specialized in EMC NetWorker, got good knowledge of backup related tools like DataDomain, Tape Libraries, Data Protection Central, Recover Point for VM | Analytics tools like ELK.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
Bangalore, India
08.2021 - Current
Participating in low level design and migration meetings for the futuristic environment which involves migrating from one DC to another, adapting new tools and technologies.
Maintenance contract renewal meeting with the vendor and the roadmap ahead. Operational planning for 2022 for all EMC Networker locations.
Interviewing and providing knowledge transfer to the DellEMC NetWorker team. Working on price configurators for different CIs and also mapping of the CIs with the right OLAs.
Migration from NetWorker to Veeam and also providing WIs to the monitoring team on how to troubleshoot DataDomain related issues. How to raise cases and Keep the DDOS versions upto date and thus fixing any vulnerabilities.
Delaunching the NetWorker infrastructure and defining the clients with the customer defined retention in Veeam and performing health check for all the backup servers in the new Veeam environment.
Incident and change audit and providing the results to the quality team for further analysis. Holding regular meetings with team and discussing on any SLA missed incidents and how to close the gaps in the process, preparing WIs for the L1 team to handle incidents more effectively.
Principal Consultant
Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
10.2013 - 07.2021
Successful migration of all EMC Networker components to the latest versions approved by the Virtual Competence team, after checking the compatibility matrix
Updating EMC Networker into ELK analytics platform also defining test cases which are specific to the infrastructure I handle
Provided assistance for seamless migration from one backup tool to another, also coordinating for restore tests and REAR recovery with the help of OS team
Testing new client versions for windows & once successful, coordinate with the packaging team to create a client package which can be rolled out to all locations
Incident reduction by doing timely audits and defining the audit parameters and SLAs related to picking of a ticket from the queue till ticket closure
Defining standard tickets and educating the location responsible in using these prototypes thus reducing the time in arriving at the final product, the template in the standard ticket collects all the necessary information
Conducting customer reviews, twice a year to better our deliverable and also cross checking if our providers meet their SLA and adhere to the location guidelines and defined parameters.
Team Lead
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
09.2012 - 10.2013
Dealing with Quoting and Configuration of EMC products such as CLARiiON, Celerra, Centera, Symmetrix (DMX, VMAX), VNX, PowerPath, Greenplum, VPLEX, Data Domain, Avamar, RecoverPoint etc
Building quotes for the end customer via Configurators called Direct Express (DxP) and Channel Express (CxP)
Attending sales and services leadership meetings, presentation of the design and value of proposed EMC solution and business case to customers, prospects and EMC management
Auditing the quotes created by the team and giving them feedback and correcting it before presenting the quote to the customer.
Storage Support Engineer
EMC Networker, IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2008 - 09.2012
Admin for Storage, Backup & Recovery for Astrazeneca, UK
Primary dispatcher for the team based on the technical expertise, dispatching BMC Remedy and Lean Maximo tickets from UK, US,
Weden and ROW regions over Legato, Backup Exec, TSM, Net Backup technologies
Monitoring the daily backups and to make sure success rate is 100%
Troubleshooting the root cause for the failed backups
Restoration of data on request from the customer
Tape Management | Device Management
Co-ordinate with the appropriate team to ensure that backups are getting completed successfully
Co-ordinate with the vendor for
hardware and Software troubleshooting
I represent Astrazeneca, Backup & Recovery team in the Daily review call in which we discuss about the backlogs, the restore and
backup tickets not worked upon or non addressed over a period of time and on tickets which have been lying in the queue for a
longer time keeping in mind the SLA`s and escalating it to the higher levels
Briefing employees from different domains on the basics of storage (Backup & Recovery)
Give them a platform, so that they can
enhance the skills and develop the interests on the Storage & Backup domain
This would be a good start to help them pick these
skills and knowledge and attend interviews related to the same.
Sr. Technical Analyst
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 12.2008
Focal for Service Desk escalated ticketsFocal for GDF(Global Delivery Framework, principles from LEAN)
Severity Focal
Handles
highly critical incidents
Creating SEVERITY 1 or 2 based on the Business Impact and risk
Update the team on the process updates on a weekly basis
Also sets IVR for highly critical issues
Maintaining the weekly attendance
tracker
Served as a QA, monitoring the calls and tickets of the agents in the QA`s absence
Also gave feedbacks and also made the agents
aware of different realms of improvement
Taking technical round of interviews for recruitment towards service desk
Responsible for making the new joinee understand the
business process and providing necessary training
Supporting Microsoft Office Applications, Outlook configuration and performing Mail migrations to secured mail exchange servers
Maintaining and Configuring VPN client applications, Dial up, Broad band connections and secured wireless networks
Customer
interface – ensuring that all queries and technical problems are resolved within the turnaround time
Supporting Hardware related
issues, printer configuration issues.
Technical Support Executive
ITC Infotech India Ltd
Bangalore
10.2006 - 04.2007
Provided Technical support to a leading ISP in the US
Providing Application Support, creation and deletion of accounts, controlling access permissions for user’s and Performing Password
resets on Win NT and UNIX servers
Supporting level 1 support for printers, configuration etc.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Vishweshwaraiah Technological University
06.2001 - 05.2006
Skills
VMware vSphere 65 ICMundefined
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Timeline
Technology Lead
Infosys Limited
08.2021 - Current
Principal Consultant
Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Pvt Ltd
10.2013 - 07.2021
Team Lead
Accenture India Pvt Ltd
09.2012 - 10.2013
Storage Support Engineer
EMC Networker, IBM India Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2012
Sr. Technical Analyst
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 12.2008
Technical Support Executive
ITC Infotech India Ltd
10.2006 - 04.2007
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering