Brian Watson Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

• Collaborates with storage and backup vendors on design and modernization of large enterprise environments• Presents technical refresh ideas, upgrade roadmaps, and general maintenance costs to upper management• Provides guidance to peers on day-to-day maintenance, troubleshooting techniques, and professional growth opportunities• Provides vendor quotations to acquisition and finance teams on new purchases•Assisted vendor in design, testing, and implementation of Dell PowerProtect CyberRecovery environment•Subject matter expert (SME) on Dell CyberRecovery, Index Engines CyberSense, and Unisys Stealth software

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Executed everyday storage maintenance such as expansions and upgrades. • Presented/removed luns on servers as requested by projects• Troubleshot SAN/NAS issues.• Performed storage migrations as dictated by technical refreshes• Created/Removed Brocade zoning as required• Configured Netbackup and Avamar policies as needed• Monitored trouble queue (Remedy) for tickets/requests• Configure/update servers in EMC RecoverPoint as needed

Hoover, Al

• Provided support for multi-platform storage environment. (EMC, HP/3Par, Nexsan)• Executed everyday storage maintenance such as expansions and upgrades. • Created and presented luns to servers • Created and presented shares (CIFS and NFS)• Daily monitoring of storage array performance• Troubleshot NAS permission issues.• Creating change controls in emergency situations.• Provide everyday maintenance on the storage and server hardware• Datacenter experience (Configuring switches, racking storage hardware, racking servers, running fiber cable)• Creating change controls in emergency situations.• Decommission servers/storage as dictated by technology refreshes

Hoover, Al

• Configured/removed clients in Netbackup as required• Built media servers per project requirements • Troubleshot backup failures• Responsible for zoning (Brocade) new tape drives into environment• Upgraded Netbackup software as needed• Update client host and Netbackup configuration files as needed