Martin A. Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Syracuse,Ny

Responsible for the research, design, testing of Storage, Backup and Recovery solutions of various storage infrastructure technologies including backup and restore.Assist 1st level Administration team with troubleshooting storage and backup performance issuesCollect and present data for reporting, technical solutions and capacity/performance planningPerforms research and analysis of technical storage and recovery solutions. Completed multiple proof-of-concept tests and recommended solutions: Enterprise Flash Storage, Scalable NAS storage and Storage Performance Monitoring. Improved storage efficiencies through consolidating storage and reporting tools.Responsible for Storage and Backup Recovery Strategy documentsSupport the enterprise IT Budget process as it relates to the needs of the storage and backup/recovery environments.Support the daily monitoring and reporting of the Storage infrastructure to reduce potential performance issues.Supports and provides input to IT engineering recommendations.Conducted consolidation efforts to minimize management and administration needs for reportingRecommended the consolidation effort to reduce the Mainframe tape library from 8 frames to 3 frames.Recommended the replacement of less efficient tape drives with more efficient and larger capacity drives. Supported reduction of offsite tapes by 2500 tapes. Recommended the implementation of Disk Erasure and Degaussing appliances to provide ability to securely wipe disk arrays and failed media and disk drives.

Maintained the Tivoli Storage Manager servers within the enterprise regions (Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo). Performed the planning and coordination to support the upgrades and configuration needs of the TSM Servers.Coordinated and supported the implementation of Tape storage subsystems in multiple regions to support the backup and recovery needs of the corporation.Installed, configured and maintained Server Graph TSM Monitoring and reporting application.Installed, configured and maintained TSM Manager.Assisted in the installation, configuration and management of numerous Storage arrays (IBM DS8000, DS4000, SAN Volume Controllers and HP EVA).Supported and assisted the regular Disaster Recovery tests that occurred offsite at SunGard.