Faisal Khan, Senior Consultant

Faisal Khan

Senior Consultant

DataServe

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Engineering
Experience
19 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months

Senior Consultant at DataServe
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2016

Responsibilities:
• Manage Data Backup environment consisting of multiple backup products for a huge customer across 2 sites.
• Handling L2 and L3 level tasks and issues independently.
• Recommending Best Practices.
• Prepare RFPs, plan, design and implementation of new projects.
Achievements:
• Achieved >99% Daily Backup Success Rate consistently across Physical and Virtual IT infrastructure environment.
• Implemented backup solution independently for >1000 critical production servers for Virtual environment.
• Led Data Backup migration project for > 2000 servers across isolated networks.

Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator at SBM(IBM Business partner)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2011 to August 2016

Responsibilities:
• Plan, Design and implement backup infrastructure as per customer requirements.
• Manage backup environment in accordance with Incident management, Problem management, Configuration management and Change management.
• Generate and update Backup, Capacity, Tasks, Project and Incident reports.
• Mapping Business requirements into Technical requirements considering RPOs and RTOs.
• Performance tuning enhancement of Backup infrastructure including hardware and software.
• Prepare and update documentation of Solution Design, Implementation and Operations tasks.
• Prepare response to RFPs (Request for Proposal) and evaluate response to RFPs for new Backup products.
• Deliver High Availability and Business Continuity of backup services 24x7 within defined SLA’s.
• Identify, report any risks and recommend best practice and advice proactively.
• Automation of Backup failure alerts by SNMP configuration.

Achievements:
• Accomplished 100% Successful Test Result for TSM Backup Solution implementation.
• Restored 20TB of Critical Production Database successfully for customer.
• Achieved >99% Daily Backup Success Rate across huge backup environment.
• Restored and recovered Production TSM server fully for a leading Banking customer.
• Received Successful Project Sign-Off from Customer.

Storage Operations Specialist at EMC Corporation
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2009 to December 2010

Responsibilities:
• Managed TSM Backup environment consisting over 150 TSM servers and > 1000 TSM/TDP Oracle/SQL clients.
• Installation/Configuration/Troubleshooting of TSM Server/clients.
• Server/Data Restore/Recovery including Alternate Machine Restores.
• Disaster Recovery Management - Planning and executing DR Test and documentation.
• Backup Failure Analysis and Trends with Problem Determination and Solution.
• Proactive approach in reducing the number of faults.

Achievements:
• Improved and maintained the Backup Success Rate to > 98%.
• Completed and documented 5 DR Tests successfully.
• Recovered production TSM server independently within SLA.

Systems Engineer at Wipro Technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • December 2006 to June 2009

Responsibilities:
• Managed Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM 5.5) servers on Solaris and Windows.
• Managed TSM Server-TSM/TDP Client environment consisting of HP UX/Solaris/Windows servers and configuration of Backup schedules on new nodes in new Policy domain.
• Analysis for Failed/Missed backups.
• Working knowledge of Storage products like IBM DS4000, NetApp ONTAP 7.0. Aggregate, Volume, RAID Groups, Qtree, Quotas, Snapshots & Snapmirror.
• Ensure high degree of Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) and SLA. Proactive approach in reducing the number of faults.
• Liaising with Vendor in case of Hardware fault.
Achievements:
• Award for Streamline of TSM Backup Environment.
• Onsite Upgradation project in the UK during April 2008

Technical Support Associate at Wipro BPO
  • India - Navi Mumbai
  • November 2005 to June 2006

Responsibilities:
• Provide Technical Support for Microsoft Network (MSN) process, a leading ISP of USA.
• Provide Technical support for Microsoft Office Live a US project involving Website designing using Design Tools by Microsoft Site Designer, Front page, html.

Achievements:
• Achieved resolutions within record Average Case Handling time of 17 minutes.

Customer Support Engineer at CMS Computers Limited (INDIA)
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2004 to November 2005

Responsibilities:
• Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting hardware and software(including McAfee and Symantec /Norton Anti Virus)of branded as well as assembled Desktops, Laptops, Printers e.g., IBM, HP Compaq, Dell, Wipro, HCL.
• On-site experience in leading companies like Philips, Coca Cola, TATA AIG, Reliance, Bajaj Allianz, IDBI.

Achievements:
• Managed and supported critical customer site independently as a fresher.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Engineering
  • at University of Mumbai
  • September 2001

Bachelor's of Engineering Degree in Instrumentation Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Netbackup
Tape Libraries
Backup Solutions
Disaster Recovery
Datacenter Hardware, Software
StorageTek
Tape Libraries
TSM Administration
MCSE Windows
Netbackup
High Availability
IBM AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Solaris
Networking - LAN/WAN, TCPIP, DNS, DHCP
Netbackup

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Certificate)
Backup Academy Certified on Virtual Machine Backups (Certificate)
EMC Certified on Information Storage Management (Certificate)
Veeam Certified Technical Professional - VMTSP (Virtual Machine Backup and Replication) (Certificate)
ITIL v3 Foundations Certified by EXIN (Certificate)
Veeam Certified Sales Professional - VMSP (Virtual Machine Backup and Replication) (Certificate)
IBM Certified on Tivoli Storage Manager Administration (Certificate)