Brian Stone

Background

About Brian Stone

Professional Experience - Manages a global team of technical professionals supporting a vast on-prem and cloud-based NetBackup environment - Builds partnerships between business groups and IT, incorporating the best solution for each particular unique need - Experienced manager of people coupled with years of IT experience; encourage growth and development of all team members both locally and remotely in India - Diverse set of skills from advanced troubleshooting to scripting, knowledge building, knowledge transfer, and coaching - Analytical with advanced troubleshooting and problem solving skills - High level of exposure to many of today's most prevalent technologies - Thrives in a fast-paced and diverse environment - Responsible for setting up processes for reporting on SOX and SOC 2 compliance within the NetBackup environment - Traveled to Chennai, India for three weeks to assist with a transition between service providers Technical Experience • Senior level Backup Administrator with significant Linux, Unix, and Windows administration experience • ITIL v3 Certified • 30+ NetBackup Primary server (Windows and Linux)- Managed upgrades from NetBackup 7.1 through 10.3 • client backups with over jobs per day; greater than 99.8% success rate • Automated deployment of the NetBackup Client through Puppet and BigFix • Troubleshoot corporate systems independently and collaboratively with platform operations and database administrators • Piloted a Rubrik Proof of Concept • Familiar with Agile Practices Software & Hardware Experience • Microsoft Office 365, Visio, and Teams • Veritas NetBackup 7.1 – 10.3 • Veritas NetBackup OpsCenter, IT Analytics, InfoScale • Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, Control-M • VMware • Nutanix AHV • Data Domain (VTL, replication, and Data Domain Management Center) • HPE StoreOnce Appliance and StorageWorks Libraries • IBM Tape Libraries (3100/3200/4300/3584) • ServiceNow • Cisco UCS and HPE ProLiant system administration • Microsoft Azure and AWS experience