Kevin Kuper

Background

About Kevin Kuper

A Information Technology professional with experience in Backups and Disaster Recovery in a global, multi-site, multi-host, environment. A self motivated individual who has an excellent sense of teamwork and experience in resolving issues remotely by instilling commitment in my work. TECHINCAL SKILLS TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), TDP (Tivoli Data Protection), NetBackup, CommVault, eVault, Backup Exec, VEEAM, Arcserve, Service Now, MS Windows, Word, and EXCEL, UNIX, Data Center Operations. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IBM, Boulder, CO 2017-Current Sr. Systems Engineer Support the daily backups for customer running on CommVault, NetBackup, eVault, and TSM. • Resolve daily backup failures • Process restore requests • Implement new backups SunGard, Thornton, CO 2005-2017 Sr Systems Engineer Worked on the Implementation team as the lead backup Engineer for over 7 years designing backup and recovery systems as well as 4 years on the Operations team supporting and troubleshooting backups in a large global environment. • Implement and support backups on multiple operating systems (Windows, UNIX, Linux) • Implement and support DB Backups (Microsoft SQL and Exchange, Oracle, SAP) • Supported over TSM, Netbackup and EVault clients in over 36 data centers worldwide • Document procedures for installing and troubleshooting backup systems • Supported over 20 TSM, NetBackup, and EVault Disaster Recovery tests • Provide training and support to co workers • Developed a mentor on-boarding process for new employees • Supported physical to virtual migrations utilizing snapshots and VADP best practices IBM, Boulder, CO 2004-2005 Systems Engineer Supported the daily backups for ING while migrating all of there backups to TSM which involved developing all new backup policies and schedules as well as new procedures for the tape operations teams. • Implemented a 12 TB, 24 Tape drive TSM backup system dedicated to ING • Migrated over clients from NetBackup to TSM