IBM Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Coordinator

IBM Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Coordinator/ IBM Tivoli Specialist

Kuwait Airways Co

State of Kuwait


 Join Date: July 13th, 2008 to Dec 31st, 2012

I have played many roles: –

Outsourced to KBM as IBM Tivoli Specialist to work at Kuwait Airways Co.

  • Designing Solutions based on customers’ requirements and prepare technical proposals.
  • Analyze customers’ environment through capacity planning, performance analysis, problems analysis, and escalate to appropriate Levels with recommended solutions.
  • Preparing the statement of work and scope of work documentation.
  • Maintain the customer relationship and ensure systems developed and delivered properly as per end-user requirements.

ICT Business Continuity/DR Achievements:

  • Writing the Business Continuity plan and manuals in terms of (High Availability, Continuous operations, and Disaster Recovery).
  • Coordinate the Business Continuity plan with BC team members and staff and conduct training sessions.
  • Disaster recovery plan test for the organization’s functional areas.
  • Ensure the recovery and restoration procedures accuracy for the business processes.
  • Maintain the key persons internal/external contacts and test the DR facilities’ equipment.
  • Identify the critical business processes, perform risk assessments, and its impact.           

IBM Tivoli Specialist role duties:

  • Documentation and Report writing according to the SLA (Create regular reports for Management requirements).
  • Technical Leader for IBM Tivoli implementation projects; initiation, planning, implementation, training, and services support.
  • Technical Pre-Sales for IBM Tivoli products; create, scope, develop, propose, and close IBM Tivoli opportunities.
  • Team Leader for IBM Tivoli Products such as (Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus base, Tivoli Netcool/Webtop, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Configuration Manager…etc.
  • IBM TSM Server Administration, TSM tapes handling, management, tuning, troubleshooting, and planning for the monthly preventive maintenance plan.
  • Upgrade planning Hardware/Software for Tivoli Products and writing technical requirements and specifications for the upgrade process.
  • Hardware Installation including Tape Libraries and Tape Expansion Units (IBM 3584 Tape Library) and IBM P520 and many other TS3200…etc.
  • Understanding and manage Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) environment, and Storage Pools.

Used Technologies:  EMC DMX/VMAX, VPLEX, VNX, Storage virtualization, IBM DS8000 series, Hardware management console (HMC), DS storage manager, DS4000 series. Design SANs based on Brocade and Cisco solution.