The Henderson's

Detail-oriented Data Protection Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and administering enterprise backup solutions, protecting over 15PB of data and 200+ applications. Proven expertise in Commvault, Veeam, and Azure, with leadership of offshore teams and successful cloud migration projects. Skilled in disaster recovery, documentation, and cross-platform environments.

Consulting Data Protection Engineer - Fairview Health Systems

(2023-01)

• Architected and implemented Commvault in AWS, supporting cloud migration and protecting a major EHR solution plus nearly 200 additional applications.
• Built Commvault Clean Room and Air Gap Protect for Isolated Recovery Environment, orchestrating quarterly disaster recovery tests and creating comprehensive runbook documentation.
• Retired and upgraded legacy Commvault Hyperscale 1.5, deploying new Linux RHEL 10 media agents and Dell ECS Objectscale as storage targets to enhance backup reliability.
• Managed a small offshore Commvault admin team by providing training, documentation, and KPIs to support Tier 1 and Tier 2 backup tasks.

Sr. Systems Engineer (DR and Enterprise Backup) - LifePoint Health

(2020-01 - 2023-01)

• Designed and maintained enterprise-wide backup and recovery procedures using Veeam, Commvault, and Spectrum Protect, safeguarding over 15PB of data.
• Led consolidation of multiple backup platforms into a standardized Commvault solution, streamlining operations and reducing complexity.
• Retired multiple IBM tape arrays and implemented Azure as the long-term retention target, improving backup scalability and reliability.
• Served as Subject Matter Expert for 60+ remote facilities, resolving escalated storage, backup, data center, and VMware issues.
• Participated in DevOps for cloud migration by creating an Azure test lab for backup and recovery environment validation.
• Assisted in creating, documenting, and testing the Business Continuity plan for Disaster Recovery, ensuring organizational resilience.
• Generated daily and weekly status reports on capacity planning, storage utilization, and backup success rates for management review.

Systems Engineer - LifeWay

(2016-01 - 2020-01)

• Implemented and engineered Commvault Enterprise backup, retiring legacy tape methods for long-term retention and ensuring up-to-date service packs and hotfixes.
• Configured, administered, and managed an Isilon NAS storage environment with over 900TB of data, optimizing storage performance.
• Performed all System Admin duties for an 800+ Windows VM environment, including OS upgrades, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monthly patching.
• Re-architected data center infrastructure during migration, decreasing physical footprint by 80% and establishing monitoring, cabling, and labeling standards.

System Administrator - Entrada Health

(2014-01 - 2016-01)

• Implemented Nagios to monitor server health, including disks, CPU, memory, and networks, for a 100+ Windows VM production environment.
• Led Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) and Business Continuity project by conducting vendor comparisons, pricing, scaling, and fail-over testing for deployment.
• Provided technical support to over 60 end users, both local and remote, resolving hardware, software, VPN, AD, email, and workstation issues.
• Managed and administered Windows systems by performing periodic maintenance, delivering technical support, and executing systems engineering tasks.

AS - Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology - ITT Technical Institute (2008-01 - 2008-12)