Infrastructure Resiliency
Helping enterprise environments withstand disruption and operate with confidence.
BUILT TO PROTECT.
READY TO RECOVER.
"Resilience is the strength to stand when the city falls,
and recovery is the power to rise before the dust settles."
About Travis
I am a reliable, trustworthy, and resourceful technology professional with a results-driven mindset and a strong track record of meeting strict deadlines, improving efficiency, and delivering meaningful value to enterprise environments. I bring a balanced mix of technical experience, creative thinking, project management, documentation, design sense, and clear communication, allowing me to solve complex problems in a methodical and practical way.
Known for being self-motivated, detail-oriented, and forward-thinking, I work well both independently and within team environments, with a continued focus on learning, improving operations, supporting recovery readiness, and helping organizations achieve stronger, smarter, and more resilient outcomes.
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Read My StoriesCore Strengths
Representing the five areas where I bring the strongest experience and career focus — all working together to strengthen enterprise environments, improve recovery readiness, reduce risk, and support smarter technology decisions.
Disaster Recovery
Planning, testing, validating, and improving recovery readiness.
Backup & Restore
Strengthening data protection and restore confidence across critical systems.
Solution Architecture
Evaluating technologies, vendors, and designs to solve infrastructure challenges. Performing Proof of Concepts.
AI Integration
Improving workflows, documentation, communication, reporting, and decision support.
Resilience in Action
Strengthening infrastructure, protecting data, validating recovery, and helping organizations keep moving when it matters most.
DR Testing
Planning, coordination, validation, and real-world recovery drills.
Recovery Docs
Runbooks, plans, readiness reporting, and recoverability structure.
Recovery Readiness
Strengthening operational readiness through coordination, process clarity, and repeatable recovery execution.
Backup & Restore
Data protection strategy, restore confidence, and cloud alignment.
Infrastructure
Resiliency systems built to protect enterprise platforms under pressure.
Vendor PoCs
Evaluating fit-for-purpose backup, storage, and resiliency solutions.
Career Missions
2026 celebrates my 20 year anniversary helping enterprise environments become more resilient, recoverable, and operationally ready across infrastructure, disaster recovery, backup, and restore.
Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer
Cross-functional DR planning, major DR tests, and compliant runbooks across Archer DR/BC.
Data Protection Engineer
Rubrik migration work, VMware support, and resilient data protection across cloud teams.
DR & Cyber Resiliency Analyst
Critical application prioritization, recovery templates, and on-prem plus cloud resiliency planning.
Principal Data Protection Leader
Enterprise backup, recovery, storage architecture, vendor leadership, and technical training.
Enterprise Services Delivery Leader
Major data center backup operations, automation, SME support, and process improvement.
Data Protection Administrator
Enterprise backup and recovery administration plus onsite and offsite disaster recovery drills.
Training Grounds
Representing the knowledge, education, and hands-on learning that strengthen my ability to protect infrastructure, improve recovery, and build more resilient technology environments.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Core Infrastructure
Cloud fundamentals, VMs, storage, containers, machine learning, deployment, and monitoring.
Microsoft Azure, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Azure services, data, machine learning studio, AI strategy, speech, vision, and predictive workflows.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Core services, security, architecture, pricing, support, and foundational AWS concepts.
Veritas NetBackup 7.7 Administration
Storage, policies, restores, virtualization, application protection, optimization, and troubleshooting.
VMware vSphere Install, Configure, Manage
ESXi, vCenter Server, networking, storage, monitoring, HA, and fault tolerance.
CommVault 10 Administration
Core administration, implementation, maintenance, and virtual data management.
HP Data Protector 6.1 - 7.x Essentials
Architecture, installation, backup and restore, reporting, security, auditing, and disaster recovery.
UNIX System Administration (Southern Methodist University)
Classroom training covering Solaris UNIX fundamentals, system administration, backups and restores, CRON/AT, networking, OS installation, and shell programming.
Utility Belt
Bringing together the skills, platforms, tools, and technologies I use to strengthen infrastructure, support recovery, improve resiliency, and help complex environments operate more effectively.
BC & DR Management
- Archer Business Resiliency
- Fusion Risk Management
Environments & Platforms
- On-Premises Data Centers
- Hybrid
- Virtualization (VMware)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
Workflow & Governance
- ServiceNow
- Jira
- Aha!
- Confluence
- Box
- SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
Backup & Restore
- Commvault
- NetBackup
- Rubrik
- HYCU
- IBM Storage Protect (TSM)
- HP Data Protector
- VMware Snapshots
- VMware Live Site Recovery (SRM)
- AWS EBS Snapshots
- GCP Snapshots
- Backups for GKE
- Google Cloud Backup and DR
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