Disaster Recovery Leadership
I help organizations prepare for real-world recovery scenarios through DR planning, test delivery, runbook quality, and continuous improvement.
About Travis
20 years of award-winning experience specializing in Infrastructure Resiliency, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore, and Solution Architecture, with a focus on responsibly integrating Artificial Intelligence to improve workflows, strengthen decision-making, and increase operational efficiency. Helping to protect, strengthen, recover, and architect enterprise level on-premises and cloud data infrastructure.
Dedicated to fortifying a company's resilience against diverse threats, from natural disasters to cyber attacks like ransomware, through strategic planning, collaborative initiatives, and innovative solutions.
Bringing substantial value to organizations through a combination of exceptional verbal and written communication, adept documentation writing, and a strong foundation in project management.
Collaborative leadership skills enable effective engagement with cross-functional teams, coupled with a self-driven and resourceful approach. Maintaining unwavering focus on tangible results, making significant contributions to a company's success.
Led multiple successful large-scale disaster recovery drills onsite and offsite at client locations across the USA.
Characteristics
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Resourceful and results driven
- Able to meet strict deadlines
- Experienced in project management
- Strong functional and design sense
- Technical, creative, and forward thinker
- Self-motivated with ambitious learning goals
- Detail-oriented and methodical problem-solver
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven track record for finding ways to maximize efficiency
- Frequently recognized and rewarded for outstanding service
- Accomplished leader who works well within a team environment
- Proficient in technical documentation writing and international training
What I do
Data Protection & Cloud Recovery
My work covers backup and restore strategy, VMware environments, Rubrik migration efforts, storage platforms, and cloud recovery alignment.
Cyber Resiliency Mindset
I focus on trust in practice: readiness, documentation, reporting, critical asset prioritization, and disciplined operational follow-through.
Experience
Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer
Participating in daily DR planning with cross-functional infrastructure and application teams, helping execute major out-of-state DR tests, and driving compliant plans and runbooks across the Archer DR/BC platform.
Data Protection Engineer
Worked on large-scale backup migration from IBM Storage Protect to Rubrik, supported VMware environments, and partnered with cloud teams across GKE, AWS, and Azure for resilient data protection.
Disaster Recovery & Cyber Resiliency Analyst
Led critical application prioritization, backup resiliency planning, recovery template development, and technology standard contributions across on-prem and cloud recovery programs.
Principal Data Protection & Storage Engineer, Architect & Leader
Performed principal-level enterprise backup, recovery, storage architecture, leadership, vendor engagement, process improvement, and technical training across large-scale production environments.
Enterprise Services Delivery Leader IV, Data Protection
Led enterprise backup and recovery operations across two major data centers, supported global teams, acted as a backup and recovery SME, and helped drive automation and process improvements for major clients.
Data Protection Administrator & Leader
Performed enterprise backup and recovery administration, participated in onsite and offsite disaster recovery drills, and helped lead the creation of a new backup monitoring team across the USA and India.
Education
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Fundamental Essentials, Core Infrastructure
Instructor-led virtual training covering cloud fundamentals, VMs, storage, containers, big data, machine learning, application development, deployment, and monitoring.
Microsoft Azure, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
On-demand training with labs across Azure services, data, machine learning studio, AI strategy, speech, vision, sentiment analysis, and predictive model workflows.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
On-demand cloud training covering core services, security, architecture, pricing, support, and foundational AWS concepts.
Veritas NetBackup 7.7 Administration
Instructor-led administration training focused on storage, policies, file system backups and restores, virtualization, application and database protection, duplication, optimization, and troubleshooting.
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (ESXi 6 and vCenter Server 6)
Instructor-led VMware training covering ESXi, vCenter Server, virtual networking, virtual storage, resource management, monitoring, HA, and fault tolerance.
CommVault 10 Administration
Classroom administration training covering core fundamentals, implementation, maintenance, and virtual data management.
HP Data Protector 6.1 - 7.x Essentials
Instructor-led training covering architecture, installation, backup and restore, monitoring, reporting, security, auditing, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, licensing, and product structure.
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