Resume for William Favorite

William Favorite
wfavorite@tablespace.net
(720)-289-8142

Overview

I have over a decade experience of successful customer-facing engagements in a diverse range of industries. This experience has ranged from technical consultation, day-to-day admin, to managing general IT projects. During these engagements I have created solutions using a wide variety of solutions tailored to an equally wide variety of technical and business problems. - I have chosen, and continue to work, in this industry because of the personal satisfaction and enjoyment I receive from using technology to solve problems. - My primary focus has been Unix / Linux system administration, Oracle, and storage administration.

Product Experience

List includes recent projects, products that are a regular part of daily activities or were frequently used during the last job description(s).

Unix - AIX, Linux, Solaris
IBM pSeries Servers (Power 4, 5, & 6)
pSeries VIO Server - PowerVM
Sun SPARC Servers (M/T series)
Red Hat Linux (> 15 years Linux)
IBM BladeCenter
LSI/Engenio, IBM DS4x00 Arrays
Solaris DTrace - AIX ProbeVue
IBM HACMP

Oracle 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, RAC
Oracle Advanced Replication, Standby Server (DataGuard), etc…
Veritas, Oracle, Sun Initiative (VOS)
EMC DMX Arrays, PowerPath
Hitachi Thunder / Lightning
VMware ESX
Sun LDom, Zones

SuSE Enterprise Server
Solstice Disk Suite, Sun VM
Linux, x86-64, and Power versions
Apache, Tomcat, Web services
Veritas VxVM, VxFS
FreeBSD, BSD variants, Darwin / Mac OS X
Brocade, McData, & other SAN

Product Exposure

HP OpenView
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
BEA Weblogic

BladeLogic
Sun Cluster 3.0
F5 BigIP, 3DNS

Checkpoint Firewall
Lotus Domino
Sun Storage A5x00, A/D1000, T3

Certifications

IBM Certified AIX Instructor
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert -- IBM System p5 2006
IBM eServer Certified Specialist -- pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L v5.2
IBM e(logo)server Certified Systems Expert -- pSeries Enterprise Technical Support
IBM Certified Systems Expert -- eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) Solaris 10
Red Hat 5.1 RHCE

VMware VCP (2.5 and VI3)
IBM Certified Systems Expert -- IBM System p5 Virtualization Technical Support
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert -- pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L
IBM Certified Specialist -- eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3
IBM eServer Certified Specialist -- p5 and pSeries Technical Sales Support
IBM Certified for On Demand Business -- Solution Designer V2
IBM Certified Specialist -- IBM TotalStorage Networking and Virtualization Architecture V2

Technologies / Languages

C, C++
HTML, XML/XLS, DHTML(XHTML, JavaScript, CSS)
TCP/IP
DTrace, ProbeVue
Unix System Programming

Perl (and modules)
SQL, PL/SQL
Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP), LDAP
LaTeX
Ethernet, LAN, WAN

Java, SQLJ, JDBC
ksh, sh, bash Unix shell scripting
OLTP, OLAP, DSS
Various RAID technologies, SAN
RCS, make

Training

List includes only training taken during the last 6 job descriptions.

IBM pSeries Systems
AIX 5L Jumpstart for Unix Professionals (Instructor)
Sun E15K
Hitachi 7700, 99X0
Sun T3
Sun storage & software

Storage Tek 9176
Intel Switches, iPivot products
RMOUG Oracle Training Days 2000/2001/2002
IBM Tivoli Maestro
VMWare
Veritas Cluster Server - VCS

Brocade SilkWorm
IBM PSE / Tivoli
Numerous hardware / software vendor training
IBM nSeries storage
Veritas Volume Replicator - VVR
IBM data migration tools

Work History

Independent / Community Efforts

2000 - Present

Created and maintain a popular Unix information web site that hosts QuickSheets, scripts, code samples, utilities, and white papers.
Both AIX and Solaris QuickSheets are number one in SERPs for leading search engines.

Ergonomic Group - Westbury, NY	May 2008 - Present
Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect

Key resource in developing a dedicated IBM (System P / Storage) practice.
Consulted and provided temporary staff augmentation for high profile NY based financial market customers.
Designed and deployed solutions using entire System P line up to and including p595 (9119-FHA).

Putnam Investments - Boston, MA	September 2007 - May 2008
Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect

Wrote a comprehensive Unix standard to govern both current Unix deployments but to also forward looking views on future developments in the Unix marketplace.
Wrote utilities in C and shell scripts for reporting and daily management needs. Specifically, I wrote a tool to report multipath information from the native Linux multipath tool. This involved reviewing kernel code to determine functionality of the erroneous and poorly documented Linux multipath API.
Wrote a Java (Swing) based utility to manage an entirely new Sun JumpStart process of my design. Wrote significant documentation of the tool, the process, and procedures of Solaris JumpStart at Putnam.
Architected and deployed high profile Sun Solaris solution using the latest m-Series systems from Sun.

Integration Systems (iSys) - Deerfield Beach, FL ~ San Juan, PR	April 2005 - September 2007
Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect (New England, Puerto Rico region SE)

Designed, deployed, and managed solutions using IBM pSeries systems from p510 through p595 using whole partitions, DLPARs, and APV methods.
Designed, deployed, and managed highly available solutions using HACMP, Oracle RAC, and related technologies.
Wrote AIX utilities in C and shell scripts for reporting and daily management needs.
Provided consulting services for AIX, storage, Linux, and Oracle database needs for a variety of customers and configurations.
Deployed IBM DS4000 series storage in Linux, Power (pSeries) Linux, AIX, and Windows environments.
Deployed and maintained IBM BladeCenter solutions to include network and SAN configurations.
Instructed formal (official IBM) and informal training on IBM products and Unix concepts.

Detroit Edison - Detroit, MI (Contract Position)	March 2003 - April 2005
Linux / Unix System Administrator

Implemented and scaled a Linux infrastructure from 2 initial servers to over 130 servers with over 12,000 users. Part of a greater team of engineers that was responsible for the operations of over 500 AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX servers.
Developed standards and methods for server deployment, management, and monitoring to include written documentation, software tools, processes and procedures.
Frequently used access to source code to solve problems with open source products.
Developed several ITO agents and tools using C, Perl, and shell scripts for comprehensive Linux, Unix, and application event and status monitoring.
Worked with vendors and company management to provide the best mix of support using in-house, public-domain, and vendor supplied support with the goal of providing the best open source support in an enterprise environment for the most reasonable cost.

Vicorp Inc. - Denver, CO (Contract Position)	July 2002 - March 2003
System Administrator (Disaster Recovery Project)

Developed, deployed, documented, and managed a comprehensive Disaster Recovery plan for critical IT systems. This plan reduced a significant portion of annual IT expenses by leveraging existing company resources rather than relying upon expensive third party DR contracts.

GE Access - Littleton, CO	February 2000 - July 2002
Technical Solution Engineer

Developed complex solution platforms for resellers that were designed with industry best-practices, automated deployment, and complete documentation.
Developed solutions focused primarily on Oracle (DB/App), storage (tier-2), and Sun (Solaris, Sun Cluster, Veritas) products.
Managed Unix, Linux, and NT servers in a highly dynamic lab environment that contained production, development, and test systems running a wide variety of software. Provided support for customer functionality and performance evaluations in an adjoining lab.
Developed a "one-click" Oracle install as an extension to the Solaris JumpStart process to include Veritas Volume Manger (VxVM) encapsulation.
Evaluated new products and designs for possible inclusion in GE Access offerings. Evaluations were primarily concerned with storage and storage management products.
Created benchmarking applications that generate OLTP and OLAP type loads against Oracle instances for the purpose of evaluating various hardware solutions. These applications were specifically designed to stress row chaining, database fragmentation, high volume inserts and deletes requiring relational integrity, and other problematic load issues.
Developed and consulted on solutions focused primarily on VOS, Oracle, storage, and Sun products.
Created an automated web-based database configuration application that simplified Oracle deployments.
Developed internal Oracle-backed web sites in Perl DBI::DBD, Java (servlets), and Oracle 9iAS / Portal.
Evaluated and benchmarked various storage solutions on software and hardware platforms using Oracle databases.

Lewan & Associates - Denver, CO	March 1997 - February 2000
Senior System Engineer - System Engineer

Provided support for HP-UX 10.20 and 11 servers.
Developed environmental control archiving applications for FDA validated systems.
Designed, installed, and supported Linux based Sendmail~POP/IMAP, LDAP, and various infrastructure servers.
Was one of the first RHCEs under the new Red Hat certification program (class number two).
Primarily provided pre and post-sales consulting on systems and database projects. Engagements typically involved pre-sales solution development, solution implementation and best practices consulting (often following a crisis or recovery engagement).
Developed a Documentation ToolKit for Linux and NT that was used to provide rapid documentation of installed servers / services. This included scripts and documentation templates to assist in the creation of a solid documentation foundation. These packages were deployed with InstallShield (NT) and RPM (Linux) formats.
Developed a Best Practices regimen for benefit of sales force, junior engineers, and system consistency in absence of policies at deployed sites.
Managed, implemented, and designed multiple server / desktop deployments greater than 100 users. Worked in environments with thousands of users.
President's Club Member

Intervening time includes positions related to my current work but either in a more junior capacity or on older technology. These have been omitted in an effort to keep this resume relevant to future positions and under 4 pages. Information on these positions is available upon request.

United States Marine Corps	July 1985 - July 1991
Sergeant - Aircraft Firefighter

Received RE1A reenlistment code (Honorable Discharge).
Sergeant (E5) in Gulf War. Managed order amongst chaos.

References available upon request.

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