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Technologies
Operating System Administration
| OS | First Used |
Years Experience |
Last Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIX 3.2.5 through 5.3 | 1995 | 10+ | 2007 |
| OpenVMS 5.5-2 through 7.2 | 1995 | 3 | Once every six months since 1998 |
| MacBSD 0.8 through NetBSD "current" | 1993 | 12+ | Current, daily, as hobbyist |
| SunOS 4.0 | 1995 | 2 | 1998 |
| SunOS 5.5 through 5.8 (Solaris 2.5 through Solaris 8) |
1995 | 10+ | 2007 |
| DEC OSF/1 1.3 through HP Tru64 5.1B | 1995 | 10+ | 2007 |
| Darwin/Mac OS X DP1 through 10.2 | 1998 | 7+ | Current, daily, as hobbyist |
| Cisco IOS (minimal) | 1996 | <1 | Approx once every six months |
| Linux, in-house custom distribution | 2007 | <1 | daily as administrator |
Hardware
- IBM POWER5 based systems (mainly p570 LPARs and p590 LPARs).
- IBM POWER4 based systems (p615, p630 LPARs, p650).
- IBM POWER3 based SP using PSSP.
- Many older MCA and PCI based RS/6000, eg. C10, J30, F50, H50.
- IBM SSA drawers and adapters.
- IBM DS4300 (FAStT600) and DS4800 SAN-attached storage.
- IBM 3584 Tape Library.
- IBM 3494 Tape Library.
- DEC VAX 4000 range (VLC, 60, 90, 96, 600).
- DEC/Digital/Compaq/HP Alpha (From DEC 3000 to AlphaServer 2100, 8400 and DS20, ES40).
- DEC/Digital/Compaq Storage (HSD-30, HSZ-50).
- Many older Sun machines (SPARCstation 5, 10, 20, E3000, E3500).
- Sun storage (StorEdge A5000, A5100, A5200, A1000).
- Generic Intel/AMD PC hardware.
Vendor technologies and Other Major Products
| Technology | First Used |
Years Experience |
Last Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM Power5 Virtual I/O Server | 2006 | 0.5 | 2007 |
| IBM LPARs on Power4 and Power5 | 2001 | 4 | 2007 |
| IBM AIX PSSP, CSM and NIM | 2000 | 4 | 2007 |
| HDLM on AIX | 2000 | 4 | 2007 |
| HA-CMP 5.1 | 2005 | 1 | 2007 |
| TSM server (iTSM) from 4.1 through 5.1 | 2000 | 5 | 2007 |
| Symantec/Veritas NetBackup 4.5, 5.1 | 2002 | 2 | 2007 |
| Veritas Volume Manager v3.0, v3.2 under Solaris. Also LSM for Tru64 | 1996 | 7 | 2007 |
| DECnet Phase IV on OpenVMS | 1995 | 3 | 1998 |
| DECnet OSI (Phase V) on OpenVMS and Tru64 | 1996 | 9 | 2007 |
| DEC T21 SNA Services on Tru64 | 1998 | 7 | 2007 |
| DEC TruCluster 1.3 | 1996 | 9 | 2007 |
| Xen 2.0 running on NetBSD 3.0 Dom0 | 2005 | <1 | Current |
Major Programming/Scripting Languages
In order of decreasing familiarity (self rating of 9 being an internationally recognised expert):
| Language | First Used |
Years Experience |
Last used | Self rating (0 to 9) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 1988 | 16+ | Current, almost daily | 6 |
| Bourne/Korn Shell | 1993 | 10+ | Current, daily | 4 |
| Perl | 1999 | 6+ | Current, weekly | 3 |
| C++ | 1995 | 2 | current, mainly debugging | 3 |
| Java | 1997 | 2 | 1999 | 3 |
| Objective C | 1999 | 2 | 2001 | 2 |
| BASIC | 1984 | 5+ | 1995 | 2 |
| Python | 2000 | <1 | current | 2 |
| Modula-II | 1993 | 1 | 1993 | 1 |
| PDP-8 assembler | 1993 | <1 | 1993 | 1 |
| Motorola 68k assembler | 1988 | 2 | 1998 | 1 |
| PL/I | 1993 | 3 | 1996 | 2 |
| SAS | 1993 | 2 | 1995 | 1 |
| JCL | 1993 | 2 | 1995 | 1 |
Databases
| Database | First Used |
Years Experience |
Last used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle 7.3.4 through 9.2.0 | 1995 | 4 | 2007 |
| MySQL 3.23 through 4.1 | 2002 | 3 | Current |
| PostgreSQL 7.4 through 8.0 | 2004 | 1 | Current |
| Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.0 through 12.0 | 1998 | 3 | 2002 |
| DB2 8.1 (minimal) | 2005 | <1 | 2007 |
Education, Training and Conferences
- 1993-2001: Completed Bachelor of Computer Science Honours, First Class from the University of Wollongong.
- Mar 2000: Completed IBM RS/6000 SP System Administration course.
- Dec 1998: Completed Sybase System and Database Administration Adaptive Server Enterprise course.
- Aug 1998: Completed DECnet OSI Administration course.
- Oct 1997: Attended DECUS Australia Symposium.
- Aug 1995: Completed OpenVMS System and Network Management II course.
- Feb 1993: In-house training on PL/1, SAS, JCL and IMS-DC.
- Jan 1993: Began Bachelor of Information Technology and Communication degree at the University of Wollongong, studying part-time.
- Dec 1992: Completed HSC at Nowra Technology High School with TER of 95.75.
Working Chronology
Dec 2007 - current
- Company
- Google Australia
- Role
- Site Reliability Engineering
Dec 1998 - Oct 2007
- Company
- BHP IT (Dec 1998 - Jun 2000), CSC Australia (Jun 2000 - Oct 2007)
- Primary Role
- UNIX System Administrator
- Duties
-
- Member of a team varying from 12 to 16, supporting from 150 to 300 UNIX systems/LPARs, including AIX, Solaris, Tru64, Linux and SCO. Systems vary from Steelmaking production control systems to large (1+ TiB) SAP/Oracle AIX systems with an international user base.
- Typical tasks include installation, patching, security management, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, space management and performance tuning.
- Main support contact for two Solaris (now AIX) based TSM backup servers, with around 180 clients (UNIX, OpenVMS, WinNT and Macintosh).
- Providing rostered 24x7 on-call support.
- Primary unofficial backup for rostered on-call support personnel for any technical issues.
- Mentor for colleagues on most supported technologies.
- Australian Subject Matter Expert for Tru64 UNIX.
- Main contact for performance tuning of supported systems.
- Main contact for arcane network protocols, including managing a Tru64 system running as a DECnet Phase V to SNA LU6.2 gateway, and several Tru64 systems using the PLC communications protocols GCOM.
- Main contact for the management of a MediaWiki based team documentation archive.
- Achievements
-
- Dec 2006: Successfully migrated and upgraded a TSM server from TSM 5.1.4.6, Solaris 2.7 running on a Sun E3500 with A5100 storage, to TSM 5.3.3.4, AIX 5.3 running on a p520 with HDS SAN attached storage. TSM database unload was approximately 30 GiB, and the upgrade, including auditdb, was completed in approximately 24 hours.
- Feb 2006: Involved in commissioning a number of US-based p570 based LPARs, including configuring redundant Virtual I/O Servers providing both disk and network.
- May 2005: Involved in a second major project for the same client configuring a further 42 p570 LPARs, and the migration of Oracle databases, live, over the network, using a customized rsync, between the US and Australia, minimizing outage time for cut-over. Some of the migrated databases were slightly less than 1 terabyte in size, and database outage duration for cut-over was less than 30 minutes. Mentored two new graduates with 2 months experience to handle much of the physical cabling, LPARing, installation, and some migration tasks.
- Jan 2005: Involved in a technical role in a major project for the configuring of approximately 12 p570 LPARs for the running of SAP+Oracle for a large client. Data and applications were successfully migrated from existing SP infrastructure.
- Jul 2003: Mentor and senior technical specialist assisting with the migration of a MIMS/Oracle application from a heavily customized and scripted Tru64 environment to new AIX POWER4 hardware.
- 2000: Technical resource involved in the separation of DNS, SMTP, and other network services with the splitting of one company into two separate companies and network entities.
1996 - Dec 1998
- Company
- BHP IT
- Primary Role
- VMS Systems Management
- Duties
-
- Member of a team of approximately 12 supporting RSX-11M and VMS systems.
- Typical tasks included installation, patching, security management, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, space management and performance tuning.
- Providing rostered 24x7 on-call support.
- Primary midrange contact for a high security department, supporting OpenVMS VAXen running SETCIM, PI and DECnet OSI, an OSF/1 system running SAP and Oracle and an AIX system running several Oracle databases.
- Primary VMS contact for a critical commercial messaging application running on a VMS cluster, using X25, MRX (X400), DECnet OSI, RDB and DECEDI.
- Achievements
-
- Main technical VMS resource involved in an 80 hour upgrade of DECEDI systems, upgrading VMS, RDB, DECnet OSI, MR and MRX.
Aug 1995 - 1996
- Company
- BHP IT
- Primary Role
- Midrange Facilities Management
- Duties
-
- Member of a team of approximately 12 supporting RSX-11M, VMS, AIX, DG-UX, SunOS, IRIX and OSF/1 systems, and RDB and Oracle databases. Systems mainly involved in Steelmaking production control.
- Typical tasks included installation, patching, security management, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, space management and performance tuning.
- Providing rostered 24x7 on-call support.
Jan 1993 - Aug 1995
- Company
- BHP IT
- Primary Role
- Systems Analyst, employed on a cadetship, simultaneously completing a part-time University degree.
- Duties
-
- Junior member of a team of 6 supporting a large code base of PL/1, SAS and JCL with IMS and DB2 databases running on an IBM mainframe, for BHP Port Kembla Steelworks. In-house applications primarily providing Production Planning and Scheduling functionality.
- Achievements
-
- Main support contact and developer of a source-code cross reference tool used to find the scope of module changes, written in PL/1, SAS and JCL.
- Providing rostered 24x7 on-call support.
- Started running MacBSD on mac68k in 1993. Currently run NetBSD on i386, mac68k, sparc and alpha architectures, and actively track daily source code snapshots, submitting bug reports and occasional patches.
- Have run a NetBSD Internet accessible web, ftp and SMTP server since 2002.
- Have assisted in the debugging of various bugs in software including Darwin (Mac OS X), rsync, MySQL and fvwm2.
