Resume for William Favorite

William Favorite
wfavorite@tablespace.net
(603)-204-3386

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).

Big Unix – AIX, Solaris
Little Unix – Linux, FreeBSD, OSX
IBM System P, Sun SPARC Servers (M/T series)
VIOS, PowerVM, WPARs
IBM BladeCenter & System X
HP ISS (x86 systems)
Solaris DTrace & AIX ProbeVue

Oracle, RAC, & related products
EMC & Hitachi Tier 1 & 2 Arrays, PowerPath, HDLM
Red Hat Linux (> 15 years Linux)
IBM HACMP / PowerHA
VMware ESX, ESXi
Numerous system, network, & storage virtualization technologies

Extensive Unix systems scripting and programming
Solstice, Sun VM, ZFS, Veritas VxVM / VxFS, & other LVM
SybaseIQ
Brocade, McData, & others
LSI/Engenio, IBM DS3, 4, & 5K

Product Exposure

HP OpenView
HP BCS, HP-UX
IBM SVC, FalconStor
BEA/Oracle Weblogic

BladeLogic
Sun Cluster, VCS
F5 BigIP, 3DNS
IBM Director, HP InsightManager

Apache, Tomcat, Web services
Lotus Domino
TSM – NetBackup
NetApp

Certifications

IBM Certified AIX Instructor
I have held virtually every AIX / System P related certification since AIX 5.2. (Most are not listed here.)
IBM XIV Storage System Technical Solutions V1
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) Power Systems with AIX (6.1, 5.3, 5.2)
Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux
Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux
IBM BladeCenter V5
IBM Certified Specialist Storage Networking Solutions

VMware VCP (2.5, VI3, & VI4)
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert -- pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L
IBM eServer Certified Specialist -- pSeries Technical Sales Support (p5 / p6)
IBM Certified for On Demand Business -- Solution Designer V2
Oracle 8 & 8i OCP
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) Solaris 10

Training

List includes only training taken during the latest job descriptions.

IBM pSeries systems
ProbeVue (presenter)
IBM AIX (instructor)
BladeLogic
Sun systems, storage, & software

HP ISS, BCS, & software
IBM Tivoli Maestro
VMware
IBM nSeries storage
NetApp SanScreen

Numerous hardware / software vendor training (instructor & student)
IBM data migration tools
Sybase IQ

Technologies / Languages

C, C++
Perl (and modules)
TCP/IP (deployment & development)
DTrace, ProbeVue
AIX PerfStat, Error, & other APIs
Pthread programming

ksh (88/93), sh, bash Unix shell
Web technologies & standards
SQL, PL/SQL, OCI
Eclipse, RCS, make
Ethernet, LAN, WAN
JumpStart, KickStart, NIM, Ignite
Unix System Programming

Unix Internals
Java, SQLJ, JDBC
OLTP, OLAP, DSS
vPar, nPar, Integrity VM
LPAR, WPAR, PowerVM
LDom (T), Domains (M), Zones
SAN, NPIV, FCIP, iSCSI, etc...

Work History

Bloomberg - New York, NY	December 2010 - Present
Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect

Developed tools and methods for performance analysis.
Automated deployment and management tasks through scripting and custom (C-based) tools.
Provided performance analysis and tuning for real-time financial systems.
Worked directly with IBM Austin and IBM India on AIX issues and enhancements.
Interfaced directly with developers for application development and porting needs.

Ergonomic Group - Westbury, NY	May 2008 - December 2010
Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect

Key resource in developing a dedicated IBM (System P, X, & Storage) practice.
Worked closely with IBM AIX team and prominent AIX customer on the future feature set of the Vue language and the ProbeVue tool.
Consulted and provided temporary (approx 1 yr) staff augmentation for high profile NY based financial customers.
Designed and deployed solutions using entire System P line from blades to mainframe-class systems.
Worked with customers on activities diverse as performance management, data center moves, development efforts, deployment of new systems, and system requirements / design of solutions.

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, performance monitoring, 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 to include the introduction of new concepts to the environment such as VLANs, ZFS, and DTrace.

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.
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 applications & solutions focused primarily on Oracle (DB/App), storage (tier-2), and Sun (Solaris, Sun Cluster, Veritas) products. Developed VOS and VOS derived solutions for GE Access.
Developed a "one-click" Oracle install as an extension to the Solaris JumpStart process to include Veritas Volume Manger (VxVM) encapsulation. Solution was based upon industry best-practices, and included complete documentation.
Evaluated new products and designs for possible inclusion in GE Access offerings. Evaluations were primarily concerned with storage and storage management products. These included (but were not limited to) Veritas NAS, Veritas VVR, StorageTek HSM, LeftHand, and many other new or up-in-coming products / vendors.
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.
Created an automated web-based database configuration application that simplified Oracle deployments.
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, Linux, Win-NT – Pre and post-sales engagements.
Developed environmental control archiving applications for FDA validated systems.
Was one of the first RHCEs under the new Red Hat certification program (class number two).
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.
President's Club Member

Intervening time includes positions related to my current work but either in a more junior capacity or on older technologies. 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.

Personal

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.
Active Unix user group presenter and member. Contributor to various online forums, including IBM developerWorks, unix.com, and others. (Presentations are available on web at numerous sites.)
Developed curses / pthreads based AIX error log browser for interactive monitoring of the error log event stream.
Developed Linux multipath reporting, Linux multipath disk performance, and AIX network performance tools.
Leading contributor to public domain for ProbeVue and Vue language.

References available upon request.

[Revision: 11-9-25]