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
Ergonomic Group - Westbury, NY May 2008 - December 2010
  Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect
Putnam Investments - Boston, MA September 2007 - May 2008
  Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect
Integration Systems (iSys) - Deerfield Beach, FL ~ San Juan, PR April 2005 - September 2007
  Senior Unix System Engineer / Architect (New England, Puerto Rico region SE)
Detroit Edison - Detroit, MI (Contract Position) March 2003 - April 2005
  Linux / Unix System Administrator
Vicorp Inc. - Denver, CO (Contract Position) July 2002 - March 2003
  System Administrator (Disaster Recovery Project)
GE Access - Littleton, CO February 2000 - July 2002
  Technical Solution Engineer
Lewan & Associates - Denver, CO March 1997 - February 2000
  Senior System Engineer - System Engineer

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
Personal

References available upon request.

[Revision: 11-9-25]