Welcome to Marcus's Profile

After the conclusion of my current contract I will be looking internationally for a senior IT position within an Implementation or Design group covering Storage, SAN, UNIX, Backup, Disaster Recovery, SAP. My availability is December 2011 My current home is Lausanne Switzerland. My ideal position would not just be technical but would include education/lecturing, team leading/motivation, documentation and customer facing contact.

Current Project: I work for IBM Switzerland representing them within a mixed environment at customer sites of their choice. Full details

High Level Skill Summary

AIX / UNIX	Over a decade of AIX systems experience with Systems Integration and Design from AIX6 on P6 back thru releases 5,4,3, RIOS 2, to AIX/PS2 to VM/370, VM/IX, PC/IX on platforms Power, RS/6000, 6150, PC, 370. Most recent work included AIX 5.3 on P6 with HACMP 5.4. Additional Linux RHEL, other vendor HP/SUN UNIX skills.
Storage	5 years plus with IBM Enterprise Storage DS configuration, installation optimisation.
SAN	6 years plus experience in SAN design and administration in Wintel, UNIX Enterprise environments
Backup	10 years plus TSM administration and design
Disaster Recovery	5 year plus experience. Nestle's ADDC project included prototyping with IBM DS, FlashCopy, GlobalMirror, Topio Replicator, TPC-R, TPC-D. Designed IBM Global Services SAP Offsite DR recovery for it's Oracle, DB2 and Informix hosted solutions.
Documentation	10 years plus professional documentation skills within IBM and it's customers. Included hyperlinked documentation using DokuWiki/Confluence, Notes, HTML, Microsoft Help
Teaching	Over the course of 10 years plus I've lectured courses for IBM Education and others, and at University and for Playcentres for London's Education Authority. Included subjects from Compiler Design, AIX administration, C programming, IBM Script, X-Windows GUI programming, Basic compute skills. Many courses were written by myself.
SAP	5 years plus SAP BASIS including some SAP BI and SQL administration
Wintel	Continued Wintel Experience including ESXi, VMWARE, Windows 2008 Server, Vista, 7, Citrix
Management	Production Support and Infrastructure Manager for an Airline Services company. Numerous examples of mentoring and team leading.
Authoring	I'm a published author on IBM's RS/6000 product line, X-Windows and numerous technical articles. I maintain an active Technical Blog, an AIX /Storage / SAN wiki and a 200GB plus DataStore website on AIX SAN and Storage.

Business Environments Summary (years exp)

Airline	Leading UK airline (2), premiere UK Airline freight arbritage (3)
Banking	IBM International Banking (3), New York Stock Exchange (1), Citibank (1)
Education	Middlesex Polytechnic (1), City London University (2), ILEA (4)
Food Drink	Nestle(5)
Government	UK Civil Service(1)
IT	IBM Marketing, Sys. Integration, Consulting, Outsourcing(15), Programming(>5), OSWC consulting(>5)
Pharmaceutical	Celgene Anti Cancer Therapies(1)
Power	UK Power Generation and Distribution(5)
Retail	UK retail ASDA Tesco(3)
Research	IBM Development(2), OSF(1)

Special Accomplishments

>25 years UNIX , >20 years AIX, >10 years Linux.
>8 years TSM , >8 years SAN, >6 years Storage, >4 years SAP (personal SAP in 1999), SAP 47 laptop since 2003
Computer experience predates CPM 1.4

Education

1st Class Honours in Electronic & Mechanical Engineering, QMC London
Scholarships including: Drapers, ICI, Imperial College, CEGB, National Engineering.
Undergraduate qualifications 10 O Levels, 5A & 2S1-Levels.

Professional Qualifications

Eur.Ing, C.Eng, Feani (grade1) MIET, MIEEE, MBCS, AMIMechE, FRSA.

SAP R3 v3 & v4 Certified Technical Consultant (UNIX/Oracle)

Sports

Ultra Marathon, Triathlon, Running (Trail/Road), Trekking, Endurance Cycling

Specific Product Skills

Operating Systems: UNIX, AIX(1.2 – 5.2, 5.2B 5.3 6.1), HP/UX, OS-X, Solaris, LINUX (RedHat 7/8/9/ES 3/4/5, Ubuntu, Fedora 12, SuSe & others), Vista, WIN2003Srv/SBS, WHS W2008, NT4, NT5, XP

AIX specific:       ASMI, CoD, HMC, JFS2, HACMP, IPAT, LPAR, LVM, ML, NIM, ODM, P5, P6, P7, CSM, PSSP, PTFs, RMC, RSCT, SMIT, SMS, SPOT, TCB, VIO, WSM

DATABASE:      DB2 6-9, SAPDB i.e. MAXDB, MS SQL Server 2008, Oracle (7- 8.1x) , 9i, 9.2 11G, DataGuard, Dbvisit

HIGH.AVAIL:    HACMP, PSSP, SP and non clustering, generic Shared Nothing/Everything clustering, LoadBalancers, WLBS

BACKUP:       TSM, TSMmanager, 3584, 3580, TS1120, TS1130, TDP R3 Storix Data Domain 670 Enterprise SAP/ORACLE backup solutions. Workgroup e.g. Acronis, SysBack

STORAGE:       DS8000 ESS DataDomain, Copy Services FlashCopy GlobalMirror Topio ReplicatorX TPC-R McData 6140-I10K NAS(NFS/CIFS) DCX FastT/DS4000 SAN FireWire SSA FC SATA MS-shared UltraSCSI iSCSI

SAN/NETWORK: Cisco MDS WAE Shunra, SiPeak, DCFM, EFCM, SanNavigator, TCP/IP, ATM, FDDI, NFS, AFS, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Gigabit LANS, Switches, 802.11

HARDWARE:    595 Squadron, 590 Regatta, IBM RS/6000, BladeCenter, (D)LPAR, p4/5/6Series, HMC, PowerPC, PowerPC arch, SP2, AS/400, zSeries, HP/9000, SUN, PC, xSeries, Apple, PCIe, WinHEC

LANGUAGES:    C++ C, SHELLs Perl, JavaScript, Visual Basic, ABAP (simple)

SAP:              Operations 24/7, BASIS support: (3.1I - 4.6DSR1). Enterprise 47, 47x100, 47x200, WAS620, WAS640, IDES, ITS, RFC, APO / BW (minor). ASAP, Solution Manager, Archiving. Performance Tuning. NetWeaver. Platforms: AIX(UNIX), W2k, W2003Serv(Intel), HP/Risc.

VIRTUALISATION: AIX P5/P6, VIO, VMware, ESX, ESXi, HyperV, vCenter, vSphere, VirtualBox, IBM VM VPC

WEB: IIS7, Apache2, JavaScript, HTML, SSL, WebSphere, CGI, WebExpression, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, WebStyler, Web Server Farm Design and Infrastructure

SECURITY: Kerberos, IPsec, SSH, AIX hardening, MS hardening, ESM, Firewalling, numerous tools. SAP user and system security hardening.

Environmental: Server Layouts, racking, professional machine room build of UNIX and SAP server environments. Tailored (low), medium and high volume server build environments using scripted, NIM, Factory installation methodologies.

AUTHORING: DokuWiki, LiveLink, Confluence, Documentum, TeamConnection, HTML, Word, MS office

IBM Internal: Notes, RETAIN, REQCAT, RShelp, RSInfo, eConfig, ePadm, ASO, FITS, GSA