Welcome to Marcus's Profile
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I am looking for a senior IT position within an Implementation or Design
group covering Storage, SAN, UNIX, Backup, Disaster Recovery, SAP. My
availability is immediate. My current location is Lausanne Switzerland. My
ideal position would not just be technical but would include
education/lecturing, team leading/motivation, documentation and customer facing
contact.
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Last Project:
I've completed 4 years at Nestle, Bussigny and Vevey Switzerland in
3 technical projects: implementation, operational and migration.
I utilised UNIX (AIX), Storage (IBM),
SAN(McData/Brocade/Cisco), Replication (TPC/Topio), Backup (TSM).
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,
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 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(4) |
| Government |
UK Civil Service(1) |
| IT |
IBM Marketing, Sys. Integration, Consulting, Outsourcing(15),
Programming(>5),
OSWC consulting(>5) |
| 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)
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,
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,
Oracle (7-
8.1x) ,
9i,
9.2
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.
Enterprise SAP/ORACLE backup solutions. Workgroup e.g. Acronis,
SysBack
STORAGE:
DS8000
ESS
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,
VIO,
VMware,
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,
Confluence,
Documentum,
TeamConnection,
HTML,
Word,
MS office
IBM Internal:
Notes, e-Business design,
InfoMan, RETAIN, REQCAT, RShelp, RSInfo,
eConfig
GUI coding:
X-WINDOWS,
XLIB,
MOTIF
Some older and consequently less frequently used skills are
placed here
Chronology
2006/7/8/9 DR, Enterprise Storage & SAN Consultant
2005 SAN AIX Backup/Recovery P5 Integration Airline Industry
2004 International Airline AIX with SAP BASIS, SAN
Storage AIX, SAP NetWeaver training
2003 Production Support and Infrastructure Manager AIX / Java within Airline
Industry
2003 Digital Media Consultant and SAP systems Consultant
2002 Insourcing AIX Storage Management Technical Lead Airline Industry
2001 Outsourcing WEB: Abbey National Cahoot, Argos, Boots, Comet, Shell.
Teaching
2000 SAP BASIS support
1999 Global Outsourcing SAP systems: Cable Wireless, Caradon, Tenneco
1998 Global Outsourcing systems: Hydro Agri, Anheuser Busch
1997 UNIX Outsourcing: Oracle HPUX AIX: Unilever, Next, ASDA, BP, Equifax
1995/6 New York Stock Exchange
1994/5 Retail Systems: Systems Integration for Tesco and ASDA
1993 UK Civil Service, Department Social Services
1993 McGraw Hill: Inside the IBM RS/6000
1992 IBM Object oriented applications builder
1992 Teaching for IBM International Education, QA training and others
1991 IBM Development
1990 European MOTIF development program
1989 The IBM X-Windows Programming Guide Austin Texas
1989 IBM SE support International Banking Branch: AMEX, Nomura, Std. Chartered
1988 IBM SE support International Banking Branch: Vickers, Chemical Bank
1987 IBM Systems Engineering Support Citibank
1986 IBM Marketing: Assistant Systems Engineer (SE) Citibank
1985 IBM Marketing: SE Middlesex Polytechnic
1984 UNIX & C Lecturing for City London Polytechnic
1983 Teaching for ILEA (Inner London Education Authority)
1982 The myC compiler
1981 CEGB work, varied locations including Generation, Transmission, Scheduling
Channels
1978/8x Willowbrook Engineering Project Work
1976/7 Zilog Z80, Intel 6502, Intel 8080 assembler Programming
1975 CPM and
CDOS experience
1974
IBM CALL/OS 360, VSPC & JCL experience
19xx Family Album
A traditional hardcopy (and incomparably less informative)
Word format CV
is available
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