Senior Unix Engineer

Michael Bouwma

N**** County Road SS

Beaver Dam, WI 53916-9667

Cell:920-***-****

E-mail: ****@********.***

Computer Skills

Computer OS: HPUX, Sun Solaris, Compaq Tru64, RHEL Linux, Windows7

Hardware Solutions: Servers, Workstations, Storage Arrays, and Storage Area Networks

Software Solutions: Service Guard, Veritas, Samba, virtualization, HPVM, HP vPars, vmware, Integrity Virtual Machines

Skilled in: "C" programming, shell, awk, sed, and Perl programming languages.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP

Summary of qualifications

2010 - Present - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services Wisconsin

Team Lead Unix Server Build Engineer (telecommute for 3 of the last 5 years)

Brought on board at a local Wisconsin Healthcare support account to migrate AIX servers to HP-UX blades servers

Utilized HP SRP (Secure Recourse Partitions) to isolate the workload, and cap oracle cores to a legal value.

Also created several HPVM servers to utilize untapped resources.

Automated many System Administrator functions, including password management from a central secure webserver.

After 18 months I was promoted to Unix Build engineering group, worked up to lead engineer position after 3 months, became the SME (Subject Matter Expert) for HP-UX Virtualization and Superdome2 technologies

Wrote numerous internal documents on UNIX and Linux build standards, and documented many tips and tricks to share amongst my peers, both on the Unix Build team, and System Administrators that would be supporting the server’s long term.

Recently I was selected to represent the UNIX / Linux technologies on the Architectural Engineering group for the entire US Public Sector Hewlett Packard Enterprises group.

I have been awarded many accolades for going above and beyond for my customers, and my peers.

HP-UX 11.31

RHEL 6.x

VMware Linux machines

HP Virtual Machines

HP Integrity Virtual Machines

HP vPars version 6.x technologies

HP Superdome II technologies

HP Proliant Gen 9 technologies

HP Certified System Administrator

2003 – 2010. Johnson Controls Inc. Milwaukee, WI

Senior Unix Administrator

Wrote automated scripts to move development servers to a remote data center.

Install and manage server HP VM (Virtual Machines)

Worked with management to help consolidate 3 UNIX Support

teams into 1 highly efficient support organization.

Brought on board for a 8 month large migration project of AIX to HP

Migrated 30 AIX servers to (2) HP 64 way Superdomes

Worked with nPars, vPars, Service Guard, HP virtual machines, PARISC, and Itanium server

HPUX 11.11, HPUX 11.23, and HPUX 11.31

Applications migrated include;

Peoplesoft

Oracle Financials

Tivoli Monitoring

Vista

Maestro

Hyperion Planning

90+ other Oracle Database’s and applications

2001 - 2003 Tek Systems Madison, WI

Contract Unix Administrator

American Family Insurance

Kraft Foods

1995 - 2001 Alliant Energy Madison, WI

Unix Manager

Employee management, training and development

Organized executive briefings and weekly reviews with key vendors (e.g. HP, Sun, EMC, etc.)

Forecasted and planned yearly budget and equipment purchases

Successfully managed and implemented the following projects:

Data Center Relocation

oImperative to keep all systems running during core hours and maintain clustering capabilities during the move

oClose collaboration with building pre planning to ensure proper cooling and electrical requirements

oMember of a panel comprised of several internal IT groups required to select a computer hardware-moving vendor

oPlanned all transport of hardware down to the day / time of relocation.

oWorked jointly with network group / computer hardware vendors to maintain high availability through the entire data center transition

oOrchestrated each hardware vendor to integrate systems move of HP / Sun / EMC

oDue to strong pre-planning, the bottom line figure came in $300,000 below original budget allotted

Selection and installation of the SAN (Storage area network)

oEvaluated multiple vendor capabilities for Storage hardware

oIntegrated EMC as the storage vendor of choice

oGrew to (3) EMC frames running (40) TB of space

oReduced Oracle backup window from 10 hours down to 3 minutes

Client Server Disaster Recovery

oConsulted with Comdisco to pick only necessary hardware for disaster recovery

oAchieved 100% recovery on first test in 27 of 72 hours allocated

Integrated clustering of production servers

oEvaluated clustering on a test (2) node cluster

oAttained approval of Oracle DBA’s and application managers for clustering of production servers

oExpanded clustering to other vendor’s servers over 4 years

oGrew to (20) servers in (6) different clusters

Developed system-monitoring application ("C" based)

oThis program became the foundation for reporting system downtime to management until it’s replacement with HP Openview 3 years later

Specialized in technical configurations, training, installations and support of large HP Servers.

Provided technical support for 80 - 90 24x7 highly available servers running production, test and QA.

Internal support, 300-400 users (multiple operating systems including HP-UX, and Sun)

Supported the following functions running on HP-UX 10.20 - 11.0, Solaris 1.0 - 2.8, and Tru64 3.2b - 5.0d

Volume Manager setup and configuration

High Availability utilizing Clustering Software

Backup/restore management (including 24x7 availability using mirror splits)

Server Hardware, Software, OS upgrades and configurations

Employment experience

1994 - 1995 IDI corporation Contract Unix Administrator Milwaukee, WI

1993 - 1994 Madison Kipp Corporation Lead Unix Administrator Madison, WI

1989 - 1993 Custom Product Corporation Lead Unix Administrator Oconomowoc, WI

1979 - 1989 Jensen Metal Products Chief Engineering Designer Racine, WI

Professional memberships & Associations

Year 2000 member of: “Who's Who of Information Technology”.

Currently reside on a “Customer advisor board” that interfaces with HP engineering.

Education

1975 - 1978 Wm. Horlick High School Racine, WI

High School Diploma

Acquired various additional technical training

References furnished upon request

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