Information technology support for high performance computing

Resume

Michael R. Valley

Education:

June ****, Graduated from Cusick High School, Cusick, Washington with a 3.2 GPA.

March 1976, Graduated from Eastern Washington State College with a BA in Math/Education.

Worked for IBM 33 years in a variety of technical support areas and learned how to

interact in one-on-one situations as well as in groups. Worked for HPE 5 years supporting Linux clusters in Phoenix, AZ.

Professional Experience

Profile Senior IT Specialist I Lead HPC System Administrator with High Performance Switch Cluster skills in installation and maintenance. With more than 16 years of experience in AIX and 7 years experience in SP and clustered systems installation and administration. From 2000·2008, Michael worked with a team which administered over 1600 Power 5 nodes. Michael uses performance tools to enhance the efficiency of the clusters. Michael is very familiar with the IBM Support structure and how it works. He uses these tools to answer the customers' technical questions and to interface between the customer and IBM Support. Michael has been the liaison between various IBM groups, leading/managing hardware installs, critical situations, severity 1 problems to bring about resolutions which bring a high level of customer satisfaction. From October 2008 -October 2,2009. Michael supported NCEP in Gaithersburg, NAVO at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, and Northrop Grumman on their Power6 Blade Centers. Provided support on multiple projects but mainly on the General Motors project as SME for HPC from November 20010 -August 2011 . Was then assigned to Library of Congress to assist in their HPSS project and other storage as well has AIX and System P expertise. In September of 2011 to present Michael has been supporting the Sherlock project which includes Installing and configuring P-series linux, with V7000 storage and GPFS.

Worked for HPE as an IT Specialist for 5 years in Phoenix, AZ. Maintaining and updating a large Linux Cluster.

Employer History

06/01/2020 – 05/01/2025 - Hewlett Packard Enterprise On-site Engineer ; High Performance Cluster Engineer

08/01/2018 – Present Help Desk Agent for Perspecta in Boise, Idaho

06/11/2018 – 06/13/2018 Installed and configured VMware and Windows Server 2016

05/10/2012-06/01/2018 – Becoming very familiar with Windows 7, Windows 10

04/01/2012 – Retired

09/2011-03/28/2012 Sherlock Project System Administrator Installed, Updated and configured 90 Node Power 7 system running SuSE linux as well as 4 HMC's. Upgraded systems to Red Hat Linux (RHEL V. 5) because of customer requirements.

09/2010 -09/2011 Library of Congress, Virginia, AIX p-series System Administrator to include installing and administering GPFS, HPSS. Storage (IBM XIV, DS5300). as well as script writing.

09/01/2009·09/01/2010 Various short term engagements, Washington D.C., Virginia, AIX p-series System Administration at NAVO, Gaithersburg. Northrup Grumman.

10/2008 • 08/2009 Stennis Space Center IT Specialist Supporting Power6 HPC Clusters.

09/2000 • 09/2008 Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Livermore, California, Lead IBM System Administrator on the 1500 p-series, AIX, GPFS, CSM cluster.

12/01/1997 -08/2000 Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, Washington, Group Leader IBM SP AIX, PSSP

10/1977- 09/1996 IBM, Spokane, Washington, Technical Sales Support Office Products I AIX

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