[ale] Position opening

[James S. Cochrane]

Here's the resume I promised you, it's in HTML format, as produced by 
OpenOffice.

James



At 03:46 PM 4/28/03 -0400, you wrote:


>A company I know is hiring a senior-ish level Linux Admin.  Looking for
>good knowledge of Samba, NFS, Apache, and the basics (DNS, passwd file,
>filesystems, etc).
>
>
>
>Note, these guys dig very well to make sure you know what you claim to
>know...  If you are interested send me a Resume  (Html/TXT prefered) and I'll
>send it on in.
>
>Robert
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Title: James S




James
S. Cochrane
3469
Blackwell Way
Marietta,
GA 30066



Telephone:	(770)
977-0805
Internet:
	


EDUCATION


Georgia
Institute of Technology

Computer
Science									1994 - 1996

International
Affairs (Bachelor of Science)						1989 - 1994


QUALIFICATIONS
		
I
have over eight years of system administration experience which
includes the following:


	Computer
languages:		C, C++, Pascal, Smalltalk, Assembly language, Bourne
					shell,
Korn shell (ksh), Perl, Tcl/Expect.
	Operating
systems:		AIX, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, BSD, SCO, 

					Unix
System V, Microsoft Windows (3.1/95/NT/2000).
	Computer
hardware:		IBM RS/6000, Sun UltraSPARC, HP 9000, SGI Indigo,
					IBM
PC, NetFinity 5500.
	Network
hardware:		Ascend Pipeline, Cisco, Bay Networks, Asanté 

					terminal
server, CSU/DSU
	Storage
hardware:			EMC Symmetrix,
MTI Vivant, HP FC-60, Brocade switches
	Network
services:			TCP/IP, Sendmail, DNS (Internet Nameserver), NFS,
NIS, 

					Apache
HTTPD, Trusted Information Systems (TIS) 

					firewall
toolkit, Netscape Enterprise Server.

	Applications:			Veritas
Volume Manager (VXVM), Veritas Cluster Manager (VCS), Veritas Volume
Replicator (VVR), Veritas Global Cluster Manager (GCM), HP
MirrorDisk, HP MC/ServiceGuard, Secure shell (ssh), HP Omniback II,
Alexandria Backup, ADSM, sudo, IBM HACMP, IBM System Backup and
Restore,  MicroSoft Project.

	Certifications:			IBM
Certified Specialist – AIX System Administration

					Sun
Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 Operating Environment


I
have performed the following services for my clients:


Phased-in
year 2000 (Y2K) enterprise-wide Intranet upgrade.
Data
center operations relocation including identifying monitoring
requirements, choosing a solution to integrate monitoring functions,
requesting and justifying a budget for hardware, software, and
facilities needs, coordinating the necessary hardware, power, and
network connections, and transitioning the operations staff to the
new systems.
	Site
	planning and project management for the installation of new servers,
	including coordinating floorspace, power connections, network
	connections, and validating system purchase orders
Experienced
in high availability cluster design and implementation, Internet
network implementation and administration, multivendor system
integration, server backup configuration and planning, disaster
recovery scenario planning and testing, and large scale RAID storage
configuration.


EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY


Cox
Communications                                                   
                                        9/2001 – present
3755
Mansell Rd. Ste 100. Alpharetta, GA 30342.
Solaris,
HP-UX, and Linux system administration in a production data center
environment. Duties include system installation, deployment,
maintenance, upgrades, backups, monitoring, and disaster recovery
planning and testing.  Implementation and administration of BMC
Patrol, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and M/C
Service Guard.  Designed and implemented a high availability/disaster
recovery solution for a prominent business application allowing for
local cluster failovers and the ability to migrate the entire
application to another data  center.  Subject matter expert within my
group for Veritas Volume Replicator and HP-UX administration. 
Planned and executed the transfer of production servers between data
centers with minimal customer downtime.  Maintained support contracts
for all HP servers in our environment.



Pan
American Research Kitchen/BellSouth Cellular/Cingular Wireless   
  	       12/1998 -6/2001
1100
Abernathy Rd. Ste 220. Atlanta, GA 30328.
Contract
IBM AIX and Sun Solaris administration on local and remote servers,
including HACMP clustered systems.  Duties included system
installation, deployment, maintenance, backups, and planning. 
Application and system programming using ksh,cgi-bin, html, and perl.
 Installation and configuration of Netscape web servers.  Lead Unix
administrator in a Unix/NT organization with responsibility for
cross-training my fellow group members in Unix, advising development
and management on the efficient utilization of Unix systems,
developing and implementing security procedures, and troubleshooting
Java application problems across Unix servers, Oracle databases, and
Windows NT client systems.  This group had primary responsibility for
the retail applications used in Cingular Wireless stores, and was
engaged in a phased conversion to a Java based application that
required considerable remote NT administration and troubleshooting,
including installing new services and software on the NT client
machines, identifying user authority conflicts, and basic hardware
conflicts.



IBM
Global Services							      	       3/1998 -10/1998

GE
Capital Corporation, Commercial Processing Services		      	     
 8/1997­ 3/1998
1001
Windward Concourse, Alpharetta, GA 30005.
Administered
HP-UX, Sun Solaris, and IBM AIX servers.    This employee position
was in an outsourcing datacenter (which was itself outsourced from GE
Capital to IBM Global Services) hosting servers owned by a number of
GE Capital businesses and non-GE customers.  This group was
responsible for all aspects of systems administration on Unix and NT
servers, although support levels varied by individual customer,
including coordinating floorspace and power, installing and
configuring new servers, maintaining and upgrading existing servers,
backups, disaster recovery planning and testing, installing and
upgrading software packages, and recovering from hardware failures. 
As a member of the midrange services team, was also responsible for
managing relationships with my assigned clients and working with the
vendors to proactively identify possible issues and remedies before
those issues could result in a system or application outage.	Also
performed project management duties for projects involving my clients
or as delegated by management, including planning the relocation of
our operations monitoring staff, requesting and justifying a budget
for the relocation, coordinating floorspace, power, network
connectivity, and hardware installation for the move, and training
the operations staff on the new applications implemented as part of
the relocation.	Final project before leaving IBM Global Services was
to convert the DNS servers that served the GE Capital internal
network from a legacy proprietary solution to the ISC BIND
implementation and training the Network Operations staff on
maintenance of the new software.










Atlanta
Technical Support						      	       4/1997 – 7/1997
1
Concourse Parkway Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30328.
Administered
Sun Solaris/SunOS, IBM AIX, Linux, and SGI IRIX servers on a contract
basis in an academic environment.  Configured and maintained Internet
e-mail software, Internet domain name service (DNS), and Network
Information Service (NIS).



Actamed
Corporation							        	       9/1996 ­ 3/1997
	7000
Central Parkway Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30328.
	Managed
IBM AIX development and production servers.  Maintained 

	Intranet
network  services, local area network configuration, remote ISDN 

	links,
and T1 DSU/CSU. Provided customer support for IBM AIX and proprietary


	healthcare
systems.



SecureWare,
Inc.							        	      3/1996 – 8/1996
2957
Clairmont Rd Suite 350, Atlanta, GA 30329.
	Provided
development administration of HP-UX, Sun Solaris/SunOS, SCO, IBM 

	AIX,
and NT servers.  Maintained Internet firewall hardware/software and 

	connectivity.
Supported software development workstations.



Consolidated
Traffic Management Services				       	      3/1995 ­ 2/1996
	1600
Executive Drive South, Duluth, GA 30136.
	Administered
SCO, SGI IRIX, and Windows servers and workstations.  

	Supported
TCP/IP and UUCP data communications systems.  Redeployed 

	primary
corporate server on new hardware and software.


	
		

REFERENCES



Chip
Layton	
Cingular
Wireless
1100
Abernathy Rd Ste 220
Atlanta,
GA 30328
(404)
680-7777


Lyn
Sheffield
Cingular
Wireless
1100
Abernathy Rd Ste 220
Atlanta,
GA 30328
(404)
713-1167


Curtiss
Hancock
IBM
Global Services
1001
Windward Concourse
Alpharetta,
GA 30005
(770)
442-6567






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