Consultant Mark
Certifications
- Solaris Certified Administrator.
- Solaris Certified Network Administrator.
- Veritas FS01 (Volume Manager and File System) Certified.
- NetApp Certified Storage Associate (NACA)
- Sun Certified Server Installation Engineer
Consultancy and Lecturing work carried out in Partnership with:
- Sun Microsystems
- Veritas (Symantec).
- Various Investment Banks, London and New York.
- System Software Training, Ireland.
- Learning Tree International UK and USA.
- Horizon Open Systems, Ireland.
- Eclectic, Scotland.
Areas of expertise:
- UNIX Versions: Solaris 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, Digital UNIX, System V.3, System V.2, System V.0, Ultrix, Linux from pre version 1
- Sun System Administration and Hardware Maintenance: sf25k (100 cpu +), sf15k, e10k, sf6800-sf3800, vx80 family and many smaller sysytems
- Storage Area Networks, Raid Disc System Administration and Hardware Maintenance: Sun T3s, 3310 & 3510, se6120 and se6320s, A7000, A3500
- System Administration Solaris Internals and Kernel Core Dump Analysis.
- Veritas Volume Manager and File System, Solstice Disksuite.
- Veritas NetBackup 4.x, 5.x and 6 (UNIX and Windows)
- Network Administration, Nis, Nis+, DNS and TCP/IP, SPF Firewalls
- Sun Cluster 2.0 to 3.1, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server
- Sun Management Center Enterprise SNMP management software
- Solaris Resource and Bandwidth Managers
Career Summary:
- May 1999 to Current Day: Managing Director of Level One Associates Limited.
- August 1997 April 1999 Training Centre Manager/Senior Instructor. Sun MicroSystems Ltd.
- September 1993 to July 1997 Senior Lecturer. School of Computing, Staffordshire University.
- 1991 to 1993 Research Fellow. Dept. of Computer Science, Keele University.
- 1988 to 1991 Lecturer. School of Computing, Staffordshire Polytechnic.
- 1986 to 1988 System Administrator. Dept. of Computer Science, Keele University.
- 1984 to 1985 Systems Programmer. Welsh Regional Transfusion Service.
