Resume of Dana French

CONTACT INFO: Dana French
117 B 5th Avenue North
Franklin, TN 37064 		Phone:615.556.0456  
E-mail:dfrench@mtxia.com
URL:http://www.mtxia.com/js/Resume/index.html

EXPERIENCE: 7/2007 - Present TriParadigm, LLC Dallas, TX
  Principal Engineer
  TriParadigm is a partnership of high tech companies specializing in high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity and virtualization. This company was formed to provide an international platform on which to market an automated build and deployment appliance for high availability and disaster recovery environments. I am the principal engineer in the development of this appliance product called "vLPAR" and it is the culmination of several decades of work and experience with large AIX and Linux (SUSe and Redhat) data center operators. This appliance automatically builds, deploys, configures and provisions entire multi-system, multi-frame, multi-datacenter environments for high availability and disaster recovery. Automation is achieved through the advanced usage of IBM Power5 virtualization (VIO) servers, AIX tools such as NIM, and HMC, and Linux tools such as YAST (SUSe) . These automation capabilities are the resulting implementation of a business continuity methodology developed over many years of experience in a wide variety of industries with very large clients such as IBM, Capgemini, Wal-Mart, Fleming (Nations largest Grocery wholesaler at the time), Liberty Mutual Insurance, HCA Healthcare, USMC, and many others.
 
  9/2000 - Present Mt Xia, Inc. Nationwide, USA
  Principal Engineer
  Primary focus is Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and integration of new systems into existing infrastructures. I provide enterprise wide management and technical leadership to national and international clients for developing and implementing business continuity strategies, and in developing automated disaster recovery solutions. These services are performed in support of increasing or safeguarding revenue streams, datacenter consolidation, outsourcing, and other projects.

To achieve this focus, I create architecture designs for implementation of IBM's Advanced POWER Virtualization providing Logical Partitioning (LPAR), Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR), Automated DLPAR using Partition Load Manager (PLM), Micropartitioning, and Virtual I/O (VIO) enabling on-demand computing and server consolidation.

 
  4/2002 - 9/2002 Fleming Co's Oklahoma City, OK
  Consulting Analyst
  Lead the Unix team for the nations largest grocery wholesaler which designed, implemented, supported, and managed over 150 servers on a nationwide network. These servers included 137 AIX RS/6000's, 15 Sun Solaris, and 3 AS/400's. Supported the day-to-day operations of the nationwide enterprise as well as the design, implementation and support of all new systems in support of Fleming's goal of becomming a $35B/year Co.
 
  4/1993 - 8/2000 The Netplex Group Edmond, OK
  Senior Technical Consultant
  Responsible for development of E-Business, E-Services, and E-Management strategies. This includes tactical and strategic implementation of architectures and technologies. Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing conversion of clients to an E-Business model philosophy and mindset.
 
  9/1989 - 9/1993 French Consulting Services Norman, OK
  President
  Specialized in software development, maintenance, documentation and systems conversions. Duties included project definition and planning, systems design and installation, production systems support, graphics and animation, multimedia programming and development, voice response and speech recognition programming, services and software marketing and sales, technical and course preparation for all courses taught by French Consulting Services.
 

EDUCATION: 5/1985 University of Oklahoma US - OK - Norman
  Master's Degree
  Studies toward Master of Science
 
  5/1984 University of Oklahoma US - OK - Norman
  Bachelor's Degree
  Bachelor of Science in Zoology

AFFILIATIONS: 07/2006 - Present www.mtknox.com Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect
  01/2008 - Present www.siteox.com Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect
  01/2004 - Present www.ridmail.com Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect
  09/2000 - Present www.mtxia.com Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect
  01/1996 - Present uemacs.tripod.com Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect

SKILLS: Skill Name Skill Level Last Used/Experience
  Management - Business Continuity Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Management - Disaster Recovery Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Management - Data Center Automation Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Management - Project Management Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Management - Configuration Mgmt Expert Currently used/ 7 years
  Management - Audit Compliance Expert Currently used/ 7 years
  Management - Regulatory Compliance Expert Currently used/ 7 years
  Hardware - IBM RS/6000, pSeries Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Hardware - Sun Intermediate Currently used/ 6 years
  Hardware - Hewlett Packard Intermediate +4 years ago/ 4 years
  Hardware - DG Aviion Intermediate +4 years ago/ 2 years
  Hardware - DG Clariion Intermediate +4 years ago/ 2 years
  Hardware - NCR 3400, 3500 Expert +4 years ago/ 5 years
  Hardware - NCR 9400 Intermediate +4 years ago/ 2 years
  Hardware - DEC/VAX Intermediate +4 years ago/ 9 years
  Hardware - Cisco Expert Currently used/ 5 years
  Hardware - EMC Symmetrics Intermediate Currently used/ 2 years
  Hardware - EMC Celerra Intermediate Currently used/ 1 years
  Hardware - EMC Clariion Intermediate Currently used/ 1 years
  Hardware - EMC Powerpath Intermediate Currently used/ 2 years
  Hardware - Hitachi Data Systems Intermediate Currently used/ 3 years
  Hardware - HDS HDLM Expert Currently used/ 4 years
  Hardware - Hewlett Packard XP Storage Intermediate Currently used/ 2 years
  OS - AIX Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  OS - AIX - HMC Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  OS - AIX - LPAR Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  OS - AIX - DLPAR Expert Currently used/ 6 years
  OS - AIX - PLM Expert Currently used/ 6 years
  OS - AIX - Micropartition Expert Currently used/ 6 years
  OS - AIX - VIO Server Expert Currently used/ 6 years
  OS - AIX - GPFS Expert Currently used/ 2 years
  OS - Linux - Redhat Expert Currently used/ 8 years
  OS - Linux - SuSE Expert Currently used/ 5 years
  OS - Linux - Slackware Expert +4 years ago/ 2 years
  OS - Linux - Caldera Expert +4 years ago/ 1 years
  OS - Linux - Yggrasil Expert +4 years ago/ 2 years
  OS - Sun OS / Solaris Expert Currently used/ 6 years
  OS - Win NT, W2K, XP Expert Currently used/ 10 years
  OS - Cisco IOS Intermediate Currently used/ 5 years
  OS - Citrix Intermediate Currently used/ 1 years
  OS - Windows Terminal Server Intermediate 2 years ago/ 1 years
  OS - SCO Unix Expert +4 years ago/ 10 years
  OS - BSD Unix Expert +4 years ago/ 10 years
  OS - NCR SVR4 Expert +4 years ago/ 5 years
  OS - HP:UX Expert +4 years ago/ 3 years
  OS - DG:UX Expert +4 years ago/ 2 years
  OS - Sinix Expert +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Programming - Korn Shell Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - HTML Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - Javascript Expert Currently used/ 8 years
  Programming - Bourne Shell Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - C Intermediate Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - Make Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - MS Batch Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - SQL Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - Perl Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - Perl DBI Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Programming - Fortran Expert +4 years ago/ 8 years
  Programming - Visual Basic Intermediate +4 years ago/ 3 years
  Programming - Lisp Beginner +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Programming - REXX Beginner +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Database - Informix Intermediate Currently used/ >10 years
  Database - Oracle Intermediate Currently used/ 8 years
  Database - Sybase Beginner Currently used/ 2 years
  Database - DB2 Beginner Currently used/ 3 years
  Database - Ingres Intermediate +4 years ago/ 4 years
  Database - Troll / Use Intermediate +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Database - Adabase Beginner +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Network - TCP/IP Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - Dial-up Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - Serial Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - UUCP Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - NFS Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - SLIP / PPP Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Network - Dial-on-demand Expert Currently used/ 7 years
  Network - Frame Relay Intermediate Currently used/ 5 years
  Network - SNA Beginner +4 years ago/ 2 years
  Tools - Method/1 Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Tools - AIX HACMP Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Tools - AIX TCB Expert Currently used/ 8 years
  Tools - AIX NIM Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Tools - SUSe Linux YAST Expert Currently used/ 5 years
  Tools - BMC ECS / CONTROL-M Expert Currently used/ 2 years
  Tools - MQSeries Intermediate Currently used/ 3 years
  Tools - Mercator Intermediate Currently used/ 2 years
  Tools - Samba Expert Currently used/ 5 years
  Tools - NIS/NIS+ Intermediate +4 years ago/ 2 years
  Tools - Kerberos Beginner +4 years ago/ 1 years
  Tools - LDAP Intermediate 2 years ago/ 2 years
  Tools - TSM Expert Currently used/ >10 years
  Tools - Webmin Expert Currently used/ 2 years
  Tools - Hitachi Tru-Copy Intermediate Currently used/ 1 years

LANGUAGES: Language Proficiency Level  
  English Fluent - Full Knowledge  
  Italian Basic - Familiar  

ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION:

PUBLICATIONS

  • IBM Developer Works
    • Mar 2010 - AIX Documentation Wiki:Configuration and Implementation
    • Jul 2009 - Automated and Dynamic IP Address Allocation for Data Center Automation
    • Apr 2009 - AIX Job Spooler: Process and Resource Control
    • Jan 2009 - Enterprise Wide Unique Identifiers for Business Continuity
    • Nov 2008 - Naming Standards for Business Continuity
    • Sep 2008 - KornShell 93 Auditing
    • Mar 2008 - Shell Curses Function Library
    • Sep 2007 - AIX Disaster Recovery - Resolving Resource Conflicts
  • AIX Update Journal
    • Unpublished - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 10
    • Mar 2008 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 9
    • Jan 2008 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 8
    • Nov 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 7
    • Sep 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 6
    • Aug 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 5
    • May 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 4
    • Mar 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 3
    • Feb 2007 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 2
    • Dec 2006 - Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 1
    • Aug 2006 - Successful Business Continuity: Automated Documentation
    • Jul 2006 - Automated Process Monitoring
    • May 2006 - Tracking disks and virtual SCSI adapters
    • Apr 2006 - Generate Secure Random Passwords
    • Apr 2006 - Successful Business Continuity: Websphere MQ
    • Feb 2006 - Setting Path Priorities for Virtualized Disks
    • Feb 2006 - Korn Shell Awk Emulation
    • Nov 2005 - Successful Business Continuity: Volume Names
    • May 2005 - Successful Business Continuity: Naming Structures
    • Apr 2005 - Successful Business Continuity: User Names and Groups

CERTIFICATIONS

  • IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert
  • IBM Certified Specialist - AIX System Support
  • Certificate of Proficiency - AIX Performance and System Tuning
  • Certificate of Proficiency - AIX Installation, Backup and System Recovery
  • Certificate of Proficiency - AIX Communications
  • Emergency Management Institute - Professional Development Series
  • Linux Administration
  • Network Security
  • HTML

COPYRIGHTS

  • AIX::ODM - AIX ODM Perl module
  • Shell Curses - Shell implementation of "curses" library
  • French Menus - menuing system using "shell curses"
  • kshEvents - Dynamic, Web Based Events Calendar
  • kshSchedule - Web based reservation/scheduling system
  • kshLink - Web Based Communications Control System
  • kshMenus - Web based GUI menuing system
  • kshNoSpam - SPAM filtering and reflection system
  • kshContact - Personnel directory and paging system
  • kshList - Mailing List system
  • kshBackup - Automated Backup scheduling system
  • kshSQL - SQL DBMS with Ingres-like interface
  • kshInstall - Generic Installation utility
  • eStorLink - Network Communication tool
  • KshIndex - Web site generator based on Apache fancyIndex
  • DBIforms - Web based form generator and database interface
  • Orwell - Automated disaster recovery solution
  • BigB - System integrity authentication
  • AutoContent - Automated documentation generator
  • MenuGen - Automated web site generator
  • OpenCMDB - Open Configuration Management DataBase
  • AMMS - Automated Microcode Management System
  • vLPAR - Data Center Automation Toolset and Appliance

TEACHING AND MENTORING

  • Disaster Recovery Planning for the Enterprise: Course Instructor
  • Korn Shell Programming: Course Author and Instructor
  • IBM AIX Operating System: Course Author and Instructor
  • IBM HACMP (High Availability): Course Author and Instructor
  • Introduction to Unix/Linux: Course Instructor
  • IBM Network Installation Manager (NIM): Course Author and Instructor