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

SUMMARY:	IT Industry leader focused on Business Continuity and Data Center Automation.
	Published dozens of articles on Business Continuity and related topics.
	Recognized as an industry expert in several fields related to AIX Administration and Korn Shell Programming.
	Seventeen (17) years of AIX administration experience for the worlds largest organizations in data centers all over the world.
	Developer and instructor of six (6) different training courses on AIX administration and related topics.
	Developer of the Business Continuity Methodology for AIX Administration and Data Center Automation.
	Founder and Sponsor of the " AIX Administration Methodology: Global Consolidation Project".

EXPERIENCE:	7/2007 - Present	TriParadigm, LLC	Dallas, TX
	Principal Engineer
	TriParadigm is a partnership of high tech companies specializing in business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability, virtualization, and data center automation. This company was formed to refine and market a data center automation product called “vLPAR” which was designed and developed by Dana French. The “vLPAR” product is sold as an appliance that automatically builds, deploys, configures and provisions entire multi-system, multi-frame, multi-datacenter environments for high availability and disaster recovery.
	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 clients for developing and implementing business continuity methodologies, and in developing automated disaster recovery solutions. These services are performed in support of increasing and/or safeguarding revenue streams, data center consolidation, and outsourcing projects.
	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
	07/2010 - Present	www.aixexpert.com	Principle Engineer/Designer/Architect/Founder/Sponser

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 Jul 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 wikiAutoLoad - Automated tools for uploading Wiki Pages visualSelect - Menuing System Tool for Shell Scripting 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