On 30 Oct 2014 19:57:25 GMT, Don Kennyonie <msizlac@springfield.net>
wrote:
>Maybe not an expert but:
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>I received my initial training in a 2 year DoD funded College level
>electronics/computer training program designed for USAF repair techs
>taught by Intel Engineer's. In addition I hold a BS in Mechanical
>Engineering.
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>And your Expertise is? (stockboy in a warehouse).
>
>I would be willing to bet you don't even know what a JK flip-flop is.
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>WD is still waiting for that Chapstick. :)
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>DK
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An expert is considered a know all of all, but that is never true of
any of us. I could also come up with a 'I bet you don't know about...'
I'm very surprised you assume I work in a warehouse, which, to be
honest is very derogatory of those that do.
Anyway, what you wanted to know was my credentials for saying what I
did.
I left school in Dec 1969 at the age of fifteen, with no
qualifications.
I took a few jobs until , in 1972 I started my IT career, with a major
UK mainframe manufacturer, ICL at the time, now subsumed by Fujitsu.
My real expertise that is relevant to this thread goes like this.:--
These are snippets from my CV which now goes back over 40 years.
Excuse the format, it's just cut n paste with no editing. All
sanitised for obvious reasons.
Product experience
ICL Other
UDAS
HELMSMAN INGRES
VME/K MS-DOS
VME/B WINDOWS
DME MS OFFICE
TPMS
IDMS
DDS
COBOL
SCL
OMAC
CUBE
EXAC
Professional Training
ICL Other
VME Filestore Management PC H/W
(S&S international)
VMTPS VME monitoring/tuning ANTI-VIRUS ''
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IDMS Design MS-DOS (In
house)
IDMS Implementation PC MEMORY
(IIR Technology)
TPMS Design MS-WINDOWS
(Peritas)
TPMS Implementation SQL SERVER
Administration
(from DDS and Param File) SQL TSQL
TPMS Performance and Tuning SQL MS2733B Updating
DBA Skills
to SQL Server
2005
TPMS Output Spooler
TPMS/IDMS Recovery
DDS Administration
DDS For users and support staff
VCOB COBOL Programming
SCL Basic and Advanced
INGRES Foundation
OPS1 Basic Supervisory skills
BCS Basic Communication Skills
Support of all development and production TPMS services.
Second line support of services based abroad eg South
Africa/Sweden/New Zealand etc.
Main achievements included installation of TPMS and local services in
New Zealand (Feb 86) and Amsterdam (March 87).
Functions included appraisal of local staff and operations, making
recommendations for training where necessary.
Periodic secondments to base support and applications development.
Filestore management.
Tuning and performance monitoring.
Introduce local site standards and amend for implementation at
overseas sites.
Develop SCL for control and upgrading of local and overseas TPMS/IDMS
services
Job Title - Senior Support Technician. (Permanent Position)
Responsible for the maintenance, support and implementation of all
TPMS/IDMS services.
Support of local PC's and associated software and hardware.
Development of backup and recovery mechanisms.
Performance monitoring and tuning to ensure adherence to Service Level
Agreements.
Maintenance and updating of standards,procedures and documentation.
Consultancy to development staff and local management.
Regular meetings with users to ensure service standards are being met.
Training of staff.
Develop and maintain change management procedures.
Develop and maintain procedures guide.
Took voluntary redundency.
Role :- SQL Server Database Administrator
Home and office based supporting IBM clients, in particular the
government agencies 'sanitised'.
Experience with SQL Server 2000, 2005 on Windows Server versions 2000
and 2003 and more recently SQL Server 2008 on the Windows Server 2008
platform.
Both clustered and non-clustered environments.
Attended two courses this year for MS Sharepoint configuration and
administration.
Responible for all comany Windows server backups using IBM Tivoli
Storage Management, Tivoli data Protection for SQL Server (TDPSQL) and
Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec.
All aspects of SQL Server DBA functions performed including:-
Day to day activities such as ensuring backups are performed and
troubleshooting customer queries via the helpdesk. Some project work,
such as installing and configuring new SQL Server implementations.
Compliance testing at go live.
Provide out of hours support for either new implementations, changes
to production or fix on fail.
Design and implementation of new database configurations including
backup servers and DR provision and testing.
Configuration of logshipping and replication and database mirroring.
Management and configuration of DTS/SSIS packages.
Review and input to SQL Server solutions for all new projects.
Liasing with development teams to ensure problem free transition from
development to production environments via user acceptance testing.
Development of test plans.
Initially a two month contract supporting the company's SQL Server
instances. I was offered the role on a permanent basis twice, but due
to the distance, was unable to accept. Contract extended four times
until a permanent DBA was employed.
Assigned to the Management Reporting team, SSIS is utilised to extract
data for the reporting processes. Transactional and Snapshot
replication publications are used to transfer reporting data to a
reporting server.
The SQL server instances had until recently been supported by a team
who have no formal SQL training so there was no consistency across the
estate. My major role here was to standardise, lock down and generally
ensure the good health of the services. Very much involved in the
configuration of a Document Management System, by Phoenix, based on a
SQL Server 2008 R2 active/passive clustered environment. Provided
support for the company's Finance system (CODA), supplied by UNIT4.
Client side support for the backup solution, IBM's Tivoli Data
Protection for SQL (TDPSQL).
Need I say more?
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