Resume of Dana French Primary Phone: 615.556.0456 113 East Rich Email Address: dfrench@mtxia.com Norman, OK 73069 URL: http://www.mtxia.com EXPERIENCE 07/2007 - Present TriParadigm, LLC - Dallas, TX President/CEO I am the president and principal engineer in the development of an 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. 09/2000 - Present Mt Xia, Inc - Norman, OK President Primary focus is Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and integration of new systems into existing infrastructures. I provide enterprise 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. 04/2002 - 09/2002 Fleming Co's - OKC, 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 providing business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability. 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 becoming a $35B/year Co. 04/1993 - 08/2000 The Netplex Group - Edmond, OK Consulting Analyst Responsible for development and implementation 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. 09/1989 - 09/1993 French Consulting - 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. PUBLICATIONS * IBM Developer Works o http://www.ibm.com/developerworks o Disaster Recovery related articles * AIX Update Journal o http://www.xephon.com/aix o Numerous Business Continuity related articles o Numerous Virtualization related articles o Numerous Shell Scripting related articles EDUCATION * University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK o B.S. Zoology * University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK o Studies toward M.S. Chemical Engineering AFFILIATIONS * Marquis Who's Who - 01/2000 - 12/2001 in Science and Engineering - 01/2000 - 12/2001 in the World - 01/1999 - 12/2000 in the Southwest COPYRIGHTS * AIX::ODM - AIX ODM Perl module * Shell Curses - "curses" library written in shell code * 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 * kshBackup - Automated Backup scheduling system * kshSQL - SQL DBMS with Ingres-like interface * eStorLink - Network Communication tool * kshIndex - Web site generator using Apache fancyIndex * DBIforms - Web based form generator and DB 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 CERTIFICATIONS * IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert * IBM Certified Specialist - AIX System Support * Certificate of Proficiency - AIX Performance and System Tuning - AIX Installation, Backup and System Recovery - AIX Communications * Emergency Management Institute - Professional Development Series * Linux Administration * Network Security * HTML BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience Business Continuity Expert Current 11 years Disaster Recovery Expert Current 11 years DataCenter Automation Expert Current 11 years Project Management Expert Current 21 years Config Management Expert Current 6 years Audit Compliance Expert Current 6 years Regulatory Compliance Expert Current 6 years HARDWARE PLATFORMS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience IBM RS/6000 pSeries Expert Current 15 years Sun Intermediate Current 6 years Hewlett Packard Intermediate +4 years ago 4 years DG Aviion Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years DG Clariion Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years NCR 3400,3500 Expert +4 years ago 5 years NCR 9400 Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years DEC/VAX Intermediate +4 years ago 9 years Cisco Expert Current 5 years EMC Symmetrics Intermediate Current 2 years EMC Celerra Intermediate Current 1 year EMC Clariion Intermediate Current 1 years EMC Powerpath Expert Current 2 years Hitachi Data Systems Intermediate Current 4 years HDS HDLM Expert Current 4 years Hewlett Packard SAN Intermediate Current 2 years OPERATING SYSTEMS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience AIX Expert Current 15 years AIX HMC Expert Current 7 years AIX LPAR Expert Current 7 years AIX DLPAR Expert Current 3 years AIX PLM Expert Current 3 years AIX Micropartition Expert Current 3 years AIX VIO Server Expert Current 3 years SunOS/Solaris Expert Current 6 years WinNT, W2K Expert Current 7 years Cisco IOS Intermediate Current 5 years Citrix Intermediate Current 1 year Linux-Redhat Expert Current 7 years Linux-SuSE Expert Current 4 years Linux-Slackware Expert 2 years ago 2 years Linux-Caldera Expert 2 years ago 1 year MSWindows Term Server Intermediate 2 years ago 1 year SCO Unix Expert +4 years ago 10 years BSD Unix Expert +4 years ago 10 years NCR SVR4 Expert +4 years ago 5 years HP:UX Expert +4 years ago 3 years DG:UX Expert +4 years ago 2 years Linux-Yggrasil Expert +4 years ago 2 years Sinix Expert +4 years ago 1 year DATABASES Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience Informix Intermediate Current 12 years Oracle Intermediate Current 7 years MySQL Intermediate Current 3 years Sybase Beginner Current 2 years DB2 Beginner Current 1 year Postgres Intermediate Current 1 year Ingres Intermediate +4 years ago 4 years Troll / Use Intermediate +4 years ago 1 year Adabase Beginner +4 years ago 1 year PROGRAMMING Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience Korn Shell Expert Current 19 years Perl Expert Current 8 years Perl DBI Expert Current 5 years HTML Expert Current 11 years Bourne Shell Expert Current 24 years SQL Expert Current 16 years Javascript Intermediate Current 5 years C Intermediate Current 22 years Make Expert Current 22 years MS Batch Expert Current 19 years Fortran Expert +4 years ago 8 years Visual Basic Beginner +4 years ago 3 years NETWORKING Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience TCP/IP Expert Current 26 years HDS Tru-Copy Intermediate Current 3 years Serial Expert Current 26 years Dial-up Expert Current 26 years UUCP Expert Current 17 years NFS Expert Current 15 years SLIP / PPP Expert Current 9 years Dial-on-demand Expert Current 7 years Frame Relay Intermediate Current 5 years SNA Beginner Current 2 years APPLICATIONS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience AIX HACMP Expert Current 8 years AIX TCB Expert Current 8 years AIX NIM Expert Current 9 years AIX GPFS Expert Current 3 years SUSe Linux YAST Expert Current 4 years ECS/CONTROL-M Expert Current 3 years MQSeries Intermediate Current 2 years Mercator Intermediate Current 2 years Samba Expert Current 5 years NIS/NIS+ Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years Kerberos Beginner +4 years ago 1 year LDAP Intermediate +4 years ago 2 years Tivoli TSM Server Expert Current 6 years Webmin Expert Current 2 years Method/1 Expert Current 13 years