Professional / Technical Experience Summary (Detail, K.Carlson)

Operating Systems Management, Installation, and Maintenance:

IBM/AIX:

AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2; PSSP 3.2, 3.4; CSM 1.1, 1.3, 1.4;

GPFS 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2; LoadL 3.1, 3.2;

52 node Winterhawk cluster with SSA storage; p690,p650 cluster with FAStT storage;

100 node p690,p655 cluster with FAStT storage.

Cray:

Unicos/mk 2.0 on T3E, Unicos 9.0 on YMP, Unicos 10.0 on J90, Unicos 10.1 on SV1ex;
NQS, DMF, CRL, MLS, and research application software.

Unicos/mp 2.5 on X1 with PBS.

Cray/NEC:

Super-UX 12.1 on SX6.

SGI:

IRIX 6.2 to 6.5 on Onyx, Indigo, Indy, O2, and Octane platforms with NIS and extensive NFS.

Sun: Solaris 6,7,8.

Linux: RedHat 6

AXP:

Digital UNIX (OSF/1) v2.0-v4.0b; 8400, 7620, 4100, 2100, 3300;
Polycenter Scheduler; NSR; DCE; other layered products;
with: Oracle7, Informix, and various tools.

IBM/MVS

MVS/SP, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA; 4381 and 3090;
JES2; TSO/ISPF; ACF/VTAM and NCP; SMP/E; TCP/IP; etc.;
with: ACF2, CA-1, CA-7, Candle/Omegamon, Candle/Supersession, VPS, SAS, SAS/MXG, SAS/C, IDMS, DMS/OS, etc.

VAX/VMS:

VMS v3.4 through v6.1; VAX 11/750, 780, 785, 8600, 8800, mVax, 3000, 4000, 7620;
DECnet; SNA/Gateway; NJE interfaces; SPM; all language compilers; Message Router (Mailbus/MailWorks); other layered products;
with: DISPLA, SAS, SIR, SPSS, IMSL, BMDP, Macsyma, JNET, PMDF/PMDF-MR, TCP/IP, Rabbit-7, etc.

Honeywell

GCOS3 4J through 4JS3; 66/20 and 66/40; FNP and 6/06 and 7/07 RNPs;
FORTRAN, COBOL, and B; etc.
with: SPSS, BMDP, IMSL, Minitab, TSP, PLOT10, GCS, Calcomp, Surface II, etc.

Computer Programming (and related skills):

• ksh and perl scripting on many UNIX variants.
• AXP OSF/1 (Digital UNIX / Tru64), IRIX, Unicos[/mk|/mp], NEC Super-UX, AIX, Linux (RedHat), Solaris, and Ultrix C;
• AXP OSF/1 SQLplus (Oracle).
• IBM MVS SAS/C, C/370, Assembler (primarily read), SAS, SQL and IDMS specific query languages.
• DEC VMS C, Macro (read and write), FORTRAN, and extensive DCL scripting.
• Honeywell GCOS3 in GMAP (Assembler--extensive write), FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and B.
• Extensive conversions of IBM & CDC FORTRAN to Honeywell.
• IBM 360/40 DOS and IBM 1620 in FORTRAN.
• Data General NOVA RDOS in BASIC and Micronova RDOS & MP/OS in BASIC and assembler.
• Cromemco CDOS in BASIC and FORTRAN. Applesoft II in BASIC.
• IBM PC MS/DOS Basic and various C compilers.
• Macintosh (7.5 through OS X) and MS/Windows 95, 98, NT, and XP usage, installation, and tools
  (MS/Word, Excel, MS/Project, MailWorks clients, Eudora and other mail clients, etc.).
• Installation, configuration, management, and support of job schedulers, hierarchical storage and parallel filesystems, tape management system, problem|change management systems, and other enterprise software.

Other Experience and Skills:

• Project planning and project management (multi-departmental and organization wide).
• System management and planning, multiple operating systems.
• Recruitment, training, and supervision / management of technical staff.
• Statistical application software (SAS, SPSS, BMDP, IMSL, MINITAB, custom written) and statistical techniques.
• Performance management, capacity planning, and system tuning.
• Large systems implementations and conversions.
• Large cluster implementation and management.
• Database support and management.
• Mail network design, development, integration, and management including directory services and synchronization.
• Graphics application software (SAS, PLOT10, GCS, CALCOMP, Surface II, custom written).
• Seminar presentations (technical and user) on computer systems, systems management, integration, and applications.
• Technical and user documentation.
• Consulting support to a variety of knowledge levels and individuals.
• Participant in national and international standards bodies (Fortran, C, messaging).
• Presentations and actitive participation in national and international conferences (SP-XXL, CUG, DECUS, SHARE, HLSUA).

Education, Professional Training, and Conferences

• General

University of Alaska, Anchorage, May 1980, Cumulative GPA 3.81
Bachelor of Arts, English and Mathematics
West Lathrop High School, Fairbanks, AK May 1976, Valedictorian

• IBM Education

AIX: Kernels, Dump Analysis, Performance, Workload Manager, CSM;
AIX/PSSP: SP Admin I, II, III; GPFS

MVS: Concepts and Facilities, JCL Coding, Utility Programs;
MVS: VSAM Series (Fundamentals, ICF, Data Set Management);
Assembler Series (Intro, Coding, Advanced Topics);
MVS for the non-MVS Systems Programmer;
Integrated Systems Maintenance Using SMP/E;
Using IPCS-MVS/XA;
MVS Systems Resources Manager;
MVS/XA Measurement and Tuning

• Digital Equipment Education

VAX Concepts; VAX Assembler; VMS Internals.
OSF/1 Internals; Advanced coding techniques.

• Cray Education

Unicos System Administration; GigaRing Configuration;
Cray Accounting;   Unicos Performance;   Unicos DMF.

• Conferences

  IBM SP-XXL 02/2005, 08/2004, 02/2004; IBM SP/SciComp 08/2002, 08/2003;
  DoD HPCMP Users Group: 2002, 2000, 1999;
  SANS 2000;   CUG 2000, 1998;   Supercomputing: 1998
  DECUS: Fall 1996,1995,1994 (UNIX), Fall 1989,1988,1987,1986,1984 (VMS)
  SHARE: Winter 1991,1990,1989,1988
     Completed SHARE management certification program.
  HLSUA: Spring 1983, Spring and Fall 1982, Spring 1981
  EMA: Spring 1994;   DBExpo: Spring 1993
  IFIP WG6.5 Message Handling Systems and Distributed Applications (1988)

Professional and Personal Affiliations

SP-XXL and SP/SciComp through ARSC affiliation
Cray Users Group, through ARSC membership
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
National Systems Programmers Association (NaSPA)
Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society (DECUS)
SHARE, through University of Alaska membership
American Mensa, LTD.
Amnesty International
UAA and UAF Alumni Associations
University of Alaska Statewide Administrative Assembly (1995-1997)
University of Alaska Staff Council (1999-2001)
United Way of Tanana Valley Prospector's Club

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