Andy W. Barclay

Work Experience

IBM Inc. (which acquired Collation)

System Architect
Nov 2005 - present
• World-wide Sales Engineer training
• Customer Proof of Concept engagements
• Level 3 support of the TADDM product
• Performance Tuning, Security concerns, System Sizing and Capacity Planning

Collation Inc.

System Architect
July 2002 - Nov 2005
• Perform Customer Implementations of TADDM Server
• Provide training to customers and partners
• Design installation and upgrade process for our enterprise software product
• Write User Guide and Administration Guide for the product
• Manage purchasing and configuration changes for LAB (~60 servers)
• Negotiate License agreements with Vendors
• Manage IT including E-mail, Security, Web servers, wireless, VPN, bug-tracking system, DNS, LDAP, patch management, network devices, backups, load-balancing etc.
• Engineer Solaris jumpstart and linux kickstart for servers and workstations

Digital Island/Cable and Wireless/Exodus

System Architect
October 2001 - July 2002
• Member of the Technical Advisory Committee charged with representing the company's interests on industry forums and evangelizing company services at conferences and in the media
• Design, document and implement OS and patch installation processes to achieve SAS-70 compliance
• Re-engineer Solaris Jumpstart enabling scalability, maintainability, and extensibility in a global, multi-data-center environment
• Plan for end-of-life of Solaris 7 including application migration and compatibility testing

Corio, Inc.

System Architect
February 2000 - August 2001
• Design multi-tiered, reliable, scalable infrastructure capable of hosting multiple clients and client applications
• Cluster Oracle Database for High Availability (Failover)
• Evaluate different scenarios for server consolidation and resource management
• Provide fourth level support and training to other divisions
• Design testing criteria and pilot products for various technologies

Kaiser Permanente

• Lead System/Web Administrator - National Web Services (07/99 - 02/00)
  • Member of several internal working groups on Emerging Technologies
    • Directory Services/PKI
    • Access Management/Extranet/VPN
  • Lead a team of Senior System administrators
  • Capacity Planning, monitoring of existing production servers
  
  
• Senior Network and System Design Consultant (Zen Systems 06/1997 - 07/1999)
  • National Web Integration Team
  • Design and deploy a variety of web-enabled applications
    • 3 SUN clusters of E-3000s running Oracle Parallel Server
    • E-3000, E-450, and E-250 Ultra Enterprise Web servers
  • Design y2k conformance tests and oversee remediation of servers
  • Source code and release control using clearcase
  
  
• System Administrator (Zen Systems 12/1996 - 05/1997)
  • DNS
  • firewalls/proxy servers
  • TCP/IP routing and design issues
  • Internet mail delivery
  • UNIX system and network management, capacity planning, and performance tuning
  • Member of several national design team working groups
    • firewall evaluation and selection team
    • web hosting team
    • enterprise IT security team

Lecturer/Course Developer

Networld + Interop Networking Conference

Write course material and deliver classes on:
• The Domain Name System (DNS) & Internet Naming and Directory Services
• Installing and Configuring Apache

Charles Schwab

Write course material and deliver classes on:
• How information travels on the Internet
• Web Servers and dynamic content (cgi, javascript, servlets, applets)
• E-mail, naming and directory services
• Technologies in e-business (load balancing, multi-tiering, firewalls, etc.)

Education

Honours Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS 1992)

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
• Performance Modeling, Queuing Theory and Simulations
• Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
• Operating Systems

Additional Training, Certificates, and Affiliations

• Instrument-rated Private pilot
• Master Scuba Diver / NSS-CDS Full Cave Diver / IANTD Trimix Diver
• Member of the NCGA