Andy Kosela

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Andy Kosela’s Summary

www.andykosela.com
akosela AT andykosela DOT com
HP-UX Administrator (HP-UX CSE, HP MASE)
HP Certified Systems Engineer with hands-on experience in HP hardware based data centers.
FreeBSD hacker.

UNIX system administration (12+ years of experience):
- HP-UX system administration (PA-RISC, Itanium)
- FreeBSD system administration (x86) (FreeBSD Contributor, FreeBSD Ports Maintainer)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS system administration (x86)
- Open Source technologies

HP-UX:
- HP Partitions (nPartitions, vPars)
- HP LVM
- HP SD-UX
- HP PRM, WLM
- HP Ignite-UX
- HP MC/ServiceGuard (HA clusters)
- HP MirrorDisk/UX
- HP Bastille
- HP Data Protector

HP Technologies:
- HP 9000
- HP Integrity
- HP ProLiant ML/DL servers
- HP c-Class BladeSystems
- HP StorageWorks MSA/EVA
- HP StorageWorks MSL Tape Libraries

Oracle (basic administration):
- Oracle Database (HA clusters)
- Oracle Application Server

Dell Technologies:
- Dell PowerEdge servers

Cisco Technologies:
- Catalyst 2924, 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560, 6500, routers 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200

TCP/IP networks:
- good understanding of TCP/IP networks
- debugging network protocols with tcpdump
- special emphasis on core network protocols (DNS, DHCP, NTP)

Open Source Technologies:
- DNS, DHCP, NTP, web, mail, FTP, SSH, VPN, firewall, RADIUS, LDAP, w3 cache, CVS, SVN, server monitoring, file server solutions (NFS, samba).

Good understanding of UNIX filesystems: UFS/HFS, UFS2, VxFS.

Programming:
shell (Almquist shell, Korn shell/88, Korn shell/93, POSIX shell, bash), sed, awk, c, xhtml, sql

Andy Kosela’s Specialties:

HP-UX in enterprise mission critical environments (High Availability and High Performance solutions, backup & recovery, system administration).

All aspects of FreeBSD (system administration, shell scripting, backup & recovery, FreeBSD internals, kernel hacking).

Professional certificates:
CCNA
AIS - HP StorageWorks
AIS - Specialty in HP Data Protector Software
APC - HP Enterprise Storage Solutions
ASE - HP StorageWorks
CSA - HP-UX v11
CSE - HP-UX v11
Master ASE - HP SAN Architect