David Austin
Senior Technical Consultant @Vertali
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Technical Consultant @Vertali
London, GB
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ABOUT DAVID AUSTIN
Former Chairman of the GSE UK Linux on z Working Group for UK and Ireland for 10 yrs. z/VM Course Development and Training instructor. z/VM and sub-system upgrades, SSI or traditional. A broad technical expertise across many software/hardware disciplines.An excellent understanding of project management and presentation skills.Writing technical documentation. An enthusiastic, can do approach to Technical Pre-sales/Sales helps to build a trusting relationship with clients. Account management of new mainframe start up.System Engineer for selected clients. Adaptable to changes in business challenges and new technologies including social media to improve business objectives.I set high standards of excellence for completion of solutions and projects on time and within budget. Business Development for a software developer. Prince2 foundation and IBM MITP Trained.Security cleared to PES level 3.Novell Certified Linux AdministratorCreated a z/OS cloning system under z/VM to provide training and project test environments for mainframe trainees and engineers. DBS certificate. Easytrieve Migrations using IBM Migration Utility and CSI Dataminer-Dash. Vision conversion to CobolSpecialties: IBM Mainframe (z/VM, Linux on Z, z/VSE and z/OS) UNIX/Linux Systems (AIX, HP/UX, SCO, Linux - Redhat/SUSE/Ubuntu/Centos, MacOS),Project Management (MS/Project, OpenProj), Programming (COBOL, REXX, Selcopy, Unix Shell scripting, Patrol Script, Easytrieve)Enterprise Systems Management (BMC Patrol),Virtualization (VMWARE, MS/Virtual PC, VirtualBox, Flex-ES, zPDT,Parallels). Hobbies:Genealogy. Interested in new and old technology.
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