Douglas Vanek
Senior LINUX Systems Administrator | Senior Progress OpenEdge Database Administrator
- Role
- Senior Linux System Administrator at Sherwin-Williams
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Douglas Vanek
20+ years of customer-facing experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Conference Guest Speaker, and Instructor; Expert Database Design, Administration, and Performance Optimization; Application Development, and LINUX/UNIX System Administration, including AIX, RHEL, Oracle, and Solaris.
Experience
Senior Linux System Administrator
Aug 2017 — Present · Cleveland/Akron, OH, US
Solely responsible for providing all facets of Progress OpenEdge v11.7 Database Administration, including performance tuning, AI/Replication management, schema optimization, database reorganization, disaster recovery and prevention planning, security, product installation, implementation, upgrades, proactive monitoring, backups, archiving, maintenance, and hardware configuration, for 4,800+ installations worldwide.· Responsible for hardware & software tuning, maintenance, monitoring, upgrading, and security compliance for all Solaris and Oracle LINUX servers within The Americas Group.· In 2021, approximately $15B of the company’s $19B in revenue stemmed from transactions that flowed though my servers.
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering
1989 — 1991
ACS Educational Services
Introduction to uniVerse / Vmark BASIC Programming
1996
Southern DataComm
ProtoBase Integration & Implementation
1997
Progress Software Education Services
Jumpstart to V9
2002
Progress Software Education Services
Distributed AppServer Application Development
2005
Mandel Communications
Think & Speak for Results for Sales Professionals
2014
BravePoint
Masters Database Administration
2010
United Systems
Jumpstart to Event-Driven
1997
BravePoint
Database Administration & Tuning
2002
Progress Software Education Services
Using ProDataSets
2005
Xerox Customer Education Services
LPS Level II Workshop
1995
BravePoint
Advanced Database Administration & Tuning
2006
Skills
- Qad
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Database Administration
- Building Strong Business Relationships
- Windows
- Data Analytics
- Mfg/Pro
- Listening to Customers
- Vmware
- Systems Engineering
- Ibm Aix
- Microsoft Office
- Work Ethic
- Saas
- Powershell
- Progress 4gl
- Syteline Erp
- Databases
- Symix
- Pre-Sales
- Software Development
- Openedge
- Dg/UX Administration
- Database Design
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Sdlc
- Samba
- Aix
- Integration
- Ibm Pseries
- Written & Oral Presentation Skills
- System Administration
- Aix Administration
- Sco Unix
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Shell Scripting
- Unix
- Virtualization
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