Fletcher Cocquyt
BSc Computer Science
Computer Systems Analyst
cocquyt@gmail.com

• To contribute to the success of the meritocracy by leveraging my analytical problem solving skills in a challenging and rewarding environment

• vExpert 2011
• Netapp Operation Manager (OPSMGR)
• VCP #20255 (VMWare Certified Professional)
• VMware VCP-410 exam passed, score 431/500 June, 2010
• VMware VI4: vSphere What's New
• VMware VI3: Install and Configure
• NetApp Data ONTAP Fundamentals
• Oracle 10g RAC

Principal Engineer

• Senior analyst within team of 5 in School of Medicine IRT Operations
  • managing, implementing virtualization of 200+ physical servers (windows, linux, solaris) to VMware (ESX3.5, VC 2.5) infrastructure, deploying new services to VI3
  • Green IT initiative : applied for PG&E rebate for costs associated with virtualization (application includes: pre-inspection, detailing scope, post cost reporting) - basically PG&E is providing economic incentive to virtualize your datacenter
  • managed deployment of websites via kerberos authenticated WebDAV service, Java webapps via Subversion export and automated build scripts
• Managed key core infrastructure supporting 300+ websites and dozens of web applications (Java, PHP):
  • F5 BigIP loadbalancers, Apache webserver farm, Tomcat/JBoss app server farm, Oracle Veritas Cluster, Oracle RAC Cluster, BlueArc NFS
• Managed multiple datacenters in the campus environment, with disaster recovery planning
• Managed code releases from development to staging, then deployment to production systems
• Spearheaded VMWare virtualization initiatives: trial, pilot, planning for larger scale Physical to Virtual consolidation using ESX 3.x and Virtual Center
• migrated from CVS to Subversion (SVN) revision control with no downtime
• Implemented Operations website, SNMP monitoring via cacti
• Implemented several wikis for knowledge management: TikiWiki, DokuWiki, MediaWiki
• Integrated campus Kerberos authentication into newly designed WebDAV web authoring service
• Integrated CFEngine and Subversion for secure, revision controlled centralized configuration management
• Implemented highly available service model (via loadbalancing) for previously single server services
• Virtualized Operations services:
  • BigBrother for monitoring and alerting - provided weekly management reports, linked to the wiki for incident management
  • Cacti for SNMP historical data gathering - authored a paper on an automatic method for detecting aberrant events in Time Series using Holt Winter Analysis hwpaperfbc.pdf
  • Mysql Clustering
  • RAD using ActiveGrids LAMP builder and server

Ordinate Corporation Menlo Park, CA May 2002 – Nov 2002

• Senior analyst in small company with IT department of 2
• Windows NT/XP admin: upgraded domain controller, configured active directory, setup backup domain controller, NAS, samba
• Responsible for 24×7 uptime of globally distributed servers
• Upgraded Solaris 2.6 servers to solaris 8, Linux servers from RedHat 6.x to 7.x to 8 maintained with patches, “up2date”

Ingenuity Inc. May 2001 – August 2001

• Senior Linux (RedHat 7.x)/Windows analyst in charge of 24×7 production Linux and Solaris datacenter buildout at AboveNet SanJose HQ – using jumpstart servers for rapid deployment
• Veritas Volume Manager admin , backed up Oracle DBA
• Windows NT admin: Secured systems while allowing remote VPN access, shared network mounted drives through samba
• Managed team of 4 administrators (laid off)

Promisant Ltd. November 2000 - Feb 2001

• Senior UNIX/Linux admin, responsible for design and implementation of global e-processing infrastructure at Bermuda Telecom datacenter
• Implemented Compaq TRU-64 clusters for fault tolerance and maximum uptime
• Supported Oracle DBA tuning OS for best performance
• Implemented StorEdge arrays with Raid 1 and 5 using DiskSuite
• Ran Intrustion Detection Systems (IDS) to maintain best security practices (laid-off)

GetThere April 1999 - October 2000

• Migrated and expanded datacenter from PaloAlto IX to Exodus SantaClara (SC3) datacenter
• Evaluated Dell/HP servers for Windows and Linux projects
• Supported Windows 2000 desktops & servers in ops department
• Senior HP-UX 10.x, Solaris, Linux admin, responsible for 7×24 uptime, scalability, optimization and security of the leading online travel procurement site (lead on team of 5 unix/dba admins)
• Upgraded from Netscape server to ApacheSSL for performance
• Evaluated and implemented BEA weblogic app server
• Implemented scripts to log performance and security metrics

• Evaluated and implemented next generation architecture including VALinux servers, SSL (Secure Sockets) accelerators
• Scaled web site capacity by 10x with minimal expense using ApacheSSL and SSL accelerators (F5 BigIP with SSL card)

Trout Trading Mgmt Co. January 1996 - March 1999

• Senior administrator primarily responsible for 7×24 support of realtime mission critical Sun Solaris systems managing 1.5 billion US dollar hedge fund.
• Integrate UNIX and Windows NT applications via WinDD, Exceed
• Support 100 Sun Ultra workstations, 30 servers at two sites installation, maintenance, 500Gb data warehouse
• Support 70 users locally, 20 at remote site.
  • 30 traders trading Asian, European,US markets (7×24)
  • 10 developers implementing trading strategies
• Integrate realtime market data feeds: Reuters,Bloomberg, Future Source, Telerate via Tibco’s publish/subscribe model
• Implemented corporate intranet server (Apache)for enterprise wide information dissemination.
• Implemented corporate internet firewall (Firewall-1), support internet email server, debugged routing problems
• Evaluate and recommend realtime electronic trading systems
• Lead Tibco administrator, upgrades, revision control, coded scripts to automate daily functions (eg restarting TIC)
• Install and maintain Sybase 11 database

Alberta Energy Company April 1994 - December 1995

• Lead administrator in the oil and gas exploration department, responsible for support of Sun Solaris and SunOS systems managing 300 gigabyte geological database.
• Implemented the Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system
• 30 workstations and 10 servers, including a Sparc Center 1000
• systems programming C, C++, X-windows, Oracle database support.
• helped implement the corporate internet server(www.aec.ca)

• Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta, 1994.
  • specialization in computer science

• Virtualization: VMware Certified Professional (VCP) #20255
  • VMWare Installation and Configuration - Nov 2007
• Networking: Cisco Advanced Router Configuration
• Storage: EMC HSM, Network appliance fundamentals (DOTF) - Sept 2007
• Server: HP-UX administration, Solaris Advanced administration

– References available upon request.