David Oswald Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

DATE CENTER SITE MANAGEMENT- planning / documentation of floor and rack space, power and (network/Fiber Channel) port audits, etc.DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY - Tivoli Storage Manager / TSM / Spectrum protect / RubrikENTERPRISE AUTOMATONS - Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Autosys, Control-M, Cron - Seasoned Unix/Linux shell script developer - Python 2 & 3TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION - training various admin teams how to leverage various automation tools.

North East Us

Backup and recovery architect and services engineer for both high end and cost effective data backup solutions for IBM customers running Tivoli Storage Manager / Spectrum Protect.Specializing in backup system migrations (foreign and native), within numerous business sectors (Gov., Medical, Pharma, Petroleum, Education, etc.) Pre Sales contact for SDC's unique Tivoli Managed Systems Services - where customer backup environments are monitored, managed, maintained and reported on by specialists dedicated to providing expert advice, services, and daily operations against data backup and recovery systems. Permitting the customer to focus on their core business activities.Learn more at www.salvusdata.com

New York City Metropolitan Area

Member of IBM Power systems technical sales team, focused on IBM POWER/AIX/Linux server consolidations, competitive migrations, and high performance symmetrical server solutions. Assist with customer education at Director and Management levels, demonstrate the value proposition of IBM POWER systems virtualization. Team with subject matter experts (SAP, SAS, Oracle, TSM, and XAMIN) to assist in architectures which address complex customer environments, while staying within a proposed budget. Drive customer satisfaction by leveraging IBM Technical Services to scope and estimate the proposed implementation.• Partner directly with sales to build hardware and software proposals for IBM’s prospective customers, address customer requirements while staying within budget.• Inform IBM sales staff of technical issues and how they may impact customer satisfaction, follow up with advice for resolution, and drive the issue until resolved.• Help customers with migration from IBM’s competition (Sun, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.), in order to ensure a smooth transition into IBM technologies from our competition.• Execute customer technical training sessions during lunch hours (termed “Lunch and Learn). For example – introduce high level concepts and and values to the director and management level , while having low level “how to” sessions with the customers technical staff.• Comfortable with deeply technical environments as well as client facing positions.

Member of Tivoli’s educational materials development team, developing training materials in conjunction with product development, needing to be available when the software (or update) is released. Developed materials for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS), IBM Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker (TDWB), and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / Spectrum protect. Created and presented variations on training materials, to customer conferences nationwide. • Team with Tivoli Technical Services organization, IBM Power system sales, Lotus Notes sales, and various IBM business partners. Rewrite and improve existing educational materials which needed further clarification or lab exercises.• Presented high level training and introductions to large audiences such as TTUC, internal IBM conferences, and Pulse (Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, San Diago, etc)• Performed frequent installations of WebSphere, DB2, Maestro, TWS, TDWB, TSM/Spectrum Protect. • Studied and developed several GRID solutions using Tivoli Dynamic Workload Broker (TDWB) for customer proposals and demonstrations. Sales driven from demo and technical discussions in excess of $800k.

Senior member of Tivoli professional services team providing clients with advanced level consulting, system planning, systems automation, work flow analysis and streamlining of complex distributed computing environments using Tivoli Workload scheduler. Senior member of Tivoli Systems professional services team providing clients with advanced level consulting on data backup and recovery methods, as well as simulated and actual disaster recovery efforts such as 911, and Katrina.• Developed and implemented enterprise wide disaster recovery, and backup and recovery plans for data centers protecting up to 160 Terabytes of incremental data per night, using Tivoli Storage Manager.• Performed client training on ADSM/TSM, Maestro/TWS, web development, process definition and refinement, and Perl/Unix shell scripting.• Developed numerous TSM and TWS architectures based upon servers, disk and tape storage products, IBM, HP, Sun, MicroSoft, and StorageTek systems.• Extensive background in IBM and competitions hardware (HP, Sun, IBM, StorageTek, FalconStor, etc.)• Work well in times of crisis – having worked (and been recognized by IBM upper management) on both the 911 and Katrina recovery efforts for IBM customers.• Team directly with IBM sales team and IBM business partners to scope, design, and propose high performance automations, and backup solutions for IBM customers.• Extensive background in data vaulting/mirroring to remote locations for site wide disasters.• Performed training and mentoring to numerous individuals to IBM’s internals staff and IBM clients, with both IBM’s training materials and custom training which was coordinated during system deployments and integrations.• Additional sales from director and management facing conversation in excess of $550k per year.

Team lead of six people that developed and supported Citigroup’s Remedy problem tracking system. The GTMS system involved numerous computer systems (running with the sun 24//7) on the world’s largest dedicated network designed to collect and route problems within Citicorp’s global infrastructure.• Responsible for associated computer systems administrations (Sun and HP), security, disaster recovery, and ongoing development and customization of Citicorp’s Global Trouble Management System.• Implemented the gateway integration software between IBMs mainframe based Infoman trouble ticketing system into the Remedy trouble ticketing system.• Saved over $1M+ per year in IBM licensing costs.• Performed extensive disaster recovery and node fail-over’s to ensure 24/365 for Citibank credit card operations.

Administrator of a complex server arrangement consisting of: RS6000s, Sun, Mac, NT/Intel, and VMS operating systems. Digitized images stored in an oracle back-end database – which are then to be reused for publishing of new and unrelated materials. Responsible for data backup and recovery procedures across three locations, all scheduled operations written in ksh scripts.• Assisted in redefining the process of creating publications (with graphics) sold within commercial and educational markets.• Responsible for data center equipment in northern and central NJ, and Columbus Ohio. Tasks including purchases of racks, tape hardware, coordination with power and HVAC teams, and support contracts for hardware and software.• This imaging system was recognized by both Business Week and PC World as new and emerging technologies which will redefining the way the publication industry resources their existing image data. • Translating into more than $1 Million in savings per year, by re-using existing photographic materials from prior publications.

Senior member of technical support team servicing a division 125 people, (electrical, chemical, mechanical, technical computing). Primary contact for research and engineering labs equipped with numerous systems dedicated to the testing of new technologies associated with real time processing of refinery/oil field data. • Responsible for backup and recovery of IBM, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, and DEC development systems in Exxon’s Lab environment.• Author of automation scripts performing systems backups, data feed movements, and automated nightly compiles.• Responsible for extensive hardware/software contracts. Other responsibilities include computer systems administration, computer security audit preparation and compliance, and employee training of operating systems and related software.• Responsible for the scoping and purchasing of technical equipment for the group as required.• Evaluate, test and create standards offering for data center equipment, by creating these standard offerings we were able to reduce operational cost by more than $1.2 Million dollars per year:• Negotiate set prices without eliminating individual groups negotiating the same service.• Develop standard dimensional floor space usages.• Member of the core competency center; centralizing design, purchasing, and coordination of all phases of data center deployments for the purposes of Exxon’s data center contingency efforts. These efforts include activities such as the installation and servicing of : HVAC, Diesel power generation, UPS systems, ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch), Network cabling - TCPIP / DecNet, 3270 / SNA, etc., raised floor systems, and Halon fire extinguishing systems.

Member of the Bell labs UNIX systems administration team, located at the UNIX R&D facility in Summit, NJ. Assist system developers with the scheduling of system alterations, maintenance, upgrades, shutdowns and IML-IPL boot requirements. • Troubleshooting of hardware and software malfunctions and advising appropriate person(s) of necessary corrective actions taken.• Assist various design teams with installs / moves / retirements, network cabling, etc.• Authored and automated system backup scripts for Bell's UNIX systems development environment across Amdahl, DEC, SUN, and AT&T hardware.

Member of mainframe operations group, rotating second and third shift as required. Responsible for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly run cycles. Responsible for training of new team members and filling on shifts which are under staffed due to vacation schedules.• Assisted in creating and maintaining batch schedules associated with county payrolls, property taxes, water departments, and criminal probation’s for IBM, DEC, and Data General systems. • Test communication lines (digital and analog) and worked with appropriate vendors to resolve data-com problems. Responsible for the training of entry level operators.• Desktop system support with MS-DOS system installations, 3270 communications, Lotus 1-2-3, and Word Star.