David Pardoe Email & Phone Number

Greater Cambridge Area

• Same as I've nearly always done, for some of the same engineersHello again to Red Hat, Exceed onDemand, Univa Grid Engine, FLEXlm, NetApp...
• Management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compute grid (Univa Grid Engine) both physical and virtualised (VMware) systems.
• Built and managed Red Hat Network Satellite infrastructure for managing operating system install and upgrades worldwide.
• Upgrade of compute grid from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 and on to RHEL 7 and again to RHEL 8
• FLEXlm license management and administration.
• Management of Exceed onDemand and Exceed Turbo X clusters

Brackley

• Providing support to HPC IT systems and users, with particular focus on the CFD & FEA (CAE) environments.
• Supporting the SGI ICE High Performance Compute platform for Computational Fluid Dynamics and workstations running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Sectioned off one sixteenth of the ICE cluster to use as a development cluster for testing internal tools, IBM/Platform’s LSF compute grid solution, system updates from SGI and SUSE Linux from Novell.
• Implemented Nagios for infrastructure service monitoring and alerting also deployed Ganglia for performance monitoring, both with Apache hosted web interfaces.
• Worked closely with SGI to resolve cluster and storage issues.

Cambridge

• Management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compute grid (Sun Grid Engine) and Solaris/Linux server infrastructure, both physical and virtualised (VMware) systems.
• Integration of SiRF and Zoran Unix/Linux compute environments after acquisitions.
• Built and deployed Red Hat Network Satellite infrastructure for managing operating system install and upgrades worldwide.
• Upgraded existing Nagios service monitoring, automating generation of configuration files and deployed worldwide.
• Upgrade of compute grid from RHEL 4.7 to RHEL 5.4
• Retiring of old Solaris systems, migrating services (Samba, Web etc) to RHEL or CentOS.

Reporting into both the Worldwide Design IT organisation, designing and deploying Unix/Linux compute solutions to support circuit design. Managing contract staff to provide run and maintain services for the UK Design team, and support for Unix hosted enterprise services.Responsible for introducing Thin-client technology to TI Design. Architected and.

Part of the design organisation, designing and deploying the Unix based circuit design environment. Supervising one technician to provide run and maintain services for the UK Design team.

Supporting both the design organisations, and the design application development teams.

Team leader for the timing analysis component of Texas Instrument’s internal design tool suite, used on design of token ring network chipsets. Two extended stays in Houston working closely with the design team there. Programming in C and Forth

Migrated timing analysis tool user interface from Mentor schematic capture tool to Texas Instrument’s internal design tool suite. Wrote core database access routines for logic simulator component of internal tool suite. Programming in Pascal.