David Whitson Email & Phone Number

Information technology specialist with a breadth and depth of experience spanning 40 years. The past 25 of which have been with a company which we grew from an unfunded start-up to become the leading oil and gas accounting and land management software system in the mid-cap market segment. Experienced and capable with contemporary physical and virtual technologies. An early adopter of Linux and an early and successful adopter of virtual infrastructure (VMware). Using and integrating RedHat Linux is a particular strength.Specialties: RedHat Linux, VMware vSphere server virtualization, storage and storage virtualization, InterSystems Caché, UniData, IT Management

Listed skills include Linux, Red Hat Linux, Vmware, and Virtualization.

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  Bolo It Services

  P2 Energy Solutions

  Apr 2011 - Present

  Infrastructure and Services:Continued BOLO System technical leadership role.Migration of BOLO System managed and subscription systems from internal VMware infrastructure to 3rd party managed “cloud” VMware infrastructure. P2 Oil and Gas in the Cloud Initiative – AWS based hosting and management of the P2 Oil and Gas an interoperable product suite comprised of BOLO, Merrick, Tobin, P2 GIS and P2 AFE. P2 Protect – planning and design of an AWS based boloDP (BOLO System Disaster Prevention) integrated backup archive storage management service.Tier 1 support for the roughly 130 active BOLO System customers and hundreds of RedHat Linux and Windows based systems currently in service.P2 ASCEND Conference Presentations – Bolo System Disaster Prevention, Bolo System Widows to Linux Re-hosting, Bolo System Health Check and Table Space and Performance OptimizationMajor Development Projects:boloDP (BOLO System Disaster Prevention) – flexible, high performance backup, recovery, archive replication and table space physical integrity analysis for the BOLO System on Linux and Windows.BoloSysprep – flexible menu based utility for extending a RedHat 6/7 “Basic Server” installation with everything necessary to install and host UniData and the BOLO System.BoloSysgen – flexible menu based Linux utility for installing UniDtata and the BOLO System.BoloSamba – flexible menu based Linux utility for administering both Samba and PAM-Linux based standalone UNIX or Windows ADS integrated authentication.BoloHealthCheck – flexible utilities for optimizing the I/O utilization, performance and resilience of the BOLO System dynamic file table space.BoloRestructure – Sarbanes–Oxley and audit friendly BOLO System table space and software restructuring for both Linux and Windows systems.

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  University Of Northern Colorado

  Research And Statistics