leonard buckley

In this role I built new platforms for the migration of various applications from legacy infrastructure to new infrastructure for the NAB account; the new platforms run RHEL5 on VMware ESXi and z/OS and use Symantec Application HA 6.0 and NetBackup 7.5. Technical tasks included: building and customizing RHEL5 servers to the specific requirements of each application, including: server patching, software installation, storage configuration and configuration and testing of OS settings.

For IBM GSA's customer, Telstra, I performed operating systems upgrades on Sun servers from Ultra-5 up to E6500. My responsibilities included gap analysis, meeting with system owners and subject-matter experts to plan upgrades & address issues, the production of detailed technical plans for each server, peer-reviewing of plans, acting as technical lead for my plans, and assisting colleagues with their plans. I upgraded from various versions of Solaris to version 2.6 and also upgraded DiskSuite, Veritas Volume Manager, Oracle, Control-M, MQ Series, WebSphere and Orbix. During one upgrade, I diagnosed and fixed a server boot-problem, saving a 20-hour upgrade from being backed-out.

I had been working in this role for BHP IT, but in May 2000 they exited the project and I continued in my role as a contractor. In this role I supported 22 Sun and 8 Ultrix servers used for the development, testing, data migration, quality-assurance and training environments for a $100 million GIS cabling system project. I also was the administrator for the Rational Clearcase version-control system and assisted with software releases. Over a period of 3 months, I performed hardware upgrades (cpu/memory/disk) on Sun servers in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland.

For BHP's IT company, for about a year I provided UNIX support to BHP's internal businesses primarily on Sun Solaris servers but also some Silicon Graphics and AIX server support. I was then assigned full-time to support the a $100 million GIS cabling system project for Telstra, a new client of BHP IT.

For BHP's IT company, BHP IT, I provided network support for BHP's internal businesses and their external customer Australia Post. This included LAN and WAN support of TCP/IP and DECnet networks, firewall management, and DNS & dial-in modem support. Technologies included Cisco switches, routers and terminal servers and Firewall One firewalls.