Alan Robertson

Current

High-Availability Consultant at IBM

Past

OSS Developer at SUSE, Inc
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Avaya

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Alan Robertson’s Summary

I founded the Linux-HA project, and am an internationally known expert on high-availability systems, and a frequently requested speaker on High-Availability and Linux.

I've founded and managed projects - open and closed source, local developers, and across the world. I've architected software systems, designed, coded, tested, and written automated test tools. I've also worked in data centers as a high-level administrator, planner, etc. I've written software for communications controllers, for mainframes, for numerous operating systems (typically UNIX-like), for backup systems, for data dictionary type applications, databases, device drivers, compilers, and lots of other things. I've programmed in dozens of languages - most commonly C, Perl, Python, C++.

I like doing things that are ambitious. If someone thinks it's impossible, then I'm probably interested.

Alan Robertson’s Specialties:

High-Availability Systems, Open Source Software, OSS project leadership, debugging, architecture, testing, customer relationships, public speaking, evangelism

Alan Robertson’s Experience

High-Availability Consultant

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 month)
OSS Developer

SUSE, Inc

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Bell Labs

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1978 — 2000 (22 years)
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1978 — 2000 (22 years)
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Avaya

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1978 — 2000 (22 years)

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Alan Robertson’s Interests:

High Availability, Linux, Science Fiction, Christianity

Alan Robertson’s Groups:

Linux-HA, Calvary Evangelical Free Church, Linux Community, LISA

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees member
SKYPE user member
Oklahoma State University Alumni member
Open Source member
Linux Expert member
Linux in Business member
Business Continuity Management Professionals member
Reliability Hub member
linux.conf.au member
AT&T Alumni member
Avaya Alumni Network member
Lucent Technologies Alumni Network member
Linked To Denver member
Software as a Service (SaaS) Group member