Andy Kosela

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Andy Kosela’s Summary

www.andykosela.com
akosela AT andykosela DOT com
HP-UX Administrator (HP-UX CSE, HP MASE)
HP Certified Systems Engineer with hands-on experience in HP hardware based data centers.
FreeBSD hacker.

UNIX system administration (10+ years of experience):
- HP-UX system administration (PA-RISC, Itanium)
- FreeBSD system administration (x86) (FreeBSD Contributor, FreeBSD Ports Maintainer)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS system administration (x86)
- Open Source technologies

HP-UX:
- HP Partitions (nPartitions, vPars)
- HP LVM
- HP SD-UX
- HP PRM, WLM
- HP Ignite-UX
- HP MC/ServiceGuard (HA clusters)
- HP MirrorDisk/UX
- HP Bastille
- HP Data Protector

HP Technologies:
- HP 9000
- HP Integrity
- HP ProLiant ML/DL servers
- HP c-Class BladeSystems
- HP StorageWorks MSA/EVA
- HP StorageWorks MSL Tape Libraries

Oracle (basic administration):
- Oracle Database (HA clusters)
- Oracle Application Server

Dell Technologies:
- Dell PowerEdge servers

Cisco Technologies:
- Catalyst 2924, 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560, 6500, routers 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200

TCP/IP networks:
- good understanding of TCP/IP networks
- debugging network protocols with tcpdump
- special emphasis on core network protocols (DNS, DHCP, NTP)

Open Source Technologies:
- DNS, DHCP, NTP, web, mail, FTP, SSH, VPN, firewall, RADIUS, LDAP, w3 cache, CVS, SVN, server monitoring, file server solutions (NFS, samba).

Good understanding of UNIX filesystems: UFS/HFS, UFS2, VxFS.

Programming:
shell (Almquist shell, Korn shell/88, Korn shell/93, POSIX shell, bash), sed, awk, c, xhtml, sql

Andy Kosela’s Specialties:

HP-UX in enterprise mission critical environments (High Availability and High Performance solutions, backup & recovery, system administration).

All aspects of FreeBSD (system administration, shell scripting, backup & recovery, FreeBSD internals, kernel hacking).

Professional certificates:
CCNA
AIS - HP StorageWorks
AIS - Specialty in HP Data Protector Software
APC - HP Enterprise Storage Solutions
ASE - HP StorageWorks
CSA - HP-UX v11
CSE - HP-UX v11
Master ASE - HP SAN Architect

Additional Information

Andy Kosela’s Websites:

My Website

Andy Kosela’s Interests:

I'm a UNIX systems administrator, computer scientist, philosopher, historian and enthusiast of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and science. My main areas of research and interest are: FreeBSD operating system, HP-UX and HP technologies (I'm certified HP-UX CSE, HP MASE and member of DSPP and Connect), SSI clusters, First Principles (arche) of the ancients, hylomorphism, philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Pythagoreanism, Arabian and Renaissance magic and natural philosophy. I'm also family related to John "Mook" Gibbons, one of the founders of the Wu-Tang Clan, and done quite a lot of work for some artists under the Wu banner serving mainly as a technical architect.