Dana French

Current

President / CEO at TriParadigm LLC
President at Mt Knox Datacenters
President at Mt Xia Inc

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Past

Owner/Founder at SiteOx Web Hosting
Writer/Author at IBM Developerworks
Writer/Author at Lulu Publishing

Consulting Analyst at NetJets
Writer/Author at AIX Update Journal
Consulting Analyst at Capgemini
Consulting Analyst at TXU
Consulting Analyst at Capgemini Energy
Consulting Analyst at HCA
Consulting Analyst at Hardin Construction
Consulting Analyst at Fleming Companies
Consulting Analyst at Fleming
Senior Consulting Analyst at Applied Intelligence Group

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Education

University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Dana French’s Summary

TriParadigm is a partnership of high tech companies specializing in high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity and virtualization. This company was formed to provide an international platform on which to market an automated build and deployment appliance for high availability and disaster recovery environments. This appliance product is called "vLPAR" and is the culmination of several decades of work and experience with large AIX and Linux (SUSe and Redhat) data center operators. This appliance automatically builds, deploys, configures and provisions entire multi-system, multi-frame, multi-datacenter environments for high availability and disaster recovery. Automation is achieved through the advanced usage of IBM Power5 virtualization (VIO) servers, AIX tools such as NIM, and HMC, and Linux tools such as YAST (SUSe) . These automation capabilities are the resulting implementation of a business continuity methodology developed over many years of experience in a wide variety of industries with very large clients such as IBM, Capgemini, Wal-Mart, Fleming (Nations largest Grocery wholesaler at the time), Liberty Mutual Insurance, HCA Healthcare, USMC, and several others.

Dana French’s Specialties:

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Virtualization, Content Management, Datacenter Automation, Audit Management, Security Management

Dana French’s Experience

President / CEO

TriParadigm LLC

(Partnership; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Focusing on automated, appliance driven Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Virtualization, and Content Management. Marketing products and services related to our "vLPAR" automated deployment appliance.
President

Mt Knox Datacenters

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Provider of datacenter facilities for small and medium size businesses. Consulting services for business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability, and virtualization.
President

Mt Xia Inc

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)

Mt Xia works with medium to large size organizations worldwide to provide business and technical expertise with regard to managing and operating information systems. We specialize in working with the IBM AIX platforms and associated systems, such as networking, storage, and configuration management.

Capitalizing on decades of business and technical experience, we provide design, implementation, support, and maintenance assitance in all aspects of information systems needs and requirements. Mt Xia has developed policies, standards, and procedures used by many of the today's largest and most profitable organizations. Our real world knowledge and experience, combined with training and client interaction provides cutting edge solutions that are unequaled by any other consulting company.

We specialize in high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity utilizing IBM AIX and Linux technolgies and platforms.
Owner/Founder

SiteOx Web Hosting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year)

Providing Web Site Hosting and Domain Registration Services
Writer/Author

IBM Developerworks

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — 2009 (2 years)

Author of numerous articles on the topics of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Data Center Automation and Virtualization.
Writer/Author

Lulu Publishing

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

2007 — 2009 (2 years)

Author of books on Business Continuity, and Korn Shell Programming.
Consulting Analyst

NetJets

(Privately Held; Airlines/Aviation industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year)
Writer/Author

AIX Update Journal

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2008 (4 years)

Author of numerous articles on the topics of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Data Center Automation, Virtualization, and Korn Shell Programming.
Consulting Analyst

Capgemini

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

2004 — 2007 (3 years)
Consulting Analyst

TXU

(Public Company; TXU; Utilities industry)

March 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 10 months)
Consulting Analyst

Capgemini Energy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2007 (3 years)
Consulting Analyst

HCA

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Consulting Analyst

Hardin Construction

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Consulting Analyst

Fleming Companies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 4 months)

Developed business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability computing facilities to support critical business functions.
Consulting Analyst

Fleming

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wholesale industry)

September 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Senior Consulting Analyst

Applied Intelligence Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1993 — September 1999 (6 years 1 month)

Responsible for development of E-Business, E-Services, and E-Management strategies. This includes tactical and strategic implementation of architectures and technologies. Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing conversion of clients to an E-Business model philosophy and mindset.

Dana French’s Education

University of Oklahoma

Chemical Engineering 1980 — 1983
University of Oklahoma

BS , Zoology , 1977 — 1983

Additional Information

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Dana French’s Interests:

Publications: - Author of book titled "Virtualization for Business Continuity" - Author of several articles published by IBM Developerworks - Author of dozens of articles published by AIX Update Journal - Author of book to be published titled "Advanced Korn Shell Programming" - Author of Wikipedia's article on the topic of "Business continuity" Languages: - English (fluent, native) - Italian (basic, familiar)