David Douthitt

Past

• UNIX System Administrator at Epic Systems Corporation
• UNIX System Administrator at Abbott Labs
• UNIX System Administrator at Credit Union National Association

• Management Information Specialist at Credit Union National Association

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Education

• Madison Area Technical College

Connections

62 connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

• My Blog

David Douthitt’s Summary

UNIX/Linux System Administrator with extensive experience in supporting HP-UX, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and other systems. Also have varied experience in running non-Intel platforms, including Debian GNU/Linux on HP-9000 hardware. Always interested in learning new things, and have in-depth knowledge because of this interest.

David Douthitt’s Specialties:

Automation, security, scripting, programming, trouble-shooting

David Douthitt’s Experience

• UNIX System Administrator

  Epic Systems Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 2 months)

  Administered internal HP-UX 11i systems: including nPars, Integirty Virtual Machines, ServiceGuard and PRM on both PARISC and Itanium systems.
  
  Administered and monitored internal Caché database environments: including troubleshooting, debugging, and shadowing.
  
  Managed OpenVMS 7.x and 8.x systems (on both Alpha and Itanium systems), coordinating downtimes and personnel. Assisted in OpenVMS administration, including clustered environments.

• UNIX System Administrator

  Abbott Labs

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

  March 2005 — November 2005 (9 months)

  Built 400+ software packages for three platforms; handled helpdesk tickets through Remedy; answered technical questions as required; provided expertise on SSH and other areas

• UNIX System Administrator

  Credit Union National Association

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

  December 1998 — August 2004 (5 years 9 months)

  Set up and decommisioned UNIX servers; handled repairs and contacts with manufacturers; monitored servers; secured servers; maintained Linux and HP-UX servers; installed Veritas NetBackup clients; maintained ARCserve/Open backup process under HP-UX; automated processes with extensive use of ksh, Ruby, and Perl; documented all processes and created matching man pages.

• Management Information Specialist

  Credit Union National Association

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Banking industry)

  September 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 4 months)

  Installed and configured servers, including Linux, Unixware, and AIX servers; generated statistical data as requested by external customers using PSTAT and Informix databases; created maps from zip code data utilizing MapInfo; generated statistical reports for output to external customers.

David Douthitt’s Education

• Madison Area Technical College

  Associate Degree , DP-Programming , 1981 — 1989

Additional Information

David Douthitt’s Websites:

• My Blog

David Douthitt’s Interests:

networking, security, programming, scripting, UNIX, Linux, BSD, open source, organizing, reading, productivity, speaking, presentations, photography, writing, documentation, Perl, LUA, TCL, Forth, Lisp, C, Ruby, intellectual property, copyright, patents, trademarks, law

David Douthitt’s Groups:

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), USENIX, SAGE, LOPSA

•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    OpenVMS Community
•    Connect HP User Group Community
•    MATC IT Degrees Alumni

David Douthitt’s Honors:

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Sun Certified Solaris Administrator (SCSA), Linux+, LPIC-1