James C. McPherson

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems
• Senior Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Past

• Kernel Software Engineer (contractor) at Sun Microsystems
• Unix platform design engineer (contractor) at Ericsson
• SAN Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems

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Education

• The University of Queensland

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Connections

309 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• My Blog
• My Blog
• My Company

James C. McPherson’s Summary

Professional software engineer with highly developed troubleshooting and Unix system administration skills, specializing in Solaris. An experienced, effective and confident technical communicator at all organisational levels, from customers to CEOs. Detailed knowledge and troubleshooting experience of SAN configurations, storage and backup management software. Proven track record liaising with ISV and IHV product development engineering organisations to resolve bugs and customer issues. An effective problem
solver with the ability to work under pressure in fast paced, challenging environments.

James C. McPherson’s Specialties:

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), SCSI and SAN (fibre channel) driver and utility development
Diagnostic tools (st_diag, Solaris CAT)
Vendor liaison at engineering level with Qlogic, Emulex, Veritas/Symantec, Oracle, FalconStor, Adaptec
Sparc and x86/x64 crash dump analysis
Evangelism of Sun, Solaris, and OpenSolaris through the OpenSolaris community, conference and user-group presentations


Sun Resolve (aka SGR) Program Leader for Australasia.

Additional Information

James C. McPherson’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Blog
• My Company

James C. McPherson’s Groups:

SOSUG: the Sydney OpenSolaris User Group,
HUMBUG: the Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group,
SAGE-AU: the System Administrators' Guild of Australia,

•    OpenSolaris
•    The University of Queensland Alumni
•    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

James C. McPherson’s Honors:

Certified Program Leader for Kepner-Tregoe's KT-Resolve methodology as implemented by Sun Microsystems (known as SGR and Sun Resolve)

James C. McPherson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch