Paul Simpson

Current

• Course Facilitator (Instructor) at Axia College of University of Phoenix
• Senior Systems / Storage / Backup Administrator at Microchip Technology, Inc.

Past

• Yield Systems & Database Administrator at Microchip Technology, Inc.
• Vice President, Finance & IS at Gothic Creations Inc.
• Process Engineering Tech - Photo/Litho at Microchip Technology, Inc.

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Education

• Hewlett-Packard Co. Training
• Symantec Company
• University of Phoenix

• University of Phoenix
• Mesa Community College
• University of Phoenix
• Mesa Community College
• Sea Pines Abroad

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Industry

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Paul Simpson’s Summary

Experience:
13 Years of Project Management
10 years of HP-UX / Solaris / Linux administration
5 Years HP-UX Performance Tuning & Analysis
8 years of windows administration
10 years building systems (servers / desktops)
6 years semiconductor defect reduction / yield engineering
4 years database design and maintenance
4 years semiconductor photolithography engineering
4 years HP/Brocade SAN / EVA administration
3 years Veritas NetBackup Enterprise administration
2 years NetApp administration
B.S. - Business Management
M.S. - Information Systems / Management

Goals:
IT Manager or Director
HP Certification as HPCE

Paul Simpson’s Specialties:

HP-UX Administration, HP-UX Performance Tuning, HP/Brocade SAN, NetApp NAS, HP EVA (5000, 8000, 4400), Veritas NetBackup 6 Enterprise, Legato Networker, Windows Administration, Storage Systems, Semiconductor Photo Lithography Engineering, Semiconductor Yield Enhancement Engineering, Generating / Writing Specification & Procedures, Project Management.

Paul Simpson’s Experience

• Course Facilitator (Instructor)

  Axia College of University of Phoenix

  (Public Company; APOL; Higher Education industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Teach college courses online.

• Senior Systems / Storage / Backup Administrator

  Microchip Technology, Inc.

  (Public Company; MCHP; Semiconductors industry)

  February 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Install, test, and maintain UNIX servers worldwide. Work with HP-UX, Linux
  Manage HP OpenView Environment
  Manage Brocade / HP SAN, HP EVA Storage, NetApp NAS, & Veritas Netbackup

Paul Simpson’s Education

• Hewlett-Packard Co. Training

  N/A , HP UNIX / OpenView , 2004 — 2008

  HP Classes Taken:
  HP-UX System & Network Administration 1 - 6/04 (HP, Denver, CO)
  HP-UX System & Network Administration 2 - 8/04 (HP, Denver, CO)
  HP-UX System & Network Troubleshooting - 11/04 (HP, Downers Grove, IL)
  HP OpenView Operations for UNIX 1 - 1/05 (HP, Cupertino, CA)
  HP OpenView Performance Insight Admin 1 - 5/05 (HP, Atlanta, GA)
  HP OpenView Operations for UNIX 2 - 7/05 (HP, Downers Grove, IL)
  HP OpenView Network Node Manager 1 - 11/05 (HP, Downers Grove, IL)
  HP Integrity VSE Administration - 2/07 (HP, Chandler, AZ)
  HP POSIX Shell Scripting - 10/07 (HP, Mesa, AZ)
  HP PRM / WLM / gWLM Admin - 12/07 (HP, Chandler, AZ)

  Activities and Societies:

  HP-UX, OpenView, Scripting

• Symantec Company

  N/A , Veritas NetBackup 6 Enterprise for Windows Administration , 2007 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Veritas, NetBackup, Administration

• University of Phoenix

  MS , Information Systems Management , 2004 — 2006

  Final GPA: 3.72

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduated March 31, 2006

• University of Phoenix

  None , Information Technology , 1999 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Ethics, Project Management, Mathematics, Business Systems Development, Programming, Critical Thinking

• Mesa Community College

  UNIX Systems Administration January 2000 — May 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Studied UNIX Systems Administration on Sun Solaris 8

• University of Phoenix

  BS , Business Management , 1997 — 1999

  Cumulative GPA 3.49

• Mesa Community College

  None , Business, Law, Technical, German , January 1992 — December 1996

  Various German, technical, business, and legal classes.

• Sea Pines Abroad

  High School 1986 — 1987

Additional Information

Paul Simpson’s Interests:

Web design, reading, movies, writing,(novels,poetry), outdoors (fishing, camping)

Paul Simpson’s Groups:

IEEE,University of Phoenix Alumni Network,Who's Who of IT Professionals,Marlborough Mesa Homeowners Association, Lulu Publishing,UoP Alumni Association,AZSAGE,Tower of Babel, Slashdot, Blogger, Universal Life Church, Universal Ministries, Plaxo Networking

•    University of Phoenix Alumni
•    Semiconductor Professional's Group
•    The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
•    Microchip Technology Alumni Association
•    IT Professionals-Infrastructure&Tech http://budurl.com/ITmm
•    System Administrator (Windows, Linux, Unix)
•    HP-UX Users
•    The Storage Group
•    UNIX United Professionals
•    Storage Professionals
•    IT Core Infrastructure
•    System Administrators
•    The HP Way
•    Symantec End Users Group
•    Unix and Storage League
•    QUE™ by Plastic Logic
•    NetApp User Group of Arizona

Paul Simpson’s Honors:

City of Mesa award for "Outstanding Neighborhood Volunteerism"

Paul Simpson’s Contact Settings

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