Steve Carl

Current

Senior Technologist at BMC Software

Past

Manager, R&D Support, The Americas at BMC Software
Manager, VM group at Network Solutions Inc.
VM System Programmer at Texas Eastern

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Steve Carl’s Summary

Currently

- Managing R&D Support for the Americas, building and maintaining a wide range of hardware and software environments for use by R&D. Responsible for R&D Operations in North America. Over 6000 computers of all types total.

- Involved in large scale server virtualization project using VMware, P series LPAR, and using BMC Performance Assurance to model the entire environment

- Volunteer at BarCampAustin and BarCampESM

- Member of the OpenManagement Consortium

- Corporate blogger at http://talk.bmc.com, and private blog at http://on-being-open.blogspot.com. Both blogs are about Linux and Open Source.

- Frequent presenter about Linux and related topics at LinuxWorld, SHARE, etc.

- Designed R&D Business Continuance architecture.

Previously, related, other:

As a subcontractor at NASA, worked in a wide range of areas, including problem determination, maintaining the VM computers in the Space Shuttle computer development lab, various other lab computers on the NASA JSC campus.

Was Technical Lead in 1993 in hooking BMC up to the Internet.

At both BMC and NASA have maintained the production email infrastructure, on HP Openmail and Profs respectively.

Spent 2 years working as a Psychiatric Tech late teens in an alcohol and drug abuse rehab hospital: an experince that has had lifelong benefits as a manager.

Steve Carl’s Specialties:

High tech areas where flexibility and agility are key success factors. Linux desktop and server systems. Mainframes, especially VM. Setting up and running computer labs across a wide range of hardware and software.

Strong technical writing skills: wrote BMC's guide on using the Internet in 1993. Corporate Blogger.

Enjoy a work environment with a strong mix of both technical and people.

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Steve Carl’s Interests:

Travel, especially to area of historic interest, RV'ing, camping, hiking Reading, especially History, Science, certain biographies, and some fiction, Homebrewing beer especially my specialty "Ginger Honey Pale Ale"