- Data Replications Between R&D Sites Worldwide
- WAN/LAN design & connectivity to/from global corporate systems
- Formerly IT Department manager in Vancouver site
- Workstation, server, laptop, and lab services & support in mixed UNIX/Linux/Windows environment
- WAN/LAN design & connectivity to/from global corporate systems
- Telephony (Mobile and PBX) provision and support
- End user support and customer relationship management
- CAD/CAM Application support
- File, web, and messaging services
- Capacity planning
- Computer-related purchasing, asset, and licence management
- UNIX & Linux instruction
- Staff management and assignment
- UNIX Support Specialist for Nokia Mobile Phones
- Customer Service Technologist for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
- SunCAP (Sun Campus Access Program) Representative at the University of Calgary
- Programmer Analyst for University Computing Services at the University of Calgary
- Software developer for Library Research Services at the University of Calgary Library
- As a university student, owned and operated a small business building, repairing, and upgrading home & office computers
- Over 5,000 hours classroom teaching experience in UNIX/Linux, Windows, Networks
- Specialization Areas:
- workstation and server system administration
- security
- network administration
- logical volume management and storage capacity planning
- UNIX shell scripting (Bourne, Korn, POSIX, BASH)
- Solaris System Administration Instructor for Sun Educational Services
- HP-UX System and Network Administration Instructor for HP Education
- UNIX & Linux System Administration Instructor for Learnix Ltd.
- Author of text book and course material for the course "UNIX/Linux System Administration" for Learnix Ltd.
- Seminar presenter at "The Bazaar" as a Faculty member (Dec. 1999, Topic: Migration from NT to Linux)
- UNIX instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
- Sun Microsystems Education instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
- Kernels 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 (32 and 64 bit on either iNTEL, Sparc, Alpha & AMD x86 architectures)
- Red Hat
- Mandriva
- S.U.S.E.
- TurboLinux
- Debian
- MythDora Multimedia PC
- KDE & Gnome desktops
- Support of Open Source and Linux-based development environments (GCC, etc.)
- SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x through 10 (Sun Sparc & Ultra, x86)
- HP-UX 10.10 through 11i (Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 700 & 800)
- AIX 3.x through 4.x (IBM RS-6000)
- IRIX 5.x through 6.x (SGI MIPS)
- OS-X 10 through 10.4 (Apple G4)
- DEC(Compaq) UNIX (a.k.a. True64) (Alpha)
- SCO UnixWare (x86)
- *BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD on x86)
- SQL Database support (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Informix)
- Support of UNIX-based development environments (compilers, etc.)
- 3.1, 3.11, & Windows For Workgroups
- 95 (OSR1, OSR2), 98 (First & Second Editions), ME
- NT 3.51, 4.0 (Workstation, Server)
- 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
- XP (Professional & Home)
- Windows Services for UNIX (2.0 & 3.0)
- Support of Windows-based development environments (Visual C++, etc.)
- OS/2 (IBM)
- QNX RTOS (Real Time OS)
- Data ONTAP 5.x, 6.x (on Network Appliances F7XX, F8XX, F9XX Filers)
- Apollo Domain (pre-Hewlett-Packard)
- DOS (PCDOS, DRDOS, MSDOS, FreeDOS)
- MacOS 7 through 9 (Apple Macintosh)
- Remedy AR 5
- Cisco, Bay Networks, 3Com
- Ethernet (10BaseT, 10Base2, 100BaseTX, 1000BaseSX)
- SONet, T1, OCR3, ISDN, *DSL and Cable Modem
- IEEE 802.11x Wireless LAN
- VOIP (Voice Over IP)
- ATM, FDDI, Token Ring
- FC-AL, SCSI
- Switches, routers, firewalls, gateways, proxies
- Modems, terminals
- Mobile (GSM, TDMA, CDMA, GPRS)
- Support of development environments (Symbian, TI, ARM, etc.)
- Support and service of VOIP (Voice Over IP)
- PBX (Nortel and Mitel)
- Local Telco and Long Distance environments
My Personal History With Over The Air (OTA) Television Broadcasting in Canada
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I go way back with Over The Air (OTA) television. When I was a kid my dad was doing TV and Antenna repair/service in the 1950s as a moonlight job
while he
was an avionics guy in the Royal Canadian Air Force so I grew up all across Canada as Dad got transferred around. Then through the '60s and 70s he
worked in educational television program production in Ontario. I worked with my dad in the TV program production world and doing CATV installations
in schools and large buildings.
OTA is a hobby of mine that had gone away until the promise of ATSC DTV (Digital Television) brought things right back to life again in the late 1990s. When I joined the Digital Home web site, finding folks there who shared my OTA interest was a bit difficult although there certainly were very knowledgeable OTA folks, but besides them I was struck with how few people seemed to understand the past, present, and future of OTA. I had been lurking in several U.S. OTA forums and had been actively posting at Home Theater Spot's Antenna Spot for awhile, where I got to know quite a bit about today's ATSC environment as it was unfolding in the U.S. a few years ahead of the Canadian OTA scene. I realized that much of what was known about analog OTA was applicable to digital OTA too, but there are some rather key differences.
Hugh, the Digital Home site owner, was very supportive and helpful about starting a forum here specializing in OTA, and so it is my pleasure to have created and moderated the Digital Home Canada OTA Forum to share such info. It is my hobby, and so you will find a spirit of friendly good-fellowship there.
We get some veteran OTA professionals and hobbyists there who chip in and offer their expertise, and some of them have been posting at Digital Home for several years. Overwhelmingly, though, the visitors are newcomers to OTA and generally too young to remember when antennas were a necessity and cable (and especially satellite) TV were really new or unheard of.
Thus, my philosophy regarding the OTA Forum is that it is a Knowledge Base, so that people setting up or adjusting their gear for the first time or the fiftieth time can have some of the guesswork reduced or eliminated no matter what level of knowledge the reader arrives with. I delight in reading the first results reports from newcomers, and it is pleasant when the more experienced readers offer advice and assistance to fix problems or address concerns. To me the advice must also come in the form of warnings, "gotchas", and other tips. We keep in mind that there are no stupid questions and no technical OTA issues too small to discuss. There is only one way to do things right, and that is to do them the right way. Cordially disagreeing with me is quite alright, by the way.
My Occupation
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Manager, PCPS Americas Region
Nokia Mobile Phones
Burnaby, BC, Canada
I haven't been around the office because I'm disabled as a result of a long medical situation, but I continue to undergo testing and treatment and I remain optimistic and upbeat.
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Duties
Professional Certifications & Memberships
HP Certified IT Professional (HP-UX), and Certified Instructor: Hewlett Packard
Certified Sun Solaris System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Sun Microsystems
Certified UNIX/Linux System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Learnix Limited
Member: IEEE Computer Society
Member: SAGE, The System Administrators' Guild
Member: USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Member: CUUG, The Calgary UNIX Users Group
Previous Career Experience
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System Administration and Support
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Instructor
Technical Experience With Computers
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Linux
UNIX
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Microsoft Windows
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Other Operating Systems and Major Applications
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Networks and Connectivity
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Telephony
Links
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Click Here to jump to my "Custom Solaris and UNIX/Linux System Administration Labs" pages.
Click Here for my 1999 white paper "Migrate With Confidence From Microsoft Windows Servers to UNIX/Linux"
Click Here to jump to my Home Page
Well, my ISP has provided this web space as part of my account, so I am at their mercy regarding their choice of server architecture and software.
This web site is not running on Apache, world's finest HTTP server, nor is Apache running on top of UNIX or Linux. It damned well should be!
