Donald L. Gover

Network Security Specialist

Email: dlgover@gmail.com

Cell:    773.580.1720

Professional Profile

 I have spent the last twenty years in mid tier systems management, Unix (Solaris and Linux), VMS and RSTS/E. Have developed several comercial peer to peer applications that have relied on various Networking topologies, SNA, DecNET and TCP/IP. Durning those development cycles have spend conciderable hours debugging tracing and investigating both failures, performace issues with both the software and hardware. In the last 10 years have been managing Large scale Unix systems and their SNA based storage systems with both Veritas/Symantic and Linux volume managers. Finally have spend the last 3 years doing network security, performace and support. In the capacity I manage Checkpoint Firewalls, F5 Load Balancers and work closely with the router and switching teams. Here I diagnose failures and Performace problems between web based applications and their back end databases using both command base tools and network protocol analysis.

Education

Professional training

  • Oracle Systems Management
  • Oracle Database Backup
  • Veritas Volume Management

Post Secondary Training

  • 2004 - 2012 Depaul University Chicago Illinois
  • 1982 – 1983 Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Calgary, Alberta

1982 - Present

Professional Experance

Northern Trust Bank

  • Mananaged and implemented large scale unix systems which included Solaris, AIX and Linux systems. This included Sizing, Ordering, and initial turnup for application groups.
  • Configuring and attaching disk subsystems, laying out of file systems and migration of data.
  • Daily work included performance managment and trouble isolation on running production systems.
  • Monitor configure and maintain Checkpoint Firewall clusters.
  • Monitor configure and maintain F5 Load Balancers and 3DNS products

2000 - present

Beta Software Canada

  • Implemented for Intergraph and the Edmonton Police Department a Message queuing system to go between Intergraph Unix systems and Digital VAX/VMS systems.
  • Ported Harbor (Mainframe centric Backup) clients from OS/2 to the Unix platforms including Solaris, Sun O/S HP/UX, System V NCR Unix and VAX/VMS. Along with porting Harbor developed the platform independent interfaces used to speed porting to new platforms.
  • Worked closely with Customers and Sales/Marketing staff with onsite implementations of Harbor. Focusing on Trouble Shooting, and Tuning of customer's systems and networks.

1990 - 2000

Shell Canada Limited.

  • Supported and upgraded Shells cross Canada Digital RSTS/E and VAX/VMS distributed computing network.
  • Ported Harbor (Mainframe centric Backup) clients from OS/2 to the Unix platforms including Solaris, Sun O/S HP/UX, System V NCR Unix and VAX/VMS. Along with porting Harbor developed the platform independent interfaces used to speed porting to new platforms. o Supported Digital's IBM To VAX/VMS SNA Gateway products supporting Remote RJE and Terminal emulation to the VAX environment.
  • Developed for Shell a cross platform file transfer and job submission application to move data between the Unix, MVS and the VAX/VMS systems.

1984 - 1990

Software Skills

Operating Systems

  1. Unix
    • SUN Solaris
    • IBM AIX
    • HP/UX
  2. Linux
    • Redhat
    • Ubuntu
    • SuSe
  3. Digitial Equipment/HP
    • VAX/VMS
    • RSTS/E

Programming/Scripting Languages

  1. Fortran
  2. COBOL
  3. C
  4. C++
  5. Java
  6. bash
  7. perl
  8. PHP
Donald L. Gover 2012