Curriculum Vitae of Kieran Sean Swanepoel
Current company : Dimension Data
Cell phone number : +27(82) 416 1763
E-mail address : Kieran.swanepoel@za.didata.com
ID number : 741212 5045 088
Date : October 16, 2003
Qualifications :
Studied a 3 year Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Computer Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Completed in 1998.
Employment History :
I joined the Software AG division and went into a 3 month internship training program. Writing exams on a weekly basis for the 3 month duration and achieving an 80% average.
Thereafter, I joined the Open Systems team concentrating on the SAG offerings on all supported open systems platforms (including HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris, Openvms, and all Windows Platforms).
Since then, I have gone on to specialize in the Software AG product suite in all open system environments (specializing in Unix) as a senior consultant with the company. I have had extensive experience with shell scripting including writing many Adabas and Natural Administration menu systems for various Unix environments(Created with korne shell for portability).
I currently use the following unix utilities frequently during script writing: sed, awk, grep, egrep, sort, cut, touch, wc, for loops, case and if statements.
I have extensive unix adiministration skills including experience with cron, tar, NFS filesystems, compress, unix kernel parameter tuning, unix printing, rcp, stty, startup and shutdown scripts, ps, top, df, du, ls, env, cp, mv, rm, vi editor, cat, more, pg, user creation, chmod, chown, chgrp, umask, setting of ulimits, batch job execution and prioritizing, ipcs, ipcrm, kill, raw devices and initialization thereof for use with Adabas containers.
I have setup many Linux and Solaris servers, including the installation of the operating systems themselves.
I have had extensive experience with all Adabas utilities and types of configurations.
I attended many training courses during employment at Dimension Data, including :
Adabas Concepts and Facilities
Natural Fundamentals
Natural Intermediate
Construct Introduction
Predict Administration
Natural Security Administration
Entire X Communicator
Introduction to MVS, JCL and its utilities.
Five day Solaris shell scripting course
I have also done many migrations of Software AG environments , for example, Unix to Windows , Windows to Unix, Mainframe(OS/390) to Windows, Mainframe(OS/390 to Unix.
Career Highlights :
I have done consulting at various Namibian UNIX customers including Nampower and Ministry of Finance.
I have done Survey of Standard Bank’s Factoring system and well as various upgrades to the system, including the installation and configuration of Entire X.
I have done various installations and upgrades and tuning of Natural, Adabas, Natural Security, Natural Construct, Entire Net-Work on Dovetail Business Solutions Sco-Uniware Freightware System.
Flown to Swaziland to do Natural upgrade at Swaziland Electric.
Flown to Cape Town to University of Stellenbosch to consult on performance problems between Openvms Natural environment and Sun Solaris Adabas environment, including installation and tuning of Entire Net-Work
Flown to Cape Town to Audit and tailor Magnum Simplex’s Natural Adabas environment on Sun Solaris.
Trip is planned for the near future to do migration of Air Mauritius Adabas, Natural, Natural Security environment from Windows platform to Sun Solaris.
I have also filled in as a temporary DBA at various large customer sites and streamlined these environments.
Various product presentations and proof of concepts demonstrations.
I frequently lecuture a 5 day course in Adabas Skills and Natural System Administration to the following companies :
· Dimension Data
· Arivia.com
· Standard Bank of South Africa
· Vrystaat Corporation (Farmers coop)
· University of Stellenbosh
· Nampower
· IBM Global Services
· Miners Pension Fund(MPF)
· Toyota SA Ltd
· Ekhuruleni Metro (Town Council)
Course includes the following modules :
· Module One: Adabas Environment Overview
· Module Two: Creating an Adabas Database
· Module Three: Monitoring Your Database
· Module Four: Defining, Compressing, and Loading an Adabas File
· Module Five: Backing Up and Restoring Your Database
· Module Six: Backing Up and Restoring Your Files
· Module Seven: Restart/Recovery
· Module Eight: Troubleshooting Database Problems
· Module Nine: The Natural System
· Module Ten: Natural Utilities
· Appendix A: Student Workshops for UNIX
· Appendix B: Student Workshops for OpenVMS
· Appendix C: Student Workshops for Windows
· Appendix D: Batch Processing