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Phillip Bruce
Senior Unix/Linux & Storage Engineer specializing in data center, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure
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UNIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on AIX 7.x and Solaris 11.4 operations, including high-severity Oracle/NFS I/O incidents resolved via MTU/Jumbo Frame tuning and performance tooling (iostat/vmstat/top/fio). Experienced in IBM Power (P5–P9) environments with VIOS/LPAR and PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters), plus legacy Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX migrations using custom Bash/Python discovery scripts and rsync-based cutovers.
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Key Strengths
- AIX/Solaris performance troubleshooting and I/O tuning (iostat/vmstat/top/fio)
- Network/storage optimization for NFS and databases (MTU to Jumbo Frames)
- IBM Power administration across multiple generations (P5–P9) with VIOS/LPAR operations
- Legacy UNIX migration execution (Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX) using scripting and rsync-based data replication
- HA cluster build and validation on PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters) with failover verification tooling
- Automation of AIX storage health checks (stale PVID and VG state validation via ksh)
Reference Highlights
- Excellent overall performance
- Strong troubleshooting under pressure
- Able to diagnose complex performance issues across interconnected systems
- Developed effective short-term mitigation and long-term improvement strategies
- Excellent UNIX systems engineering fundamentals
- Provides strong systems-level and detailed evaluations and recommendations
- Effectively managed complicated workload migrations with minimal customer impact
- Very effective collaborator and communicator on cross-functional teams
- Willing and able to work late hours/weekends to ensure project success
- Would be rehired
- Effective technical lead on complex enterprise Solaris project
- Deep Solaris and Sun hardware experience
- Highly effective working remotely with customers
- Strong at gathering requirements and guiding customer decisions
- Anticipates issues and challenges without direction
- Instrumental to smooth implementation and project success
- Leads troubleshooting and drives issues to resolution
- Strong cross-party coordination with customer and hardware vendor
- Delivers timely implementation within cost projections
- Trusted for senior-level cutover and stabilization work
- Meaningful contributor to project deliverables and customer goals
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