Karl L. Pearson
karlp@ourldsfamily.com
Lehi, Utah – 801-766-8777


Objective:
 - I am interested in finding a position that challenges me, yet allows me to use
and expand my acquired skill set. I will solve any problem I'm given. I also
have excellent leadership and team skills with an open management philosophy
which increases trust and productivity among professional employees. I know
how and what it takes to delight clients, either within my organization or
those who pay our salaries through purchasing company products

Qualifications:
 - Experience installing and maintaining IBM uniVerse RDBMS systems, Linux
servers and firewalls with email, web, firewall, anti-virus and spam servers,
filtering rules, including vacation auto-responders and other custom rules.

Writing Skills:
 - Self-published white papers can be seen at  (http://ourldsfamily.com/mypapers)

Operating Systems:
 - Unix and Linux, including Redhat, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, Slackware,
Solaris, HPUX, AIX, SCO, Sequent, Sequoia, DEC, MIPS.
 - Have installed AIX, HPUX and Linux server OS.
 - Installation of Microsoft workstations from 2.11 through Vista.

Networking:
 - Email Servers and Clients, including Sendmail, Dovecot, on the server, Pine
(now Alpine, on Unix or PC), Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express in both
POP and IMAP server and client environments
 - Webmail using Squirrelmail, an open-source product. Installation, setup,
maintenance and customization.
 - Secure Shell and Secure Sockets Layer for encrypted secure communications
between servers and clients in Unix/Linux, X-Windows and Microsoft Windows
environments. This includes VPN/PPTP/VNC via SSL
 - Terminal Services (remote desktop in Linux), a product of Microsoft.
 - VNC, a free product originating from the UK labs of AT&T that allows visual
(X-windows and MS Windows) connectivity across platforms (SUN, Linux and MS
Windows) to 'console' sessions.
 - Apache Web Server, virtual domains, password protection, etc.
 - Samba Server for Network Neighborhood connectivity between Linux and MS
Windows systems, enabling networked printer and file/directory shares

UniVerse (a multivalue database from IBM):
 - Trouble-shooting and programming in uniVerse mvBASIC including accessing
applications from Unix to UniVerse and vice versa.
 - Administration, including all aspects of setup and maintenance
 - Repair of corrupt database files
 - Miscellaneous: Terminal emulation and connectivity, peripheral setup and
maintenance, including tape drives, printers, modems, networks, etc.

Hardware:
 - Intel/AMD personal computer hardware
 - IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun servers (Unix-based)
 - AMF and Symbol RF-Scanner setup and administration
 - hubs, routers, network appliances and switches
 - printers, scanners, tape drives, CDrom, storage/hot backup (NFS/SMB)
 - terminal servers and port controllers (DTC, Linksys, Systech)
 - wired and wireless (80211.b/g/n) networks

Miscellaneous:
 - Unix shell scripting (bash, ksh, Perl)
 - Database access from web pages
 - CGI programming for updates, email forms, registration, etc.
 - VSI-Fax Server managment (a Product of Esker Software) and Hylafax (new)
 - Setup and management of VMWare
 - Constantly and Consistently Learning

Accomplishments:
 - IBM AIX had a bug where the mounted permissions and mount point permissions
must match else intermittent data corruption occurs when writing to database
files. I discovered and reported this bug
 - Hard Disks that are formatted cold, are prone to data corruption when the
read/write heads no longer fit the expanded medium where the tracks were laid
out. I recommended a solution which involved low-level re-formatting. This
saved that employer thousands of dollars
 - Wrote an application used to forward all email for a given individual who has
changed email addresses. This process parses through an email file which is in
standard mbox format, and re-delivers it to a new email address maintaining
the original From: header (sender)
Manipulation of unix-level email to send invoices as inline documents, text
file attachments or Excel attachments
 - Created a work-around for a bug on the uniVerse RDBMS encountered when
resizing dynamic files on NFS mounts. Originally [Vmark] only supported NFS
mounts for text file transfers from within uniVerse so remote systems could be
used to store data received off the internet or through ftp or email, then
processed. However, the ever increasing use of vast disk farms made a solution
to this issue very important. IBM now supports NFS mounts though before it
implied support by the inclusion of ALLOWNFS in the uniVerse kernel, and has
created a workaround so resizing files involving directories (Dynamic, Types 1
and 19) will work. This work-around (called NFSRESIZE and NFSDELETE.FILE)
solved the problem for several clients while waiting for IBM to create their
solution. This saved one client the cost of a locally mounted disk array which
would have cost tens of thousands of dollars.
 - Recommended a short-term policy for a gap in insurance coverage. This earned
my employer thousands of dollars
 - Have setup Linux-based email servers, with virus and spam filters, which have
experienced no unscheduled downtime since as far back as 1995