I am a Senior UNIX Specialist currently working as a full-time employee at Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) in St. Louis, MO. I have been with Peabody for 18 months now.

While working at Peabody I have been managing the existing Solaris server environment, including an IBM DS4800 FC SAN, and EMC NetWorker for the Backup and Recovery environment. I am also the project manager for migrating the Solaris environment to AIX, which is Peabody's primary UNIX platform.

Prior to Peabody I worked at Tripos in St. Louis, MO for four and a half years, where I managed the Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware ESX systems; along with the EMC Clariion SAN and Celerra NAS storage.

Before relocating to St. Louis in the summer of 2003, I had spent the prior 16 years living and working in Southern California, where I got my start in the computer industry. I have now been working as a UNIX and Linux Admin for over 22 years, primarily as a Sun Solaris admin, starting all the way back in the SunOS 3.2 days on Sun3 VME-based Motorola systems.

These pages provide information relating to Solaris system administration, as well as general UNIX administration. It includes links to presentations, tools, best practices, etc. that I have developed and/or become familiar with during my career as an admin.

Thanks for stopping by,

Rodney