George Meharry
• United States: Greater Atlanta Area
• information technology and services
Current: Systems Administrator, Electronic Data Systems
Past:
Staff, Singleton Golf Inc
Manufacturing Engineer, Rolls-Royce, plc
George Meharry
Address: Greater Atlanta Area
Current:
- Advanced Systems Administrator at Electronic Data Systems
Past:
- Staff at Singleton Golf Inc
- Manufacturing Engineer at Rolls-Royce, plc
- Manufacturing Enginee
Education:
- Indiana State University
- Culver Military Academy
People Network: 62
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Websites:
George Meharry’s Summary
• Extensive Operational Experience as Technical Delivery Lead
Experience in managing mid-sized teams (10 - 25 personnel)
Experience analyzing and resolving problems associated with server hardware, server operating system and applications software.
Capacity to perform a wide variety of tasks in software/hardware maintenance and operational support of server systems.
Strong knowledge and experience with Backup policies and procedures and Emergency Recovery procedures
Strong knowledge and experience with Security policies and procedures.
Sound knowledge since 1989 in end-to-end administration of enterprise-class UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, and AIX) solutions to include network services (ie: Sendmail, Apache, Bind, NFS, NIS, LDAP), HA/RAID/SAN Technologies (ie: DiskSuite, MC/Serviceguard, SunCluster, and Veritas cluster and filesystem, EMC and EDM), performance tuning, solution engineering, server builds.
Extensive programming/scripting and supporting technologies (ie: C, FORTRAN, CVS, Bugzilla,PERL, csh, sh, ksh Tcl, Awk, sed)
Database technologies: MySQL, Extensive Oracle SQL (versions 5, 6, 7 and some 8), SQL*Forms (versions 2.0, 2.3 and 3.0), PL/SQL (versions 1.0 and 2.0), Oracle Precompilers and Call Interfaces (versions 6.0 and 7.0), and DBA experience
• Organized, disciplined individual with excellent communication skills:
Project management experience
Customer oriented, working with vendors, and IT staff on a daily basis
Certifications:
IBM AIX pSeries Certified ITIL Foundation in Service Management Solaris Certified Systems Administrator
Currently working on:
VCP in Highly Available Systems
Practitioner's Certificate in IT Service Management - Support/Restore
George Meharry’s Specialties:
ITIL Transformation Consultant Audit Compliance Performance Metrics Continuous Improvement Policies / Standards Best Practices Aerospace MRP/MRP II/ ERP Telecommunications Troubleshooting systems and networks, debugging and reverse engineering software Outsourcing Incident Management Disaster Recovery Lean Six Sigma TQM ISO 9000, 9001, 15288
Advanced Systems Administrator
Electronic Data Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1996 — Present (11 years 6 months)
This was a continuation of employment due to a transition of services.
Technical Delivery Team Lead: Managed resources and assigned projects, mentored team members in organizational processes, managed client issues, and participated in corrective action planning. Assisted in Performance Management Objective development and appraised employee performance. Developed new business initiatives and managed teams while leader was on temporary assignment. Documented team processes to expedite employee orientation and advised leadership on team recognition and discipline. Teams managed/mentored varied from 10 to 35 individual performers in a 24x7 work environment. UNIX systems suppored included 5000+ servers and Network Storage devices.
UNIX Systems Administration: Workstation support (500 Seats built upon the CEe - Consistant Engineering environment - standard) and Server support (150 enterprise level seats to inculde network addressable storage devices)
Eductional Details:
Indiana State University
BA, Computer Science; Electronics; Computer Technology, 1983 — 1988
- Activities and Societies:
- Theta Chi
George Meharry’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
George Meharry’s Websites:
- My Company
George Meharry’s Interests:
golf, community church groups, time with family, technology changes, hunting/fishing, hiking, health awareness
George Meharry’s Groups:
BPOE, ACM, SME, itSMF, Theta Chi, Culver Legion
- EDS Employees, Past and Present member