Thomas Borneman

Retired

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States

About

I am a system administrator for the engineering department maintaining a variety of servers, including SGI, Sun, IBM, Dell, and generic Linux servers to support hardware design and verification. Specialties: Operating Systems: Linux - RHEL / SLES / CentOS / Fedora / OpenSUSE IRIX - 6.5.x Solaris - 8 / 9 AIX 4.3 / 5.x Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 Servers: HPE - Apollo / ProLiant DL / Superdome Flex SGI - UV3000 / UV300H / Uv300 / ICE X / UV2000 / UV1000 / Altix XE / ICE Dell 1950 / 2650 / 2950 Penguin Computing Relion 1300 / 1400 - Altus 3400 Generic x86_64 / IA64 / IA32 Sun - UltraSparc IBM - pSeries / RS6000 Storage: SGI IS5500 / IS5000 / IS2224 / IS4000 / IS220 DDN S2A9500 StorageTek SL500 tape library Tools: HPE - HPCM Cluster Management SGI CXFS NIS / DNS / NFS Bash/ksh/sh shell scripting PERL scripting Nagios system monitoring Commvault Simpana backup Networker data backup Amanda data backup SGI Management Center Service Now service management

Experience

  • Retired at Retired
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • System Administrator at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

  • Silicon Graphics - SGI (32 yrs 10 mos)
    • System Administrator
      Sep 1993 - Present · 32 yrs 10 mos

    • System Administrator
      Sep 1993 - Jan 2017 · 23 yrs 5 mos

      Administer an existing pool of compute servers for the engineering department at SGI. This pool consists of SGI, IBM, SUN, and Linux servers. Evaluate, recommend, and implement new servers for the compute server pool. Maintain a SAN environment using SGI's CXFS filesystem. Maintain a NIS enviroment for the engineering servers. Add clients to the Commvault Simpana backup system and maintain and monitor backups. Monitor computer servers availability and performance with Nagios.

  • Computer Consultant at Indianhead Software
    Feb 1993 - Sep 1993 · 8 mos

    Used Microsoft's Access to write several forms for employee data management for local companies.

  • Software Engineer at Supercomputer Systems, Inc.
    Mar 1990 - Feb 1993 · 3 yrs

    Wrote C programs for use by CAD engineers to manipulate electrical and mechanical data to process printed circuit boards.