Category: About Dan

Ever watch “Back to the Future”?  Ever live “Forward to the History?”

Sick of being imprisoned in a C-panel reseller’s account I longed to return to my long familiar Linux / Unix command prompt.  I got a VPS from Ubiquity.  It was the right thing to do.  I know I was falling off the wagon and who knows where indulging an old addiction might lead?  But, my daughter was proud of me.  In fact, she was the one who recommended it.  My addiction was Linux.  Solaris.  AIX.  HP-UX.  It ran through my blood like heroin through the veins and brain cells of a drug addict.

It started in my youth when a friend of mine asked me,

“Have you ever tried Unix?  Hey, this is really good stuff!”

Curious, I didn’t merely dabble.  My first shots of Unix mainlined it into my system until it controlled every aspect of who I was.  I read my first Unix book cover to cover in a few hours and went on a quest to find a Unix system in Fresno and considered leaving Fresno if I could not find one.

 

Pre-Oracle Experience

Prior to working at Oracle, I worked 4 years for Ingres where I was trained in SQL development, Administration, and Performance.  During my stay, I performed countless installations into approximately 80 systems based on about 40 variants of Unix and VMS.  I provided maintenance and troubleshooting on installations damaged while reproducing bugs reported to the support department.  I also served as final sign off and approval for Release Management and trained support staff in installation and QA of installation packages

Why Savy Managers Hire Dan

Smart managers hire employees

• to add or protect income and stockholder value of the company,
• to build morale, and unity,
• to increase competency, efficiency, effectiveness
• to get a specific job done
• to help the company succeed

If you have an employee that has a track record of making or saving millions of dollars for previous employers, it isn’t wise or responsible to leave millions of dollars on the table without a good reason.

At this time, there are millions of dollars that your company does not currently have simply because you have not hired Dan yet.  Isn’t it about time?