Terry Merth
Minneapolis,MN
Summary
Sr. Systems Engineer for over 30 years with a dedication to delivering cutting-edge solutions to Cray/SGI customers in the HPC market. As a member of the Storage Software Engineering team, our mission was to design, test, troubleshoot and correct software/hardware bugs to provide and execute value-added clustered filesystems and storage for HPC technical solutions.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Systems Analyst
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
03.2020 - 04.2025
- Technical Project Lead more than 15 years for QA of shared file system products with hierarchical storage management, data replication and duplication capabilities (mirroring).
- Strong system administration skills with 20+ years on physical and virtual machines, fiber, SAS, and IB switches, and a vast array of storage systems.
- Work consists of desktop, servers, and high performance systems within both a lab and production setting utilizing hardware, firmware, and software knowledge to provide a stable environment for software development and engineering functions.
- Obtained and maintained the highest government security clearance levelin order to troubleshoot problems at secure customer sites or remotely.
- Traveled extensively in support of Cray/SGIhardware and software support.
- Set up SGI hardware and software at many Supercomputing tradeshows along with demo'ing our clustered filesystem (CXFS).
- 15+ years of remotely working from home and/or troubleshooting customer-reported problems.
- Performed system maintenance tasks such as backups, patching, upgrades and security measures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathmatics
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI, USAssociate of Science - Electronics Technology
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Eau Claire, WI, USSkills
- Extensive expertise in the following operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, SLES), Unix (Unicos, Irirx, Solaris, HPUX, AIX), Windows, MacOSX, and VMware
- Expert in configuration of storage such as: RAID, SAS, IB, Lustre, Panasas, NetApp, JBOD, and Copan (Raid sets or VTLs)
- Debug and correct software bugs in the OS and user space
- Benchmarking and optimization to meet HPC performance demands
- Develop and write new QA tests in C and shell scripts mainly for filesystem software and hardware
- Project management - working with cross functional teams on requirements, documents, and schedules
- Developing and documenting best practices on filesystem configuration and performance
- Responsibilities included integrating updates, upgrades, and patches as part of the software development release cycle
Additional Information
References available upon request.
Timeline
Sr Systems Analyst
University of Minnesota
03.2020 - 04.2025
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathmatics
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Associate of Science - Electronics Technology
Chippewa Valley Technical College
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