User:Rickscherer

Rick Scherer is a UNIX Systems Administrator for SDDPC, the IT Entity for The City of San Diego. Although UNIX Administration is his primary duty he has proven to be well versed in many different areas of IT. As a member of the City's IT Architecture team he helps design and deploy many technologies outside of his UNIX foundation, including Windows systems, Network design, SAP and VMware Enterprise environments. Obtaining his VCP in 2006 he has since designed and maintains a 20+ VMware ESX Farm of which hosts many mission critical City of San Diego applications including SAP.

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Rick Scherer’s Summary

Extreme knowledge is designing and building advanced virtualized environments. Specialties in VMware, NetApp, Sun and HP.

Specialties:

• VMware Products: ESX 2.5/3.5, GSX, Server, Workstation, P2V, Converter
• Apache Web Server, Microsoft IIS, iPlanet Web Server
• BEA Weblogic Platform, Documentum, Interwoven Teamsite
• Tivoli Storage Manager, Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake
• SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g, Citrix Presentation Server 4
• Active Directory, SunOne Directory Server (LDAP), NIS
• SSL Encryption, PGP Encryption, PHP & HTML

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  Rick Scherer - Circa 2008