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Bruce A. Pullig
7210 Tara Blue Ridge Dr.
Richmond, TX 77469
bruce@pullig.com
Objective: Energetic Solution Architect with expertise in Hyperconverged Infrastructure Migrations and High Performance Computing seeks a position with a growing company interested in embracing current technologies.
Skills
Significant Software: Schlumberger ECLIPSE &
INTERSECT, Platform LSF, IntelMPI, EnginFrame, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Legato NetWorker
(Sun Solstice Backup), Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) & File System
(VxFS) & Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas NetBackup DataCenter
Hardware: Sun SPARC SunFire Multi-Domain Servers (15K),
EMC CLARiiON, IBM RS/6000, HP C7000/SL6500/Synergy, Intel x86, SGI, RAID, Storage Area
Networks (SAN), Brocade, Qlogic
Operating Systems: VMware vSphere, Nutanix AOS,
Windows HPC, Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS), Cisco IOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, SGI
Irix, SunOS, FreeBSD, Novell NetWare 3.x & 4.x
Oil and Gas Knowledge: Understanding of Reservoir Engineering and workflows involved, exposure to Drilling, Well logging, Geology, Production
Languages: Fluent in English, German, and have a working knowledge of Spanish.
Certifications
Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 2.6)
Microsoft Certified Product Specialist (MCPS) MCP ID 398923
Certified NetWare-3 Administrator (CNA)
Professional Experience
April 2020 - Present
GeoComputing Group LLC
11757 Katy Fwy,#1300
Houston, TX 77079
Senior Integration Consultant
Deployment of new RiVA environments
On-going Customer Support
February 2014 - March 2020
CNOOC Petroleum USA (Formerly Nexen Petroleum USA)
945 Bunker Hill Rd, Suite 1400
Houston, Texas 77024
Senior Technical Systems Analyst (Reservoir)
Migrated complex Xenserver virtual environment to HP Synergy Hyperconverged Infrastructure running VMware vSphere 6.5.
Virtualized Windows and Linux servers to Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure with VMware hypervisor in preparation of Data Center relocation which reduced the required physical footprint by over 70%.
Developed Geology & Geophysics (G&G) infrastructure that utilized VMware vSphere and high end remote graphics solution (RGS) which increased previous infrastructure performance by 40% while reducing costs by over 25%.
Designed and implemented a Reservoir Engineering HPC solution which resulted in a 46% decrease in simulation duration.
Implemented a Seismic Processing HPC Cluster utilizing OpenCPS which enhanced pre-stack seismic processing capabilities.
Provided Oracle and Microsoft SQL Database Administration
January 2001 - January 2014
Schlumberger Information Solutions
5599 San Felipe, Suite 1700
Houston, Texas 77056
Senior UNIX System Administrator (2001-2004)/ Solution Architect (2004-Present)
(2001-2003) UNIX Administration for large sized Data Center.(Solaris 8, AIX 4.3 & Oracle 8i & 9i)
(2001-2014) Sun Hardware Support for SunFire 6800
(Multi-Domain), SunFire V880, SunFire 280R, Enterprise 4500, Enterprise
3500, and Enterprise 220R servers.
(2001) SAN Architect (Brocade, QLogic, JNI, 9TB+ on LSI MetaStor)
(2001-2003) Enterprise Backup Administration using Veritas NetBackup DataCenter 3.4GA
(2001) Project Lead during SAN development and storage migration/li>
(2002) Project Lead during SunFire 6800 configuration and deployment
(2001) Project Lead during Veritas VxFS & VxVM implementation
(2003) Team member during Overland Data LTO implementation
LTOs were integrated into existing SAN and Veritas NetBackup DataCenter.
(2003) Project Lead during Sun GridEngine Evaluation Project.
(2003) Developed change management process and web-enabled change management database utilizing Perl & Oracle 8i.
(2003) Project Leader for Accenture-LCR (Lyondell-CITGO Refinery)
SAP/Oracle migration from IBM AIX on RS/6000 to Solaris 9 on SunFire
servers utilizing Veritas Cluster Server 3.5, Veritas NetBackup 4.5 and
Sun StorEdge 3960 with Veritas VxVM & VxFS.
(2003-2004) Support of Accenture-LCR Sun/Solaris environment.
(2007-2014) Installation, Configuration and Support of over 20 internal and external ECLIPSE / INTERSECT RedHat Linux and Windows HPC Clusters used for Reservoir Simulation.
(2011-2014) Support of VMware ESX/ESXi Servers with Windows and Linux Guest OSes.
(2006-2014) Development and Support for Schlumberger NAM Pay-Per-Use (PPU) licensing system.
(2009) Deployed Global Pay-Per-Use (PPU) environment in The Hague Netherlands.
Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
BG Group (Schlumberger Information Systems Contractor -Short Term Assignment)
811 Main
Houston, TX 77002
Subsurface Solution Architect
- Provided assistance to the BG IT team in creation of solution
blueprint for the US Subsurface environment setup and validated the
solution.
- Developed solution options paper and final solution detailed design
on Remote connectivity and thin clients option for the
applications/toolkits listed in the scope.
- Toolkits in scope were: Petrel, ECLIPSE, GeoFrame, Techlog, Recall, ArcGIS, and Petra.
- Provided assistance in creation of playbooks.
- Provided recommendations to the project manager while developing
Project Plans for Define and Execute phases, Training Plan, Service
Model and Project Closure Reports.
- Deployed ECLIPSE Cluster, GeoFrame workstation(s), GeoFrame
Production and Development Databases, Techlog, Recall, ArcGIS, and
Petra.
- Delivered above services to agreed project schedule.
Dec 1998 - Feb 2001
Computer Sciences Corporation (GIS)
Client: Conoco (Mid-Continent Region)
10 Desta Drive (CONOCO Plaza)
Midland, Texas 79705
Solaris & Novell NetWare System Administrator
- Solaris System Administration (Solaris 2.6) 5 Servers, 25+ Workstations.
- Sun Enterprise 450 Servers
- Veritas VxVM, VxFS, VCS
- 1TB MetaSTOR Fibrechannel SAN
- 300GB Zzyzx PowerRAID II -RAID 5
- Legato NetWorker 5.1 Backup Administrator using Breece Hill DLT Jukebox.
- Project Lead during Sun SPARCstorage Array to SAN Migration.
Project involved migration of Mid-Continent Region Seismic data and Seismic Applications.
- Novell NetWare 4.11 Administration for 1 Server, 200+ clients.
- Backup Oracle 7.34 & 8i DBA.
- Desktop support of Geological and Geophysical applications:
(Landmark Openworks, Geoquest GeoFrame, Hampson Russell, Merak, IHS)
Feb. 1996 - Dec 1998
City of Midland, Texas - CISD - Information Systems Division
601 N. Loraine
Midland, Texas 79702
UNIX Systems Specialist (Administrator) / Microcomputer Programmer
- Solaris Administration (Solaris 2.4) 6 Servers, 20 Workstations.
- AIX Administration - RS/6000.
- Windows NT Administration for 13 Servers, 350+ clients.
- Installed and Maintained Oracle 7.33 Database on NT.
- Designed, setup, and maintained LAN (10BaseT) and WAN. (ISDN, T1)
June 1987 - Feb 1996
Pack 'N' Mail
3952 E. 42nd St. Suite S
Odessa, TX 79762
- Setup computerized accounting system.
- Handled payroll and 940, 941, and Texas Employment Commission Tax payments
- Hiring and termination of employees.
- Trained and supervised employees in all aspects of business.
May 1985 - Aug. 1985
Information Resources, Inc. (Shoppers' Hotline)
Fender Industrial Park
Midland, TX 79701
- Installed data acquisition units.
- PROM and EPROM programming of signal descramblers.
Education
November 2020
NVIDIA Partner Network
Virtualization Technical Curriculum (2020)
November 2020
NVIDIA Partner Network
Compute Technical Curriculum (2020)
June 2020
Lenovo
Basic GPFS Administration
March 2019
Global Knowledge
Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases (M20462)
March 2019
Global Knowledge
Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (M20461)
July 2018
VMware Education Services -Houston Texas
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage plus Optimize and Scale Fast Track [V6.5]
August 2017
Global Knowledge -Houston Texas
Project Management Fundamentals
July 2017
NExT -Houston Texas
Studio Manager -Petrel
September 2013
SIS -Houston Texas
Reservoir Engineering System Integrators School
May 2013
SIS -Houston Texas
GeoFrame 2012 Installation and Configuration
May 2013
NExT -Houston Texas
Reservoir Engineering
January 2013
Petroleum Institute For Continuing Education (PEICE) -Houston Texas
Geology for Non-Geologists
April 2012
Abingdon Learning Center -Abingdon UK
Simulation Clusters -ECLIPSE, INTERSECT, and SCM
April 2011
CTREC -Houston, TX
Hybrid Cluster with MOAB
February 2009
PCPC -Houston, TX
Windows 2008 HPC Installation And Configuration
October 2007
Schlumberger -Oslo Norway
Petrel Seismic Server System Workshop (Linux Cluster)
December 2006
SIS-IS Training & Development -Houston, TX
Linux Clusters, LSF, ECLIPSE Installation
November 2005
EMC Global Education
MR-9WP-PWRPFD:PowerPath Foundations
September 2005
EMC Global Education - Tampa, Florida
MR-1CP-CLRNSP: CLARiiON Host Integration and Management
August 2005
EMC Global Education
MR-9WP-CLRFSP: CLARiiON Features
August 2005
EMC Global Education
MR-9WP-CLRNFD: CLARiiON Foundations
January 2005
Network Appliance - Houston Texas
NetApp FC & iSCSI SAN Sales Technical Training
NetApp FC & iSCSI SAN Positioning and Sales Training
September 2003
Brocade Education Services
FM100: Monitoring, Managing, and Maintaining Brocade Switches with Fabric Manager
August 2003
Veritas Education - Dallas, TX
HA2003 Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 3.5 for Solaris
May 2003
Sun Educational Services - Dallas, TX
ES-421 SunFire 15K Server Administration
November 2001
Sun Educational Services - Chicago, IL
ES-420 SunFire Workgroup/Enterprise Server Administration
November 2001
Sun(TM) Web Learning Center
WE-1600-90 / WE-1600: Administering and Supporting Sun(TM) Grid Engine
December 2000
Veritas Education - Dallas, TX
SM0010 Veritas Foundation Suite (VxVM, VxFS)
August 2000
Wise Solutions - Conoco - Houston, TX
Wise for Windows Installer
July 2000
CSC - Houston, TX
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Updating Support Skills from Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows 2000
March 2000
Sun Educational Services-Dallas, TX
ST-350 Sun Systems Fault Analysis
August 1998
Sun Educational Services at miSOFT -Austin, TX
SA-235 Solaris 2.x System Administration I
August 1997
Productivity Point International -ATEC
Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Administering Win NT 4.0
November 1996
Texas State Library-State & Local Records Management Division
Electronic Document Imaging
Fall 1995
Odessa College -Odessa, TX
Novell NetWare 3.1x Network Installation & Administration
Jan. 1995- Jan. 1996
University of Texas of the Permian Basin -Odessa, TX
Aug. 1986-May 1987
Texas Tech University -Lubbock, TX
July 1985-May 1992
Midland College -Midland, TX
Graduated -Associate in General Studies
Aug. 1982-May 1985
Robert E. Lee High School -Midland, TX
BASIC, Pascal
Computer Based Training
CBT Systems ( www.cbtsys.com)
C & C++ Programming:8129 A Tour of ANSI C
9110 Flow Control in ANSI C
9206 Expressions in ANSI C
9168 Data Representation in ANSI C
9179 Functions in ANSI C
8312 Text Processing in ANSI C
8090 Processing Records in ANSI C
ANSC08E ANSI C Programming: Pointers
ANSC09E ANSI C Programming: The Standard Library and Preprocessor
CPRG01E C++ Programming: Structured Programming
CPRG02E C++ Programming: Classes and Data Abstraction
JavaScript:8112 Getting Started with JavaScript
8063 The JavaScript Object Model
Oracle:SQLPL01E Oracle: SQL and SQL*Plus
SQLPL02E Oracle: Functions and Retrieving Data
SQLPL03E Oracle: Subqueries, Reports, and DML
SQLPL04E Oracle: Database Objects
SQLPL05E Oracle: Controlling Database Access and Integrity
ORA7ACOD Oracle: Creating an Oracle Database
NetWare:8044 NetWare 3 to 4.1 Update: Introduction to NetWare 4.1
8282 NetWare 3 to 4.1 Update: Managing the NetWare 4.1 Environment
8410 NetWare 3 to 4.1 Update: NDS Design Administration and Security
8165 NetWare 3 to 4.1 Update: NDS Partitions and Replicas
8549 NetWare 3 to 4.1 Update: Network & Server Optimization
UNIX:9043 Essentials of Solaris 2.x
9096 Solaris 2.x File Management
9105 Solaris 2.x Job Control
UXSA07E Solaris 2.5.1 Systems Administration: The Network Environment
UXSA08E Solaris 2.5.1 Systems Administration: Network Services