William Quayle

William Quayle is a highly experienced UNIX/Linux System Administrator and System Engineer with over 30 years of expertise in System Architecture, DevOps, and technical documentation. He started his UNIX System Administration career at Bell Labs in 1986 and has since worked in various senior technology specialist roles focusing on Linux/UNIX systems computing environment architecture, management, and automation.

Specializing in enterprise-scale UNIX/Linux server architecture, William has extensive knowledge in provisioning, management, debugging, tuning, and operations. He is well-versed in virtualization technologies such as Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, and VMWare, with a focus on Solaris/Linux/Windows systems integration and migration. William has a rich background in Linux enterprise workstation architecture, deployment, and management, particularly with Red Hat, Ubuntu/Debian Linux. His skills extend to enterprise directory services, including OpenLDAP infrastructure design and management, automated provisioning with Jumpstart/Kickstart, and shell scripting in ksh/bash, perl, and python.

William Quayle's expertise also covers system integration, technical documentation, and customer support for developers and engineers, emphasizing continuous integration, service-based architecture, deployment, and management. His proficiency extends to a wide range of tools and technologies in systems administration, including Apache, nginx, PHP, MySQL configuration, administration, as well as Cisco UCS systems administration & deployment. William is also adept in configuration management systems like Puppet and system logs configuration and management using rsyslog and Splunk.

Educationally, William studied BSEET in Electronics Engineering at DeVry and pursued further studies at Michigan Technological University. Throughout his career, William Quayle held positions at reputable organizations such as O'Reilly Auto Parts, NetStat365, LLC, Citadel, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sun Microsystems, Norwest Mortgage, Fermilab, Rockwell Telecommunications, Lucent Technologies, Northern Michigan University, and Bell Laboratories.