William V. Evans
2024 Corberrie Lane
Raleigh, NC 27613
(919)696-7513
wvevans@prodigy.net

Mr. Evans is a systems management technical professional who has worked with developers, business partners and software vendors in creating, testing and delivering multi-vendor enterprise systems management products, consulting and training.   He has participated in all aspects of the software development life cycle and worked on all levels of computing platforms and operating systems.  

SPECIALTIES

EDUCATION

MEd in Educational Psychology, Rutgers, The State University, 1964 

BA in Behavioral Sciences, Drew University, 1960 

Teaching credential courses at various New Jersey and Pennsylvania colleges. 1960-62

Professional courses through IBM Internal Education 1967-94.

EXPERIENCE

Consulting

SRA International, Fairfax, VA  2000 – 2002

Consulting in Systems Management for NetView for OS/390, NetView for Unix, NetView for Windows NT and the products of the Tivoli Framework.   This has addressed design, marketing support, training, installation, customization and support activities for these products in commercial and government accounts.    
 

Consulting and Training 

2ndWave, Inc. Dallas, TX 1999 - 2000 

Delivery of Tivoli Training customer and internal courses for the Tivoli Framework and Tivoli NetView products. Consulting for Tivoli Framework and NetView products on distributed and mainframe platforms.

Customer Technical Support and Information Development

Tivoli Systems, RTP, NC 1996 - 1998  (Contract position) 

Developed education and program distribution materials for the Product Introduction department customer support programs. Direct customer contact for problem resolution and education. Created and supported a web site for the customer programs. Supported a Unix and PC hardware lab and associated software.

Course Development and Training 

Alliance of Professionals and Consultants, Raleigh, NC 1994 - 1996  

Course development and instruction for the workshop which issued the Certified Network Management Engineer credential for Unix and PC based products including NetView for AIX, CiscoWorks, LAN Network Manager and the IBM NWAYS suite. 

Programmer 1967 - 1994 

IBM Corporation, Kingston, NY and RTP, NC 

Retired August 1, 1994 

SystemView technical staff 1992 - 1994 

Strategic design for the IBM corporate family of systems management products and the Power/PC environment. Co-author of SystemView Structure which defines the IBM strategic framework for systems management. International technical presentations on systems management topics. 
 

Systems Management alliances 1989 - 1992 

Supported systems management system design contributions to MAXM Corporation, the AT&T ACCUMASTER Integrator, and the NSFnet backbone. Market support for offerings in multi-vendor systems management.
 

NetView/PC technical planning 1984 - 1989 

Designed, planned and introduced IBM offerings in multi-vendor systems management. Developed materials for vendor education, presented them internationally and converted them to interactive courses jointly with Science Research Associates. 

VTAM design and site move support 1981 - 1984 

Design responsibility for the VSE operating system version of VTAM.

Communications Programming director's staff 1975 - 1981 

Design oversight of IBM's communications products as they related to the OS/VS1, VSE and VM/370 operating systems.

Programming product development 1967 - 1975 

Product design, coding, testing and market support for the 7090 Emulator for S/360 and performance improvements to VTAM VSE.

Educator 1960 - 1967 

Guidance counselor with special responsibility for school-wide testing and classroom teacher.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Operating Systems -
Systems Management 
Languages: 
Languages:
  1. OS/390, 
  2. VM/390, 
  3. AIX/6000, 
  4. Windows NT, 
  5. OS/2, 
  6. Solaris , 
  7. Linux 

 Developement Experience 
  1. S/390 Assembler, 
  2. IBM PLS family, 
  3. REXX, 
  4. PL/I, 
  5. Pascal, 
  6. C, 
  7. Korn/Bourne shell, 
  8. TSO Clist, 
  9. VM/390 CLIST, 
  10. S/390 JCL, 
  11. HTML, 
  12. SGML. 

 Training in 
  1. Fortran, 
  2. Cobol, 
  3. RPG, 
  4. C++, 
  5. BARC, 
  6. Tivoli Enterprise Console Rules, 
  7. others. 

HONORS AND AWARDS

US Patent 4937825   Method and apparatus for diagnosing problems in data communications networks (co-inventor)  The IBM Service Point Communication Interface architecture 

PUBLICATIONS

IBM Systems Reference Library: SystemView Structure 1993  (co-author) 

The architectural definition of IBM (now Tivoli) systems and network management,

Information Management Courses for Science Research Associates 1988  (SME) 

Computerized self-instruction courses 

    Programming for NetView/PC 

    Systems Management Architecture Management Services: Alerts 

Data Management  1988  

Article on SNA Management Agent (Service Point) concepts 

IBM Technical Symposia  1968, 1973, 1977 

Co-author of contributions to the proceedings on various topics

IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposia 1986 

Author of a contribution to the proceedings on Systems Management