Curriculum Vitae

Campbell Esplin

This CV is for the period 1/2/81 to 1/2/98. It excludes detail of the activities performed by Excalibur Business Solutions as of the 1/6/97. Information on EBS activities is available on request.

Time Period	Role	Industry	Customer	Notes
2/81 - 6/81	Trainee SE Mostly attend internal training programs with limited customer interaction. Play an assistant role to other SE's and IBM salesmen	None	None	Attended IBM Internal Training, Orientation Sessions, Cobol, S/370 POPS, JCL, Marketing and Industry Courses
7/81 - 12/82	Instructor Give training to new IBM'ers and customers	None	Students from IBM customer base	Lectured JCL, OS/VS and Cobol Courses
1/83 - 9/84	Associate SE Perform site support, execute installation, migration, conversion projects. Perform problem support and help with internal IBM help desks. Work as one of a core group of SE's in MVS sites.	Manufacturing City Councils Pharmaceuticals Argriculture Insurance Electronics	General Electric Norton Abrasives Germiston City Council Beechams Transvaal Sugar Board Legal & General Mutual & Federal Teltech	SE in VSE/4341's SE in VS1, IMS SE in SSX/VSE & 3370's SE in VM/VSE SE for VM/VSE, 3375, 4341, CICS MVS, 3380, 3083 3084, MVS, 3380 Attend MVS courses 4381, 3380, 3725 VM/MVS
10/84 - 12/84	System Engineer Attended Residency in Santa Tereza Labs	None	None	Co-author DFHSM V2.2.0 Implementation Primer under Peter Y Ho in ITSO
1/85 - 12/87	System Engineer Run projects fully from managing to executing tasks, support sites, lecture IBM storage courses, market products (H/W & S/W)	Agriculture Pharmaceutical Manufacturing	Senwesko Coop North West Coop Suidwes Coop Hoechst SA Toyota SA Ford/Mazda Fedmech	3083,3380,3745, VSE to MVS/XA 4381, 3380, VSE 4341, VM/VSE, AS 4381, 3380, VM/VSE to MVS/XA VSE support OS/VS1 to MVS/XA VSE to MVS/XA 3380, 4381, 3745
1/88 - 5/90	Advisory SE Relocate to Cape Town. Become Account SE to Foschini exclusively	Retail	Foschini	3090, 3380, MVS/XA, 3745 ,DFSMS
6/91 - 12/92	Advisory SE Account SE and Team Leader	Insurance	Sanlam	3090,3390,3990, MVS/ESA, NCP, OS/2, PS/2, AS/400
1/93 - 3/95	Advisory SE Become the only member of the IBM Storage Management Services Team seated in Cape Town - start working at CALTEX in services mode	Oil & Petroleum Retail Insurance	BP SA Caltex SA Engen SA SHELL SA Woolworths Foschini Southern Life	3083, MVS/XA, 3390,3990, VM/XA, DFSMS SMS, DFHSM, TMM Implementation Sell ADSM Storage Support ADSM Marketing Implement SLR ADSM Marketing ADSM Marketing Sell ADSM Perform TMM Support HSM
4/95 - 6/96 6/96 - 6/97	Senior SE Took the independent responsibility on myself to market ADSM solutions in SA.	Across Industry Insurance Container Depots Shipping Fleet Retail	All Clients Sanlam Old Mutual SACD Safmarine Truworths Foschini	Post Sales Storage Support in ADSM and DFSMS/MVS Formulate proposals to address backup/recovery needs in the distributed environments focusing on ADSM, Storage, Networks, Open platforms and Services
6/97 - 1/98	Independent Business named Excalibur Business Solutions	All Industries	All Clients	Storage Focused and Solution Driven. Consultancy, Product Sales, Services, Support & Training

During my life as IBM employee and as SE the work entailed tasks like:

Site Commissioning Help and Aid to the customers
Running Education Courses for IBM in the Storage Products Arena (DFSMS, DFHSM, ADSM)
Support Sales Functions
Conduct Project Meetings and Manage Projects
Coordinate all parties involved from IBM's side at the customer
Handle all problems eminating from the installed IBM product base
I pre-dominantly focused on storage as of 1984.
Keep IBM administration records in synch with customers profiles and vice versa
Ensure currency of customer software products through PTF maintenance/upgrades
Perform DASD and Processor Capacity Exercises and Performance Tuning work
Configure and order all IBM products
Perform System Assurance Reviews
Perform CP80/90 and Cache Analyzes Studies
Perform RETAIN call management tasks
Install, Implement and Maintain IBM Products
Install, Implement and Maintain ADSM on non-IBM platforms
Problem Management and resolution

I received as of 1984 to 1990 six consecutive SE Marketing Excellence Awards for work done above expected norms and to the customer's extreme satisfaction. These awards allowed me to join IBM Clubs as an SE at places like the Wild Coast Sun Resort, Mauritius, Corfu, London and Pretoria.

I attended overseas IBM education courses as follow:

In La Hulpe: Advanced Storage Products Education in 1985

DFSMS Advanced Implementation in 1986

ADSM ESP Training in 1994

In Basingstoke: DFSMS 1.1 to 1.2 ESP course in 1995

In 1984 I co-authored the DFHSM Implementation Primer on a 2 month residency in IBM San Jose ITSO offices.

I was invited to present at the South African Computer Society on subjects like Distributed Storage Management and presented as guest at IBM South Africa's Systems Management Institute locally in South Africa. Both these engagements occurred in 1996.

I was born in Grootfontein, Namibia on the 11 th of September 1958.

I matriculated in Windhoek High School, Windhoek, Namibia in 1979. I then served in the South African military forces for one year in their ammunition depots on the Namibian border.

I studied at University of Stellenbosch during 1978 and 1980 and mastered in Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Physics to obtain an BSc degree.

I married Alida Wilhelmina Esplin on the 1^st of February 1980 and am now the father of 4 children, Norman (10), Ada-Ann (7), Danielle and Chanelle (both 4).

I live in Cape Town, South Africa now for the last decade. Prior to that I worked for IBM in Johannesburg, South Africa, for 7 years.

My years of work at IBM (16.42) includes the company name changes during the mid-eighties when IBM disinvested in South Africa and ISM, then ISG, and again IBM was formed.

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