Dan Skwire

Software problems are my main professional interest.

I have had a full career devoted to mission-critical software

problems: I am an expert in both problem prevention and problem resolution, on multiple platforms. My experiences are primarily in significant mission-critical environments.

I have been most successful in early-stage development projects: problem-solving, serviceability improvement, service processes.

In preventing software problems: I've worked in organizations providing software problem recovery features in zOS, software test tools, best processes in all software development phases, inspections and walkthroughs for design, code, and testing, and availability studies to improve site availability (reduce numbers of occurrences or duration of problems).

-> $400,000 saved finding 40 post-test, pre-ship problems!

-> Technical leader in $1 Billion server International Volume Purchase agreement.

-> Author of 'First Fault Problem Solving' - paper and Amazon ebook - widely read and discussed - explaining mind-set and practical techniques.

-> Leader of 163 member 'First Fault Problem Solving' LinkedIn group (come and join!)

-> Expert on FFPS methods and design, and deep thinker pushing capabilities, limits and potential of FFPS.

There is plenty more data here about my career, including publications I wrote, and critical mainframe storage problems I debugged. You think server and operating system problems are critical and important? I do, but storage system internal problems are harder and even more critical! Reboot, sure, as long as your data is still present. As long as your data is still present....!

Expert knowledge of mainframe and UNIX variant service tools:.

Problem prevention, problem analysis, problem management, problem recovery.

Many details are in linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/danskwire/

I lead the "First Fault Problem Solving" linkedin group.

Here's the group's SUMMARY:

Colleagues devoted to optimizing system serviceability and problem solving as found in highly-available Enterprise-class mainframe systems.