{"id":47,"date":"2017-10-20T03:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixed.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:50:59","slug":"about-the-owner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unixed.com\/index.php\/about-the-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Owner &#8211; Bill Calkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"47\" class=\"elementor elementor-47\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71bcb55 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71bcb55\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4c7b61\" data-id=\"e4c7b61\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-924cdf0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"924cdf0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Owner\/Author\/IT Consultant<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc6f0e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc6f0e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Author of 10 Best-Selling UNIX Reference Books Sold World-Wide<\/li><li>30 Years Experience<\/li><li>Consultant at Over 300 Organizations Around the World<\/li><li>25 yrs Teaching Experience \/ Thousands Trained<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a1976e\" data-id=\"3a1976e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e1093a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9e1093a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unixed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bill-headshot.jpg?fit=474%2C479&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2689\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unixed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bill-headshot.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unixed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bill-headshot.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Bill Calkins<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3187fff2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3187fff2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60cff8a5\" data-id=\"60cff8a5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7da83131 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7da83131\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When it comes to technical training &#8211; don\u2019t leave the opportunity to chance by risking your chances on the instructor. At UnixEd, you\u2019ll get Bill Calkins, no substitutes. Many training organizations shuffle their instructors from city to city. You just may get lucky and get a good one or, maybe not. Maybe some even use Bill\u2019s books in their classroom. The fact is, most instructors don\u2019t get any more experience than what they\u2019ve obtained from the classroom.<\/p><p>Bill Calkins continues to improve his knowledge working as a consultant and Sr Level Administrator at Fortune 500 companies around the country. He delivers seminars at technical conferences across the country. Then, when it comes to delivering his courses, he brings this experience to the classroom. He believes that there is simply no substitute for real life experience and this is especially true for instructors. You have the choice: either learn from someone who reads from Bill&#8217;s books or hire the author that wrote the book.<\/p><p>Bill Calkins is an Oracle Certified Professional for the Solaris 10 and 11 Operating Environments. He is owner and president of Pyramid Consulting, a computer training and consulting firm located near Grand Rapids, Michigan, specializing in the implementation and administration of Unix and Microsoft Windows-based systems. He has 25 years of experience in Unix system administration, consulting, and training at more than 300 different companies. Bill is known world-wide for the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RkObYK\">Solaris textbooks he\u2019s authored<\/a>, which are currently best sellers and used by Oracle\/Sun, universities, and training organizations worldwide.<\/p><p>Bill has worked as a consultant for Oracle Corporation developing training and testing materials for the Certification and Educational divisions of Oracle including the development of the Solaris 10 and 11 Oracle certification exams.<\/p><p>Bill also works as an independent instructor for large training organizations such as Global Knowledge, Web Age Solutions, ProTech, New Horizons, Oracle and several Oracle University Partners.<\/p><p>Bill has also developed in-house E-learning courseware for Hewlett Packard\u2019s worldwide technical pre-sales group and in-house SME\u2019s. The courses were developed to describe technical differences between the HP-UX and Sun Solaris operating environments. Topics include the user environment, clustering, networking, system administration, security, virtualization, and performance. Bill developed all of the courseware and delivered the classes via HP\u2019s web conferencing environment, receiving an overall rating of 4.5 (on a 1-5 scale with 5 being excellent).<\/p><p>Bill is the principal owner and developer of UnixEd.com- a website dedicated to providing Solaris certification study and training materials with thousands of registered members.<\/p><p>Drawing from his many years of experience as an Open-Systems consultant, Bill has worked as an instructor in both corporate and university settings helping thousands of administrators get their UNIX certification. His experience covers all varieties of UNIX including Solaris, AIX, RedHat, HP-UX, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Oracle Linux and most flavors of Linux. 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