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After leaving IBM in mid-1999, Colin formed Axial Consulting, an integrated IT consulting company.   Prior to this, in 1983 Colin began his career at IBM repairing typewriters in the Office Products division. From there he was trained on the full IBM hardware suite and ultimately specialised in IBM RS/6000 servers.After 10 years as a hardware engineer, Colin moved to software support where he focused on AIX within the…

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I have been working with IBM and AIX since the early 1990’s. My journey started as an Operator on a Mainframe and HPUX systems for a local Telecoms company. I quickly progressed up the ranks and soon I was working as a shift leader on DEC VAX, Stratus VOS,HPUX, IBM RS600 SP and AHDAHL Mainframe systems. AIX soon became my passion, and I moved to a System Administration role….

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