Ocean Consulting - Information Technology Consulting Services

<body> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/technology.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="tnav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Technology"></a> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/consulting.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="conav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Consulting"></a> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/software.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="snav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Software"></a> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/outsourcing.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="outnav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Outsourcing"></a> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/news/news.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="bnav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="News"></a> </div> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/projectlist.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="penav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Project Experience"></a> </div>  <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/support/support.shtml" align=center target="Content"><img src="outnav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Computer Support"></a> </div> <div valign="bottom" align="center"> <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/" align=bottom target="_top"><img src="hnav.jpg" width=100 height=28 border=0 alt="Home"></a> </div> <p> Ocean Consulting is an international Linux/UNIX/Microsoft consulting firm that provides expert level systems integration, contract software development and Information Technology (I.T.) management consulting services based from the (U.S.A.) Portland, Oregon metro region. We work with Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups to develop, maintain and leverage I.T. infrastructures. Our management consultants have a minimum ten years of experience in I.T. and can help manage technology risk as well as identify strategic technologies.</p> <p> Specialties include Linux, open source and Microsoft software solutions, networking, data centers, telecommunications, web application development, software quality, embedded systems design, digital video on demand, database design, database management and business process documentation. </p> <p> </p> <p> If you would like to discuss a current or upcoming project with a consultant, contact <A href="mailto:sales@oceanconsulting.com?Subject=Initial Consult">Matt Olson</A> at 503.701.7521. </p> <p> Mon May 12 11:19:00 2025 </p> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <LINK href="/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <meta name="Keywords" content="consultant consulting"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p> Ocean Consulting brings consulting experience in the following technologies: </p> <div align="top"> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <p> Web: <ul type="disc"> <li>Apache</li> <li>Internet Information Server (IIS)</li> <li>HTML</li> <li>Active Server Pages (ASP)</li> <li>Perl / Mason</li> <li>PHP</li> <li>Zope</li> <li>Ruby on Rails</li> </ul> </p> <p> Advanced clustering and virtualization: <ul type="disc"> <li>Linux and HP-UX clustering</li> <li>Linux KVM</li> <li>VMware Workstation/GSX/ESX</li> <li>VMware SAN integration</li> <li>Xen</li> <li>IBM zSeries virtualization</li> </ul> </p> <p> Cloud Computing: <ul type="disc"> <li>Private could architectures</li> <li>Amazon EC2</li> <li>OpenStack</li> <li>Opscode Chef</li> <li>Crowbar</li> <li>Cobbler</li> <li>VMWare</li> <li>KVM</li> <li>Xen</li> </ul> </p> <p> Software development: <ul type="disc"> <li>C / C++</li> <li>Java</li> <li>Perl</li> <li>Python</li> <li>Ruby on Rails</li> <li>Eclipse</li> <li>Visual Basic</li> <li>Structured Query Language (SQL)</li> <li>CVS, Subversion, Visual Source Safe</li> </ul> </p> <p> Databases: <ul type="disc"> <li>Oracle</li> <li>Microsoft SQL Server</li> <li>Sybase</li> <li>PostgreSQL</li> <li>MySQL</li> <li>Btrieve</li> <li>Oracle Parallel Server (OPS)</li> <li>Pentahoe Kettle ETL</li> </ul> </p> <p> Business intelligence: <ul type="disc"> <li>ERP5</li> <li>WebFOCUS</li> <li>Crystal Reports</li> </ul> </p> <p> Advanced infrastructure: <ul type="disc"> <li>System backup and recovery</li> <li>Tape backup systems</li> <li>Tape library systems</li> <li>Hierarchical Storage System (HSM)</li> </ul> </p> <p> Digital video: <ul type="disc"> <li>MPEG 2/4</li> <li>RTSP</li> <li>Embedded Linux</li> <li>Set top box platforms</li> <li>Video servers</li> <li>Video storage and transport</li> <li>Satellite transport</li> <li>Digital video on demand (DVOD)</li> <li>Video transcoding</li> </ul> </p> <td> <p> Storage: <ul type="disc"> <li>Network Attached Storage (NAS)</li> <li>NetApp Filer</li> <li>Linux RAID</li> </ul> </p> <p> Networking: <ul type="disc"> <li>Cisco</li> <li>Routers</li> <li>Switches</li> <li>Internet Service Gateways (ISGs)</li> <li>TCP/IP, IPX, Appletalk</li> <li>Protocol routing</li> <li>Protocol analysis</li> <li>Firewalls</li> <li>Cisco PIX</li> <li>SNMP</li> <li>Network Management Systems</li> <li>HP Openview</li> <li>OpenNMS</li> <li>Nagios</li> <li>Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)</li> <li>Tripwire</li> <li>Ethernet</li> <li>Token Ring</li> <li>T1/E1/DS3/OC12</li> <li>Wireless - Wifi / Wimax</li> <li>Domain name service (DNS)</li> <li>Broad Band Service Manager (BBSM)</li> <li>Tut Systems SMS2000</li> <li>Nomadix USG</li> <li>OnePath</li> <li>Mail - sendmail, MS Exchange</li> <li>Directory services - Active Directory, NDS, LDAP</li> <li>Samba</li> <li>X.25, frame relay</li> </ul> </p> <p> Telecommunications: <ul type="disc"> <li>Wide Area Networks (WANs)</li> <li>Computer Telephony (CTI)</li> <li>Voice over IP (VOIP)</li> <li>asterisk PBX</li> <li>Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems</li> <li>Provisioning voice/data circuits</li> </ul> </p> <p> Storage: <ul type="disc"> <li>EMC</li> <li>RAID arrays</li> <li>SAN/NAS</li> <li>iSCSI</li> </ul> </p> <p> Operating systems: <ul type="disc"> <li>Linux - RedHat, Debian, Embedded</li> <li>UNIX - HP-UX, SunOS, IRIX, SCO</li> <li>Microsoft Windows XP/2003</li> <li>Novell (CNE)</li> </ul> </p> <p> Facilities: <ul type="disc"> <li>Uninterruptable power supplies (UPS)</li> <li>Liebert</li> <li>Data center development and operations</li> <li>Dry fire suppression systems</li> </ul> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Ocean Consulting - Project Experience</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quanta Plus"> <meta name="Keywords" content="consultant consulting"> <LINK href="/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div align="top"> <p> <ul type="disc"> <li><b>Human Resources Administration and Commissions Application</b> - Web based internal application using Java and MS SQL Server to track employee information, salary history, vacations and bonus administration (including sales force).</li> <li><b>National Point of Sale (POS) System Development / Deployment</b> - Project management through full software / system development life cycle. 15,000 lane point of sale system encompassing back end UNIX servers communicating with card swipe terminals as well as EDI back end links for national retail chain customers. This was a large eight month project.</li> <li><b>Live 7 x 24 Data Center Move</b> - Complete move including facilities preparation, managing data circuit orders, backup generator installation and cable plant installation.</li> <li><b>7 x 24 Call Center Deployment</b> - Managed the installation of 70 new CSR stations in 8,000 sq. ft. space. Included managing architect, building contractors, electricians, voice/data wire plant installers, furniture vendor, computers, phones and accompanying voice/data services, fire suppression system installers, PBX installation and server capacity expansion. </li> <li><b>Network Design and Implementation</b> - network, firewall and mail implementation for a local start up.</li> <li><b>Firewall Implementation</b> - implement Cisco PIX solution.</li> <li><b>43 Office Washington DSHS Overhaul</b> - Full replacement of LAN infrastructure.</li> <li><b>Large LAN Overhaul</b> - 300+ station network for Spokane County Sheriff's Department.</li> <li><b>Intranet/Extranet Administration</b> - assumed responsibilities for departing intranet/extranet admin of large multinational corporation; HTML, ASP, Perl, IIS, sendmail.</li> <li><b>Nortel 81C PBX Installation</b> - Large PBX installation. A fully populated 81C supports over 12,000 termination points. This switch was used in a call center application including full ACD capability.</li> <li><b>Network Operation Center Setup</b> - installation and configuration of HP OpenView SNMP Management package to monitor and manage data center including all telecommunication services (OC12s, DS3s, T1s), routers, servers, database servers and firewalls.</li> <li><b>Network Time Protocol (NTP) Implementation for OLTP Environment</b> - design and implementation of time synchronization scheme for multiple database severs in an OLTP environment. This enabled call detail records generated from multiple long distance switches to create time stamps within a synchronized time domain.</li> <li><b>Portfolio Model Data Warehouse</b> - design and implementation of data warehouse loaded with 30 years of stock market data for use in analysis of portfolio models.</li> <li><b>Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) / Application Installation</b> - implementation of OPS on HP-UX cluster serving a large Computer Telephony application. </li> <li><b>Digital Video on Demand Client/Server Prototype</b> - designed and implemented digital VOD prototype.</li> <li><b>Patent Application Writing</b> - authored patents for digital video on demand application.</li> <li><b>Designed and Implemented Embedded Linux System</b> - used for digital video application on set top box platform.</li> <li><b>Linux Based Hosting Platform</b> - design, implementation and management of multi-site hosting platform based on open source software.</li> <li><b>Web Services Platform Facilities Move</b> - complete migration of web platform and traffic with large user base. <li><b>Data Center Dry Fire Suppression System</b> - manage design and implementation of dry fire suppression system (FM200, Novec 1230, Inergen). <li><b>Design, Plan and Implement Remote Datacenter</b> - including 'no single point of failure' network, remote management and complete setup.</li> <li><b>VMware GSX Server Performance Tuning</b> - optimization of guest kernel and virtual machines running on Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) architecture.</li> <li><b>I.T. Organizational Review and Audit</b> - review I.T. organization and audit practices, policies and procedures for a large wholesale distributor.</li>    </ul> </p> <p> <b>Note:</b> Client references are available upon request. </p> </body> </html> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Information Security and Cloud Consulting Services | Ocean Consulting</title> <script language=JavaScript>parent.frames.document.title = "Technology and Cloud Consulting Services | Ocean Consulting"</script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quanta Plus"> <meta name="Keywords" content="consultant consulting"> <LINK href="/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <img src="consulting.jpg" width=340 height=28 border=0 alt="Consulting"> <p> I.T. projects change companies. Both large and small efforts can test an organization's ability to control risk, cost and growth. At the end of the day a project's success is measured by business efficiencies delivered to customers, employees and management. </p> <p> Services offered include both advisory and team participation roles. Some companies need assistance identifying the best options for improving their infrastructure. Others seek pro-active, professional project managers to deliver projects on time and on budget. </p> <p> <b>Services include:</b> <ul type="disc"> <li>Management Consulting</li> <li>Technology Consulting</li> <li>Information Security Consulting</li> <li>I.T. Organizational Reviews</li> <li>Technical and Management Recruitment</li> <li>Project Management</li> <li>Best Practices Consulting</li> <li>Quality Initiatives (TQM, Six Sigma)</li> <li>Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Compliance</li> <li>SAS 70 Audits</li> <li>Federal Information Security Compliance</li> <li>Data Center Installations</li> </ul> </p> </body> </html> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Software Development Services | Ocean Consulting</title> <script language=JavaScript>parent.frames.document.title = "Software Development Services | Ocean Consulting"</script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quanta Plus"> <meta name="Keywords" content="consultant consulting"> <LINK href="/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <img src="software.jpg" width=340 height=28 border=0 alt="software"> <div align="top"> <table> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%> <p> Customers may choose to seek help with some or all phases of software development. It is our philosophy that customers should benefit from value delivered at <i>every phase</i> of a project. For example a customer may choose to contract a project, have the needs analysis and business process documentation completed, then decide to take the development in-house. Our methodology provides for this kind of flexibility at project milestones. </p> </td> <td> <p> Systems Development Life Cycle: <ul type="disc"> <li>needs analysis</li> <li>business process analysis and documentation</li> <li>project management (becomes crucial at this stage)</li> <li>requirements gathering</li> <li>systems design and specification</li> <li>software / systems development</li> <li>software / systems testing</li> <li>systems documentation</li> <li>training / support deployment</li> <li>software / systems productionization and deployment</li> </p> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Technology Consultants | Ocean Consulting</title> <script language=JavaScript>parent.frames.document.title = "Technology Consultants | Ocean Consulting"</script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quanta Plus"> <meta name="Keywords" content="consultant consulting"> <LINK href="/screen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <img src="technology.jpg" width=340 height=28 border=0 alt="Technology"> <p> Buy vs. build is a near daily decision for growing companies that rely on technology. While trying to grow an infrastructure robust enough and feature rich to win customers and edge out less nimble competitors, companies ultimately require top talent. Read more about available <a href="http://www.oceanconsulting.com/tech_exp/tech_exp.shtml" align=center target="Content">technology experience</a>. </p> <div align="top"> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <p> Strategic services: <ul type="disc"> <li>complete technology strategy development</li> <li>total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis</li> <li>evaluations</li> <li>strategies to lower cost and increase quality</li> <li>leverage previous investments</li> <li>software licensing</li> <li>outsourcing decision matrix</li> <li>open source software solutions</li> </ul> </p> </td> <td> <p> Technical services: <ul type="disc"> <li>C/C++</li> <li>Java (J2EE, WebSphere)</li> <li>RDBMS (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)</li> <li>Apache, IIS, Perl, ASP, Ruby on Rails</li> <li>UNIX (Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX)</li> <li>Advanced Networking and Telephony</li> <li>Advanced UNIX deployments (i.e. clustering)</li> <li>LAN Services: Microsoft, Novell, Linux, e-mail</li> <li>Cloud Computing: private cloud architectures, Amazon EC2</li> </ul> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> if (top == self) self.location.href = "/index.shtml"; </SCRIPT> <html> <body> <p>Consulting:</p> <li> Ocean Consulting</li> <li> consulting</li> <li> consultant</li> <li> business consulting</li> <li> information technology</li> <li> technology consulting</li> <li> technology consultant</li> <li> technology consulting Portland Oregon</li> <li> Internet technology consulting</li> <li> Portland technology consulting</li> <li> UNIX technology consulting</li> <li> UNIX consultant</li> <li> Linux technology consulting</li> <li> Linux consultant</li> <li> Microsoft technology consulting</li> <li> technical consulting</li> <li> technology strategy</li> <li> strategic technology</li> <li> management consulting</li> <li> Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002</li> <li> SOX compliance consulting</li> <li> project manager</li> <li> project management</li> <li> software engineering</li> <li> System Architect</li> <li> Network Design</li> <li> Network Engineering</li> <li> Systems Integration Analyst</li> <li> Systems Analyst</li> <li> Test Engineer</li> <li> QA Engineer</li> <li> System Administrator</li> <li> Independent Consultant</li> <li> Patent Writing</li> <li> programmer</li> <li> expert</li> <li> software engineer</li> <li> programmer</li> <li> developer</li> <li> networking</li> <li> internet</li> <li> contract software development</li> <li> computer support</li> <li> system administrator</li> <li> recruiting</li> <li> staffing</li> <li> datacenter</li> <li> data center</li> <li> operations</li> <li> Linux</li> <li> real time linux</li> <li> embedded linux</li> <li> RedHat</li> <li> Suse</li> <li> Debian</li> <li> Firewall</li> <li> ipchains</li> <li> iptables</li> <li> network security</li> <li> security</li> <li> open source</li> <li> unix</li> <li> Microsoft</li> <li> Windows</li> <li> Visual Basic</li> <li> .net</li> <li> clr</li> <li> asp</li> <li> active server pages</li> <li> SOA</li> <li> Excel</li> <li> WebFocus</li> <li> Novell</li> <li> Certified Novell Engineer - CNE</li> <li> HP 9000</li> <li> HP-UX</li> <li> OpenView</li> <li> Sun</li> <li> SunOS</li> <li> SGI</li> <li> IRIX</li> <li> vxworks</li> <li> Oracle</li> <li> OPS</li> <li> Oracle Parallel Server</li> <li> Sybase</li> <li> MS SQL Server</li> <li> PostgreSQL</li> <li> mysql</li> <li> OpenNMS</li> <li> Nagios</li> <li> SNMP</li> <li> Cisco IOS</li> <li> C</li> <li> C++</li> <li> Java</li> <li> J2EE</li> <li> Javascript</li> <li> JBoss</li> <li> Perl</li> <li> Perl DBI</li> <li> Python</li> <li> Zope</li> <li> Plone</li> <li> Django</li> <li> Ruby on Rails</li> <li> web application</li> <li> web development</li> <li> web services</li> <li> application service provider</li> <li> ASP</li> <li> mason</li> <li> html</li> <li> php</li> <li> dhtml</li> <li> e-commerce</li> <li> EDI</li> <li> edi</li> <li> storage</li> <li> SAN</li> <li> NAS</li> <li> EMC</li> <li> VMWare</li> <li> vmware</li> <li> virtualization</li> <li> telecommunications</li> <li> VOIP</li> <li> asterisk</li> <li> CTI</li> <li> IVR</li> <li> POS</li> <li> point of sale</li> <li> VOD</li> <li> MPEG</li> <li> NAB</li> <li> CES</li> <li> Comdex</li> <li> TQM</li> <li> Total Quality Management</li> <li> SPC</li> <li> Statistical Process Control</li> <li> Six Sigma</li> <li> 6 sigma</li> <li> business process reengineering</li> <li> business quality management</li> <li> business systems consulting</li> <li> documentation</li> <li> project management</li> <li> global home page</li> </body> </html> <html> <body> <p><b>Location keywords.</b></p> <p>These are our primary markets.</p> <li>Flagstaff, Arizona</li> <li>Phoenix, Arizona</li> <li>Tucson, Arizona</li> <li>Cupertino, California</li> <li>Los Angeles, California</li> <li>Menlo Park, California</li> <li>Mountain View, California</li> <li>Palo Alto, California</li> <li>Pleasanton, California</li> <li>San Jose, California</li> <li>San Francisco, California</li> <li>Santa Clara, California</li> <li>Sunnyvale , California</li> <li>Walnut Creek, Califormnia</li> <li>London, England</li> <li>New York, New York</li> <li>New York City</li> <li>Portland, Oregon</li> <li>Beaverton, Oregon</li> <li>Hillsboro, Oregon</li> <li>Bellevue, Washington</li> <li>Ellensburg, Washington</li> <li>Redmond, Washington</li> <li>Seattle, Washington</li> <li>Tacoma, Washington</li> <li>Vancouver, Washington</li> <li>California</li> <li>Oregon</li> <li>Washington</li> <li>USA</li> <li>United States of America</li> </body> </html> </body>