Associate Professor / Teaching
Contact Information
Building: Research Hall
Room 434
Mail Stop: 1G8
Personal Websites
Biography
Harry J. Foxwell is an Associate Professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, where he teaches graduate courses in cloud computing and data analytics. He previously worked for Oracle and Sun Microsystems as a Principal Systems Engineer supporting operating systems and virtualization technologies. He is the co-author of several technical articles and books, including Slicing and Dicing Servers: A Guide to Virtualization and Containment Technologies (Sun BluePrints Online, October 2005), and The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers: Virtualization in the Solaris Operating System (Sun BluePrints Online, October 2006).
He coauthored Pro OpenSolaris (Apress, 2009), Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration: The Complete Reference (Oracle Press, 2012), and Oracle Solaris 11.2 System Administration Handbook (Oracle Press, 2015), and recently authored Creating Good Data (Apress, 2020). Harry is a Vietnam veteran; he served as a platoon sergeant in the US Army’s 1st Infantry Division from 1968 to 1969. He was awarded an Air Medal and a Bronze Star.
Degrees
- PhD, Information Technology, George Mason University