bio

Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup, at an ISP in the late 90's, as the single IT guy at a publishing company, and as part of an organization with nearly 150 system administrators maintaining more than 5,500 enterprise servers. Recently, he managed a team of systems administrators for a consulting firm, and currently works on a team doing Unix systems related research and development for new projects and products, process improvement, and advanced technical assistance for internal clients and coworkers.

He has extensive security experience in incident handling, intrusion detection, policy development, monitoring, and implementation management, and he is well versed in disaster recovery planning, implementation and testing. Trucks advocates for extensive documentation, strong security, change control, and professionalism.

Trucks volunteers for the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) on the Tech Team assisting in the maintenance of the http://lopsa.org site infrastructure, and he assists the LOPSA Education Committee organizing and teaching at training events. He is serving as an elected member of the LOPSA Board of Directors for the 2007 - 2009 term, and in that capacity he acts as the Technical Services Committee Liaison to the Board.

He taught four of the 16 classes at both the inaugural Sysadmin Days 2006 in Phoenix, AZ and the subsequent event Sysadmin Days 2007 in Cherry Hill, NJ. He has taught other courses for conferences and training events. Trucks is a LOPSA Founding Member, and founded the LOPSA-Madison Local Chapter, which he currently manages with the help of volunteers.

Trucks has served as a Local Mentor in the GCUX course for the SANS Institute, and he currently holds GCIH Silver and GCUX Gold certifications. In addition, he serves as a member of the GIAC Advisory Board.

Jesse Trucks resides on a farm in Black Earth, WI and is available for teaching or presentation engagements in any location.