bio

Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup, at an ISP in the 90's, as the single IT guy, and as part of an organization with nearly 150 system administrators maintaining more than 5,500 enterprise servers. He has, also, managed a team of systems administrators for a consulting firm, and recently worked 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 and testing. Trucks advocates for extensive documentation, strong security, change control, and professionalism.

He serves as an elected member of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) Board of Directors for the 2007 - 2009 term, and he assists the LOPSA Education Committee organizing and teaching at training events. Trucks has taught more than a dozen classes at various conferences, including four of the 16 classes at each of the LOPSA Sysadmin Days events[1][2]. He was a Local Mentor Instructor for the SANS Institute SEC-506: Securing Unix/Linux course, and he currently holds both GCIH and GCUX certifications. In addition, he serves as a member of the SANS Advisory Board.

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