Career

PICC11 is around the corner, and I'm teaching a completely new class!

Blitzkrieg Branding launches my new line of classes and talks on professional topics as a follow-up to the Mentorship talk I gave at PICC10. It is about how to market yourself as an IT professional; your project, whether open source or in-house; or your team's goals, members, or reputation. This class will help you learn how to sell yourself, project, or team, and it will show you how to leverage your community contacts - your people network - in person, online (with sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter), and in print.

Come join us at PICC11 and sign up for my class!

So, I've been silent for so long because I was working heavy hours on a very consuming project for my previous employer. However, I've now finished that project and moved on to what I hope is a very long term post at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), an I live in the Knoxville, TN, USA area now.

SCaLE is coming up fast! Sign up for SCaLE-U classes taught by LOPSA instructors!

Register now to reserve your seat at the table for these highly acclaimed courses by seasoned instructors.

Hope to see you all there!

The next elections for the LOPSA Board of Directors is next week!

Please review my candidate statement, and please vote for me if you are a current member of LOPSA. At the very least, vote!

Tom Limoncelli of The Practice of System and Network Administration (TPOSANA) and Time Management for System Administrators (TMfSA) fame recently wrote a provocative blog entry called

Scott Ruecker of LXer interviewed me via email about my involvement with LOPSA and the SCaLE U training classes coming up in a couple weeks on February 20 in

So, I'm catching up on neglected blog feeds while taking a break from heavy labor on the farm (for those who don't know: I have a small farm in rural Wisconsin, USA) while I sip coffee and contemplate whether I should really come up with a solid blogging strategy.

As a followup to its highly successful training programs, LOPSA is partnering with the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) for the second year in a row.

For a while now I've been observing and partaking in networking. Yes, of course computer based networks, but lately I've been thinking (and working) on human networking. It's been around far longer than computer systems, and most professions are much better at it than IT folks.

LOPSA does training in partnership with conferences throughout the year in addition to the occasional (twice now) Sysadmin Days event. This year David Parter, a Director on the LOPSA Board, and I taught a System Administration Master Class at YAPC::NA 2008 in Chicago. Now LOPSA is partnering with OLF for the second year to bring you OLFU, a day of training.