I am a Solutions Engineer (Pre-Sales Engineer) for Alfresco, an Open Source Software start-up, which develops Enterprise Content Management Software.

Prior to working for Alfresco, I was a Software QA Engineer at Novell. I worked on the OES Integration Test Team as the Linux Technical Lead , QA testing components and features of Netware, OES 1 and 2 and SLES 10. I covered storage aspects of those products (Netware: Hardlinks, NFS APIs, Byte Range and Cross-Protocol Byte Range Locks, OPLocks; OES Linux: NSS Hardlinks, NSS NFS APIs, NSS VFS, NSS xAttr; SLES10: Mulitpath and Storage Management). I also worked on install, configuration, virtualization with XEN, LUM (Linux User Management), Patching and Updates, and Dynamic Storage Technologies (Shadow Volumes).

I am a workaholic and a father of five (soon to be six!). I keep reminding myself that I need to get a hobby outside of a computer. (My wife says I have two wives, her and my laptop.)

I like to play chess and go. I enjoy music and learning new things (why does this sound like a personal ad?)

In a previous life I worked as a J2EE Developer/ Architect for the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana. While employed by the Federal Courts I also worked as Internet Administrator for about 50+ different Federal Courts (a service we provided), on the Help Desk and as a PC Technician.

John Anderson began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 2003. He is currently Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Orchid Event Solutions where he maintains many cross platform desktop applications (Linux, Mac, and Windows) written in C#/Mono and also maintains Cocoa, GTK, and Windows Form GUI's for the applications. Currently the applications he maintains receive more than 500,000 front-end transactions daily. John also contributes to many open source applications including Banshee, Tomboy, Mono, and is the maintainer of the Trac Peer Review Plugin

With a deep understanding of POSIX systems, the Linux kernel, GNU tools and Windows development environments John has been able to provide professional level services to many businesses in cross-platform development with both C#/Mono and Python. As a programmer John has worked with Perl, Python, PHP, C#, and C/C++ to create countless business critical applications. John currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I am here to hopefully get a chance to socialize with some peers. I have been programming, and using Linux for my primary workstation's operating system since 1996, and I'm curious to learn more. I hope to have that opportunity here.