Ex Army 19D / Pathfinder, now a security consultant / pen tester and developer.

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.

BYU student and current vice president of the BYU UUG. I am working on a Ph. D. in Physics and Astronomy.

Current official contact for Ubuntu in the state of Utah. Original founder of the Ubuntu Utah Local Team. Working with local LUGs to help support, expand and advocate Ubuntu.

I am an Australian citizen working in Utah since October 2005. I graduated from University back in 1999 and quite accidentally fell into a career in Embedded Software Development, starting with an Australian Multiport Serial Card / Terminal Server manufacturer called Stallion Technologies. I've since worked for a number of appliance manufacturers including ePipe Inc, SnapGear / CyberGuard and my current employer Opengear LLC.

Opengear builds aggressively priced hardware based Remote Management appliances with a focus on security. Think Console Servers with value adds for remotely managing the rest of the equipment in the Data Center. Opengear is committed to releasing source and hardware specifications back to the community.

Ryan Simpkins began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 1998. He is currently a Sr. Linux System Administrator working with fortune 500 companies and over 10,000 production Linux servers. Currently the system he administers receives more than 7 billion front-end transactions daily. Ryan also administers one of the ten largest MySQL installations in the world handling over 300 billion queries daily.

With a deep understanding of POSIX systems, the Linux kernel, and GNU tools Ryan has been able to provide professional level services to many businesses. As a programmer Ryan has worked with Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C/C++ to create countless business critical applications. Ryan currently resides in Lehi, Utah with his wife and five children.

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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.