I'm Brian Stanaland. I joined the call today. I've been on the mailing list for a while but was finally able to join one of the calls. I'd like to help the project wherever I can.
I started using Solaris full time in 1996 while running a satellite communications team for the US Army. I finished my time in the Army and got a job as a Solaris admin and hardware break/fix tech. I helped train people for the transition from Applix to StarOffice. I built 30 or so Ultra 10 workstations. From there I went to PanAmSat to help with their video on demand project using IP over satellite for delivery. When the project was cancelled I stayed on as part of the satellite maintenance group. To get back into Unix, I took a job with Delta Air Lines. I was on the web infrastructure team. We ran Solaris and Sun Java Web Server. I deployed patches, new versions of software, etc. This was done mostly through deployment scripts created by the team. The whole technology group was outsourced to IBM. I stayed with IBM for another three years until they downsized the group. I found a job in the Georgia Tech computer operations group. We ran backups, monitored the systems via HP OpenView, and ran the campus DNS system. From there I moved to Orlando, Florida where I began working for the Highwinds on their content delivery network. We were running Gentoo and doing deployments by manually copying tarballs to the servers. We switched to CentOS using Chef to build the systems and Puppet for deploying apps and configurations. Much better way to do things. Moving back to Atlanta, I started working for a small company called Predictix. Their software ran on Amazon's AWS platform. I handled deployments, backups, monitoring, etc. I rebuilt the Zabbix monitoring system to include the vastly expanded footprint of the company's systems. The company went through restructuring and my position was eliminated. I now work for SGI as a customer support technician.I assist customers with troubleshooting SGI hardware and software. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
