It all started at the age of 5 when Allison's father handed her a soldering iron and a printed circuit board. Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding seduced her away from natural languages to artificial ones. A C and dynamic language (Perl/Python/Ruby/etc) programmer by trade, Allison is the architect of Parrot, chairman of the Parrot Foundation, on the board of directors of the Python Software Foundation and The Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon Press. She also works for O'Reilly Media, planning the program for their Open Source Convention (OSCON). She currently lives in Bristol, UK.
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Software Lead for Virtualization, PSG BU at Juniper Networks
San Francisco Bay Area Computer Networking
Current
Software Lead for Virtualization, PSG BU at Juniper Networks
Software Engineer Staff at Juniper Networks
Past
Technical Lead for Freebsd Upgrade Project at Junos Core at Juniper Networks
Software Engineer at Indra Networks
Education
State University of New York at Buffalo
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
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What I do:
Real time/systems programmer. I love writing device drivers. I have written linkers, modified assemblers. Modified a real time commercial single processor multi-tasking kernel into a message passing multi-processor multi-tasking kernel for 68k's, before VRTX came out etc. Lots of embedded stuff, micro processor work. I have worked on the BSD/OS kernel chiefly on the powerpc port (Yes, I worked for BSDi), I have dabbled with the FreeBSD kernel. I have done 808x assembler, powerpc, I can now read sparc asm, Coldfire (Really just a RISCy version of 68k), I have done asm for 6502/680x (6800,6803,6809) including writing my own DOS for 6502. I get easily confused between instruction sets now when I am not doing work on a specific one that is. ;-)
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Bio
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. She is author of
BSD Hacks,
The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and
The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.
As Director of Community Development for the PC-BSD Project, she leads the documentation team, assists new users, helps to find and fix bugs, and reaches out to the community to discover their needs. She is the former Managing Editor of the
Open Source Business Resource, a free monthly publication covering open source and the commercialization of open source assets. She is founder and current Chair of the
BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create the standard for certifying BSD system administrators, and serves on the Board of the
FreeBSD Foundation.
Employment History
PC-BSD Project, Director of Community Development, 8/2010 - present
FreeBSD Foundation, Board Member, 8/2009 - present
Open Source Business Resource, Managing Editor, 6/2007 - 7/2010
BSD Certification Group, Chair, 1/2005 - present
Marketbridge Technologies, Lead Instructor/Curriculum Developer, 8/2003 - 6/2007
Novatech Computer Careers, Lead Instructor/Curriculum Developer, 9/1998 - 5/2003Employment Status
| Company: | PC-BSD Project |
| Role: | IT Professional |
| Focus: | Education |
| Company Size: | Large- More than 1000 |
| Title: | Director of Community Development |
| Status: | Independent Contractor |
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Gloria Galicia PC-BSD Girl!! Born in 1985 and currently working for iXsystems an Executive Assistant. I have
two gorgeous kitties (Rocky and Allie), two pet rats (Moco and Booze), an awesome boyfriend, my own apartment and i would love to own a little farm someday haha.. I LOVE animals, not so much reptiles though. I also enjoy shopping (what girl doesn’t?), exploring and doing spontaneous things, hiking, taking long walks, exercising, watching movies all day long every once in a while, taking bubble baths, going out at night, road trips, the beach, bonfires and i don’t like winter time unless im in the snow = )
Some of my interests are: Cooking, Photography, reading interesting and/or funny books, foreign countries and more.
Randi Harper is a Senior Systems Administrator at IronPort/Cisco.
She previously held roles as a Systems Engineer at Yahoo! and has been a FreeBSD systems administrator since 2001. She helped run meetBSD California '08 and can often be found working at the FreeBSD booth at various technical conferences in the USA as part of the FreeBSD marketing team.
