Dru Lavigne

Bio Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience...

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 - 5/2003

Employment Status

Company:	PC-BSD Project
Role:	IT Professional
Focus:	Education
Company Size:	Large- More than 1000
Title:	Director of Community Development
Status:	Independent Contractor

Links

•  @bsdevents
•  LinkedIn Profile
•  BSD Certification
•  FreeBSD Foundation
•  PC-BSD Project

Accomplishments

Certifications

 CCNA  CCSA and CCSE, Checkpoint NG  MCSE (NT 4)  CNE (Netware 5)  CIW Security Analyst  Security+

Books

 BSD Hacks  The Best of FreeBSD Basics  Hacking Exposed Linux (BSD Appendix) The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD

Articles/Papers

 Installing, Securing, and Maintaining FreeBSD Servers

Speaking History

 But I'm not a developer...how can I contribute to open source? EuroBSDCon 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany  BSD Certification: MeetBSD 2005, Krakow, Poland  Update on BSD Certification: NYCBSDCon 2005, NYC, NY  BSD Certification: UKUUG Spring Conference 2006, Durham, England  Towards a BSD Certification: BSDCan 2006, Ottawa, ON Using Open Source to Remove Barriers for Women Within IT: SCALE5x, Los Angeles, CA  Open Source Desktop Applications & Open Source System Administration: IT360.ca 2007, Toronto, ON  Applying Open Source Methodology to IT Examinations: OSCON 2007, Portland, OR  Women in Open Source: FlourishConf 2008, Chicago, IL  Creating a Publication Using Open Source Tools: Scale6x, Los Angeles, LA "Now What?" for the Open Source Noob: Scale7x, Los Angeles, LA

Other

 Interview for Linux.com  Interview for The Jem Report