Howdy! My name is Steven Ball. I've been working on computers and networks for about 15 years now, I think...
My background is very heavy into UNIX/Linux systems. 'Professionally', I started out with RedHat systems while I was the senior sysadmin for the Electrical Engineering department at New Mexico Tech. After that, I was a sysadmin for Motorola in Los Alamos, NM for 3 years managing a large linux cluster and etc for the small facility there. I spent a few years as a freelance consultant doing networks and systems for a variety of clients until I settled on a fulltime job in Utah as an electrical engineer for a laser company (and, of course, one of two sysadmins there as well). I still manage a few other concerns, such as the backend for an ISP in Santa Fe, NM (all Linux firewalls and servers), as well as a VoIP startup run from a co-lo on the west coast. I've handled a large variety of systems from RedHat, Debian, etc as well as commercial UNIX systems and BSD systems. I can handle Windows networks just fine, but prefer not to :) As far as linux is concerned, I have meddled with just about everything from kernel hacking to custom embedded versions to day-to-day administration duties. I've done Kerberos/LDAP authentication systems, integrated MacOS systems and Active Directory, and put together a number of things that just shouldn't go together, so I'm no stranger to cobbling together a working solution. I'm very experienced with PHP and MySQL, and have written a number of in-house apps based around them. I'm a pretty good C++ and C programmer, as I spend a lot of time currently doing embedded systems with microcontrollers, and to that end I am pretty good at integrating wacky systems together. I'm also a caver, although I have not been underground enough in the last couple of years! I co-manage the NMCAVER mailing list (although it is not hosted on my kit), as well as run a couple of listserv's for caving grottos I am part of. I'm happy to help in any capacity that is needed, so even if I am not the best fit for the Chair job, please feel free to pawn tasks off to me! -Steve _______________________________________________ It-chair-search mailing list [email protected] http://lists.caves.org/mailman/listinfo/it-chair-search
