Welcome aboard Lyndon, thanks for the hat-tip :) It's good to see more TexasCavers helping out!
It looks like so far we have 4 people willing to help on the committee, I never knew the NSS needed more geeks. Gentlemen, it seems that we just need a leader, a project manager type, and we are ready to bring the NSS into the future. Charles On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Lyndon Tiu <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow cavers, > > Thank you for giving me this opportunity to help the NSS. > > I'm a Texas caver based in Houston. I have been caving for about 2 > years. I presently serve as the Conservation Chair for the Texas > Speleological Association (TSA). I am also serving as the treasurer for > the Greater Houston Grotto (GHG). For those of you who will be at the > ICS 2009 in Kerrville, Texas in July. I'll be seeing you there. Come > check out the really cool cave trips I'll be leading (Longhorn and > Kickapoo). > > I have a B.Sc. major in Earth Science with a minor in Information > Technology Management. I have worked in both the earth science and IT > fields. I have worked as a XRF laboratory technician and as an > environmental hydrogeologist. I have also worked as a system admin, as > an IT consultant and as a software developer. I am currently working in > a hybrid position as a geochemistry data analyst. This challenging > position combines both my earth science and IT backgrounds. > > My experiences directly related to the IT Chairman position are: > > a) My 2.5 years as an IT consultant, designing and building inter-office > and intra-office IT networks based on Linux and other open source > software for clients (2002 to 2005). > > b) My 1.5 years working as a system administrator for an educational > software firm in Arizona (2005 to 2006). > > I am a certified UNIX system and network administrator, from SUN > Microsystems. I am a certified Linux system administrator, from the > Linux Professional Institute (LPI). I am also an Oracle certified > database admin. > > I cannot say I know every single technology detailed in the IT > Chairman's job description. But one thing I've learned in my 13 years of > work experience, is that you can never know everything. But you can > figure out anything that comes along. > > I'd like to borrow a line from another candidate's introduction, Charles > Goldsmith: "I'll gladly help with the committee under whoever the chair > is." I applied for this position to give back to a community that has > given me a lot. I am here to help in any way I can. > > -- > Lyndon Tiu > _______________________________________________ > It-chair-search mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.caves.org/mailman/listinfo/it-chair-search >
