Experience

2008-present: Conference Chair, Open Source World
Manage program committee for the Bay Area Linux and open source event. Prospected and secured speakers and advised show management on schedule, organization, and ecosystem participation.
2006-2008: Site Editor, LinuxWorld.com
Author of regularly featured editor's blog and podcast. Wrote, edited, and assigned news and technical content for a frequently updated major media site covering Linux and open source. Fostered extensive network of open source community contacts worldwide.
2005-2006: Director, Technical Marketing, SpikeSource
Developed and edited content for an open source stack vendor. Participated in the company's appearances at open source events including the Zend PHP Conference and Expo and the Open Source Business Conference.
2002-2005: Editor-in-Chief, Linux Journal
Responsible for the editorial content of the leading Linux publication. Developed relationships with extensive network of developers for Linux and related technologies. Edited, wrote and solicited articles on security, development tools, hardware, and programming techniques.
2001-2002: Editor-in-Chief, Embedded Linux Journal
Responsible for the editorial content of the only paper publication devoted to Linux in embedded systems.
2000-2001: Technical Editor, Linux Journal
Wrote, solicited, and edited articles on Linux and related technologies.
1999-2000: Technical Marketing Manager, Professional Service Engineer, VA Linux Systems
As one of the founding Linux consultants in the Professional Services group, Worked with customers to deploy and problem-solve Linux systems.
1998-1999: Principal, Electric Lichen L.L.C.
Co-founded a Linux International member company, Electric Lichen L.L.C., an Internet development, marketing and consulting firm. Sold firm to VA Linux Systems in 1999. Client projects included the successful release of Informix for Linux and early Linux market research for IBM.
1997: Web Development and Sales, Pacific Digital Interactive
Consultative selling and development of web applications for corporate customers in the Bay Area, including Hitachi, Charles Schwab, and DHL. Bundled Linux server hardware with on-site content maintenance solutions. Performed web and Linux training for clients.
1994 - 1997: Webmaster, Agdia
Early adopter of production Linux systems for company-wide mail and web presence. Developed all marketing materials and product documentation for an agricultural biotechnology company.

Open Source Community

2006-present: Member, Program Committee, LinuxWorld Conference and Expo
Solicit and evaluate conference presentations from Linux developers and IT professionals; help evaluate current and previous conferences and plan future topics and formats.
2006-2007: Co-founder and Organizer, FreedomHEC
Planned and managed the first Linux device driver "unconference" located next to Microsoft's WinHEC. Brought together leading kernel developers, WinHEC attendees, and device driver authors. Through sponsorships, FreedomHEC was able to cover travel expenses for some speakers as well as provide a completely free of charge conference for all participants.
2004: Member, Program Committee, USENIX Annual Technical Conference
As a member of the program committee for the UseLinux track, solicited and evaluated papers from Linux developers and IT professionals responsible for Linux projects.
2000-2004: Vice-President and President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
Vice-President from 2000-2002, then President from 2002-2004, both elected positions at the world's largest local Linux user group.
2001-2002: Organizer and spokesperson, "Free Dmitry" movement
Planned and led major public events to call attention to a notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act case. Charges against Dmitry Sklyarov were dropped.
2002: Member, Program Committee, Codecon
Evaluated and commented on papers on a variety of topics, including the first talk on BitTorrent.
1999-present: Listmaster, linux-elitists mailing list
Manage a mailing list used by key Linux developers, open source community leaders, and the IT media.
1998: Board member, Linux International Conference (LINC)
Participated in planning of the conference that later became the technical side of LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

Technical Skills

Linux
More than 15 years of deep technical experience with all major Linux distributions, and proficiency in Linux system adminstration, especially security, web, email, package management, and automation. Proficient in git, especially for web and sysadmin tasks.
Programming Languages
Expert in Perl. Proficient in C, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and shell scripting.
Web Technologies
CSS, image optimization, web client programming, Apache configuration, HTML, git, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and memcached.

Projects, awards and publications

LWN contributor
I contribute technology and news pieces to LWN.net, including event coverage from the Linux Plumbers' Conference, Southern California Linux Expo, and the Open Source Business Conference.
URL reputation engine
Author of a URL reputation system based on a novel algorithm, along with a client module for using it and tools for seeding it with sources including comment, referer, and email spam URLs and URLs from social media feeds. Results have been used to report bugs and spammer-used accounts to Google and a US government agency.
Media source
Used as an expert source for Linux, Internet and technology policy articles, including articles on the DMCA, software patents, search engine takedown policy, Linux-related lawsuits, and OS migration issues.
Conference appearances
Speaker, panelist, and panel moderator at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, Southern California Linux Expo, Comdex, South By Southwest, CeBIT Bilisim (Istanbul), Linux user groups, and other events.
Open source projects
Author of "cloudlife", a display hack for XScreenSaver based on Conway's Life, and "Headless Media Player," a lightweight GStreamer-based audio listening application.

Education

February 1992
Master of Arts in Journalism and Certificate in Science and Environmental Reporting, New York University
May 1990
Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology, Indiana University

References

Available upon request.

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