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I'm a Hardware Certification Engineer working at Canonical as part of the QA Team. I've used Ubuntu off and on since Dapper, however, I've used it regularly since Intrepid.

Contact Info

• E-Mail

  • jeffrey.lane@ubuntu.com

  • dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com

• Website: Jeff Lane dot Org

• IRC: bladernr_ on Freenode

Hardware

Currently, I run the following:

History

I first started with Linux in the Mid 90's with a 1.x version of Slackware, painstakingly pulled across a slow modem connection over several nights, one 1.44MB Floppy image at a time. From there, I was exposed to Red Hat 5.1 when I joined my home LUG (Roanoke Valley GNU/Linux Users Group).

While I was taking classes for the CCNA, a friend pointed out that Red Hat was hiring. I applied, almost as a joke, and two weeks later I was sitting in Raleigh, NC for an interview with Red Hat's Global Support and Services team. Two years later, I discovered the dot.com crash and the joys of outsourcing.

Following that, I worked here and there while I worked my way through school. I spent about half a year as the system administrator for a small local ISP before getting hired as a contractor at I.B.M. Three years into that and I was hired by IBM and worked for another three years. All that time was spent working on the NOS team within System x, testing Red Hat and SuSE Enterprise Linuxes and VMWare ESX, ESXi, and embedded hypervisors.

I specialized in Xen virtualization and testing Real Time Linux, as well as test automation.

I was laid off again in April 2009 and spent a nice sabbatical at the beach while looking for further work.

Eventually I landed back at I.B.M. as a contractor for the Integral Functions Team performing hardware validation tests against Red Hat and SuSE Enterprise Linuxes. I was also involved in building a provisioning/test automation system.

Another friend pointed out to me that Canonical was looking for good people, I applied, and the rest, as they say, is history.

On the side, I also teach "Unix/Linux System Administration" at the local Community College for the CIS department.

Hobbies/Interests

I'm a General Class Amateur Radio Operator, Student pilot (when I have time and money) and photographer. I like camping, hiking, biking, the beach, fishing, driving in the countryside, reading, movies and a whole lot of other things

Useful Stuff

IsoSyncShellScript for syncing ISOs from http://cdimages.ubuntu.com