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| == History == | == Community Life == I've been involved for a while in the community, helping newbies and experienced users alike, joining in on technical discussions and so forth. I've been on several different Linux mailing lists over the years, and currently I'm active on the Linux and Linux_NEWBIES yahoogroups, as well as linux-redhat-fedora, suselinuxusers and redhat Yahoo! groups. I was off and on various Linux and technical IRC channels on EFNet for a while before getting away from spending too much time on IRC. Lately, I'm hanging out on Freenode in various Ubuntu channels. I was an active member in the Roanoke Valley GNU/Linux Users Group starting back around 1998 when Red Hat 5.1 was coming out. I picked up 5.1 at my first InstallFest and participated in every InstallFest RVGLUG had after that until I moved to North Carolina in 2000. After moving, I stayed a member of RVGLUG until a few years ago, hanging out on the LUGs IRC server and mailing list. Today, I'm a fairly new member of the NC Loco. I hope to actually make a meeting one day, though they're usually held about 1.5 hours away from me, which makes planning difficult. Speaking of InstallFests, they've pretty much died out these days. Back before it was easy to install or download the latest ISO builds, LUGs would have these days set aside every so often (the RVGLUG did them twice a year, usually at Roanoke College) where anyone could bring their computer and by the time they left, they would (usually) have a working Linux machine, or a dual boot system running Linux and Windows. These were great fun, a good experience and always had a great party afterwards ;-) Outside of that, I also do some ISO testing here and there, as well as bug reporting on Launchpad. I've represented Linux to the world at places like Comdex and O' Reilly's OSCON while working for Red Hat. I also teach an introductory Linux course at the local Community College. It's a hobby of mine that I started doing when my old CIS dean asked me if I'd come back to the school and teach. I REALLY enjoy the experience of teaching Linux to people who may not have even heard of it before. It's great fun and teaches me a lot about myself as well. I've been teaching Linux/Unix System Administration (the class' official title) for 3 years now. == Professional Life == |
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| 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. | 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. |
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| 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. |
Today, I work for Canonical, helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm part of the QA Team as a Hardware Certification Engineer, and for the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm home. |
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 AT ubuntu DOT com>
<dreadpiratejeff AT gmail DOT com>
Website: Jeff Lane dot Org
IRC: bladernr_ on Freenode
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~bladernr
Hardware
Currently, I run the following:
Name |
Make/Model |
Operating Systems |
Asuka |
Lenovo S-10 Netbook |
Windows XP, #CrunchBang Karmic, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Slax |
Deathstar |
Homebuilt AthlonXP |
Ubuntu Karmic, RHEL or CentOS |
Chi |
Toshiba A75 Laptop |
WindowsXP, Fedora 11, Jaunty |
Klaatu |
Alienware M15x |
Win7 64bit, Karmic 64bit |
Community Life
I've been involved for a while in the community, helping newbies and experienced users alike, joining in on technical discussions and so forth.
I've been on several different Linux mailing lists over the years, and currently I'm active on the Linux and Linux_NEWBIES yahoogroups, as well as linux-redhat-fedora, suselinuxusers and redhat Yahoo! groups.
I was off and on various Linux and technical IRC channels on EFNet for a while before getting away from spending too much time on IRC. Lately, I'm hanging out on Freenode in various Ubuntu channels.
I was an active member in the Roanoke Valley GNU/Linux Users Group starting back around 1998 when Red Hat 5.1 was coming out. I picked up 5.1 at my first InstallFest and participated in every InstallFest RVGLUG had after that until I moved to North Carolina in 2000. After moving, I stayed a member of RVGLUG until a few years ago, hanging out on the LUGs IRC server and mailing list. Today, I'm a fairly new member of the NC Loco. I hope to actually make a meeting one day, though they're usually held about 1.5 hours away from me, which makes planning difficult.
Speaking of InstallFests, they've pretty much died out these days. Back before it was easy to install or download the latest ISO builds, LUGs would have these days set aside every so often (the RVGLUG did them twice a year, usually at Roanoke College) where anyone could bring their computer and by the time they left, they would (usually) have a working Linux machine, or a dual boot system running Linux and Windows. These were great fun, a good experience and always had a great party afterwards 
Outside of that, I also do some ISO testing here and there, as well as bug reporting on Launchpad. I've represented Linux to the world at places like Comdex and O' Reilly's OSCON while working for Red Hat.
I also teach an introductory Linux course at the local Community College. It's a hobby of mine that I started doing when my old CIS dean asked me if I'd come back to the school and teach. I REALLY enjoy the experience of teaching Linux to people who may not have even heard of it before. It's great fun and teaches me a lot about myself as well. I've been teaching Linux/Unix System Administration (the class' official title) for 3 years now.
Professional Life
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 and was the Technical Lead for System x's Red Hat Hardware Certification effort.
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.
Today, I work for Canonical, helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm part of the QA Team as a Hardware Certification Engineer, and for the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm home.
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 -- bladernr 2010-03-11 23:03:15
JeffLane (last edited 2012-02-23 22:09:11 by hggdh2)