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To learn, leverage, and help evolve.
I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.
The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.
In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers.
I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Bare Metal Provisioning Service (Ironic),Bifrost,Ironic,Openstacksdk
I've long been an advocate of OpenStack, originally thinking "This has a possibility to change the world", and wanting to be involved. That was in early 2013. In 2014, I joined HP to work on OpenStack, and I'm still here several employers later. While I served as the project leader for Ironic for many years, I think my biggest contribution is stewardship of consensus building. Getting people to the same page to enable mutual success.
I served on the board of a local community non-profit some years ago, and also assisted the board of another community non-profit. These experiences helped me understand differing views and the necessity to reconcile different views together to reach the common good.
A board, much like any board, establishes the high level bounds and works to enable the staff and community. The critical aspect of the board is to both fund and direct staff to help align messaging together for the continued success of our projects. It is then critical for board members to be part of the discussions to help the community both understand and align.
The board's prime focus for the next year should be the on the long term to help ensure there is sufficient memberships, budget, and long term planning with the foundation staff to maximize community visibility and engagement.
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