The Ops Mgr
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Occupation | Co-Founder and CTO |
| Location | Headley Down, East Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am the CTO and Co-Founder of DevOpsGuys and a Microsoft Regional Director. I started in IT in 1990 as a junior programmer subcontracted to IBM working on mainframe systems management software (Netview). After about 3 years of this I got involved in setting up a server and local area network in my companies office (Novell Netware 3.x and Windows For Workgroups 3.11). I then started supporting Microsoft LanManager and other Microsoft systems. Over the next 15 or so years I worked my way up into senior engineering and technical architecture roles, with an increasing specialisation (since 1998) in Microsoft web hosting platforms based in Windows Server and IIS. When I moved to the UK in 1999 I worked in that capacity for large enterprise organisations like BNP Paribas, Vodafone, CSFB etc. In 2005 I moved to Totaljobs as their web operations manager, running their online job board platform which is based on high-volume Windows/.Net/IIS/SQL Server platform. After leaving Totaljobs in 2008 I had had a series of roles around web operations, monitoring and performance leading up to the founding of DevOpsGuys, one of UK leading DevOps consultancies and a Microsoft Gold partner in 2013. |
| Interests | Evolutionary Biology, Social Networking, Krav Maga, volleyball, science fiction, natural history, scuba diving |
| Favorite Movies | Miracle on 34th Street (the Maureen O'Hara version!), The Last Boy Scout, The Thing (Kurt Russell at his best), Star Wars, Gladiator, Die Hard Trilogy, The Big Chill, Pulp Fiction, Airplane! (Flying High), The Quiet Man |
| Favorite Books | Everything every written by Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Iain M. Banks, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Allen Steele, PJ O'Rourke, Charles Stross |
You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?
Every notice how all the shadow puppets are black? Does that mean racists don't do shadow puppets?