Wednesday morning started off with a Women of OpenStack breakfast where I happened to sit down next to Leslie Hawthorn without realizing it until we introduced ourselves, so that was a pleasant surprise! We’d both been intending to meet for some time. The table we were at also had a couple engineers working on OpenStack […]
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OpenStack Design Summit days 1-2
April 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Since my new job is working with the OpenStack infrastructure team, I am able to attend the OpenStack Design Summit this week in Portland, Oregon! I woke up just before 4AM on Monday to take a 6:15AM flight to Portland, putting me in Portland shortly after 8AM and to the conference center around 9AM, at […]
Professional head shots!
February 21st, 2013 by pleia2
A few weeks ago MJ and I headed over to Cavallo Point to meet with Melissa Morelli. Melissa is the photographer who did our engagement photos and will also be doing our wedding, but the goal for that day was unrelated to wedding things and instead was to to get some professional headshots done for […]
And then I was off to Seattle to meet my team
January 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week I started my new job as an Automation and Tools Engineer at Hewlett-Packard. In this role I’ve joined an awesome team to work on the core infrastructure for the open source OpenStack project. On Sunday I flew to Seattle to meet my boss some of the members of the team. In a whirlwind […]
From colo to clusters, 6 years with LinuxForce
December 30th, 2012 by pleia2
On Friday I spent my last day working for LinuxForce, a technology services provider just outside of Philadelphia. I started working at LinuxForce on a contract basis in 2006, working on security advisory analysis, Debian packaging and on-site server installs. I was hired full time in February of 2007 as a junior systems administrator. Prior […]
Time for a new challenge
November 14th, 2012 by pleia2
I’ve been working for almost 6 years as a Linux Systems Administrator for a small technology services company based out of Philadelphia. What drew me to this job initially was their dedication to Open Source (particularly Debian) and the opportunity I’d have with them to not only grow my career as a Systems Administrator, but […]
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