The People of BSDCertification.org

BSDCG (BSD Certification Group) is comprised of educators, writers and sysadmins who are well versed in and passionate about BSD systems.

The Advisory Board is comprised of a group of respected voices within the Unix community who provide advice and wisdom on specific issues from time to time. Current Advisory Board members include former members of the CSRG at the University of Berkeley, developers, authors, trainers and speakers.

Translators are volunteers who are interested in seeing BSD Certification documents available in their native language.

Group Members

Jim Brown

Vice President and Treasurer

jim has worked in the computer industry with continuous Unix involvement in development or administration since the early 1980s. His experience includes applications, systems and database programming, in a variety of languages. He started out as a NetBSD aficionado in the mid 1990s, but switched to FreeBSD (around 2.x) because of the larger number of ported/packaged applications. He has used OpenBSD as well since 1999. In addition to his consulting roles at ThruPoint he runs several BSD servers in a test lab.

Michael Dexter

Director

Michael Dexter has used open systems and software since 1991 and worked professionally as a system administrator, web developer and graphic designer for various small businesses in the film, music and automotive fields. Michael has a background in Hollywood film production and was a member of the MandrakeSoft SA, now Mandriva internal IS Team. His academic specialty is BSD multiplicity/virtualization strategies and he has presented his research in France, Latvia and the USA. He has been involved in active board service since high school and can be spotted at open source events in the USA and around Europe. Michael lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughter.

Jason Dixon

BSDCG

Jason is the principal consultant for Dixon Group Consulting and a respected member of the BSD communities. He became involved with FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD as a Systems Engineer for Skycache back in 2000. He enjoys working with secure network technologies, which often finds him designing production systems and solutions based on OpenBSD. Jason has presented talks on BSD technologies for conferences such as OSCON, LinuxWorld, and NYCBSDCon.

Hubert Feyrer

BSDCG

Hubert studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg, Germany, and has since specialized in operating systems and system-level applications. Besides giving lectures on Unix/Linux system administration and Open Source, he is a member of The NetBSD Foundation and works on public relations and 3rd party application infrastructure.He also manages IPv6 connectivity at the FH Regensburg, built a cluster of 45 machines for a video rendering cluster during last year`s city marathon and is currently working on a doctoral thesis about a training system for Unix system administrators.

Axel S. Gruner

BSDCG

Axel S. Gruner is the master system administrator responsible for the FreeBSD boxes of a subcompany of a big bank in Stuttgart, Germany. He also works as an Author (freelancer) for the freeX magazine and the Computer und Literaturverlag. As a co-founder of allbsd.de and the famous BSD community bsdgroup.de, he also spreads the word with his *BSD-News site grUNIX.de. He has used FreeBSD as his main platform since FreeBSD 3.0. He is the author of the German jail how-to.

Mikel King

Secretary

James Lane

BSDCG

James is a contract software developer in the Seattle, WA, area, working on network protocols, embedded systems, compilers and interpreters, computer game engines and AI, and data mining. He wrote software on VAXen using BSD 4.1 in the early 1980s, and has been using NetBSD and FreeBSD since the late 1990s. His home office currently includes FreeBSD, FreeNAS, and pfSense machines. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Unix Users Group (SeaSLUG). He has spoken and led workshops at the annual Game Developers Conference, and founded the AI and Scripting Language SIGs of the Seattle chapter of the Independent Game Developers Association.

Dan Langille

BSDCG

Dan has been using FreeBSD since 2.2.x and has used both FreeBSD and NetBSD as mail and web servers and for providing services for third parties. He is the founder of The FreeBSD Diary, FreshPorts , FreshSource, and BSDCan . Dan also writes for OnLamp and contributed a hack for BSD Hacks. He has 20 years of commercial experience in the IT industry and has been creating software for 30 years.

Scott Long

BSDCG

Scott has been hacking on FreeBSD since 1994 and has been a committer since 2000. He has also led the Release Engineering team since 2003. He previously spent 4 1/2 years at Adaptec in the Open Source Driver Group. Presently, he works for NAI Labs doing Trusted Computing.

Dru Lavigne

President

Dru has been teaching networking and routing certifications since 1998; these include MCSE, CNE, CCNA, CCSE, Sco UnixWare, Linux+, Network+, Security+ and A+. She has also designed courses and developed curricula at the post-secondary level in accordance with Ontario`s Ministry of Education standards. She is the author of O`Reilly`s BSD Hacks http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks and the FreeBSD Basics column http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15. While she`s puttered about a bit in NetBSD and OpenBSD, she is most proficient in FreeBSD and has used it as her main working platform since FreeBSD 2.2.6.

Jean M. Melo

BSDCG

Jean, who has used FreeBSD since version 3.0, is the creator of the FreeBSD FAQ which is the Brazilian reference for FreeBSD. He is also the coordinator for the FreeBSD pt_BR Documentation Project and is the moderator of the biggest FreeBSD mailing list in Brazil. Jean is the creator of the embedded FreeBSD version, called TinyBSD, a maintainer of some FreeBSD ports and organizer of BSDCon Brazil. He works as a consulting and training director at FreeBSD Brasil LTDA, where he implements, trains and advocates FreeBSD all over the country.

Phil Nelson

Director

Phil started using BSD in the 4.1BSD time frame. He joined the NetBSD project shortly after the 0.8 release to port NetBSD to a new architecture. He has taught UNIX programming and Device Driver writing using NetBSD for many years at Western Washington University. He has used a variety of UNIX-like systems since first learning on 4.1BSD. He currently manages the WWU build cluster used to build NetBSD on a daily basis.

Matt Olander

Director

Matt Olander is the Chief Technology Officer at iXsystems, a systems and storage manufacturer and integrator located in San Jose, California. Prior to working at iX, Matt was Director of IT at BSDi, where he developed a fondness for BSD, FreeBSD in particular. In the past, Matt has held several board and advisory seats in a technical capacity for various organizations including the first accredited University in the United States to offer PhDs in counter-terrorism.

Wes Peters

BSDCG

Wes has been using NetBSD since 0.8, FreeBSD since just before 1.0, and OpenBSD since 2.0. In addition to serving on the FreeBSD Core Team, he helped found the Daemon News e-zine. He is currently employed as a professional software engineer and develops information appliances based on FreeBSD. He has worked on other commercial products based on OpenBSD and Linux, and may have an opportunity to add NetBSD to this mix.

Jeremy C. Reed

Director

Jeremy has experience with NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD in the capacities of professional consultant, tech support and as a hobbyist. He is a NetBSD developer. He teaches professional classes covering OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD (over 11 classes taught over past few years) and other open source and Unix classes (over 45 classes and workshops taught). He also started and ran BSD Today for two years and currently runs the BSD Newsletter.

David Rhodus

BSDCG

David is a core team member and core developer for the DragonFly BSD project. David also serves as the CTO of Firefly BSD Inc., a company which produces a DragonFly BSD distribution and provides support and customer engineering services.

Eduardo Ribeiro

BSDCG

Eduardo has a Masters Degree in Social Anthropology and a Post-Graduation degree in Security of Information. Expert in security, infra-structure and network, he is a co-founder and Teaching Director of OpenIT, which offers BSD training, IT consulting and commercial support (in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X). OpenIT also maintains advocacy initiatives such as scheduled public seminars at universities. He also co-founded MyFreeBSD ,the first daily news site/magazine about BSD and Open Source in Portuguese. He participated in the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of the FreeBSD Handbook was an organizer of the first BSDcon Brazil.

John Richard

BSDCG

John is presently a sys admin (bit monkey) for a small security company. His formal background is as an educator and a technical trades person. He has taught various subjects including IT to various levels (secondary and post secondary).

George Rosamond

Assistant Treasurer

George has been in technology for over 15 years and holds a SANS GSEC. After being a BSD user for several years, he initiated the New York City *BSD User Group (NYCBUG) in December 2003 which he continues to operate. His firm, Cee Tone Technology, formerly Secure Design & Development Inc., is based in New York City, with a focus on secure data communications. The BSDs, of course, play a central role in the day-to-day operations of his firm and for many of the client base.

Patrick Tracanelli

BSDCG

Patrick has been running Open Source systems since the early 90`s, starting with Slackware Linux and FreeBSD 2.2. He has since advocated FreeBSD systems at a public University and helped organize the first Brazilian FreeBSD Users Meeting. He is an active member on many projects such as the original FreeBSD LiveCD and TinyBSD. He started FreeBSD Brasil LTDA , which offers commercial support, consulting and training programs in FreeBSD. He has helped organize the FreeBSD pt_BR Documentation Project and the first BSDCon Brasil. Patrick graduated in 2003 and now is mastering and teaching Operating Systems principles at a very well known University in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In addition to his FreeBSD enterprise services for mainly government, hosting, and wireless providers, he personally runs both Net and OpenBSD at home.