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.

Translators

Marcelo Araujo

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Araujo has used FreeBSD since version 3.2. He maintains the BSD NetWork site and the FreeBSD ports ask and mailrep. He is a specialist in networks and Internet using solutions with the FreeBSD operating system. As a specialist in email servers and Anti-Spam solutions, he manages networks and guarantees the functioning of diverse servers spread across the world.

Leandro Malaquias

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Alex Moura

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Alex Moura has been a networking engineer since 1999 and works at the NOC of the Brazilian NREN, the RNP. As an active member of the BSD pt_BR translation team, he translated the BSD Certification survey and the Networking chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook. He is also a teacher and instructor of undergraduate and postgraduate networking classes including CCNA training. As a consultant in Rio de Janeiro, he has been involved in software development, systems administration and networking engineering/security at major local Internet Data Centers. He also has written several articles.

Rodrigo Fontes Ribeiro

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

(aka Frib) is a undergraduate student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais). His experience with the BSD world began in the Computer Science Department at UFMG, where he worked with the migration of SuSE Linux servers to FreeBSD. Since then, he is a fanatic with (Free)BSD.

Kleyson Rios

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Pablo Sanchez

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Pablo Sanchez is an Argentinian living in Brazil. He is the System Deployment Director of BSD Professionals and evangelizes the use of BSD in Brazil.

Alan Silva

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Alan Silva has been a UNIX sysadmin/developer for the past eight years and his experience includes BSD, Linux and Solaris. He uses FreeBSD and NetBSD and is founder and a member of NetBSD-BR, the NetBSD Brazilian Users Group which advocates the use of NetBSD in Brazil, and organizer of BSDCon Brazil. He studies Mathematics and works developing corporate billing solutions in J2EE.

Iruata Souza

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Iruata Souza is a paranoic OpenBSD enthusiast who tries to run his OS of choice on every machine that he sees; from usual workstations to large automation systems. He is also a member of the codebreakers team, a Brazilian group of DIY (in)security researchers. He is a consultant for a living and a Siberian husky lover.

Oscar Sznajder

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Oscar Sznajder is an IT consultant, specializing in Unix and networking and has been involved in *BSD since 1995. He is responsible for the adoption of BSD as the main OS for servers by several clients and governmental agencies, including the .AR domain NIC which he started and directed until July of 2003.

Atanai S. Ticianelli

Translators     Brazilian Portuguese [pt-br]

Atanai Sousa Ticianelli graduated in Computer Engineering in 2005 and is attending post graduate work in computer networks. He also works for the Brazilian Academic Network CSIRT in Campinas, Brazil. The BSD Certification Group is the first project he has decided to contribute to, and he expects to be involved in other similar projects.

Dalibor Pavkovic

Translators     Serbian [sh-yu]

Gregers Petersen

Translators     Danish [da-dk]

Gregers Petersen, an anthropologist by trade, has a special interest in the relationship between society/technology and socio-cultural change. Since the late 1990s he has been interested in and used free and Open Source software and more recently, *BSD (Mac OS X and FreeBSD). He is a boardmember of BSD-DK, which is the Danish community for *BSD users, where his focus is more on the non-technical aspects of use and development.

Edwin Mons

Translators     Dutch [nl-nl]

Edwin Mons has been active with computers since 1983. In 1991, he was introduced to SunOS 4, and has been hooked on BSD systems ever since. He is an active user and system administrator of FreeBSD systems since 1995. He currently works for iRex Technologies BV, whose services are entirely hosted on FreeBSD hosts.

Jan Stedehouder

Translators     Dutch [nl-nl]

Jan Stedehouder of Rotterdam has been playing around with computers since 1983. Lacking either the patience or the skills to become a coder, he was satisfied by following main-stream computing for quite some time. The last few years that has changed, first by dipping some toes in Linux and -somewhat later- also in FreeBSD. Jan is fascinated by the magical skills of coders and the people who are responsible for the operating systems and applications. Keeping a close watch on Open Source software developments, he is primarily concerned with luring end-users to Open Source software. He does so by writing articles in various magazines and giving workshops. His present project is the development of a new Open Source community, dedicated to creating high quality Open Source elearning materials for end-users at home, in the schools and at smaller companies and organizations. He hopes to put the art of writing to good use for BSD certification.

D?lcio Gomes

Translators     European Portuguese [pt-pt]

D?lcio Gomes finished his studies in 2003 at Instituto de Educa??o T?cnica in Lisbon. He started using OpenBSD in 2005 as a firewall and since then has been following OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Mac OS X as a new passion for their simplicity, stability and performance compared to other systems. In 2007 he completely ceased to use Windows.

Manny Moura

Translators     European Portuguese [pt-pt]

Manuel "Manny" Moura, a FreeBSD fan, tries to make the enterprise world more aware BSD. He is an European Portuguese native speaker, and Microsoft and Oracle Certified. He has worked for IBM Germany on IT Systems Administration, Databases and Multilingual Technical Support (German, Spanish, French, English and Portuguese).He is also interested in technical translation, technical documentation, software and website localization, and translation and multilingual technologies.

Francois Anthore

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Francois Anthore works as a Sysadmin in a US company on the French Riviera. He is a member of , a BSD community.

Erwan Barret

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Erwan has been a Mac user since 1989, switched to NeXT in 1992 and has been trying to teach IT to his mom ever since. He is an active contributor to Mac, video and prepress magazines and is a translator in exaggeratedly varied fields, some of them related to penguins. He is now managing Macs for people who put penguins on theater screens (beats our 17"s). He tends to dwell in places Google Earth can not find.

Frederic Baujard

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Yannick Cadin

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Yannick has been working on BSD since 1991. He is an editor, proofreader, one-off lecturer, integrator, administrator, developer, consultant, janitor, ...Currently he works mostly as an instructor (directly for his company or on behalf of other firms). He is certified on another Open Source OS.

Sebastien Gioria

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Sebastien Gioria is a security/network consultant for his own company. He is also the French FreeBSD Documentation Project Leader, has been involved in FreeBSD since 1994 and a FreeBSD committer since 1999.

Francis Gudin

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Francis Gudin discovered FreeBSD with 3.1 release. After a few hurdles regarding hardware support were cleared in 5.1, he shifted his main PC from Gentoo to FreeBSD. Then DragonFlyBSD was born and being enthusiastic about the project`s goals, he decided to give it a try and his machines are now running 1.4- and 1.6-release. As a paid job, he is in charge of maintaining Ubuntu desktops at cri74.org.

Ali Mdidech

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Ali Mdidech, a Moroccan living in Paris, is studying computer sciences in Epitech and working as a systems administrator for the Cersti Group. He is an unconditional FreeBSD user, with some *BSD experience.

Cedric Neal

Translators     French [fr-fr]

Cedric Neal discovered Open Source using Linux SuSE in the mid 1990s. FreeBSD, for him, is a kind of revelation of the OS concept. He is a future Systems / Network engineer currently in Master degree in La Rochelle, France.

Alexander Bluemm

Translators     German [de-de]

Alexander Bluemm has for the past seven years worked as a network administrator and IT trainer in Windows, Cisco and Linux for a private academy in Bavaria. He has been working on FreeBSD since 4.7 and OpenBSD since 3.8.

Angelika Goeszler

Translators     German [de-de]

Axel S. Gruner

Translators     German [de-de]

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.

Julian Rotter

Translators     German [de-de]

Oliver Steenbuck

Translators     German [de-de]

Christoph Sold

Translators     German [de-de]

Christoph Sold has been working in the IT business since 1992. Currently, he works at German Railroad, He has been using FreeBSD since Release 2.2.6 for both professional applications as well as on his private desktop.

Zoltan Farkas

Translators     Hungarian [hu-hu]

Zoltan Farkas is an independent system integrator, IT security specialist and IT trainer in Hungary. His began with DEC Ultrix around 1991 and after a number of other Unix flavours found FreeBSD around version 3.2. His special interests in FreeBSD are small business and scientific research scenarios.

Dikshie Fauzie

Translators     Indonesian (Bahasa) [in-us]

Dikshie Fauzie has a bachelor degree in Geophysics and Meteorology from the Institute of Technology Bandung as well as a master degree in IT. He started using FreeBSD in 1999. Right now he is appointed to the operator comittee of SOI-Asia Project ITB and he is also a contributor to FreeBSD.

Hiroki Sato

Translators     Japanese [ja-ja]

Hiroki Sato joined the FreeBSD Development Team in 2000. He has been working as a member of the Core Team since 2006 and the Release Engineering and Documentation Engineering Teams since 2004. His primary focus is maintaining the project's documentation including its Japanese translation and text processing software, and he is actively promoting FreeBSD in Asian countries by hosting BSD-related conferences. He received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Tokyo University of Science and now works as a researcher at the University.

Enrico Branca

Translators     Italian [it-it]

Enrico Branca is a systems administrator and system integrator who engineers, implements and hardens Microsoft Systems. He collaborates with various societies for the planning and optimization of Microsoft with heterogenous systems. Creator of the Open Source project "Open Knowledge", he is also a member of AIP and AIEA and has honed particularly the skills of network security, server optimization and tuning.

Luca Di Bari

Translators     Italian [it-it]

Antonio Messina

Translators     Italian [it-it]

Antonio Messina has been a system administrator for the past 10 years and has good experience with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, all of these used (and running right now) in production environments. He is presently the IT Project Manager for OR.COM and works on clustering solutions and server consolidation projects. He also started the Italian Translation Team.

Andrea Micozzi

Translators     Italian [it-it]

Andrea Micozzi is an experienced FreeBSD systems administrator, He also works with security products like firewalls (Netscreen, Fortinet, Checkpoint), IDS (Snort, ISS), and AV (Trend-Micro) for small and medium companies. His current certifications are Checkpoint`s CCSA and Stonegate`s CSGE.

Carlos A. Watson Carazo

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Carlos lives in Costa Rica and I has been working on system administration in Unix area (IAX, Sun, other), Networking infrastructures (Cisco), and now wants to develop and excel his knowledge on BSD--especially FreeBSD or other distros base on BSD. His hobbies are related to these areas and he loves to be a self-taught person.

Eric De La Cruz Lugo

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Eric has been a loyal FreeBSD user and administrator since December 1993 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He lives now in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (The Maya Land) with his wife Marisol and works as PA teacher in the Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana (UTM). He has given public talks about FreeBSD at Universities in Merida and has collaborated with articles about using commands in FreeBSD in the now defunct FreeBSDzine. He is an amateur astronomer and enjoys science fiction movies and books as well as studying the Bible.

Mike Hauber

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Carlos Horowicz

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Carlos Horowicz is a partner director and CTO of Argentina.Com, a major free dialup and e-mail provider in Argentina with over half million customers. Argentina.Com is 100% FreeBSD driven. He is also co-founder of NIC Argentina which is hosted in the Ministry`s facilities. The AR-TLD servers and the security infrastructure for this world-wide network of embassies and consulates are OpenBSD and FreeBSD driven.

Mario M. Villegas

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Zvonimir Mileta

Translators     Latin American Spanish [es-la]

Zvonimir is a sysadmin and network consultant living in the beatiful city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He runs a business as an IT Consultant providing solutions on IP-PBX, Network & Database Design and systems integration. He finds FreeBSD is a very stable and powerful server platform.

Tomas Balciunas

Translators     Lithuanian [lt-lt]

Edmondas Girkantas

Translators     Lithuanian [lt-lt]

Edmondas Girkantas started to work with strange Russian home computer (Electronica BK0010) and after some time started to work with IBM PC like computers. After problems with Linux in 2001, he started to use and like FreeBSD for servers, for his desktop and for web development. Today he is an active member of the Lithuanian BSD user group.

Ali Safarnavadeh

Translators     Persian [fa-ir]

Ali Safarnavadeh is a network administrator and consultant. He has worked as a programmer, administrator, technical manager, consultant and technical trainer with a broad range of experience with different technologies and operating systems including BSD, Linux, Windows and Cisco, and programming languages like VB, C#, perl and PHP. You can find more about Ali and at his website.

Jacek Artymiak

Translators     Polish [pl-pl]

Milosz Galazka

Translators     Polish [pl-pl]

Milosz Galazka is a student at the University of Gdansk and is interested in network administration.

Jakub Klausa

Translators     Polish [pl-pl]

Grzegorz Niklasinski

Translators     Polish [pl-pl]

Grzegorz Niklasinski is proud to be a Rackspace employee doing his share in keeping data center uptime at 100%. He is interested in FreeBSD, building a small BSD cluster as well as a new bike.

Wojtek Szczepucha

Translators     Polish [pl-pl]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu

Translators     Romanian [ro-ro]

Artem Ignatiev

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Artem Ignatiev has been using FreeBSD since 2000. Using FreeBSD he has made some hacks: one of them was installing FreeBSD into an extended partition. He has also recently ported the driver for the TechnoTrend budget DVB-S card.

Alexandr Kovalenko

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Eugene M. Minkovskii

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Eugene is a system administrator in the Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education. He is also an instructor at a Russian educational organization where he prepares students for Linux System Administration at a certified center of ASPLinux.

Denis Moysevich

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Denis Moysevich was trained in radio engineering and lives in Siberia. He is involved in CRM implementations which include interaction between CRM and PDAs (palm computers). He finds FreeBSD helpful for testing reliability of Internet links, especially when using tools which currently are not ported to the Windows operating system. He also manages the FreeBSD server for a small company.

Vadim E. Smirnov

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Vadim E. Smirnov from the N.Novgorod region of Russia, is a programmer and founder of NNBUG. He is an active participant in project Frenzy, a FreeBSD-based LiveCD. He is also developer of Frenzy LiveCD modifications which include FrenzyME, a user-oriented LiveCD, and FrenzyLite, a multimedia tiny LiveCD.

Mike M. Volokhov

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Mike M. Volokhov prefers using *BSD systems since the late 1990s because of their stability and cleanness. Presently, he is working for his employer building IT infrastructure solutions on top of BSD platforms. He is also a NetBSD developer, working on Russian translation and advocacy.

Alexei Zhurba

Translators     Russian [ru-ru]

Alexei Zhurba is a UNIX fan and BSD specialist. A former sysadmin, he is now a developer and team-leader. His interests include UNIX architecture, UNIX development and system administration.

Aleksandar Kacanski

Translators     Serbian [sh-yu]

Aleksandar Kacanski has been using and exploring *BSD and Linux environments actively since 1996. Not being a developer of operating systems, he found that he could contribute to the UNIX community by helping less experienced folks learn and use UNIX environments. He is very interested in the Open Source work philosophy and believes in its profitability. He currently uses OpenBSD and FreeBSD professionally in projects that involve secure and robust networks and Internet connectivity. He is working on the development of the web based interface for the OpenBSD pf filter engine and helps the FreeBSD project by translating the man pages to the Serbian language.

Dalibor Pavkovic

Translators     Serbian [sh-yu]

An Jiangze

Translators     Simplified Chinese [zh-cn]

Sun Jianli

Translators     Simplified Chinese [zh-cn]

Sun Jianli is a graduate of CUMT, China with a major in computer science. He is interested in embedded systems.

Chengliang Wang

Translators     Simplified Chinese [zh-cn]

Chengliang Wang works at a network company as a systems administrator. In his free time, he gives lessons about Linux and FreeBSD.

Ye Wei

Translators     Simplified Chinese [zh-cn]

Ye Wei is a software consultant who has used FreeBSD as his home desktop for about two years. He makes his living by designing and developing business solutions on the Windows platform.

Ronnie Alfaro

Translators     Spanish [es-es]

Ronnie Alfaro is a SysAdmin since 1997 and a perl/php programmer living in the sunny country of Costa Rica. He is interested in all projects related to *BSD and Open Source, and to him, *BSD is not a job but a life style.

J. Vicente Carrasco

Translators     Spanish [es-es]

J. Vicente Carrasco is the Translationmeister of the Spanish FreeBSD Documentation Project. He is also being mentored as a FreeBSD (doc) committer.

Cesar Catrian Carreno

Translators     Spanish [es-es]

Cesar Catrian lives in the small city of Melipilla, Chile. A user of NetBSD since 2001, he has also used Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. He likes the Open Source model and considers it important to have the ability to see and decide what is working inside of his computer.

Guillermo Lasso

Translators     Spanish [es-es]

Guillermo Lasso is a systems administrator who holds CompTIA A+, Novell CNA, Network Technician, .NET Developer, and DBA certifications.

David Piniella

Translators     Spanish [es-es]

David Piniella is a system and network administrator for a large university in Miami, Florida, with his major focus on security and Unix. He regularly contributes and help maintains the FreeBSDWiki.

Cheng-Lung Sung

Translators     Traditional Chinese [zh-tw]

Cheng-Lung Sung is a FreeBSD ports committer, with a focus on porting perl/C programs. In his academic research he is studying NLP-related applications.

Omer Faruk Sen

Translators     Turkish [tr-tr]

Omer Faruk Sen is a member of the EnderUNIX Software Development team established in Turkey. One of the aims of EnderUNIX is to promote BSDs in Turkey. Omer also works for Tubitak - UEKAE, a govermental organization focused on security. Among other things, Omer is also one of the writers of the first Turkish FreeBSD Book: "Kurulum, Yonetim ve Servisleriyle FreeBSD Isletim Sistemi".

Ozgur Ozdemircili

Translators     Turkish [tr-tr]

Ozgur Ozdemircili is a security and systems administrator working in Spain. He mainly focuses on FreeBSD and open source systems. Along with the articles he has written on FreeBSD, he is co-translator of Andres Lockhart's Network Security Hacks into Turkish.
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