Hi all, I've been hesitant to send Reductive Labs updates to the community lists, but I've been told that not knowing who works for us makes some communication difficult.
So, I'm going to start sending notifications when we bring people on (at least, those I expect to spend time in the community), and I'll start with a list of people we've brought on recently. Markus Roberts and Rein Henrichs have joined as developers, and Bruce Williams will be working with them starting in November. Markus has been working in the computer industry since the 1900's, when computers were large, slow, and simple, and programming them was still pretending to be a branch of mathematics instead of a black art. He has programmed professionally in over two dozen languages (several of which he wrote) and unprofessionally in many more. He prides himself on his design and debugging skills, which are objectively verifiable, and his sense of humour, which is not. Rein started out in the design world but quickly discovered an affinity for development. He's fond of talking to people about patterns and practices and other ideas that can help write better software. He occasionally writes software of his own in an attempt to put those practices into practice, so to speak. Rein is most fond of Ruby, but has found endearing qualities in a number of languages, from Haskell to Smalltalk to Intercal, and even Perl, and enjoys the new perspective he gains by learning an unfamiliar language. As a Ruby developer since 2001, Bruce Williams has been pleased to see his favorite OO language rise out of obscurity the last few years -- and pay the bills in the process. Bruce has contributed to or served as the technical editor for a number of Ruby-related books, speaks at conferences when inspiration strikes, and is an aimless open source hacker, language designer, graphic artist, photographer, amateur chef... and serial enthusiast in his copious free time. Dan Bode will be helping with training, professional services, and whatever else we can convince him to do. Dan is joining Reductive Labs after completing his consulting world tour; with stops in London, Osaka, Budapest, and finally Vienna. Dan will miss speaking broken Hungarian and German, but cant wait to indulge in the conveniences of America, like take-out food and shopping on Sundays. He has just completed an audit trail and compliance based IT solution for his customer in Vienna using Puppet. He enjoyed working with Puppet and immediately saw that its flexibility and functionality made it a great tool for creating some really cool automation solutions. He has also enjoyed learning ruby and thinks that it might actually inspire him to get back into programming. Scott Campbell has joined us as our VP of Sales, business development, and whatever else he can convince me to do to make money. Scott's primary goal in life is to make sure that his daughters get their education paid for. Being slightly masochistic, Scott has made a career in leading the sales efforts of several successful software startup organizations, taking them from their early stages of sales and marketing traction to leaders in their respective marketplaces. Most recently, he spent 4 years heading the world-wide sales organization at Jive Software. Joining the organization as one of the first employees, Scott guided Jive to a leadership position in the emerging Web 2.0 space. In a more relevant vein to Puppet, prior to Jive, Scott spent 6 years at Tripwire, Inc., a provider of enterprise compliance and configuration management solutions. While at Tripwire, he lead the Western Region Field Sales organization. Before Tripwire, he spent 5 years at Rogue Wave Software, a maker of C++ and Java development tools. At Rogue Wave, Scott held several roles including the Director of Business Development, Director of Western Region Sales, and Director of Inside sales. Lastly, Andrew Shafer has left Reductive Labs. We'll also be maintaining a 'Team' page on our site that hopefully covers this same information, which you should be able to use as a handy reference. -- Get forgiveness now -- tomorrow you may no longer feel guilty. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
