On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> wrote: > > 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.
++ to doing this Luke. This is really useful to know. > > 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 > > > > > -- nigel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
